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Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 30th 2021
Fight Aging! publishes news and commentary relevant to the goal of ending all age-related disease, to be achieved by bringing the mechanisms of aging under the control of modern medicine. This weekly newsletter is sent to thousands of interested subscribers. To subscribe or unsubscribe from the newsletter, please visit: https://www.fightaging.org/newsletter/ 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 mo...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 29, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, August 2nd 2021
This study aimed to determine the association between: (i) cognitive decline and bone loss; and (ii) clinically significant cognitive decline on Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) over the first 5 years and subsequent fracture risk over the following 10 years. A total of 1741 women and 620 men aged ≥65 years from the population-based Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study were followed from 1997 to 2013. Over 95% of participants had normal cognition at baseline. After multivariable adjustment, cognitive decline was associated with bone loss in women but not men. Approximately 13% of participants experienced sign...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 1, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

3D Printing in Medicine And Healthcare – The Ultimate List In 2021
3D printing has demonstrated huge potential for the future of medicine in the previous years, and its development is unstoppable. Just look at the impressive list of 3D printed healthcare materials and medical equipment below! How does 3D printing in medicine work? 3D printing in medicine is part of the innovative process called additive manufacturing, which means producing three-dimensional solid objects from a digital file. How the technology works, we explained the technology in our article on bioprinting here. As technology evolves, researchers work on various solutions. For example, engineers from the University of B...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 13, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: 3D Printing Biotechnology Future of Medicine Healthcare Design Medical Education Personalized Medicine bioprinting Innovation Video GC1 3d printed biomaterial tissue engineering Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 12th 2021
In conclusion, our study demonstrated that elevated cumulative SBP or DBP was independently associated with increased risk of CVD in the Chinese population. Among participants with 15-year cumulative BP levels higher than the median, that is, 1970.8/1239.9 mmHg-year for cumulative SBP/DBP, which was equivalent to maintaining SBP/DBP level higher than 131/83 mmHg in 15 years, the CVD risk would increase significantly irrespective of whether or not the BP measurements at one examination was high. Our findings emphasize the importance of cumulative BP level in identifying individuals with high risk of CVD in the future. ...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 11, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Using Supercentenarian Data to Estimate Future Increases in Maximum Human Life Span
In today's research materials, scientists attempt to model future increases in maximum human longevity based on past data for supercentenarians, people aged 110 and older. This is an interesting exercise, but I think that all of the results have to be taken with a sizable grain of salt. Firstly, the data for extreme human outliers in longevity isn't great. A lot of it is of poor quality, and the portions that are well maintained do not include a sizable number of people. There are few survivors to such exceptional ages, which makes it hard to call any analysis of that data truly robust. This is a problem that afflicts all ...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 8, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

The Fable of the Cats
George SelginThe comparison has by now been made so often that it may qualify as a  platitude. I mean that between stablecoin issuers and “wildcat” banks, the fly‐​by‐​night scams that supposedly flooded the antebellum United States with notes nominally worth some stated amount of gold or silver, but actually worth little more than the rag paper they were made of.Such disreputable stuff, we keep hearing, is what “private” currency always tends to be like. The paper sort survived until federal authorities nationalized the nation’s paper money during the Civil War. And (we are told), digital currency will...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 6, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs

Emerging Trend Alert – Skin Checking Algorithms
In our new series, Emerging Trends, we are looking at those technologies in digital health that are on a certain ‘hype cycle’ – technologies and solutions that currently stand out from the rest because of their novelty, timeliness, or greatness. These are solutions everyone’s talking about or the ones they should. We are beginning with skin checking algorithms, which is definitely a course currently rising. Let’s have a deeper look. Everyone should have a skin check done from time to time. Skin cancer is one of the most common cancer types worldwide: one in five people in the U.S. is expected to receive a ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 17, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics google nature dermatology A.I. Semmelweis skin SkinVision Source Type: blogs

Emerging Trends: Skin Checking Algorithms
In our new series, Emerging Trends, we are looking at those technologies in digital health that are on a certain ‘hype cycle’ – technologies and solutions that currently stand out from the rest because of their novelty, timeliness, or greatness. These are solutions everyone’s talking about or the ones they should. We are beginning with skin checking algorithms, which is definitely a course currently rising. Let’s have a deeper look. Everyone should have a skin check done from time to time. Skin cancer is one of the most common cancer types worldwide: one in five people in the U.S. is expected to receive a ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 17, 2021 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Covid-19 Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Healthcare Policy Personalized Medicine Portable Medical Diagnostics google nature dermatology A.I. Semmelweis skin SkinVision Source Type: blogs

