One Rational Expectation For Each: The Next Healthcare Moves Of Tech Giants
Walmart announced the opening of five new ‘Walmart Health’ Centres in Florida in April, promising low-cost healthcare services. Not very surprising given how the American firm has been steadily building a foothold in this industry in recent years without any signs of slowing down.
In the U.S., Walmart established 600 COVID-19 testing sites during the pandemic; before the current announcement, Walmart Health business has rolled out in 20 locations across Arkansas, Georgia and Illinois in the last three years complete with primary care, emergency care, labs and more. By 2029, Walmart’s board even plans to scal...
Source: The Medical Futurist - April 14, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Forecast Future of Medicine digital health Healthcare tech giants Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, April 11th 2022
In conclusion, plasma levels of IGHA2, APOA and HPT are associated with subclinical atherosclerosis independently of traditional risk factors and offers potential to predict this disease. The panel could improve primary prevention strategies in areas where imaging is not available.
A Lesser Diversity of Circulating Antibodies in the Aging Killifish Immune System
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/04/a-lesser-diversity-of-circulating-antibodies-in-the-aging-killifish-immune-system/
Short-lived killifish are one of the more recently adopted animal models of aging. All such models are a trade-off bet...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 10, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Be Prepared Part Two
Not only did our public health infrastructure have no surge capacity for the pandemic, neither did our health care infrastructure, most notably hospital capacity. That was in fact one of the most publicly visible and damaging facts about the pandemic.Judd Legum explains it here. In a pistachio shell, the number of hospital beds in the U.S. has been declining for 45 years, even as the population has increased. Although Legum doesn ' t emphasize it, this is not entirely bad. In fact some decline was desirable. With better surgical techniques and other advances, many procedures that used to require hospitalization can no...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 20, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
APA: With digital mental health going mainstream, will/ should psychologists be able to “prescribe” interventions?
Mental health, meet venture capital (APA):
Until recently, mental health was a relative blip on the radar of venture capitalists. But over the past few years, and particularly since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, private investors have made a dramatic run for this space, pouring $3.1 billion into mental health ventures by the third quarter of 2021 alone, according to Rock Health, a seed fund that supports startups working in digital health. That represents a third of all digital health funding for 2021, more than 7 times the amount of funding placed in such ventures in 2015.
The reasons for this boom are clear. The pa...
Source: SharpBrains - January 14, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation anxiety APA COVID depression digital mental health FDA FDA-approved insomnia meditation mindfulness prescription Psychology Rock Health substance use trauma venture-capital Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 3rd 2022
In this study, we showed that the iPaD (inducing Plagl2 and anti-Dyrk1a) lentivirus substantially rejuvenated the proliferative and neurogenic potential of NSCs in the aged brain. Clonal analysis by a sparse labeling approach as well as transcriptome analysis indicated that iPaD can rejuvenate aged NSCs (19-21 mo of age) to a level comparable with those at 1 or 2 months of age and successfully improved cognition of aged mice.
Once rejuvenated and activated by iPaD, aged dormant NSCs can generate, on average, 4.9 neurons but very few astrocytes in 3-week tracing. Furthermore, these activated NSCs were maintained for ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 2, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A Look Back at 2021: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition
Well, here we are again, at the end of another pandemic year, a year older and - hopefully - a year wiser and more knowledgeable. I said all that really needs to be said on the topic of COVID-19 as an age-related condition at the end of last year. We might hope that, given widespread vaccination, the pandemic will become a topic of diminishing importance as the year ahead progresses, even given the present round of variants, fears, and reintroduction of restrictions.
Advocacy for Aging Research
Have we finally made significant progress in convincing the world that aging is the cause of age-related disease, th...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 31, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Of Interest Source Type: blogs
Reflections on Greenspan ’s “Irrational Exuberance” Speech after 25 Years
ConclusionMuch can be learned by reflecting on Greenspan ’s 1996 speech, especially given the global financial crisis of 2007–2009 and the current pandemic—both of which have increased the Fed’s power and weakened its independence. There is still no monetary rule to guide monetary policy, even as inflation has reared its head once more. What jumps out from Greenspan’s speech is how he posed a problem that the Fed never solved, and then made things worse.The New Year will test the Fed ’s resolve to taper QE, “normalize” interest rates, and slow inflation. With unprecedented fiscal deficits and debt, at least...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 27, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: James A. Dorn Source Type: blogs
It Is Interesting To See That 5G Home Internet Has Come So Far So Quickly.
This appeared last week: 5G v NBN: New battleground for fast internet December 11, 2021 — 10.00pm Australians might soon find out who was right about the internet: Kevin Rudd or Malcolm Turnbull. A decade ago, when Mr Rudd was prime minister and building the new National Broadband Network, Mr Turnbull, as opposition spokesman for communications, predicted that the NBN would become a n endangered species because of the eventual arrival of wireless 5G internet. Fast-forward to 2021 and 5G internet access is now a reality. The big-three telcos have rolled out their 5G networks to as many as three-quarters of their customers...
Source: Australian Health Information Technology - December 15, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Dr David G More MB PhD Source Type: blogs
Cold Cap Therapy for Chemo Patients: Interview with Kate Dilligan, CEO of Cooler Heads Care
Cooler Heads Care, a medtech company based in San Diego, created Amma, a cold cap therapy device that aims to help chemotherapy patients to preserve their hair. Hair loss is a very common side-effect of chemo, and poses a significant psychological challenge for patients who are already struggling with their diagnosis and treatment.
Simply cooling the scalp during chemotherapy can dramatically reduce the amount of drug absorbed by the hair follicles, leading to reduced hair loss. However, current technology to achieve this comes with a hefty price tag, and may cost the patient as much as $8,000. This is out of reach for ...
Source: Medgadget - November 16, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Medicine Oncology Source Type: blogs
IRS Tax Enforcement vs. Civil Liberties
Chris EdwardsThe proposed$2.4 trillion reconciliation bill includes $80 billion for increased Internal Revenue Service (IRS) funding. The Democrats want to beef up the tax agency and expand its powers. The aim is to raise revenues by reducing the tax gap, which is the amount of taxes legally owed but not paid.The large funding increase would double the IRS workforce,according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Aboutthree ‐quarters of the increased funding would go toward enforcement.Supporters think that greater enforcement would be good policy because the expected higher tax revenues would outweigh the cost of...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 11, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
World ’ s Biggest Pharma Companies Go Digital – Summary
In recent weeks, we have examined more than two dozen of the largest pharma companies from the perspective of how they use digital solutions and what digital health investments they do. These pharmaceutical giants have long-term strategies that, when the time comes, will alter our lives entirely. So it is critical that we know where they stand and how they imagine our common future – for it will become our reality.
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Source: The Medical Futurist - November 11, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Forecast Future of Medicine Future of Pharma investment big tech DTx digital therapeutics big pharma evidence Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 8th 2021
In conclusion, in less common and visible cardiovascular diseases, it is crucial to recognize substantial progress and achievement, given that penetration of such information into clinical practice and the patient community can be inconsistent. Diseases such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and ATTR cardiac amyloidosis, once linked to a uniformly adverse prognosis, are now associated with the opportunity for patients to experience satisfactory quality of life and extended longevity.
VitaDAO, a Novel Approach to Crowdfunding Life Science Research
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Source: Fight Aging! - November 7, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
How We Wrested Control of Our Rx Drug Spending. Maybe You Can, too.
This week, we ' ve heard reporting that the big Congressional bill which was supposed to include a provision for Medicare, which is the taxpayer-funded senior insurance plan to actually negotiate prices on prescription drugs (just as most other countries, as well as the Veteran ' s Administration [VA] already do right now) was going to be omitted because of a handful of PhRMA-bankrolled lawmakers pushed to kill it. That said, it isn ' t over until its over. Although we don ' t know what she might or might not do, House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi still has some tricks in her own playbook if it doesn ' t happen a...
Source: Scott's Web Log - November 1, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: coupon-generating websites apps PBM prescriptions Source Type: blogs
Some Key EASD News for T1D
This week, the European rival to the ADA Scientific Sessions known as EASD (which stands for the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) held its annual meeting, which was the organization ' s 57th Annual Meeting and it took place virtually (much like the ADA Scientific Sessions did this year) due to COVID-19. EASD was held from September 27, 2021 to October 1, 2021. In recent years, neither the ADA Scientific Sessions not the EASD Meetings have yielded many surprise findings or previously unknown product launches.My short summary is that Novo Nordisk is finally getting on the " smart pen " cap bandwagon, while riv...
Source: Scott's Web Log - October 1, 2021 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2021 Bigfoot Unity Companion Medical EASD FTC insulin prices Lilly Medtronic diabetes Novo Nordisk rebate reform Smart Pen Caps Smart Pens Source Type: blogs
Roger Chou ’s Undisclosed Conflicts of Interest: How the CDC’s 2016 Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain Lost Its Clinical and Professional Integrity
by Chad D. Kollas MD, Terri A. Lewis PhD, Beverly Schechtman and Carrie Judy“I ' m present. Uh … I do have a conflict. I receive funding to conduct reviews on opioids, and I ' ll be recusing myself after the um, director ' s, uh, um, um, uh … update.”- Dr. Roger Chou, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) Meeting Friday, July 16, 2021.IntroductionFor those familiar with the controversial relationship between the anti-opioid advocacy group, Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP, recently renamed, He...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 17, 2021 Category: Palliative Care Tags: CDC judy kollas lewis opioid pain schechtman Source Type: blogs
