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NIH Clinical Center releases dataset of 32,000 CT images
The National Institutes of Health ’s Clinical Center has made a large-scale dataset of CT images publicly available to help the scientific community improve detection accuracy of lesions. While most publicly available medical image datasets have less than a thousand lesions, this dataset, named DeepLesion, has over 32,000 annotate d lesions identified on CT images.Images are available via Box: https://nihcc.box.com/v/DeepLesionFamous Radiology Blog http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com TeleRad Providers at www.teleradproviders.com Mail us at sales@teleradproviders.com (Source: Sumer's Radiology Site)
Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - July 24, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs

“Ask Me About My Awesome Job at NIH”
What happens to former students involved in the Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Talented Youth? Sometimes, they work at the National Institutes of Health and NLM. That’s what happened to Adam Korengold and several NLM interns. On June 25, they joined about a dozen other NIH employees wearing “Ask Me About My Awesome Job at… (Source: NLM In Focus)
Source: NLM In Focus - July 11, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Posted by NLM in Focus Tags: Events Source Type: blogs

Technology and the Cognition Crisis
___ “Our lives on this planet have improved in so many amazing ways over the last century. On average, we are now healthier, more affluent and literate, less violent and longer living. Despite these unprecedented positive changes, clear signs exist that we are in the midst of an emerging crisis–one that has not yet been recognized in its full breadth, even though it lurks just beneath the surface of our casual conversations and swims in the undercurrents of our news feeds. This is not the well-known crisis that we’ve induced upon the earth’s climate, but one that is just as threatening to our future. This is a cris...
Source: SharpBrains - July 10, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Adam Gazzaley Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness artificial intelligence brains cognition cognition crisis human intelligence human mind mental capacity Source Type: blogs

"Skinny Fat" in Older Adults May Predict Dementia, Alzheimer ’s Risk
This study was supported by grants from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health (R01 AG040211 and P30 AG008051), the Morris and Alma Schapiro Fund and the New York State Department of Health.About the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine:FAU ’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine is one of approximately 151 accredited medical schools in the U.S.About Florida Atlantic University:Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more t...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - July 8, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimers alzheimers research Cognition cognitive performance dementia fat science skinny fat various cognition tests Source Type: blogs

Alcohol and heart health
I’m not a regular drinker, nor a teetotaler. But like many people, I enjoy the occasional glass of wine with dinner, and nothing tastes better than an ice-cold beer on a sweaty summer day. Besides, some alcohol is a toast to my long-term heart health. At least that’s what the science says, right? Not really. When it comes to alcohol and heart health, the existing research is quite conflicting — some studies say alcohol improves heart health, while others imply the opposite. Alcohol and heart health: What’s the real story? The problem with most alcohol-related research is that it consists almost entirely of observ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 6, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Solan Tags: Alcohol Health Heart Health Source Type: blogs

The Good and the Bad of the New Federal Budget
By: Susan Wiley In August 2017, I wrote about impending cuts to the National Institutes of Health budget and that fear about massive cuts may be unfounded based on historical evidence. On March 23, 2018, President Trump signed a new spending bill into law. Congress decided to increase budgets for most government science and health The post The Good and the Bad of the New Federal Budget appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - July 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: New On the Pulse Budget Fogarty NIH research Source Type: blogs

Would You Choose a Foreign Country for Alzheimer's Care?
Eldercare Lessons from the Land of the Incas: Eldercare in America is expensive, with Alzheimer’s topping the charts. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, more than half of Alzheimer’s caregivers are cutting back on everyday necessities in order to cover the cost of Alzheimer’s care. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) website carried an article published in the Health Tidbits section of the Journal of the National Medical Association that says: “Patients in most nursing homes are not receiving proper care due to a shortage of workers.” This is not to say that many U.S. nursing homes aren’t su...
Source: Minding Our Elders - June 30, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Information Blocking – Gropper & Peel Weigh in
By ADRIAN GROPPER & DEBORAH PEEL Today is the last day for public comments on the proposed CMS regulations regarding Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment systems (IPPS). While there are several changes proposed, the one that’s raised lots of attention has been the idea that access to Medicare may be denied to those providers guilty of information blocking. Here are the comments submitted by Gropper & Peel from Patients Privacy Rights— Matthew Holt Executive Summary of PPR Comments on Information Blocking Information blocking is a multi-faceted problem that has proved resistant to over a de...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 25, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Hospitals Patients Physicians Tech CMS Information Blocking ONC Source Type: blogs

The National Institutes of Health Launches HerbList, a Mobile App on Herbal Products
The National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCH) has launched HerbList – an app for research-based information about the safety and effectiveness of herbal products. Developed by NCCIH and launched through the National Library of Medicine’s app pages, HerbList is available on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. HerbList helps consumers, patients, healthcare providers, and other users to quickly access information about the science of popular herbs and herbal supplements including kava, acai, ginkgo, turmeric, and more than 50 others marketed for health purp...
Source: BHIC - June 20, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Michelle Burda Tags: General Source Type: blogs

Tips for Coping if You Have Anxiety as a Caregiver
Caregivers will experience anxiety. It simply goes with the territory. How to cope with that anxiety is the true challenge because if we don’t cope well we, too, may become ill. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recognizes this in the article Physical and Mental Health Effects of Family Caregiving, which concludes that “caregiving is a major public health issue.” Knowing how caregiving can affect your long-term health should help you understand that your anxiety isn’t something to take lightly. Read more on HealthCentral about caregivers and how they can handle potential anxiety issues: Support a caregiver or...
Source: Minding Our Elders - June 19, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Lyme disease: Resolving the “Lyme wars”
It’s finally getting warm here in New England, and most of us have plans to enjoy the beautiful weather. And that’s why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released a report raising awareness about how to prevent the tickborne infections that typically occur during this time of the year. Lyme disease is probably the most well-known, and the one for which diagnosis and treatment are most controversial. What is Lyme disease? Several countries around the world, especially in the Northern Hemisphere, and all 50 states in the US have already reported cases of Lyme. The disease is caused by bacteria...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 18, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Marcelo Campos, MD Tags: Health Infectious diseases Source Type: blogs

Pureed Food Recipes: Swallowing Impairment Needn't Signal the End of Great Eating
Dysphagia is a swallowing impairment that can occur after someone has a stroke or any type of brain injury. Dysphagia is also a concern with Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), oral cancer, and many other injuries and diseases. However, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), dysphagia is also a growing concern in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The NIH says that dysphagia “frequently leads to aspiration pneumonia, a common cause of death in this population, particularly in the later stage of AD.” Read full article on HealthCentral and get free downloads, and free recipes, and lo...
Source: Minding Our Elders - June 18, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Not Everyone Feels the Urgent Need for Therapies to Treat Aging, and this is a Sizable Divide in our Broader Community
One of the many important points made by the advocacy community for rejuvenation research is that participants in the mainstream of medical science and medical regulation are not imbued with a great enough sense of urgency. We are all dying, and yet with each passing year the regulatory process moves ever more slowly, rejects an ever greater number of prospective therapies, becomes ever more expensive. The number of new therapies reaching the clinic falls. Regulators continue to reject the idea that treating aging is an acceptable goal in medicine. We live in an age of revolutionary progress in the capabilities of biotechn...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 16, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs

HEAL Initiative | National Institutes of Health (NIH)
In April 2018, NIH launched the HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative, an aggressive, trans-agency effort to speed scientific solutions to stem the national opioid public health crisis. This Initiative will build on extensive, well-established NIH research, including basic science of the complex neurological pathways involved in pain and addiction, implementation science to develop and test treatment models, and research to integrate behavioral interventions with Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for opioid use disorder (OUD). Successes from this research include the development of the nasal form of naloxo...
Source: Psychology of Pain - June 12, 2018 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs