Rijk Gans

Professor of Medicine UMCG | Discover Medical Breakthroughs, News, and Environmental Insights! | Health & Wellness | Nature Conservation #Medicine #Environment

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In today's @TheLancet there are 3 papers on cardiometabolic disease: biology, epidemiology, prevention/treatment.
The sobering and all to common story from womb to tomb conveyed in this graphic
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‘Severe’ stress on oceans as rate of sea level rise doubles in 10 years, UN warns https://t.co/xUUURKcskJ

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Are we crossing a line towards eugenics? Efficient base editing and development in human embryos without chromosomal alterations | bioRxiv https://t.co/4IHAwyWsvX

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A worrisome development: Tools that strip AI safety controls from open models are spreading: FT https://t.co/2AtYFPyUp7

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A new study has found that nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide had mental disorders in 2023, reflecting a 95.5% increase since 1990, with the largest increases in anxiety and depression. https://t.co/cv9FYYXZ1G

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Supplementation with Vitamin D or calcium, or both does not help prevent fractures or falls. From a new systematic review of 69 randomized trials and >150,000 participants

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Liquid Moves Through A Connected Straw:

🌀A continuous liquid path lets pressure differences and gravity drive flow between the glasses

🌀Once the straw is moved, the fluid redistributes until the levels start to even out

🌀The interesting part is that the system is chasing balance, not following the straw

🌀In a connected fluid, “where it goes” is really just a matter of pressure and height

📹 via interesting_ail (X)

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The new issue of Daedalus, the open-access Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is chock full of good material on AI. w/@demishassabis @ylecun @alondra @pushmeet and so many others
I wrote about the future of AI-facilitated medicine
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Important editorial @Nature on the new "AI-scientist" papers
"AI scientists can and should empower human
researchers. They cannot and should not replace them."
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“Never again” We had learned our lesson after COVID-19. Fragmented global cooperation tells a very different story. Hantavirus—surprise, complacency, and peril https://t.co/Qio26d9WXE

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Why is there such obsession with extending lifespan when the bigger issue is that average healthspan is 65 years and there are no data (except in super-centenarians) that longer lifespan = longer healthspan (known as compression of morbidity)?

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The big advance in the science of human aging is the ability to quantify it and relate the metrics to health and disease. A new paper today @CellCellPress takes this to the next level with organ clocks and multiple biologic layers (omics) of data across the lifespan.
https://t.co/h3n4eGPAvs

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Metformin, one of the most commonly prescribed drugs, was thought to work via the liver. Check that. It's primarily through the gut. @NatMetabolism
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What superhuman vision can detect from the retinal photo, which human eyes cannot, is stunning. A new foundation AI model screening for diabetes hypertension, hyperlipidemia, gout, osteoporosis, and thyroid disease @NatureMedicine
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The next #EBIM newsletter is out! Timely insights on medical topics that could change primary care practice tomorrow. EBIM in the Loop, April 18 https://t.co/IxKjbfqTMd #InternalMedicine #PrimaryCare #MedicalEducation

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Australia Bans Use of Genetic Testing Data by Life Insurers: the way forward! https://t.co/L6Vs094Y2A

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A µ-opioid receptor superagonist analgesic with minimal adverse effects | a breakthrough in pain? Nature https://t.co/mQJmVpQFuQ

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This year 5 tech companies have introduced AI chatbots to consumers for health support @AnthropicAI @perplexity_ai @OpenAI @Microsoft @amazon
@nicnguyen, a @WSJ journalist, tried some out.
gift link https://t.co/vwO261Q6qB

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The $70 billion/year industry in the US with zero evidence of benefit in healthy people and thousands of paid influencers, by @saraashleyo
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The next #EBIM newsletter is out! Timely insights on medical topics that could change primary care practice tomorrow https://t.co/wT7Ovd0Me1 InternalMedicine #PrimaryCare #MedicalEducation