But I digress
The UCONN women ' s basketball team has been short-handed all season because five players are out with season-ending injuries. So they ' ve lot some game to the top teams but they ' ve still managed to be undefeated in Big East conference play. Yesterday they faced Providence College in the second round of the Big East tournament. PC ' s strategy was to beat the crap out of UCONN center Aaliyah Edwards, which the referees for some reason allowed them to do, causing Geno Auriemma nearly to have a stroke on sideline. The assistant coaches had to put him in a double arm bar to keep him off the court.Providence managed to hang...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 10, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 11th 2024
In conclusion, this Mendelian randomization study found that Streptococcus was causally associated with Bioage acceleration. Further randomized controlled trials are needed to investigate its role in the aging process.
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Considering the Mechanisms of Vascular Calcification
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2024/03/considering-the-mechanisms-of-vascular-calcification/
Harmful calcification of structures in the cardiovascular system proceeds alongside the development of the fatty lesions of atherosclerosis. Both disease processes are accelerated by chronic inflammation, but d...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 10, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Acute chest pain and ST Elevation. CT done to look for aortic dissection.....
Written byWilly FrickA 67 year old man with a history of hypertension presented with three days of chest pain radiating to his back. He had associated nausea, vomiting, and dyspnea.What do you think?This ECG together with these symptoms is certainly concerning for OMI, but the ECG is not fully diagnostic, and another consideration could be acute pericarditis. Mistaking OMI for pericarditis is a much more harmful error than the converse. Still, in the interest of studying the ECG, here are some findings that could support pericarditis:Absence of large T-waves (flat ST segments)Absence of any STD in aVL (which is s...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 9, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Willy Frick Source Type: blogs
Request for Startups in the Rejuvenation Biotechnology Space, 2024 Edition
Investors focused on funding biotechnology startups tend to exhibit herd behavior, much like investors everywhere these days. Funding is primarily deployed towards fads and popular trends, not necessarily towards what makes the most sense, even if sometimes the sensible manages to align with the popular. These days that means drug discovery platforms with a strong computational component and partial epigenetic reprogramming. But even in this environment, the path to true success is to work on important projects that few other people are touching. Be the champion for a potential solution to a tough, high-value, comparativel...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 8, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Investment Source Type: blogs
Solidifying Home Care in the Healthcare Continuum: Embracing Technological Advances and RPM to Redefine Healthcare in 2024
The following is a guest article by Jiang Li, CEO at Vivalink
Healthcare is at a turning point, reshaping our view of what defines hospital care. The home has emerged as a fundamental care setting within the broader healthcare continuum, challenging the notion that care concludes at the hospital exit. To fully integrate the home into the continuum of care, our focus must be on innovative care models enabled by technology.
Recognizing the importance of the home in a patient’s care journey is essential. The aim is to create a seamless connection between hospital and home care, providing patients and their families with...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 8, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Acute Hospital Care at Home AHCaH Chronic Care Management HaH home care Home Health Home-Based Care h Source Type: blogs
Micro and Nanoplastics and Cardiovascular Events – Recent Study
Use of plastics in daily life is currently on the increase and it is a well known pollutant in our water bodies like rivers, ponds, lakes and ocean. Plastics can be degraded into microplastics which are smaller than 5 mm and nanoplastics which are smaller than 1000 nanometer [1]. Microplastics and nanoparticles can trigger toxicologic effects in the body [2]. Both microplastics and nanoplastics can enter our body through ingestion, inhalation and even by topical exposure on the skin. According to a webpage from United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), microbeads which are a type of microplastic...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 8, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
HealthSnap Closes $25 Million Series B Funding Amidst Continued Triple Digit Growth of Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Platform
New Investment is Led by Sands Capital, with Participation from Comcast Ventures, and Follows Enterprise Health System Expansions
HealthSnap, a Miami-based Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) solution for healthcare providers, today announced its Series B financing totaling $25 million. The round was led by Sands Capital, with new investments from Comcast Ventures, Acronym Venture Capital, and Florida Opportunity Fund. Existing shareholders, Asclepius Growth Capital, Florida Funders, MacDonald Ventures, and TGH Ventures also participated in the round. Scott Frederick, a Managing Partner at...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 7, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Acronym Venture Capital Angela Orsky Asclepius Growth Capital Comcast Ventures Florida Funders Florida Opportunity Fund Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment HealthSnap MacDonald Source Type: blogs
Continuing the Debate Over Why Time Spent Sitting Correlates with Mortality
We examined the prospective associations of convolutional neural network hip accelerometer posture-classified total sitting time and mean sitting bout duration with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) death.
