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Technologies Change Health Insurance: The Most Innovative Ventures
The accumulation of medical data enables health insurance companies to move from the 100-year-old concept of reactive care to preventive medicine. The future points to simple, fast and highly personalized insurance plans based on information from the healthcare system and data from health sensors, wearables, and trackers. Here is the changing health insurance scene and its most innovative solutions! Health insurance systems are unsustainable partly due to costly chronic diseases According to OECD predictions, exceeding budgets on health spending remains an issue for OECD countries. Maintaining today’s healthcare systems...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 31, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Healthcare Design big data chronic illness digital digital health gc3 health data health insurance healthcare data technology trackers wearables Source Type: blogs

A Veterans Day tribute
This is a letter I wrote to my wife’s grandfather for Veterans Day back when he was still alive.  He was pretty proud of it, and that made me smile because I knew that if nothing else, he deserved to be proud of what he did for America.  When he died a few months ago, I was able to muster up the fortitude to read it at his funeral.  Here it is, submitted as a personal tribute to him, as well as to the dying breed of Americans who fought to rid the world of fascism. *** Today I think about you more than any other day of the year.  I’ve only known you for about a decade, but a single event in your life shaped my own ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 21, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/keith-pochick" rel="tag" > Keith Pochick, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Emergency Medicine Source Type: blogs

Former Johns Hopkins Radiologist Imprisoned for Submitting False Reimbursement Requests
A doctor from southern Connecticut has been ordered to serve 366 days in prison and pay almost $600,000 for falsifying travel expense reimbursements to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine,. Between 2007 and 2015, while a physician at JHU ’s Division of Vascular and Interventional, Jean-Francois Geschwind, MD, submitted several fake requests for travel reimbursement that added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. For example, in 2013, he received reimbursement from JHU for a two-week family vacation to Europe by claiming the pur pose of his trip was to give lectures about his work at JHU. He also finagled multi...
Source: radRounds - October 13, 2017 Category: Radiology Authors: Julie Morse Source Type: blogs

Using Historical Basketball Player Records to Investigate Height and Longevity
Height is a matter of importance to observers of basketball, so the records of professional players from past decades can be used to investigate the effects of height on longevity. Evidence to date strongly supports an inverse relationship in humans: the taller you are, the shorter your life expectancy, though the size of this effect is unclear and debated. The underlying reasons are thought to involve cancer risk, as taller people have more cells and thus more chances for something to go wrong, as well as lung function, and the influence of growth hormone metabolism on the pace of aging. To what degree does all of this ma...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 6, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

New Way to Deliver Chemo Agent Helps Reach Brain Tumors
While there are fairly effective medications that can kill brain tumors, getting them to their targets is so challenging that they’re often next to useless for cancers of the brain. Japanese scientists from Kawasaki Institute of Industrial Prom...
Source: Medgadget - September 12, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Nanomedicine Oncology Source Type: blogs

Deans Need Progressive Responsibility Too
Dr. Antman and her family at the 2016 American Heart Association Boston Heart & Stroke Gala Editor’s Note: This blog post complements the recently published study “The Decanal Divide: Women in Decanal Roles at U.S. Medical Schools.” Read the full study on academicmedicine.org. By: Karen Antman, MD Dr. Antman is dean, Boston University School of Medicine, provost, Boston University Medical Campus, and chair, AAMC Council of Deans Why aren’t more medical school deans women? Medical school faculty don’t normally wake up thinking, “I want to be dean.” How then does one end up there? I was asked to...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - September 12, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective AAMC Council of Deans Boston University Medical Campus Boston University School of Medicine gender leadership research women Source Type: blogs

Amazing Technologies Changing The Future of Dermatology
Smart algorithms will soon diagnose skin cancer, dermatologists consult patients online, and 3D printers will print out synthetic skin to fight tissue shortages. There is a lot going on in dermatology, and medical professionals should prepare in time for the technological changes before they start swiping through the specialty. Let’s start by familiarizing with the most amazing technologies changing dermatology! Your body’s best guard in a hostile world: your skin Everything is written on your skin. Every wrinkle, spot, and color tells a story, and not only a medical one. This miraculous organ can show you as a litmus ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 7, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine Telemedicine 3d printing AI artificial intelligence dermatology digital GC1 Healthcare Innovation nanotechnology Personalized medicine robotics wearables Source Type: blogs

