Angels of Death
The news that somebody at a West Virginia VA medical center wasapparently murdering patients with insulin overdoses is the latest reminder of a phenomenon that occurs disturbingly often. The denominator of all the medical professionals in the world is obviously very large, so the dozens who have been identified as serial killers don ' t mean you are at notable risk, but still. Actually there must be many more since one of the perks of being a physician or a nurse is that you can get away with being a serial killer pretty easily.The most notorious is probably the British GP Harold Shipman,who killed at least 218 of his own ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 28, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Smartphone and Paper Microfluidic Device for Norovirus Detection
Researchers
at the University of Arizona have developed a simple and inexpensive method
that can be used to detect tiny traces of norovirus in water samples. The
technique involves a smartphone camera and a paper microfluidics device, and
could help to identify sources of norovirus before it can cause illness.
In the US,
norovirus causes approximately 20 million cases of food poisoning annually.
However, the virus isn’t just responsible for temporary illness; it can
sometimes lead to death, and is estimated to cause 200,000 deaths globally
every year.
The virus often blazes through confined areas, such as cruise sh...
Source: Medgadget - August 27, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Medicine Public Health Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 19th 2019
In conclusion, our data show how oncogenic and tumor-suppressive drivers of cellular senescence act to regulate surveillance processes that can be circumvented to enable SnCs to elude immune recognition but can be reversed by cell surface-targeted interventions to purge the SnCs that persist in vitro and in patients. Since eliminating SnCs can prevent tumor progression, delay the onset of degenerative diseases, and restore fitness; since NKG2D-Ls are not widely expressed in healthy human tissues and NKG2D-L shedding is an evasion mechanism also employed by tumor cells; and since increasing numbers of B cells express NKG2D ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 18, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Targeted Editing of Gut Microbe Populates Reduces Intestinal Cancer Incidence
The gut microbiome is influential on the progression of health, perhaps to a similar degree as regular moderate exercise. Age-related changes in these microbial populations can promote chronic inflammation and tissue dysfunction, though the direction of causation is still up for debate when it comes to many of the details of the relationship between tissue and immune issues in the intestine and an altered gut microbiome. Nonetheless, less desirable microbes undertake activities that can raise the risk of cancer resulting from inflammation of the intestines, occurring in conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease. Resear...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 12, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 12th 2019
We examined 9293 individuals from the Copenhagen General Population Study using nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy measurements of total cholesterol, free- and esterified cholesterol, triglycerides, phospholipids, and particle concentration. Fourteen subclasses of decreasing size and their lipid constituents were analysed: six subclasses were very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), one intermediate-density lipoprotein (IDL), three low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and four subclasses were high-density lipoprotein (HDL). Remnant lipoproteins were VLDL and IDL combined.
Mean nonfasting cholesterol concentration was 72â...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 11, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Keeping children safe around cosmetics
When we think about household products that need to be kept out of the reach of small children, we usually think about medications and cleaning products. We don’t usually think about cosmetics. But a study published in the journal Clinical Pediatrics shows that we need to think about cosmetics too.
How many childhood injuries are due to cosmetics?
Researchers used the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System to look at data about children younger than 5 who were treated in US emergency departments for cosmetics-related injuries between 2002 and 2016.
They found that in that time period, almost 65,000 children went...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Injuries Source Type: blogs
An Interview with Reason at Undoing Aging 2019
Much of the proceedings at Undoing Aging in Berlin earlier this year were recorded, but of course it takes a few months for everything to process through the queue. I briefly escaped from the conference for an ad hoc, unstructured discussion with Adam Ford of Science, Technology, and the Future, who, like the Life Extension Advocacy Foundation folk, was interviewing as many people as he could during the event. It wound up a monologue on topics that were at the top of my mind at the time, particularly the present state of funding and the transformation of our community from a primary focus on advocacy and academic research ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 5, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
A Troublesome Cup of Tea
A 45-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with nausea and vomiting. Her symptoms had started seven days earlier and steadily worsened. She reported generalized abdominal pain and distention and that her eyes appeared yellow.The patient had no past medical history, took no medications, and said she did not drink or use drugs. Her history showed that she had been drinking an herbal preparation every day for the past five months to ameliorate her heavy menstrual periods.The patient had mild right upper quadrant tenderness but no distention, rebound, or guarding. Her lungs were clear, and her heart rate and rhy...
