Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 16th 2021
In conclusion, cancer survivors, especially older individuals, demonstrate greater odds of and accelerated functional decline, suggesting that cancer and/or its treatment may alter aging trajectories.
Linking Particulate Air Pollution and Dementia in a Small Region of the US
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/08/linking-particulate-air-pollution-and-dementia-in-a-small-region-of-the-us/
It is fairly settled that evident particulate air pollution, such as daily exposure to smoke from wood-fueled cooking fires, has a strongly detrimental effect on long-term health. The mechanisms involved are inflam...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 15, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Yes, We Should Focus on Peace in Education
Neal McCluskeyOver just the last 24 hours, I have seen several videos of rage and recrimination at school board meetings, including a mobscreaming at and threatening people who had just testified for mask mandates in Williamson County, Tennessee (video below) andthis meltdown in North Penn, Pennsylvania. These painful videos join this Junebrouhaha in Loudoun County, VA, and many other anger-soaked meetings over the last year or so.It is hard to watch these often-incensed exchanges and be anything but saddened at neighbor pitted against neighbor.Recently, Robert Pondiscio at the American Enterprise Institute has been highly...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 12, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Neal McCluskey Source Type: blogs
Aubrey de Grey on Progress Towards Rejuvenation Therapies Targeting Cellular Senescence
There are at present many programs of medical research and development focused on senescent cells: selectively destroying them, suppressing their inflammatory secretions, or preventing cells from becoming senescent in the first place. The accumulation of senescent cells is an important contribution to degenerative aging, and senolytic treatments that clear a sizable fraction of such cells produce a noteworthy degree of rejuvenation in mice. The first human trials are underway, and soon enough the world will wake to the fact that much of the inflammatory dysfunction of aging can be eliminated by existing, cheap drugs such a...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 12, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
IBM ’ s Moonshot Ambition In Healthcare
This article is a part of our series Tech Giants In Healthcare. Previous titles included
Amazon’s Dive Into Healthcare: A 2021 UpdateIs Apple Going Into Healthcare?Google’s Masterplan for HealthcareMicrosoft Makes a 16-billion Dollar Bet On Healthcare
Take a deeper dive into what these companies aim for in medicine with our e-book, Tech Giants In Healthcare.
Back in 2015, IBM’s previous CEO, Virginia Rometty famously said that IBM’s “moon shot will be the impact we have on healthcare.” Under the Watson Health banner, the tech company has been leveraging its expertise in cognitive computing to a...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 9, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics IBM ibm watson xprize A.I. quantum compu Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Holy crap
Judges 18 essentially presents a wholesale repudiation of the law given in the Torah. It also presents moral depravity, of which God approves, but that ' s nothing new. Israelites are fully entitled to commit genocide and steal the land of anyone they encounter. A technical point: the " household Gods " (Hebrew Teraphim) were encountered previously in Genesis 31, when Rachel stole her father ' s household Gods. Micah has also made a molten image and a graven idol, both of which are apparently just fine with Yahweh. 18 In those days Israel had no king.And in those days the tribe of the Danites was seeking a p...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 8, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Microsoft Makes a 16-billion Dollar Bet On Healthcare
For long, Microsoft and Apple have fiercely battled it out in the home computer space. And while they are still competitors in that field, their competition has extended to the healthcare field. However, their approach (and success) significantly differ.
Like while Apple was turning its Apple Watch into a point-of-care device, Microsoft seemed more focused on the enterprise side of things rather than the consumer side. Throughout 2020, the company strengthened its healthcare-related partnerships with healthcare organisations and research institutes.
Its recent moves indicate as much. Gregg Pessin, an analyst with...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 2, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Security & Privacy AI microsoft A.I. tech giants cloud cloud computing Satya Nadella Tom McGuinness appl Source Type: blogs
Decluttering Tips
I’ve been decluttering my garage for the past few weeks, so here are some decluttering tips I’ve figured out for processing, purging, and organizing, especially if you have a lot of old tech clutter to deal with.
Approach Decluttering with Patience
Just chip away at the project one item at a time, not worrying about how long it will take. It’s wise to approach such a project with great patience, allowing it to take as long as it wants to take without feeling any need to rush.
