Bonus Features – October 15, 2023 – 66% of orgs hit by cyberattacks report disruptions to patient care, 75% of Americans don ’ t trust AI in a care setting, and 26 more
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Walmart employees using virtual care provided by Included Health saw an 11% reduction in the total cost of care, the companies announced. Given these results, Walmart is expanding this three-year pilot to al...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Active Minds Arrive athenahealth BrainCheck Brightside Health Butterfly Network Carta Healthcare CHIME Clearsense Concert Health Fifth Eye First Health Advisory Galen Healthcare Solutions GoodRx Harris Data Inte Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 16th 2023
In conclusion, a number of studies have shown that CD4+ Treg cells are crucial in the maintenance of peripheral tolerance and have an important role in the control of atherosclerosis-related inflammation. Therefore, Treg cells are a promising target of major research efforts focused on immune-modulating therapies against atherosclerosis. Developing anti-atherosclerotic Treg-based therapies faces challenges. However, rapid progress in genetic, epigenetic, and molecular aspects of cellular immunology gives hope for a fast-track solution.
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Delivering Senolytic Nanoparticles to Atheroscle...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 15, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Type Of Dietary Fats That Damage Your Memory
A study shows that "good" or healthy fats and “bad” fats affect brain cells in different ways. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - October 14, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Memory Source Type: blogs
Pigs as a Model to Explore Links Between the Gut Microbiome and Chronic Inflammation in Aging
This study employed a comprehensive metagenomic analysis encompassing saliva and stool samples obtained from 45 pigs representing three distinct age groups, alongside serum metabolomics and lipidomics profiling. Our findings unveiled discernible modifications in the gut and oral microbiomes, serum metabolome, and lipidome at each age stage. Specifically, we identified 87 microbial species in stool samples and 68 in saliva samples that demonstrated significant age-related changes. Notably, 13 species in stool, including Clostridiales bacterium, Lactobacillus johnsonii, and Oscillibacter spp., exhibited age-dependent alterat...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
The Zesty Food That Reduces Heart Disease Risk
Adding this ingredient to your diet could halve the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - October 13, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Heart Disease Source Type: blogs
Fruit and sugar: Debunking the myths
On many occasions, patients have asked me whether it’s OK to eat fruit. They’re worried about whether they should be eating foods high in sugar. Is fruit in that category? No, it is not. Does anyone really believe that fruit is what’s causing the paired epidemics of diabetes and obesity? This scourge is not being
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Fruit and sugar: Debunking the myths originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 13, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Roxanne B. Sukol, MD Tags: Conditions Nutrition Source Type: blogs
The High Cost of Type 2 Diabetes as a Lifestyle Condition
Type 2 diabetes is near entirely a lifestyle condition, and can be reversed even in later stages via suitably aggressive dietary and weight loss interventions. Obesity in early adult life is sufficient to cause type 2 diabetes via some combination of mechanisms involving excess fat in the pancreas and increased stress put upon insulin-generating beta cells resident in the pancreas, leading to greater cellular senescence and altered cell behavior. Excess visceral fat is in general harmful to the body via its metabolic activity. There are a range of ways beyond an increased burden of senescent cells by which it can produce c...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Research Organism Superheroes: Tardigrades
A 3D rendering of a tardigrade. Credit: iStock.
“Water bear” or “moss piglet”? No matter what you call them, tardigrades have secured the title of cutest invertebrate—at least in our book. They’re tiny creatures, averaging about the size of a grain of salt, so while you can spot them with the naked eye, using a microscope is the best way to see them. They earned their nickname of water bear and their official name (which comes from tardigradus, Latin for “slow walker”) because of the way they lumber slowly and deliberately on short, stubby legs.
They’re excellent research organism...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - October 11, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Tools and Techniques Cool Creatures Research Organisms Source Type: blogs
The Mindful Body argues against mindlessly accepting age-related decline in cognition and health as inevitable
In 1979, Harvard researcher Ellen Langer invited elderly men to spend a week at a retreat designed to remind them of their younger days, surrounded by the art, music, food, games, décor, and more from the late 1950s. Afterward, the men were tested and found to have made significant gains in hearing, memory, dexterity, posture, and general well-being. It was as if being in a place signaling their younger days made them physiologically “younger.”
Maybe you, too, have had an experience where your mind seemed to affect your health. It turns out there’s a reason for that, according to Langer, author of the new book The M...
Source: SharpBrains - October 9, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greater Good Science Center Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Education & Lifelong Learning anti-anxiety medication anti-depressants book cognition cognitive change cognitive-abilities Ellen Langer mind mindfulness-meditation mindlessly physiology placebo studies Th Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expectancy gains. Adding four more ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Out of Control Health Costs or a Broken Society
Flawed Accounting for the US Health Spending Problem
By Jeff Goldsmith
Source: OECD, Our World in Data
Late last year, I saw this chart which made my heart sink. It compared US life expectancy to its health spending since 1970 vs. other countries. As you can see, the US began peeling off from the rest of the civilized world in the mid-1980’s. Then US life expectancy began falling around 2015, even as health spending continued to rise. We lost two more full years of life expectancy to COVID. By the end of 2022, the US had given up 26 years-worth of progress in life expecta...
Source: The Health Care Blog - October 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy COVID Drug Overdoses gun violence Hospitals Jeff Goldsmith Maternal mortality Mental Health Obesity Poverty Regional Economy Society Source Type: blogs
Self-management, coping – or living with?
After a weekend relaxing by the beach, I’m once again pondering the nature of how people live well with persistent pain. It’s called variously ‘self-management’ or ‘coping’ or, in my life, ‘living with’ pain, and as I pointed out last week, it’s not well-defined. I’m not even sure that people with pain get a look-in at what to call these ‘ways of living’ because it’s typically an academic discussion that excludes the very people who are expected to comply with them!
That gripe aside, what’s wrong with the terms ‘coping’ or &#...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - October 8, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Coping strategies Pain conditions Resilience/Health biopsychosocial pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Think You Eat Healthily? 75% Of People Are Too Optimistic
How do people rate the quality of their diet and are they accurate? (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - October 8, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mina Dean Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 9th 2023
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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 8, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
mTORC1 Inhibition in Neurons Only Extends Life in Nematode Worms
General inhibition of mTOR slows aging, a calorie restriction mimetic effect, but comes with a range of side-effects, given that mTOR is a regulator of growth and development. mTOR forms two different protein complexes, mTORC1 and mTORC2. In recent years, work to produce drugs based on mTOR inhibition has focused on selectively inhibiting mTORC1 in order to reduce side-effects. Researchers here report further reduction in side-effects in short-lived nematode worms by restricting mTORC1 inhibition to neurons only.
mTORC1 (mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1) is a metabolic sensor that promotes growth when nut...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 6, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
