6 Healthcare Examples Of Virtual, Augmented And Mixed Reality
Lately, there has been a tendency in the tech world to adopt “new” realities in their midst. Meta has a branch dedicated to developing virtual reality (VR) hardware and software; earlier this year HTC unveiled its new augmented reality (AR) glasses; while Apple is reportedly gearing up to launch a mixed reality (MR) headset.
Collectively, VR, AR and MR fall under the umbrella term of extended reality (XR), which analysts believe holds the potential to be the next major computing platform. Such potentials have spillover effects into the medical field through digital health approaches, and healthcare practice is...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Augmented Reality Virtual Reality MR XR VR AR mixed reality extended reality Source Type: blogs
Insufficient Water Intake May Correlate with Increased Arterial Stiffness
As a companion piece to a recent discussion of whether mild dehydration is both quite prevalent and meaningfully impacts aspects of aging, one might look at this study of water consumption and vascular health in hyperuremic individuals. A relationship between lower water intake and arterial stiffness was only significant in women, but nonetheless it is interesting to see data that suggests at least some populations are harming themselves over the long term via too little water intake.
Hyperuricemia is defined as an elevated serum uric acid (sUA) level in the blood and is well-known as an independent risk factor fo...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 22, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
DOJ and Treasury Silent on Financial Surveillance Statistics Despite Congressional Mandate
Nicholas AnthonyTime and time again, the biggestproponents of the Bank Secrecy Act have been quick to defend its intrusion on the liberties of Americans with the argument that it stops crime. Yet, despite tens of millions of reports being filed each year, proponents can rarely name more than a few anecdotes of crimes actually being stopped. In fact, even the agency in charge of monitoring Bank Secrecy Act surveillance can ’t say how many reports have actually been used to apprehend criminals.Luckily, not everyone in Congress is content with the status quo on the Bank Secrecy Act regime. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 21, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Nicholas Anthony Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 20th 2023
In this study, researchers stimulate the ghrelin receptor using a suitable small molecule for much of the lifespan of mice, and observe the results. The overall extension of life span is a quarter of that produced by calorie restriction, and so we might draw some conclusions from that as to the relative importance of hunger in the benefits resulting from the practice of calorie restriction or fasting. Interestingly, the short term weight gains observed in mice given this ghrelin receptor agonist in the past don't appear in this long term study, in which the controls are the heaver animals. This is possibly because the rese...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Detecting Unusual Score Patterns in the Context of Relevant Predictors | SpringerLink
From the brilliance of Dr. Joel Schneider. Although statistically complicated, these procedures (and other similar beauties by Dr. Schneider) could easily be implemented in test " smart " scoring software. Detecting Unusual Score Patterns in the Context of Relevant Predictors | SpringerLink https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40817-022-00137-xNeuropsychological assessment requires integrating new information with what is already known about an examinee. In constructing a case conceptualization, it can be helpful to quantify how unusual a pattern of scores is in the context of other quantitativ...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - February 18, 2023 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: blogs
Murder most foul
As we have discussed here before, the mass shootings of strangers that get so much media attention actually represent a tiny fraction of the gun violence in the U.S. But yes, these sorts of events have become more common in the past couple of decades, which contributes to the perception that violent crime is increasing uncontrollably. Republic politicians particularly like to make this claim, although they completely rule out the proposition that any sort of gun safety legislation might be called for. Let ' s look at the facts. Because reporting of crime is incomplete, and not uniform by state, the most reliable stati...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 16, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
MLKL Knockout Slows Some Aspects of Immune Aging
Researchers here report on the results of disabling the MLKL gene involved in necroptosis, a form of programmed cell death. This reduces age-related inflammation in female mice, and delays loss of lymphocyte production in male mice. The changes are not enough to produce differences in apparent signs of aging, such as mortality rate, however. The scientific challenge here lies in linking reduced necroptosis to the observed changes in immune aging, as is usually the case in any change that is broadly related cell survival or fundamental cell activities such as replication. This sort of activity can keep research teams busy f...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 16, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Joins Employers Dropping College Degree Requirements
Marc JoffePennsylvania recently followedColorado,Maryland, andUtah in dropping college graduation requirements for many state jobs. This change will ease the task of filling positions in a competitive job market and may increase the diversity of the public sector workforce. But it could also steepen the enrollment decline now afflicting many state colleges and universities.In hisfirst executive order, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro opened up 65,000 state government positions to applicants without college degrees. In the order, Governor Shapiro stated “modernizing the Commonwealth’s hiring model to a model...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Marc Joffe Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 13th 2023
This study investigated whether taller Polish adults live longer than their shorter counterparts. Data on declared height were available from 848,860 individuals who died in the years 2004-2008 in Poland. To allow for the cohort effect, the Z-values were generated. Separately for both sexes, Pearson's r coefficients of correlation were calculated. Subsequently, one way ANOVA was performed.
