11 Ways Conscious Growth Club Will Expand Your Experiential Range
Conscious Growth Club is our primo online self-development club. It’s been running for 7 years now, so we’ve had plenty of time to evolve and improve it.
The new Year 8 version of CGC is especially rich, abundant, and divergent – so different and unique compared to anything I’ve seen elsewhere in the self-development world.
Instead of focusing primarily on content or coaching, in CGC we prioritize crafting and guiding you through unique growth experiences. You’ll learn more through direct experience than you will by just reading and watching videos. CGC includes a strong content library too,...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Creating Reality Emotions Lifestyle Productivity Relationships Values Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 15th 2024
In conclusion, although several clinical trials targeting SnCs are ongoing, various questions about the biology of SnCs remain open, resulting in a gap between molecular and cellular data. Concerning the need, initiatives such as SenNet aiming to create openly accessible atlases of SnCs should contribute enormously to the area. Advances in understanding the subcellular structure, the heterogeneity, and the dynamics of SnCs require the integration of molecular and cellular techniques with data analysis packages to evaluate high throughput evidence from microscopy and flow cytometry. It is also necessary to develop new equip...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 14, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
SENS Research Foundation and Lifespan.io to Merge
Merging the non-profits SENS Research Foundation and Lifespan.io is one of those ideas that makes a lot of sense in hindsight. SENS Research Foundation is research focused and very much interested in expanding into patient advocacy, as it depends on philanthropic funding. Lifespan.io is a patient advocacy organization that is very much interested into expanding into helping to advance the science of aging and clinical trials for therapies of aging. They complement one another, and may well produce greater gains as one organization than as two.
Lifespan.io, renowned for its unwavering advocacy for longevity and res...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 11, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Optum: Testing Time for an Invisible Empire
By Jeff Goldsmith
Years ago, the largest living thing in the world was thought to be the blue whale. Then someone discovered that the largest living thing in the world was actually the 106 acre, 47 thousand tree Pando aspen grove in central Utah, which genetic testing revealed to be a single organism. With its enormous network of underground roots and symbiotic relationship with a vast ecosystem of fungi, that aspen grove is a great metaphor for UnitedHealth Group. United, whose revenues amount to more than 8% of the US health system, is the largest healthcare enterprise in the world. The root system of UHG is...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 2, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health Tech Jeff Goldsmith Optum PBMs United HealthGroup Source Type: blogs
Medical Costs
People have complained that I haven ' t said why Medicine is costing so much in the U S of A. Give me a break -- I can ' t talk about everything at once. I ' ve been intending to get to this all along. This is just the first installment, it ' s a long story.So, thanks to all the mind boggling complexities of employer-provided insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act, and a few other programs, something like 90% of Americans have some form of health insurance. Great news! That means we can all afford the medical services we need and nobody has to go broke because they get sick or are injured in a car crash or ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 28, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Disability Activist: Take Great Care When Seeing Bias Toward Disabled Citizens
By RANDY SOUDERS
During the years I served as Chairman of the Board for Jean Kennedy Smith’s Arts and Disability program, Very Special Arts (VSA at the Kennedy Center), I had there opportunity to meet a wide range of remarkable and courageous disabled Americans. Among the lasting friendships is a painter and visual artist, Randy Souders, who was rendered quadriplegic at the age of 17 in a 1972 accident. His concerns of late have been heightened by Trump and MAGA Republicans. I share his communication with his permission here in the hope that tech designers and others will be alert to the fact that great care is requir...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 20, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Disability eugenics Holocaust Mike Magee Randy Souders Trump Source Type: blogs
Health2047 Portfolio Company HEAL Security Launches from Stealth with $4.6 Million Raised
The Platform Offers Comprehensive, Tailored Threat Intelligence and Risk Assessment, Empowering Hospitals and Health Systems to Protect Patient Data with Precision
Health2047, a Silicon Valley-based venture studio founded by the American Medical Association (AMA), today announced its investment in and launch from stealth of portfolio company HEAL Security, a cognitive cybersecurity intelligence platform custom-designed for the healthcare sector. To date, Health2047 has invested $2.3 million in HEAL Security, with additional co-investor funding bringing its total pre-seed investment to $4.6 million.
In the first quarter ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 13, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT AMA American Medical Association Charles Aunger Evidium HEAL Security Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Health2047 HOPPR Lawrence K. Cohen Medcurio Phenomix Sciences Sch Source Type: blogs
Medical care, medical costs
Thanks to
the Affordable Care Act, something like 90% of Americans have some form of
health insurance. Great news! That means we can all afford the medical services
we need and nobody has to go broke because they get sick or are injured in a
car crash or by somebody exercising their Second Amendment rights! Err, no. Sadly
it does not mean that. In the first place, for the 50% of people who get their
insurance through employment, it ’s costing them more and more for the premiums –
by three times the rate of inflation, since 1999. With that, plus
deductibles, copays, and payment denials by in...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 2, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Too much fawning over Len Schaeffer?