Women (n=5,856; 79±7 years old) in the Women's Health Initiative Objective Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health (OPACH) Study wore the ActiGraph GT3X+ for ~7 days from May 2012 to April 2014 and were followed through February 19, 2022 for all-cause and CVD death. The convolutional neural network hip accelerometer posture algorithm classified total sitting time and mean sitting bout duration fr...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 7, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Wearable Health Tracker Landscape: 18 Devices On 18 Body Parts
Over the last decade, Dr Meskó, The Medical Futurist has had his hands on more than 150 digital health devices, turning his (and our) life into a real-world tech lab. Yet, for all that testing, the wearable universe keeps expanding beyond our reach. Just when you think you’ve seen it all, the field throws a curveball, like earrings that measure your body temperature, introducing us to entirely new categories and possibilities. It’s clear that the innovation train in wearable tech hasn’t slowed down; if anything, it’s picking up speed.
Our latest infographic dives into this fast-changing world, m...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 7, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF wearables health sensors health trackers Source Type: blogs
Young man with Gunshot wound to right chest with hemorrhagic shock, but bullet path not near heart
A young man presented with a gunshot wound to the right chest, with hemo-pneumothorax and hemorrhagic shock.He got a chest tube and intubation and massive transfusion and stabilized.CT of chest showed the bullet path through his right lung but nowhere near his heart.But he did get an EKG:What is this? There were times when it would be usurped by sinus tachycardia, then return to this rhythm.There is a wide complex. It is irregular. It is not fast (cannot be VT). There is no atrial activity to suggest atrial fibrillation. There are whatcould be interpreted as delta wavesif, and only if, th...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 7, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Young man with Gunshot wound to right chest with hemorrhagic shock, but bullet path not near heart. A case of irregular accelerated idioventricular rhythm (AIVR)
A young man presented with a gunshot wound to the right chest, with hemo-pneumothorax and hemorrhagic shock.He got a chest tube and intubation and massive transfusion and stabilized.CT of chest showed the bullet path through his right lung but nowhere near his heart.But he did get an EKG:What is this? There were times when it would be usurped by sinus tachycardia, then return to this rhythm.There is a wide complex. It is irregular. It is not fast (cannot be VT). There is no atrial activity to suggest atrial fibrillation. There are whatcould be interpreted as delta wavesif, and only if, th...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 7, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
Electronic Health Records (EHR): How to Achieve Healthcare Data Accuracy with Artificial Intelligence
The following is a guest article by Ann Krutsko, Healthcare IT Researcher at ScienceSoft
In healthcare, working with inaccurate patient data is a dangerous game. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were designed to streamline operations and improve coordination across healthcare systems. And while EHRs have largely benefited the organizations that have adopted them, data accuracy is still a point of concern. Data entry is still fraught with human error. However, innovations in the field in the way of artificial intelligence integrations are making significant strides in enhancing data quality in EHRs. From data validation to ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT AI Integration Ann Krutsko Data Accuracy Data Entry Data Validation EHR Healthcare AI Healthcare Data Real-Time Alerts ScienceSoft Source Type: blogs
Research Organism Superheroes: Axolotls
The friendly-looking axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) doesn’t seem to have much in common with its namesake, Xolotl—the Aztec god of lightning, death, and fire. In fact, axolotls can regrow lost limbs and other body parts like organs and parts of their central nervous systems—which goes against the concept of death!
The axolotl can regenerate almost any body part, including brain, heart, jaws, limbs, lungs, ovaries, spinal cord, skin, and tail. This ability makes it an excellent research organism to study in the search for regenerative medicine. Credit: Marko Pende, MDI Biological Laboratory; MDI Biological Labor...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 6, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: STEM Education Tools and Techniques Coloring Pages Cool Creatures Regeneration Research Organisms Source Type: blogs
Echocardiogram in Rheumatic Mitral and Aortic Regurgitation
Transcript of the video: This is an apical five chamber view and this is an apical four chamber view. You can see four chambers – RV, LV, RA, LA, and the transducer location is here. And this is five chamber because, in addition you are seeing the aorta also. Right atrium has not been labelled. In this view, you can see that mitral leaflets are thickened.
This is anterior mitral leaflet, thickened, and in the closed position of mitral valve, when there should be no flow to the left atrium, you are seeing a jet, a mosaic jet, which has been traced out. Multi-coloured jet due to high velocity and turbulence. That is wh...
Source: Cardiophile MD - March 6, 2024 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs
b.well Connected Health Secures $40M to Power The Connected Health Ecosystem
Company Also Welcomes Samsung Head of Digital Health to Board of Directors in Funding Round to Accelerate Growth
b.well Connected Health, the company powering platform-enabled healthcare ecosystems, today announced the closure of a $40 million Series C growth round led by Leavitt Equity Partners. Andrew Clark, Managing Partner at Leavitt Equity Partners joins the b.well board of directors. Ryan Howells, Principal at Leavitt Partners and Executive Director of the CARIN Alliance, a bipartisan, multi-sector collaborative dedicated to advancing consumer-directed exchange of health information, has joined the b.well board as ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 6, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Andrew Clark b.well b.well Connected Health CARIN Alliance CLEAR Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Hon Pak Kristen Valdes Leavitt Equity Partners Lee Health Michael Leavit Source Type: blogs