The correlation between adult height and longevity was negative and statistically significant in both men and women. After eliminating the effects of secular trends in height, the correlation was very weak (r = -0.0044 in men and ...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 12, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Will AI cultivate or curb our creativity?
You may have noticed I’ve been using the ChatGPT language model and some image generation tools like MidJourney recently to produce some material for the blog. Mostly, it has been experimentation to see what these so-called AI tools might be capable of.
They’re all very clever but also very limited. At least as far as the free ones are concerned. I’ve not tried any of the paid tools and have no idea how powerful any of the under-the-counter AI tools are.
ChatGPT is essentially a very, very, very sophisticated autocomplete tool. At the basic level, autocomplete kicks in on your phone when you’re typi...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 11, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: blogs
Senators Bennet and Collins Have Their Hearts in the Right Place, But Their Eyes on the Wrong Target
Jeffrey A. SingerSenator Susan Collins (R ‑ME) wrote anop ‐ed for Seacoastonline this week expressing her concerns about skyrocketing drug overdose deaths. According to the most recentdata from the National Center for Health Statistics, 90 percent of opioid ‐related overdose deaths involve illicit fentanyl, and 15 percent involve diverted prescription pain pills. In her column, Senator Collins expressed pride in a proposal aimed at reducing overdoses that she co‐sponsored with Senator Michael Bennet (D‑CO). Unfortunately, while the legisla tion was well‐intended, it placed too much emphasis on educ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 9, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Employee Compensation Rose Just 3% in the Fourth Quarter
Alan ReynoldsThe fourth quarter ’s 3% year‐to‐year increase in hourly wages and benefits was lower than the 3.7% average increase since 1987, and even lower than the 3.1% norm during the horrific 2008 recession. That casts considerable doubt on the notion that inviting another inverted yield curve recession is a const ructive way to bring inflation down. Patience is working fine.Federal Reserve officials have been downplaying the 2.1% PCE inflation rate of the past six months by (1) expressing concern about select pieces of that average, and (2) suggesting that a generous seasonal adjustment (to statisticall...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 8, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Alan Reynolds Source Type: blogs
The New Deal and Recovery, Part 23: The Great Rapprochement
George SelginWhat finally brought the Great Depression to an end? We ' ve seen that, whatever it was, it took place not during the 30s but sometime between then and the end of World War II, when a remarkable postwar revival occurred instead of the renewed depression many feared. We ' ve also seen that, while postwar fiscal and monetary policies weren ' t austere to the point of preventing that revival, they alone can ' t explain it, because they can ' t explain the reawakening of private business investment from its decade-and-a-half-long slumber.Animal SpiritsTo get to the bottom of that reawakening, we must first recall ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 7, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
Unlocking the Future of Health —and Care—with AI
The following is a guest article by Jonathan Jesneck, Co-Founder and CTO at Firefly Lab.
Unlocking the future of healthcare with Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic amongst tech and medical professionals alike. Leaps and bounds have been made since the term was first applied in medicine in the mid-1950s, but it wasn’t until the late 2000s that developments using AI in a variety of healthcare fields started to happen.
Now, AI is effective across the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. The benefits are already being felt by many: 92% of healthcare institutes and professionals say they performed better as a ...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 7, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Communication and Patient Experience Healthcare IT Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring AAMC AI Chatbots AI in healthcare American Association of Medical Colleges Artificial Intelligence Biomedicine Dr. Jonathan Jesne Source Type: blogs
Can Behavioral Health Be Objective and Data-Driven?
Before microscopes, doctors diagnosed as best they could using external symptoms. Now we test for the presence of specific bacteria, viruses, or lesions. Dr. Thomas Young, chief medical officer and founder of Proem Behavioral Health, is convinced that psychiatry and behavioral health are also entering an age where objective data collected from the body will drive diagnoses and treatment.
Figure 1 shows some statistics about disorders tracked by Proem.
Figure 1: Measures used by Proem Behavioral Health and their uses
Two advances have come together over the past few years to enable better diagnoses and treatments: one in da...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - February 6, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andy Oram Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Health IT Company Healthcare IT Behavior Health Behavioral Health Research Dr. Thomas Young Healthcare AI mental health Mental Health AI Proem Behavioral Health Source Type: blogs
