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Podcast: From Homeless to Prisoner to Olympic Coach
 In his teens, Tony Hoffman was a BMX Amateur being featured on magazine covers. But soon after, he was a drug addict living in the streets and ultimately ending in prison. After his parole, a now clean Tony returned to the BMX world in a big way: by taking the silver medal in the 2016 UCI BMX World Championships. Since then, Tony has dedicated his life to helping others with addiction issues with his motivational speaking and special projects. Subscribe to Our Show! And Remember to Review Us! About Our Guest After paroling prison on December 13, 2008, Tony Hoffman started living out his dream, with h...
Source: World of Psychology - April 4, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Show Tags: General Recovery Sports The Psych Central Show Addiction BMX Gabe Howard Olympics prison Tony Hoffman Vincent M. Wales Source Type: blogs

The Most Pressing Issues In Bioethics
Who owns medical and genetic data? How to regulate gene editing? Where is the boundary of enhancing physical or cognitive human capabilities? What to do with biological differences widening the gap of the haves and have-nots? Could we define where is the boundary to augment life? Will we sue robots or algorithms for medical malpractice? With the constant advancement of technology, unprecedented moral, ethical and legal concerns are surfacing. Channeling them into substantial debates will get us closer to their fair solution step by step. Here, we collected the most pressing issues in bioethics. Bioethicists of the world...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 26, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Bioethics Cyborgization Genomics bioethical data debate DNA future gene editing genetic genetics Innovation legal longevity medical medical data moral sex sexuality technology Source Type: blogs

Simple Ways To Boost Health Care Access for People With Communication Disorders
The objectives—and perhaps even more interesting, the disparities within the objectives according to sex, educational attainment and disability status—are tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics. We can search the CDC’s database by topic area for additional data on health care disparities. While the government works toward the Healthy People initiative, we can help improve health care access for those with communication disorders in our communities. I started by considering people’s social determinants of health in my community and surrounding areas....
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - March 25, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Shelley D. Hutchins Tags: Audiology Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology hearing loss Language Disorders Speech Disorders Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 25th 2019
This study defines a new clinically relevant concept of T-cell senescence-mediated inflammatory responses in the pathophysiology of abnormal glucose homeostasis. We also found that T-cell senescence is associated with systemic inflammation and alters hepatic glucose homeostasis. The rational modulation of T-cell senescence would be a promising avenue for the treatment or prevention of diabetes. Intron Retention via Alternative Splicing as a Signature of Aging https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/03/intron-retention-via-alternative-splicing-as-a-signature-of-aging/ In recent years researchers have inv...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 24, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Belluck & Fox Explain How to Care for a Loved One with Mesothelioma
You're reading Belluck & Fox Explain How to Care for a Loved One with Mesothelioma, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. When a loved one is diagnosed with mesothelioma it can be extremely stressful and overwhelming for all involved, but there are things you can do to help provide much needed love and support. A combination of educating yourself so you understand the disease and making it easier for your loved one to manage the disease, both emotionally and physically, can lessen the stress. Mesothelioma ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 24, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Erin Falconer Tags: health and fitness self improvement care mesothelioma Source Type: blogs

Cancer treatment: Is a clinical trial right for you?
Clinical trials are research studies that test a new drug or therapy in patients who have a disease. These studies are classified as phase I, II, or III depending on their purpose. Phase I: These initial, small studies test promising new drugs that effectively kill cancer cells in laboratory experiments. The goal is to understand the safe dose and capture early evidence of benefit. Phase I trials may be open to patients with any type of cancer, or only certain types of cancers more likely to respond to specific drugs. Generally, fewer than 50 patients are enrolled. Phase II: Once a phase I trial identifies a safe dose, ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Guru P. Sonpavde, MD Tags: Breast Cancer Health Treatments Source Type: blogs

The Cruelty of Managed Medicare
By HANS DUVEFELT MD Jeanette Brown had lost twenty pounds, and she was worried. “I’m not trying,” she told me at her regular diabetes visit as I pored over her lab results. What I saw sent a chill down my spine: A normal weight, diet controlled diabetic for many years, her glycosylated hemoglobin had jumped from 6.9 to 9.3 in three months while losing that much weight. That is exactly what happened to my mother some years ago, before she was diagnosed with the pancreatic cancer that took her life in less than two years. Jeanette had a normal physical exam and all her bloodwork except for the sugar num...
Source: The Health Care Blog - March 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Holt Tags: Health Policy Medicare Hans Duvefelt Managed Care Source Type: blogs

10 Reasons Why Digital Health Start-Ups Go Bust
While the digital health market is expanding rapidly, ninety percent of start-ups will probably die within two to five years from their inception. That’s an awfully high number, so we looked around what could possibly go wrong with digital health start-ups to avoid the undeserving fate of falling into the abyss. Being an entrepreneur is tough – especially in healthcare As currently there’s an app for everything, you thought you make one that estimates the time needed to deliver food – so anyone could order pad thai from the closest place possible. Every single entrepreneur knows that a good idea is as a tiny ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 14, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Business Health Sensors & Trackers Healthcare Design business model companies digital health digital health startups entrepreneurship future healthcare data Innovation patient design scientific scientific validation technology Source Type: blogs

