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BeesMy son is afraid of bees. By “bees” I mean any flying insect that stings. Anything airborne elicits a flurry of flinchings and broken field dashes for shelter. I’ve watched him zig zag away from what turned out to be a small bird. He swears he hears a pervasive sub-audible buzzing. It ’s gotten so bad he doesn’t even like flowers. People who don’t know him come to think he’s afraid of flowers but it’s not the flowers. I’m worried the same logic will compel him to fear the sun. He already has an uneasy relationship with summer. Daytime dread, agoraphobic hermit. Locked in a room shadowed in...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - September 12, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 21st 2023
This study aimed to investigate the association between frailty index and circulating CAP2 concentration in 467 community-dwelling older adults (median age: 79; range: 65-92 years). The selected robust regression model showed that circulating CAP2 concentration was not associated with chronological age, as well as sex and education. However, circulating CAP2 concentration was significantly and inversely associated with the frailty index: a 0.1-unit increase in frailty index leads to ~0.5-point mean decrease in CAP2 concentration. Furthermore, mean CAP2 concentration was significantly lower in frail participants (i.e., fr...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 21, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
MedEssist is Helping to Transform Pharmacies into Pharmacy Health Clinics
The healthcare system in many countries is stretched thin. To help relieve the pressure, governments are starting to allow pharmacists to treat a growing number of minor ailments. MedEssist’s technology platform is helping pharmacies transform into health clinics.
Healthcare IT Today got a brief demonstration of the MedEssist platform from Joella Almeida, CEO and Co-Founder at the Collision Conference. We also asked her about the expanding role of pharmacists in healthcare.
Pharmacies Are Already in the Community
“We are focused on helping independent pharmacies,” explained Almeida. “There’s one on every bloc...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 16, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Colin Hung Tags: Ambulatory Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Collision 2023 Collision Conference Joella Almeida MedEssist minor ailments Pharmacies Pharmacists pharmacy health clinics Source Type: blogs
Microbial DNA Leaks from the Aging Intestines to Cause Harmful Inflammation in the Heart
Researchers here find that, in mice, microbial DNA from the aging gut readily leaks into circulation. The aging innate immune system falters in its ability to clear this DNA due to a declining population of macrophages capable of this task. As a consequence the microbial DNA provokes inflammatory dysfunction in the heart. This is an interesting advance in understanding the specifics of the broad relationship between the gut microbiome and degenerative aging, and offers pointers to ways in which the aging immune function might be improved.
Emerging evidence indicates the critical roles of microbiota in mediating ho...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 15, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Dave Bradley ’ s Music
TL:DR – I have dozens of songs and instrumentals for you to download or stream through my BandCamp page right now.
Although, I’m probably best known as a professional science writer and an amateur wildlife photographer, when I’m not involved in those you might catch me singing and playing live with my band, C5 Website/Facebook, or in our community a choir (TyrannoChorus). You can hear my latest solo and collaborative recorded music on BandCamp and SoundCloud. Some of my stuff is on Spotify and iTunes too, including a few cover songs. As of 30th July 2023, Mrs Sciencebase and myself are also now veterans ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - August 14, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 14th 2023
This study demonstrates just how vital the thymus is to maintaining adult health."
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Does Amyloid-β Aggregation Cause Broad Disruption of Proteostasis?
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/08/does-amyloid-%ce%b2-aggregation-cause-broad-disruption-of-proteostasis/
Researchers here speculate on the ability of insoluble amyloid-β aggregates to be broadly disruptive of the solubility of many other proteins, and thus disruptive to cell and tissue function. Is this important in aging? The evidence here shows the existence of the mechanism in a lower species, but that doesn't ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
cGAS-STING Signalling Drives Age-Related Chronic Inflammation
The reaction of the innate immune system to damage characteristic of aging biology drives a great deal of age-related chronic inflammation. For example, mislocalized mitochondrial DNA arises as a consequence of age-related mitochondrial dysfunction, and can trigger innate immune sensors that evolved to detect bacterial DNA. Here, researchers look more closely at one of the important signaling pathways involved in the maladaptive innate immune response to damage and dysfunction in aging cells.
Low-grade inflammation is a hallmark of old age and a central driver of ageing-associated impairment and disease. Multiple ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 9, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Outpatient Vascular Care: Good, bad or ugly?
BY ANISH KOKA
Filling in the holes of recent stories in the New York Times, and Propublica on the outpatient care of patients with peripheral arterial disease
Most have gotten used to egregiously bad coverage of current events that fills the pages of today’s New York Times, but even by their now very low standards a recent telling of a story about peripheral artery disease was very bad.
