Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 24th 2019
This study sought to investigate what could be learned from how these men have fared. The men were born in 1925-1928 and similar health-related data from questionnaires, physical examination, and blood samples are available for all surveys. Survival curves over various variable strata were applied to evaluate the impact of individual risk factors and combinations of risk factors on all-cause deaths. At the end of 2018, 118 (16.0%) of the men had reached 90 years of age.
Smoking in 1974 was the strongest single risk factor associated with survival, with observed percentages of men reaching 90 years being 26.3, 25.7, ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 23, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Extracting Evidence for Causation from the Correlation Between Excess Fat Tissue and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Given a good enough data set, there are ways to produce evidence for causation in the observed relationships between patient characteristics and risk of age-related disease. While it is well accepted by now that being overweight does in fact cause a raised risk of all the common age-related diseases, a shorter life expectancy, and a raised lifetime medical expenditure, more data never hurts. Researchers have a good understanding of the mechanisms involved in these relationships. In particular, visceral fat tissue around the abdominal organs generates chronic inflammation, which acts to accelerate tissue decline and age-rel...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 18, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
With Rugby, Ballet, And Astrobiology On The Road To Mars
Why would anyone want to go to Mars?What is the story behind your dream?What can you do more to become an astronaut?What skills should astronauts have?The medical challenges in spaceGenome sequencing and space medicineTechnologies to bring on board of a spaceshipThe first colonies on MarsA nightmare scenario about space travelA bright vision about the future
When she was five years old, she looked at the starry night sky and decided right away to become an astronaut. After digesting dozens of science fiction books, she wanted to shoot for astro-navigator but settled to „just” go to Mars as a life goal some years lat...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 8, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Great Thinkers aerospace astronaut astronautics astronomy future Health Healthcare Innovation mars Medicine NASA science science fiction space travel technology vision Source Type: blogs
Will IVF make me put on weight ?
One of the common myths which clouds IVF is that patients will put on weight after doing an IVF cycle.This seemsquite intuitive.After all, aren't we pumping the body full of all hormones when doing IVF ? And don't hormones make women fat?And everyone knows women who've done IVF , and then put on weight , who blame the IVF cycle for their weight gain.The truth is that you only put on weight when caloric intake is more than caloric expenditure , and IVFdoes not affect either of these two sides of the equation.The fact is that when patients do IVF, they often put themselves on bed rest, and this...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - June 7, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
A Benevolent Central Bank
It has become clear that Fed Chairman Jerome Powell will do whatever it takes to keep the expansion going. In early January, the stock markets rallied after Mr. Powell softened his rhetoric and promised“patience” in setting the federal funds target range. Initially, the Fed was to be on “autopilot” and proceed with two rate hikes this year. That promise was called off because of slowing global growth and the fear that higher rates would cause a sharp fall in asset prices. Now the chairman has excited markets by announcing at theChicago Fed conference that “we will act as appropriate to sustain the expans...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 5, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: James A. Dorn Source Type: blogs
Extended Deadline to June 25: NIGMS Administrative Supplements for Equipment
As announced earlier in the fiscal year, NIGMS is offering administrative supplements to NIGMS-funded R01, R35, and R37 awards for the purchase of single pieces of equipment.
The deadline for these supplement applications has been extended to June 25, 2019.
All the provisions of NOT-GM-19-013 continue to apply. Note that:
These funds are intended for the purchase of
single pieces of equipment (or a single system) with requested direct costs up
to $250,000.The requested supplemental budget cannot exceed
the total year direct cost amount of the parent award. Applications may not include requests for future year...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - May 23, 2019 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Resources Administrative Supplements Research Resources Source Type: blogs
Healthcare is Coming Home
SPONSORED POST
By DIANA CHEN
In an AARP survey of 2000 adults, 6 out of 10 respondents indicated they prefer to stay in their home and community for as long as possible. This desire increases with age; more than 75% of adults over 50 would rather remain in a familiar environment where they have strong connections to friends, neighbors, and businesses. However, for the elderly and people with chronic illness or disabilities, remaining at home can be difficult. These populations require services that are often provided at long term care facilities (e.g. nursing homes) and/or formal medical settings– which...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Catalyst @ Health 2.0 Health Tech Health Technology community based care innovation challenge Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Source Type: blogs
Health Care is Coming Home
SPONSORED POST
By DIANA CHEN
In an AARP survey of 2000 adults, 6 out of 10 respondents indicated they prefer to stay in their home and community for as long as possible. This desire increases with age; more than 75% of adults over 50 would rather remain in a familiar environment where they have strong connections to friends, neighbors, and businesses. However, for the elderly and people with chronic illness or disabilities, remaining at home can be difficult. These populations require services that are often provided at long term care facilities (e.g. nursing homes) and/or formal medical settings– which...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Catalyst @ Health 2.0 Health Tech Health Technology community based care innovation challenge Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Source Type: blogs
Ballot Initiatives Can ’t Be Corrupted and Won’t Love You Back
When voters want to change how they ’re being governed, the existing legal framework should make it easy for them to do so—or at least not get in their way. That’s what a group of concerned citizens from three cities in Washington state believed when they set out to reform unions. They tried to place their proposal on three muni cipal ballots, which involved collecting signatures from the relevant communities and filing them alongside the initiative.State law seemed to require the cities to place these measures on the ballot or adopt them outright. None of the city councils did either of those things, so the citizens...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 13, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus, Patrick Moran Source Type: blogs
One Physician ’s Frustrations of Practicing Amidst the CHIPHIT Complex and Implications for the Future of the U.S. Healthcare System
By HAYWARD ZWERLING, MD
The high cost, low quality and systemic inequities of the U.S. healthcare system have been the impetus for its redesign. Our healthcare system is now controlled by Consolidated Healthcare institutions, Insurance companies, Pharmaceutical companies and Health Information Technology companies (CHIPHIT complex). The CHIPHIT complex, along with the Federal Government, will create and control our future healthcare system. Ominously missing from this list are independent healthcare policy experts, independent healthcare providers and members of the general public.
