The Peanut Butter Test for Alzheimer ’ s Disease
The peanut butter test for Alzheimer's requires only a dollop of peanut butter and a ruler. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 2, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Dementia Source Type: blogs
Food allergies are not a joke [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “I was truly gutted when watching the recent Saturday Night Live that joked about nut allergies. My son Joshua, who is 16 years old, has an anaphylactic peanut allergy. I found the segment to be insensitive to the millions of people globally who live each day
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Food allergies are not a joke [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: The Podcast by KevinMD Tags: Podcast Allergies & Immunology Source Type: blogs
The IRA
That could be the Irish Republican Army, or your Individual Retirement Account, but today it refers to the Inflation Reduction Act. Columbia economist Gernot Wagnerhas a very favorable view of the Act regarding climate change. (You need to register to read but it ' s free.) It actually doesn ' t have a lot of new spending -- just $369 billion over ten years. Yeah yeah, that sounds like a lot of money but by federal government standards it ' s peanuts. It also authorizes the Department of Energy to make up to $250 billion in loans. However, this modest initiative is well structured to elicit vastly larger private inve...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 21, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Lifestyle Medicine Could Be The Key To Digital Health Adoption
I’ve been wearing several generations and types of smartwatches for a couple of years and I only remove my watch when I shower. I use it to track my sleep and its smart alarm wakes me up at the optimal time every morning. With the pocketable Kardia, I regularly check my ECG at home to detect any anomalies. For an in-depth analysis of what my genetic makeup predisposes me to, I had my whole genome sequenced. And I bring relevant data to my general practitioner during my checkups so that we can decide on preventive measures. In short, I’m trying to live like the patient of the future, using lifestyle medicine to prev...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 29, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Lifestyle medicine E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Medical Education Personalized Medicine sleep stress food scanner sleep apnea Apple Watch Dr. Vernes Baylor ACLM Source Type: blogs
Food allergies are a growing public health concern, not a joke
I was truly gutted when watching the recent Saturday Night Live that joked about nut allergies. My son Joshua, who is 16 years old, has an anaphylactic peanut allergy. I found the segment to be insensitive to the millions of people globally who live each day with food allergies, an invisible but potentially fatal disease.Read more …Food allergies are a growing public health concern, not a joke originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 25, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/post-author/lianne-mandelbaum" rel="tag" > Lianne Mandelbaum < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Allergies & Immunology Source Type: blogs
The Anatomy Of A Good Digital Health Company
Transparent communication, clinically-validated technologies, addressing real-life clinical needs; these might sound like no-brainer components to a digital health company since they are working in the healthcare sector. It is also a rapidly expanding one where investments were heavily channeled into during the pandemic.
However, some estimate that 90% of digital health startups will go bust or be ‘acqui-hired’ within a few years of being founded. If digital health represents the future of medicine and healthcare, it is important to understand why this is the case.
We previously dissected the reasons as to ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics Science Fiction Telemedicine & Smartphones clinical trial communi Source Type: blogs
Best Practices In Digital Health: 9 Keys To Build A Future-Ready Organisation
Transparent communication, clinically-validated technologies, addressing real-life clinical needs; these might sound like no-brainer components to a digital health company since they are working in the healthcare sector. It is also a rapidly expanding one where investments were heavily channeled into during the pandemic.
However, some estimate that 90% of digital health startups will go bust or be ‘acqui-hired’ within a few years of being founded. If digital health represents the future of medicine and healthcare, it is important to understand why this is the case.
We previously dissected the reasons as to ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - January 20, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics Science Fiction Telemedicine & Smartphones clinical trial communi Source Type: blogs
poem
LatchkeyI was a latchkey kid.I was self reliant.I wasn ’t afraid of the emptiness of home.We ’d barge through the foyer shouting, bickering, Flip on the TV, fill the clock ticking silence with sound.Noise as a way of forgetting you're alone.I could do what I wantedI liked being alone I could run and shout,Boss my little sisters Pound the basketball against the cement,Chuck a tennis ball against a cinder block wall That had a strike zone chalked in the middle,At least until mom got homeAnd had to take her nap.I preferred being alone.I didn ’t wear the key around my neckDangling from a red yar...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - January 2, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
The Top Five Digital Health Innovations For Food Tracking and Eating
Your body might be your temple, but in principle, we don’t take good enough care of it – not when it comes to the food we consume. In the Western world, we practically have no idea what we eat and how that affects us. Technological innovations can help us track what’s in our food and what we should eat based on our genetic background. In this article, we enlisted the top trends concerning eating and food tracking.
