Towards a Better Understanding of the Role of the Gut Microbiome in Alzheimer's Disease
This article summarizes research presented at the virtual symposium and workshop, "New Approaches for Understanding the Potential Role of Microbes in Alzheimer's Disease." The objective of these events was to review the evidence base and catalyze research to address knowledge gaps in the hypothesis that infections or microbes play some causative role in the development or progression of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is a complex disease; this symposium was rooted in an understanding that its pathogenesis could be triggered by both microbe-dependent and microbe-independent pathways and the two are not mutually ex...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 15, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Three Ways AI, If Trusted, Can Transform the Healthcare Landscape
The following is a guest article by Jeanne Greathouse, Healthcare Development Director, AI Regulatory Services at BSI
77% of Healthcare Workers Say They May Be Ready to Let AI Take on Administrative Work
Few industries have been stress-tested as thoroughly as the healthcare system during COVID-19 when, at the worst moments, 22% of US hospitals were reporting staff shortages. Even three years on, the World Health Organization found that 84% of countries were still experiencing some disruption. Amid a period of tremendous medical uncertainty and service disruption, health workers and first responders functioned like a life v...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Artificial Intelligence BSI Healthcare Efficiency Healthcare Transformation Improving Patient Care Jeanne Greathouse Medical Innovation Source Type: blogs
Quantifying the Social Value of a Universal COVID-19 Vaccine and Incentivizing Its Development
Rachel Glennerster (University of Chicago), Thomas Kelly (1Day Sooner), Claire McMahon (University of Chicago), Christopher Snyder (Dartmouth College), Quantifying the Social Value of a Universal COVID-19 Vaccine and Incentivizing Its Development (U. Chi. Becker Friedman Inst. for Econ. Working Paper... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 15, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
How do we stop a resurgence of fascism?
Is it bad to write for hard-right outlets?
There is no doubt that the Overton window has shifted to the right during the last decade or two. It is now common to hear people saying things that, even in 2010 would have been thought to be frankly fascistic.
I recall a conversation with the great biophysicist, Sir Bernard Katz, in 1992. He had come to UCL in 1936 to escape from the Nazi regime in Leipzig. When I suggested to him that he must have been very pleased about the reunification of Germany, he pulled a long face and said “hmm, let’s wait to see what crawls out from under stones”. ...
Source: DC's goodscience - March 11, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Alan Sokal anti-vaccination antiscience Deborah Cohen fascism Margaret McCartney Paul Marshall Quillette sceptics skeptics Spiked Toby Young transgender UnHerd Source Type: blogs
Electronic Health Records (EHR): How to Achieve Healthcare Data Accuracy with Artificial Intelligence
The following is a guest article by Ann Krutsko, Healthcare IT Researcher at ScienceSoft
In healthcare, working with inaccurate patient data is a dangerous game. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were designed to streamline operations and improve coordination across healthcare systems. And while EHRs have largely benefited the organizations that have adopted them, data accuracy is still a point of concern. Data entry is still fraught with human error. However, innovations in the field in the way of artificial intelligence integrations are making significant strides in enhancing data quality in EHRs. From data validation to ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI Integration Ann Krutsko Data Accuracy Data Entry Data Validation EHR Healthcare AI Healthcare Data Real-Time Alerts ScienceSoft Source Type: blogs
Is intellectual property the COVID-19 bad guy? Lessons we could learn from the pandemic
Charles Lawson (Griffith University), Is intellectual property the COVID-19 bad guy? Lessons we could learn from the pandemic (2023): At the time the COVID-19 pandemic was declared there was no vaccine and other medical products were insufficient to meet demands.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - March 2, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 26th 2024
In conclusion, mTORC1 signaling contributes to the ISC fate decision, enabling regional control of intestinal cell differentiation in response to nutrition.
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Reviewing the Development of Senotherapeutics to Treat Aging
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/02/reviewing-the-development-of-senotherapeutics-to-treat-aging/
Senescent cells accumulate with age and contribute meaningfully to chronic inflammation and degenerative aging. Destroying these cells produces rapid and sizable reversal of age-related diseases in mice, demonstrating that the presence of senescence cells ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 25, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
An Update on Kimer Med, Improving on the DRACO Antiviral Technology and Moving Towards the Clinic
The state of anti-viral therapies isn't that great, all things considered. Technology has not yet advanced to the point at which a viral infection can be simply shut down, as is the case for near all bacterial infections. The present anti-viral drugs are either vaccines (useful!) or merely shift the odds somewhat by interfering in some part of the viral life cycle, but nowhere near as effectively as desired. Many persistent viral infections are thought to contribute meaningfully to forms of age-related dysfunction, and there is too little that can be done about that at the present time.
