Brain-Computer Interfaces at Home: Interview with Dr. Solzbacher of Blackrock Neurotech
Blackrock Neurotech, a medtech company based in Salt Lake City, has pioneered an array of brain-computer interface technologies. Medgadget last spoke with Blackrock Neurotech a year ago about their thought-to-text brain computer interface, but since the company signed an agreement with a research institution to develop portable brain computer interface (BCI) systems. This partnership will hopefully lead to patients being able to use BCI devices in the comfort of their own home.
At present, such technology currently uses bulky and cumbersome hardware, and therefore requires physical visits to research facilities...
Source: Medgadget - July 21, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Neurology Neurosurgery Rehab bci BlackrockNeuro_ brain computer interface Source Type: blogs
Compromised Circulation Contributes to One Variant of Macular Degeneration
This study further demonstrates that AMD is not a single condition or an isolated disease, but is often a signal of systemic malfunction which could benefit from targeted medical evaluation in addition to localized eye care."
Link: https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2022/blinding-eye-disease-is-strongly-associated-with-heart-disease-and-stroke (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - July 19, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Thriving Despite Adversity: A Lesson From Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler is one of the greatest mathematicians who have ever lived. Living in the 18th century, he contributed to many fields of mathematics. He was very prolific; when he passed away at the age of 76, he had more than 850 publications! Many of the mathematical notations that we use today were first introduced by Euler.
But I found something even more interesting when I read his story in Fermat’s Enigma: despite being completely blind in the last seventeen years of his life, those were his most productive years!
How could that be? How could he produce more when the situation was worse?
After reading his st...
Source: Life Optimizer - July 18, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Source Type: blogs
Health Equity in the Spotlight at 2022 Esri User Conference
Health Equity is a complex challenge with multiple root causes and contributing factors making it difficult to know where to start. For many government and healthcare organizations, mapping health equity using a Geography Information System (GIS) was the best place to start. By showing health equity issues on a map, several organizations and individuals who presented at the 2022 Esri User Conference were able to spur action and direct resources to the areas that needed it the most.
Incorporating Race into GIS Dashboards
In 2019, the County of Milwaukee became the first jurisdiction in the country to declare racism a public...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - July 15, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System ArcGIS Carten Lange County of Milwaukee COVID-19 esri Esri User Conference Health Disparities Health Equity Healthcare GIS HealthG Source Type: blogs
Why doctors are getting their asses kicked by technology
Physicians have terrible technology, but they refuse to recognize high-tech as a medical specialty. They must integrate technology as they do laboratory science. Physicians are certainly suffering from poorly-designed electronic medical records (EHR), but they are also guilty of wilful blindness in abdicating responsibility for technology in medicine. This must change. Physicians have a higherRead more …Why doctors are getting their asses kicked by technology originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 29, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/drea-burbank" rel="tag" data-wpel-link="internal" > Drea Burbank, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Health IT Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Trivial miracles and moral whiplash
Chapter 6 is a strange amalgam indeed. I episode 1, Elisha ' s prophet buddies want more living space so they go down to the river to build a bigger encampment. One guy loses an ax head in the water, and Elisha makes it float.That ' s it. Big whoop.In episode 2, the Syrians decide to attack Israel. Elisha can miraculously here his conversation from a distance so he knows their plans. Elisha then has God strike the Syrians blind, and they foolishly let him lead them to Samaria, where they are trapped. Normally, God wants Israel ' s enemies exterminated, and in fact past kings have gotten into trouble for not completin...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 19, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Thin Film Electrodes for Neuro Applications: Interview with Dave Rosa, CEO of NeuroOne
NeuroOne, a medtech company based in Minnesota, has developed the Evo Cortical Electrode and the sEEG electrode, both of which are thin film electrodes for neural recording and stimulation. The small profile and flexible nature of the electrodes allows for less invasive insertion, and the low resistance they offer delivers improved signal quality.
The devices can combine both diagnostic and therapeutic functions, which could potentially reduce the number of procedures a patient has to undergo, as diagnosis and treatment can occur during the same procedure.
The company has also conducted simulations of long-term neura...
Source: Medgadget - June 1, 2022 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Materials Neurology Neurosurgery epilepsy N1MTC seizures Source Type: blogs
The Future Of Vision And Eye Care
3D printed digital contact lenses, bionic eye implants, augmented reality: the future of vision and eye care is full of science fiction-sounding innovations. Here is where digital health will take ophthalmology in the future!
