Trend: Mobile, data-rich apps to monitor and promote neurocognitive health
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BrainCheck raises $3 million for app to monitor brain health (TechCrunch):
“A Houston-based startup called BrainCheck has raised $3 million in seed funding for an app that helps users understand, by simply playing some games on an iPad, if they or a loved one may have suffered a concussion.
Founded in 2014 by Dr. David Eagleman, a neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, BrainCheck adapts to an interactive format the accepted assessments that neuropsychologists and neurologists administer to patients offline…Data gathered by BrainCheck could contribute to such studies and our collective understanding about ...
Source: SharpBrains - November 3, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology BrainCheck concussion concussion monitoring David Eagleman FDA iPad neurocognitive neurocognitive-health neurologists neuropsychologists Source Type: blogs
Plastic surgery is more than Botox. Hopefully doctors can remember that.
My friend Dawn and I recently attended an evening meeting of the Houston Society of Plastic Surgeons. Since we were invited guests, and not plastic surgeons, we didn’t stop on the way into the lovely formal dining room to pick up our name badges because the organizers had not made them for us. On the way out, however, we both noticed clear plastic perfectly formed oval objects sitting on the table, looking for all the world like crystal paper weights. I picked one up and it slithered out of my hand, slippery as a water balloon. It was then that I realized that the beautiful paper weight was indeed, a silicone bre...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 21, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Miranda Fielding, MD Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs
UC Davis Storer Lecture series - since 1963 87% of speakers are male
I wrote this blog post a while ago but never published it partly out of fear for upsetting some of my colleagues. I try to be brave about such things, but I guess I just did not quite get up the poxy. Well, today something came up that stimulated me to write the post. I got an email announcement for a talk that seems potentially quite interesting. The problem is not the talk. The problem is with the endowed Lectureship that this talk is connected to. So here is the post I have worked on on and off over the last year or more.UC Davis has an endowed lecture series- the Storer Lectureship in the Life S...
Source: The Tree of Life - April 20, 2016 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
Comments on the New ATS/AACN/ACCP/ESICM/SCCM Statement: Responding to Requests for Potentially Inappropriate Therapies in the ICU
In the late January MEDICAL ETHICS ADVISOR, Baylor College of Medicine Professor Janet Malek comments on the new "Official ATS / AACN / ACCP / ESICM / SCCM Statement: Responding to requests for potentially inappropriate therapies in the ICU."
"While t... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 4, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Ann Marie O’Callaghan and Perjeta
By DAVID BELK, MD
A respected group of cancer specialists developed a chemotherapy program for a breast cancer patient. But then her insurance company denied the claim, so the cancer center stuck her with a bill three times as large as what they would have required from the insurance company.
In June of 2012 Ann Marie O’Callaghan got some of the most terrifying news a woman can get: she had breast cancer. Worse, Ann Marie was only 39 at the time and the oldest of her two children was about to go into kindergarten.
Cancers that strike young women can often be very aggressive, but fortunately there were proven treatmen...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
New Texas Case Alleges Hospital Noncompliance with TADA
The Dunn case challenges the very constitutionality of the Texas Advance Directives Act.
Another Texas case, filed last month (Agoucha-Ohakweh v. Baylor College of Medicine), alleges that the hospital failed to even comply with the statutory pr... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 11, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
How a Cell Knows Friend From Foe
This article is the first in an occasional series that will explore these questions and explain how pursuing the answers could advance understanding of important biological processes.
This video shows different strains of amoeba cells in red and green. As cells move toward one another, they use two sets of proteins to recognize others from the same strain. When close relatives meet, their proteins match and the cells join together to form a multicellular structure. When cells from different strains meet, their proteins don’t match, so they can’t aggregate. Credit: Shigenori Hirose, Baylor College of Medicine.
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Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 3, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Srivalli Subbaramaiah Tags: Cell Biology Genetics Cellular Processes Cool Creatures Cool Videos Source Type: blogs
Cryonics is Still in Search of Better Approaches to End of Life Management
Cryonics is the industry and collection of technologies associated with low-temperature preservation of an individual upon death, necessarily carried out as soon as possible so as to prevent tissue damage in the brain. It is connected to research and development in forms of organ preservation associated with transplant medicine. A good cryopreservation of at least the brain ensures the best chance of future restoration with all the data of the mind intact, encoded in the fine structure of neurons and synapses: a preserved individual has all the time in the world to wait, after all. The odds of success are unknown, but infi...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 21, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
TWiV 290: Baylor goes viral
On episode #290 of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent meets up with Janet Butel and Rick Lloyd at Baylor College of Medicine to talk about their work on polyomaviruses and virus induced stress.
You can find TWiV #290 at www.twiv.tv. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - June 22, 2014 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology cancer coxsackievirus mesothelioma P bodies picornavirus poliovirus polyomavirus stress granules SV40 viral Source Type: blogs
Glutamine Ratio is Key Ovarian Cancer Indicator
In this study, a further link between glutamine dependency and tumor invasiveness is established in ovarian cancer. A Rice University-led analysis of the metabolic profiles of hundreds of ovarian tumors […] (Source: Libby's H*O*P*E*)
Source: Libby's H*O*P*E* - May 10, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Paul Cacciatore Tags: Biomarker Cancer Research Discoveries Preclinical Testing Research Grant Anil Sood M.D. Baylor College of Medicine Deepak Nagrath Ph.D. glutaminase inhibitor glutamine glycolysis JAK inhibitor Krebs Cycle Otto Warburg ovarian c Source Type: blogs
Extend focus beyond hospitals to truly improve healthcare
by Thomas Dahlborg
The healthcare industry focuses on clinical quality outcomes at the hospital level, especially on preventable readmissions. Funders of healthcare implement both carrots and sticks (incentives and disincentives) to improve quality in this area; however, this sole approach is not enough.
Healthcare is a complex, adaptive system (as is each of our patients, practitioners and organizations), so a focus limited to hospital responsibility regarding care quality is not enough to truly make a difference.
For this discussion, let's expand our view to primary care as well.
Primary care physicians miss between ...
Source: hospital impact - March 7, 2014 Category: Health Managers Authors: Wendy Johnson Source Type: blogs
Doctors and Social Media — It’s time to embrace change.
I recently took on a position of medical journal editor. It is with the Journal of Kentucky Medical Association.
It’s been a good learning experience. Part of the job of editorial board members is to write an opinion column. (Check, I’ve done that before.) What follows below was published in this month’s journal.
The editorial board put no restrictions on me. So I decided to write about social media and why it is time that doctors make the leap from analog to digital. (It breaks the less than 500 words rule.)
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The Greek philosopher Heraclitus gets credit for the idea that change is central to th...
Source: Dr John M - February 28, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
Do You Believe More Vaccines or Better Nutrition Prevents Disease?
Conclusion
Tremendous government financial and medical resources are wasted on the development of more vaccinations to prevent diseases. No research has proven the effectiveness of vaccinations in preventing illness. Overwhelming evidence exists to show vaccines are dangerous to health and contribute to illness, injury and death.
To prevent disease, one should avoid vaccinations, mercury dental fillings and toxic food. Following a nutrient-dense diet of whole, organic foods and removing toxic metals from the body are the best avenues to try and prevent illness and enhance health.
References
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Source: vactruth.com - December 20, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Michelle Goldstein Top Stories Dr. Russell Blaylock National Institutes of Health (NIH) Nutrition truth about vaccines Weston Price Source Type: blogs
