🧬Genes, Clocks, and Global Gaps: UN Insights on Aging
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We unpack the UN Scientific Advisory Board Brief on Aging—from telomeres and epigenetic clocks 🧫 to senolytics 💊 and AI-driven geroscience 🤖. Why does aging matter to every clinician? Because aging is the common soil of all chronic disease. 🌱 🔗 Listen now and join the longevity conversation! #Aging #UNBrief #Geroscience #Epigenetics #Healthspan #GotKnowledgeDoc
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🧠 Brains, Beating Hearts, and Bioethics: Human Cells in Animal Bodies 💓
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🚨 Game-changing breakthroughs in chimaera research! 🧬💓 From beating human hearts grown in pig embryos to human organoids integrating into mouse intestines and brains via amniotic injection—two bold advances are reshaping the future of organ transplantation and regenerative medicine. But with scientific promise comes ethical complexity. How far should we go in creating human–animal hybrids? What safeguards are needed? 👇 Join the conversation: Are we building miracles—or crossing lines? #StemCells #RegenerativeMedicine #Bioethics #ChimaeraResearch...
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Vitamin D: Broad Hopes, Narrow Proof?
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🌞 New Guidelines on Vitamin D Supplementation! 💊🧪 JAMA’s latest synopsis recommends empirical vitamin D dosing—without routine testing—for children, the elderly, pregnant women, and those with prediabetes. The evidence? Conditional, with wide confidence intervals—but the low cost and minimal harm may tip the scales. Let’s discuss: Is this the dawn of “test less, dose more” in preventive medicine? #VitaminD #PublicHealth #Endocrinology #JAMA #ClinicalGuidelines #PreventiveCare
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.📜 “The Brussels Declaration 🎯: Prevent the Preventable: The Lp(a) Revolution Begins
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🚨 One in five people carry a hidden cardiovascular risk—do you? The Brussels Declaration on Lipoprotein(a) calls for global, once-in-a-lifetime Lp(a) testing to prevent premature heart disease and stroke. With strong scientific backing and health equity at its core, this is a pivotal step toward personalized cardiovascular prevention. 🧬 Let’s test early. Act early. Save lives. #LipoproteinA #BrusselsDeclaration #CVDprevention #PrecisionMedicine #HeartHealth
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Switching Gears: From Fetal Hemoglobin to Gene Therapy
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From baby blood to breakthrough cures — we explore how unlocking fetal hemoglobin through gene editing (exa-cel/Casgevy) is transforming treatment for sickle cell disease and β-thalassemia. 🧬✂️ Featuring the science of BCL11A, CRISPR therapies, and what the future holds for global access 🌍💉 🎧 Tune in: “Switching Gears: From Fetal Hemoglobin to Gene Therapy” #GeneTherapy #CRISPR #HbF #BCL11A #Casgevy #SickleCell #Thalassemia #Innovation #PrecisionMedicine
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Valve by Valve: Treat Early, Treat Right, Treat Once
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Treat it Early. Treat it Right. Treat it Once. New Lancet comment calls for a paradigm shift in heart valve disease care—advocating early referral, multidisciplinary heart networks, and lifetime management strategies that prioritize durability over delay. Surgery isn’t the villain—delay is. #Cardiology #HeartValveDisease #PrecisionMedicine #SurgicalInnovation #Lancet2025 #LifetimeCare #MultidisciplinaryCare
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Dr RR Baliga's Philosophical Discourses: Vasubandhu (India, c. 4th Century CE) – Co-Founder of Yogacara School
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Vasubandhu was a 4th–5th century Indian Buddhist monk, philosopher, and co-founder of the Yogācāra school of Mahayana Buddhism. Renowned for his works on Abhidharma, he developed key philosophical concepts such as “consciousness-only” (vijñaptimātra) and authored texts on Buddhist metaphysics, logic, and meditation. His influential treatises, including Abhidharmakośa and Thirty Verses, significantly shaped Buddhist thought in India, Tibet, and East Asia.
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Shear Genius: Clot Control, Microstructure Mastery, Revascularization 🚀🧠🔬
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🧠💥 New spin on stroke care! The Milli-Spinner thrombectomy device shrinks clots by up to 95% using shear + compression — no rupture, no fragments. 🚑 Achieves revascularization in 90%+ cases, even when aspiration fails. #Stroke #Innovation #NeuroTech 🔄🩸🔬 📖 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09049-0
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🔥 Age, Immune, Inflamming: Cracking the Code of Aging 🧬🛡️
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🔥 Immunosenescence + Inflammaging = Aging’s hidden engines. 🧬 New studies link immune decline to frailty, dementia, and disease. 🥗💉 Sleep, diet, vaccines, and GLP-1s may slow the clock. #Healthspan > #Lifespan 💡👴🛡️ Derived from Dr. Eric Topol’s Ground Truths on Substack.
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Beyond the Blockage: Arrhythmias, Aging, and Aortic Storms ⏳⚡🌀
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Heart attacks & strokes are down, but guess what’s rising? ⚡ Atrial fibrillation, 🫀 valve disease, & 🩸 VTE are taking the lead! It’s time to rethink prevention: from plaque to pulse to prognosis. 🧠💊📊 #CardioTwitter #HeartHealth #TheLancet https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00990-0
info_outlineHeart attacks & strokes are down, but guess what’s rising?
⚡ Atrial fibrillation, 🫀 valve disease, & 🩸 VTE are taking the lead!
It’s time to rethink prevention: from plaque to pulse to prognosis.
🧠💊📊 #CardioTwitter #HeartHealth #TheLancet
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00990-0