Let’s talk about food.
Almost 700 million people have some health problem with food or eating
For some, eating is the most natural process on Earth. You are hungry, you get some n...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 30, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Food Genomics Health Sensors & Trackers digital health eating Innovation Medicine parkinson scanner technology wearable wearables gc3 food sensors food scanner food tracking food trackers digital innovation Source Type: blogs
Excessive “Mirroring” Could Explain Why People With Misophonia React Strongly To Sounds Of Chewing Or Drinking
By Emma Young
No one likes the sound of someone else chewing or drinking. But for some people, it’s enough to cause overwhelming feelings of anger or disgust — and in some cases, send them into a violent rage. People with “misophonia” (literally a hatred of sounds) over-react to some common everyday “trigger sounds” — typically, sounds made by another person. Though the phenomenon has been well documented, exactly what causes it hasn’t been clear. Now a new paper in the Journal of Neuroscience provides a compelling explanation: that misophonia isn’t related to hearing so much as to...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - August 17, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Brain Perception Source Type: blogs
The Bitcoin Law: Counterfeit Free Choice in Currency
George Selgin“Why should we not let people use freely what money they want to use? [They] ought to have the right to decide whether they want to buy or sell for francs, pounds, dollars, D-marks, or ounces of gold. I have no objection to governments issuing money, but I believe their claim to amonopoly, or their power tolimitthe kinds of money in which contracts may be concluded within their territory …to be wholly harmful.”—F.A. Hayek,Choice in Currency: A Way to Stop Inflation, p. 17.So, it has happened: a country —an honest to God,bona fide, country, complete with its own flag, coat of arms, seat at the U.N., a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 17, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
The Best Technologies Against Food Allergies
Food has a significant role in our lives, yet, we practically have no idea what we eat. With the advent of industrial farming and the food processing industry, consumer control over food has been lost – and we lost track of substances. Food labels are far from providing enough information about what is actually in the package. Although labelling of allergens is mandatory in most countries, factual data is often hidden behind mysterious E-s and numbers. Various tech devices promise a solution.
And a solution is indeed needed. About 7.5% of the global population is allergic to certain foods. Over 200,000 people require ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 27, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Lifestyle medicine Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Biotechnology Digital Health Research Future of Food Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics digital technology food allergy Nima food sensor digital health techno Source Type: blogs
What We Learnt After Looking Back At The Digital Health Tech We Reviewed
Throughout the years, we’ve reviewed several exciting digital health devices at The Medical Futurist. Some like Nima’s handheld food sensors sound as if they have come straight out of a Star Trek episode; and others like the CliniCloud ingeniously address real physician needs.
However, while many of the devices impressed us during our tests and indicated a promising solution for patients and doctors to adopt going forward, not all of them fared so well in subsequent years. For this reason, we decided to look back at those exciting digital health devices that we tested in the past but didn’t deliver on the promise ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 18, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Lifestyle medicine E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones fda pebble GymWatch health technology fitness trackers Nima food sensor CliniCloud Andrew Lin Lumo text Source Type: blogs
Digital Health Technologies That Are Too Futuristic To Be In Practice Now (If Ever)
An oncologist administering nanorobots that swim through a patient’s bloodstream to deliver drugs in a highly targeted way. A person on a specific diet scanning their meal with a single device to reveal all of its major nutritional elements. A clinic’s transplant department 3D-printing whole organs. These are scenarios that sound like snippets extracted from a science-fiction novel. But these are digital health technologies that we will have to get used to in the future.
Nanorobots, food scanners, and bioprinting are all existing digital health technologies that we’ve reported on The Medical Futurist. However, t...
Source: The Medical Futurist - May 4, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: Biotechnology Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Food Future of Medicine Health Sensors & Trackers Nanotechnology Robotics Science Fiction 3d printing bioprinting blood test device fda theranos Nima nanorobot Ni Source Type: blogs
The Year of Living Dangerously
It ' s been exactly one year since our lives changed. On March 10, 2020, Governor Charlie Baker declared a state of emergency for Massachusetts, changing the way many of us travel. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic, its first such designation since declaring H1N1 influenza a pandemic in 2009. On March 15, 2020, I flew to Minnesota and prepared my Rochester apartment for a lockdown. I said my goodbyes to colleagues on March 16 and flew back to Boston. We ' ve run the Mayo Clinic Platform at a distance for the past year.During the pandemic, those old enough to have overcome ...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - March 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
