A Cautious Industry View of the Promise of Senolytics
This article on senolytic therapies to selectively remove senescent cells in old tissues is in part a matter of Unity Biotechnology talking up their position. The company suffered from first mover disadvantage in bringing senolytic drugs into clinical development. The field has made progress very rapidly over the last decade, and startups founded even just a couple of years after Unity's launch benefited from greater knowledge and a selection of better technologies to work with. Still, one can be talking up one's position and also be right. The accumulation of senescent cells is profoundly harmful, a significant contributi...
Source: Fight Aging! - December 22, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

The holidays can open up a range of emotions
Physician suicide rates are unacceptably high at baseline and go even higher during the holidays. The holiday increase in suicide rates is not unique to physicians, though. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), A 2021 survey showed that 3 in 5 Americans feel their mental health is negatively impacted by the holidays. Read more… The holidays can open up a range of emotions originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 22, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Suicide isn ’ t painless for those left behind
Suicide isn’t beautiful. It’s not glamorous. It’s not Virginia Woolf, with pockets full of stones walking calmly into the water surrounded by trees and dappled sunlight with string music playing in the background as you slowly sink under the water. Suicide is blood and vomit pouring out of your nose. It’s losing control of your Read more… Suicide isn’t painless for those left behind originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 21, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

The Conscious Creation of Your Nursing Career
As the year comes to an end, it ' s always a good time to pause, reflect, and take stock of the current state of your nursing career. As I ' ve often said in my writing, podcasts, and keynote addresses, you can always choose to allow your career to happen to you, or you can instead take inspired action and make it happen. Which sounds better to you? Conscious Career CreationConsciously making your nursing career happen involves several key factors: Thewill/desire to create a career that ' s unique to youThediscipline to consistently focus on your career ' s evolutionTheinspiration to think creatively Theinde...
Source: Digital Doorway - December 19, 2022 Category: Nursing Source Type: blogs

Bad Backs & Deductibles
It’s time again for me to use my bad back as a case study in why American health care has such crazy incentives.  About a month ago at the HLTH conference in Vegas, over the course of a few hours I developed debilitating leg pain. To quote from my earlier twitter  thread on my time in Vegas,  “After 3 days of excruciating pain, my wife insisted I went to the ER. The public policy person in me was horrified but we had already spent our deductible, so the cost was actually lower than paying cash for an MRI” What actually happened was that after 3 days of dreadful pain & inability to wal...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Matthew Holt Chronic Back Pain health deductible health plans (HDHP) Insurers Surgery Source Type: blogs

Bonus Features – December 18, 2022 – Half of Americans avoiding hospitals due to staffing shortages, 62% of patients don ’ t trust health plan info when searching for providers, and much more
This article will be a weekly roundup of interesting stories, product announcements, new hires, partnerships, research studies, awards, sales, and more. Because there’s so much happening out there in healthcare IT we aren’t able to cover in our full articles, we still want to make sure you’re informed of all the latest news, announcements, and stories happening to help you better do your job. News The Federal Trade Commission released an updated Mobile Health Apps Tool created with input from ONC, OCR, and the FDA. An ONC blog post described how the tool works: Developers answer questions about the type of health dat...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - December 18, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Brian Eastwood Tags: Healthcare IT Interoperability Telemedicine and Remote Monitoring Amazon AWS Axxess Best Buy Care Brightside Health CareSyntax Carta Healthcare CB Insights Cisco ConnectAmerica Current Health Cylera DailyPay Deciphex Dedalu Source Type: blogs

Physicians with mental illness shouldn ’t hide [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! “Doctors with mental illness don’t need more suicide awareness — we’re aware. And we don’t need confidential treatment opportunities. What we need is assurance from all invested parties — our employers, credentialing bodies, and licensing officials — that it will be OK if we Read more… Physicians with mental illness shouldn’t hide [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 18, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

Top 8 Most Controversial Stories About Medical Innovations
I spend my days monitoring progress, analysing new trends, and learning about spectacular new initiatives. Needless to say: not just me, but the whole team of The Medical Futurist is fascinated by what we learn. And then sometimes there is a story that just melts the fuses at one or more team members – and our readers.  Below I picked 8 of our favourite controversial stories from – almost exclusively – this year. It’s important to note that controversial doesn’t equal bad/useless. Sometimes it’s just not widely accepted (yet) and so exotic that they can surely provide a unique talking point at a...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 13, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF 3d printing AI artificial intelligence bioprinting digital health CRISPR designer baby designer babies robotics in healthcare assisted dying DIY blood draw DIY blood test medical innovation deepfake Source Type: blogs