Just do it … yourself: At-home colorectal cancer screening
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. Yet despite the ability of CRC screening to detect colon cancer early, and to find and remove potentially precancerous growths called polyps, screening rates remain low, below 60%. Experts generally agree that people should be screened for CRC at regular intervals beginning by age 50. Colonoscopy is considered the gold standard for CRC screening. In this procedure, a doctor examines your entire colon through a colonoscope, a flexible tube outfitted with a small video camera and a light. But concern around pre-colonoscopy bowel cleaning, which can be un...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: James Richter, MD Tags: Cancer Screening Tests and procedures Source Type: blogs

Random thoughts: If extreme poverty is a disease . . . what about uncontrolled affluence ?
Poverty is the cruelest  disease of mankind , the infective vector is not any deadly HINI or retro virus , but mostly the fellow humans themselves ! This is why WHO has included poverty in the ICD code (Z59.5 ) as a disease . I used to wonder , as a member of Noble profession , should we fight against this disease or be happy to  spend my entire life time cleaning the coronary arteries of affluent human-beings and earn few bucks ! Can growth of money eliminate poverty ?  We may think so  . . .  but it  doesn’t most times .Of course affluence can get more jobs to poor and logically reduce it . Its not that eas...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - March 8, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: bio ethics medical quotes affluence as a disease medical ethics mitosis of money modern medical care money and life oncological aspects of money multiplication principles of life Source Type: blogs

China Is Building The Ultimate Technological Health Paradise. Or Is It?
How could a country keep around 1.4 billion people healthy when the system struggles with corruption, lack of resources and an aging population? China, the emerging giant with a strong central leadership fostering technology and innovation, places its bets on artificial intelligence, telemedicine, cloud-based hospitals, and WeChat. While that could sound like an ultimate technological paradise, the question is, what are they going to do with the vast amount of data or to what interests are they going to leverage their state of the art A.I. systems? Generally, how will we speak about digital health in China: a healthcare dy...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 19, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Bioethics Future of Medicine Medical Professionals Patients Policy Makers AI chatbot china digital digital health Healthcare Innovation smartphone technology telehealth telemedicine Source Type: blogs

A 100-Year-Old Martian In An Exoskeleton
The story of The Medical FuturistThe mission of a futuristThe most transformative technology: A.I.The mission of The Medical FuturistThe business modelCommunication of science to wide audiencesScience fiction and scienceData measurementData privacyAdvice to health policy-makersThe gap between the haves and have-nots Nightmare scenarios The future of the doctor-patient relationshipGenetics and gene editingMars and healthcare What do archaeologists and futurists have in common? Why was the Internet underestimated as a technology to transform society while A.I. is over-hyped? What’s the most transformative concept in hea...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 12, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Great Thinkers Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 11th 2019
We report that the bone marrow stromal cell senescence is driven by p16INK4a expression. The p16INK4a-expressing senescent stromal cells then feedback to promote AML blast survival and proliferation via the SASP. Importantly, selective elimination of p16INK4a-positive senescent bone marrow stromal cells in vivo improved the survival of mice with leukemia. Next, we find that the leukemia-driven senescent tumor microenvironment is caused by AML induced NOX2-derived superoxide. Finally, using the p16-3MR mouse model we show that by targeting NOX2 we reduced bone marrow stromal cell senescence and consequently reduced A...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 10, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Innovation Amidst the Crisis: Health IT and the Opioid Abuse Epidemic | Part 4 – Resource Allocation and Access
By COLIN KONSCHAK, FACHE and DAVE LEVIN, MD  Dave Levin Colin Konschak The opioid crisis in the United States is having a devastating impact on individuals, their families, and the health care industry. This multi-part series will focus on the role technology can play in addressing this crisis. Part one of the series proposed a strategic framework for evaluating and pursuing technical solutions. A Framework for Innovation In part one of our series, we declared the opioid crisis an “All Hands-On Deck” moment and made the case that health IT (HIT) has a lot to offer. Given the many different possibilities, having a meth...
Source: The Health Care Blog - February 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Tech Access to care Colin Konschak Dave Levin Divurgent Health IT Sansoro Health Source Type: blogs

Preserving fertility during cancer treatments
Cancer treatment — and cancer itself — can threaten fertility. This is a tremendously important survivorship issue for many people. As an oncologist, I’m often asked questions about preserving fertility during cancer treatment. If this issue affects you, here is an overview of key options. When should you talk to your cancer team about fertility? Future children may not be foremost on your mind when you are diagnosed with cancer. Soon afterward, though, it’s worth talking to your doctor about fertility issues, if this is important to you now or might one day become important. Your doctor can explain: the risk that...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ann Partridge, MD, MPH Tags: Cancer Fertility Infertility Source Type: blogs