The unsung heroes of disease detectives: Controlling outbreaks and pandemics to save lives
An excerpt from Outbreaks and Pandemics: The Life of a Disease Detective. The importance of disease detectives in solving and controlling outbreaks and pandemics must be recognized. We are the backbone of our public health system. We are scientifically savvy, inquisitive, detail-oriented, and able to follow the data wherever it leads, hopefully to answers and
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The unsung heroes of disease detectives: Controlling outbreaks and pandemics to save lives originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Nicholas A. Daniels, MD, MPH Tags: Conditions COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 26th 2023
This study explored the association between different cooking fuel types and the risk of cancer and all-cause mortality among seniors constructing Cox regression models. Data were obtained by linking waves of 6, 7, and 8 of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, which included a total of 7,269 participants who were 65 years old and over. Cooking fuels were categorized as either biomass, fossil, or clean fuels. And the effects of switching cooking fuels on death risk were also investigated using Cox regression models.
The results indicate that, compared with the users of clean fuels, individuals using bio...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 25, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Unveiling the truth: How headlines shape our world and the urgent need for reliable news
This is a story of headlines and the power they wield for good and evil (apologies for the melodrama). Words matter, and I, for one, am frustrated with the words in headlines often doing more harm than good. I am a family doctor whose passion in life is preventing disease. I don’t want to see
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Unveiling the truth: How headlines shape our world and the urgent need for reliable news originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Gretchen LaSalle, MD Tags: Physician COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
The Concept of Immune Resilience and Its Relevance to Degenerative Aging
The aging of the immune system is widely considered a progressive loss of functional capacity, such as the ability to effectively destroy pathogens and errant cells (known as immunosenescence), coupled to rising levels of unresolved, chronic inflammation (known as inflammaging). In today's open access paper, the authors are more interested in how well the immune system brings itself back to an equilibrium state following the disruptions of an inflammatory response. They call this capacity for restoration "immune resilience". In this framework, aging brings a loss of the ability to restore normality to the immune system fol...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 23, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Current resources about COVID-19
(Last updated 19th June 2023)IntroductionDuring lockdown I maintained a set of blogposts linking to resources about COVID. I have not updated those for some time, and have now decided that they are no longer needed. I have added the word " Archived " to the start of each page title, and tried to make it clear that they are no longer updated. Of course, COVID-19 has not gone away, and has become one of the infectious diseases that is with us always. So, I think although those older posts are no longer useful, a current list of resources might be. So, here is a shorter...
Source: Browsing - June 19, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: COVID-19 Source Type: blogs
From business trip to battling a rare breast disease: my journey of survival, advocacy, and remission
I never envisioned a business trip could result in a diagnosis of a rare, under-practiced, poorly understood, and emerging chronic inflammatory breast disease affecting 2.4 women per 100,000 and growing. Two months after my return from that business trip, I started experiencing a multitude of symptoms, including breast pain. During a self-breast exam, I discovered
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From business trip to battling a rare breast disease: my journey of survival, advocacy, and remission originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tami Burdick Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
COVID-19: Unveiling the transformative shifts in health care [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Join us as we chat with medical writer Steven Marshall about the evolving health care landscape during the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss the transformative effects on health care delivery, the availability of testing, vaccination, and therapies, and the upcoming changes as the public health
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COVID-19: Unveiling the transformative shifts in health care [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 13, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Landed Gentry and Health
BY MIKE MAGEE
“The title of our lands is free, clear, and absolute, and every proprietor of the land is a princess his own domains, and lord paramount of the fee.”
Jesse Root, 1798, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
When it came to social hierarchy and family position, land was the ultimate measure of success and influence in Great Britain. But by the time of the American Revolution, our Founders were already fast at work dismantling Primogeniture (“the right of succession belonging to the firstborn child, especially the feudal rule by which the whole real estate of an intestate passed to...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy Landed Gentry Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
Unveiling the global pandemic threat: insights into risk factors and urgent measures for prevention
As the current COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across the globe, many are left wondering when the next pandemic will occur. The reality is that pandemics are not a new phenomenon, and throughout history, we have seen numerous instances of infectious diseases causing widespread devastation. While we cannot predict with certainty when the next pandemic
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Unveiling the global pandemic threat: insights into risk factors and urgent measures for prevention originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ton La, Jr., MD, JD Tags: Policy COVID Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 5th 2023
In conclusion, higher BMR might reduce lifespan. The underlying pathways linking to major causes of death and relevant interventions warrant further investigation.
Betting Against Progress Turns Out Poorly, But Can Work in the Short Term in a Slow Field
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/06/betting-against-progress-turns-out-poorly-but-can-work-in-the-short-term-in-a-slow-field/
Setting oneself up as a spokesperson for "we will not achieve this goal", as the fellow noted here is choosing to do, is a bet against technological progress. A glance at any few decade period in the past two hundred yea...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 4, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The importance of listening in health care: a mother ’ s journey advocating for children with chronic Lyme disease
My husband, a physician, and I have four wonderful children – a son and three daughters. I look back over the past decade and wonder, “Why?” Why did my daughters contract Lyme disease and not my son or husband? Why was it so difficult to establish a diagnosis? Why are doctors specializing in treating patients
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The importance of listening in health care: a mother’s journey advocating for children with chronic Lyme disease originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 1, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Cheryl Lazarus Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Raised Basal Metabolic Rate Correlates with Reduced Life Expectancy in Humans
In conclusion, higher BMR might reduce lifespan. The underlying pathways linking to major causes of death and relevant interventions warrant further investigation. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - May 31, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
ChatGPT Writes A Blog Post! (P.S. I don't think the AI takeover is imminent...)
Conclusion:In a digital age where accurate medical information is crucial, Doctordalai.com emerges as a trusted and valuable resource. Its commitment to providing reliable medical insights, patient empowerment, bridging the gap between medicine and technology, expertise across specialties, and fostering an interactive community sets it apart from the vast sea of health-related websites. Whether you ' re a patient, caregiver, or simply a health-conscious individual, Doctordalai.com invites you to embark on a journey of knowledge, empowerment, and discovery within the realm of modern medicine. (Source: Dalai's PACS Blog)
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - May 31, 2023 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
To Improve Vaccination in the Elderly, Target Mechanisms of Aging
That vaccinations decline in effectiveness with advancing age is only one of countless ways in which the underlying mechanisms of aging collectively harm health and resilience in later life. If the urge to improve vaccination efficacy in older individuals turns out to be a major contribution to driving greater investment in the development of means of rejuvenation, therapies that target the causes of aging, then the benefits will extend far beyond this narrow goal.
Despite the availability of flu vaccines formulated to better protect older adults, older adults remain disproportionally at-risk for severe infection,...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 30, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The surprising medical mystery of a “ good ” Hitler: How a rescued kitten revealed a rare movement disorder
An excerpt from Fifty Shades of Gray Matter. He was Hitler. Not the evil Nazi dictator returned somehow from the Inferno to which he had been consigned. Apparently, as with the witches in Oz, there were both good and bad Hitlers. He informed me that he was, in fact, a good Hitler, having been unfortunately
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The surprising medical mystery of a “good” Hitler: How a rescued kitten revealed a rare movement disorder originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 28, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Teresella Gondolo, MD Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Neurology Source Type: blogs
