How Podcaster Andrew Huberman Got America to Care About Science
The moment the clock strikes 1:20 p.m., students are out of their seats and shoving laptops into backpacks, spilling out of the classroom and onto Stanford University’s lush California campus. But some stay behind, forming a line to speak to their guest lecturer. A few ask for selfies. Others talk about their workout routines. All look starstruck to be in the presence of Andrew Huberman, the man who has spent the last 80 minutes talking about neuroplasticity, memory, and learning.
Arguably not since the Fauci mania of the early pandemic has a scientist become as famous, as quickly, as Huberman. The 47-year-old Stanfo...
Source: TIME: Health - June 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate podcasts Source Type: news
How to deep freeze an entire organ —and bring it back to life
MINNEAPOLIS—
The rat kidney on the operating table in front of Joseph Sushil Rao looked like it had been through hell. Which it had—a very cold one.
Normally a deep pink, this thumbnail-size organ was blanched a corpselike gray. In the past 6 hours, it had been plucked from the abdomen of a white lab rat, pumped full of a black fluid, stuck in a freezer cooled to –150°C, and zapped by a powerful magnet.
Now, in a cramped, windowless room on the 11th floor of the University of Minnesota’s (UMN’s) Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower, Rao lifted the kidney from a small plastic box and gently laid it...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 21, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
How to Make the Transplantation Allocation System Better How to Make the Transplantation Allocation System Better
In this commentary, the authors highlight shortcomings of the current transplantation allocation system and propose a new modeling strategy to improve equitable access to transplantation.JACC: Heart Failure (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Cardiology Journal Article Source Type: news
Public services can help create a kinder, fairer society, says UNISON
Addressing the union’s annual conference in Liverpool today (Wednesday), UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
“This year thousands of public sector workers in UNISON have voted for strike action. Environment Agency, CQC and university staff are still in dispute.
“Local government workers in England and Wales are currently voting for strike action, with others to follow in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
“Council services are too often overlooked. It’s only when there’s no one to fill the potholes or empty the bins that anyone notices. When there are no urgent care packages available or no support for ...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - June 14, 2023 Category: Food Science Authors: Anthony Barnes Tags: News Press release 2023 National Delegate Conference Christina McAnea Source Type: news
There are some great companies who make artificial hearts in Usa, Aus, Europe. I want to bring that technology in India
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Source: Reuters: Health - June 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Survival Noninferior With Heart Donated After Circulatory Death
FRIDAY, June 9, 2023 -- Risk-adjusted survival at six months after transplantation is noninferior for patients receiving a heart after the circulatory death of a donor or after brain death of a donor, according to a study published in the June 8... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - June 9, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Trial Affirms Safety of Circulatory-Death Heart Transplants
(MedPage Today) -- Transplants from circulatory-death donor hearts assessed with a perfusion machine did just as well as those procured after brain death and cold storage, a randomized trial showed.
Recipients of a circulatory-death heart had... (Source: MedPage Today Surgery)
Source: MedPage Today Surgery - June 8, 2023 Category: Surgery Source Type: news
New Approach to Transplants Could Boost Supply of Donor Hearts
A new clinical trial has finds a new transplant method that "reanimates" donor hearts appears safe and effective. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - June 8, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Can ‘toxic’ bilirubin treat a variety of illnesses?
Generations of medical and biology students have been instilled with a dim view of bilirubin. Spawned when the body trashes old red blood cells, the molecule is harmful refuse and a sign of illness. High blood levels cause jaundice, which turns the eyes and skin yellow and can signal liver trouble. Newborns can’t process the compound, and although high levels normally subside, a persistent surplus can cause brain damage.
Yet later this year up to 40 healthy Australian volunteers may begin receiving infusions of the supposedly good-for-nothing molecule. They will be participating in a phase 1 safety trial, sponsored...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 8, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
AHA News: She's Survived Cancer, Heart Failure and a Heart Transplant
THURSDAY, June 8, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- When Dawn Mussallem was little, she dreamed of having her face on a Smucker ' s jar – the recognition the " Today " show gives to people who reach their 100th birthday.
So, she committed... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - June 8, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
New Approach to Transplants Could Boost Supply of Donor Hearts
THURSDAY, June 8, 2023 -- A new transplant method that " reanimates " donor hearts appears safe and effective, a new clinical trial has found — in an advance that could substantially expand the supply of donor hearts available in the United... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - June 8, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
Survival Similar With Hearts Donated After Circulatory Death Survival Similar With Hearts Donated After Circulatory Death
In the first randomized trial comparing approaches, transplantation of hearts donated after circulatory death resulted in similar 6-month recipient survival as hearts donated after brain death.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines)
Source: Medscape Neurology and Neurosurgery Headlines - June 7, 2023 Category: Neurology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news
Newer heart transplant method could allow more patients a chance at lifesaving surgery
Most transplanted hearts are from donors who are brain dead, but new research shows a different approach can be just as successful and boost the number of available organs (Source: ABC News: Health)
Source: ABC News: Health - June 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news
To Solve the U.S. Nursing Shortage Crisis, the Country Must Change Its Immigration Policies
The United States is about to learn the hard way what happens when an entire generation of nurses retires without enough new clinicians to fill their shoes at the bedside.
As a result, hospitals in the same country that performed the first successful kidney transplant and pioneered anesthesia and heart rhythm restoration will have no choice but to ration care.
That’s the only way to describe what happened to an Alabama man who was turned away from 43 different hospitals across three different states before ultimately dying of a cardiac emergency 200 miles from home because no nearby system had an available intensive ...
Source: TIME: Health - June 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alex M. Azar and Kathleen Sebelius Tags: Uncategorized freelance health Source Type: news
Black Patients May Be Underdiagnosed for Lung Problems Because of Software Bias
This study, published in JAMA Network Open, offers one of the first real-world examples of how the the issue may affect diagnosis and care for lung patients, said Dr. Darshali Vyas, a pulmonary care doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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The results are “exciting” to see published but it’s also “what we’d expect” from setting aside race-based calculations, said Vyas, who was an author of an influential 2020 New England Journal of Medicine article that catalogued examples of how race-based assumptions are used in making doctors’ decisi...
Source: TIME: Health - June 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mike Stobbe/AP Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Research wire Source Type: news
