BioViva Illustrates the Tension Between Progress and Regulation
Elizabeth Parrish of BioViva, you might recall, has made every effort to publicize the follistatin and telomerase gene therapy that she underwent. This is a strategy intended to accelerate progress; I suspect she was not the first, and that others were just more circumspect. The technology exists, it is not expensive in the grand scheme of things, and at the very least hundreds of people have the laboratory access and the knowledge to carry out such an operation. BioViva's efforts, and those of other ventures such as the Odin and Ascendance Biomedical illustrate the tension between desire for progress and desire for regula...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 27, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
New MRI Boasts Unique Magnetic Field Strength
Professor David Lurie has created a MRI that he calls “100 different MRI scanners in one.” The highly sophisticated scanner took 10 years to develop and is now being used to analyze the brains of patients who are recovering from a stroke.Called the Fast Field-Cycling MRI scanner, the machine ’s special power is that its strength can be adjusted during procedures. “This gives an extra dimension to the data collected from each patient, greatly expanding the diagnostic potential,” Lurie toldthe BBC. The researchers hope that the new MRI will help physicians make fine-tuned analyses of their patients ’ health and c...
Source: radRounds - December 22, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
How many IVF cycles should I do?
This is one of the commonest questions patients who have failed an IVF cycle ask when they come to me for a second opinion.Is it worth doing another IVF cycle? What should I change ? Do I need to do anymore tests ? Should I expect to do three ? or four? How much stamina do I need? How much will this deplete my bank balance? Will multiple IVF cycles damage my health ?Sometimes, with a lot of patients, you know that repeating the IVF treatment is futile, but many patients continue clutching at straws , because they're not willing to accept the truth.Often they read about some fancy new research ( either in the news...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - December 6, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm and Unity Farm Sanctuary Update for November 2017
Starting next month, my daughter Lara will take charge of our instagram, Facebook, and Twitter feeds, providing daily updates about the Farm and Sanctuary. As we approach winter 2017, we can officially declare that the farm and sanctuary are now fully built and we ' re transitioning to daily operations. We have over 250 animals at this point, all kept healthy, warm and fed every day. Here ' s a summary of the past month, as told in pictures.From mid October to early November, the swamp maples, oaks, and poplar take on shades of crimson and bright yellow, turning Unity Lane into the kind road less tra...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - November 20, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Guide to the Diversity Visa: Demographics, Criminality, and Terrorism Risk
ConclusionThe diversity visa is a relatively small green card category that has allowed in about a million legal immigrant principals since 1993, or about 5 percent of the total. As far as we know, immigrants who entered on the diversity visa are responsible for committing one terrorist attack on U.S. soil that murdered eight people. Foreign-born people from countries that have sent many diversity visa immigrants to the United States have lower incarceration rates than native-born Americans. Calls to end the diversity visa based on a single deadly terrorist attack are premature. Table 1Diversity Visa Admissions by ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 2, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
A Veterans Day tribute
This is a letter I wrote to my wife’s grandfather for Veterans Day back when he was still alive. He was pretty proud of it, and that made me smile because I knew that if nothing else, he deserved to be proud of what he did for America. When he died a few months ago, I was able to muster up the fortitude to read it at his funeral. Here it is, submitted as a personal tribute to him, as well as to the dying breed of Americans who fought to rid the world of fascism.
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Today I think about you more than any other day of the year. I’ve only known you for about a decade, but a single event in your life shaped my own ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 21, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/keith-pochick" rel="tag" > Keith Pochick, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs
Travel Ban Is Based on Executive Whim, Not Objective Criteria
ConclusionFor countries on the list, and for any country wishing to remain off the list, it is vitally important that they understand which factors led to their inclusion or exclusion. If the United States is acting in good faith —seeking to change behavior as opposed to looking for an excuse to ban people—its criteria should be clearly explained and understood. The Iran nuclear deal, for example, hasvery precise requirements for Iran to avoid sanctions, down to the exact percentage of purity for its enriched uranium. This is very far from the case here.No consistent combination of factors or mitigating factors trigger...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Bier Source Type: blogs
How to Do Just about Anything
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There are few satisfactions greater in life than setting goals, working toward them, and achieving goals. Of course, it also stinks when you fail miserably at a goal, but let’s pretend that doesn’t happen. Setting goals is step zero in the process of doing just about anything. Next, you should
Set aside an hour a day to learn
This is helpful regardless of whether you have a goal in mind. Spend an hour every day learning a s...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Brains Report Tags: self improvement achieving goals best self improvement blog goal setting journaling persistence pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
The futile quest for certainty in IVF treatment.
