Self ‐defeating Protectionism Plagues Biden Administration’s “Invest in America” Tour
Colin GrabowThis week the Biden administration kicked off its “Invest in America” tour aimed at highlighting White House ‐backed initiatives such as the CHIPS and Science Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. While meant to showcase the White House’s legislative achievements, the public relations blitz serves as a reminder of how the administration ’s stated goals are being undermined by protectionist measures that it supports. Here’s a closer look at some of those visits and the protectionist lessons that can be learned from each.President Biden ’s visit to a North Carolina ‐...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 31, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colin Grabow Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 20th 2023
This study also provides the potential for de novo generation of complex organs in vivo.
T Cells May Play a Role in the Brain Inflammation Characteristic of Neurodegenerative Conditions
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/03/t-cells-may-play-a-role-in-the-brain-inflammation-characteristic-of-neurodegenerative-conditions/
Alzheimer's disease, and other forms of neurodegenerative condition, are characterized by chronic inflammation in brain tissue. Unresolved inflammatory signaling is disruptive of tissue structure and function. Here, researchers provide evidence for T cells to become involved in thi...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – March 18, 2023
Welcome to our Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup. Each week, we’ll be providing a look back at the articles we posted and why they’re important to the healthcare IT community. We hope this gives you a chance to catch up on anything you may have missed during the week.
Bringing Machine and Human Intelligence to Data Cleansing. The combination of healthcare-specific ontologies and data set gaps make fully automated healthcare data harmonization difficult. That’s why HiLabs couples domain experts with its machine learning models to assess data and improve accuracy throughout the cleansing process, John Lynn learned...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
Microglia Packed Full of Lipofuscin are Harmful in the Aging Brain
In this study we found - in aged animals - that these microglia adopt a unique, dysfunctional state, which has a number of problematic impacts. For example, there is an increase in cellular stress and damage, an accumulation of fats and iron, alterations to metabolic processes and an increase in production of molecules that overstimulate the immune response. Increasing evidence now suggests that the accumulation of autofluorescent microglia contributes to diseases of ageing and neurodegeneration. If these sub-populations of microglia are highly inflammatory and damaging to the brain, then targeting them could be a new stra...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 15, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
5 Key Implications for Information Lifecycle Management in 2023
The following is a guest article by Krishna Nacha, SVP and Head of North America and Latin America at Iron Mountain
Discovering how best to use the vast amount of data your organization creates and collects is one of the key tenets of any organization’s strategy. Although the importance of effective use of data is now far better understood than ever before, centric to effectively converting data to actionable insights is an organization-wide information lifecycle management framework. One that is fail proof and comprehensive across how information is collected, used, stored, and then safely disposed.
With the volum...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Ambulatory Analytics/Big Data Health IT Company Healthcare IT HIM Hospital - Health System IT Infrastructure and Dev Ops LTPAC Regulations AI ALM Artificial Intelligence Asset Lifecycle Management Data Broker Data Quality Dat Source Type: blogs
Smartphone Photos to Detect Anemia
Researchers at University College London and at the University of Ghana have developed a smartphone-based system that can detect anemia through simple photos taken using the phone’s camera. The technology is intended for use in low- and middle-income countries where access to routine medical diagnostics may be unreliable. The process involves obtaining images of areas of the body which are least pigmented, including the white of the eye, the lower eyelid, and the lip. The app then analyzes the color of the imaged tissue, and as hemoglobin absorbs light in a specific fashion the app can use this information to calcula...
Source: Medgadget - March 9, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Telemedicine anaemia anemia uclnews UCLResearch univofgh Source Type: blogs
CNN Segment Illustrates the Iron Law of Prohibition and the Need for Harm Reduction
Jeffrey A. SingerCNN ’sAnderson Cooper 360 program ran a powerfulsegment on March 7 that focused on how xylazine ‐infused fentanyl is harming intravenous drug users in the Kensington District of Philadelphia. Drug dealers mix the veterinary tranquilizer, which users call “Tranq,” with fentanyl because the tranquilizer enhances the potency of opioids, thus making it easier to smuggle in smaller sizes a nd subdivide into a greater number of units to sell. As I explained in mywritten andoral testimony before a March 1 House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Federal Governme...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 8, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: More Groundhog Day
The story of Chapter 24 -- the repairs to the Temple and the apostasy of Joash after the death of Jehoiada-- is also told in 2 Kings. It ' s basically the same plot but the text is different in many details, which I assume is just the usual result of repeated copying by hand -- every scribe is also an editor. Jehoiada living to 130 appears to be a regression to the absurd lifepans of the patriarchs in Genesis, but it ' s likely a copying error. Ancient Hebrew had no numerals, letters were used to represent numbers. The letter representing 100, quof, looks like this: ק The letter for 70, ayin, looks like this: ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 5, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 27th 2023
This study tested the hypothesis that ischemic vascular repair in aging by Ang-(1-7) involves attenuation of myelopoietic potential in the bone marrow and decreased mobilization of inflammatory cells.
