Digital Health, Menopause, And The $150 Billion Ignorance
The idea of this story came from personal experience. During the past year, I have spent countless hours and a bucketload of money trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with my health. I was feeling worse and worse, having various symptoms, totally inexplicable with my impeccable test results. During this journey, not a single doctor asked or suggested that my symptoms may come from entering perimenopause – the stage of life of women preceding menopause.
I am 47 years old, and as I have learned since then, extremely average in starting to have perimenopause symptoms at the age of 47. Also very average ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 22, 2024 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF Lifestyle medicine female health menopause tech Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, December 25th 2023
This study generates a comprehensive single-cell transcriptomic atlas of human atherosclerosis including 118,578 high-quality cells from atherosclerotic coronary and carotid arteries. By performing systematic benchmarking of integration methods, we mitigated data overcorrection while separating major cell lineages. Notably, we define cell subtypes that have not been previously identified from individual human atherosclerosis scRNA-seq studies.
Besides characterizing granular cell-type diversity and communication, we leverage this atlas to provide insights into smooth muscle cell (SMC) modulation. We integrate genome...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 24, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Growing Thyroid Tissue in the Spleen to Restore Function
Over the past decade or so, researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to use existing organs as bioreactors to host organoids derived from other organ tissues. Functional liver tissue can be grown in lymph nodes, as can thymus tissue. Here, researchers show that thyroid organoids can be grown in the spleen. This is intended to help patients who have undergone thyroidectomy, but will this capability also be useful in the context of the aging of the thyroid gland? Interestingly, the aging of the thyroid is poorly understood in comparison to the interaction of aging with larger organs such as liver, kidney, or heart. ...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Joanna Strober, CEO, Midi Health
Women’s health in their mid-life has been very poorly treated. No one has been managing all of women’s health, and almost no one has been delivering hormone replacement therapy since a now debunked 2002 study. Midi is a new company with protocols for many conditions, and it has been training NPs to deliver the care (because no one has been training them!). CEO Joanna Strober explained how Midi is providing care in 14 states now and will be in all 50 next year, and how Midi is delivering virtual and comprehensive care to women–many of whom do not have access to any other type of regular care. They just rai...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Tech Medical Practice Joanna Strober Matthew Holt Midi Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Navigating Correlation and Causation with Life Sciences in the Age of AI
The following is a guest article by Alex Long, Head of Life Sciences Sales Strategy at Dell Technologies
In science, avoiding correlation without causation is a cornerstone of research methodology. This fundamental principle ensures that scientific conclusions are grounded in evidence rather than coincidental associations. However, as we venture into the Artificial Intelligence (AI) age, a new challenge emerges – that of “Correlation, not Creation.”
A classic example highlighting the distinction between correlation and causation is the seemingly bizarre connection between ice cream sales and swimming acci...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 24, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System AI Hallucination Alex Long Correlation vs Causation Dell Technologies Generative AI Healthcare Scene Featured Human Source Type: blogs
Oral Estrogen Linked To High Blood Pressure Risk: An In-depth Study Analysis
Conclusion
As a whole, this study indicates a strong correlation between the method of estrogen administration and the risk of hypertension.
Oral estrogen seems to carry a higher risk compared to transdermal patches and vaginal creams.
The duration and dosage of estrogen consumption are also significant factors.
Remember, regular self-monitoring is critical, and for that, we provide valuable guides on our website for things like ‘how to lower blood pressure’ and ‘checking blood pressure at home’.
Stay informed, stay healthy!
