Tincture may be (mostly) on a hiatus, but we highlight some non-Tincture COVID-19 and other interesting articles that founder Jordan Shlain and editor Kim Bellard thought you should see.

Jordan’s Takeaways

Digital hygiene. Is Too Much Screen Time Giving You Eye Fatigue?

Delta, now Lambda! Variants are here to stay. The Lambda variant: is it more infectious, and can it escape vaccines? A virologist explains

Microbiome Update: Fermented food benefits. A fermented-food diet increases microbiome diversity and lowers inflammation, Stanford study finds

Kim’s Takeaways

Oh, my. U.S. Life Expectancy Fell By 1.5 Years In 2020, The Biggest Drop Since WWII

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I think of hospitals as the healthcare system’s nuclear power plants. They’re both big, complex, expensive to build, beset with heavy regulatory burdens, consistently major components of their respective systems (healthcare and electric generation) yet declining in number. Each is seen to offer benefits to many but also to pose unexpected risk to some.

Interestingly, there’s a “micro” trend for each, but aimed towards different ends.

Micro hospitals have been with us for several years. They usually have only around ten beds, along with an emergency room, lab and imaging. Dr. Tom Vo, CEO of Nutex Health, says: “We position…

Tincture may be (mostly) on a hiatus, but we highlight some non-Tincture COVID-19 and other interesting articles that founder Jordan Shlain and editor Kim Bellard thought you should see.

Jordan’s Takeaways

Microbiome Update: Fermented food benefits. A fermented-food diet increases microbiome diversity and lowers inflammation, Stanford study finds

Dang. The Lancet Onc.: Alcohol consumption linked to more than 740,000 new cancer cases in 2020

Do we really need fancy AI on MRI’s to tell us to stop eating crap? AI predicts diabetes risk by measuring fat around the heart

You might also be interested in this from Jordan: Concierge and…

When I think of elevator operators, I think of health care.

Now, it’s not likely that many people think about elevator operators very often, if ever. Many have probably never seen a elevator operator. The idea of a uniformed person standing all day in a elevator pushing buttons so that people can get to their floors seems unnecessary at best and ludicrous at worse.

But once upon a time they were essential, until they weren’t. Healthcare, don’t say you haven’t been warned.

Elevators have been around in some form for hundreds of years, and by the 19th century were using…

Tincture may be (mostly) on a hiatus, but we highlight some non-Tincture COVID-19 and other interesting articles that founder Jordan Shlain and editor Kim Bellard thought you should see.

Jordan’s Takeaways

This may be a way to help our damaged microbiome from the processed crap we’re putting in our bodies. Fecal transplant plus fibre supplements improve insulin sensitivity in severely obese patients, clinical trial shows

Wow! Scientists discover a new class of neurons for remembering faces

Fascinating. What Kids Eat Around the World

Eat REAL Tuna Story Exposes Challenges of Seafood Authentication

Super interesting! 5-minute breathing workout lowers blood pressure…

I learned a new word this week: bioresorbable. It means pretty much what you might infer — materials that can be broken down and absorbed into the body, i.e., biodegradable. It is not, as it turns out, a new concept for health care — physicians have been using bioresorbable stitches and even stents for several years. But there are some new developments that further illustrate the potential of bioresorbable materials.

It’s enough to make Green New Deal supporters smile.

Bioresorbable stents and stitches are all well and good — who wants to be stuck with them or, worse yet, to…

Happy 4th of July! Tincture may be (mostly) on a hiatus, but we highlight some non-Tincture COVID-19 and other interesting articles that founder Jordan Shlain and editor Kim Bellard thought you should see.

Jordan’s Takeaways

A face mask that detects COVID! Face mask can help diagnose COVID-19

Kim’s Takeaways

Get vaccinated! Three Studies, One Result: Vaccines Point the Way Out of the Pandemic

The fall could be “interesting.” Schools That Mask See Little COVID Spread

You didn’t think “transparency” would be easy, did you? Hospital Prices Must Now Be Transparent. For Many Consumers, They’re Still Anyone’s Guess.

Wait — hospital…

Last week I was on a fun podcast with a bunch of people who were, as usual, smarter than me, and, in particular, more knowledgeable about one of my favorite topics — artificial intelligence (A.I.), particularly for healthcare. With the WHO releasing its “first global report” on A.I. — Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health — and with no shortage of other experts weighing in recently, it seemed like a good time to revisit the topic.

My prediction: it’s not going to work out quite like we expect, and it probably shouldn’t.

“Like all new technology, artificial intelligence…