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Sent by Logan Stark, MD, written by Pendell MeyersDr. Stark sent me this ECG below and said " Curious on your thoughts without context. "Here is the PM Cardio version of this phone screenshot:I replied:" The concern without context would be possible LAD OMI signs. There is poor R wave progression, slight STE, hyperacute T waves in V2-V5, reciprocal STD in inferior leads. "He gave me the context:A middle aged man had sudden chest pain and arrested in front of his family. His wife immediately performed CPR.EMS arrived and defibrillated him. He was already awake and alert by arrival to the ED.He had persistent chest pain...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - March 9, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 28th 2022
In conclusion, as BMI and waist circumference are related to elevations of immune markers in the IL-6 pathway, chronic inflammation might be an important mediator of the relationship between BMI and frailty.
Fat Tissue Becomes Dysfunctional with Age as Mitochondria Falter
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/02/fat-tissue-becomes-dysfunctional-with-age-as-mitochondria-falter/
Mitochondria are effectively power plants, hundreds of them working in every cell to produce chemical energy store molecules to power cellular processes. Mitochondrial function declines with age, unfortunately, for underlying re...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 27, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Stem Cell Therapies for Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
Stem cell therapies, and cell therapies in general, have tremendous promise in treating age-related conditions, particularly those that lead to structural damage in the body, such as degenerative disc disease. While animal studies have produced very interesting results, these therapies have yet to achieve more than initial goals in clinical practice, however. Hematopoietic stem cell transplants work well for the uses they are put to, albeit while being a comparatively stressful, higher risk procedure. Immunotherapies based on cell transplants are quite well advanced in the cancer field. First generation mesenchymal stem ce...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 22, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Patients need palliative care to manage the pain of sickle cell disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects about 100,000 Americans as an inherited genetic disorder with intermittent exacerbations requiring hospitalization. SCD is also a painful and complicated disease with no single physician specialist that can provide pain relief. While SCD pain is similar in severity to cancer pain, patients struggle to find adequate pain relief because theyRead more …Patients need palliative care to manage the pain of sickle cell disease originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 4, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/ramandeep-kaur" rel="tag" > Ramandeep Kaur, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 31st 2022
In conclusion, the effects of MR on the gut barrier were likely related to alleviation of the oscillations of inflammation-related microbes. MR can enable nutritional intervention against age-related gut barrier dysfunction.
Clearing Senescent Cells from the Neural Stem Cell Niche Rapidly Improves Neurogenesis in Old Mice
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2022/01/clearing-senescent-cells-from-the-neural-stem-cell-niche-rapidly-improves-neurogenesis-in-old-mice/
Neurogenesis is the generation of new neurons in the brain, and their integration into existing neural circuits. It is essential to learning an...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 30, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Medicare Advantage Is a Superior Program (Part one)
By GEORGE HALVORSON
Former Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson has written on THCB on and off over the years, most notably with his proposal for Medicare Advantage for All post-COVID. He wrote a piece in Health Affairs last week arguing with the stance of Medicare Advantage of Don Berwick and Rick Gilfillan (Here’s their piece pt1, pt2). Here’s a longer exposition of his argument. We are publishing part one today with part two coming soon – Matthew Holt
The evidence for Medicare Advantage being a superior program compared to standard fee-for-service Medicare is so overwh...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 11, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Medicare Don Berwick George Halvorson Medicare Advantage Rick Gilfillan Source Type: blogs
Rooting For Schumpter ’ s Gale
By KIM BELLARD
Not familiar with Schumpeter’s gale? You may be more familiar with the term “creative destruction.” Schumpeter’s “gale of creative destruction” is the inevitable “process of industrial mutation that continuously revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”
We need a Schumpeter’s gale in healthcare.
What made me think of this was the news that Tik Tok became the most popular internet site in the world, surpassing even Google. It reminded me that things sometimes do change; perhaps there is so...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 28, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ryan Bose-Roy Tags: Health Tech big tech Healthcare Healthcare system Schumpeter tiktok Source Type: blogs
Coping when Both Parents Have Dementia
Photo credit Claudia Soraya
There are many different diseases that can cause different types of dementia. My dad's condition resulted from surgery, while Mom's developed more subtly—the type they used to call "senile dementia." Now it is called "organic brain disease." Whatever the type, Alzheimer's disease, vascular, Pick's disease, Parkinson's-related, or just plain "organic brain syndrome," it is painful for the caregiver. Sometimes the pain is so raw and isolating that the caregivers become more ill than those they are caring for. Statistics vary, but upward of thirty percent of caregivers die before the people they ...