By MATTHEW HOLT
There’s a lot of strum & dangst about the uptick in system utilization that has boosted hospital profits and hit Humana and United’s bottom line (But not so much Elevance’s). Kevin O’ Leary over at Health Tech Nerds brought this up today and I was reminded of this piece I wrote in 2006. And a big issue was, how much understanding and control do insurers have over the utilization in (and out of) their networks. So take a look at this piece and particularly, given the issues at the BUCAHs and at smaller players like Agilon, consider how much insurers actually know about spending...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 1, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Health insurers Len Schaeffer Medicare Advantage Oldies Utilization Source Type: blogs
5 Insights Of The Medical Futurist ’ s 100 Digital Health And AI Companies Of 2024
We are proud to introduce The Medical Futurist’s 100 Digital Health And AI Companies Of 2024 infographic. We create this list year after year and it is always among our most popular, most shared visuals. Our aim here is not to create a ranking, nor a toplist, but to highlight companies to watch this year.
The reason to publish this list is simple: the digital health realm is saturated with hype, distinguishing the promising players from the noise is a challenge. The annual list is our way of cutting through the clamor to spotlight those we believe are genuinely making strides in this space.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - February 1, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Digital Health Research top 100 Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 8th 2024
This study examined whether the local injection of the supernatant of activated PRP (saPRP) into the salivary gland (SG) could help prevent aging-induced SG dysfunction and explored the mechanisms responsible for the protective effects on the SG hypofunction.
Human salivary gland epithelial cells (hSGEC) were treated with saPRP or PRP after senescence through irradiation. The significant proliferation of hSGEC was observed in saPRP treated group compared to irradiation only group and irradiation + PRP group. Cellular senescence, apoptosis, and inflammation were significantly reduced in the saPRP group.
Th...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 7, 2024 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Healthy Data Management: How IT Assists Healthcare Institutions
The following is a guest article by Natalie Tkachenko, Healthcare Software Solutions Consultant at NIX
To obtain test results today, there’s no need to visit the hospital. Simply open a mobile app and download the report to your smartphone. Doctors remotely manage patient data without being tied to a specific medical facility. They also handle large volumes of data effortlessly within their hospitals. This became possible thanks to electronic health records, telemedicine, and cloud solutions. However, along with advancements, challenges in digital healthcare are increasing. Let’s discuss how to tackle them and ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations Security and Privacy AI Amazon Web Services AWS Blockchain Cloud Storage Cybersecurity Data Management Digital Healthcar Source Type: blogs
A Therapy to Reduce Lipoprotein(a) Levels
The research and development community is ever in search of the next statin drug, and a way to reduce lipoprotein(a) levels looks very much like an alternative statin. Statins reduce the amount of cholesterol carried by LDL particles in the bloodstream. Lipoprotein(a) is a carrier of cholesterol, like LDL, and research has shown that high levels correlate with the development of atherosclerotic lesions, as is the case for LDL-cholesterol. That being so, one can't be all that optimistic that a treatment to reduce lipoprotein(a) will actually do much for disease risk. Statins reduce risk of stroke and heart attack resulting ...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 21, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Your Insulin of the Future Could Be " Made in China " if Big PBMs Have a Say in the Matter
Back on June 16, 2022, I published an article on LinkedIn entitled "How the Civica Insulin Announcement May Be Disruptive to the PBM Kickback Scheme" (see the article athttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-civica-insulin-announcement-may-disruptive-pbm-scheme-strumello/ if you wish to read it) which predicted that a growing number of insulin biosimilars whose active pharmaceutical ingredients (API ' s) are cultured in offshore laboratories are forecast to hit the U.S. market in the next few years. According to the FDA and the individual companies whom I also follow on LinkedIn, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) typ...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 15, 2023 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2023 Congress insulin insulin prices lawmakers PBM Pharmacy Benefit Managers Source Type: blogs
Two Weeks of Purging, Releasing, and Opening
Integration of my recent MDMA journey has been going well and keeping me busier than I expected. It actually feels like I’m still going through that journey. I sense that the energies involved knew that I’d have two weeks to myself with Rachelle out of town (she’s visiting family in Canada and returns tonight), so they invited me to have an extended solo experience. I’d kept my schedule very open during those two weeks, so I feel that on some level I said yes to that invitation.
I haven’t taken any substances since a microdose of mushrooms on the 16th, opting for a longer break, but that ha...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - September 28, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Emotions Source Type: blogs
