Reviewing Efforts to Measure Biological Age
This study is a review of the most promising techniques that could soon be used in routine clinical practice. Two main selection criteria were applied: a sufficient sample size and reliability based on validation. The selected biological age calculators were grouped according to the type of biomarker used: (1) standard clinical and laboratory markers; (2) molecular markers; and (3) epigenetic markers. The most accurate were the calculators, which factored in a variety of individual biomarkers. Despite their demonstrated effectiveness, most of them require further improvement and cannot yet be considered for use in standard...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 3, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Flexible Sensors Detect Heavy Metals in Sweat
Researchers at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, along with collaborators in Germany and Sweden, have developed a flexible sensor that can detect heavy metals in sweat, an easily obtainable bodily fluid. Heavy metals, such as lead or cadmium, can cause serious toxicity if they accumulate in the body, but detecting the concentration of such metals in biological samples requires expensive laboratory equipment and skilled staff. To address this, these researchers have created a flexible sensor that is easy to use and which can detect metals in sweat samples before transmitting the results to a smartphone. The technology...
Source: Medgadget - January 31, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Medicine Source Type: blogs
If a rose is a rose by any other name, how should we study treatment processes in pain management & rehabilitation?
A new instalment in my series about intensive longitudinal studies, aka ecological momentary assessment (and a host of other names for methods used to study daily life in real time in the real world).
Daily life is the focus of occupational therapy – doing what needs to be done, or a person wants to do, in everyday life. It’s complex because unlike a laboratory (or a large, well-controlled randomised controlled trial) daily life is messy and there is no way to control all the interacting factors that influence why a person does what they do. A technical term for the processes involved is microtemporality, o...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - January 29, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Clinical reasoning Professional topics Research Science in practice intensive longitudinal research Occupational therapy Pain rehabilitation research methods single case experimental design Source Type: blogs
How minimizing treatment burden can help patients with chronic conditions
An older patient recently told me that she spent 80 days over the past year in a doctor’s office. This represented over 20 percent of her life. She was relatively well but had several chronic medical conditions that required frequent office visits. In addition to these visits, she navigated scheduling, prescriptions, laboratory testing, and copayments.
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How minimizing treatment burden can help patients with chronic conditions originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: John A. Dodson, MD Tags: Physician Cardiology Source Type: blogs
The “open data” movement runs aground on FOURIER
BY ANISH KOKA
Reanalysis of a trial used to approve a commonly used injectable cholesterol-lowering drug confirms the original analysis by accident.
The open-data movement seeks to liberate the massive amount of data generated in running clinical trials from the grasp of the academic medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex that mostly runs the most important trials responsible for bringing novel therapeutics to market.
There are only a few elite academic trialist groups capable of running large trials and there’s ample reason to be suspicious about the nexus that has developed between academia and the pharmace...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
The Open Data Movement Runs Aground on FOURIER
BY ANISH KOKA
Reanalysis of a trial used to approve a commonly used injectable cholesterol-lowering drug confirms the original analysis by accident.
The open-data movement seeks to liberate the massive amount of data generated in running clinical trials from the grasp of the academic medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex that mostly runs the most important trials responsible for bringing novel therapeutics to market.
There are only a few elite academic trialist groups capable of running large trials and there’s ample reason to be suspicious about the nexus that has developed between academia and the pharmace...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Medical Practice Anish Koka FDA regulations Fourier open data Source Type: blogs
Administrative Supplements for NIGMS Training, Research Education, and Career Development Grants to Develop Curricular, Training, and Evaluation Activities
To continue our efforts to modernize biomedical research training and career development, we invite eligible institutions with NIGMS training (T32, T34), certain research education (R25), or institutional career development (K12) awards to apply for administrative supplements to develop and implement curricular, training, or administrative activities to enhance:
Laboratory safety curriculum and a culture of safety in biomedical research training environments (NOT-GM-22-010)
Safe and inclusive biomedical research training environments (NOT-GM-22-011)
Undergraduate biomedical research training (NOT-GM-22-012) (T34 ...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - January 11, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Funding Opportunities Resources Training/Fellowships/Career Development Administrative Supplements Biomedical Graduate Education Source Type: blogs
Pharma – 2023 Health IT Predictions
As we head into 2023, we wanted to kick off the new year with a series of 2023 Health IT predictions. We asked the Healthcare IT Today community to submit their predictions and we received a wide ranging set of responses that we grouped into a number of themes. Check out our communities predictions below and be sure to add your own thoughts and/or places you disagree with these predictions in the comments and on social media.
Check out our community’s pharma predictions.
