The Popular Press in Better Form on Senolytic Research and Development
Research programs and investment in commercial development related to senolytic therapies are growing rapidly, particularly in the last couple of years. As today's article demonstrations, journalists in the popular press are improving when it comes to their ability to report sensibly on these developments. This has taken far too long to come to pass; it wasn't all that long ago that near every article in the media on the prospects for treating aging was some combination of nonsense, scorn, and fear-mongering.
Senolytic treatments are those that selectively destroy senescent cells in aged tissues. The accumulation of...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 8, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Using fMRI to Get Over Heartbreak
Rapper Dessa was having a hard time getting over her ex-boyfriend. For years, she felt trapped in a mental cycle of obsession and pining. After unsuccessfully trying all of the traditional break-up remedies (time, distance, and focusing on friendships), she knew she had to do something radical.Helen Fisher ’s fMRI study on the neural mechanisms of being in love inspired Dessa to examine how her heartbreak is reflected in her brain. She put a call out on Twitter asking if anyone wanted to trade fMRI scans for backstage tickets and whiskey.A barter was made, and Dessa went in for her fMRI scans at the University of Minneso...
Source: radRounds - October 5, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs
Digital Clothing and Biofashion Might Bring New Directions to the Apparel Industry
Fast fashion is not only unsustainable but means an unbearable burden to the planet. The situation is ripe for change. Could lab-grown leather and other novel ways of synthetic garment production, biofashion or digital clothing show the way into an alternative future of the apparel industry?
From Burda to the unsustainable downward spiral of fast fashion
Haut couture – or rather its street-style version – has never been so accessible for the average, middle-class citizen as today. When our grandmothers in the 1950s wanted to dress according to the latest trend, they bought the Burda Magazine alongside with some fabric ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 26, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Biotechnology Business Health Sensors & Trackers Patients Researchers artificial leather artificial material biofashion design digital digital clothes digital clothing fast fashion future Healthcare synthetic wearables Source Type: blogs
International Palliative Care Education - EPEC-Peds
By Stacy S. Remke (@StacyRemke)In about 2004, our program embarked on a regional pilot project to teach healthcare workers – doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and others – to provide pediatric palliative care. Our region is the Upper Midwest: Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, North and South Dakota. “Join pediatric palliative care,” we joked, “and see the world!!”Little did we know.From these first steps began a truly humbling and inspiring journey across many continents and into many communities.Much of this started when a project I was involved with –Education in Palliative and End of Life Care for Pedi...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - September 21, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: international pediatrics remke Source Type: blogs
3 Questions to Ask Clients About Their Vocal Care
Our voice represents our rich inner world of thoughts, feelings, wants and needs. It is an instrument—and every instrument needs careful maintenance for optimal function
When providing voice treatment to my clients, I can’t stress enough the importance of a vocal hygiene protocol.
Some recommendations are standard, such as adequate water intake and using a humidifier at home. But to give my clients the best opportunities for improvement, I like to go beyond the basics. To accomplish this, I take a holistic dive into the diet, lifestyle and environment the client encounters daily. This insight can shed light on factors ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - September 4, 2018 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Tina Babajanians Tags: Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Speech Disorders Voice Disorders Source Type: blogs
Researchers 3D Print Prototype “Bionic Eye”
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have 3D printed a light receptive array, consisting of silver particles and semiconducting polymers, on a glass hemispherical surface. The printed material can convert light to electricity, and the researchers hope that it could one day, with more research, end up serving as a bionic eye.
“Bionic eyes are usually thought of as science fiction, but now we are closer than ever using a multimaterial 3D printer,” said Michael McAlpine, a researcher involved in the study. Printing electronics on a curved surface, such as that of a prosthetic eye, is challenging. This group of rese...
Source: Medgadget - August 29, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Materials Ophthalmology Source Type: blogs
Promoting Academic Integrity in Our Course | TAPP Episode 25
Greg Crowther singsA Physiologist's Blessing(3.5 min)Button& zipper junctions in the lymphatic capillaries(7.5 min)Methods to promote academic honesty and reduce cheating(28.5 min)If you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here. FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram!You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view [ …] until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.Harper Lee(0:44) If you keep up with the HAPS Blog from theHuman Anatomy& Physiology Society (HAPS), you may have already accept Dr. Greg Crowther's challeng...
Source: The A and P Professor - August 27, 2018 Category: Physiology Authors: Kevin Patton Source Type: blogs
3D Printed Silicone and Stem Cell Implant to Treat Spinal Cord Injuries
Spinal cord injuries are notorious for the disabilities they cause and for the difficulty of finding a way to fix them. At the University of Minnesota researchers are pointing to a potential solution in the form of 3D printed scaffolds seeded with neuronal stem cells.
The team has already created a prototype device, made of silicone with living cells printed into its structure. The device is designed to be implanted at the site of injury, to allow the cells embedded within it to proliferate and link the two disconnected parts of a spinal cord together. Hopefully, this would lead to a meaningful recovery in paralyzed patien...
Source: Medgadget - August 13, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Materials Neurology Rehab Source Type: blogs
Book Review: “Everything Happens For A Reason and Other Lies I’ve Loved” by Kate Bowler
by Andrew Garcia (@ndyG83)“We can focus on your comfort always means we’re giving up.” I can’t count how many times I’ve heard this sentiment from both patients and other healthcare providers, and to read it both frustrated and encouraged me at the same time. It’s frustrating because to know that what I do, as a palliative care physician, to help patients and their families during some of their darkest, scariest, heartbreaking and most painful moments, is seen as ' giving up ' when it couldn ’t be any more different. Yet, I also find it encouraging because it reminds me that there is much work left to be done...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - July 7, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: book book review cancer garcia patient experience Source Type: blogs
True Confessions On Why I Prescribe Things Without'Evidence '
by Drew RosielleWe have a ' required reading ' list for our fellowship, which includes a bunch of what I think are landmark or otherwise really important studies. One of them is thisvery well done RCT of continuous ketamine infusions for patients with cancer pain, which showed it to be ineffective (and toxic).We also recently have seen another high-quality study published with negative results for ketamine. This was a Scottish, multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled, intention-to-treat, and double-blinded study oforal ketamine for neuropathic pain in cancer patients. The study involved 214 patients, 75% of whom were ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - July 6, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: fatigue ketamine methylphenidate neuropathic pain research research issues rosielle The profession Source Type: blogs
True Confessions On Why I Prescribe Things Without'Evidence '
by Drew RosielleWe have a ' required reading ' list for our fellowship, which includes a bunch of what I think are landmark or otherwise really important studies. One of them is thisvery well done RCT of continuous ketamine infusions for patients with cancer pain, which showed it to be ineffective (and toxic).We also recently have seen another high-quality study published with negative results for ketamine. This was a Scottish, multi-center, randomized, placebo-controlled, intention-to-treat, and double-blinded study oforal ketamine for neuropathic pain in cancer patients. The study involved 214 patients, 75% of whom were ...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - July 6, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: fatigue ketamine methylphenidate neuropathic pain research research issues rosielle The profession Source Type: blogs
Medical Futility, Nonbeneficial Treatment, and Inappropriate Care at ASBH 2018
Medical futility remains a leading topic of relevance and interest in bioethics. Be sure to calendar these two sessions at ASBH 2018 in Los Angeles.
Clinical Ethics and Inappropriate CareOct. 21, 2018, 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Inappropriate ICU Admissions: One Step Closer to Addressing Inappropriate ICU Care for PatientsKatherine E. Kruse , Ruth Marks , Stephanie M. Harman , David Magnus . Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Children's Respiratory and Critical Care Specialists, Minneapolis, MN; Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Stanford University, Stanford,...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - July 5, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs
Let's Stop Claiming That Palliative Care Improves Survival
by Drew RosielleHospice and palliative care community, I ' m calling for a moratorium on all blanket, unqualified claims that hospice and palliative care improve survival.Let ' s just stop doing this.There has never been any actual evidence that palliative care (PC) interventions improve survival in patients, but since thelandmark Temel NEJM 2010 RCT of early outpatient palliative care for lung cancer patients showed a clinically and statistically significant improvement in longevity in the PC arm, I have heard and all read all sorts of statements by palliative people and all sorts of others (hospital executives, poli...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - June 30, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: lung cancer palliative palliative care quality of life rosielle temel The profession Source Type: blogs
Let's Stop Claiming That Palliative Care Improves Survival
by Drew RosielleHospice and palliative care community, I ' m calling for a moratorium on all blanket, unqualified claims that hospice and palliative care improve survival.Let ' s just stop doing this.There has never been any actual evidence that palliative care (PC) interventions improve survival in patients, but since thelandmark Temel NEJM 2010 RCT of early outpatient palliative care for lung cancer patients showed a clinically and statistically significant improvement in longevity in the PC arm, I have heard and all read all sorts of statements by palliative people and all sorts of others (hospital executives, poli...
Source: Pallimed: A Hospice and Palliative Medicine Blog - June 30, 2018 Category: Palliative Care Tags: lung cancer palliative palliative care quality of life rosielle temel The profession Source Type: blogs
