Debating the Connection Between Herpesvirus Infection and Alzheimer's Disease
The role of persistent infection in the development of Alzheimer's disease is much debated these days, particularly now that the amyloid cascade hypothesis is under attack, following the continued failure of trials for therapies that clear amyloid-β. The biggest challenge in understanding Alzheimer's disease is the question of why only some people develop the condition, even given very similar lifestyle choices relating to weight, exercise, and other well-known influences on health. If the burden of persistent infection is an important contributing factor, it would very conveniently explain this otherwise puzzling outcome...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 3, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
8 Ways Robots Can Enhance Healthcare
Science fiction movies are filled with depictions of medical robots as integral parts of the healthcare system. From Anakin Skywalker’s surgery by autonomous robots to Big Hero 6’s healthcare robot Baymax, these mechanical staffers stayed only within the realm of sci-fi movies and one’s imagination for a long time; but not for much longer. Indeed, as we exemplify in this article, they are steadily making their way into healthcare institutions. The healthcare industry is betting on those potentials as well, with the global medical robot expenditures expected to rise by about 20% by 2025 to reach $24.6 billion.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - January 27, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Covid-19 Healthcare Design Medical Education Robotics future Hospital Innovation Surgery technology gc4 drones drone delivery robots InTouch Health Veebot Pepper Big Hero 6 UVD Robots Xenex social robots Zipline A Source Type: blogs
The secular trend of intelligence test scores in the present century: The Danish experience - ScienceDirect
In conclusion, the study findings suggest no systematic change i n intelligence test scores during the last decade, but due to changes in sample composition, it cannot be excluded that there has been a negative secular trend. (Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner))
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - January 26, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
More intensive treatment of DCIS reduces the risk of invasive breast cancer
This study showed that increased cancer risk persisted for more than 15 years after a diagnosis of DCIS, and that more intensive therapy than lumpectomy alone — whether with mastectomy, radiation therapy, or endocrine therapy — reduced the risk of invasive breast cancer among women with DCIS. The lowest risk of invasive breast cancer was in women who chose mastectomy.
The risk of invasive breast cancer was seen regardless of severity of DCIS. Women who had low- or moderate-grade DCIS, as well as high-grade DCIS, had long-term increased risk.
Women who are recently diagnosed with DCIS should work with their treatment te...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kathryn Rexrode, MD, MPH Tags: Breast Cancer Women's Health Source Type: blogs
American Compass Shouldn ’t Reject the Economics of Immigration
ConclusionCass and the other writers at American Compass can ignore economic theory, economic evidence, and the huge volume of peer ‐reviewed and non‐peer‐reviewed research on the economics of immigration as much or as little as they choose. But they cannot get away with telling the world that it is “paper thin” and focused almost entirely on a “massive influx of Cuban refugees in Miami in 1980.” I do not hope to change Cass’s mind, but hopefully I can at least convince him and some other readers of American Compass that there is a lot more to the economics of immigration than research about Mi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 30, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Modeling the Legend, or, the Trouble with Diamond and Dybvig: Part II
George Selgin[This is the last half of a two-part critique of Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig ' s highly influential paper purporting to show that fractional reserve banking systems are inherently unstable. Part I can be foundhere.]Sauce for the Goose …Half a century after the fact, the " aggregate uncertainty " version of the Diamond-Dybvig model appeared at long last to offer solid proof of the inherent instability of ordinary banks, together with an equally solid foundation for government deposit insurance. But no sooner had the inspectors started poking their flashlights around that supposedly solid structure than ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 18, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Follow-up on my Eight COVID Assertions
Yesterday’s post generated some good comments.
Two emergency medicine specialists felt that I was both wrong and insulting in saying that hospitals were not overwhelmed.
As a doc in NYC, I would suggest that your assertion 3 was indeed quite wrong and will be wrong in many more places before we are done— Josh Socolow (@Docjoshsoc) December 13, 2020
Jfc you weren't in Connecticut in April, and you aren't here now.We weren't (and aren't) fatally overwhelmed because of massive & costly efforts by our system. Anything less would have been catastrophic.Your blithe dismissal is kind ...
Source: Dr John M - December 13, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
Recording These Results Will Pose An Interesting Challenge For The #myHealthRecord I Suspect.