Study identifies cognitive benefits of ketamine in patients with treatment-resistant depression
This article is based on the results of “Evaluation of Early Ketamine Effects on Belief-Updating Biases in Patients With Treatment-Resistant Depression”, recently published in JAMA Psychiatry. The article was originally published on The Conversation and translated from the French by Enda Boorman for Fast ForWord. To Learn More: FDA-approved, Cybin-sponsored clinicial trial to measure ketamine’s impact on the brain via Kernel Flow neuroimaging helmet Study: Psychedelics can promote neural plasticity in the prefrontal cortex and expand pathways for mental health The post Study identifies cognitive benefits of ketamin...
Source: SharpBrains - December 8, 2022 Category: Neuroscience Authors: The Conversation Tags: Brain/ Mental Health affective bias antidepressants augmented psychotherapy brain-activity Brain-Plasticity Cognitive Neuroscience depression depressive beliefs ketamine NMDA pharmacological psilocybin psychedelic medicine psyc Source Type: blogs

Self ‐​Coup in Peru: Why Castillo’s Attempt Failed So Rapidly
Daniel RaisbeckPeru ’s constitution came under threat the moment Pedro Castillo officially won Peru’s contentious presidential election in June of 2021. A formerly obscure teachers union leader who came to media prominence as the candidate for a Marxist ‐​Leninist party (Free Peru), Castillo had no intention of playing by the established rules of the Peruvian republic. Though certainly erratic — the country now has its seventh president in six years — Peru’s institutions had still managed to withstand a series of impeachment trials and other clashes between the executive and Congress. A&nb...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 7, 2022 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel Raisbeck Source Type: blogs

3 Signs That Can Predict A Suicide Attempt (M)
Depressive mixed states often precede a suicide attempt. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - December 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Depression subscribers-only Source Type: blogs

A Medical Student Perspective on Loss and Self-Awareness
“There are these two young fish swimming along and they meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and eventually one of them looks at the other and goes, ‘What is water?”– David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College Commencement 2005, “This is Water.” The journey from medical school to residency goes fast: there scarcely seems time enough to do it all. Although we practice again and again so we can better discern what troubles our patients, we do not do the same for ourselves. In fact, unti...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 6, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Laura Siegel Tags: Mental Health Self Care wellness Source Type: blogs

A goodbye note to my suicidal teenagers
On the day before the last day at my last job, I reviewed my patient roster. Five of my seven most worrisome teenagers were currently admitted to a psychiatric hospital for a suicide attempt. This was not completely surprising. It is the fall. Teenagers notoriously struggle two to three months after starting school, getting into Read more… A goodbye note to my suicidal teenagers originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 25, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Psychiatry Source Type: blogs

55 Liar Quotes and Lies Sayings to Help You Deal with Dishonesty
We have all lied. Sometimes to save ourselves pain or punishment. Other times to save someone else pain and so we've told a white lie. But when people in your life make lying a habit, when your relationship – romantic, friendship or maybe one at work – becomes infested with lies then the situation is different. Then it may be time to have a frank talk with them. Or if that doesn’t work (or you’re way past that) to spend less time with that person. Or cut them out of your life entirely. In this post I’d like to share the most helpful and powerful liar quotes and lies sayings. To help you deal with dishones...
Source: Practical Happiness and Awesomeness Advice That Works | The Positivity Blog - November 25, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Henrik Edberg Tags: Inspirational Quotes Personal Development Source Type: blogs

Telehealth Startup Options MD Raised $3.8M in Pre-Seed Funding to Expand Mental Health Platform
Fresh funding, led by Bread & Butter Ventures, enables the telehealth service provider to offer solutions to patients with severe and treatment-resistant mental illnesses Options MD, a telehealth startup providing high-quality care for treatment-resistant depression (TRD), today announced $2.35M in funding, bringing their total pre-seed funding to nearly $4M. The round was led by Bread & Butter Ventures, alongside participation from M13, Bright Ventures and Collab Capital. MedMountain Ventures and Techstars also reinvested in the company. In addition, Options MD received $100K from the Google for Sta...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - November 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Bread & Butter Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment Kyle Pierce Morgan Hewett Options MD Telehealth Telehealth Funding Source Type: blogs