Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 20th 2021
In conclusion, inhibiting the lysosomal oxidation of LDL in atherosclerotic lesions by antioxidants targeted at lysosomes causes the regression of atherosclerosis and improves liver and muscle characteristics in mice and might be a promising novel therapy for atherosclerosis in patients.
NANOG Expression versus Cellular Senescence
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/09/nanog-expression-versus-cellular-senescence/
Are there many strategies that can reverse cellular senescence? There are certainly strategies that can lower levels of cellular senescence over time, both in cell cultures and in living a...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 19, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Towards the Regeneration of Hair Cells to Restore Lost Hearing
Loss of hair cells in the inner ear is thought to be the primary mechanism behind the progression of age-related hearing loss, though there is some debate over whether it is in fact loss of cells versus loss of the connections that link hair cells to the brain. For some years, the research community has investigated whether or not it is possible to generate new hair cells in a living animal, bypassing the usual inability to replace losses in this cell population. Various approaches to signaling and cell therapy have been attempted, but despite interesting technology demonstrations, there is as yet little progress towards c...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 17, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The FDA ’s Culture: Should Safety Dominate All Practices?
By STEVEN ZECOLA
An organization’s culture is an internal set of shared values, attitudes and practices. The cohesiveness of the organizational culture will affect whether the entity will meet its vision, purpose, and goals.
One type of organizational culture is hierarchical in nature. Unlike a risk-taking culture, this structure features policy, process and precision. It is best suited for mature and stable organizations.
The disadvantage of a hierarchal culture is that its stability and control can turn into rigidity. In many cases, the organization develops a negative attitude towards ideas s...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy FDA Parkinson's Disease Steven Zecola Source Type: blogs
“Academic Creep” in the Health Care Workforce
Shirley SvornyGiven my concerns about the growing requirements for a doctoral degree in every medical profession – audiology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, pharmacy, etc., it was refreshing to read the comments after anarticle posted to Facebook about requiring a doctorate of all Physician Assistants. The author had written, “PAs are literally being left behind. Every other healthcare provider has already made the change. Physical therapists have the DPT, nurse practitioners have the DNP, audiologists have the AuD, etc.”Here is a comment by Rob Cee, a physician assistant at the Maine ‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 21, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Shirley Svorny Source Type: blogs
Let's Talk About Hospitals And Rural Healthcare (Particularly Mother-Baby Care): My Letter To The NC Government Commission/NC State Treasurer In Support Of Randolph County's Application For A Loan To Save Randolph Health
Author ' s Note: The lawyers have a saying, " Res Ipsa Loquitur " " . Translated from Latin, it means, " The thing speaks for itself " . This is the text of the letter I sent to theNC Local Government Commission (embellished with a few links and additional comments in red) . . .in support of the state of North Carolina granting a loan to Randolph County (via the NC Rural Healthcare Stabilization Act) . . . for purposes of assisting in the " rescue " of Asheboro ' s Randolph Health - in a bankruptcy Court-approved buy-out of Randolph ' s assets by American Healthcare Systems, LLC.On May 4th, afte...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - May 7, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: Asheboro Atrium Health Bankruptcy Cone Health Duke Lifepoint LGC Medical Whistle-blower Mother-Baby Care NC Rural Heatlh NCDHHS Non-profit Randolph Health UNC Health Wake Forest Baptist Source Type: blogs
Fifteen Years Is Enough
The blog's author (Edmund Blair Bolles): Taken shortly before the pandemic when the whole world began to look a little queasy.Sometimes random forces seem to gang up on you. Shortly, I must renew my site name, BabelsDawn.com and Google tells me that shortly after that they will cease offering the free subscriber service whereby over 100 fans receive the blog in their email. Neither one by itself is a big deal and I'm sure I could solve both problems with a tiny amount of effort. But I have been supporting this blog for 15 years and I'm about done.When I started this blog I said I hoped it would become the site for news abo...
Source: Babel's Dawn - April 21, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Blair Source Type: blogs
Research assistant / Lab manager position available in the O-Lab at Duke University
Research assistant / Lab manager position available in the O-Lab at Duke University We are looking for a highly motivated recent or soon-to-be graduate to join the O-Lab, led by Prof. Tobias Overath, in the Department of Psychology& Neuroscience at Duke University. Work in our lab investigates how sounds, from simple sinusoids to complex speech signals, are analyzed in the human brain, using a combination of behavioral (psychoacoustics) and neuroimaging methods (fMRI, EEG, ECoG) to track the underlying neural processes. Current projects investigate the transformation from acoustic to ling...
