The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hardens data security rules for health apps and devices
FTC says it will fine digital health companies that don’t disclose data breaches (mobihealthnews):
With data breaches on the rise, the FTC is looking to make health apps more accountable for telling patients when their data has been exposed.
The FTC released a new statement specifying that all health apps that capture sensitive patient information notify users, the commission itself and in some cases the media when a security breach has compromised identifiable health data. If the company fails to do so it could face a fine of $43,792 per day of violation.
The ruling is actually more than ten years old, but according to ...
Source: SharpBrains - October 7, 2021 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Brain/ Mental Health Technology & Innovation data breaches devices digital health FTC health apps Health Breach Notification Rule health data personal health records security breach Source Type: blogs
Clarifying the Hyperfunction Theory of Aging
My encounters with the hyperfunction theory of aging have at times left me confused, and I suspect that not all of those arguing for it are working from exactly the same picture in their heads. The version presented in today's editorial is somewhat more clear, possibly because the primary intent of the paper is to clarify. It is worth noting up front that the author is very much a proponent of the centrality of mTOR and related signaling pathways in aging, in the sense that aging and age-related degeneration is a program of regulatory change that produces damage. The opposing mainstream viewpoint in the research community ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 6, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Aging as an Emergent Phenomenon, All Trees and No Forest
Theory and modeling dominates the study of the evolution of aging, as is the case in any field in which one is presented with a snapshot of a very complex environment and no ability to conduct directly relevant experiments on that environment. Beyond the state of the natural world here on earth, astrophysics is another good example: a zoo of diverse phenomenon out there in the universe and a great deal of highly mathematical back and forth here on Earth over exactly why the night sky looks the way it does.
Given the nature of the field, any discussion of the fine details of the evolution of aging should be taken as ...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 5, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Hampton Inn Midtown Raleigh: Newest Hotel For Reversal Patients
Tubal reversal surgery patients have a new hotel to stay when scheduling surgery with A Personal Choice: Hampton Inn Midtown Raleigh!
The post Hampton Inn Midtown Raleigh: Newest Hotel For Reversal Patients appeared first on A Personal Choice. (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog)
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - October 1, 2021 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Source Type: blogs
A physician family ’s adoption journey
A few years ago, a Chicago-area fertility clinic ran a series of radio ads at the same early hour each morning. For weeks, I woke to a woman ’s energetic voice cutting through the fog of my semiconsciousness, announcing her gratitude to the center’s reproductive specialists. “Without them,” she proclaimed brightly, “my baby wouldn’t have myRead more …A physician family’s adoption journey originally appeared inKevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/anne-jacobson" rel="tag" > Anne Jacobson, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
Dr. Monteith ’s Free Tubal Reversal Contest Winners For 2021!
Hot off the press! The winners of the 2022 Free Tubal Reversal Contest have been chosen. Meet the winners and read their personal stories!
The post Dr. Monteith’s Free Tubal Reversal Contest Winners For 2021! appeared first on A Personal Choice. (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog)
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - September 17, 2021 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: Dr. Monteith free tubal reversal surgery contest free reversal contest free tubal reversal contest tubal reversal giveaway Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 13th 2021
In this study, mature DCs (mDCs), generated from the GM-CSF and IL-4 induced bone marrow cells, were intravenously injected into wild-type mice. Three days later, assays showed that the mDCs were indeed able to return to the thymus. Homing DCs have been mainly reported to deplete thymocytes and induce tolerance. However, medullary TECs (mTECs) play a crucial role in inducing immune tolerance. Thus, we evaluated whether the mDCs homing into the thymus led to TECs depletion. We cocultured mDCs with mTEC1 cells and found that the mDCs induced the apoptosis and inhibited the proliferation of mTEC1 cells. These effects were onl...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 12, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Mitochondrial-Derived Peptides as Targets for Cardiovascular Disease Therapies
This review takes a look at a number of peptides related to mitochondrial function, and which are thought to potentially provide therapeutic benefit. Some are interesting in the context of aging. As is the case for most peptides with enough scientific literature to justify a review paper, availability and use is somewhat ahead of the science. Peptide manufacture is easy enough and cheap enough that most studied peptides can be purchased from established manufacturers. That certainly doesn't mean that they are in fact useful at the end of the day! This marketplace is very much like the supplement marketplace in that respect...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 10, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The Evolutionary Layering of the Mechanisms of Aging
Aging is the accumulation of molecular damage and the consequences of that damage. This molecular damage and its immediate consequences are comparatively simple to describe, but the damage takes place in a fantastically complex system of cells, cellular interactions, tissues, organs, organ interactions, and more. Every problem causes cascading, interacting chains of cause and effect, hard to pick apart via inspection and hard to reason about. Cellular metabolism and tissue structure and function are far from fully mapped, and aging involves sweeping changes throughout the organism and its countless subsystems.
Today...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 9, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Make Like a Cell and Split: Comparing Mitosis and Meiosis
Your body is made up of trillions of cells that all originate from just one—a fertilized egg. The massive multiplication of cells after conception is possible thanks to cell division, which occurs when one cell splits into two. Cell division not only enables growth but also replaces damaged or dead cells and makes reproduction possible. There are two kinds of cell division: mitosis and meiosis.
Mitosis is shown on the left, and meiosis is shown on the right. Credit: Judith Stoffer. Click to enlarge
What’s the Difference?
Mitosis produces two genetically identical “daughter” cells from a single ...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - September 8, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Cellular Processes Chromosomes Source Type: blogs
Questioning the Reproducibility of Fly Life Span Studies
In the course of examining gender differences on fly longevity, researchers here find sizable variations in life span between repeated studies. This variation is thought to derive from differences in maintaining a fly population, such as the dietary composition and season of the year. They suggest that this calls into question the detailed data obtained from much of the work involving aging and age-slowing interventions in flies. Reproducibility is critical to establishing whether or not observed effects are real. Flies may thus be a poor choice of model organism for any initial investigation of means to slow or reverse ag...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 8, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Is There A Place For Facebook In Healthcare?
Data privacy scandals, help in rigging elections, spreading fake news on COVID and vaccines: Facebook has been through a lot and users are not happy with the social media giant’s performance. However, Mark Zuckerberg’s company does not only have a political and social impact, but it’s also getting quite relevant in healthcare.
We looked around what Facebook currently does in healthcare and evaluated whether those are viable ways to follow in the future.
Facebook: from trust issues to healthcare
The social media machine built on “sophisticated, computer-driven engines for extracting users’ person...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 7, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Bioethics Security & Privacy AI facebook future Health Healthcare Innovation social media technology VR fake news smart healthcare Mark Zuckerberg Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 30th 2021
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Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out mo...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 29, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
