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It could lead to more effective treatments for a wide range of immune disorders.[contextly_sidebar id=”lms9rSPdk5pG72xqgRdVMiGv0hv7IpdH”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new data pool represents the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(18)31451-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">largest control group\u003c/a> ever compiled on the human immune system, according to the study published on Tuesday in the journal, \u003cem>Cell Reports\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Called the \u003ca href=\"http://10kimmunomes.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10,000 Immunomes Project\u003c/a> (10KIP), it’s the culmination of four years of work and provides an instant comparison group for researchers studying the immune system and immune dysfunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF researchers created the tool using immunology data from 83 studies representing 10,000 healthy subjects, according to senior author Atul Butte, director of the \u003ca href=\"http://bakarinstitute.ucsf.edu/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute\u003c/a> at UCSF.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If the field of genetics is able to compile large collections consisting of millions of people, why does immunology lag behind?’\u003ccite>Atul Butte, UCSF\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The data comes from studies on organ transplants, autoimmune disease trials, vaccine studies and other research funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>“We have sub-populations in the U.S. that don’t really participate in studies so why not just gather all this massive data on the immune system in one central place,” says Butte. “We can turn to this data to see what is going on in a healthy immune system spanning different populations in the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butte says the ability to manipulate immune system activity will benefit a wide range of patients, including transplant recipients, cancer and AIDS patients, and those suffering from some form of immune dysfunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Autoimmune Disease (AD) in particular, an historically underfunded field, could benefit greatly from the availability of a large and diverse control group, according to Butte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rise of Autoimmine Disease\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AD is one of the fastest growing illnesses in the U.S., with 20 percent of the population or one in five people, suffering from the disorder.[contextly_sidebar id=”KPqEb6LD9ky4mDsIDJAEnoEvgzkEna45″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite AD being \u003ca href=\"https://www.aarda.org/who-we-are/our-mission/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">one of the top 10 leading causes\u003c/a> of death in females up to 64 years of age, research has continued to lag behind, according to Butte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Institutes of Health\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2018/10/09/voting-on-daylight-saving-time-animal-confinement-and-water-propositions-3-7-and-12-explained/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> has spent\u003c/a> $591 million dollars on AD research compared to the $6.1 billion spent on cancer. Current treatments consist of risky immunosuppressants that can lead to devastating long-term side effects.[contextly_sidebar id=”ZbtYikLAiggPmeNWkxr4kKECzkkjZf4Z”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UCSF researchers developed the new searchable database in part to boost AD research. Typically, studies done on immune systems are smaller and it’s rare to get 10,000 participants, according to Butte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plus, the human immune system is a moving target.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a difficult field to study because unlike DNA for example, your immune system changes from morning to night. So which aspect of the immune system scientists focus on, and \u003cem>when\u003c/em> they study it, these are all problems we are getting better at. We just need more studies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To test their new tool, researchers created a custom control group comprised of women between 18 and 40 years of age and compared it to 56 pregnant women who participated in a prior study tracking immune changes during pregnancy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using this control group, researchers were able to detect how various immune cells and cell signaling proteins, called cytokines, changed from pre-pregnancy levels— measurements that the original study failed to pick up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers also used the new tool to compare immunity in people from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. The findings showed both known differences as well as new information that could only be seen by combining data from dozens of different studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, researchers found that regulatory T cells, which suppress the immune response, are present at higher levels in African Americans, compared to all other groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shareable Science\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butte sees the searchable database as part of a broader trend in science, promoting open access where more scientists are willing to share their raw data with others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hundreds of people who have essentially contributed to this work,” he notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Butte says he hopes his work will bring immunology to the forefront and inspire others to rethink their approach to the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the field of genetics is able to compile large collections consisting of millions of people,” he wonders, “why does immunology lag behind? 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">Nearly 40 years after surgeons first \u003ca href=\"https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2011/02/9366/ucsf-surgeon-reflects-performing-worlds-first-fetal-surgery-30-years-ago\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">operated on fetuses\u003c/a> to cure devastating abnormalities, researchers have taken the first step toward curing genetic disease before birth via genome editing: scientists reported on Monday that they used the genome editing technique CRISPR to alter the DNA of laboratory mice in the womb, eliminating an often-fatal liver disease before the animals had even been born.