Historical precedents have demonst...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 8, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Hayward Zwerling health inequities US Healthcare Source Type: blogs
Pulling Care Out of Hospital —By Phone, Ambulance, and Good Ol ’ House Calls.
By REBECCA FOGG
In the 20th century, hospitals completed their
transformation from the hospice-like institutions of the Middle Ages, into
large, gleaming centers of advanced medical expertise and technology that save
and improve lives every day. But an unintended consequence of hospitals’
dazzling capabilities is a staggering cost burden that’s proving toxic to the
American economy.
Today, hospital care accounts for approximately 33% of the US’ $3.5 trillion annual health care expenditures, according to CMS. The drivers of hospital costs are complex and hard to tackle, including (but not limited to) market cons...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Hospitals Patients Physicians The Business of Health Care health innovation Home Health Rebecca Fogg Telehealth The Christensen Institute Source Type: blogs
UnitedHealth Expands Bundled Payments in Its Medicare Advantage Plans
The essence of value-based care is that reimbursement is based on positive outcomes for patients as opposed to fee-for-service in which in which providers select the services delivered, often with insufficient attention to outcomes. Ideally, value-based care results in higher quality care at a lower cost (see:Provider Organizations Beginning to Compete on the Basis of Value-Based Care. One of the key questions regarding value-based care is how to achieve this goal. It now appears that a major"on-ramp" will be Medicare Advantage plans and bundled payments as explained in a recent article (see:UnitedHea...
Source: Lab Soft News - April 23, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Healthcare Business Healthcare Delivery Healthcare Insurance Medical Consumerism Public Health Quality of Care Source Type: blogs
MedPAC ’s Latest Bad Idea: Forcing Doctors to Join ACOs
By KIP SULLIVAN, JD
At its April 4, 2019 meeting, the staff of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) asked the commission to discuss a very strange proposal: Doctors who treat patients enrolled in Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service (FFS) program must join an “accountable care organization” (ACO) or give up their FFS Medicare practice. (The staff may have meant to give hospitals the same Hobbesian choice, but that is not clear from the transcript of the meeting.) Here is how MedPAC staffer Eric Rollins laid out the proposal:
Here is how MedPAC staffer Eric Rollins laid out the proposal:
R...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
HEMAsavR Helps to Recover More Intraop Blood
Ecomed Solutions, out of Mundelein, Illinois, is releasing its HEMAsavR device for blood capture and transfer during surgeries. The product helps to avoid allogeneic blood transfusions by not requiring specialized resources for collection and return to patient. Hospitals will therefore be able to gather more useful sterile and anti-coagulated blood that can be evaluated for cell salvage and for return.
“Allogeneic transfusions are among the costliest contributors to healthcare expenditures,” in a published statement said David Yurek, CEO of Ecomed Solutions. “Reducing the need for allogeneic transfusions has a dramat...
Source: Medgadget - April 11, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Anesthesiology Cardiac Surgery Thoracic Surgery Urology Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
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Recent research attributes the majority of health care spending to a small number of individuals, sometimes described as “high-need, high-cost” — the 5 percent of the population who account for 50 percent of expenditures.
(Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog)
Source: The Commonwealth Fund: Blog - April 5, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Kushal Kadakia, Mark McClellan, Krishna Udayakumar, Jonathan Gonzalez-Smith, Nicole Davis, Greg Kotzbauer, Andrea Thoumi Source Type: blogs
