Caring for Kids and Parents: A Story from the Sandwich Generation
When my elderly neighbor, Joe, was widowed, I did what most neighbors would do. I didn’t know him or his wife well, but I knew he was completely deaf and that he was probably lonely. I started to visit, thinking I could help him if he needed groceries or something. What began as a neighborly check-in continued into a kind of adoption of Joe, by myself and my two sons, ages six and eight. For five years, the kids and I were Joe’s family. Shortly after Joe passed, my aunt and uncle moved from Virginia to North Dakota to be near us, their only family. Then my parents and in-laws began having health troubles. In all,...
Source: Minding Our Elders - January 30, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Lip reading during the COVID-19 mask era
I taught myself as a child how to lip read. I needed something to help me know what was going on around me other than relying on my hearing aids. I went to a deaf school as a kindergartner for all of three months and hated it, so my parents switched me over to the […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/lauren-follmar" rel="tag" > Lauren Follmar < /a > < /span > Tags: Patient Source Type: blogs
Will We All Have To Become Biologically Enhanced Superhumans?
Okay, hands up who can tell who’s the most famous biologically enhanced superhuman in the world? True, it’s a quite close call between Captain America and The Incredible Hulk (sorry Spidey, you’re not even close). But is a human-invented superhuman just a thing of a Stan Lee comic, or is it an actual scientific idea from a real laboratory?
As a matter of fact, enhancing human capabilities has been on the mind of people for ages, but it came a long way from ancient training methods to exoskeletons. Enhancing our abilities, be it permanently or temporarily is a tempting but risky matter. For will it be a possib...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 21, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Forecast Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Augmented Reality Bioethics Biotechnology Cyborgization Digital Health Research E-Patients Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Policy Medical Education Robotics Science Ficti Source Type: blogs
Mundane Movies Meme
I posted a fairly simple challenge on Facebook at the weekend:
Make a movie mundane by subtly altering one word in the title. I'll start..."Radiators of the Lost Ark"
I expected a few friends to join in with the fun and for it to fizzle out quite quickly…I watched the first few entries dribble in and then went off and did something completely different. When I came back to Facebook a few hours later there were more than 500 comments, it quickly got to 600 and I added a few more of my own. It’s still going on, at the time of writing 745 comments, which is almost viral for one of my posts. I’d estimate th...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 18, 2021 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 4th 2021
The objective of this study is to quantify the overall and cancer type-specific risks of subsequent primary cancers (SPCs) among adult-onset cancer survivors by first primary cancer (FPC) types and sex. Among 1,537,101 survivors (mean age, 60.4 years; 48.8% women), 156,442 SPC cases and 88,818 SPC deaths occurred during 11,197,890 person-years of follow-up (mean, 7.3 years). Among men, the overall risk of developing any SPCs was statistically significantly higher for 18 of the 30 FPC types, and risk of dying from any SPCs was statistically significantly higher for 27 of 30 FPC types as compared with risks in the general po...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 3, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Look Back at 2020: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition
While I suspect that COVID-19 will feature prominently in most retrospectives on 2020, I'll say only a little on it. The data on mortality by year end, if taken at face value, continues to suggest that the outcome will fall at the higher end of the early estimates of a pandemic three to six times worse than a bad influenza year, ten times worse than a normal influenza year. The people who die are near entirely the old, the co-morbid, and the immunocompromised. They die because they are suffering the damage and dysfunction of aging. Yet the societal conversation and the actions of policy makers ignore this.
There is ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 31, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
Medgadget ’s Best Medical Technologies of 2020
In conclusion, 2020 will certainly be remembered for a world stopped by an pandemic. It will also stand out as a time when people came together to innovate, adapt, and improve the world around them. We wish you all a happy New Year and look forward to better times ahead, together.
Flashbacks: Medgadget’s Best Medical Technologies of 2019; 2018; 2017; 2016; 2015 (Source: Medgadget)
Source: Medgadget - December 30, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 28th 2020
In conclusion, our study demonstrated that the molecular processes of aging are relatively subtle in their progress, and the aging process of every tissue depends on the tissue's specialized function and environment. Hence, individual gene or process alone cannot be described as the key of aging in the whole organism.
