Why is Life Span Inherited to any Significant Degree?
In this study, we argue that resilience is acquired early and maintained throughout life. Resilience should therefore influence the ability to survive up to a high age and be linked to longevity, as a number of studies indeed suggest.
"Inheritance of longevity" has been discussed at length in the literature. Its precise nature is somewhat elusive. Studying the entire Icelandic population, researchers concluded that longevity was inherited within families, probably because of shared genes. Other groups, looking at twin data, concluded that genetic influences on the lifespan were minimal before age 60 and only increas...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 5, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
TWiV 478: A pox on your horse
The TWiV team explains how infectious horsepox virus – likely the ancestor of smallpox vaccines – was recovered from chemically synthesized DNA fragments. <span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span><span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=”display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;” class=”mce_SELRES_start”></span>&lt;span data-mce-type=”bookmark” style=&...
Source: virology blog - January 28, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology dual use research edward jenner infectious DNA clone smallpox smallpox vaccine transfection vaccinia virus variola viral viruses Source Type: blogs
A virus and a paradox in a 439 year old mummy
A study done in 1985 on a 16th century Italian mummy suggested that the two year old child had smallpox. Recent sequence analysis of tissues from the mummy now reveal the presence of hepatitis B virus, not smallpox virus. The sequence of the viral genome suggests that HBV entered the human population well before 1500. […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - January 11, 2018 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information ancient dna hepatitis b virus high throughput sequencing mummy mutation rate phylogenetics viral viral evolution viruses Source Type: blogs
Is smallpox set for a comeback?
Until very recently, the pantheons of the world’s religions swelled with gods and divine beings to ward off calamities. And none loomed so large as smallpox. From the inky beginnings of civilization, the disfiguring disease slowly spread over the entire Eurasian continent and North Africa. In the last millennium, smallpox alone has caused 10 percent of all human deaths, including half a billion in the 20th century.
In China, the goddess T’ou-Shen Niang-Niang was feared; her capricious whim could disfigure or kill. She especially loved a pretty face, and during her festival nights, children would wear ugly masks to bed ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 20, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/adam-rodman" rel="tag" > Adam Rodman, MD < /a > Tags: Conditions Infectious Disease Source Type: blogs
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LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blogJust when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 217: children who changed medicine. Question 1In 1796, What did James Phipps (1788-1853) participate in that significantly changed the course of modern medicine?+ Reveal the Funtabulous Answerexpand(document.getElementById('ddet87874616'));expand(document.getElementBy...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - December 8, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mark Corden Tags: Frivolous Friday Five Christmas disease cow pox Doogie Howser Edward Jenner Haemophilia B IVF James Phipps Lorenzo's oil. Lorenzo Odone Louise Joy Brown small pox stephen christmas test tube baby Source Type: blogs
The Six Worst U.S. Health Disasters of the Last 50 Years
Up until the first half of the twentieth century, large-scale health disasters were mostly due to natural causes (earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, etc.) or infections (e.g., smallpox, influenza epidemics, cholera). But something peculiar happened as we entered the second half of the century: Health disasters due to natural causes became dwarfed by large-scale health disasters that are man-made.
Here’s a list of the Six Worst U.S. Health Disasters of the Last 50 Years, mostly man-made phenomena that have exacted huge tolls: widespread disease, premature death, poorly managed (though nonetheless highly profitable fo...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 2, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune gluten grain-free grains Inflammation low-carb Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 27th 2017
We examined associations between mortality and accelerometer-measured PA using age-relevant intensity cutpoints in older women of various ethnicities.
The results support the hypothesis that higher levels of accelerometer-measured PA, even when below the moderate-intensity threshold recommended in current guidelines, are associated with lower all-cause and CVD mortality in women aged 63 to 99. Our findings expand on previous studies showing that higher self-reported PA reduces mortality in adults aged 60 and older, specifically in older women, and at less than recommended amounts. Moreover, our findings challenge th...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 26, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
James Peyer at TEDxStuttgart: Can We Defeat the Diseases of Aging?
