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Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 18th 2023
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 m...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 17, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Thinking on Your Feet Well: Building Adaptive Expertise in Learners Using Simulation
On this episode of the Academic Medicine Podcast, Sam Clarke, MD, MAS, and Jon Ilgen, MD, PhD, join host Toni Gallo to discuss the importance of teaching adaptive expertise to prepare learners for the types of complex cases they will encounter in clinical practice. This conversation also covers what adaptive expertise is, how simulation can be used to foster this skill in learners, and the complementary relationship between performance-oriented cases and adaptive cases in health professions education. This episode is now available through Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else podcasts are available. ...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - July 24, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast AM Podcast Transcript Academic Medicine podcast adaptive expertise medical education medical students residents simulation Source Type: blogs

Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension: Unraveling Its Impact On Heart And Lungs
Conclusion Navigating the complexities of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH) might seem daunting. However, with the right knowledge and proactive approach, it’s possible to manage the condition and maintain a good quality of life. PAH, a unique type of high blood pressure affecting the arteries in the lungs, can put extra strain on the heart. Over time, this can lead to heart failure. The condition’s root cause may vary, from genetic factors to other health issues like heart defects, liver disease, or autoimmune diseases. Remember, sometimes the cause remains unknown, resulting in idiopathic pulmonary ...
Source: The EMT Spot - July 19, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 19th 2023
In conclusion, among Swedish middle-aged subjects, nearly two-thirds showed complete fatty degeneration of thymus on CT. Age-Related Dysfunction of Water Homeostasis https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/06/age-related-dysfunction-of-water-homeostasis/ Dehydration can be an issue in older people. As in every complex system in the body, the mechanisms by which hydration is regulated become dysfunctional with advancing age. Researchers here look at the brain region responsible for regulating some of the response to dehydration, cataloging altered gene expression in search of the more important mechani...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 18, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Smart Sutures Sense Inflammation, Deliver Drugs, Cells
Researchers at MIT have developed smart sutures with a hydrogel coating that contains sensing and drug delivery components, and could even be used to implant therapeutic cells. The sutures are made using pig tissues that have been decellularized with...
Source: Medgadget - May 30, 2023 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: GI Materials Medicine Surgery mit sutures Source Type: blogs

The Hidden Barrier to Better Healthcare
The following is a guest article by Josh Miller, Co-Founder & CEO at Gradient Health. As a global society, we have never spent more on healthcare. We have never been more informed. We’ve never been more advanced. Yet there is a great divide between what we have accomplished scientifically, and what patients actually get access to. This is not something spoken about a lot, because the focus is of course on developing life-saving medical devices and diagnostics. However, despite new innovations being created, funded, and announced every week, the speed with which these new technologies are being adopted is slow if they...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - March 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: Analytics/Big Data C-Suite Leadership Communication and Patient Experience Health IT Company Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System AI Artificial Intelligence Clinical Validation Computed Tomography CT Gradient Health Healthcare Da Source Type: blogs

6 Healthcare Examples Of Virtual, Augmented And Mixed Reality
Lately, there has been a tendency in the tech world to adopt “new” realities in their midst. Meta has a branch dedicated to developing virtual reality (VR) hardware and software; earlier this year HTC unveiled its new augmented reality (AR) glasses; while Apple is reportedly gearing up to launch a mixed reality (MR) headset.  Collectively, VR, AR and MR fall under the umbrella term of extended reality (XR), which analysts believe holds the potential to be the next major computing platform. Such potentials have spillover effects into the medical field through digital health approaches, and healthcare practice is...
Source: The Medical Futurist - February 23, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Pranavsingh Dhunnoo Tags: TMF Augmented Reality Virtual Reality MR XR VR AR mixed reality extended reality Source Type: blogs

Don ’ t neglect the power of clinical examinations in modern medicine
I intended to write an essay endorsing the clinical examination (CE), but recent personal events have made me reconsider. I had outpatient sinus surgery and developed chest pain the next day, leading me to my local rural hospital’s emergency department (ED). The ED physician diagnosed atrial fibrillation, and a CT scan revealed a small pulmonary Read more… Don’t neglect the power of clinical examinations in modern medicine originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 17, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Pediatrics Source Type: blogs

Return to McAllen: A Father-Son Interview
By IAN ROBERTSON KIBBE You are going to hear a little more about McAllen, TX on THCB Shortly. And before we dive into what’s happened there lately, I thought those of you who weren’t here back in the day might want to read an article on THCB from July 2009. Where then THCB editor Ian Kibbe interviewed his dad David Kibbe about what he was doing as a primary care doc in McAllen–Matthew Holt By now, Dr. Atul Gawande’s article on McAllen’s high cost of health care has been widely read.  The article spawned a number of responses and catalyzed a national discussion on cost controls and t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Uncategorized David Kibbe Ian Robertson Kibbe McAllen Physicians TX Source Type: blogs

A woman in her 20s with syncope
Written by Destiny Folk MD, with edits by Meyers, peer reviewed by Smith and GrauerA woman in her late 20s with a past medical history of cervical cancer status post chemotherapy and radiation therapy presented to the emergency department for shortness of breath, chest tightness, and two episodes of syncope.Her initial vital signs revealed a temp of 97.7F, HR 125, RR 20, BP 115/90, and an oxygen saturation of 95% on room air. Upon arrival, she did not appear in acute distress. She was noted to be tachycardic and her heart sounds were distant on physical exam. She had a normal respiratory effort, and her lungs were clear to...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - November 28, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs

What is a myocardial bridge? Cardiology Basics
Normally the coronary arteries are located outside the myocardium. Occasionally a segment of the coronary artery passes through the myocardium. This causes a narrowing of that region in systole and is known as myocardial bridging. Myocardial bridging can be recognized as narrowing of a region of the coronary artery in systole which normalizes in diastole. Usually myocardial bridges do not cause myocardial ischemia as normally the blood flow into the myocardium occur mostly during diastole. Still myocardial bridges can rarely cause  myocardial ischemia and cause chest pain. Rarely this may need recurrent hospital admi...
Source: Cardiophile MD - October 10, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Johnson Francis Tags: General Cardiology Source Type: blogs

The Future of Radiology And Artificial Intelligence
What if an algorithm could tell you whether you have cancer based on your CT scan or mammography exam? While I am confident that radiologists’ creative work will be necessary in the future to solve complex issues and supervise diagnostic processes, A.I. will definitely become part of their daily routine in diagnosing simpler cases and taking over repetitive tasks. So rather than getting threatened by it, we should familiarise ourselves with how it could help change the course of radiology for the better. Radiologists who use A.I. will replace those who don’t There is a lot of hype and plenty of fear around ar...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 22, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Medicine AI artificial intelligence cancer Health Healthcare ibm watson Innovation MRI Radiology technology gc4 medical imaging CT scanning Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 19th 2022
Conclusion Use of the Khavinson peptides and melatonin in combination in this way, at this dose, negatively impacts the thymus, producing a reduction in active tissue and increase in atrophy to fatty tissue. The degree to which this atrophy occurred is greater than one would expect to take place over nine months of aging at this stage of life. Why did this outcome occur, given the animal studies showing thymic regrowth, and the studies showing reduced later life mortality following use of thymogen? We can only speculate. Firstly, the dose makes the poison, and the dosing here may have been too high, too frequ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 18, 2022 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

How to Mitigate Ethical Challenges of AI-Driven Healthcare
The following is a guest article by Natalie C. Oehlers, Associate Attorney and Carly C. Koza, Healthcare Associate Attorney at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney. While various legislation has been implemented or proposed at both the federal and state levels to standardize and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence (AI), most stop short of addressing the significant ethical challenges that may arise. Now, more than ever, it is important for developers, manufacturers, and healthcare providers to remain vigilant as it relates to ethics surrounding AI.   How AI Improves the Healthcare Industry  AI is a powerful...
Source: EMR and HIPAA - August 9, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Guest Author Tags: AI/Machine Learning Analytics/Big Data Clinical Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Artificial Intelligence Carly C. Koza ethics Healthcare AI Healthcare AI Ethics Informed Consent Natalie C. Oehlers Source Type: blogs

A man in his 40s with multitrauma from motor vehicle collision
DiscussionThis is a case where clinical context is of vital importance, because the EKG manifestations of cardiac contusion are fairly unpredictable. Intramyocardial hemorrhage, edema, and necrosis of myocardial muscle cells are characteristics of cardiac contusion. All of these cause troponin elevation, making troponin a very specific marker for cardiac injury. It is suggested that a troponin that is within normal reference range at about 4-6 hours from the inciting event suggests strongly the absence of cardiac injury in blunt chest trauma (Sybrandy).The EKG is not generally sensitive for cardiac contusion. The right ven...
Source: Dr. Smith's ECG Blog - August 6, 2022 Category: Cardiology Authors: Pendell Source Type: blogs