Not The Last of Them
By KIM BELLARD
I’m seeing two conflicting yet connected visions about the future. One is when journalist David Wallace-Wells says we might be in for “golden age for medicine,” with CRISPR and mRNA revolutionizing drug development. The second is the dystopian HBO hit “The Last of Us,” in which a fungal infection has turned much of the world’s population into zombie-like creatures.
The conflict is clear but the connection not so much. Mr. Wallace-Wells never mentions fungi in his article, but if we’re going to have a golden age of medicine, or if we want to avoid a global fungal outbreak, we better be pay...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Fungi Golden Age of Medicine Kim Bellard Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 26th 2023
This study explored the association between different cooking fuel types and the risk of cancer and all-cause mortality among seniors constructing Cox regression models. Data were obtained by linking waves of 6, 7, and 8 of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, which included a total of 7,269 participants who were 65 years old and over. Cooking fuels were categorized as either biomass, fossil, or clean fuels. And the effects of switching cooking fuels on death risk were also investigated using Cox regression models.
The results indicate that, compared with the users of clean fuels, individuals using bio...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 25, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Attacking Cancer by Disabling Macrophage Recognition of CD47 " Don't Eat Me " Marker
CD47 is a "don't eat me" decoration found on the surface of cells. This is a necessary mechanism for the prevention of autoimmunity, but it is also subverted by cancer in order to prevent the innate immune system from attacking tumor cells. The cancer research community has investigated a range of approaches to prevent CD47 from holding back the immune response to cancerous cells. One possibility, demonstrated here, is to engineer the innate immune cells known as macrophages in order to block the CD47 interaction and thus ensure an aggressive response to cancerous cells.
Cancer remains one of the leading causes of...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 20, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Carta Healthcare Secures $25 Million in Series B Funding with Additional Investments from Memorial Hermann Health System and UnityPoint Health
Top Health Systems Invest in Innovative Technology Company to Simplify Data Abstraction and Deliver Data Insights to Drive Quality Improvement
Carta Healthcare®, a company whose mission is to improve patient care by harnessing the value of clinical data, announced today the final closing of its $25 million series B financing, thanks to additional investments from leading health systems Memorial Hermann Health System and UnityPoint Health.
These additional investments follow the initial $20 million series B financing announced in November 2022, which included investors such as Paramark Ventures, Frist Cressey Ventures, Ame...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 15, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT American College of Cardiology Asset Management Ventures Carta Carta Healthcare Clinical Data CU Healthcare Innovation Fund Feby Abraham Frist Cressey Ventures Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings He Source Type: blogs
In An Ironic Twist, the AMA Seeks Alternatives to the Residency Matching Program
Jeffrey A. SingerLast weekend the American Medical Association House of Delegates passed a resolution tacitly claiming that the National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) is likely anti ‐competitive and a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. The resolution concluded:RESOLVED, That our American Medical Association study alternatives to the current residency and fellowship Match process which would be less restrictive on free market competition for applicants. (Directive to Take Action)This is quite surprising, given that the AMA was a co‐defendant, along with the Association of American Medical Col...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 14, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey A. Singer Source Type: blogs
Career Conversations: Q & A With Physiologist Elimelda Moige Ongeri
Credit: Courtesy of Dr. Elimelda Moige Ongeri.
A career path in science is rarely clear cut and linear, which Elimelda Moige Ongeri, Ph.D., can attest adds to its excitement. She went from working in animal reproductive biology to studying proteins involved in inflammation and tissue injury. Dr. Ongeri is also currently dean of the Hairston College of Health and Human Sciences and professor of physiology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) in Greensboro. In this interview, she shares details of her career, including a change in research focus to human physiology; her goals for the f...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - June 14, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Profiles Proteins Source Type: blogs
Taxpayer Funding for Religious Schools?
This article appeared onSubstack on June 13, 2023The state of Oklahoma hasrecently approved a charter for the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, whose curriculum will include religious teaching. Taxpayers will fund the school, so a battle will ensue over whether such funding is desirable or constitutional.Economic reasoning suggests three possible justifications for government support of education.First, one person ’s education might benefit society more broadly. Economic productivity might be higher, for example, if everyone has mastered “the three Rs.” Some individuals, however, might ignore this ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron Source Type: blogs
Retracted articles
I wonder if in some teaching sessions I ought to mention two more things, that relate to the literature the teaching hopefully helps students find. One thing is retracted articles.The other thing is peer review. Actually in some sessions with first year students, we do talk about the peer review process, and I recommend they look to see if an information source has some sort of peer review process in place. Maybe having a sort of process is better than not having one at all. But I am coming across more about the shortcomings of the process. I occasionally r...
