Bonus Features, HIMSS Edition – April 18, 2023 – Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI dominate the headlines, plus news from Oracle, Orion Health, Salesforce, Surescripts, WebMD, and more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job.
This edition is a special dispatch from HIMSS 2023, which returns to Chicago for the first time in eight years. As always, there have been a lot of new products and partnerships announced at the event, with a heavy emphasis on g...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - April 18, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Healthcare IT Today Bonus Features HIMSS HIMSS 2023 HIMSS23 Source Type: blogs
The Popular Drink That Reduces Liver Disease Risk
The type of drink that reduces the risk of liver disease and common liver conditions. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - April 17, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
easter poem
Op Note XXXVIIIJust once I ’d like to open up an abdomen and find something unexpected. Utterly unique and unprecedented.. Instead of a liver, a codfish. Instead of a spleen, an antique clock. A giant pair of scissors. A barrette this girl from middle school used to wear in her hair. I’d write a paper about it. Get it acc epted by peer reviewed journals. Present my findings to the International Society of Distinguished Anatomists. Make my bones as an academician. Give talks to passionate coteries of pond side geese. In textbooks it would become known as the Parks Variation of organ system configuration. Every few...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - April 9, 2023 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
The heartbreaking story of Jimmy Carter: a call for Medicare reform in end-of-life care
The purpose of the serious illness conversation is to offer patients a clear choice between treating and not treating an incurable disease like liver cancer. The goal is to give the person permission to alleviate pain and suffering. The individual might decide to be treated as a patient or honored as a person if given
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The heartbreaking story of Jimmy Carter: a call for Medicare reform in end-of-life care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 4, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Kevin Haselhorst, MD Tags: Conditions Palliative Care Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 3rd 2023
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Source: Fight Aging! - April 2, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
VGLL3 as an Important Regulator of Fibrosis
Fibrosis is a feature of the age-related decline of many organs and tissues, notably the heart, kidney, and liver, among others. It is a malfunction of normal tissue maintenance in which excessive extracellular matrix is created, leading to scar-like deposition that is disruptive to tissue structure and function. Chronic inflammation and the presence of senescent cells appear to be important in the development of fibrosis, but as yet the medical community lacks a proven approach to reversal of fibrosis. Much of the research continues to focus on finding regulatory genes that might be targeted in order to disrupt the format...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 30, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 27th 2023
This study has potentially significant implications in the field of OA as it provides a novel strategy for OA treatment.
A Vicious Cycle of Heart Failure and Dementia
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/03/a-vicious-cycle-of-heart-failure-and-dementia/
The end of life is not pretty. The body is a failing machine of many complex essential parts, and the failures cascade and feed into one another as it breaks down. There is pain, loss of capacity, loss of the self as the brain runs down. There is a tendency to paper over the ugly reality in public discussion, to not talk about the facts of the matter...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 26, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Cellular Senescence in Type 2 Diabetes
It has been a few years since researchers suggested a role for senescent cells in mediating the damage done by excess fat tissue in the context of type 2 diabetes. Senescent cells accumulate with age, but accumulate significantly faster in people who are meaningfully overweight or obese. The inflammatory signaling produced by lingering senescent cells is disruptive of tissue structure and function throughout the body, and that includes problems in the insulin-generating regions of the pancreas that take place in diabetes patients. Interestingly, senescent cells may also be important in type 1 diabetes, a completely differe...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 20, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 712
This week ' s beautiful case was donated by Drs. Beal, Saulino and Herrera Rivera from the University of Florida. The following structure was noted on a liver biopsy from a patient with former international residence. What is the diagnosis? Can you describe the key diagnostic features? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - March 6, 2023 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 712
Answer to theParasite Case of the Week 712:Schistosomasp. egg within an eosinophilic granuloma.As nicely described by Idzi (with minor edits from me), " When the eggs are deposited by the female worm in the arterial plexus of intestines/bladder, many of these eggs will flow back to the liver. In the picture, I can ’t see the egg’s spine, so the exact species remains unknown, but we can see the refractive egg shell with miracidium inside. At the miracidium’s terebratorium (upper left), we can see one of the two lateral secretory glands (staining basophilic). Right behind this gland, we see part of a ring of nerv...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - March 5, 2023 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 6th 2023
In this study, we develop a rFOXN1 fusion protein that contains the N-terminal of CCR9, FOXN1, and TAT. We show here that, when injected intravenously (i.v.) into aged mice, the rFOXN1 fusion protein can migrate into the thymus and enhance T cell generation in the thymus, resulting in increased number of peripheral T cells. Our results suggest that the rFOXN1 fusion protein has the potential to be used in preventing and treating T cell immunodeficiency in the older adult.
Increased miR-181a-5p Expression Improves Neural Stem Cell Activity, Learning, and Memory in Old Mice
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Source: Fight Aging! - March 5, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Facial Sign Of Vitamin B12 Deficiency
Vitamin B12 levels can be boosted by eating foods such as dairy, liver, salmon and eggs. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 4, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Reviewing Cellular Senescence in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Fibrosis is the excessive deposition of extracellular matrix, forming scar-like structures that are disruptive to tissue function. It is a feature of aging in many organs, such as heart, liver, kidney, and lungs, and when particularly pronounced it is declared to be fibrotic disease. So far medical science has struggled to make much headway in the reversal of fibrosis once it is established, which makes these conditions particularly threatening.
Fibrosis is connected to the chronic inflammation characteristic of old age, and in recent years evidence has amassed for senescent cells to drive fibrosis. Senescent cells ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 28, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Starting Out on the Long Road to Tissue Engineering for the Brain
Can one replace parts of the brain? In principle, yes. It is a tissue, and tissue engineering is a field intent on regrowth and replacement of lost or damaged tissue. There are parts of the brain immediately vital to life, and parts that hold the memory that defines the self; if those are lost, that is irrecoverable. But much of the brain might be tissue engineered in the same way as muscle or liver might be replaced. Researchers are still in the early stages of the long road towards replacement tissues created to order, as illustrated by the scientific work noted here, but much of the brain will be a part of that field of...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 27, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Miscommunication leads to misunderstandings: the tragic consequences of misinterpreted sobriety
At her first visit, still lightly jaundiced, Jennie wanted to talk about a liver transplant. I told her that she had to be sober for six months before they would consider putting her on the list. She told me proudly that she had been sober for three weeks. “How are you doing without alcohol?” “Going
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Miscommunication leads to misunderstandings: the tragic consequences of misinterpreted sobriety originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 25, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mary Braun, MD Tags: Conditions Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