Joshua Greenberg on Antebellum Paper Money
George SelginAlerted by a tweet by him, I recently listened toa December 2020 C-SPAN talk, on " Paper Money in Antebellum America, " by historianJoshua Greenberg, the author ofBank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic.I haven ' t yet read his book. But Greenberg ' s talk is worth a listen. I was especially intrigued by his suggestion that, because they had to deal with so many different banknotes, including many of doubtful value, early Americans acquired a degree of financial savviness they sorely lack nowadays. Greenberg ' s related thesis that, by virtue of their very lack of uniformity...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 31, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs

What I Got Wrong (and Right) about COVID19
In May, I wrote a column about COVID19 that got some attention. My reason for writing was the change in messaging about the strategy of flatten-the-curve. We were first told to flatten-the-curve to prevent overwhelming hospitals. But then the thinking changed to flatten-the-curve to save lives.  I made eight assertions about COVID19. Let’s see how I did.  Assertion 1: The virus will not be contained. Verdict: Correct. You might argue that New Zealand and Australia contained the virus, but I would counter that these are not fair comparisons to the US, Canada, and the EU.  Assertion 2: Tests...
Source: Dr John M - December 12, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs

Smartphone Dongle for Cancer Biomarker Measurement
Researchers at McMaster and Brock universities in Canada have developed a hand-held device that can provide rapid measurements of cancer biomarkers in blood samples. Termed an electrochemical bio‐barcode assay, the device could be used to measure a...
Source: Medgadget - October 20, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Diagnostics Genetics Oncology Urology Source Type: blogs

The hidden long-term cognitive effects of COVID-19
This study also found that a number of patients with COVID suffered strokes. In fact, COVID infection is a risk factor for strokes. A group of Canadian doctors found that individuals over 70 years of age were at particularly high risk for stroke related to COVID infection, but even young individuals are seven times more likely to have a stroke from this coronavirus versus a typical flu virus. Autopsy data from COVID patients in Finland suggests that another major cause of brain damage is lack of oxygen. Particularly worrisome is that several of the patients who were autopsied did not show any signs of brain injury during t...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew E. Budson, MD Tags: Brain and cognitive health Coronavirus and COVID-19 Memory Neurological conditions Source Type: blogs

Biden ’ s Nov 9th speech: “Don’t you force me to pass Medicare 4 All”
By MATTHEW HOLT The new Supreme Court, in all likelihood including just nominated Justice Amy Coney Barrett, will be hearing the California v Texas suit against the ACA on November 10th, seven days after the election. The lower courts have already ruled the ACA unconstitutional. Some hopeful moderates among my Democratic friends seem to believe that the justices will show cool heads, and not throw out the ACA. But it’s worth remembering that in the NFIB vs. Sebelius decision which confirmed the legitimacy of most of the ACA back in 2011 all the conservative justices with the exception of John Roberts voted to ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - September 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Featured Health Policy Politics Repeal Replace ACA Biden California v Texas Obamacare Supreme Court Source Type: blogs

CBD for chronic pain: The science doesn ’t match the marketing
If you ask health care providers about the most challenging condition to treat, chronic pain is mentioned frequently. By its nature, chronic pain is a complex and multidimensional experience. Pain perception is affected by our unique biology, our mood, our social environment, and past experiences. If you or a loved one is suffering from chronic pain, you already know the heavy burden. People are looking for novel, nonaddictive ways to treat pain Given the ongoing challenges of chronic pain management coupled with the consequences of the opioid epidemic, pain management practitioners and their patients are searching for eff...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 23, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Shafik Boyaji, MD Tags: Back Pain Marijuana Pain Management Source Type: blogs

10 Questions You Asked Us In The Q & A
It was a great honor to receive hundreds of questions before the live Q&A we recently had. There were in fact so many that I’ve decided I would share some of them here. These questions represent an ample mix of interests, covering a wide range of issues from A.I. to the future of medical education. And worry not if you haven’t gotten your question answered just yet: in the coming weeks we’ll also be writing articles that are based on some of the most intriguing questions. Re-watch the event on YouTube: #1 On The Relationship Of Doctors And Patients What sort of strategies can we use when th...
Source: The Medical Futurist - June 30, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: 3D Printing Artificial Intelligence Digital Health Research E-Patients Future of Medicine Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Robotics Security & Privacy Telemedicine & Smartphones AI Hospital Medical education technology wearab Source Type: blogs