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A Proposal to Improve Healthcare and Make It More Affordable
By STEVE ZECOLA Americans spend about $3 trillion per year on healthcare, or about $10,000 per person per year. Despite these expenditures, Americans are worse off than their international counterparts with respect to infant mortality, life expectancy and the prevalence of chronic conditions. In policy debates, Republicans mostly prefer to let the marketplace devise the appropriate outcomes, but this approach ignores the market failures that plague the industry. On the other hand, Democrats propose a variety of solutions such as “Medicare for All” which nationalizes all healthcare insurance or, as a variant, ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - August 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Medicare For All Source Type: blogs

8 Ways to Write Away Your Worries
You are worried about a litany of things, and it feels like these worries are pelting you in the head like balls from a pitching machine. You are worried about your upcoming presentation. You are worried your house won’t sell. You are worried the weather will be terrible on your vacation. You are worried your daughter is upset with you. You are worried you said something offensive to your new colleague. You are worried you didn’t pay an important bill—or do something else that’s important. And you are worried about a hundred other things that you’re worried you won’t remember—or can’t forget. Lynn R. Zakeri...
Source: World of Psychology - June 9, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Creativity General Habits Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Stress Brainstorming Creative Outlet Creative Writing Source Type: blogs

Werner Syndrome versus Natural Aging
In science, a model is a system that is close enough to reality that one can learn something useful from it. It is almost always cost-effective to use models rather than the real thing as a test bed, even if the differences sometimes lead to misleading results. Medical and life science researchers put a great deal of effort into producing animal models of human diseases, a way to explore causes and treatments within available budgets. In some cases this is just a matter of standardization, as a given condition with very similar mechanisms exists in multiple species besides our own. In others, such as Alzheimer's disease, t...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 27, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 27th 2019
In this study, we found that cofilin competes with tau for direct microtubule binding in vitro, in cells, and in vivo, which inhibits tau-induced microtubule assembly. Genetic reduction of cofilin mitigates tauopathy and synaptic defects in Tau-P301S mice and movement deficits in tau transgenic C. elegans. The pathogenic effects of cofilin are selectively mediated by activated cofilin, as active but not inactive cofilin selectively interacts with tubulin, destabilizes microtubules, and promotes tauopathy. These results therefore indicate that activated cofilin plays an essential intermediary role in neurotoxic signaling th...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 26, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Perspectives on Working with Healthcare Systems for Digital Start Up Companies | Part 1
This article is directed at the emerging digital solutions trying resiliently to help transform this stubborn industry. It provides some critical lessons in dealing with healthcare systems and is accompanied by reactions from a digital solutions expert with serial digital health entrepreneurship experience. We hope to provide perspective from two people living and breathing, and surviving, from both sides of the equation every day.   Perspectives and Reactions from the Industry Healthcare Startups Must Understand how Provider Systems Operate: Most health systems are increasingly becoming rightfully skeptical abo...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Technology Start-Ups The Business of Health Care Brian Van Winkle Healthcare systems Shahid Shah Startups Source Type: blogs

The Pension Industry Will Change Radically, Willingly or Otherwise
Promises to pay at a future date are a dangerous tool in the hands of politicians and state employees, those who suffer little to no personal consequences when past promises are revealed to be based on faulty assumptions and thin air. Either someone ends up paying, usually the taxpayers, or the promises are broken. Pensions are, of course, just such a promise. The pensions industry in the US is a good example of the way in which entitlement schemes run awry even without any sort of external shock to the system, such as large numbers of pension recipients suddenly living 5-10 years longer than the models predict. This seems...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 23, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

7 Practical Tools for Picking Yourself up During Your Darkest Days
You're reading 7 Practical Tools for Picking Yourself up During Your Darkest Days, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. These days most people experience some feelings of depression, anxiety, grief or general lack of motivation. This is a normal part of life, however, if we don’t take productive action, these states can linger and interfere with our functioning at work and in relationships. Here are some simple yet highly effective tools that can help you out of a dark period and propel you back towards balan...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - April 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Tabitha Bailey Tags: depression featured self improvement motivation passion pickthebrain Source Type: blogs

For American Indians, Health is a Human and Legal Right
Sam Aptekar Phuoc Le By PHUOC LE, MD and SAM APTEKAR Most will be surprised to learn that American Indians and Alaska Natives represent the only populations in the United States with a legal birthright to health care.[1] Even though Article 25 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares, “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including…medical care and necessary social services,” U.S. federal policy only guarantees this human right to enrolled tribal members. The source of this juridical entitlement ...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health disparities Health Policy American Indians Phuoc Le Sam Aptekar Source Type: blogs

Digesting ten unpalatable myths about food
I’ve put together a menu of my favourite food myths #DeceivedWisdom and separated the fact and fiction based on the debunking of nutrition myths in a recent well-referenced feature on examine.com. Myth 10 is my own bonus myth debunked. Myth 1: Carbs are bad for you Fact: As long as you do not overindulge, there is nothing inherently harmful about carbohydrates. Myth 2: Fat is bad for you Fact: If you eat too much and don’t get enough exercise, and so stay in a caloric surplus, a low-fat diet won’t help you lose weight. You need some omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Saturated fat won’t give you a heart attac...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 25, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Sciencebase Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 4th 2019
In this study, we examined the benefits of early-onset, lifelong AET on predictors of health, inflammation, and cancer incidence in a naturally aging mouse model. Lifelong, voluntary wheel-running (O-AET; 26-month-old) prevented age-related declines in aerobic fitness and motor coordination vs. age-matched, sedentary controls (O-SED). AET also provided partial protection against sarcopenia, dynapenia, testicular atrophy, and overall organ pathology, hence augmenting the 'physiologic reserve' of lifelong runners. Systemic inflammation, as evidenced by a chronic elevation in 17 of 18 pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokin...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 3, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Continued Exploration of the Mechanisms of Cellular Senescence
Today, a pair of papers that are representative of present interest in the deeper mechanisms of cellular senescence. Senescent cells have of late become a major focus in the aging research community, now that scientists are largely convinced that (a) accumulation of these cells is a significant cause of aging, and (b) removing them can reverse aging and age-related disease to a large enough degree to justify significant investment in further development. Better late than never! The evidence has been compelling for decades, but only in 2011 was sufficient funding raised by a sufficiently well-regard research group to build ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 28, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

The Future of the Affordable Care Act: Unscathed by Attacks from the Right, Overtaken on its Left?
By ETIENNE DEFFARGES  Having survived years of attacks from Republicans at the federal level, will the surviving ACA be rendered obsolete by Democrats’ local and state efforts towards universal health care? This could be an ironic twist of fate for Obamacare. Conceived out of the conservative Heritage Foundation’s ideas and an early experiment in Massachusetts under a Republican governor, President Obama’s signature legislative achievement could very well survive its most recent judiciary challenge. But over time the ACA is susceptible to obsolescence, because of the many universal health care solutions being pushed...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health Policy Obamacare Affordable Care Act Etienne Deffarges Politics Source Type: blogs

Pay for Federal Government Workers
With the backdrop of the shutdown and federal workers going unpaid, theNew York Times published a backgrounder last week on federal compensation. It was a fair and balanced piece and highlighted themesdiscussed in this study on government workers.TheNYT charts government and private sector wage growth. Average federal wages soared during the 1990s and 2000s but have grown more slowly this decade. However, overall federal compensation including benefits has grown briskly in recent years, as I chart below.Here are highlights from theNYT story:Verla Bloomfield has the kind of workplace that seems plucked from a different era....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 23, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs

Dander Up, Down, and All Around
Today ' s topics: VA health care politics; a clear-eyed and sane report from a bastion of managerialism, with related observations on innovators trying to create real bottom-up value.It ' s the last day of the year, so let ' s get this done. Owing to various largely unforeseen challenges, happily now largely behind us, this " Dander " series was interrupted for some time. Apologies to anyone who noticed. In any case, to refresh: as Chief Blogger and FIRM president Dr. Poses has indicated often enough in these pages, health care developments raising our dander are still everywhere, all the time, and on the increas...
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 31, 2018 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs

Study shows how exercise generates new neurons, improves cognition in Alzheimer's disease
A study by a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team finds that neurogenesis -inducing the production of new neurons - in the brain structure in which memories are encoded can improve cognitive function in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.Research team identifies way to mimic exercise's beneficial effects through pharmacologic and gene therapy."The lesson learned was that it is not enough just to turn on the birth of new nerve cells, you must simultaneously 'clean up' the neighborhood in which they are being born to make sure the new cells survive and thrive.Exercise can achieve that, but we found ways of mi...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 19, 2018 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimers desease alzheimers research brain structure cognitive function exercise exercise alzheimer's gene therapy learning memory neurogenesis Rudy Tanzi science Source Type: blogs