More than 80 percent of perception comes through vision
Researchers estimate that 80-85 percent of our perception, learning, cognition, and activities are mediated through vision. Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of information, while smell 3.5 percent, touch 1.5 percent and taste 1 percent. Don’t you think that’s possible? Renowned scholars, L.D. Ros...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 10, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Augmented Reality Cyborgization 3d printing AI diabetes digital digital health future guide Healthcare Innovation Personalized medicine technology vision eye care ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
MedPAC Got It Wrong (pt 2)
By GEORGE HALVORSON
This is the second part of former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson’s critique of Medpac’s new analysis of Medicare Advantage.Part 1 is here. The final part will be published on THCB later this week. Eventually I’ll be doing a summary article about all the back and forth about what Medicare Advantage really costs!-Matthew Holt
We clearly do have significant levels of quality data about the MA plans because we have extensive levels of quality programs and recognitions that exist in MA . Those programs get better every year — and MedPac should be reporting and even celeb...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 31, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy The Business of Health Care George Halvorson Medicare Advantage MedPAC Source Type: blogs
Pithiatism Redux
BY MARTIN SAMUELS
Those of us in medicine have all seen the famous painting of the Tuesday afternoon lessons at the Salpȇtrière in Paris in the 19th century. In Pierre Aristide André Brouillet’s painting, one can clearly see the great professor, Jean-Martin Charcot, holding forth while the patient, Blanche Whitman, is being supported by a tall young man, Joseph Jules Francois Felix Babinski, the Chef de Clinique (the chief resident) and allegedly the favorite to succeed Charcot. He never did as he was failed repeatedly on the exam necessary to become a faculty member at the university by a jealous, xenophobic, anti...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Patients Physicians Andre Brouillet Martin Samuels Mental Health Patient Care Pithiatism Source Type: blogs
140 Quotes That Hit Hard About Life, Love and Happiness
I like quotes that hit hard.
The ones that I know deep down are true. Or the ones that sends my mind off into a new direction or shifts it into seeing a problem from a new point of view.
So in today’s post I’d like to share the most hard hitting quotes I've found in the past 10+ years.
I've divided the post into four different sections to make it easier to navigate: life, love, happiness and success.
I hope you’ll find something here that is hard hitting for you too and helps you to make a real shift in your own life.
And if you want even more motivational quotes then check out this post with don’t settle quotes a...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - January 28, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs
Medicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part one)
By GEORGE HALVORSON
Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for All post-COVID. He wrote a piece in Health Affairs last week arguing with the stance of Medicare Advantage of Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan (Here’s their piece pt1, pt2). Here’s a longer exposition of his argument. We are publishing part one today with part two coming soon – Matthew Holt
The evidence for Medicare Advantage being a superior program compared to standard fee-for-service Medicare is so overwh...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medicare Don Berwick George Halvorson Medicare Advantage Rick Gilfillan Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 3rd 2022
In this study, we showed that the iPaD (inducing Plagl2 and anti-Dyrk1a) lentivirus substantially rejuvenated the proliferative and neurogenic potential of NSCs in the aged brain. Clonal analysis by a sparse labeling approach as well as transcriptome analysis indicated that iPaD can rejuvenate aged NSCs (19-21 mo of age) to a level comparable with those at 1 or 2 months of age and successfully improved cognition of aged mice.
Once rejuvenated and activated by iPaD, aged dormant NSCs can generate, on average, 4.9 neurons but very few astrocytes in 3-week tracing. Furthermore, these activated NSCs were maintained for ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 2, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Look Back at 2021: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition
Well, here we are again, at the end of another pandemic year, a year older and - hopefully - a year wiser and more knowledgeable. I said all that really needs to be said on the topic of COVID-19 as an age-related condition at the end of last year. We might hope that, given widespread vaccination, the pandemic will become a topic of diminishing importance as the year ahead progresses, even given the present round of variants, fears, and reintroduction of restrictions.
Advocacy for Aging Research
Have we finally made significant progress in convincing the world that aging is the cause of age-related disease, th...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 31, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 20th 2021
In conclusion, the low dose, prolonged angiotensin II exposure is associated with the induction of senescence in kidneys and the promotion of an inflammatory microenvironment through both secreted factors and immune cells. Endothelial cells appear to be a major cell type impacted. The elimination of senescent cells in the INK-ATTAC transgenic model prevents these effects of angiotensin II and reveals a novel pathophysiologic mechanism amenable to targeting by senolytic drugs in development.
CYTOR Upregulation as a Path to Improved Muscle Function in Later Life
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/12/cytor-...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 19, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
