Do plant extracts work in skin care products – episode 222
Welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions and give you an insider’s look at the cosmetic industry. This is Episode 222. Yes, that’s a palindrome! Yeah. I’m your host, Perry Romanowski and with me today is…well, it’s just me. Valerie is off today but she’ll be back next week.
Meanwhile on today’s show I’m going to be answering questions about…
Whether the SkinDupes AI is a reliable way to pick skin care products?
Can you combine Vitamin C and Niacinamide?
Do blue light serums provide any extra benefit?
Whether it’s worth it to gro...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Do plant extracts work in skin care products – episode 222
Welcome to the Beauty Brains, a show where real cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions and give you an insider’s look at the cosmetic industry. This is Episode 222. Yes, that’s a palindrome! Yeah. I’m your host, Perry Romanowski and with me today is…well, it’s just me. Valerie is off today but she’ll be back next week.
Meanwhile on today’s show I’m going to be answering questions about…
Whether the SkinDupes AI is a reliable way to pick skin care products?
Can you combine Vitamin C and Niacinamide?
Do blue light serums provide any extra benefit?
Whether it’s worth it to gro...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
The 5 myths of “difficult” patients
I saw a“difficult” patient in the clinic this week. We’ve all been there, sometimes multiple times a week. The patient who is upset and won’t stop telling unrelated history. The one who comes in every week with vague complaints with a negative workup. The patient who is constantly going doctor shopping and doesn’t believe […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 26, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/virginia-moye-bucci" rel="tag" > Virginia Moye Bucci, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Dermatology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 25th 2020
In conclusion, our results suggest a previously unknown mechanism whereby the canonical NF-κB cascade and a mitochondrial fission pathway interdependently regulate endothelial inflammation.
Lin28 as a Target for Nerve Regeneration
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/05/lin28-as-a-target-for-nerve-regeneration/
Researchers here show that the gene Lin28 regulates axon regrowth. In mice, raised levels of Lin28 produce greater regeneration of nerve injuries. Past research has investigated Lin28 from the standpoint of producing a more general improvement in regenerative capacity. It improves mitochondr...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 24, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
SYK Inhibitors as a Novel Class of Senolytics, Mechanisms of Action Yet to Be Determined
In this study, using high-throughput screening to measure the variation of cell proliferation and reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels, we identified a novel senolytic agent R406, also known as tamatinib. This agent was effective in the replicative senescence model of diploid human dermal fibroblasts. R406 induced the caspase-9-mediated intrinsic apoptotic pathway, similar to other known senolytic drugs; however, R406 did not significantly change the level of Bcl-2 family in senescent cells. Alternatively, R406 inhibited the phosphorylation of focal adhesion kinase (FAK) as well as p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAP...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 19, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 18th 2020
This study provides direct evidence for the contribution of gut microbiota to the cognitive decline during normal aging and suggests that restoring microbiota homeostasis in the elderly may improve cognitive function.
On Nutraceutical Senolytics
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/05/on-nutraceutical-senolytics/
Nutraceuticals are compounds derived from foods, usually plants. In principle one can find useful therapies in the natural world, taking the approach of identifying interesting molecules and refining them to a greater potency than naturally occurs in order to produce a usefully large therap...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 17, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
On Nutraceutical Senolytics
Nutraceuticals are compounds derived from foods, usually plants. In principle one can find useful therapies in the natural world, taking the approach of identifying interesting molecules and refining them to a greater potency than naturally occurs in order to produce a usefully large therapeutic effect. Unfortunately, in practice the nutraceutical industry is a largely a lazy one, in which entrepreneurs take advantage of a short path to market, and a lack of interest among consumers in whether or not products actually work, in order to repackage cheap ingredients into expensive brands that have minimal, unreliable, or even...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 15, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
ENDOLIFT ® Lunch-Time Laser Lifting With No Downtime
Eufoton® is a leading Italian manufacturer specialised in developing and producing portable medical lasers.
The company was founded in 1999 by a highly-skilled medical and engineering team. Today, Eufoton®’s diode lasers are successfully used in many medical specialties.
One of the most sought-after treatment patented by Eufoton® is ENDOLIFT®, a minimally invasive outpatient laser procedure used in endo-tissutal (interstitial) aesthetic medicine.
The laser treatment is performed with the latest Eufoton® LASEmaR® 1500 (certified and approved by the American FDA for laser assisted liposuction). ENDOLIFT...