Every couple who does IVF wants to get pregnant in the first cycle, and of course, every IVF doctor wants their patients to get pregnant in the first cycle as well ! It's very fulfilling to be able to add so much happiness to your patients' life by giving them a deeply loved baby, and if we had a 100% success rate, our life would be much easier !Unfortunately, our IVF technology still has a long way to go .While we're good at doing certain things, there are lots of gaps in our knowledge . This is especially true after we've transferred an embryo back into the uterus. This is literally a black box , and we have no idea what...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - September 28, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Baby Foreskin Is Being Used To Make Vaccines
Conclusion
Vaccine companies have regularly used blood and body parts from killed cows, dogs, worms, mice, chickens, human babies, monkeys, guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, rats, etc., to make these vaccines, so using foreskin from newborn babies may not surprise some. For many, it is appalling. [28]
Circumcisions fuel multi-billion dollar industries. If you see neonatal foreskin for sale, which is very easy to find on the internet, remember that these newborn children didn’t consent to being circumcised and they didn’t consent for their foreskin to be sold, used for research purposes, or to be injected into the people ...
Source: vactruth.com - September 28, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Top Stories circumcision truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
The ovarian rejuvenation scam using PRP
I had this email conversation with a patient recentlyGreetings. Writing to you from Mumbai. I am 40 years old with an extremely low AMH and regular periods. Wanted to find out if you are doing ovarian rejuvenation using PRP ( platelet rich plasma) ? If yes, how do I go about getting in touch with your team ? I know doctors are doing it in Gujarat, Hyderabad and Chennai but not sure if anyone is doing this in Mumbai. Kindly revert at the earliest. I wrote back to her :This is now the latest scam in IVF and reproductive medicine. Doctors offer to inject autologous "stem cells" ( derived from the patient's own ...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - September 26, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Why are we seeing an epidemic of new IVF clinics in India?
There seems to be a new IVF clinic starting in practically every nook and corner in every town in India. Why this sudden spurt of IVF clinics coming up all over the place? Is it that the number of infertile couples has increased so dramatically that the requirement for IVF has gone up so sharply?The reason is actually far more crass and commercial. Senior obstetricians and gynecologists who are tired of delivering babies and hysterectomies want to do something new and different and cutting-edge. Many think IVF is a very lucrative field, and rather than referring their patients to an IVF specialist and losing all that ...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - September 25, 2017 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - September 2017
I ’m on a flight to New Zealand as part of my international government service. The 26 hour commute means that even with just two days of meetings in Auckland, I will be gone from the farm for 5 days.I spent Saturday morning cleaning paddocks, emptying manure carts, packing hay bins, filling water troughs, and doing the final repairs/maintenance that will ensure the farm/sanctuary can thrive for a few days while I ’m gone. What happens at the sanctuary over a typical week? Numerous volunteers spend time with animals, providing companionship, exercise and socializationHorse experts bond with Amber, Milly,...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - September 17, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Until Death (or Recertification) Do Us Part
By RICHARD DUSZAK, MD
The online membership forum of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) blew up this week in response to an email announcement by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) that it will effectively be doing away with lifetime diagnostic radiology certificates for interventionalists whose original certificates pre-dated the introduction of time-limited certificates. Interventionalists were given two choices:
1. You can keep your lifetime diagnostic certificate if you give up your (earned) interventional subspecialty certification, or
2. You can keep your intervention...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 2, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: at RogueRad Tags: Physicians Source Type: blogs
A Role for Magnetism in the ED
Children have this strange predilection for placing small objects in body cavities and orifices. Besides putting foreign bodies in their mouths, an act that often leads to ingestion or aspiration, the ear canals and nares are their favorite locations for depositing plastic beads, toy parts, paper materials, small vegetables, jewelry, screws, and nails, and that frequently brings them to the emergency department. Unsuccessful attempts to remove the foreign bodies in the ED lead to a consultation or referral to an ENT specialist. The timing, technique, and tools used to remove a foreign body will depend on the anatom...
Source: M2E Too! Mellick's Multimedia EduBlog - September 1, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