I put this project off for years because I could never squeeze it into any kind of schedule. I only made significant progress when I g...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 21, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs
Answer to Case 646
Answer to theParasite Case of the Week 646: Gordiid/nematomorph, a.k.a. horsehair or Gordian worm (Nematomorpha: Gordiida). Not a human parasite. This is one of my favorite human parasite mimics. It is occasionally submitted to the human clinical parasitology laboratory - often after being found in the toilet or other body of water - and can be easily differentiated from true human parasitic worms by its long slender shape, said to resemble a horse hair. In their2012 publication, " Going Solo: Discovery of the First Parthenogenetic Gordiid (Nematomorpha: Gordiida), Hanelt et al. write: The Nematom...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - July 18, 2021 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Cuba ’s Uprising and the Social Change that Caught the Dictatorship by Surprise
Ian V ásquezLast December I wrote an op ‐ed (in Spanish) titled“Losing Fear in Cuba” pointing to what appeared to be a significant, new development: ordinary Cubans were becoming unafraid to publicly protest the communist regime. The mass uprising across the country this week in which Cubans shouted, “Down with the dictatorship,” and chanted “Liberty” was astounding because it was unprecedented in Cuba’s police state. But it also showed that Cubans have indeed lost their fear of openly defying the regime.This is a profound change in Cuban society that caught the dictatorship by surprise. ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ian V ásquez Source Type: blogs
Alcohol, Smoking, Drugs: How Technology Can Help
The global statistics on substance use are disquieting. Globally, about 3 million people die every year from alcohol abuse. Tobacco kills up to half of its users – over 8 million people annually. And the UN’s 2021 World Drug Report estimated that around 275 million people used drugs worldwide in 2020, while over 36 million people suffered from drug use disorders.
Disruptive technologies could act only as additional tools for managing preventive or reactive treatment for both victims and physicians next to therapy. Alcohol content-measuring wristbands, smart lighters, nicotine tracking wearables, stop smoking apps, virt...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones Virtual Reality alcohol digital health Innovation smoking technology VR health Source Type: blogs
Promote brain plasticity and keep your mind at ease by taking your daily “exercise pill”
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
News in Context:
Can you grow your hippocampus? Yes. Here’s how, and why it matters
To harness neuroplasticity, start with enthusiasm
Three ways to protect your mental health during –and after– COVID-19
Exploring the human brain and how it responds to stress (1/3)
The post Promote brain plasticity and keep your mind at ease by taking your daily “exercise pill” appeared first on SharpBrains. (Source: SharpBrains)
Source: SharpBrains - July 14, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning anxiety BDNF brain-cells Brain-Plasticity cognitive-performance exercise exercise pill hippocampus memory function neurobiology Neurons neuroplasticity neuroscientist neurotr Source Type: blogs
TikTok, Schrems II, and Cross ‐Border Data Flows
Julian SanchezInformation —you may have heard this one before—wants to be free, and on the global Internet, it flows more freely than ever. Governments are frequently less than sanguine about this fact—often for bad and censorious reasons, but also on occasion with perfectly valid motives, such as the desire to protect national security or the personal privacy of their citizens, which are in many cases overlapping interests. The past month saw developments in two fronts of the perennial struggle to reap the benefits of a borderless network while still maintaining a modicum of control over private data—and I bel iev...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 6, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Julian Sanchez Source Type: blogs
Is Apple Going Into Healthcare? – A 2021 Update
This article is a supplement to the content of our e-book, Tech Giants in Healthcare. It’s also the second entry to our new series that provides a snapshot of what a given tech giant is working on its way to disrupt healthcare. We first looked at the recent healthcare developments around Amazon which indicate the company’s bet on remote care and an aim to overhaul the pharmaceutical industry.
For its part, Apple entered the healthcare market later than its competitors but is working on acquiring a significant share of the market. Are the recent developments indicative of Tim Cook’s statement? Let’s...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 6, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Telemedicine & Smartphones apple EMR fda iphone smartwatch applications covid19 Apple Watch apple health SpO2 Moun Source Type: blogs
The Science of Clinical Intuition
By HANS DUVEFELT
In 2002, Dr. Trisha Greenhalgh published a piece in the British Journal of General Practice titled Intuition and Evidence – Uneasy Bedfellows? In it she writes eloquently about the things Christer Petersson and I have written articles on and emailed each other about. He mentioned her name and also Italian philosopher Lisa Bortolotti, and I got down to some serious reading. These two remarkable thinkers have described very eloquently how clinical intuition actually works and describe it as an advanced, instantaneous form of pattern recognition.
Clinical Intuition (should we start calling t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 5, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 5th 2021
In conclusion, the findings suggest that DNAm GrimAge is a strong predictor of mortality independent of genetic influences.
Heart Failure Correlates with Increased Cancer Risk
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/07/heart-failure-correlates-with-increased-cancer-risk/
Age-related disease results from the underlying cell and tissue damage that causes aging. Different people accumulate that damage at modestly different rates, the result of lifestyle choices and exposure to infectious disease. Thus the presence of a sufficient burden of damage to produce one age-related disease will be accompanied by a...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 4, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
