Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 16th 2018
We presently forget 98% of everything we experience. That will go away in favor of perfect, controllable, configurable memory. Skills and knowledge will become commodities that can be purchased and installed. We will be able to feel exactly as we wish to feel at any given time. How we perceive the world will be mutable and subject to choice. How we think, the very fundamental basis of the mind, will also be mutable and subject to choice. We will merge with our machines, as Kurzweil puts it. The boundary between mind and computing device, between the individual and his or her tools, will blur.
Over the course of the ...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 15, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Chimeric Antigen Receptor Therapy, but Using Natural Killer Cells
Adding chimeric antigen receptors to T cells (CAR-T), causing them to aggressively target cancer cells, has proven to be a fruitful approach to the treatment of cancer. Like most immunotherapies, it can result in potentially severe side-effects related to excessive immune activation, but it is also quite effective. Treatment of forms of leukemia in particular has produced good results in a large fraction of patients who have trialed the therapy. In the research reported here, scientists extend the chimeric antigen receptor approach to natural killer cells rather than T cells, noting that this may prove to be both safer and...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 9, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Not-Quite Annual ASCO Round-Up - 2018 edition
by Drew RosielleTheAmerican Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting, besides being a feast for the pharmaceutical business news pages (google ' ASCO ' and most of the hits will be about how announcement X affected drug company Y ' s stock), is also one of the premiere platforms for publishing original palliative-oncology research. So every year I try to at least scan the abstracts to see what ' s happening, and I figure I might as well blog about it. It ' s tough to analyze abstracts, so I ' ll mostly just be summarizing ones that I think will be of interest to hospice and palliative care folks. I imagine I ' ve missed...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - June 6, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: artificial nutrition ASCO cannabanoid code status conference reviews fatigue hpmglobal marijuana mindfulness mucositis neuropathic oncology pain race rosielle scrambler Source Type: blogs
Helen Lawson and black salve: Cutting, burning, and poisoning “ naturally ”
Cancer quacks frequently characterize conventional treatments for cancer as "cutting, poisoning, and burning." Yet, in Australia a woman with ovarian cancer chose black salve, in essence, "cutting, poisoning, and burning" (but mostly burning and without the cutting) to treat her disease. She died a horrible death. How can black salve still be a thing.
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Source: Respectful Insolence - May 24, 2018 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Medicine Pseudoscience Quackery Skepticism/critical thinking alternative cancer cure testimonial Belinda Davies black salve bloodroot Cansema Dennis Wayne Jensen escharotic featured Karen Lawson ovarian cancer Stanisla Source Type: blogs
Would You Want To Know Whether You ’re At Risk For Alzheimer’s?
Do genetic tests help in preparing for potential future health issues or open Pandora’s box full of concerns, worries and hypochondriac thoughts? Would you want to know your genetic fate? Whether you are at risk for Alzheimer’s or a chronic disease 30 years in advance? Would you want to live with this kind of information? Would you take the BRCA test to find out that you are at risk for breast cancer? What would you do if you were? The Medical Futurist team contemplated situations requiring hard, life-altering decisions. What would you do?
Our genetic heritage carries secrets that are difficult to process
In Season 8 o...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 28, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Genomics alzheimer disease DNA dna testing doctor-patient doctor-patient relationship DTC future genetics Huntington's patient empowerment personal genomics Source Type: blogs
Making a Splash for Cancer Research
The post Making a Splash for Cancer Research appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - April 5, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Hopkins Nurse Spring 2018 cancer children endometrial fundraiser oncology ovarian pancreatic research Swim Across America swimming Source Type: blogs
Cellular Footprints: Tracing How Cells Move
An engineered cell (green) in a fruit fly follicle (red), or egg case, leaves a trail of fluorescent material as it moves across a fruit fly egg chamber, allowing scientists to trace its path and measure how long it took to complete its journey. Credit: David Bilder, University of California, Berkeley.
