The Wearable Health Tracker Landscape: 18 Devices On 18 Body Parts
Over the last decade, Dr Meskó, The Medical Futurist has had his hands on more than 150 digital health devices, turning his (and our) life into a real-world tech lab. Yet, for all that testing, the wearable universe keeps expanding beyond our reach. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, the field throws a curveball, like earrings that measure your body temperature, introducing us to entirely new categories and possibilities. It’s clear that the innovation train in wearable tech hasn’t slowed down; if anything, it’s picking up speed.
Our latest infographic dives into this fast-changing world, m...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 7, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF wearables health sensors health trackers Source Type: blogs
Inside the mind of Alzheimer ’ s: a caregiver ’ s haunting nightmare
An excerpt from Releasing the Butterfly: A Love Affair in Four Acts. Imagine there must be thousands, if not millions, of family members and caregivers who wonder what it must be like to be the one who has Alzheimer’s. Genie and I have always shared our thoughts and experiences with each other. Often, I would
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Inside the mind of Alzheimer’s: a caregiver’s haunting nightmare originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 6, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Max Sherman Tags: Conditions Neurology Source Type: blogs
Ultrasound shows promise as new pain treatment, targeting a specific brain region
A recent study published in PhysicsWorld documented a possible new treatment for pain. Something most physicians would be surprised to hear. Ultrasound. That’s right, low-frequency ultrasound waves, when directed to a specific area of the brain called the insula, have been shown to give some pain relief to persons who were being subjected to a
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Ultrasound shows promise as new pain treatment, targeting a specific brain region originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 6, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: L. Joseph Parker, MD Tags: Conditions Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Research Organism Superheroes: Axolotls
The friendly-looking axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) doesn’t seem to have much in common with its namesake, Xolotl—the Aztec god of lightning, death, and fire. In fact, axolotls can regrow lost limbs and other body parts like organs and parts of their central nervous systems—which goes against the concept of death!
The axolotl can regenerate almost any body part, including brain, heart, jaws, limbs, lungs, ovaries, spinal cord, skin, and tail. This ability makes it an excellent research organism to study in the search for regenerative medicine. Credit: Marko Pende, MDI Biological Laboratory; MDI Biological Labor...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 6, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: STEM Education Tools and Techniques Coloring Pages Cool Creatures Regeneration Research Organisms Source Type: blogs
Blood Tests for Alzheimer's Disease Continue to Look Promising
In recent years, data has shown correlations between specific blood biomarkers and Alzheimer's disease pathology in the brain, such as the burden of misfolded, aggregated amyloid-β. This has led to the development of a variety of blood tests for Alzheimer's disease, intended to replace the presently onerous testing that requires either expensive imaging or invasive analysis of cerebrospinal fluid. Alzheimer's disease develops slowly over time, a long period of raised amyloid-β levels in the brain setting the stage for later dysfunction. Early testing for the risk of later Alzheimer's disease enabled attempts to slow or e...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 6, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Searching for a Causal Link Between Gut Microbiome Populations and Pace of Aging
In conclusion, this Mendelian randomization study found that Streptococcus was causally associated with Bioage acceleration. Further randomized controlled trials are needed to investigate its role in the aging process.
Link: https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms12020370 (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - March 5, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
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Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Blackbird Health Raises $17 Million Series A to Expand Access to Integrated, Technology-Backed Youth Mental Health Model
Blackbird Health Leverages a Neuroscience-Driven, “Understanding-First” Care Model to Take the Trial and Error out of Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young-Adult Mental Health Diagnosis and Treatment
Blackbird Health, a neuroscience-led and technology-backed youth mental health provider, announced today it raised $17 million in series A funding. The round was led by Define Ventures and also included participation from Frist Cressey Ventures and GreyMatter. Blackbird has raised nearly $23 million to date.
Blackbird Health is a mental health company for kids and young adults struggling with social, emotional, devel...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 4, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Amy Edgar Blackbird Health Chirag Shah Define Ventures Dr. Matt Keener Frist Cressey Ventures GreyMatter Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Tom Peterson Source Type: blogs
Restriction of RNA Polymerase I Activity Extends Life in Nematode Worms
RNA Polymerase I (Pol I) is prominent in the regulatory systems managing the nutrient-driven tradeoff between growth and longevity. It is responsible for producing a sizable fraction of RNA, reading from gene sequences and assembling corresponding RNA molecules. As such, it is responsible for initiating some of the most energetically expensive processes in the cell, including translation of messenger RNA into proteins. Suppression of the production of proteins is a consequence of low calorie intake, an intervention known to slow aging, and researchers have shown that interfering in RNA synthesis can also extend life in sho...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 4, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 4th 2024
In conclusion, HSV (but not CMV) infection may be indicative of doubled dementia risk.
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Increased Dietary Leucine Activates mTOR Signaling in Macrophages, Accelerating Atherosclerosis
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/02/increased-dietary-leucine-activates-mtor-signaling-in-macrophages-accelerating-atherosclerosis/
Leucine is an essential amino acid, only obtained from the diet rather than synthesized by our cells. Leucine supplementation has been proposed as a way to slow the loss of muscle mass with age, as leucine processing becomes dysregulated with aging in a way...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 3, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
This Is The Effect Of Sugar On Your Brain ’ s Memory Centres (M)
The sweet enemy of memory lurking in your diet. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 2, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Dementia subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
NPTX2 Involved in Neurodegeneration Driven by TDP-43 Aggregation
Altered, misfolded forms of TDP-43 are thought to contribute to neurodegeneration in a number of age-related conditions, primarily amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and frontotemporal dementia. As is the case for other misfolded proteins associated with neurodegeneration, aberrant TDP-43 may accumulate in much of the older population to levels sufficient to meaningfully contribute to cognitive decline. That TDP-43 has this negative impact is a relatively recent discovery, and in comparison to amyloid-β, tau, and α-synuclein little is known of the mechanisms by which TDP-43 aggregation causes dysfunction and death in brain ce...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 29, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Heart-stopping brain surgery: a surgeon ’ s harrowing dilemma
An excerpt from of Paint and Pancakes. The epicenter of Jane’s cancer occupied some very expensive real estate between Broca’s area and the motor strip. Her ability to speak and form coherent words resided in Broca’s. A little further back was the Motor Strip, which controlled the movement of the right side of her body.
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Heart-stopping brain surgery: a surgeon’s harrowing dilemma originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 29, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Marc Arginteanu, MD Tags: Conditions Surgery Source Type: blogs
Particulate Air Pollution Correlates with Risk of Alzheimer's Disease
Researchers here use data on air pollution from a single US metropolitan area to show a correlation with Alzheimer's disease risk. Air pollution is shown to increase chronic inflammation via the interaction of particulates with lung tissue, and inflammation is an important component of the onset and progression of neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. That said, the researchers were primarily interested in traffic as a source of particulate air pollution, and one might think that this introduces a correlation with wealth, given the usual distribution of cost of living versus proximity to major flows of ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 29, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Surviving a 28-hour hospital shift: a resident ’ s struggle and passion
I recently worked a 28-hour shift in the hospital. I am on a rotation where I work these long shifts every four days, and my last 3 or 4 of these shifts have been the kind that really tries a person’s soul. I got called all night to see new patients and take care of
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Surviving a 28-hour hospital shift: a resident’s struggle and passion originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 28, 2024 Category: General Medicine Authors: Stephanie Wottrich, MD Tags: Physician Neurology Source Type: blogs
