Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 21st 2020
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Longevity Industry Consulting Services
Reason, the founder of Fight Aging! and Repair Biotechnologies, offers strategic consulting services to investors, entrepreneurs, and others interested in the longevity industry and its complexities. To find out m...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 20, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Doctors Urge Caution in Interpretation of Research in Times of COVID-19
September 9, 2020
To:
American College of Cardiology
American College of Chest Physicians
American College of Physicians
American College of Radiology
American Heart Association
American Society of Echocardiography
American Thoracic Society
European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
European Society of Cardiology
European Society of Radiology
Heart Rhythm Society
Infectious Disease Society of America
North American Society of Cardiovascular Imaging
Radiologic Society of North America
Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Soci...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: COVID-19 Medical Practice Patients Physicians myocarditis Saurabh Jha Source Type: blogs
SENS Research Foundation Issues 2020 Annual Report
The SENS Research Foundation, like the Methuselah Foundation it emerged from, is one of the more important organizations involved in the creation and shaping of the present R&D communities focused on treating aging as a medical condition. In earlier days, advocates and philanthropic programs were attempting to sway the research community (and the world at large) into taking intervention in aging seriously at all. In other words to accept that the evidence was strongly in favor of the plausibility of rejuvenation therapies, that the evidence had been strongly in favor for a long time, and that the long-standing reluctan...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 16, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Sewage Data As A Surprising Predictor For COVID-19 Cases
You might not think much of them, but bodily fluids offer a treasure trove of information for medical diagnoses. Indeed, scientists are now looking past the drain and directly into sewage to gather data about COVID-19.
You might not have heard about it, but it turns out it is possible to detect and measure the amount of virus DNA in sewage samples which can predict case number by about 7-10 days in advance. Several countries are already employing this method to predict infection cases; and it is yet another example of an unusual association between a data source and outcomes. Combining the information gathered fro...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 7, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Prans Tags: Healthcare Design Security & Privacy prediction rna epidemiology gastrointestinal covid sewage data covid-19 cdc wastewater Yale Source Type: blogs
What to do when one size does not fit all
Alert: rant ahead.
Early in my career working in persistent pain management, it was thought that “chronic pain is chronic pain is chronic pain” and pretty much anything that helped one person would help the next. Over time we’ve learned a lot more about persistent pain: the mechanisms differ a lot between neuropathic mechanisms and nociplastic mechanisms. Even within these groups, the mechanisms are very different. We’ve also learned a lot more about the psychosocial variables that are associated with prolonged disability and distress when pain persists. Some of the earliest work by Turk and coll...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - September 6, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Chronic pain Groupwork Interdisciplinary teams Pain conditions Research Science in practice Source Type: blogs
Covid Saliva Testing - Cheaper is Better
Saliva testing for Covid-19 may just be better than nasal swabs and cheaper too. It's preliminary, but Yale University has published a letter inThe New England Journal of Medicinethat showed saliva testing from the mouth picked up more positive Covid-19 patients than nasopharyngeal swab testing. The patients they studied were already hospitalized and had tested positive for Covid-19. They re-tested them with nasal and saliva tests and found at 1 to 5 days after diagnosis 81% of saliva samples were positive compared to 71% of the nasal swabs. And at 6-10 days after diagnosis, 76% of the saliva sampl...
Source: EverythingHealth - September 4, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: blogs
Revisting Health Information Technology Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues and Evaluation: Telehealth/Telemedicine and COVID-1
Bonnie Kaplan (Yale University), Revisting Health Information Technology Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues and Evaluation: Telehealth/Telemedicine and COVID-19, Int ’l J. Med. Info. (2020, Forthcoming): Background: Information technologies have been vital during the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth and telemedicine services, especially, fulfilled... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 29, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
TWiV 655: Minority health with Robert Fullilove
Sociomedical scientist Robert Fullilove joins TWiV to discuss disparities in minority health; FDA announces an EUA on Yale’s SalivaDirect, protection of the upper and respiratory tract of mice after intranasal inoculation with an adenovirus-vectored SARS-CoV-2 spike gene, and listener questions. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 21, 2020 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology adenovirus coronavirus COVID-19 HIV/AIDS minority health mucosal immunity pandemic SalivaDirect SARS-CoV-2 vaccine viral viruses Source Type: blogs
The Neglect of Persons with Severe Brain Injury in the United States: An International Human Rights Analysis
Tamar Ezer (Yale University), Megan S. Wright (Penn State), Joseph Fins (Weill Cornell Medical College), The Neglect of Persons with Severe Brain Injury in the United States: An International Human Rights Analysis, 22(1) Health and Human Rights J. 265 (2020):... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 10, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Health Justice Strategies to Combat the Pandemic: Eliminating Discrimination, Poverty, and Health Inequity During and After COVID-19
Emily A. Benfer (Wake Forest University), Seema Mohapatra (Indiana University), Lindsay F. Wiley (American University), Ruqaiijah Yearby (St. Louis University), Health Justice Strategies to Combat the Pandemic: Eliminating Discrimination, Poverty, and Health Inequity During and After COVID-19, Yale J. Health... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - August 10, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Management Script in Action: Putting a Practical Tool to Work
In our recent Academic Medicine Perspective, we proposed the term “management script” as a concept for teaching management reasoning. Analogous to the illness script, an essential component of diagnostic reasoning, management scripts are high-level, precompiled, conceptual knowledge structures of the courses of action that a clinician might undertake to address a patient’s health care problem(s). Not to be confused with a checklist, where specific interventions are mandated in a sequence, management scripts are more like a menu: a collection of options in various categories (e.g., appetizers, courses, des...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - August 4, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured care management decisions clinical decision making residency training residents Source Type: blogs
Polly at Seventeen
Today is the seventeenth anniversary ofSchuyler' s diagnosis of polymicrogyria.There have been times in the past seventeen years when that felt like a thing to be memorialized, a great tragedy like a hurricane or an assassination, both of which feel like an appropriate description of how it felt to stand in the face of such an event and watch someone I loved taken away from me.But over the years, I guess that ' s changed, or at least blunted. Schuyler wasn ' t taken away by her diagnosis. Her little monster didn ' t arrive that day; it merely stated its long-overdue" How do you do? " I thought I learned about the future th...
Source: Schuyler's Monster: The Blog - July 30, 2020 Category: Disability Authors: Rob Source Type: blogs
Summoning a New Artificial Intelligence Patent Model: In the Age of Pandemic
Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid (Yale Law School), Regina Jin, Summoning a New Artificial Intelligence Patent Model: In the Age of Pandemic, SSRN: To combat the fast-moving spread of the pandemic we need an equally speedy and powerful tool. On the forefront against... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 28, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
The Walmart Effect: Testing Private Interventions to Reduce Gun Suicide
This article tests the impact of Walmart ’s corporate decisions to end the sale of... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - July 28, 2020 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