Integrated Heart/Cancer on a Chip Helps Discover Side Effects of Drugs
At Kyoto University in Japan researchers have created what they call an Integrated Heart/Cancer on a Chip (iHCC) that was designed to help discover side effects of anti-cancer and other medications. The microfluidic system, which is smaller than a c...
Source: Medgadget - August 28, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Editors Tags: Diagnostics Genetics Oncology Source Type: blogs

Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201
LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog LITFL • Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 201, courtesy of Dr Hakan Yaman from RFDS. Question 1 What is the rate of severe permanent TBI in the Asterix comics, 0%, 25%, 50% or 90%? http://www.asterix.com/the-collection/albums/asterix-and-the-picts.html + Reveal the Funtabulous Answer expand(document.getEle...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - August 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five asterix CRP Death dying Felty's syndrome fingernail GCS head injury hospital Pain pencil RA rheumatoid arthritis TBI Source Type: blogs

Vitamin K and Osteoporosis — What ’ s the connection?
Before you are prescribed bisphosphonates: Fosamax, Actonel, Boniva, Reclast or Zometa, maybe you should consider the Undoctored strategy. The grain-free diet, vitamin D, and magnesium protocols in the core Undoctored program provide the bulk of bone health benefits through a variety of mechanisms, including increased intestinal calcium absorption, reduced urinary calcium loss, and reduced levels of the parathyroid hormone that weakens bones. You should also avoid calcium supplements, as the effects of vitamin D and the increased intestinal calcium absorption that develops after eliminating calcium-binding phytates from gr...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - August 1, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Vitamin K Wheat Belly Lifestyle anti-aging bowel flora Dr. Davis gluten-free grain-free health osteopenia osteoporosis Wheat Belly Total Health Source Type: blogs

8 Foods that Boost Your Mood
What we eat might not be able to cure us indefinitely from depression. I learned that hard lesson earlier this year. However, researchers are compiling strong evidence that what we eat can influence our risk for developing depression and can keep persons in remission from possibly relapsing. Eating better foods has certainly helped my mood and allowed me to get by on less medication. A 2014 review published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition examined the link between diet and depression risk and found that a diet consisting mainly of fruit, vegetables, fish, and whole grains was significantly associated with a r...
Source: World of Psychology - July 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Depression Mental Health and Wellness Personal Self-Help Caffeine Depressive Episode Major Depressive Episode Mood Disorder phytochemicals Psychology Psychopharmacology Source Type: blogs

Baker ’s Yeast Now Used for Drug Discovery
Scientists at the University of Toronto and the RIKEN Center in Japan have developed a new approach to help with drug discovery. Rather than requiring human cells, the technique is based on baker’s yeast, which is well-understood at a molecular lev...
Source: Medgadget - July 27, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics Source Type: blogs

Using Light to Activate Genes and Kill Cancer
Scientists at Kyoto University in Japan have developed a gene delivery system, involving gold nanorods and a near infrared laser, which can transport a gene into cells and activate it. Changing gene expression is a powerful way to affect cell behavio...
Source: Medgadget - July 10, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Genetics Nanomedicine Source Type: blogs

Live Life the Fullest
Don ' t let anything hold you back in your pursuit to live life to the fullest. You want to experience everything and anything (well except maybe eating insects, flydiving, going over Niagara Falls in a barrel, or other really weird things). Get out there and do as many as many things as you can.I think I want to say that I don ' t think you need to constantly push yourself to do something every minute. Sometimes you need to sit there and appreciate what you just accomplished. You should also share your experiences with others who might benefit from what you have done.Do not let your health hold you back. Okay, if you brea...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - July 5, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: fun living with cancer respect terminal ailments Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 3rd 2017
In conclusion, the analyses do not permit us to predict the trajectory that maximum lifespans will follow in the future, and hence provide no support for their central claim that the maximum lifespan of humans is "fixed and subject to natural constraints". This is largely a product of the limited data available for analysis, owing to the challenges inherent in collecting and verifying the lifespans of extremely long-lived individuals. A reply from Jan Vijg's research group The authors of the accompanying comment disagree with our finding of a limit to human lifespan. Although we thank them for alerting us...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 2, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs