Everything You Need To Know Before Getting An RFID Implant
What if you could open your front door or unlock your car just by raising your hand? What about sending your LinkedIn profile or a dancing monkey GIF to a phone just by holding it? And what about turning on a coffee machine by pointing to it? This is not the future anymore. Wannabe-cyborgs with little RFID chips under their skin are living with us: thousands of people implanted the tiny devices already under their skin to be able to have simpler access to buildings or (other people’s) phones. Do you want to join the cyborg community? Here’s what you should know about RFID chips before you implant them into your body.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - July 18, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Cyborgization Future of Medicine chip digital digital tattoo digital tattoos digital technology Health Healthcare implant Innovation RFID Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 8th 2019
In this study, we identify a link between members of the genus Veillonella and exercise performance. We observed an increase in Veillonella relative abundance in marathon runners postmarathon and isolated a strain of Veillonella atypica from stool samples. Inoculation of this strain into mice significantly increased exhaustive treadmill run time.
Veillonella utilize lactate as their sole carbon source, which prompted us to perform a shotgun metagenomic analysis in a cohort of elite athletes, finding that every gene in a major pathway metabolizing lactate to propionate is at higher relative abundance postexercise. Us...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 7, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Efforts Continue to Understand the Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype
While the primary focus for the development of rejuvenation therapies to address the contribution of senescent cells to the aging process is to destroy these harmful, errant cells, many research groups are more interested in modulating or suppressing the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). The SASP is a potent mix of inflammatory and other signals that disrupts tissue function and produces a sizable fraction of the chronic inflammation associated with aging, driving the progression of all of the common age-related conditions. In principle, eliminating the SASP should eliminate the contribution of senescent ce...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 1, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Feeling Intimidated? You Can Overcome It
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.” – Jane Austen
When you walk into a room where you know you’ll interact with, or be amongst, others whom you find to be intimidating, it’s not always easy to quash your fears and adopt the most appropriate behavior. After all, feeling intimidated is uncomfortable. It is, however, rooted in fear. Whether the intimidation is internal and has to do with your own thought processes, or external, having to do with the actions/behavior of others, you can learn to overco...
Source: World of Psychology - June 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: Motivation and Inspiration Self-Esteem Self-Help Intimidation self-worth Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Family on the Run: A Story of Delusional Disorder
When Pauline Dakin was 10 years old, her mother took the family into hiding to escape imminent danger. Fifteen years later, Pauline was told that they were on the run from the mafia.
At first, accepting of this explanation, Pauline’s doubts grew until she could no longer deny the truth: that there was no danger and she was being misled. Join us as Pauline shares how she came to this heartbreaking conclusion.
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Guest information for ‘Delusional Disorder’ Podcast Episode
Pauline Dakin is the bestselling author of Run, Hide, Repeat: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood, a Canadian bestselle...
Source: World of Psychology - June 20, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Borderline Personality Schizophrenia The Psych Central Show Trauma Source Type: blogs
Mother ’s Day: Tools for coping when celebration brings pain
Mother’s Day is fast approaching. As an infertility counselor, I always greet the holiday with mixed emotions. I look forward to the lilacs in full bloom, the feeling that spring is finally here, and the chance to wish some of my clients a long awaited “Happy First Mother’s Day,” knowing that they struggled for years with infertility or recurrent miscarriage.