The scintillating allegation by Katie Thomas, Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Robert Gebeloff is that “medical device makers are bankrolling doctors to perform artery clearing procedures that can lead to amputations...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka Medical Devices Outpatient vascular care Source Type: blogs
Moral Injury: A Physician ’s Premature Retirement
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BY HAYWARD ZWERLING
Synopsis:
After a 3 decade career in a solo private practice the healthcare environment shifted
As an employed physician, my institution’s policies hindered my ability to care for my patients
The consequent moral injury left me unwilling to re-engage with the healthcare industry
I retired early from the profession that I loved because the devolution of the healthcare system had made it impossible for me to provide care to my patients in a manner which met my own standards. The resultant “moral injury” left me leary of again becoming involved with our healthcar...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Hayward Zwerling moral injury Premature Retirement Source Type: blogs
When ” Cath lab viability ” competes with myocardial viablity … Just carry on !
Pure science
Whenever possible ,before doing a coronary revascularisation procedure , check twice the segments you try to perfuse is really short of blood supply and truly needs the procedure. Don’t ever waste your resources and try to blood-feed the dead myocardium. It’ can never be awakened !
Pragmatic science
I was conversing with my colleague recently , who has grown into suave , Interventional cardiologist with a huge academic & societal repute .He owns a personal cathlab and planning to get one more.
I learnt a non-academic reality lesson from him .
When planning myocardial revasascularisation, ...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - June 8, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: bio ethics cardiology wisdom cardiology-ethics Cardiology-Statistics cath lab tips and tricks Medical education Medical ethics medical quotes medical satistics Two line sermons in cardiology wisdom in cardiology cath lab viablity vs Source Type: blogs
How to Stay Positive at Work: 22 Helpful Tips
It’s not always easy to stay positive at work.
Sometimes because it’s Monday and you’re tired and would like another weekend right now.
At other times because it’s Wednesday and you are doing some boring routine work or you are being dragged down by negative attitudes around you.
So in today’s post I’d like to share my top 22 tips that help me to have and maintain a positive attitude while I work (and that often helps me in my private life too when things get tough).
I hope these tips will help you to be a positive person in your workplace and also spread the positive vibes to the people around you to make it a...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Career & Work Happiness Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs
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Kentucky DerbyYou ’ll enjoy a day at the derby with me. I ' m the guy always growlingand down the stretch they come! whenever you return from the bar or bathroom. Pantomime galloping on a broom I found in a closet like I ' m on a filly exhorting her to find that extra gear win place or show it ’s a great time, everyone gets paid. I’m the guy without a sophisticated hat, sans bowtie, dressed like a beachcomber because I prefer sea horses to thoroughbreds, the five o ' clock shadow jockey four juleps down the tubes, whipping at thin air with the sinewy thread that wends his whole life together, you ’ll feel the...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - May 23, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
How to Stay Positive: 19 Smart Habits
“Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can’t be done.”
Bo Bennett
“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.”
Peter McWilliams
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
Anais Nin
One of the very first things I started to work on consciously with my own personal development was to improve my outlook on life.
It was over 15 years ago that I started to delve into this topic and to step by step – and while sometimes tumbling backwards – build a more optimistic outlook.
An attitude that...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - May 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Habits Happiness Personal Development Success Source Type: blogs
Why Am I So Stupid? 12 Reasons Why You May Think That and What to Do About It
We all feel stupid from time to time.
I've certainly done it plenty of times.
But I've also learned what to do when you feel stupid to improve upon that situation. So those negative thoughts and feelings don’t start taking over your whole life and outlook.
And in today’s post I want to share my best insights and tips from past 15 years or so.
Here are 12 reasons why you may feel or think you're stupid and what to do about that to improve the situation you’re in, your opinion about yourself and your life.
1. Feeling stressed.
I’ve often found that in certain situations where I've been feeling like I just don’t g...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - April 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Personal Development Self Esteem Success Source Type: blogs
The Moth Trap: How I came to see the lepidopteral light
Regular Sciencebase readers will know only too well that back in July 2018 I got hooked on moths. An enthusiastic friend lent me a moth trap he had built himself for his children many years ago. The trap is basically a wooden box with a plastic funnel and an ultraviolet light supported by stiff plastic vanes).
Moth trap
The UV light attracts the night-flying creatures, some of them bump into the vanes, drop into the funnel and then find a cozy corner in one of the empty egg cartons put inside the box before “lighting up”. The amateur, or indeed professional, lepidopterist examines the catch at dawn, recording s...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 18, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Lepidoptera Source Type: blogs