My attention was drawn today to a recently published presentation by James Peyer. He heads up Apollo Ventures, one of the new crop of investment concerns focused on funding companies that are developing means to treat aging. These include the Longevity Fund, first out of the gate some years ago, as well as Juvenescence and the Methuselah Fund, created this year, and a repurposing of existing funds, such as Michael Greve's Kizoo ventures. Apollo Ventures is the source of the Geroscience online magazine that helps to advance and explain the position taken on aging by this group; this is something that more investors should d...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 23, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
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LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
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Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 214.
Question 1
Who first described the phenomenon of malignant hyperthermia?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - November 17, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five apocrine miliaria Charles Maitland fox sign george henry fox john addison fordyce jones fracture malignant hyperthermia michael denborough Newgate pimp Robert Jones smallpox william osler Source Type: blogs
Children are Being Educated in School to Obey the Government ’s Vaccination Agenda
Conclusion
The message is clear, as far as governments are concerned: the more often something is repeated, the more likely the public will believe it. Or, in the words of Joseph Goebbels, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” [8]
References
https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com…history-and-biology-of-vaccines/
http://www.ukcolumn.org/article/magic-madness-governments-nlp-assault-our-minds
https://thenib.com/vaccines-work-here-are-the-facts-5de3d0f9ffd0
https://www.popsci.com/16-african-countries-have-overtaken-us-measles-vaccinations
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Source: vactruth.com - November 10, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England, BA Hons Tags: Christina England Logical Top Stories Maki Naro NLP truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
Varicella vs. Monkeypox
Outbreaks of varicella and monkeypox in Africa are occasionally mistaken for “smallpox” The following table was generated by an interactive tool in Gideon (www.GideonOnline.com) which allows users to generate custom charts that contrast clinical features, drug spectra or microbial phenotypes.
The post Varicella vs. Monkeypox appeared first on GIDEON - Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network. (Source: GIDEON blog)
Source: GIDEON blog - October 15, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Diagnosis Epidemiology Examples Microbiology Source Type: blogs
FDA Cracks Down on Some Stem Cell Clinics for Unproven Treatments
The FDA is still working to protect the U.S. population from medical chicanery while some of the federal government is wasting money, frittering away time, and trying to harm people. The new target for the agency is stem cell clinics and purveyors of"regenerative medicine" (see:FDA cracks down on stem-cell clinics, including one using smallpox vaccine in cancer patients). Below is an excerpt from the article:The Food and Drug Administration...announced a crackdown on stem-cell clinics offering unproven and potentially dangerous treatments, including an operation in California that the agency said was using the sm...
Source: Lab Soft News - September 5, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Food and Drug Administration Healthcare Business Lab Processes and Procedures Lab Regulation Lab Standards Medical Consumerism Medical Education Medical Ethics Medical Research Quality of Care Source Type: blogs
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LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 187.
Question 1
You’ve been asked to make a memorable talk. As you prepare you study SMACC and TED talks then your colleague advises you to research Giles Brindley. What did Giles Brindley do in 1983 to make his lecture memorable?
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Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 28, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five condom erectile dysfunction giles brindley hair inhaled foreign body olfactory sleep smallpox smell Source Type: blogs
Student Researcher Finds New Clues About Flu with Old Data
Do you like to find new uses for old things? Like weaving old shirts into a rug, repurposing bottles into candle holders or turning packing crates into tables? Katie Gostic, a University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) graduate student, likes finding new uses for old data. She channeled this interest when she analyzed existing data to study whether childhood exposure to flu affects a person’s future immunity to the disease.
Gostic conducted research for the flu project during the summer of 2015 when she was visiting her boyfriend, a tropical biologist, in Alamos, Sonora, Mexico. Credit: Charlie de la Rosa.
As an und...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 21, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Roya Kalantari Tags: Being a Scientist Computers in Biology Big Data Infectious Diseases Training Source Type: blogs
A Necessary Retelling of the Smallpox Vaccine Story
A curious confluence
of events unfolded Tuesday night. Just hours before President Obama uttered the
powerful “science and reason matter” in his farewell address, Robert F. Kennedy
Jr. announced that the incoming president had tapped him to head a committee on
vaccine safety.
RFK Jr. is not a
pediatric immunologist nor an epidemiologist, but a vocal “vaccine
skeptic.” Although the
PEOTUS dialed back on the purported appointment shortly after social media
erupted, a tweet from March 28, 2014 makes his analysis
of the history and science of vaccines clear: Healthy young child goes
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 30, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care syndicated vaccines Source Type: blogs
