Balance Boards to Stay Active in the Offfice: Interview with Joel Heath, CEO of FluidStance
Fun and durable, the FluidStance balance board deck can be found at many offices these days as working professionals with desk jobs look for ways to stay active and healthy. Long hours slumped over at a desk means that your muscles remain inactive for long periods of time – a running hypothesis is that long periods of inactivity lead to issues with glucose regulation, as muscles cease their regular glucose uptake and the body adapts to a sedentary lifestyle.
FluidStance’s balance board, Level, provides an engaging alternative to this by forcing your body to engage different muscles to balance. Yet, it’s not ...
Source: Medgadget - January 20, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive balanceboard FluidStance Source Type: blogs
' Strategic Ambiguity' May Have U.S. and Taiwan Trapped in a Prisoner's Dilemma
For its proponents, the idea of strategic ambiguity seems to have become an end in itself that has not adapted, and logically cannot adapt to the disruptive growth in Beijing ' s military power. The conditions under which the policy worked seem to have evaporated with China ' s rise. Strategic clarity may offer a way out of this dilemma. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 18, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Raymond Kuo Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 707
This week ' s case features another muscle biopsy - this time from a middle aged man from China with recent visit to Pangkor island. Approximately 10 days after his trip, he presented with high fever, headache, and generalized myalgia. Light microscopic evaluation of H&E-stained sections of muscle showed the following parasites within muscle fibers. What is your diagnosis? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - January 17, 2023 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 16th 2023
Conclusions
Implanted Hair Follicle Cells Produce Remodeling of Scar Tissue
Assessment of Somatic Mosaicism as a Biomarker of Aging
The Gut Microbiome of Centenarians
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/01/the-gut-microbiome-of-centenarians/
The state of the gut microbiome is arguably as influential on health as exercise. Various microbial species present in the gut produce beneficial metabolites, such as butyrate, or harmful metabolites, such as isoamylamine, or can provoke chronic inflammation in a variety of ways. An individual can have a better or worse microbiome, assessing these and other...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 15, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
U.S. Gun Laws, China's COVID Outbreak, Space in 2050: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on gun policy in America, the myth of America ' s“Ukraine fatigue,” the COVID outbreak in China, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 13, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
Only 45 Percent of Employment ‐Based Green Cards Went to Workers in 2021
Alex NowrastehThe immigration system of the United States favors family reunification even in the so-called employment-based (EB) green card categories. Under current interpretations of U.S. immigration law, family members of immigrant workers must use EB green cards. The American system isn ’t unusual as Japan is the onlyOECD country with more immigrant workers than immigrant family members. Still, the difference is larger in the United States than in other countries. Instead of a separate green card category for the spouses and children of workers, those family members get a green card thatwould otherwise have gone to ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 12, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
What's Korean About South Korea's Indo-Pacific Strategy?
The Korean Indo-Pacific Strategy may not be a sign of South Korea pivoting or leaning toward the United States over China. That conclusion could present a false dichotomy. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 11, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Erik Mobrand Source Type: blogs
Commentary on More Drastic Scenarios of Partial Brain and Full Body Replacement
Is outright replacement of tissues a viable option for the treatment of aging? There are factions within the longevity-interested community who think that the paths to either (a) engineering replacement brain tissue for parts of the brain not involved in memory, or (b) transplantation of an old head onto a young body or brain into a young body, are short enough to be worth pursuing, where "short enough" means a few decades of work given sufficient funding. To my mind, major surgery of the sort implied by replacement of large sections of tissue or entire organs is something to be avoided in later life, given the risks and c...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 10, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Biden's Southeast Asia Policy Improves in Second Year, but Still Much to Do
In 2022, the Biden administration stepped up its game in Southeast Asia by showing up in person, clarifying its approach in key strategy documents, and boosting cooperation. But one obvious problem that remains is that it still has no real economic strategy to counter China in the region. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 10, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Derek Grossman Source Type: blogs
The Gut Microbiome of Centenarians
In this study, we combined metagenomic sequencing and large-scale in vitro culture to reveal the unique gut microbial structure of the world's longevity town - Jiaoling, China, centenarians, and people of different ages. Functional strains were isolated and screened in vitro, and the possible relationship between gut microbes and longevity was explored and validated in vivo, revealing associations of the gut microbiota with age and a number of clinical and metabolic parameters.
We uncovered age-specific gut microbiota characteristics, including a core set of seven microbial taxa enriched in centenarians and the gut ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 9, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Playing the Long Game in U.S.-China Relations
John MuellerRush Doshi is currently Director for China in the Biden ’s administration’s National Security Council. In his 2021 book,The Long Game: China ’s Grand Strategy to Displace American Order, he examines that strategy and darkly concludes, rather tentatively, that the Chinese “might” be seeking to establish an “order” that would “involve the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Japan and Korea, the end of American regional alliances, the effective removal of the U.S. Navy from the Western Pacific, deference from China’s regional neighbors, unification with Taiwan, and the resolution of territorial disput...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 9, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: John Mueller Source Type: blogs
Could Taiwan Defend with Uncrewed Surface Vessels?
Ukraine has demonstrated the ability of explosive uncrewed surface vessels to target ships. These weapons could play a role in preventing Chinese forces from successfully invading Taiwan in potential future scenarios. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 9, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Scott Savitz Source Type: blogs
Lost Opportunities to Contain COVID-19 in China
Three years after the SARS-COV-2 virus emerged in Wuhan, China is now facing a tsunami of COVID-19 infections. The unprecedented spread of the disease appears to have been fueled by an ill-timed sudden change in COVID-19 policy and the lack of vaccination and boosting. A rethinking of national strategy could still help. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 6, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Jennifer Bouey Source Type: blogs
A Potential Russian Attack on NATO, China in the Arctic, Inflation: RAND Weekly Recap
This weekly recap focuses on how the West might respond in the case of a limited Russian attack on NATO, what China ' s Arctic ambitions mean to the United States, how inflation affects middle-class households, and more. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - January 6, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: RAND Corporation Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
January 05,
2023 Edition
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The New Year
has broken but the world is still in a mess with the war in Ukraine and COVID
running rampant it China.
In the US it
seems we are near a recession with the sharemarket down 25% or so for the year.
In OZ we are
actually having a Summer and the fireworks lifted spirits. I hope 2023 turns
out to be a good one!
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Major Issues.
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Source: Australian Health Information Technology - January 5, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