Source: Medgadget - May 14, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Dermatology Sponsored Content Source Type: blogs
Platelet-rich plasma: Does the cure for hair loss lie within our blood?
Platelet-rich plasma, or PRP, is derived from the bloodstream and has been used for years to treat musculoskeletal conditions, and more recently, skin conditions. Colloquially termed “vampire” treatments, PRP injected into the skin or used after microneedling (a technique that uses small needles to create microscopic skin wounds) may help to improve skin texture and appearance. Recently, PRP has garnered attention as a promising solution for one of the most challenging problems in dermatology: hair loss.
Platelets and hair growth: What’s the connection?
Platelets are one of four primary components of blood (the other...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - May 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Neera Nathan, MD, MSHS Tags: Health Skin and Hair Care Source Type: blogs
Walgreens' Find Care, a Digital Marketplace for Health Services
One of the few positive aspects of the Covid19 pandemic is that healthcare consumers are increasing turning to their digital devices for access to health services such as virtual visits with their personal physicians or filling prescriptions. I have been blogging about lab test ordering on the web, direct access testing (DAT), for about 15 years (see:Reinventing Direct Access Testing (DAT)) The die now seems to be cast regarding far greater engagement by consumers in digital health initiatives (see:What Is Digital Health and How Does a Health System Get There?).Walgreens, as part of this digital healthcare movement, is try...
Source: Lab Soft News - April 30, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Source Type: blogs
Not all physicians wear a stethoscope, even during a pandemic
I’m a dermatologist, so I’m not on the front lines of this pandemic. And thanks to public health measures, I may never be called to work at coronavirus drive-thru testing sites because we are flattening the curve of infections. Nevertheless, my clinic is reserved as a hospital“surge unit,” so I’ve converted to telemedicine to keep caring […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 29, 2020 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/cory-l-simpson" rel="tag" > Cory L. Simpson, MD, PhD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician COVID-19 coronavirus Dermatology Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Fashion Disaster
The literal and inerrant word of God keeps getting weirder and more errant, at least to anyone with common sense. Whatever may have inspired the preceding obsession with pimples or boils or carbuncles or whatever exactly was going on, at least those afflictions exist. People do get various dermatological lesions, although modern physicians do not prescribe rending your garments, covering your upper lip, moving out into the desert and crying " Unclean! Unclean! "What we are about to read, however, defies explanation. I have not been able to find even speculation about what phenomenon in reality may have inspired this. It ' ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 26, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Reinventing Clinical Decision Support
In our latest book,Reinventing Clinical Decision Support: Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Diagnostic Reasoning, Paul Cerrato and I explore the promise of artificial intelligence and machine learning for improving clinicians ’ ability to make more informed diagnostic and therapeutic decisions. Here’s an excerpt from Chapter 2:“AI is a once-in-a-generation transformative technology. As such, expect its impact to be on the scale of the advent of electricity or the Internet,” says Jean-Claude Saghbini, Wolters Kluwer Health.(1)“Artificial intelligence and machine learning are set to transform healthcare....
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - April 24, 2020 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Microneedle Array for Universal Vaccine Delivery Developed
Microneedle arrays (MNAs) are a promising way of delivering vaccines into the body. They are nearly pain-free and can penetrate a substantial portion of the skin, which is considered an excellent place to inject vaccines because of the skin’s sensitive and very reactive immune network. Injecting small amounts of a vaccine strategically into the skin can, therefore, produce a significantly more intense immune response than that created using conventional hypodermic needles.
A team at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine have now developed a microneedle array patch that can carry live or attenuated viral...
Source: Medgadget - April 22, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Camera Images Blood Perfusion at High Resolution Thanks to Pulse Oximeter
How blood moves throughout the body and into the smallest capillaries is hard to observe using existing imaging methods. Yet, poor blood perfusion can be an indicator for a variety of medical conditions, potentially serving as a diagnostic tool and a way to help manage diseases.
Infrared thermography is a decent tool for this, but it is expensive, slow, and not very accurate. Researchers at Rice University have now developed a much cheaper technology that seems to perform significantly better at blood perfusion imaging than anything else currently in existence.
The system uses a conventional optical camera to det...
Source: Medgadget - April 20, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiology Dermatology Diagnostics Emergency Medicine Pain Management Pathology Radiology Sports Medicine Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