Mouse Age Matters: How Age Affects the Murine Plasma Metabolome
A large part of metabolomics research relies on experiments involving mouse models, which are usually 6 to 20 weeks of age. However, in this age range mice undergo dramatic developmental changes. Even small age differences may l...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 27, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Loss of Ribbon Synapses as an Early Stage of Age-Related Hearing Loss
In this study, we aimed to verify whether cochlear ribbon synapses are vulnerable to aging insult in C57BL/6J mice, a widespread model for ARHL. We explored the correlation between the number and function of ribbon synapses and the reduction of hearing function in the early stage of aging. We found that the loss of cochlear ribbon synapses is an initial pathological event in the early stage of aging, which causes hearing loss and may consequently induce loss or damage to other cochlear components, such as IHCs, and SGNs.
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7724364/ (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - December 24, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Trade Policy Views of Biden ’s CEA Picks
Simon Lester andAlfredo Carrillo ObregonIt is commonly said that " personnel is policy, " which can make it worthwhile to look in depth at the views of key people appointed by a president.The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is an agency within the Executive Office of the President that advises the President on economic policy.This post looks at the trade policy views of the three people Bidenhas just announced for the CEA: Cecilia Rouse (Chair), Heather Boushey and Jared Bernstein. (Of the three, Bernstein has had by far the most to say on trade policy.)Based on the quotes we offer below, none of them seem to have Tru...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 30, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester, Alfredo Carrillo Obregon Source Type: blogs
Deafness and hearing loss toolkit
Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) - This educational toolkit, produced in collaboration with RNID and NHS England and Improvement aims to support GPs to consult effectively with deaf patients by offering tips on how to communicate during face to face and remote appointments.ToolkitPress release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - November 19, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Developments in primary and community care Equality and diversity Source Type: blogs
Recapitulation, replication, duplication, redundancy, and repetitiveness
Deuteronomy means " second law, " or may be read as " repetition of the law. " It consists mostly of a review of events from the exodus to the encampment on the plains of Moab, and the law that was given along the way, some of it presented in the form of two long-winded speeches by Moses, framing the beginning and the end. There is also some new law thrown in, most of it morally depraved; and some new events, equally repulsive.The previous books were cobbled together from older sources, but Deuteronomy was evidently composed anew, and scholars have ascribed it to a unique author, imaginatively called the Deuteronomist, or ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 18, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Inspiration Doesn ’ t Run Out
Recently I saw a NaNoWriMo participant complaining of running out of inspiration. Their writing had hit a wall, and the lack of inspiration was to blame.
That strikes me as an odd and hugely misleading way to think about inspiration, like it’s a resource that can run dry. Truthfully it never runs dry.
Saying you’ve run out of inspiration is like saying you’ve run out of sights or sounds. You could become blind or deaf, but the sights and sounds are still present. There are visuals to look at and sounds to be heard, and they don’t run out – or at least they won’t run out during your lif...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - November 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Health Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs
SoundWatch Alerts Deaf Users of Nearby Activity
Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a watch that can monitor a user’s environment for important sounds, such as a fire alarm or a microwave beeping, identify the sounds, and then inform the user through a subtle vibration.
“This technology provides people with a way to experience sounds that require an action – such as getting food from the microwave when it beeps. But these devices can also enhance people’s experiences and help them feel more connected to the world,” said Dhruv Jain, a researcher involved in the study, who is himself hard of hearing. “I use the wat...
Source: Medgadget - October 29, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: ENT Rehab Source Type: blogs
Promoting equity and community health in the COVID-19 pandemic
Editor’s note: Second in a series on the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color, and responses aimed at improving health equity. Click here to read part one.
In early March 2020, as COVID-19 was declared a public health emergency in Boston, Mass General Brigham began to care for a growing number of patients with COVID-19. Even at this early stage in the pandemic, a few things were clear: our data showed that Black, Hispanic, and non-English speaking patients were testing positive and being hospitalized at the highest rates. There were large differences in COVID-19 infection rates among communities. Across the river f...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sarah Wilkie, MS Tags: Coronavirus and COVID-19 Health Health care disparities Infectious diseases Source Type: blogs
