Know What Your Asian Pacific Islander Caucus Can Do For You
The API Caucus annual meeting this past November at ASHA’s 2017 National Convention in Los Angeles.
A young mother and new immigrant to the United States was alarmed. Her 2-year-old son was not yet speaking. Luckily, her pediatrician referred her to early intervention services, which connected her with a bilingual Mandarin/English-speaking speech-language pathologist.
This SLP also belonged to ASHA’s Asian Pacific Islander Speech-Language-Hearing Caucus (API Caucus). The SLP worked with this child for a year, taking care to integrate and adapt treatment activities to the routines and language practices of the famil...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - January 16, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology Speech-Language Pathology Bilingual assessment bilingual service delivery cultural competence Cultural Diversity multicultural constituencies Source Type: blogs
Immortality is a Distant Challenge, not the Immediate Issue
The media throws around the term "immortality" when talking about efforts to extend healthy life, with little concern for the dictionary definition. Advocates for radical life extension have in the past used physical immortality as a alternative term for the concept of agelessness, in which aging is controlled but all other causes of death still exist - which is another change of meaning. Some people find this a distraction, an annoyance, something that makes it harder to conduct advocacy and fundraising for current and prospective longevity science.
It isn't clear whether or not dictionary definition immortality is...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 22, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Final Reminder for 2017: Help Us Fund Rejuvenation Research, and Claim the Last of the Challenge Fund to Match Donations
This year's Fight Aging! challenge fund matches the next year of donations made by supporters of SENS rejuvenation research who sign up as monthly donors to the SENS Research Foundation. Josh Triplett, Christophe and Dominique Cornuejols, and Fight Aging! have put up $36,000 to encourage you to create a brighter future for medicine. The fund expires at the end of 2017, and with just two weeks left in this fundraiser, the final third of the challenge fund is yet to be claimed.
So please join us in helping to support the scientific research needed to build a comprehensive suite of therapies to reverse the causes of ag...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 18, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Medgadget Boards the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital
Fresh off a project in Cameroon, the Orbis Flying Eye Hospital paid a special visit to the San Francisco Bay Area for fundraising activities and a resupply before spending the holidays in Arizona for maintenance and its next project in Peru. Medgadget was given a private tour and got a close look at everything from the cockpit to the converted cargo hold below.
Our tour began as we approached the massive mobile hospital, which was parked on the tarmac at Moffett Federal Airfield in Mountain View, CA. A McDonnell Douglas model MD-10, this plane had previously served as a cargo transport plane for FedEx. FedEx not only gen...
Source: Medgadget - December 18, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Exclusive Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 18th 2017
In this study, we asked people in an open-ended way about their desire for longer life: Would you like to have more time? What age would you like to become? This was something more specific than asking about a preference for survival without reference to any length of time; about one's plans for the future; or whether people see the future as open or limited, as in studies of future time perspective. Our attempt was to discover whether there were preferred temporal spans with which older adults framed their futures and plans.
The two-question series about extra years and desired age ("How old would you like to becom...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 17, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Vote for SENS Rejuvenation Research at Project for Awesome this Weekend
This year's Project for Awesome runs from December 15th to 17th. It is a short and energetic festival of fundraising and video creation in which people give and vote on which causes to distribute the funds to. The event has been growing from its modest start for the past decade. The world could use more such initiatives, and I encourage you to join the festivities and vote for videos that take your fancy at Project for Awesome before the end of the week.
The very first Project for Awesome was organized in 2007, and has been held each December since. This year, Project for Awesome is December 15th (beginning at 12:...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 16, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Transparency International US Corruption Barometer: Striking Increases in Public Perceptions of Government Corruption in the US, Especially in the White House
Introduction: Transparency International ' s 2017 Global Corruption Barometer US ResultsLast month, Transparency International (TI) released the results of its 2017 US Corruption Barometer, a global survey of peoples ' perceptions of the degree to which their national institutions are corrupt. Wediscussed the results from the US, based on data collected in late 2016, which showed thatthe US had results suggesting it has important problems with corruption. More than one-third of US respondents thought that most executive branch leaders, legislators, and business executives are involved in corruption, Just ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 14, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Donald Trump health care corruption Transparency International Source Type: blogs
SamanTree Medical ’s Histolog Scanner: Interview with CEO Bastien Rachet
The objective was to propose an accurate image-based assessment, working directly with the fresh surgical resection and not requiring specialized staff.
