A Look at Some of the Aging Research of Irina Conboy
Irina Conboy is on the SENS Research Foundation's advisory board and is one of the more frequently noted scientists presently working on heterochronic parabiosis and related research. These scientific programs aim at identifying age-related changes in important signal proteins circulating in the bloodstream, with parabiosis being where it all starts: link the circulatory systems of an old and a young animal and observe benefits to measures of health in the elder of the two. This happens because old tissues are exposed to a young blood environment. Once specific proteins in the blood are identified as being of interest, the...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 10, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
An Example of General Interest Writing on Aging and the Prospects for Treatment
It is always pleasant to see more people writing seriously about aging and medicine, even if they omit what I see as some of the important viewpoints, or fail to end up advocating for massive funding of SENS research so as to make best speed towards an end to age-related frailty and disease. Certainly all too few people are willing to make that last leap at the moment. However, that there is more interest these days in treating aging as a medical condition and in the biological details of aging is a sign that the tide of public awareness is rising. In turn this should mean that it will become ever easier to raise funds in ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 2, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
A Truthful Vaccine Consent Form – That No Mom Could Ever Sign
The duty and responsibility for ascertaining the quality of the consent rests upon each individual who initiates, directs or engages in the experiment. It is a personal duty and responsibility which may not be delegated to another with impunity.(1)
Those are the closing words of the first tenet of the Nuremberg Code - informed consent – and make no mistake about it - from the most personal of parental perspectives, vaccination’s a macabre experiment, every time: no parent can be certain that a vaccine won’t permanently disable her child.(2) Egregiously, the administering doctor or nurse - or CVS pharmacist - in no wa...
Source: vactruth.com - May 25, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Shawn Siegel Tags: Logical Shawn Siegel Top Stories informed consent Nuremberg Code Ronne study Vaccine Consent Form Source Type: blogs
Say no to Indoor Tanning Beds. Know More. Do Better.
With May being Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event today co-hosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are running a series on skin cancer. Be sure to check back daily for posts on skin cancer including how you prevent and detect it. Enjoy!
I CONFESS…
I went to a tanning bed before attending a destination wedding, thinking I was getting a “base coat” that would prevent me from getting a sunburn.
I used a sun lamp in high school, thinking it would clear my blemished skin.
I used to wrap a vinyl record a...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer prevent cancer foundation skin cancer Tanning bed Source Type: blogs
Pharmaphobia: How the Conflict of Interest Myth Undermines American Medical Innovation
Long a champion of physician and industry collaboration, Thomas Stossel, M.D., has published a new book entitled Pharmaphobia: How the Conflict of Interest Myth Undermines American Medical Innovation. In it, Stossel, a distinguished Harvard hematologist and researcher, decries the conflict of interest movement as detrimental to medical progress and ultimately the patients who would benefit from new, innovative therapies.
Writing about conflicts of interest has been an increasingly surefire way to get published—the Journal of the American Medical Association even has its own conflict of interest category. What...
Source: Policy and Medicine - May 8, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs
I ’ m all about that bass, no treble
Months ago I visited the doctor to investigate a weird little symptom that came up. A small section of hair had fallen out on the left side of my head. It wasn’t much, about the size of a coin. Complete hair everywhere else but that one spot. No biggie. I hid it easily with my other hair. Turned out after some blood work that I had/have hypothyroidism, which means my thyroid gland is under producing its hormones (thyroid hormones control metabolism/how food converts to energy in different parts of the body). One of its symptoms can sometimes show up as hair loss.
My hair is all grown back now, and I have been taking ...
Source: Cancer, life, and me - December 31, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Chris Tags: General Source Type: blogs
I’m all about that bass, no treble
Months ago I visited the doctor to investigate a weird little symptom that came up. A small section of hair had fallen out on the left side of my head. It wasn’t much, about the size of a coin. Complete hair everywhere else but that one spot. No biggie. I hid it easily with my other hair. Turned out after some blood work that I had/have hypothyroidism, which means my thyroid gland is under producing its hormones (thyroid hormones control metabolism/how food converts to energy in different parts of the body). One of its symptoms can sometimes show up as hair loss.
My hair is all grown back now, and I have been taking ...
Source: Cancer, life, and me - December 31, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Chris Tags: General Source Type: blogs
More resources are needed for pediatric cancer research
The fact that childhood cancer is, thankfully, a rare disease belies the fact that it is the leading cause of disease-related death in U.S. children, age 1 to 19. The fact that it is a rare disease also belies the fact the number of people with a direct stake in expanding research into pediatric cancer is quite large and extends well beyond the small number of children with cancer and their families. Not only are the combined life-long contributions of children cured of cancer enormous, but understanding cancers of young children could also hold the key to understanding a broad range of adult cancers. The time is ripe to...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 20, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: David A. Williams, MD Tags: Conditions Cancer Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
5 things internists should know about treating survivors of childhood cancer
Recent research finds that many internists do not feel comfortable or prepared to care for survivors of childhood cancer. Although the rarity of childhood cancer may explain this, the fact remains that as more and more pediatric cancer patients survive into adulthood busy internists often have some survivors in their practices. These patients would have been treated during the last decades of the 20th century or the beginning of this century with therapies that may or may not still be used. In addition, the amount of data available about long-term outcomes varies widely depending on the type of cancer treatment the patien...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 4, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Lisa Diller, MD Tags: Conditions Cancer Source Type: blogs
Ultraviolet Bad: Surgeon General Issues A Call To Action To Prevent Skin Cancer
(Note: This blog was originally published on another American Cancer Society website on July 29 because of technical problems on this site. Those have now been resolved and it is now reposted here. We appreciate your understanding.)
"Ultraviolet bad."
That was the core message that came out of the introduction Tuesday morning of the Surgeon General's Call to Action to Prevent Skin Cancer at a meeting held at the National Press Club in Washington DC.
There were some other messages that now raise skin cancer awareness and prevention high on the public health awareness list, such as the fact that over 5 million people ...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - July 31, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Diet Early detection Environment Exercise Melanoma Prevention Research Screening Skin Cancer Survivors Vitamins Source Type: blogs
Randolph Hospital Is The Biggest " Non-Profit " In Randolph County, North Carolina . . . And The Courier Tribune Must Protect It . . . At All Costs (Subtitled: What Does A Million Healthcare Dollars Buy In Asheboro?)
I ' ve not blogged regularly since early 2013 - having moved my online activities over to Facebook . . . and, until fairly recently, curbed the time I spent there. & nbsp;I have enjoyed the time away from blogging, and have only put something up when the stars aligned and begged for commentary. < br / > < br / > < strike > Over the next week or so, I ' m going to put up at least three posts < /strike > *. . . all inspired by what passes for newspaper " coverage " of local healthcare these days. < br / > < br / > (* < i > I never got around to it.) < /i > < br / > < br / > < b > It ' s only gotten worse since I began blogg...
Source: Dr.J's HouseCalls - July 20, 2014 Category: American Health Tags: 501 (c)(3) Asheboro Bob Morrison Chip Womick Cone Hospital Courier Tribune IRS National Health Service Corps NHSC Non-profit Pediatrics Randolph Hospital Randolph Medical Associates Steve Eblin Source Type: blogs
