Making Microprotein Discoveries With Alan Saghatelian
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Alan Saghatelian.
“There aren’t many professions that can provide this much opportunity for learning, especially when it comes to understanding how our bodies work. I really love what I do—I wouldn’t trade it for anything,” says Alan Saghatelian, Ph.D., a professor in the Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California. From studying new facts and experimental techniques to adopting new ways of thinking, researchers never stop learning, and Dr. Saghatelian credits his love for learning and exploring as reasons why h...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 29, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Profiles Proteins Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Science
Note: I am aware that the charter of Hamas can be construed as racist. I do not defend Hamas. That is beside the point of my recent post. Psalm 19 is interesting for at least two reasons. Verses 5 and 6 were cited by the court in the trial of Galileo, for his heresy of claiming that the earth rotates, and revolves around the sun. The last verse, omitting the words " my rock and my redeemer, " are recited by the priest from the Book of Common Prayer in the Episcopal church. It may be used in other denominations as well, but that ' s the one I ' m familiar with. Psalm 20 is a prayer for victory in war, about ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 29, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wanted: Division for Research Capacity Building Director
With the departure of Ming Lei, a search is open for an outstanding candidate to serve as director of our Division for Research Capacity Building (DRCB).
DRCB seeks to enhance the research, research training, research infrastructure, and faculty development of institutions in states and jurisdictions that have historically received low levels of NIH support. DRCB is thus responsible for both broadening the distribution of NIH biomedical research funding and supporting NIGMS’ commitment to developing a diverse biomedical research workforce. DRCB manages a number of highly impactful initiatives, including the I...
Source: NIGMS Feedback Loop Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - November 28, 2023 Category: Biomedical Science Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Job Announcements Research Capacity Building Source Type: blogs
What ’ s a Problem, Technology, Opportunity, or Issue That Not Enough People are Talking About?
The world of healthcare IT is similar to the birth and expansion of our universe. It started out slowly until a big bang set it all off into motion. And now, just like the expansion of our universe, healthcare IT is only picking up speed and getting bigger and bigger. So with the world of healthcare IT only getting faster and expanding out into newer and bigger areas, how can we keep track of everything? Alone, the task is impossible, but together we just might manage it. In search of a status report, we reached out to our brave Healthcare IT Today community to see what problems, technologies, opportunities, or issues they...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 28, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Grayson Miller Tags: C-Suite Leadership Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System LTPAC aidoc BJ Boyle Caregility Carta Healthcare Elad Walach Foley & Lardner Hlth HLTH 2023 HLTH2023 Isabel Hines Jeff Gartland Kedar Ga Source Type: blogs
The Amaranth Foundation on Bottlenecks in Aging Research
The Amaranth Foundation is one of a small number of organizations created by high net worth individuals to accelerate progress towards the development of therapies to treat aging, picking and choosing research programs and biotech startups to fund based on the founders' understanding of the science and favored goals. Amaranth has a strong focus on neuroscience, for example. The Amaranth pitch on the importance of focusing on bottlenecks in the research and development process is a more general call to action, however, and an interesting take on how best philanthropic organizations should direct their efforts in order to sp...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 27, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
The 340B Drug Pricing Program: Litigation, Administration, and Reform
Ryan Knox (Harvard-MIT Center for Regulatory Science), Ameet Sarpatwari (Harvard Medical School), The 340B Drug Pricing Program: Litigation, Administration, and Reform, Okla. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2023): The 340B Drug Pricing Program supports hospitals and safety net clinics caring for low-income... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - November 27, 2023 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
What are the most commonly used pain self-management strategies?
This study also demonstrates how novel interventions can be examined in groups with small numbers, but still allowing us to measure important changes. As an exploratory design, single case study design replicated with several participants is a method we need to use more.
In a systematic review and meta-analysis, Blasco-Belled and colleagues (2023) found that positive psychology interventions do enhance positive affect and reduce anxiety but didn’t alter depression. There were not many studies included in this analysis suggesting that we still have a hang-up on promoting joy and compassion and all the good things i...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - November 26, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Coping Skills Coping strategies Occupational therapy Resilience Resilience/Health Science in practice biopsychosocial pain management Research Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
In the crosshairs: The False Claims Act ’ s new targets in health care
The practice of medicine involves a delicate interplay between medical expertise and the unique needs of each individual. Ideally, medical decisions should prioritize the health and well-being of patients while being rooted in science and evidence-based practice. However, this noble mission inevitably becomes challenging in the context of reimbursement structures that inadvertently incentivize unnecessary procedures
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In the crosshairs: The False Claims Act’s new targets in health care originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 24, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Scott Ellner, DO, MPH Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
Genre Fluid
Just packaging up six of my most recent songs and musical collaborations that cross over some diverse styles. I’m releasing them as a maxi-EP or a mini-LP, depending on whether you’re glass half-full or half-empty, under the title Genre Fluid for the bargain-bin price of $5 or a dollar each if you want each song separately.