Cells are the basis of the living world. Our cells make up the tissues and organs of our bodies. Bacteria are also cells, living sometimes alone and sometimes in groups called biofilms. We think of cells mostly as staying in one spot, quietly doing their work. But in many situations, cells move, often very quickly. For exam...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - April 4, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Kathryn Calkins Tags: Cell Biology Bacteria Biofilms Cells Cellular Imaging Source Type: blogs
Diagnosing your cancer is my cross to bear
Today, you came to me with a chief complaint: right breast lump.
You told me you’ve only been aware of it for the last three weeks. Your eyes told me your terror of not realizing it was there sooner.
You told me there wasn’t a history of any breast, endometrial or ovarian cancer in your family. But you held back that you knew there isn’t always a family history.
You told me you had a normal mammogram three years ago. But you left out that part about the guilt of not having done your self-monthly breast exam or your regular mammograms.
You asked me to look at a mole, pointing to the back of your neck. The tremble of y...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 30, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/millennial-doctor" rel="tag" > Millennial Doctor, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
The Biology Behind the Fertility Clinic Meltdown
*This blog was first published at DNA Science Blog at Public Library of Science*
The spindle apparatus is among the most elegant structures in a cell, quickly self-assembling from microtubules and grabbing and aligning chromosomes so that equal sets separate into the two daughter cells that result from a division. But can spindles in cells held at the brink of division in the suspended animation of the deep freeze at a fertility clinic survive being ripped from their slumber off-protocol, as happened the weekend of March 4 at the Pacific Fertility Clinic in San Francisco and University Hospitals Fe...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 28, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care Fertility syndicated Source Type: blogs
The problem of misunderstanding 23andMe genetic test results
Home delivery for everything from fresh produce to custom-selected clothing has become a way of life for many Americans. While most home-delivery conveniences are generally changing our lives for the better — giving us more time and choices — at-home genetics kits that reveal information about the risk of developing certain cancers represent a risky step in our on-demand culture.
The FDA recently gave 23andMe the green light to sell the first direct-to-consumer tests for mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are linked to serious risks of developing cancer. All a buyer has to do is ship a saliva sample to t...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 28, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/susan-domchek" rel="tag" > Susan Domchek, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Genetics Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
DC Death with Dignity Survives Federal Congress Repeal
Congressional have protected Washington, D.C.’s Death with Dignity Act by excluding a House-approved appropriations bill rider to overturn the law from the final omnibus appropriations bill signed into law this afternoon.
Last September, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an appropriations bill (H.R. 3354) that included an amendment by U.S. Rep. Andy Harris (MD) to repeal the D.C. Death with Dignity Act, which authorizes medical aid in dying in the District of Columbia.“For seven long months, terminally ill D.C. residents like Mary Klein have been living on pins and needles worrying if Congress would take...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 23, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Which Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Test to Choose?
Due to the collapse of the price of genetic testing and the FDA’s gradual ease of the regulatory environment, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing companies are booming. You can inquire your deoxyribonucleic acid about your ancestry, health risks, metabolism, and some start-ups even promise you to find true love or your kids’ talents. As the jungle of DTC companies is getting denser, more and more people ask me which genetic tests are worth the try. They love the possibility of getting access to their DNA but don’t know where to start. Here’s the DTC genetic testing kick-starter package!
Navigating through...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 20, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Genomics 23andme ancestry DNA DTC future genetic test Genetic testing genetics Genome genome sequencing Health 2.0 Source Type: blogs
The FDA approval of 23andMe ’s BRCA test: What it means for you
The approval by the Food and Drug Administration of 23andMe’s BRCA test is bound to create a discussion about the merits and pitfalls of direct to consumer genetic testing for cancer risk.
It is also going to add fuel to a growing fire about how we as a nation assess genetic risks for cancer, and whether society is prepared for what is inevitably going to become a genomic-influenced and informed culture of health.
From my perspective, as someone who has given considerable thought to these questions over the past several years, there are no easy answers.
The announcement was straightforward: the FDA approved a test t...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/j-leonard-lichtenfeld" rel="tag" > J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Genetics Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