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Source: The EMT Spot - June 8, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: News Source Type: blogs
FOLX Health Raises $30M in Series B Funding Led by 7wireVentures; Launches Expert-Led Support Groups for LGBTQIA+ Community
The New Funding Enables the LGBTQIA+ Digital Healthcare Provider to Launch Mental and Behavioral Health Products and Further Invest in Direct-to Employer Offering
FOLX Health, the first digital healthcare service provider designed by and for the medical needs of the LGBTQIA+ community, today announced $30 million in new financing led by 7wireVentures, with participation from new investor Foresite Capital and existing investors, including Bessemer Venture Partners, Define Ventures, and Polaris Partners. Lee Shapiro, Managing Partner at 7wireVentures and former Chief Financial Officer at Livongo Health, will join FOLX Health...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - October 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring 7wireVentures behavioral health Bessemer Venture Partners Define Ventures FOLX Health Foresite Capital General Health Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Source Type: blogs
Breast Cancer Screening: We Can Do Better
The three risk assessment tools now in use fall far short. Using the latest deep learning techniques, investigators are developing more personalized ways to locate women at high risk.John Halamka, M.D., president, Mayo Clinic Platform, and Paul Cerrato, senior research analyst and communications specialist, Mayo Clinic Platform, wrote this article.The promise of personalized medicine will eventually allow clinicians to offer individual patients more precise advice on prevention, early detection and treatment. Of course, the operative word iseventually.A closer examination of the screening tools available to detect breast c...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - August 31, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
On the bias of science: a digression
This series has elicited a couple of what I consider idiotic and unpublishable comments to the effect that I have just proved why people don ' t trust science. This is a basic problem in science communication to the general public that is much discussed. Here ' s my two cents.The problem is that scientists are generally reluctant to make highly definitive statements. Science is a continuously progressive endeavor and it ' s not uncommon for what we thought we knew yesterday to turn out to be not quite right today. Many conclusions are probabilistic - we ' re 90% or 95% sure of something. Sometimes an association holds unde...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 22, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
It ’s OK to Break the Rules Now and Then
This study introduces an augmented intelligence platform for the real-time synthesis of institutional knowledge captured in EHRs.” One caveat that the researchers acknowledge in the report was that they had yet to conduct prospective validation of the augmented EHR curation approach.A second nference-based investigation reviewed the records of patients who had received more than 94,000 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, more than 36,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine, and 1,745 doses of the Johnson& Johnson vaccine. The study ’s goal was to determine the incidence of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST), w...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - April 26, 2021 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 29th 2021
Discussion of Systemic Inflammation and its Contribution to Dementia
Fisetin Reduces D-Galactose Induced Cognitive Loss in Mice
Reprogramming Cancer Cells into Normal Somatic Cells
Considering Longevity Medicine and the Education of Physicians
Researchers Generate Thyroid Organoids Capable of Restoring Function in Mice
In Search of Transcriptional Signatures of Aging
A Pace of Aging Biomarker Correlates with Manifestations of Aging
Targeting Tissues with Extracellular Vesicles
Calorie Restriction Slows Aging of the Gut Microbiome in Mice
Mitochondrial DNA Heteroplasmy in the Aging Heart
Evidence...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 28, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Researchers Generate Thyroid Organoids Capable of Restoring Function in Mice
When building functional organ tissue from the starting point of pluripotent stem cells, a different recipe is required for each different tissue type. Good progress is being made in establishing these recipes, and over the past decade the research community has steadily expanded the number of organs for which tissue engineered organoids can be constructed. An organoid is a millimeter-scale segment of functional organ tissue, only lacking the blood vessel network needed to support larger structures. Organoids are very useful in research, but in many cases can also be used to restore lost organ function when transplanted in...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 22, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
A physician questions the COVID vaccine data from Israel
Bloodletting may be the best-known example of a once widely used, faulty medical treatment, but there are many more. Hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal women, famously touted by experts, turned out to be complicated and sometimes harmful. The list of medical reversals is long, and one cause is common. When observational studies compare people in […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 6, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/daniel-hopkins" rel="tag" > Daniel Hopkins, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions COVID-19 coronavirus Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
Why medical research keeps changing its mind
Did you ever wonder why medical research seems to flip-flop so often? Eggs used to be terrible for your health; now they’re not so bad. Stomach ulcers were thought to be due to stress and a “type A personality” but that’s been disproven. I was taught that every postmenopausal woman should take hormone replacement therapy to prevent heart disease and bone loss; now it’s considered way too risky. It can make you question every bit of medical news you hear.
But maybe that’s not such a bad thing. Questioning what you read or hear is reasonable. And maybe medical reversals — when new research leads to a complete t...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Health Medical Research Prevention Tests and procedures Source Type: blogs
Hormone replacement therapy is still linked to cancer
It is a fluke of the news cycle that if we don’t hear a product warning frequently, we can“forgive” that product and think it has somehow become safe. While no one would“forgive” cigarettes, lead in drinking water or mercury in tuna, the public has definitely softened on the danger of hormone replacement therapy […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 31, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/martha-rosenberg" rel="tag" > Martha Rosenberg < /a > < /span > Tags: Meds Endocrinology OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