The second challenge is the time and consequently ease of use, as surgeon’s and OR time are key factors in patient safety and treatment cost.
Therefore, our solution shall provide access to high-resolution microscopy without requiring the processing of the sample onto microscope slides.
There’s a broad continuum of image resolution through the spectrum of imaging techniques, but when it comes to subcellular resolution for tissue morphology inspection, good imaging qual...
Source: Medgadget - December 12, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Pathology Surgery Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 11th 2017
In this study, we used the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) to estimate clinically measured SBP and DBP trajectories for 20 years prior to death, for individuals dying at 60 years and older. Second, we compared the linear SBP trends for years 10 to 3 years before death in patients who died and age- and sex-matched controls who survived at least 9 years. These approaches aimed to separate age from end-of-life associations, and avoid healthy survivor biases.
Twenty years before death, estimated mean SBPs increased with increasing age at death (60-69 years, 139.5 mm Hg; ≥90 years, 150.0 mm Hg). All age-at-d...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 10, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A High Level View of Progress in SENS Rejuvenation Research in Recent Years
The Life Extension Advocacy Foundation folk have put together a compact summary of some of the progress towards SENS rejuvenation therapies that has taken place in recent years. These treatments, some existing in prototype forms, and some yet to be constructed, are based on repair of the forms of cell and tissue damage known to cause aging. It is a good article to show to a friend who has expressed interest in greater human longevity, or to mine for talking points to use when you next bring up the topic with those unfamiliar with the current state of the science. You might also compare it with my bullet point list of the h...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 6, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 4th 2017
In this study, we integrated atomic force microscopy (AFM) and molecular approaches to determine whether increased stiffness of aortic VSMCs in hypertensive rats is ROCK-dependent, and whether the anti-hypertensive effect of ROCK inhibitors contributes to the reduction of aortic stiffness via changing VSMC mechanical properties.
Despite a widely held belief that aortic stiffening is associated with changes in extracellular matrix proteins and endothelial dysfunction, our recent studies demonstrated that intrinsic stiffening of aortic VSMCs, independent of VSMC proliferation and migration, is an important contributo...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 3, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
This Giving Tuesday, Help to Bring an End to Age-Related Disease, Pain, and Death
It is Giving Tuesday once more, a time to look ahead and consider how we can improve the future of humanity through philanthropy: to join forces and fund the projects that will build a better tomorrow. A time to not just think about it, but to take action - to make a difference. Many of us believe that the most effective approach given the present human condition is to work towards bringing an end to aging, as the cell and tissue damage that causes aging is by far the greatest source of suffering and death in the world today. That damage can in principle be repaired, and there are now a number of non-profit organizations i...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 28, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 20th 2017
This study cohort is a healthy subset of the EpiPath cohort, excluding all participants with acute or chronic diseases. With a mediation analysis we examined whether CMV titers may account for immunosenescence observed in ELA.
In this study, we have shown that ELA is associated with higher levels of T cell senescence in healthy participants. Not only did we find a higher number of senescent cells (CD57+), these cells also expressed higher levels of CD57, a cell surface marker for senescence, and were more cytotoxic in ELA compared to controls. Control participants with high CMV titers showed a higher number of senes...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 19, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
SENS Research Foundation Newsletter: Fundraising Progress, Rejuvenation Therapy Startups, Undoing Aging Conference, and More
The latest SENS Research Foundation newsletter just arrived, and covers a range of topics. The year-end fundraiser has been underway for the past couple of weeks, with 15% of the main goal reached. Our Fight Aging! SENS Patron challenge has further to go, however: there is a $36,000 matching fund to claim, and we'll match the next year of donations for anyone who signs up as a monthly donor at the SENS Research Foundation before the end of the year. Spread the word! The next big fundraising event of 2017 is Giving Tuesday on November 28th, and any help you can provide is much appreciated. Tell your friends about the potent...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 1, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 30th 2017
In this study, the researchers showed a causal link between dynamic changes in the shapes of mitochondrial networks and longevity.
The scientists used C. elegans (nematode worms), which live just two weeks and thus enable the study of aging in real time in the lab. Mitochondrial networks inside cells typically toggle between fused and fragmented states. The researchers found that restricting the worms' diet, or mimicking dietary restriction through genetic manipulation of an energy-sensing protein called AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK), maintained the mitochondrial networks in a fused or "youthful" state. In add...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 29, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