Source: The Tox Cave - July 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Look what Kathy accomplished on the Wheat Belly lifestyle
Kathy provided an update on her Wheat Belly lifestyle that began with the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox. You may remember Kathy, as she previously shared her story:
The photo at the top is Kathy’s most recent update, looking not only healthier and more slender, but younger.
“2.5 years following the Wheat Belly way of life! Thank you Dr Davis and April Duval for showing me the way! Â Lost 80 pounds, gained 25 years of health and youth back. Maintaining beautifully.
“The before pic was taken 9 years ago and I wasn’t even at my heaviest at that point. The before pic is the result of dec...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 12, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Success Stories gluten-free grain-free Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Privet Hawk-moth, Sphinx ligustri
It’s always a delight to spot a big lep in the scientific trap when you approach it each morning. This morning’s treat was a Privet Hawk-moth (Sphinx ligustri), but once I’d lifted the lid I realised there were two. This is a big moth (55 mm from the nose to wing-tip, with startling pink and black markings on its body and hindwings, which are revealed when it opens its wings.
This is the largest resident moth species in the British Isles. It flies June to July in a single breeding season. I had previously seen and phone-photographed a pair roosting on a concrete bollard in the village (14 Jun 2019, 21h20...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - June 6, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs
The Macro View – Health, Economics, and Politics and the Big Picture. What I Am Watching Here And Abroad.
June 6, 2019 Edition.-----Trump has now officially lost it I believe and is becoming a menace to global well-being with his tariff madness. This attack on Mexico for utterly spurious reasons is total policy overreach.In the UK there seems to be a large competition for the most poison of poisoned chalices to try and lead Brexit to some sensible conclusion now Mrs May has stood down. Just absurd!In OZ we seem to have recovered and we now have the race between ScoMo and Albo beginning. Will be an interesting contest indeed!----- Major Issues.-----https://www.theaustralian.com.au/world/the-times/this-is-no-way-to-win-a-war/new...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - June 5, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Natural Rights vs. Human Rights: The State Department ’s New Commission on Unalienable Rights
Yesterday afternoon we learned fromPolitico that the State Department had just “quietly published” in the Federal Registera notice that the department intends to establish a Commission on Unalienable Rights. Its aim, as the notice states, is toprovide the Secretary of State advice and recommendations concerning international human rights matters. The Commission will provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nation ’s founding principles of natural law and natural rights.ThePolitico report goes on to cite human rights activists and former State Department officials ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 31, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Roger Pilon Source Type: blogs
Role of Innovation in Addressing Social Determinants of Health
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Nearly a decade has passed since Healthy People 2020 positioned social determinants of health (SDoH) at the forefront of healthcare reform. As defined by the report, SDoH are the “conditions in the environment in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age, that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality of life outcomes.” Examples of social determinants include:
Resources to meet daily needs (e.g., safe housing and local food markets)Educational, economic, and job opportunitiesCommunity-based resources in support of community living...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Catalyst @ Health 2.0 Health Tech Health Technology Health Disparities innovation challenge RWJF Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
Now Available: Wheat Belly and Undoctored Coaching Sessions
We are introducing a new way to help you succeed on the Wheat Belly and Undoctored programs!
Thousands of people have succeeded in losing weight, reversing numerous health issues, and getting off prescription medications by living the Wheat Belly and/or Undoctored lifestyles.  Many participants have expressed the need for support, encouragement, and resources to help them succeed day-to-day.
In response to this, we set up our coaching program, a series of sessions via two-way video in which a health coach can answer your questions, offer suggestions, direct you to resources, etc., all designed to help you achieve th...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 26, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Coaching April Detox health coach Jen Jennifer support undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Now Available: Wheat Belly and Undoctored Coaching
We are introducing a new way to help you succeed on the Wheat Belly and Undoctored programs!
Thousands of people have succeeded in losing weight, reversing numerous health issues, and getting off prescription medications by living the Wheat Belly and/or Undoctored lifestyles.  Many participants have expressed the need for support, encouragement, and resources to help them succeed day-to-day.
In response to this, we set up our coaching program, a series of sessions via two-way video in which a health coach can answer your questions, offer suggestions, direct you to resources, etc., all designed to help you achieve th...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 26, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Coaching April Detox health coach Jen Jennifer support undoctored wheat belly Source Type: blogs
