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Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 12th 2018
This study's researchers approached all people turning 85 in 2006 in two cities in the UK for participation. At the beginning of the study in 2006-2007, there were 722 participants, 60 percent of whom were women. The participants provided researchers with information about what they ate every day, their body weight and height measurements, their overall health assessment (including any level of disability), and their medical records.
The researchers learned that more than one-quarter (28 percent) of very old adults had protein intakes below the recommended dietary allowance. The researchers noted that older adults w...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 11, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Last Month in Oncology with Dr. Bishal Gyawali
By BISHAL GYAWALI MD
Me-too deja vu
I read the report of a phase 3 RCT of a “new” breast cancer drug but I had the feeling that I had already read this before. Later I realized that this was indeed a new trial of a new drug, but that I had read a very similar report of a very similar drug with very similar results and conclusions. This new drug is a PARP inhibitor called talazoparib and the deja vu was related to another PARP inhibitor drug called olaparib tested in the same patient population of advanced breast cancer patients with a BRCA mutation. The control arms were the same: physician choice of drug, except t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - November 8, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Drug Discovery Pharmaceuticals Bishal Gyawali Cancer immunotherapy Oncology Source Type: blogs
Greater Cancer Risk for Taller People is Near Entirely Due to Having More Cells
There has been some debate in the research community as to whether the observed relationship between cancer risk and height in our species is due to (a) taller people having more cells, and thus more chances to suffer a cancerous mutation, or (b) some more indirect factor, such as, for example, the role of growth hormone in cellular metabolism. The author of this study marshals data to argue convincingly for the former hypothesis, for most forms of cancer.
The multistage model of carcinogenesis predicts cancer risk will increase with tissue size, since more cells provide more targets for oncogenic somatic mutation...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 5, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Microfluidic Chips to Diagnose and Characterize Cancer: Interview with Prof. Fatih Sarioglu, Georgia Tech
Research into microfluidic devices to aid in cancer diagnosis promises huge leaps in making diagnostics easier and faster. Much of this research is focused on chips that can trap circulating tumor cells (CTCs) which are present in blood samples. CTCs...
Source: Medgadget - October 24, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Exclusive Oncology Source Type: blogs
Dr. Holly Christman moves practice to Marin
After many years working in downtown San Francisco, dermatologist Holly Christman has left that group for a prestigious practice in Marin. We wish Holly the best--Marin is lucky to have her!For those seeking care in San Francisco, Union Square Dermatology is located in the venerable 450 Sutter Street Building. The four Board Certified dermatologists provide services such as mole and skin cancer checks, Mohs surgery, management of rosacea, eczema and psoriasis. The practice is in network with Aetna, Cigna and United Health Care PPO plans and Medicare. Cosmetic options included Botox, fillers, lasers for sun sp...
Source: Skinema, dermatology in the media blog - October 20, 2018 Category: Dermatology Authors: vail reese Tags: Health Source Type: blogs
Dark patches on the face may be melasma
You may have heard melasma referred to as “the mask of pregnancy,” because it is sometimes triggered by an increase in hormones in pregnant women. But while the condition may be common among pregnant women, you don’t have to be pregnant to experience melasma.
“It’s not only associated with pregnancy, but can affect women at all stages of life,” says Dr. Shadi Kourosh, director of the Pigmentary Disorder and Multi-Ethnic Skin Clinic at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital. And it may last for many years. “Women who develop melasma in their teens or 20s or 30s may see it stay around...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 19, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kelly Bilodeau Tags: Health Pregnancy Skin and Hair Care Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, October 8th 2018
This article, unfortunately paywalled, is interesting to note as a mark of the now increasingly energetic expansion of commercial efforts in longevity science. David Sinclair has been building a private equity company to work in many areas relevant to this present generation of commercial longevity science; while I'm not sold on his primary research interests as the basis for meaningful treatments for aging, he is diversifying considerably here, including into senolytics, the clearance of senescent cells demonstrated to produce rejuvenation in animal studies. This sort of approach to business mixes aspects of investing and...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 7, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
September is Blood Cancer Awareness Month
When, many many years ago (19, but who’s counting? ), my doctor uttered those two words, “mieloma multiplo,” I thought he’d said: “melanoma.”
Who’d ever heard of multiple myeloma???
Ahhhh, how things change!!!
And today, thanks to my research, mixed in with quite a bit of determination (stubbornness?), and, oh yes, quite a bit of luck, I’m doing okay:
No CRAB symptoms.
No conventional treatments.
Just…curcumin (mainly).
And, for sure!, lots of awareness!!!
Source: Margaret's Corner - September 24, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll mieloma multiplo; myeloma multiple myeloma Source Type: blogs
Reprogramming Cells into Keratinocytes Turns Non-Healing Wounds into Skin
Researchers here report an interesting application of in situ cell programming. Knowing that keratinocytes do a lot of the heavy lifting in the coordination of skin healing, they reprogrammed cells at the surface of non-healing wounds, transforming them into keratinocytes capable of guiding the regeneration of skin. This is thought to be a way to aid healing in older individuals, or in other cases where chronic inflammation disrupts the normal processes of regeneration. Certainly this approach is notable for regenerating the full structure of skin, something that has only been achieved by one or two other methodologies to ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 7, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
How to Overcome Being Cyberchondriac?
We must all have experienced the features of being a cyberchondriac every once in a while: you wake up with a headache, you feel dizzy and dehydrated, but after googling your symptoms you’re inclined to think you have brain cancer instead of crediting your unwell to the company cocktail hour the day before. As nowadays the diagnosis seems to be only a click away, the danger of becoming constantly anxious about diseases got a lot closer. Here’s how you can overcome being a cyberchondriac.
Illness anxiety is real
What is the common denominator of Charles Darwin, Andy Warhol, and Howard Huges? No, it’s not the opening ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 30, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Empowered Patients Social media in Healthcare cyberchondria cyberchondriac diagnosis digital health google Health 2.0 health app hypochondria online diagnosis technology Source Type: blogs
The Abscopal Effect
In the waning years of my career as a Nuclear Radiologist, I have become somewhat more jaded than I was as a younger doc. When you see cancer and other diseases fifty times a day, sometimes getting better, sometimes getting worse, that ' s bound to happen. Of course, I ' m far prefer reporting improvement, but relapses are also part of this job. The oncologists wander into the reading room every few minutes, or so it seems, anyway, to look at their patients ' scans (the gantry is generally still warm). If the news is bad, I will tell them in all honesty that I admire the strength it will take to deliver the bad news. On th...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - August 19, 2018 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
The margins are CLEAR!!!
Peekaboo, my 11-year-old cat, is such a star. Our amazing little star…And yes, in case you’re wondering, all of these photos are recent, post-surgery photos. Obviously, her right side looks better than her left, as you can see…But once her fur grows back, she’ll be as good as new (not that that’s the most important thing, of course!).
Here’s the most important thing:
Our vet just called to let us know that the final results of Peekaboo’s mandibulectomy (half of her lower left jaw was removed) show CLEAR MARGINS.
In other words, no cancer cells were found in the outer portion of he...
Source: Margaret's Corner - August 3, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll feline oral cancer feline oral melanoma Source Type: blogs
Light Therapy Tech to Help Overcome Jet Lag and Summer Insomnia
The warm summer months we’re experiencing here in the northern hemisphere bring a whole host of health effects on our bodies. While longer days in the sun allow more time for our bodies to produce vitamin D and develop a nice tan, too much sun ...
Source: Medgadget - July 31, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Exclusive OTC Psychiatry Sports Medicine Source Type: blogs