[contextly_sidebar id=\"kLt87B75fzdQ6XiJiVHbmy8S3RDMp2KF\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">The research, by a team at the University of Pennsylvania and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), is a very early proof of concept. But while CRISPRing human fetuses is years away, at best, the success in mice bolsters what Dr. William Peranteau, who co-led the study, calls his dream of curing genetic diseases before birth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">“A lot more animal work needs to be done before we can even think about applying this [fetal genome editing] clinically,” said Peranteau, a pediatric and fetal surgeon at CHOP. “But I think fetal genome editing may be where fetal surgery [which is now routine] once was, and that one day we’ll use it to treat diseases that cause significant morbidity and mortality.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon Waddington of University College London, a leader in research to develop fetal gene therapy who was not involved in the new study, called the CRISPR approach “an elegant refinement of the brute-force technology” that’s been the focus of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0106-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">animal studies\u003c/a> of fetal genetic therapy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The success in mouse fetuses raises the possibility that, even before \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/25/can-gene-therapy-halt-diseases-in-babies-before-theyre-even-born/\">traditional gene therapy\u003c/a> is ready to treat inherited disorders in utero, genome editing might emerge as a safer, more effective approach. In traditional gene therapy, an entire healthy gene is ferried, typically by a virus, into cells containing a disease-causing gene. With CRISPR, only the mutated bit of a defective gene is changed. It’s the difference between retyping a whole 5,000 word document and using Word’s “find and replace” to correct a typo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think this represents a safer and more precise way to make changes in the genome,” said Dr. Kiran Musunuru of Penn and a co-leader of the study. “It’s is the better way forward if you want to take CRISPR into the clinic.”[contextly_sidebar id=\"WspKwnRfkmuJ8Ui6Pu5mBgKtCSqZqfJ5\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rationale for fetal genetic therapy is simple: it could halt a disease before it causes irreversible and even fatal damage. In people, the inherited liver disease that the scientists targeted in mice, called hereditary tyrosinemia type 1, starts damaging the liver months before birth. Another rationale: because a fetus’s immune system is immature, it is less likely than even a newborn’s to attack the alien CRISPR molecules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0184-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published in Nature Medicine\u003c/a>, Musunuru and his colleagues gently opened the uterus of a pregnant mouse, removed the fetus from the amniotic sac, and injected CRISPR into the vitelline vein, which is near the surface of the sac and connects to the liver. “We wanted to make sure we got the genome editor into the liver rather than everywhere else,” Musunuru said. The fetus was then replaced in the uterus and was born normally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of using the original form of CRISPR, which cuts DNA where a gene is mutated and inserts a replacement string of A’s, T’s, C’s, and G’s, the scientists used the form of CRISPR called base editing. \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2016/04/20/clever-crispr-advance-unveiled/%5D\">Invented\u003c/a> just two years ago, base editing changes an incorrect DNA letter, or base, to the correct one, such as a C to a T or a G to an A. Its advantage is that it doesn’t need to cut DNA to do this, as CRISPR 1.0 does; those cuts can wreak \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/16/crispr-potential-dna-damage-underestimated/\">genetic havoc\u003c/a>, with unknown consequences for CRISPR’d cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a dry run, the scientists first made a CRISPR base editor that changes a \u003ca href=\"https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/PCSK9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gene called PCSK9\u003c/a>, which makes a protein that helps regulate the amount of cholesterol in the bloodstream, into a super-cholesterol-lowering form. When injected into mouse fetuses, the base editor changed liver cells as intended and left other organs alone. Crucially, the mouse mother showed no effects of the CRISPR treatment. After birth, the baby mice had ultra-low cholesterol levels, showing that the CRISPR base editor had worked. 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All the mutations cause the build-up of toxic breakdown products of the amino acid tyrosine, a component of protein, and ultimately destroy the liver. Treatment with the drug nitisinone and a strict tyrosine-free diet is not always effective, with the result that children sometimes develop fatal liver failure or liver cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scientists used their base editor on a gene related to the disease-causing one. If this gene, \u003ca href=\"https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/HPD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called HPD\u003c/a>, is disabled, then no toxic metabolites of tyrosine ever get to where FAH is unable to handle them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing a C to a T in the HPD gene disabled it. No toxic molecules built up in the livers of the fetal mice. 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Another rationale: because a fetus’s immune system is immature, it is less likely than even a newborn’s to attack the alien CRISPR molecules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For their study, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0184-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published in Nature Medicine\u003c/a>, Musunuru and his colleagues gently opened the uterus of a pregnant mouse, removed the fetus from the amniotic sac, and injected CRISPR into the vitelline vein, which is near the surface of the sac and connects to the liver. “We wanted to make sure we got the genome editor into the liver rather than everywhere else,” Musunuru said. 