However, I am also reminded of what a difficult day this is for many women –– not only those struggling to become moms. It’s hard for women who have lost their mothers, mothers who have lost children, women who placed children for adoption, mothers who a...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 27, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ellen S. Glazer, LICSW Tags: Fertility Infertility Mental Health Relationships Source Type: blogs
Confessions of a First Time Presenter
By Kristin Edwards (@KristinMDCT)I ’ve been attending theAnnual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care (AAHPM/HPNA) for nearly a decade, but this is the first year I presented a concurrent session. As I return to work, the glow from my 15 minutes of Friday morning fame fading away, I wanted to share a few thoughts for those who, might feel intimidated about submitting an abstract.An abstract can only be accepted if it is submitted.I spent years coming up with ideas for a presentation, but ultimately deciding they were not good enough. A trusted mentor encouraged me to submit my ideas anyway. He saw value in the process ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - April 22, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Tags: AAHPM conference Edwards HPNA Source Type: blogs
Latest Opioid " Sting " Again Illustrates The Power of Prohibition to Corrupt
The front page of today ’s Wall Street Journal reports on a federal sting operation that led to the arrest of 31 doctors, 7 pharmacists, 8 nurses, and other health care professionals including dentists for distributing more than 32 million prescription opioid pills to patients in five Appalachian region states. Federal prosecutors described doctors handing out pre-signed blank prescriptions in exchange for cash. In some instances, doctors provided prescriptions in return for sexual favors. One Alabama doctor allegedly recruited prostitutes to become patients and let them use drugs at his house. Dentists performed unne...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Infertility: Other people ’s pregnancies
When you are having difficulty becoming or staying pregnant, it often seems as if everyone around you –– friends, family, colleagues –– is pregnant. How can you navigate your world and maintain your relationships while coping with the pain and isolation infertility so often brings?
Support for navigating other people’s pregnancies
In my experience, solid relationships survive infertility. It can be excruciatingly painful when you learn that a friend is pregnant. But if your relationship is based on mutual respect and caring, you will get through it. Trust this, while considering the suggestions below to help you ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 2, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ellen S. Glazer, LICSW Tags: Fertility Infertility Source Type: blogs
Economics Lessons from the Subcontinent: India ’s Coronary Stent Policy
This article originally appeared here on The Accad & Koka Report.
Stent image courtesy Jack McLure via Wikimedia Commons (Source: The Health Care Blog)
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Anish Koka coronary stent prices health economics India Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 18th 2019
This study showed that potential vicious cycles underlying ARDs are quite diverse and unique, triggered by diverse and unique factors that do not usually progress with age, thus casting doubts on the possibility of discovering the single molecular cause of aging and developing the single anti-aging pill. Rather, each disease appears to require an individual approach. However, it still cannot be excluded that some or all of these cycles are triggered by fundamental processes of aging, such as chronic inflammation or accumulation of senescent cells. Nevertheless, experimental data showing clear cause and effect relationships...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 17, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The True Meaning of Regret, According to Science
Everyone has regrets, but you always imagine that those regrets revolve around action you took and the mistakes you believe you’ve made. We focus so much on the decisions we make in the moment, wondering if we made the wrong choice in hindsight, but a recent study published in the journal Emotion indicates that the old adage still rings true: it’s not the things you do in life that you regret, it’s the things you don’t do.
In a study entitled “The Ideal Road Not Taken,” Cornell psychologists identified three elements that make up a person’s sense of self. Your actual self consists of qualities that you...
Source: World of Psychology - February 16, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emily Waters Tags: Inspiration & Hope Motivation and Inspiration Research Success & Achievement regret Rumination Worry Source Type: blogs
Extranuclear DNA as a Mechanism of Aging
This fascinating open access paper investigates a role in aging for DNA fragments that have escaped the cell nucleus, for underlying reasons probably related to stochastic nuclear DNA damage, but yet to be comprehensively explored. They may contribute to cellular senescence and the chronic inflammation generated by senescent cells, and this is accomplished by activating an innate immune sensor, cGAS-STING. This innate immune mechanism is already strongly linked to the bad behavior of senescent cells. The most interesting portion of the work here is the prospect for cleaning up extranuclear DNA fragments via some form of mo...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 12, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
David Bradley – Musician
I’m a science journalist by day, a photographer, dog walker and beer drinker most of the time I’m away from my desk, and a musician by night…
That is to say, I earn my living writing about science, I take lots of photos, drink a few pints, and sing and play in a couple of bands, including C5, and a choir (BigMouth). You can hear my latest solo and collaborative recorded music on SoundCloud and BandCamp (two additional bc channels Sciencebass and my most recent productions on davebradley (latest mini-album online now “Bridge of Sighs”.
Dave Bradley performing with C5 the band, photo by C...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 11, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music album dave bradley guitar Source Type: blogs
