How hearing is connected to well-being
As an audiologist, treating hearing loss is a part of my everyday life. Even still, I’m sometimes amazed at the difference hearing aids can make in patients’ lives. For example, recently, when an older patient with longstanding hearing loss was fitted with a pair of hearing aids, he was suddenly able to participate in conversation
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How hearing is connected to well-being originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 23, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Amy Sarow, AuD Tags: Conditions Otolaryngology Source Type: blogs
Trial By Error: In a Tub Talk, Therapist Damon Jacobs and I Discuss ME/CFS, Long Covid & AIDS Activism
By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier today, I posted a conversation about post-exertional malaise featuring Todd Davenport, a professor of physical therapy at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. I’d conducted the interview in April but had forgotten to post it here. And here’s another video I forgot to post—what I assume is the […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 23, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized damon jacobs tub talk Source Type: blogs
Transfer of Mitochondria Aids in Reducing Harms Following Brain Hemorrhage
This study demonstrates that adoptive astrocytic Mt transfer enhances neuronal Mn-SOD-mediated anti-oxidative defense and neuroplasticity in the brain, which potentiate functional recovery following ICH. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - August 22, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
FDA Finally Improves Access to Hearing Aids for SOME People
Jeffrey A. SingerToday the Food and Drug Administration issued a final rule which will give millions of Americans over ‐the‐counter access to hearing aids that heretofore required a prescription. The new rule, scheduled to take effect in mid ‐October, will benefit as many as30 million people who suffer from hearing loss.In 2017 Congress passed, and President Trump signed, theOver ‐the‐Counter Hearing Aid Act as a rider on the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017. The Act created a new category of OTC hearing aids as devices using air conduction to improve hearing among adults with mi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 16, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
We must disrupt harm
In the mid-1980s, with the AIDS epidemic on the horizon, austere conservative Margaret Thatcher sanctioned the first needle exchanges in the U.K. to prevent the budgetary burden that HIV might otherwise have become on the National Health Service. Nearly forty years later, New York City opened its first supervised injection sites in November of 2021,
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We must disrupt harm originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 6, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Julie Craig, MD Tags: Meds Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Verustat Acquires One Healthcare Solution
Remote patient monitoring company to expand its physician and patient services
Verustat, a full-service remote patient monitoring (RPM) system, has acquired Texas-based One Healthcare SolutionTM (OneHS).
OneHS’s chronic care software will help strengthen Verustat’s commitment to providing physicians with top-tier medical technology to improve patient care while also opening up new revenue streams. The software expansion will allow Verustat to integrate with a practice’s existing electronic medical record system and enable physicians to create automated, customized care plans for a host of chronic illnesses and c...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 4, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Chronic Illness Emmet Seibels Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A One Healthcare So Source Type: blogs
You Need Some Smarter Clothing
BY KIM BELLARD
Much as I’d love to write about Instagram’s feud with the Kardashians over changes to the Instagram feed, and how that and proposed changes to Facebook’s feed reflect Meta’s efforts to combat TikTok’s growing influence, I’ve already given healthcare plenty of warnings about TikTok. Instead, I’ll write about something else that the Kardashians care about: fashion.
Well, not fashion per se, but clothing. If the old, sexist statement was “clothes make the man,” then soon we may be saying “clothes make your health.”
The Washington Post got my attention when it report...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 3, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 25th 2022
This study further demonstrates that AMD is not a single condition or an isolated disease, but is often a signal of systemic malfunction which could benefit from targeted medical evaluation in addition to localized eye care."
Microglia in the Aging Brain, Both Protective and Harmful
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/07/microglia-in-the-aging-brain-both-protective-and-harmful/
A growing body of evidence implicates the changing behavior of microglia in the aging of the brain and onset of neurodegeneration. Microglia are analogous to macrophages, innate immune cells unique to the central nervous sys...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 24, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
After Five Months of Bare Infant Formula Shelves, Congress Finally Does the Bare Minimum
Scott LincicomeYesterday, the Presidentsigned legislation to suspend tariffs on imported baby formula to address continued national shortages. On the one hand, Congress and the Biden administration deserve some credit both forrecognizing how imports, free trade, and economic openness more generally can boost national “resilience” (something I’ve beensaying for years now) and for acting to unilaterally eliminate high tariffs on —and thus boost Americans’ access to and consumption of—an essential product now in desperately short supply. In this current political environment, that’s (unfortunately) no small feat...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 22, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Scott Lincicome Source Type: blogs
Does the Aging of the Gut Microbiome Contribute Meaningfully to Hearing Loss?
