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Worldwide Trends in Healthy versus Unhealthy Remaining Life Expectancy at 60
Human life expectancy has been trending upwards, slowly, for a very long time. Life expectancy at birth is influenced by a great many factors that have little to do with aging, and so is much less interesting than, say, life expectancy at 60. At present, that number increases by one year with every passing decade. This has been the case in an environment in which essentially nothing was being done to deliberately target underlying mechanisms of aging. The trend is an incidental side-effect of, most likely, (a) better life-long control over the burden of infectious disease, and (b) general improvements in the ability to tre...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 20, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction
It’s always been pretty obvious that factors such as wealth, race, education, and the quality of food and water have enormous impacts on health. But only in the past few years have the medical professions tried to quantify and capture these factors. Given that the field is increasingly digitized and data-driven, health IT is responsible for collecting and analyzing social determinants of health (SDoH). Data can both call out SDoH and help to address its effects. An example of calling out SDoH was cited by Dr. Sherri Onyiego, Medical Director for the Texas Market at Equality Health. They use claims data to track use o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Care Management SDOH Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Authors of Dutch Long Covid Paper Contradict Each Other
By David Tuller, DrPH I have slammed a recent Dutch study, Kuut et al, that investigated CBT for fatigue after an acute bout of COVID-19. The study, “Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Severe Fatigue Following Coronavirus Disease 2019: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial,” nicknamed ReCOVer, was published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, a well-regarded journal, … Trial By Error: Authors of Dutch Long Covid Paper Contradict Each Other Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - October 14, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized dutch Source Type: blogs

Exploring HIV care and advocacy [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join George Kerr, III, a community health advocate. We delve into the complex world of HIV management, especially among aging individuals. George brings his expertise to the table, discussing “U = U,” aging-related challenges, and the vital role of primary care providers. Join us Read more… Exploring HIV care and advocacy [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 29, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

Misinformed claims and the offensiveness of discrediting COVID-19 vaccine development
The development of COVID-19 vaccines has been an extraordinary scientific achievement in the face of a global health crisis. However, an unfortunate consequence has been the emergence of misinformed claims by non-medical individuals who assert that these vaccines were not appropriately vetted for human use. This essay aims to highlight the fatigue and offensiveness caused Read more… Misinformed claims and the offensiveness of discrediting COVID-19 vaccine development originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

Lessons taught by Bell ’ s palsy
Recently, after a week of a viral illness that I most likely picked up from one of my patients as a pediatrician, I noticed that one side of my tongue felt as though I had dental anesthesia. During the day, this slowly progressed, but as night came, the progression rapidly intensified with my lips and Read more… Lessons taught by Bell’s palsy originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Neurology Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 4th 2023
In conclusion, although the contribution of CRF to GrimAgeAccel and FitAgeAccel is relatively low compared to lifestyle-related factors such as smoking, the results suggest that the maintenance of CRF is associated with delayed biological ageing in older men. « Back to Top Release of Acetylcholine is Necessary for the Aging Brain to Compensate for a Lack of Neurogenesis https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/09/release-of-acetylcholine-is-necessary-for-the-aging-brain-to-compensate-for-a-lack-of-neurogenesis/ Neurogenesis is the process by which new neurons are created by neural stem c...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 3, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Biological weapons: a history and emerging risks
Biological weapons are not new. Their use by armies has taken place for centuries. Take the Plague, for example. The pandemic was reportedly first introduced to Europe during the siege of the Genoese trading port of Kaffa in Crimea by the Golden Horde army of Jani Beg in 1347. It decimated 30 percent of the Read more… Biological weapons: a history and emerging risks originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

Peptoid Oligomers Target Viral Membranes
Researchers at New York University have developed a new method to target many viruses that cause disease. For viruses with a lipid membrane, which includes many that commonly cause disease, this new technique could prove to be fatal. By targeting the lipid membrane, the approach may circumvent the treatment resistance that arises when viruses mutate to alter their surface proteins, which are the most common targets for conventional anti-viral drugs. This new approach is based on a synthetic version of antimicrobial peptides, which are naturally produced by our immune system and can target pathogens such as bacteria and vir...
Source: Medgadget - August 30, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs

Balancing health care worker immunization and patient safety
Recently, I heard a news report regarding several states’ attorneys general suing the federal government to eliminate the requirement that health care providers be immunized against COVID. They argued that as fully immunized individuals still contract COVID, and that allowing unimmunized people to be rehired would relieve provider shortages, the regulation was unhelpful. Initially, I Read more… Balancing health care worker immunization and patient safety originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 30, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

Bridging the Representation Gap in Biomedical Research
“We hope that students come out of our program feeling like they’re part of a community. Many of us feel inadequate or struggle in some way during graduate school—it can be a challenging time. I want to build a community that our students can always come back to for support,” says Elana Ehrlich, Ph.D., the co-director of the Bridges to the Doctorate Research Training Program (B2D) at Towson University in Towson, Maryland, alongside Michelle Snyder, Ph.D.. The Towson B2D is one of several NIGMS-supported B2Ds, which are dedicated to developing a diverse pool of well-trained biomedical scientists who will transiti...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 30, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Training Source Type: blogs

More Evidence for Vaccination to Reduce Alzheimer's Disease Risk
There is good evidence for the various forms of later life vaccination, such as for herpes zoster or influenza, to reduce the risk of later suffering Alzheimer's disease. One possibility is that people who take the time to obtain a vaccine tend to take better care of their health across the board. Another possibility is that vaccination produces a trained immunity effect that dampens age-related inflammation for a sustained period of time. It may also be the case that suffering from influenza, pneumonia, or similar infectious diseases causes sufficient additional inflammation to move the odds on suffering later neurodegene...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 28, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Up Your Game With NIH Kahoot! Quizzes
NIH is now a premium partner with Kahoot! Credit: NIGMS. We’re excited to announce our new partnership with Kahoot! Although we aren’t new Kahoot! gamers, we’ve recently partnered with them to provide you quizzes from across the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a single place. “Reaching young people to teach them about biomedical science and inspire them to pursue careers in science is critically important to ensuring a diverse and vibrant biomedical research enterprise,” says NIGMS Director Jon Lorsch, Ph.D. “Our partnership with Kahoot! expands NIH’s STEM offerings, providing educators with free, in...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - August 23, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: STEM Education Source Type: blogs

A memorable day during COVID: Staying true to my calling
COVID reminded me of why I became a doctor. Below is an unpublished account (in short story form) of my most memorable day during the height of COVID. It is a reminder that we can remain true to our intrinsic motivators rather than victims of extrinsic factors. And most of us still have the opportunity Read more… A memorable day during COVID: Staying true to my calling originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 16, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: More on the Perplexing Dutch Claim that Null Results for Objective Measures of Physical Activity Are Irrelevant to Fatigue
By David Tuller, DrPH I recently wrote about a Dutch study published a few months ago in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases–“Efficacy of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Targeting Severe Fatigue Following Coronavirus Disease 2019: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial.” The study, nick-named ReCOVer, found that unblinded trials relying on subjective outcomes will produce modestly positive reports … Trial By Error: More on the Perplexing Dutch Claim that Null Results for Objective Measures of Physical Activity Are Irrelevant to Fatigue Read More » (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 9, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized CBT CBT/GET dutch Knoop Long Covid Source Type: blogs