Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 6th 2023
This study aimed to gather valuable insights from pharmaceutical experts and healthcare practitioners regarding the potential and challenges of translating senolytic drugs for treatment of vascular aging-related disorders. This study employed a qualitative approach by conducting in-depth interviews with healthcare practitioners and pharmaceutical experts. Participants were selected through purposeful sampling. Thematic analysis was used to identify themes from the interview transcripts. A total of six individuals were interviewed, with three being pharmaceutical experts and the remaining three healthcare practitioners.
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Source: Fight Aging! - November 5, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Varieties of Buffalofish as Negligibly Senescent Species
A number of vertebrate species exhibit negligible senescence, meaning little to no functional degeneration over the course of their lives. Usually they also exhibit very long life spans for their size, and in comparison to near relative species that do exhibit evident aging. Researchers study these species in order to (a) identify important mechanisms of degenerative aging as targets for further research, as well as to (b) potentially find adjustments to cellular biochemistry that might stop a given mechanism from contributing to aging in our species. The first goal is much more feasible in the near term; it remains to be ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 30, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
ECOWAS: In Need of Help in Niger?
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu recently sought the Nigerian national legislature ' s backing for a possible military intervention by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to turn back a coup that toppled the government of Niger. An ECOWAS intervention would have a better chance of succeeding if other nations joined the effort. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - August 25, 2023 Category: Health Management Authors: Oluwatimilehin Sotubo Source Type: blogs
Black Terns on a camping trip
TL:DR – Record shots of the three Black Terns at a local RSPB reserve.
They say that one good tern deserves another, if you’re talking comic terns. So, when you go looking for one and three come along all at once it’s quite amusing.
As I mentioned in a previous post about processing low-light photos, we were camping, locally…so local in fact that when three Black Terns were mentioned as being present on Ferry Lagoon at RSPB Fen Drayton it was only a short hop from RSPB Ouse Fen where we were camping to get a view of them.
Black Tern on a pontoon
Of course the birds were fishing in the waters there ...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - June 1, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 711
This week ' s impressive case was generously donated by Dr. Ryan Relich. The following was seen in Giemsa-stained thick and thin blood films (1000x) from a middle aged immunocompromised male with recent travel to Niger. Diagnosis? (Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites)
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - February 20, 2023 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Towards the Effective Compliance of the Nigerian Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017
Ebi Robert (Niger Delta University), Towards the Effective Compliance of the Nigerian Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017 (2023): In 2017, the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Victims of Gunshot Act, 2017 was signed by the... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - February 11, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Summering American Black Tern
An adult (breeding plumage) American Black Tern, Chlidonias niger surinamensis has turned up at the tern sanctuary in Long Nanny Northumberland for the third season in a row.
It’s been here for at least three or four days, at least a week earlier than last year and a couple of weeks earlier than 2020. It will probably depart the land in July again. It’s not likely to find a mate among the 800+ Arctic Terns that are present on the dunes right now. Nor their neighbours on the sand, Common Terns, Little Terns, Sandwich Terns.
The bird would normally be seen migrating to South American coasts in the northern wint...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - May 16, 2022 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Birds Photography Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 29th 2021
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Source: Fight Aging! - November 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Like Elephants, Long-Lived Galapagos Tortoises Exhibit Duplication of Genes Related to Longevity and Cancer Suppression
Genes determine species longevity, though within a species, and particularly within our species, the estimated involvement of genetic variants in individual life expectancy is becoming ever smaller as ever more data accumulates. Nonetheless, researchers are very interested in the comparative biology of aging, the question of why long-lived species are long-lived in comparison to their closest relatives. Which of the many evolved differences tend to produce a longer life span?
A longer species life span necessarily requires a lower incidence of cancer. Cancer is a numbers game: a larger body size means that there are...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 26, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Case of the Week 642
It ' s time for our monthly case from Idzi Potters and theInstitute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. As always, Idzi has a great case for us - courtesy of Anna Rosanas and Pieter Guetens from ITM ' s Malariology Department: a patient with extensive recent travel - leaving Belgium to trek across rural areas of Peru, Niger, Mali, and finally the Philippines. He didn ' t take any malaria prophylaxis while traveling and now presents with fever and general malaise after being home for 3 weeks. The following are thick and thin Giemsa-stained blood films from this patient (pH 8.0). The percent parasitemia was calculated at 1%. Iden...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - June 7, 2021 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
How to Build Better Militaries in Africa: Lessons from Niger
To help counter the threat of terrorism and build the capacity of African militaries, the U.S. government spends over $1.5 billion a year on security assistance to the African continent. Does this support work? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - October 1, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Alexander H. Noyes; Ashley Bybee; Paul Clarke Source Type: blogs
Policy Responses to Addressing the Issues of Environmental Health Impacts of Charcoal Factory in Nigeria: Necessity Today; Essentiality Tomorrow
Ajayi Folajimi Ajibola (Kwara State College of Nursing and Midwifery), Morufu Raimi (Niger Delta University), Oluseyi Catherine Steve-Awogbami (College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ijero-Ekiti), Anthony Olusola Adeniji (College of Health Sciences and Technology, Ijero-Ekiti), Adebayo Patrick Adekunle (College of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 11, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
More Engagement in West Africa Could Blunt Looming Crisis
There is a very real possibility that the security crisis afflicting Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger will spread to the countries of the West African coastal region. Early action including security-sector support could be the key to staving off worst-case scenarios. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - February 24, 2020 Category: Health Management Authors: Michael Shurkin Source Type: blogs
Mali Violence Shows Limits of Intervention
Each year brings more violence to Mali and its neighbors. Mali and Burkina Faso are rapidly destabilizing; the situation in Niger is less dire, but that is hardly a commendation. Why is the violence in Mali getting worse given the significant efforts by the international community to stem it? (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - November 21, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Michael Shurkin Source Type: blogs
Requiring the Pentagon to be Transparent about US Overseas Bases
The Overseas Base Realignment and Closure Coalition, “a group of military base experts from across the political spectrum,” is calling on Congress to mandate a reporting requirement on overseas bases. In a letter to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees, the group of experts says the information that the Department of Defense currently p rovides on the cost and location of overseas bases is very “limited” and the “data is frequently incomplete.” This lack of transparency, they write, has allowed the Pentagon to erroneously claim America’s empire of overseas military bases - some 800 installations in...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 28, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: John Glaser Source Type: blogs
