No Need for Britain to Rush Out EU Door
The European Union’s leaders said they wanted the United Kingdom to remain in the EU. But Brussels offered only minimal concessions to British Prime Minister David Cameron, undercutting his effort to sell the benefits of continued EU membership.
Now the Eurocrats who dominate EU policy are attempting to push the UK out the door. London should slow down the process and maximize its leverage.
The vote to Leave shocked Eurocrats across Europe. Even many Brexit advocates believed that Remain would carry the day. The British government is not prepared to announce a Brexit program.
However, EU leaders almost immediately began ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 28, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Doug Bandow Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 27th 2016
In conclusion, we showed for the first time that 7-KC induces oxidative stress via lysosomal dysfunction, resulting in exacerbation of calcification.
CHIMERIC ANTIGEN RECEPTOR CANCER THERAPIES CAN NOW TARGET SOLID TUMORS
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/06/chimeric-antigen-receptor-cancer-therapies-can-now-target-solid-tumors/
If the research community is to win in the fight to cure cancer, and win soon enough to matter for all of us, then the focus must be on technology platforms that can be easily and cheaply adapted to many different types of cancer. The biggest strategic problem in the field is t...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 26, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 23rd 2016
FIGHT AGING! NEWSLETTER
May 23rd 2016
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to o...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 22, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
An Interview with the Advocates of the Major Mouse Testing Program Team
By way of following on from today's AMA over at /r/futurology, I recently had the chance to ask a few questions of the Major Mouse Testing Program (MMTP) volunteers, a mix of scientists and advocates who aim to do their part to speed up progress towards effective treatments for the causes of aging. The group formed six months ago or so, and are presently seeking funds for their first mouse studies through crowdfunding with the Lifespan.io organization. The initial focus is on senolytic treatments capable of removing senescent cells from old tissues. I encourage you all to take a look at the details of their research propos...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 16, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 16th 2016
In this study the authors demonstrate that, as in many other cases, the methodology of delivery matters just as much as the details of the cells used:
Retinal and macular degenerative diseases affect millions of people worldwide. Similar to other neurodegenerative diseases, there are no effective treatments that can stop retinal degeneration or restore degenerative retina. Recent advances in stem cell technology led to development of novel cell-based therapies, some are already in phase I/II clinical trials. Studies from our group and others suggest that human bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (hBM-MSC) m...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 15, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 9th 2016
This report is comprehensive and interested readers are encouraged to review. The authors provided projections on organ donation and transplantation rates, quality-adjusted life years and life years saved, health risks to patients, living organ donation, cross-border exchange, and health inequalities. Their most favorable scenario projected health benefits including transplanting up to 21,000 more organs annually in the EU, which would save 230,000 life years or gain 219,000 quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). For social impacts, it was predicted that increasing organ transplantation will have a positive effect on quality...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 8, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
State Options To Control Health Care Costs And Improve Quality
The recent debate on health care reform has occurred mostly at the national level. The Affordable Care Act, or ACA, was a momentous change for the American health care system. So far, 20 million people have gained health insurance coverage due to the ACA — a historic reduction in the number of uninsured people in the United States.
The ACA also contained several tools designed to control health care costs. For example, it created the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, or CMMI, which is authorized to test new payment and delivery methods to lower costs and improve quality for individuals who receive benefits...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 28, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Zeke Emanuel, Joshua Sharfstein, Topher Spiro and Meghan O’Toole Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Long-term Services and Supports Medicaid and CHIP Medicare Organization and Delivery Payment Policy Quality ACA APCDs CMMI Gobeille vs. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company Payment Reform state policy St Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 25th 2016
This study offers one useful data point, as the authors describe a genetic alteration that can boost the supply of new immune cells in old mice. The decline in that supply with age is one of the factors leading to poor immune function - and that means more than just vulnerability to infections, as the immune system is also responsible for destroying potentially cancerous and senescent cells, as well as clearing out forms of damaged proteins and unwanted metabolic waste. Various possibilities for increasing the number of new immune cells already exist in principle, such as regenerating the thymus, or cell therapies in which...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 24, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 4th 2016
This study shows for the first time that increasing arterial stiffness is detrimental to the brain, and that increasing stiffness and brain injury begin in early middle life, before we commonly think of prevalent diseases such as atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease or stroke having an impact."
The study also noted that elevated arterial stiffness is the earliest manifestation of systolic hypertension. The large study involved approximately 1,900 diverse participants in the Framingham Heart Study, who underwent brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), as well as arterial tonometry. The tests measured the force of art...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 3, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
An Interesting Theoretical Paper on the Nature of Aging
Today I'll point out an open acess theory of aging paper that I found intriguing, given that it represents a fairly different viewpoint on aging, seemingly assembled from portions of other mainstream views on theories of aging. Almost every faction within the aging research community would find parts to agree with, parts to reject, and parts that will make you think things through. If you have strong opinions on theories of aging, you'll probably get a lot out of it. The contents defy short summary, but the more important points seem to be the idea of aging as an absence of process, as a lack of maintenance systems, and a ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 29, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
HHS Marks Sixth Anniversary Of Affordable Care Act
Implementing Health Reform. March 23, 2016 marks the sixth anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act. This week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is releasing a series of blog posts publicizing the successes of the ACA. On March 22, the HHS Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation released a report on Health Care Spending Growth and Federal Policy under the ACA.
The report notes that national health care spending per person increased moderately at a rate of 4.3 percent in 2014. Much of this growth was attributable to the high costs of covering the newly insured, which may in part be attr...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 22, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Medicare Quality ACA gains ASPE Medicare Part D Prescription Drugs Source Type: blogs
HHS Marks Sixth Anniversary Of Affordable Care Act (Update)
Implementing Health Reform (March 23 update). Two and a quarter years into the implementation of the health insurance marketplaces we are nearing, but have not yet reached, the fully electronic systems envisioned when the ACA was signed into law six years ago. This is evidenced by two guidances which the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released on March 22, 2016.
In the first guidance, CMS announced that it is delaying for one more month the full transition to a “policy-based payment system” for paying insurers advance premium tax credit and cost-sharing reduction payments.
Through the end of 2015, CM...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - March 22, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Timothy Jost Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Technology Following the ACA Insurance and Coverage Medicaid and CHIP Medicare Quality ACA gains ASPE GAO Medicare Part D Prescription Drugs small employer Source Type: blogs
Fact Checking the Washington Post's Fact Checker on Trade and Manufacturing
The objective of trade policy is economic growth. That’s why we trade – to create value. The data strongly suggest that economic growth and trade deficits increase and decrease contemporaneously. Looked at another way, if the goal of trade policy is to achieve a trade surplus, then by extension the goal of trade policy is slower economic growth, even contraction.
FC3:
Trump did manage to name specific countries with which the United States has trade deficits, but he’s wrong when he says the United States has a deficit with “everybody.” There’s barely a trade deficit with the United Kingdom, according to the Int...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 18, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
Fact Checking the Washington Post's Fact Checker on Trade and Manufacturing
The objective of trade policy is economic growth. That’s why we trade – to create value. The data strongly suggest that economic growth and trade deficits increase and decrease contemporaneously. Looked at another way, if the goal of trade policy is to achieve a trade surplus, then by extension the goal of trade policy is slower economic growth, even contraction.
FC3:
Trump did manage to name specific countries with which the United States has trade deficits, but he’s wrong when he says the United States has a deficit with “everybody.” There’s barely a trade deficit with the United Kingdom, according to the Int...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 18, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
