Will There Be A Second Wave Of COVID-19?
In short? Yes, there most certainly will. Or, looking at it from another perspective, there might not be a second wave as the first one won’t end. In any case, which scenario is more probable depends on your country’s leadership and decisions and whether people will be compliant enough to go along with the restrictions. Because how governments are preparing for it over the next few weeks will be crucial in the fight against the pandemic.
The search is still on for a vaccine and it certainly won’t be ready by the time experts say the second wave hits the stage. Technically, to talk about a second wave, the firs...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 30, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Digital Health Research Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones vaccination coronavirus covid19 vaccine research leadership pandemic second wave flatten the curve researchers Anthony Fauci Mike Pence lockdown Source Type: blogs
Mental health for digital natives in the covid era: Shouldn ’t remote counselling be the first line of engagement & treatment?
The benefits of remote consultation for mental health treatment (Health Europa):
Thorbjorg Vigfusdóttir, a cognitive psychologist by training, spent 12 years as a politician in her native Iceland with the goal of directing her knowledge on the development of the brain into education and public policy. After leaving politics to form a company providing remote speech therapy in Icelandic schools, she was founded Kara Connect, an online consultation platform enabling therapists and clinicians to provide remote care and treatment, which was recently adopted by the National University Hospital of Iceland (Landspítali).
What ...
Source: SharpBrains - July 28, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology anxiety cognitive psychologist depression digital natives Kara Connect mental health pandemic remote consultation therapists Thorbjorg Vigfusdóttir Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 22nd 2020
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Longevity Industry Consulting Services
Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 21, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Quantifying Loss of Kidney Function with Age in a Human Population
Kidney function is critical to health, but, as is the case for all organs, the kidneys declines with age. The damage of aging produces harmful outcomes in many ways. For example, hypertension causes structural pressure damage in sensitive tissues in the kidneys. Further, senescent cells and other sources of chronic inflammation disrupt normal tissue maintenance processes in the kidneys, leading to the scar-like collagen deposits of fibrosis. In turn, loss of kidney function accelerates many other aspects of aging, including neurodegeneration and the onset of cognitive decline.
An international study that has been ...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 16, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Official Estimates of COVID-19 Deaths Are Way Too Low
By KEN TERRY
While President Trump mulls whether to reopen the country again in May, and as Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade suggests that “only” 60,000 people will die from the coronavirus, there are some warning signs that the White House COVID-19 Task Force’s prediction of 100,000-240,000 deaths may be way too low.
That isn’t surprising, considering that Administration
officials said this projection depended on us doing everything right. Of
course, it appears that large sections of the country have done many things
wrong—whether it’s Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ reluctance to close houses of
...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy COVID-19 deaths Ken Terry Pandemic Trump Source Type: blogs
Does Beverly Hills MD Brow Serum work and other beauty questions? episode 213
We have a lot of beauty questions to answer today, including:
What do we think of the Beverly Hills MD brow serum
Are lash tints safe?
Why do anti-aging ingredients affect skin color?
Why do dermatologists keep saying hyaluronic acid is pointless?
Perry and Valerie are under self imposed quarantine! But we’re still recording.
Beauty science news
Are cosmetics going to be more regulated?
The spokesperson from the EWG (who likes this new legislation by the way) said the following about the cosmetics industry. “…no category of consumer products is subject to less government oversight than cosmetics and o...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
10 Ways Technology Is Changing Healthcare
The future of healthcare is shaping up in front of our very eyes with advances in digital technologies, such as artificial intelligence, VR/AR, 3D-printing, robotics or nanotechnology. We have to familiarize with the latest developments in order to be able to control technology and not the other way around. The future of healthcare lies in working hand-in-hand with technology and healthcare workers have to embrace emerging technologies in order to stay relevant in the coming years.
Be bold, curious and informed!
