EXPERIMENTAL STRATEGY. MASUKI ET AL. COMPR PHYSIOL 10: 1207-1240, 2020. view more CREDIT: COPYRIGHT © 2020 AMERICAN PHYSIOLOGICAL SOCIETY A common notion is to walk 10,000 steps a day to improve ones’ physical fitness, so pedometers have been a popular wearable health device from before the days of fitness trackers and smartphones. However, simply walking...
by Deborah Kotz, University of Maryland School of Medicine Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have identified how certain gene mutations cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The pathway identified by the researchers may also be responsible for a certain form of dementia related to ALS....
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Proactive, personalized care detected overlooked health conditions and risks STANFORD MEDICINE A Stanford Medicine pilot program combining cutting-edge tools of biomedicine with a collaborative, team-based method, offers a new approach to personalized health care that captures the promise of Precision Health: to predict, prevent and treat disease based on the individual patient. Through the Humanwide project, primary care teams at Stanford Medicine’s Primary Care 2.0 clinic in...
TodayBy Catharine Paddock PhD Sticking to a plant-rich diet that can reduce high blood pressure may also lower the risk of heart failure in people under the age of 75. This was the conclusion of a study that a team at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC, led to assess the impact of the Dietary...
WILEY A new study reveals that preventive medications–such as those to lower blood pressure or cholesterol, or to protect bone health, among others–are commonly prescribed during the last year of life of older adults with cancer, even though they are unlikely to provide meaningful benefits. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings point to the need for efforts...
Many chronic or lifestyle diseases occur without any of the traditional risk factors, precluding the possibility of preventive intervention. The use of proteomic biomarkers is therefore urgently needed to complement and enhance the information available by conventional risk stratification. Blood tests are the most common type of biological tests used in clinical practice and laboratory...
A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study assesses the effect of receiving an Annual Wellness Visit (AWV) between 2011 and 2013 on the annual rate of eight preventive services recommended for the Medicare population following the AWV. The study is published online in Preventive Medicine. “The annual wellness visit assesses patients’ health risk...