Young or Old male mice of age 3-4 and 22-24 months, respectively, received Ang-(1-7) for four weeks. Myelopoiesis was evaluated in the bone marrow (BM) cells by carrying out the colony forming unit (CFU-GM) assay followed by flow cytometry of monocyte-macrophages. Expression of pro-myelopoietic factors and alarmins in the hematopoietic progenitor-enriched BM cells was evaluated. Hindlimb ischemia (HLI) was induced by ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 26, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Towards Ferrous Iron-Activated Senolytic Prodrugs to Clear Senescent Cells
Senescent cells accumulate with age throughout the body, and cause considerable disruption to tissue structure and function via their pro-inflammatory secretions. Clearing senescent cells is an important approach to rejuvenation and reversal of age-related disease, based on the impressive results produced in mice to date. One of the challenges inherent in the destruction of senescent cells is the variation shown in their biochemistry, depending on how they become senescent and on which tissue they reside in. Different treatments exhibit widely varying outcomes for different varieties of senescent cell, and those varieties ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 21, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
The Iron Law of Prohibition: Introducing “Tranq”
Jeffrey A. SingerTheWall Street Journalreports that the veterinary tranquilizer xylazine, which users calltranq, has been increasingly reported among drug overdose victims, particularly on the East Coast. This very potent tranquilizer has been mixed in with illicit fentanyl which, in turn, is often mixed in with other illegal drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamine. The sedative properties of the drug greatly enhance the narcotic effects of opioids. Therefore, the drug cartels have been adding it to opioids to reduce the dose of opioids necessary to create a high. The enhanced potency allows the cartels to smuggle i...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Deja vu
Chapter 18 is also largely copied from the Book of Kings, although the story in Kings has a bit of context this lacks. It is not clear here, but the whole point of this is an elaborate plot by God to kill Ahab because Ahab failed to carry out God ' s orders and kill the captured king Benhadad. Of course, a whole lot of other people get killed in the battle. Why God needed to go through all this shenanigans and get prophets to lie for him in order to set up Ahab I cannot say. God could just have struck him dead or taken some other simpler route. For that matter, he could have killed Benhadad himself if it was so important t...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 12, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Artificial banality
If you haven ' t checked out ChatGPT, you might want to. (You ' ll need to give them your phone number but it ' s only for 2-factor authentication.) I think it ' s important to understand what this is and what it can do. I asked it to " Write a story about a peasant girl who discovers she has magical powers and must fight an evil sorcerer. " This is what I got -- commentary follows.Once upon a time, in a small village nestled in the heart of a vast kingdom, lived a young peasant girl named Isadora. She lived with her parents and siblings in a small cottage and worked hard every day to help provide for her famil...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 10, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
What Scientists and Historians Understand: Without Truth, Progress Is An Impossibility
BY MIKE MAGEE
“This too will pass, honey!” That’s what my mother used to say when any of my eleven brothers and sisters or I seemed to be overwhelmed by whatever. And largely, now, three quarters of a century since my birth, she was mostly right. Whether in personal lives or the life of our nation, over a span of time, the slope has been slight, but upward.
But there are weeks, like this past one, where we are forced to witness the beating death of an innocent 29 year old black man at the hands of police in the very city where Martin Luther King was slaughtered 55 years ago, when it would be easy to lose hope. ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Policy black history month Mike Magee Ron DeSantis Source Type: blogs
What's new in midwifery, 25th January 2023, part 2
Some recent research you might be interested in. Actually, not so recent - a bit of a backlog. So here is a start. More posts to follow. Subscription or payment (or librarian intervention) may be needed for access to some.Systematic reviewsEffects of perineal massage during childbirth on maternal and neonatal outcomes in primiparous women: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Comparative effectiveness of prophylactic strategies for preeclampsia: a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Cervical pessary for preventing preterm birth in singleton pregnancies.TrialsThe eff...
Source: Browsing - January 25, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: midwifery Source Type: blogs