Source: Browsing - June 12, 2023 Category: Databases & Libraries Tags: peer review retractions Source Type: blogs
Unpalatable truths about pain
Recently I read a blog post about the way “Explain pain” had landed with a group of people in the general public. The point being made was that people found the ideas presented unpalatable. They didn’t agree with the points and they thought the ideas were dismissive of their experience.
Now I am a critic of any recipe-based approach to helping people. I am especially a critic of clinicians using something they’ve picked up on a weekend course, or out of a book, being applied holus bolus to an individual without nuance. There have been outrageous claims made about the effectiveness of giving some...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - June 11, 2023 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Pain conditions Professional topics biopsychosocial pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
Emotional journey: An inspiring tale from the operating room in Nicaragua
An excerpt from Saving Grace: What Patients Teach Their Doctors about Life, Death, and the Balance in Between. On the morning of the first day of surgery in Nicaragua, I paced. It was 8:10 a.m., and the cases were supposed to begin at 7:30 a.m. But as with most missions, the first day was already
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Emotional journey: An inspiring tale from the operating room in Nicaragua originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: David Alfery, MD Tags: Conditions Surgery Source Type: blogs
AI Joins The Fight Against Hypertension: A Deep Dive Into The Groundbreaking Study
Conclusion
The introduction of AI into the healthcare sphere, specifically in hypertension treatment, represents a significant leap towards individualized patient care.
By harnessing machine learning, we can anticipate a future where treatment plans are custom-made to each patient’s needs.
This can lead to healthier communities, improved patient outcomes, and countless lives saved.
As we look forward, we can only imagine the transformative impact AI will have on healthcare, steering us towards a future where each patient receives personalized, effective care.
Read also: 12 Ways To Effectively Preven...
Source: The EMT Spot - June 9, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Dancing Organelles, AI Resources, Distracting Animations, Timed Tests & Micro-credentials | TAPP 138
In Episode 138 ofThe A&P Professor podcast for anatomy& physiology faculty, host Kevin Patton discusses somenew thinking about organelle function, whydecorative animations are not a good idea in our teaching slides, news aboutWendy Riggs and the 2023 HAPS President ' s Medal, why Idon ' t like timed tests, resources forAI in the curriculum, and whymicro-credentials are our friends. With all that, how is that we left out any mention ofcarbaminohemoglobin?00:00 | Introduction00:50 | Wendy Riggs Wins Big04:173 | Curricular Resources for AI08:55 | Timed Online Tests24:12 | Micro-credentials for Professional Develo...
Source: The A and P Professor - June 9, 2023 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
A young lady with wide complex tachycardia. My first time actually making this diagnosis de novo in real life in the ED!
Written by Pendell MeyersA woman in her 30s with minimal past medical history presented simply stating she was " feeling unwell. " Her symptoms started suddenly about 48 hours ago, but had continued to worsen, including epigastric discomfort, nausea, cough, and dyspnea and lightheadedness on exertion. She denied chest pain and denied feeling any palpitations, even during her triage ECG:What do you think?Despite otherwise normal vital signs, she was appropriately triaged to the critical care area of the ED.She was awake, alert, well perfused, with normal mental status and overall unremarkable physical exam except for ...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - June 3, 2023 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
HealthSnap Raises $9 Million Series A for Continued Growth of Remote Patient Monitoring and Chronic Care Management Platform
The Investment, Led by Asclepius Growth Capital and Leading Health System Partners, will Enable Care Teams to Empower Patients with a More Personalized Remote-Care Experience
HealthSnap, a Miami-based virtual care management platform for chronic disease management, today announced a new round of financing totaling $9 million. The round was led by Asclepius Growth Capital, an SPV founded by David Jahns, a managing director of Galen Partners, and Steve Cashman, CEO at Caption Health and former CCO at InTouch Health, as well as new strategic investments from current business partners UnityPoint Health and Tampa General H...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - June 2, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Healthcare IT News Tags: Health IT Company Healthcare IT Asclepius Growth Capital Caption Health CCM Chronic Disease Management David Jahns Florida Funders Galen Partners Health IT Funding Health IT Fundings Health IT Investment HealthSnap InTouch Health Source Type: blogs
Affirmative Action in College Admissions
This article appeared onSubstack on May 30, 2023, and an earlier version appeared under Jacob Winter ’s byline in theHarvard Undergraduate Law Review.In a few weeks, the Supreme Court will announce its decision in two cases it heard last fall, one against Harvard and the other against the University of North Carolina. Both suits challenge race‐based affirmative action in college admissions. In each case, a group called Students for Fair Admiss ions (SFFA) argues that the universities’ admissions policies unlawfully discriminate against Asian Americans.The case against UNC rests on two issues. Under the Fourteen...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 30, 2023 Category: American Health Authors: Jeffrey Miron, Jacob Winter Source Type: blogs