Are you afraid that robots will take over the jobs of nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals? Are y...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 3, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing AI artificial intelligence augmented reality genetics Health Healthcare nanotechnology Personalized medicine pharma pharmacology robotics virtual reality wearables GC1 Source Type: blogs
Owl spotting
Short-eared Owl at Burwell Fen, photographed mid-January
One evening in late November, I was once again, hoping to catch sight of the Starling murmurations that occur over the Broad Lane balancing pond. As mentioned in a previous, issue the local Starlings and their continental counterparts will often roost in the reed bed there, last winter there were literally thousands. At the time of writing, just a few hundred are roosting, but that can change on a wind as arrivals from Europe turn up when the weather changes. Anyway, reader Alison waved as she passed the pond on her dog walk. I later heard that she’d seen a scu...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 19, 2020 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Source Type: blogs
Wealth Tax Revenues
Chris EdwardsPresidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have each proposed an annual wealth tax on the richest Americans. There are so many flaws with such a tax that it probably would not pass Congress. If it did pass, it would likely be repealed soon after as the damage became obvious even to the politicians.The number of European countries with annual wealth taxes has fallen from 12 in 1990 to just 3 today. The Europeans found that wealth taxes induced avoidance, evasion, and capital flight,as I discuss here. The taxes were also full of exemptions and raised relatively little revenue.Let ’s look at th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 11, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Five Ways To Boost Resilience In Children
By Emma Young
While some of us crumble in the face of adversity, and struggle to recover, others quickly bounce back from even serious trauma. Psychological resilience is undeniably important in all kinds of areas of life, so understanding what underpins it, and how to train it – particularly in children — is of intense interest to psychologists.
1. Watch your language
According to Carol Dweck of growth mindset fame, to drive success in our children we should “praise the effort that led to the outcome or learning progress; tie the praise to it,” as opposed to praising effort more broadly, or achievement al...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - November 5, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Feature Source Type: blogs
The Nordic Saga: Genomics And Politics In Iceland
We guide you to a country where DNA analysis dates
back to at least two decades, where Game of Thrones was shot, and where more
sheep live than people. To the country of Ice and Fire. In the next stop of our
genomics and politics series, let’s see how Iceland, a state with a tiny and
homogenous population makes use of genomic data, and how private and public
clashes over its regulatory issues.
To share or
not to share?
In the future, researchers in many countries will be
able to reliably identify hundreds of people as carriers of cancer-related
genes only by pressing a button. It won’t matter whether those indivi...
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 2, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Genomics Security & Privacy DNA dna testing ethics genes Genetic testing genetics technology regulations government society bioethics bioethical politics iceland decode Source Type: blogs
What Happens When Genomics Meets Politics?
The number of people having their genomes sequenced
could reach more than 100 million by 2025, researchers estimated. Policy-makers around the world started to realize
the incredible potential in genomics for population health in the last 3-5
years, but there are huge question marks whether they can manage the use of this
incredibly useful pool of data in an appropriate framework, with well-thought-out
means, for the right purposes, meaning for the well-being of humans and
communities in the present and the future. Here, we launched an article series
to look at the countries with the most experience. Let’s start with a t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 28, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Genomics Healthcare Policy data data privacy data security Estonia ethics Gene genetic genetics Genome genome sequencing health data personal genomics Personalized medicine population population genomic Source Type: blogs
Healthcare after Brexit: updated guidance
Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) - The guidance accessing health care after Brexit has been updated. It covers access to health care for UK residents visiting or living in the EU and Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland after Brexit.Visitor guidanceEmigrant guidance (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 27, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Brexit Source Type: blogs
The Long Emergency: The arctic is on fire . . .
. . . but the corporate media in the U.S. haven ' t noticed. I looked at the web sites of every major news outlet today and saw absolutely nothing about this.So I ' ll link to The Guardian. Sure, the Brits have their own problems but they can still stop gazing at their own navels long enough to notice this.A spate of huge fires in northern Russia, Alaska, Greenland and Canada discharged 50 megatonnes of CO2 in June and 79 megatonnes in July, far exceeding the previous record for theArctic. The intensity of the blazes continues with 25 megatonnes in the first 11 days of August – extending the duration beyond even the most...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 12, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