This popped up last week: NSW Pathology to deploy PixCell ’s HemoScreen devices for point-of-care testing Dean Koh | 02 Dec 2020 PixCell Medical, maker of a rapid diagnostic product, announced that NSW Pathology, the provider of public pathology services for the New South Wales (NSW) government, will deploy PixCell’s HemoScreen hematology analyzer for rapid, lab-accurate Complete Blood Count (CBC) testing, accessible at the point of care. PixCell has worked closely with NSW Health Pathology over the past year to evaluate the HemoScreen and the public pathology service provider is ready to implement the point-of-care te...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - December 10, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
5 Things We Learnt About Investments in Digital Health: New E-book
At The Medical Futurist (TMF), and especially at The Medical Futurist Institute, we don’t usually deal with investment-related news and announcements. We receive many press releases coming from incubators and venture capital firms, each week but we never share them on our channels. Even though we focus on technologies and trends rather than companies of interest to investors, this doesn’t mean that we don’t keep a close eye on all these developments.
We are in close contact with many digital health startup founders, analyse those technologies they work on and we do share news relevant to investors in an ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 1, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Forecast 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Biotechnology Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Portable Medical Diagnostics Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 23rd 2020
In conclusion, the study indicates that HBOT may induce significant senolytic effects that include significantly increasing telomere length and clearance of senescent cells in the aging populations.
Data on the Prevalence of Liver Fibrosis in Middle Age
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/11/data-on-the-prevalence-of-liver-fibrosis-in-middle-age/
Fibrosis is a consequence of age-related disarray in tissue maintenance processes, leading to the deposition of scar-like collagen that disrupts tissue structure and function. It is an ultimately fatal issue for which there are only poor treatment options ...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 22, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Masks save lives: Here ’s what you need to know
Surging COVID-19 rates throughout the country and in many parts of the world make our efforts to protect ourselves and others more important than ever. Yes, the predictions are dire, but we are not helpless. Experts estimate we can save hundreds of thousands of lives and considerably boost the chances of controlling the pandemic if we all commit to wearing a mask and follow familiar preventive measures: maintain physical distance; wash hands frequently; avoid others if you’re sick; and isolate yourself and get tested if you have close contact with someone who has the disease.
So, why do we believe masks work?
Early in th...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Behavioral Health Coronavirus and COVID-19 Infectious diseases Prevention Source Type: blogs
Cardiovascular Risk and Blood Cholesterol in Old and Older Individuals
The approach of lowering blood cholesterol via statins and similar medications slows the onset of atherosclerosis and consequent stroke and heart attack, but it isn't anywhere near as large an effect as we would like. This class of therapy isn't a cure and cannot be a cure, in the sense of removing existing atherosclerotic lesions, the fatty deposits that catastrophically weaken and narrow blood vessels. The latest approaches, such as PCSK9 inhibitors, can in the extreme case lower blood cholesterol to as little as 10% of human normal, but the outcome is still only a minor reversal of existing lesions. Some benefit is bett...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 17, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Not Too Scary, Not Too Tame: Horror Experiences Need To Hit A “Sweet Spot” To Be Enjoyable
By Matthew Warren
You’re walking through a dark, dingy house. Floorboards creak and you think you hear something moving in the shadows. Suddenly, an engine revs and a blood-splattered man wearing a pig’s head lunges towards you with a chainsaw. You scream and run away. Terrifying, perhaps — but it also sounds kind of fun, right?
We generally think of fear as a negative emotion — something that signals danger and which is unpleasant to experience. Yet so many of us seek out situations that make us scared: haunted fairground rides, scary video games, and horror movies and novels. And now researchers have look...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Emotion Source Type: blogs
TWiV 679: Mink, mutation, and myocytes
Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, Slovlakia’s plan to test all adults for SARS-CoV-2 infection, viral variants arising in Danish mink and their potential threat to humans, why it is unethical to carry out challenge trials, Nipah virus dynamics in bats and spillovers into humans, and direct cardiac damage by spike-mediated cardiomyocyte fusion. […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - November 11, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology Source Type: blogs
Narcissistic People Are More Likely To Take Part In Political Activities
By Emily Reynolds
There’s likely to be a diverse set of factors driving any given person’s interest in politics. It could be that their parents had a political affiliation they’ve subsequently inherited; they may have had a personal experience that changed how they see the world; politics could provide a social life or community connections; they might consider political action a civic duty; or they might just be passionate about a particular issue.
According to a recent paper in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, there may be another motivation, too — namely narcissism. The paper finds that partic...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Personality Political Source Type: blogs