Source: Talking Brains - April 3, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Experiencing a COVID-Era Doctor ’s Office Through the Hard of Hearing Community
The following is a guest article by Joe Duarte, Co-CEO of InnoCaption. According to the World Health Organization, 1.5 billion people across the globe live with some degree of hearing loss, and roughly 430 million people require rehabilitation services for their hearing loss. When you apply that number to your average local clinic or hospital, […] (Source: EMR and HIPAA)
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Administration Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC ASL COVID-19 Accessibility Hearing Loss HIPAA HIPAA TRS InnoCaption Joe Duarte Source Type: blogs
Towards a New Functional Anatomy of Language: A Proposal for a Special Issue of Cognition, circa 2001
Conclusions Michael UllmanGeorgetown University The contribution of brain memory circuits to language Our use of language depends upon two capacities: a mental lexicon of memorized words, and a mental grammar of rules that underlie the sequential and hierarchical composition of lexical forms into predictably structured larger words, phrases, and sentences. The Declarative/Procedural model posits that the lexicon/grammar distinction in language is tied to the distinction between two well-studied brain memory systems. On this view, the memorization and use of at least si...
Source: Talking Brains - March 8, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
As One Licensed NC Physician To Another Unlicensed One (Dr. Mary Johnson to Dr. Mandy Cohen/NC DHHS Secretary): PROTECT MEDICAL WHISTLEBLOWERS NOW!
Related to mylast post - which went up (after much soul-searching and trepidation) on 2/28/20201 one of the biggest complaints (coming largely from folks reading on mobile phones) was that the post was " so long " . They wanted something more " concise " . The post relates my own horrific pandemic experience with Central Carolina Hospital/ApolloMD and Duke Lifepoint in Sanford, North Carolina. It ' s my third dance as a medical whistle-blower in 23 years. And much like the first two cases (Asheboro in 1998, and ETSU/Ballad Health in 2017), it ' s really NOT " soundbite " material (it would ...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - March 4, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: ApolloMD Central Carolina Hospital CMS Dr. Seuss Duke Lifepoint HIPAA Mandy Cohen Medicaid Medical Whistleblower NCDHHS Pandemic Pediatric Hospitalist Source Type: blogs
A North Carolina Pediatric Hospitalist Tells Her Pandemic Story to Senator Richard Burr: Thirteen Months (And Counting) In Medical Whistle-blower Hell - Courtesy Of Private Equity/For-Profit Healthcare And Cruelly-Indifferent/Morally-Bankrupt State & Federal Oversight
Author ' s Note: I cannot " sound-bite " the last year - and perhaps it ' s time to write the book. Scroll about half-way down to read the letter to Senator Burr. The bottom line is that for thethird time in 23 years, as a Pediatrician staffing a community hospital, I was fired " with-out cause " immediately after intervening in a neonatal ( " bad baby " ) case, rescuing the situation/ " saving " the baby, and reporting it INTERNALLY to Peer Review. NO discussion. NO recourse. NO review. A total cover-up. And EVERY SINGLE TIME I ' ve asked the state/Federal government to enfor...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - February 28, 2021 Category: American Health Tags: ACA Apollo Global Management ApolloMD Ballad Heath Central Carolina Hospital CMS Duke Lifepoint ETSU Medicaid Medical Whistleblower NCDHHS Pandemic Quality Assruance Randolph Health Richard Burr Trump Source Type: blogs
PhD Student Positions in Speech Neuroscience - Univ. of South Carolina
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders PhD Student Positions in Speech Neuroscience The Speech Neuroscience Lab at the University of South Carolina is inviting highly-motivated students with interest in research on neuroscience of speech to apply for our PhD program. The PhD degree prepares professionals for academic careers with emphasis on research and the scholarly study of the science of human speech production system and its disorders. Doctoral students will complete their research training under direct mentorship, regularly participate in laboratory activities and pu...
Source: Talking Brains - February 18, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