Jesse Cugliotta, Global Industry GTM Lead, Healthcare & Life Sciences at Snowflake
Industry investments in data platforms to enable decentra...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - January 9, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: John Lynn Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT 2023 Health IT Predictions Abrpo BrainCheck Doceree Harshit Jain Ian Chen Jesse Cugliotta Kimberly Powell Lance Hill Lauren Ohlsson Mike Montalto NVIDIA Ofer Sharon OncoHost PathAI Pharma Source Type: blogs
Friday Feature: Highlands Latin School
Colleen HroncichPublic school teacher turned homeschooler turned education entrepreneur. We ’re seeing this more and more these days, but it isn’t as new of a phenomenon as many might think. The lateCheryl Lowe, founder of Memoria Press and Highlands Latin School in Louisville, KY, is a perfect example.Cheryl received her bachelor ’s degree in chemistry and master’s in biology; she taught chemistry and geometry in a public high school before having children. She taught her sons to read before they started school, but she wasn ’t satisfied with the well‐regarded public or private schools they e...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 6, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Colleen Hroncich Source Type: blogs
Fujifilm Announces Asset Purchase Agreement with Inspirata, Inc. to Acquire the Company ’s Digital Pathology Business
Company to expand robust Enterprise Imaging offering with addition of Inspirata’s Digital Pathology technology and team
FUJIFILM Corporation (President and CEO, Representative Director: Teiichi Goto) today announced the company has entered into an asset purchase agreement to acquire the global digital pathology business of Tampa, Florida-based Inspirata, Inc. Upon completion of this agreement, Inspirata’s Dynamyx® digital pathology technology, employees and customers will become part of Fujifilm. The addition of digital pathology will expand Fujifilm’s robust Synapse® Enterprise Imaging offering to enable th...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 27, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Cardiology PACS digital pathology Dynamyx FUJIFILM FUJIFILM Corporation FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas Corporation FUJIFILM Healthcare Europe FUJIFILM Medical Systems Europe Fujifilm’s Robust Synapse® E Source Type: blogs
Weekly Roundup – December 17, 2022
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.
MedAware’s Mission: Medical Alerts That Make Sense. Alert fatigue is so pervasive because it’s a symptom of bas design, John Lynn learned in his conversation with Dr. Gidi Stein at MedAware. That’s why the company focuses on optimizing alerts by analyzing data from relevant patient records and medical devices to ensure alerts are releva...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 17, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Weekly Roundup Source Type: blogs
CompuGroup Medical Confirms Market-Leading Position with Strategic Acquisition of Medicus LIS
CompuGroup Medical acquires Medicus LIS.
Increases market-leading laboratory information systems install base in the US.
Adds additional technology and RCM services options for Medicus LIS customers.
CompuGroup Medical US (CGM), a global leader in healthcare technology and tech-enabled services, is broadening its US presence with the acquisition of Medicus Laboratory Information Systems (Medicus) from Diagnostic Systems Consulting, LLC, an established developer of laboratory information systems with headquarters in Weston, Florida.
Medicus has been a known and trusted brand for more than 15 years in the development o...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 16, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Affordable Healthcare Carl Smith CGM CGM AP EASY CGM LABDAQ CGM LABDAQ Laboratory Information System CGM SCHUYLAB CompuGroup Medical CompuGroup Medical US Derek Pickell Diagnostic Systems Consulting Source Type: blogs
A Fusion Breakthrough?
Terence KealeyThe bombs that dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were fission bombs. When isotopes of uranium or plutonium break into smaller particles, energy is released, and the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs channeled that energy into an explosion. In a civil nuclear power generator, by contrast, the release of fission energy is controlled, and used to power the electrical grid.The energy from the sun comes from fusion. Under the weight of the sun ’s gravity, and channeled by vast heat, isotopes of hydrogen fuse with each other to create a new, heavier, element called helium. Helium, indeed, was first detected in the sun...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 15, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Terence Kealey Source Type: blogs
Fusion Schmusion
No doubt you have already encountered themassive hype by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory of their claim that they have successfully extracted more energy from a fusion reaction than they put into it. I ' m not sure what technical level I should pitch this at -- I really don ' t know how much people in general understand about it. So I ' ll start with the basics. Please don ' t feel insulted if you already know this. You do probably know that Einstein mass and energy to be equivalent, that is they are convertible one into the other and are manifestations of the same underlying reality. You certainl...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 12, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 12th 2022
In conclusion, selective removal of senescent dermal fibroblasts can improve the skin aging phenotype, indicating that BPTES may be an effective novel therapeutic agent for skin aging.
Non-Dividing Neurons Do In Fact Become Senescent, Impairing Brain Function
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/12/non-dividing-neurons-do-in-fact-become-senescent-impairing-brain-function/
Cellular senescence is generally thought of as a characteristic of replicating cells; it is an end state reached when telomeres, reduced in length with each cell division, become too short. This is followed by programmed cell death...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 11, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