In today's open access paper, researchers discuss the link between the gut microbiome, chronic inflammation in aging, and the onset of age-related hearing loss due to hair cell death and destruction of axons connecting hair cells to the brain. It is definitively the case that changes in the balance of microbial populations in the intestine contributes to rising inflammation in older individuals. But how significant is this effect in comparison to other sources of chronic inflammation, such as excess visceral fat tissue, senescent cells, molecular waste and debris resulting from cell death and dysfunction due to other proce...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 20, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
State of the Art: New Crystallography Equipment Aids Science and the Study of Artifacts
Upgrading X-ray crystallography equipment at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville has had an unexpected benefit: enabling analyses that could help art museums authenticate, restore, and learn more about their pieces.
Two copies of a protein (pink and purple) produced by the hepatitis C virus interacting with the same strand of DNA (green). This structure was solved using equipment at the University of Arkansas X-ray crystallography center. Credit: PDB 2F55.
Scientists use X-ray crystallography to determine the detailed 3D structures of molecules. In biomedical contexts, researchers often apply X-ray crystallogra...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - July 20, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Molecular Structures Tools and Techniques Cool Tools/Techniques Source Type: blogs
Iatrogenic disinformation
The Covid pandemic brought nuts with M.D. degrees out of the woodwork. Of course they were always around -- Viz. Mehmet Oz, who had a popular TV show he used to spread medical disinformation for years. Many physicians signed a petition to have has medical license pulled, or for Columbia to fire him, but neither happened. Now Richard Baron and Yul Ejnes in NEJM discuss the problem of how licensing boards should respond to physicians who spread disinformation, notably by social media since most of them don ' t have a TV show. (Of course, some of them worked for the Trump Administration and currently work for Ron DeSantis, a ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 7, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Acute Chest pain with LBBB. What is going on?
This history and ECG were texted to me from a far away ED on a Friday night:" Very elderly make with history of coronary disease on an angiogram 1 year prior presents with 2 hours of chest pain, sternal, pressure, and mild diaphoresis. "What do you think?There is sinus tachycardia with LBBB. There is concordant ST depression (STD) in lead V2, and excessively proportionally discordant STD in all of leads V3-V6. Thus, there is one lead (V2) that meets the Sgarbossa criteria and the Smith modified criteria, and 4 other leads (V3-V6) that meet the alternative Smith modified criteria (proportionally excessively disc...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 23, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Steve Smith Source Type: blogs
The Racially Disparate Impacts of Coercive Outpatient Mental Health Treatment: The Case of Assisted Outpatient Treatment in New York State
Victoria Rodr íguez-Roldán (AIDS United), The Racially Disparate Impacts of Coercive Outpatient Mental Health Treatment: The Case of Assisted Outpatient Treatment in New York State, SSRN (2022): In 1999, New York State began implementing Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT), which allowed for... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - June 15, 2022 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Dual decline in gait speed and memory function seen as most predictive of future dementia
Walking Speed Helps Predict Future Dementia (MedPage Today):
Dual decline in gait speed and cognition carried a higher risk of dementia than either gait-only decline or cognitive-only decline, reported Taya Collyer, PhD, of Monash University in Victoria, Australia, and co-authors, in JAMA Network Open…
“Slowing gait and failing memory may be the best combination of clinical measures to identify people at risk of future dementia,” co-author Michele Callisaya, PhD, of the National Center for Healthy Aging at Monash University and Peninsula Health, told MedPage Today.
“By the time a diagnosis of dementia is made, the...
Source: SharpBrains - June 8, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health cognition cognitive decline cognitive measure dementia prevention diagnosis of dementia failing memory gait speed memory-decline pathology risk of dementia slowing gait Source Type: blogs
