Thanking a lot of people - all the Acknowledgement sections from all my papers
This article was written using the Authorea scientific writing platform.The authors would like to thank the Coronado Pop Warner Islanders for initial collection of the sample and participation in Project MERCCURI, as well as Kris Tracy who assisted in the etymology of the proposed species name.The 16S rRNA sequence analysis was performed under the MiSeq Com- petition MkIIm by New Zealand Genome Limited and with the assistance of Patrick Biggs (NZGL) for MiSeq sequence processing. We thank Alex- ander Forrest for the loan of the Brancker CTD. We are grateful to three anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions. W...
Source: The Tree of Life - November 28, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
15 Years of Blogging
Today (Oct 1) is my blog’s 15th birthday. I wrote my first post on Oct 1, 2004, starting with WordPress 1.0.Tomorrow (Oct 2) is the 10-year anniversary of our first 3-day workshop (the original Conscious Growth Workshop in Las Vegas). That’s also the day my wife Rachelle and I first met. Since then we’ve done 16 3-day workshops on a variety of different themes.I’ve really enjoyed this past decade. I’m especially glad I leaned into taking more trips, which comprise some of my fondest memories during this time period. Before 2009 I’d never traveled outside the USA. Now I do so pretty regul...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - October 1, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: blogs
So glad we are done with January!
It was harder than I thought. The first was our anniversary. UGH! The 16th was the six-month anniversary of his passing. The 19th was his 65th birthday. And if he were still here, he would have done it big! For his 50th, he took us on a 15 day cruise through the Panama Canal. I can't help wonder what he would have done for his 65th? He was always chatting about taking a world cruise.So I cried a bit. Then I decided to go buy a case of our favorite wine. It's made locally. I'm not a drinker - the last case we bought, I gave every bottle away as a gift. But that nig...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - February 5, 2019 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
Five Misconceptions about the Crisis in Venezuela
Some media reports and analyses on the latest developments in Venezuela are repeating the following five misconceptions: 1. “Juan Guaidó proclaimed himself president of Venezuela” Juan Guaid ó is the president of the National Assembly, a body that is controlled by the opposition. On January 10 a new presidential term started and, as required by the Constitution, the president-elect had to be sworn-in in front of the National Assembly. However, Nicolás Maduro was “reelected” last M ay in a sham election that the leading opposition parties were prevented from contesting it. Thus, on January 10 most Wes...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 28, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Juan Carlos Hidalgo Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 10th 2018
In conclusion, this is the first report to show that pyroptotic cell death occurs in the aging brain and that the inflammasome can be a viable target to decrease the oxidative stress that occurs as a result of aging.
Reducing Levels of Protein Manufacture Slows Measures of Aging in Nematodes
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/12/reducing-levels-of-protein-manufacture-slows-measures-of-aging-in-nematodes/
Researchers here demonstrate that an antibiotic slows aging in nematode worms, providing evidence for it to work through a reduction in protein synthesis. Beyond a slowing of aging, one of the co...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 9, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Longevity Science is Pretty Much Impenetrable for Journalists
Today I'll point out a recent media article that comments on RAADfest 2018, held in San Diego earlier this year. I attended this year, and wrote up my own thoughts on the event shortly thereafter. The advent of the first working, low cost, narrow focus rejuvenation therapies in the form of senolytic drugs capable of selectively destroying senescent cells is causing a sizable, but slow, shift of alignment and focus in both the scientific community and the historically fraud-ridden "anti-aging" marketplace. RAADfest is where these two communities meet, which makes it an interesting study if you have some insight into the his...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 5, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Issues at the 18th International Anti-Corruption Conference
Many issues brought up at the18th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, were relevant to the problems of conflicts of interest, crime and corruption in health care which we often discuss onHealth Care Renewal, and hence bear repeating here.The discussion certainly got at the complexity of fighting corruption, seemingly one of many necessities that has come into light in the new political era. Unfortunately, while the complexity is fascinating, it suggests this fight will hardly be simple. Since warnings about corruption go back thousands of year, we already knew it would not be...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 28, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: deception disinformation health care corruption propaganda US Department of Justice whistle-blowers Source Type: blogs
Update: How to Challenge Health Care Corruption Under a Corrupt Regime
Summary: the Corruption of Health Care Leadership as a Major Cause of Health Care DysfunctionAs we wrote in August, 2017, Transparency International (TI) defines corruption asAbuse of entrusted power for private gainIn 2006,TI published a report on health care corruption, which asserted that corruption is widespread throughout the world, serious, and causes severe harm to patients and society.the scale of corruption is vast in both rich and poor countries.Also,Corruption might mean the difference between life and death for those in need of urgent care. It is invariably the poor in society who are affected most by corruptio...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 17, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: anechoic effect conflicts of interest Donald Trump health care corruption regulatory capture Source Type: blogs
Three months
Hard to believe that it has been 3 months since he passed away. I continue to learn. I continue to grieve. I continue to be surprised at life.He and I had such a full life. Even with diabetes. I only wrote about the diabetes here and I realize now I should have written more about our overall life. It was kind of amazing. We had 20 years together. We traveled so much before he had his heart attack 9 years ago. He took me backpacking in Europe with a train pass. We did a 2 week cruise through the Panama Canal. We used to go to Hualtaco Mexico every year. He took me ...
Source: Wife of a Diabetic - October 16, 2018 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: blogs
NAFTA 2.0: The Best Trade Agreement Ever Negotiated (Except for All of the Others)
Conclusion: Criterion is almost met).Would limit the use of so-called trade remedy or trade defense measures.Trade remedy laws give domestic industries recourse to trade restrictions when they can demonstrate injury caused by “dumped,” subsidized, or substantially increasing imports. Theselaws are prone to misuse and abuse and become loopholes through which the benefits of trade barrier reduction achieved in the agreement can be quickly rescinded. In USMCA, no restrictions on the use of antidumping, countervailing duty, or safeguard measures are made. Rather, the long arm of the Safeguard law extends further under ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 7, 2018 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Ikenson Source Type: blogs
Tropical Travel Trouble 007 Mega Malaria Extravaganza
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aka Tropical Travel Trouble 007
When you think tropical medicine, malaria has to be near the top. It can be fairly complex and fortunately treatment has become a lot simpler. This post is designed to walk you through the basic principals with links to more in depth teaching if your niche is travel medicine, laboratory diagnostics or management of severe or cerebral malaria. If you stubbled on this post while drinking a cup of tea or sitting on the throne and want a few basi...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 5, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Clinical Cases Tropical Medicine malaria Plasmodium plasmodium falciparum plasmodium knowles plasmodium malariae plasmodium ovale plasmodium vivax Source Type: blogs
