Bayer G4A Agents of Change: Watch the Panels, Meet the Co ’s that Got Deals
By JESSICA DaMASSA, WTF HEALTH
Bayer G4A, the global life science company’s digital health innovation arm, held their splashy “Agents of Change” event last month to not only introduce their latest cohort of health tech partners, but to also demonstrate the pharma co’s commitment to digital transformation. The entire C-suite of Bayer’s Pharma division became a panel itself — marking the first time the full leadership team of a major pharmaceutical company appeared together to talk strategically about tech’s role in shaping the pharma business model of the future.
The rest of the program’s age...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Tech Health Technology Jessica DaMassa Start-Ups WTF Health Source Type: blogs
Lose the Stigma About Incontinence: Even Young People Can be Affected
Dear Carol: I’m only 29, but I am incontinent and will probably remain like this unless there’s some medical miracle. Nerve injuries from a car accident are what caused my problem, but I’ve met other younger people online and in support groups and they have the same complaint that I do. Practically everything that you read about adult incontinence refers to older people with prostate problems, or menopause, or dementia – or whatever. Young people would like to see this condition normalized to some extent. We are not less competent in any way just because we need to use incontinence products. Can you please spread t...
Source: Minding Our Elders - December 4, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Celebrate World Menopause Day
Menopause: The ceasing of menstruation. Sounds simple, but for each woman, the process of going through perimenopause and eventually arriving at menopause can be fraught with difficulties. The average age of menopause for women in the United States is 51, however, there is a large variance due to overall health and genetics, as well as surgical causes. However, most women experience the hormonal changes that lead up to this life change in their 40s, with the early phase being considered perimenopause. Then there is the stigma, some of which is perpetuated by women themselves. Are they less of a woman bec...
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 18, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
5 Tips to Ease Discussions with Elders about Housing
As you watch your parents or other beloved elders age, sometimes worry becomes inevitable. Should they have housing upgrades? Can they continue to live independently? Your intention isn’t to take over their lives, but you may genuinely want to start the conversation about possible future changes. How do you do this without causing a backlash?
View entire slideshow on HealthCentral for more insight into how you can discuss where a parent should (or wants to) live as they grow more frail:
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Source: Minding Our Elders - October 13, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
6 Tips to Have More Fun While Caregiving
Many dementia caregivers feel as though they are treading water just to avoid sinking under the often exhausting pressures associated with dementia care. But consciously changing your attitude can, with practice, significantly change how your days, and those of your loved one, unfold. Here are some tips to get started.
View the full slideshow on HealthCentral for more insight into how we can have more fun while caregiving:
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Source: Minding Our Elders - October 12, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Join Egosan As We Celebrate World Menopause Month
Menopause: The ceasing of menstruation. Sounds simple, but for each woman, the process of going through perimenopause and eventually arriving at menopause can be fraught with difficulties. The average age of menopause for women in the United States is 51, however, there is a large variance due to overall health and genetics, as well as surgical causes. However, most women experience the hormonal changes that lead up to this life change in their 40s, with the early phase being considered perimenopause. Then there is the stigma, some of which is perpetuated by women themselves. Are they less of a woman because t...
Source: Minding Our Elders - October 4, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 5th 2020
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter,
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Longevity Industry Consulting Services
Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 4, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Aging of Chimpanzees versus that of Humans
We humans are unusually long-lived in comparison to our near primate cousins, and also compared to other mammals of similar body mass. We also exhibit menopause, an end to reproductive capability well before the end of life, which occurs in only a small number of other mammalian species. With a few noteworthy exceptions, such as naked mole-rats, some bats, and we humans, mammalian lifespan correlates quite well with some combination of body mass and resting metabolic rate. So why are the outliers long-lived?
Evolutionary theorists consider longer human life spans to be a consequence of our intelligence and culture. ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 29, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 21st 2020
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter,
please visit:
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Longevity Industry Consulting Services
Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 20, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Geroscience and Ovarian Aging
The geroscience view of the treatment of aging isn't limited to the reuse of existing drugs that happen to upregulate stress responses in ways that modestly slow aging, but this is the near entirely the focus of those researchers who publish on the topic. Unfortunately the effect size of this approach to aging is small, and diminishes as species life span increases. We know the upper limits of what can be achieved with the beneficial stress response induced by calorie restriction in humans, and we know that it won't really add more than a couple of years to human life spans. Better strategies exist, based on the developmen...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 18, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 14th 2020
This study is the first to provide a direct link between this inflammation and plaque development - by way of IFITM3.
Scientists know that the production of IFITM3 starts in response to activation of the immune system by invading viruses and bacteria. These observations, combined with the new findings that IFITM3 directly contributes to plaque formation, suggest that viral and bacterial infections could increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease development. Indeed, researchers found that the level of IFITM3 in human brain samples correlated with levels of certain viral infections as well as with gamma-secretase activ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 13, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Hormone Therapy in Postmenopausal Women Correlates with Lesser Senescent Cell Signaling
This study examined whether menopausal hormone therapies, in the form of oral conjugated equine estrogens (oCEE) and transdermal 17β-estradiol (tE2), altered the circulating levels of a specific set of SASP proteins in women who had undergone natural menopause.
Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15), tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 (TNFR1), FAS, and macrophage inflammatory protein 1α (MIP1α) were measured in serum. Results were compared among menopausal women participating in the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study randomized to either placebo (n = 38), oral conjugated equine estrogen (oCEE, n = 37), or tra...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 11, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 17th 2020
In this study, we sought to elucidate the role of VRK-1 in regulation of adult life span in C. elegans. We found that overexpression of VRK-1::GFP (green fluorescent protein), which was detected in the nuclei of cells in multiple somatic tissues, including the intestine, increased life span. Conversely, genetic inhibition of vrk-1 decreased life span. We further showed that vrk-1 was essential for the increased life span of mitochondrial respiratory mutants. We demonstrated that VRK-1 was responsible for increasing the level of active and phosphorylated form of AMPK, thus promoting longevity.
A Fisetin Variant, C...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 16, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Reviewing the Mechanisms of Longevity in Long-Lived Bats
Today's open access research is a good companion piece to a recent paper that investigates biochemical differences between long-lived and short-lived bats. Bats are renowned for, firstly, an exceptional resistance to classes of virus that are fatal to other mammals, allowing bat populations to act as reservoirs for potentially dangerous pathogens, and secondly for an exceptional longevity in comparison to other mammalian species of a similar size. In mammals, species longevity tends to scale up with size, with a few notable and well-studied long-lived exceptions such as naked mole-rats, humans, and some bats.
In ter...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 14, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Challenging the culture on menopause for working doctors
This report looks at the experiences of doctors and areas of action which could support doctors during this time. The survey this report is based on ran from November 2019 to February 2020 with 2,000 doctors participating.ReportBritish Medical Association - news (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 6, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
