This Is Really Not Good Enough I Believe! We Have Regulatory Blindness In Full Flight I Fear.
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11 Apr 2024 01.00 AEST Last modified on Thu 11 Apr 2024 08.22 AEST (Source: Australian Health Information Technology)
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - April 19, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Mercy in Extremis, In-Group Bias, and Stranger Blindness
Josh Bowers (University of Virginia), Mercy in Extremis, In-Group Bias, and Stranger Blindness, Tex. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024): Our perceptions of what we owe each other turn somewhat on whether we consider “another” to be “an other”—a stranger and not... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 28, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 1st 2024
Discussion of What is Need to Speed the Pace at which Drugs to Treat Aging Arrive in the Clinic
Cellular Senescence in the Aging Brain, a Contributing Cause of Cognitive Decline
Reviewing What is Known of the Mechanisms of Taurine Supplementation Relevant to Aging and Metabolism
Blunt Thoughts on Calculating the Revealed Value of Human Life
A Look Back at 2023: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition
Towards Adjustment of the Gut Microbiome to Slow Aging
Gene Therapy Enhances Object Recognition Memory in Young and Old Mice
Benefits of Sem...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 31, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Look Back at 2023: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition
The market has been in the doldrums and it has been a tough year for fundraising, both for non-profits and biotech startups. The conferences have exhibited more of an academic focus as companies tightened belts and postponed investment rounds, while investors stayed home. Not that this halts the flow of hype for some projects, and nor has it slowed media commentary on the longevity industry as it presently stands. A few of the articles in that commmentary are even interesting to read! The field has grown and is more mature now than has ever been the case. Biotech of all forms is a challenging field with a high failure rate...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 29, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
Spotlighting SEPA for National STEM Day
The NIGMS Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) program provides opportunities for pre-K-12 students from underserved communities to access STEM educational resources. SEPA grants support innovative, research-based, science education programs, furthering NIGMS’ mission to ensure a strong and diverse biomedical research workforce. SEPA projects generate resources that are mapped to state and national teaching standards for STEM and are rigorously evaluated for effectiveness; most are also available at no cost. These resources include mobile laboratories, interactive health exhibits in museums and science centers, edu...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: STEM Education Research Roundup SEPA Training Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 30th 2023
In conclusion, reported adherence to a healthy lifestyle is associated with reduced risk of all-cause and cause-specific mortality. Adherence to all four lifestyle factors resulted in the strongest protection.
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Source: Fight Aging! - October 29, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Senescent Cells Contribute to the Degeneration of the Retinal Vasculature
Senescent cells accumulate with age throughout the body. While their numbers remain a small fraction of all cells in a tissue, even in late life, senescent cells produce an outsized harm to tissue structure and function via a continual, disruptive, pro-growth, pro-inflammatory signaling, the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Researchers have demonstrated, in animal models, that senescent cells directly contribute to the onset and progression of many distinct age-related conditions. Further, it has been shown in animal models that clearing senescent cells throughout the body can rapidly reverse pathology in ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 27, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
More Evidence for Impaired Hearing to Contribute to Cognitive Decline
In conclusion, cochlear implant use seems to boost cognitive trajectories in the first years after implantation. However, long-term prevention of dementia seems to need far more than restoration of hearing loss. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - October 16, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Place Accessibility Front and Center in Every Aspect of Your Healthcare App
The following is a guest article by Sara Faatz, Director, Technology Community Relations at Progress
In recent years, we have seen a massive increase in society’s reliance on technology. Accelerated in large part due to the pandemic, technology evolved overnight in order to meet the changing needs of its users, most notably the ability to access information from anywhere on any device. As we have returned to our new normal, the advances we made continue to permeate our everyday lives.
The healthcare and medical industries are not immune to this evolution. Medical offices and practitioners are demanding digital experience...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 13, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Accessibility Digital Accessibility Healthcare Accessibility Healthcare Apps Healthcare Digi Source Type: blogs
Do dogs live in a black and white world?
As a child, I remember my mother telling me something she learned when she was an eye nurse – dogs are colourblind. Now, if I remember rightly, she didn’t mean they could only see in black and white as research in the 1940s had suggested, but that they had limited receptivity to the full colour palate. They were red-green colourblind, like some boys and men. The issue came up after they tested us boys at school for colour blindness with those spotty number colour charts.
The red colour of our lab’s collar would’ve looked grey to her
However, proof that the canine world isn’t monochrome didn...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs
Is a dog ’ s life monochrome?
Do dogs live in a black-and-white world?
As a child, I remember my mother telling me something she learned when she was an eye nurse – dogs are colourblind. Now, if I remember rightly, she didn’t mean they could only see in black and white as research in the 1940s had suggested, but that they had limited receptivity to the full colour palate. They were red-green colourblind, like some boys and men. The issue came up after they tested us boys at school for colour blindness with those spotty number colour charts.
The red colour of our lab’s collar would’ve looked grey to her
However, proof that the ca...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - October 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Biology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 28th 2023
In conclusion, we identified 20 genes with significant evolutionary signals unique to long-lived species, which provided new insight into the lifespan extension of mammals and might bring new strategies to extend human lifespan.
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Trials of Xenotransplantation of Pig Organs into Humans Continue
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/08/trials-of-xenotransplantation-of-pig-organs-into-humans-continue/
Researchers have genetically engineered pigs to overcome the known barriers to transplantation of pig organs into humans, and have reached the stage of conducting transplants i...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 27, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
More Evidence Linking Impaired Vision and Dementia Risk
Why would vision impairment correlate with risk of dementia? The retina is an extension of the central nervous system, so one might think that similar processes of aging and neurodegeneration contribute to both loss of visual capacity and loss of cognitive capacity. But it might also be the case that in the brain, as for muscles, there is a degree of "use it or lose it" taking place over the course of later life. Without stimuli, in other words, the aging brain declines more rapidly. Most of the evidence for an association between visual impairment and cognitive impairment in older individuals doesn't allow us to determine...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 21, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
A simple tip for peace of mind … for the modern patient
Preamble
A patient who had a PCI some time back , asked me in one of his recent visit.
Doctor what is microvascular endothelial dysfunction and erosison ? Am I at risk of developing it ?
What am I supposed to answer ? Yes, I some how managed .” Don’t worry , it is a complex biological phenomenon. you need not go deeper into that. Take medicines regularly” He wasn’t happy with my answer is a different story.
A simple tip for peace of mind … for the modern patient
If the current generations of patients , equipped with hyper-knowledge engines, insist to understand 100% about the...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - August 20, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: patient education ai in medicine faith trust in doctors patient behaviour patient empowerment technology in mediine Source Type: blogs
The view from nowhere
I commend to your attentionthis essay from Dan Froomkin on the willful blindness of the corporate media to the reality of right wing politics in the U.S. today. (Even Froomkin doesn ' t seem to notice that the Republican party generallyis driven by dispensationalism, that most of their voters really do believe in Biblical inerrancy and literalism, and the imminent apocalypse. But that ' s for another day.)I was particularly interested in Froomkin ' s example of opposition to solar farms in rural Ohio. Washington Post reporter Jeff Stein really stepped in it with his remarkably na ïve article headlined “Small-...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 29, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