This landscape is one of the ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 23, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Longevity Industry Source Type: blogs
What Does an Immunologist Do?
This post is part of a miniseries on the immune system. Be sure to check out the other posts in this series that you may have missed.
Immunology is the study of the immune system, including all the cells, tissues, and organs that work together to protect you from germs. A person who studies immunology is called an immunologist, and there are three types:
Researchers, who study the immune system in the laboratory to understand how it works or how it can go awry and find new treatments for immune system-related diseases
Doctors, who diagnose and care for patients with diseases related to the immune system, such as ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 12, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Cells Injury and Illness Immunology Miniseries Infectious Diseases Medicines Microbes Research Roundup Source Type: blogs
The Spiritual Meaning of Illness
Several days after I posted the 2024 Intentions video, I succumbed to an illness – fever, aches, pains, chills, runny nose, sneezing, coughing, nausea, etc. At Rachelle’s suggestion I took a COVID test – and tested positive. Whoa! This was my first time getting COVID (as far as I’m aware). I’ve been vaccinated and double-boosted, but my last booster was about 18 months ago. I guess I’m boosted now.
While meditating on the meaning and purpose of this illness, I tried to tune in and communicate with the Spirit of COVID directly. This resulted in a fascinating dialogue, including the invitation...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - January 31, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Health Video Source Type: blogs
Intellectual Property and “The Lost Year” of COVID-19 Deaths
Madhavi Sunder (Georgetown University), Haochen Sun (The University of Hong Kong), Intellectual Property and “The Lost Year” of COVID-19 Deaths, Harv. Int’l L.J. (2023): Protecting intellectual property (IP) is a question of life and death. COVID-19 vaccines, partially incentivized by... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 29, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Who Could (Possibly) Be the Ideal “ Chief Patient Officer ” ? (And Other Ideas that Sound Better on Paper than in Practice)
By JONATHON S. FEIT
If ideas presented in essays on The Health Care Blog and other healthcare forums are meant to be rhetorical, without intention of turning notions into reality on behalf of patients who need genuine, intimate, desperate help…then feel free to ignore this essay entirely.
Some among us—the State of Washington’s Co-Responder Outreach Alliance; Lisa Fitzpatrick’s Grapevine Health, which specializes in “street medicine” and advocacy in and around Washington, D.C.; Thorne Ambulance Service, an inspirational ambulance entrepreneur bringing both emergency and nonemergency medical transpor...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Chief Patient Officer CIVITAS EMS First Responders Interoperability Jonathan Feit Kat McDavitt Lisa Bari Medicaid Source Type: blogs
Disease-Preventive Behaviors and Subjective Well-Being in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Matthew Tokson (University of Utah), Hadley Rahrig (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Jeffrey Green (Virginia Commonwealth University), Disease-Preventive Behaviors and Subjective Well-Being in the Covid-19 Pandemic, 11 BMC Psych. (2023): Safety precautions and activity restrictions were common in the early, pre-vaccine phases... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - January 18, 2024 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The 6 Most Exciting Medical Technology Breakthroughs Of Recent Years
Amidst the flurry of hyped technologies, it’s not easy to pinpoint which specific technological breakthroughs will have the most impact in the coming years.
Dr. Meskó, The Medical Futurist, reviews multiple reports, studies, and articles daily. Consequently, our days are filled with awe-inspiring developments. However, our aim here is to offer more than just a compilation of “wow, look how fascinating” stories.
To achieve this, we have selected technologies that:
Have undergone significant breakthroughs in recent years, be it in regulatory, technological, or scientific aspects
Are anticipate...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 9, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF artificial intelligence digital health future Healthcare Source Type: blogs
High-deductible health plans: a barrier to care for chronic conditions
At the peak of the coronavirus crisis in 2020, American policymakers were faced with the critical challenge of how to encourage as many Americans as possible to be tested for and vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus. Fortunately, Congress rose to this challenge by passing legislation that, in addition to providing these services to the uninsured,
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High-deductible health plans: a barrier to care for chronic conditions originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 31, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Shirin Hund, MD Tags: Policy Diabetes Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