Source: Minding Our Elders - December 26, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Top 10 Digital Health News Of 2021
From the approval of a new prescription VR treatment to renewed privacy concerns, 2021 has been full of digital health developments. Indeed, some news might have gone under the radar or might require a quick refresher; so we’re wrapping up 2021 with a round-up of 10 of the most important digital health news of this year.
1. FDA-approved prescription VR treatment for chronic back pain
In mid-November, the FDA authorised a virtual reality (VR) system as a prescription treatment for chronic back pain. Called EaseVRx, it combines cognitive behaviour therapy techniques and breathing exercises to help relax, distract...
Source: The Medical Futurist - December 16, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Covid-19 3D Printing Health Sensors & Trackers Portable Medical Diagnostics Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones apple telehealth blood pressure A.I. 23andme news remote care 2021 Source Type: blogs
Making first contact: What to do with all that information! part 2
Last week I described some of the reasons for using a case formulation approach when working through initial assessment information, and today I’m going to describe one approach for organising a formulation. This is the “4 P” formulation, and it’s one that’s often used in mental health (Bolton, 2014).
In the 4 P model, there are four questions to ask yourself:
Preconditions – Why is this person vulnerable to this problem?Precipitating factors – Why now? This can mean “why is this person having symptoms now?” or “why is this person presenting to this person ...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - November 28, 2021 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Assessment Chronic pain Clinical reasoning Pain conditions Professional topics Research Science in practice biopsychosocial case formulation Occupational therapy pain management Therapeutic approaches Source Type: blogs
What you don ’t know about pain will hurt you
Chronic pain is an epidemic, currently affecting over 100 million American adults – more than diabetes, heart disease, and cancer combined. This doesn’t include children, 1 in 3 of whom live with a chronic pain condition ranging from migraine to chronic stomachaches. Chronic pain disrupts life, impeding the ability to work, exercise, have sex, engageRead more …What you don’t know about pain will hurt you originally appeared inKevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - November 11, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/rachel-zoffness" rel="tag" > Rachel Zoffness, PhD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Pain Management Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 8th 2021
In conclusion, in less common and visible cardiovascular diseases, it is crucial to recognize substantial progress and achievement, given that penetration of such information into clinical practice and the patient community can be inconsistent. Diseases such as hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and ATTR cardiac amyloidosis, once linked to a uniformly adverse prognosis, are now associated with the opportunity for patients to experience satisfactory quality of life and extended longevity.
VitaDAO, a Novel Approach to Crowdfunding Life Science Research
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Source: Fight Aging! - November 7, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
How to Plan and Carry Out a Simple Self-Experiment, a Single Person Trial of Khavinson Peptides for Thymic Regrowth
The objective here is to produce doses of the peptides dissolved in 0.5 ml of phosphate buffered saline in sealed vials, ready to be used with the injection system, with as little contamination as possible from the environment, and stored a freezer until it is ready to use. Depending on the size of the vial, it might be able to contain doses for multiple injections, but it is better to stick to one dose per vial. Peptides are sensitive to free-thaw cycles, so you want as few of those as possible.
When ordering epitalon, thymogen, and vilon, they will arrive as lyophilized (freeze-dried) crystals or powder. Thymogen ...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 1, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Self-Experimentation Source Type: blogs
Look at Competency Rather Than Age When Wondering How Much Help Older Adults Need
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Dear Carol: I’m a new reader so maybe you’ve written about this topic, but I’ll ask anyway. My mom’s 78 and my dad’s 82. They seem to be doing great. For example, they recently updated their legal documents, and they’re open with me about their end-of-life wishes. They tell me that if one of them dies, I should help the survivor manage their finances. This is all good and I’m grateful, but I read so many articles about adult children missing red flags about parental health that I constantly wonder if I should already be doing more. How do I know? - DL
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Source: Minding Our Elders - October 24, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
A man in his 60s woken from sleep by epigastric pain. Would you have been able to correctly diagnose him?
Written by Pendell MeyersA man in his mid 60s with history of CAD and stents experienced sudden onset epigastric abdominal pain radiating up into his chest at home, waking him from sleep. He called EMS who brought him to the ED. He had active chest pain at the time of triage at 0137 at night, with this triage ECG:I sent this ECG, without any text at all, to Dr. Smith, and he replied: " LAD OMI with low certainty. V3 is the one that is convincing. " After his response I sent him the baseline ECG (below), still with no context at all except that this was his prior ECG:Dr. Smith replied: " Now high certainty. By the way,...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - October 5, 2021 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs
