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Henry Ford of Heart Surgery — from WSJ

Published in November 24th, 2009
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This is a fantastic article. At a time when Congress is debating a bloated $850 billion health care bill, doctors in India have come up with ways to make heart surgery cheaper, with potentially better recovery rates.
According to the piece, like Henry Ford before him, Indian Doctor Devi Shetty has “used high [...]

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Skin cells turn into liver cells

Published in October 13th, 2009
Posted by sonia in Longevity tech, healthspan
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“I could make a mouse that has your liver. That’s incredibly valuable,” said stem cell researcher Stephen A. Duncan (at the Medical College of Wisconsin).
That’s an impressive claim, and it’s based on newly released data from his lab that shows the ability to turn human skin cells into liver cells. Read the [...]

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Broad Institute announces new way to find cancer-fighting drugs

Published in August 13th, 2009
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From the NYT:
“A team at the Broad Institute, a Harvard-M.I.T. collaborative for genomics research, has devised a way of screening for drugs that attack cancer stem cells but leave ordinary cells unharmed.
The Broad team, lead by Piyush B. Gupta, screened some 16,000 chemicals, including all known chemotherapeutic agents approved by the F.D.A. The team reports [...]

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Caloric restriction extends lives of monkeys

Published in July 10th, 2009
Posted by sonia in Longevity tech, healthspan
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Here’s the paper everyone has been buzzing about for the last few days (press release). Monkeys who ate a lower calorie, yet nutritious diet, lived longer than those who ate more. These results were expected, and it will be interesting to see how the monkeys fare over the next decade or so. [...]

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Two new technologies that will make health care cheaper

Published in April 13th, 2009
Posted by sonia in Longevity tech, healthspan
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There are two stories in the headlines today that both look poised to cut health costs. First, is the announcement of a technique to see if someone has cancer just by testing his or her blood. This new research comes out of Stanford University and was published in the Journal Nature Medicine. [...]

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Replacing humans with machines for cervical test

Published in April 6th, 2009
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The NYT reports today that “A new DNA test for the virus that causes cervical cancer does so much better than current methods that some gynecologists hope it will eventually replace the Pap smear in wealthy countries and cruder tests in poor ones.” The study was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [...]

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Why science foundations should be run like businesses

Published in November 13th, 2008
Posted by sonia in Biotech, healthspan
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This is a great article by Joe Nocera of the New York Times on the effectiveness of bringing a business mindset to disease research. He interviews Michael J. Fox and Andy Grove on how the best ways to run a foundation.

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Lifestyle changes boost telomerase

Published in September 23rd, 2008
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A study by Dr. Dean Ornish and his team showed that lifestyle changes including diet, exercise, and stress management techniques made a difference in telomerase levels. “Telomerase repairs and lengthens telomeres, which are DNA-protein complexes at the end of chromosomes that directly affect how quickly cells age. As telomeres become shorter and their structural integrity [...]

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Gene therapy restores sight

Published in September 23rd, 2008
Posted by sonia in Biotech, Longevity tech, healthspan
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Here’s the story from Wired.
“With the help of gene therapy, two people who once were blind now can see.[...] Cideciyan’s study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is one of three simultaneous trials of gene therapy for Leber’s Congenital Amaurosis, also known as LCA.”

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Thinking causes weight gain

Published in September 5th, 2008
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Finally, a scientific excuse for academics:
A Université Laval research team has demonstrated that intellectual work induces a substantial increase in calorie intake. The details of this discovery, which could go some way to explaining the current obesity epidemic, are published in the most recent issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.

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Weigh more, pay more in Alabama

Published in August 23rd, 2008
Posted by sonia in healthspan
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From the Associated Press:
“Alabama, pushed to second in national obesity rankings by deep-fried Southern favorites, is cracking down on state workers who are too fat.
The state has given its 37,527 employees a year to start getting fit — or they’ll pay $25 a month for insurance that otherwise is free.”

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All Americans will be fat in 40 years?

Published in August 6th, 2008
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This article says it could happen. I doubt it (for a variety of reasons: technology being one of them), but it’s definitely a wake up call. So, stop surfing the Internet and GO WORK OUT NOW!

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Diet and exercise can change your gene activity (for the better)

Published in June 16th, 2008
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Dr. Dean Ornish, head of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, CA, and his team showed that changing diet and exercise led to changes in what genes were switched on or off. Reuters reports that “the activity of disease-preventing genes increased while a number of disease-promoting genes, including those involved in prostate cancer [...]

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Medical tourism

Published in May 5th, 2008
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Here’s an interesting article in the SF Chronicle about medical tourism. According to the article, ” No official statistics are kept on how many Americans travel overseas for medical care, but one estimate places the number at 150,000 in 2006.” Hip replacement in India, anyone?

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“Good Brain? Thanks, Mom”

Published in April 26th, 2008
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A study by Steven Zeisel, M.D., Ph.D. Nutritionist of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has apparently shown that “Pregnant women who get sufficient levels of the nutrient choline in their diet may have offspring with a higher IQ as a baby, better verbal skills as a child and better memory in old [...]

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