AI generated album art – surreal desert scene
It’s Not Our Time for the Sea is the most recent of the collection with lyrics by Andrea Thomson (from C5 the band) and me. It’s about the abusive relationship between man and Mother Earth, a mish-mash of prog, pop, funk, rock a...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 24, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
Pain medicine realities: beyond the opioid crisis
In 1990, Ronald Melzack published a paper in Scientific American titled “The Tragedy of Needless Pain.” Many would regard Melzack as the “father” of pain science and the treatment of pain. In that paper, he described the science behind several observations that many clinicians and public health policy decision-makers would find startling in today’s hostile and fraught
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Pain medicine realities: beyond the opioid crisis originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Richard A. Lawhern, PhD and Stephen E. Nadeau, MD Tags: Conditions Medications Source Type: blogs
The brain science behind acupuncture
There are those who believe acupuncture to be a bunch of mumbo jumbo. I’m convinced it works, though. Acupuncture was first performed thousands of years ago, and it’s still being done today. That alone should tell you there’s something to it. Early practitioners believed they were balancing life force and rhythm. Modern science has proven
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The brain science behind acupuncture originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Marc Arginteanu, MD Tags: Conditions Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Awakening Your Dormant Talents
Do you have a talent that you no longer develop? Do you have some potential that you are no longer using?
I wrote about this topic years ago. At that time, I wrote that my dormant talent was coding. I have a background in computer science, but at that time I hadn’t developed an app in years. My wish was to develop my coding talent again.
Fast forward to the present, I’m happy to report that I have been developing my coding talent! I’ve developed several apps in the past years, and I still do now. So, my coding talent is no longer dormant. It still has a lot of room for improvement, but I’ve been working on it...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
(We Don ’ t) Trust The Science
By KIM BELLARD
I know the A.I. community is eagerly waiting for me to weigh in on the Sam Altman/OpenAI dramedy (), but I’m not convinced this isn’t all a ploy by ChatGPT, so I’m staying away from it. A.I. may, indeed, be an existential issue for our age, but it’s one of many such issues that I fear we’re not, as a society, going to be equipped to handle.
Last week the Pew Research Center issued an alarming report Americans’ Trust in Scientists, Positive Views of Science Continue to Decline. Now, a glass half-full kind of person might look at it and say – no, it’s good news! Fifty-seven pe...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 22, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Creationism Education Kim Bellard Science STEM Source Type: blogs
It ’ s not our time for the sea – a song
Andrea T from C5 the band, mentioned in passing that she’d had a dream where she wrote a song, but she could only remember the following line – “She said, it’s not my time for the sea”.
Hipgnosis-style generative art cover
Well, having worked with co-founder and erstwhile member of our Arts Night collective Simon Oliver on a song last week (My Light, My Sky), I felt like I was on a roll and came up with some lyrics to hang around Andrea’s phrase. The words evolved over the course of a couple of days with input from Andrea as well as a beautiful additional verse from her.
I then set about...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - November 21, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Music Source Type: blogs
Patient Engagement Pioneer Rx.Health Joins Commure
Now Available as Commure Engage, Rx.Health Uses AI and Automation to Streamline Clinical Care Coordination for Payors, Providers, and Life Science Organizations
Commure, Inc., a leading healthcare technology company committed to connecting, protecting, and empowering the healthcare workforce, today announced that intelligent clinical automation platform Rx.Health is now part of its suite of solutions as Commure Engage.
Rx.Health offers a low-code, no-code clinical care coordination platform that helps health systems, payors, and life science organizations streamline their end-to-end patient care efforts, from patient ide...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 21, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Commure Commure Engage Health IT Acquisitions Healthcare M&A Mount Sinai Health System Richard Strobridge Rx.Health Tanay Tandon UnitedHealthcare Yale New Haven Health Source Type: blogs