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Its advantage is that it doesn’t need to cut DNA to do this, as CRISPR 1.0 does; those cuts can wreak \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/16/crispr-potential-dna-damage-underestimated/\">genetic havoc\u003c/a>, with unknown consequences for CRISPR’d cells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a dry run, the scientists first made a CRISPR base editor that changes a \u003ca href=\"https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/PCSK9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gene called PCSK9\u003c/a>, which makes a protein that helps regulate the amount of cholesterol in the bloodstream, into a super-cholesterol-lowering form. When injected into mouse fetuses, the base editor changed liver cells as intended and left other organs alone. Crucially, the mouse mother showed no effects of the CRISPR treatment. After birth, the baby mice had ultra-low cholesterol levels, showing that the CRISPR base editor had worked. 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All the mutations cause the build-up of toxic breakdown products of the amino acid tyrosine, a component of protein, and ultimately destroy the liver. Treatment with the drug nitisinone and a strict tyrosine-free diet is not always effective, with the result that children sometimes develop fatal liver failure or liver cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scientists used their base editor on a gene related to the disease-causing one. If this gene, \u003ca href=\"https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/gene/HPD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called HPD\u003c/a>, is disabled, then no toxic metabolites of tyrosine ever get to where FAH is unable to handle them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing a C to a T in the HPD gene disabled it. No toxic molecules built up in the livers of the fetal mice. 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Regardless of whether a lot of people got sick in a flu season or whether fewer were struck in a particular year, most of the infections occurred over a short period of time, making for a “spiky” epidemic curve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the pattern in large cities was different. The curve was lower and longer — more diffuse. It didn’t mean that fewer people got sick, but that infections were spread out over a longer period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It meant that flu viruses were still able to spread from person to person in large cities even when climatic conditions weren’t ideal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dalziel, who admitted the big-city pattern wasn’t what he and his colleagues were expecting, said the small city outbreaks were “explosive” while the big city epidemics “smoldered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their conclusion was that specific humidity didn’t matter as much in places where large numbers of people live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The flu is able to spread under a wider envelop of climatic conditions in the metropolises, because of highly organized movement patterns that put people into such close proximity that the specific humidity starts to matter less,” Dalziel said. “In metropolises, flu is able to eke out a living because there’s more highly organized close contact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seema Lakdawala, who studies influenza transmission, described the finding as fascinating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What they’re showing is that the transmission dynamics within intense urban areas is more perpetual,” said Lakdawala, an assistant professor in the department of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lakdawala studies how the flu virus is transmitted — through droplets of saliva or mucus that can only travel short distances, or through aerosols, which can hang in the air longer. Her read of this study suggested to her that in smaller places, aerosolized viruses may play more of a role in transmission, and those may be more dependent on climatic conditions. But in large centers where people are more densely packed, transmission over short distances — which is less climate-dependent — can get the job done.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since I’ve been thinking about the importance and the contribution of short-range versus long-range transmission for so long, to me it really fits,” said Lakdawala, who was not involved in the research.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In intense urban areas, we’re indoors more often. 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"content": "\u003cp>Paige Thesing has struggled with insomnia since high school. “It takes me a really long time to fall asleep — about four hours,” she says. For years, her mornings were groggy and involved a “lot of coffee.”[contextly_sidebar id=”SWkBBNCnUWhPf7KOuvUyV7If0Ca3ug47”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a year of trying sleep medication prescribed by her doctor, she turned to the internet for alternate solutions. About four months ago, she settled on a mobile phone meditation app called \u003ca href=\"https://www.inscape.life/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">INSCAPE\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about a 30-minute soundtrack, and it starts with a woman kind of telling you to relax and instructing your breathing,” explains Thesing. “Then it goes into sounds — relaxing noises. There’s wind chimes, some atmospheric music playing…”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She uses the app every night and falls asleep within 15 or 20 minutes. “So, definitely a big improvement from four hours,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thesing is not alone. Chronic insomnia affects an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.ajmc.com/journals/supplement/2006/2006-05-vol12-n8suppl/may06-2307ps214-s220\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10-15 percent of adults\u003c/a>, and another 25-35 percent struggle with sleep issues occasionally. And like Thesing, a growing number of insomniacs are turning to mobile phone apps to lull them to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/NPRHealth/status/1046884648167624711\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter\u003c/a> and Facebook, NPR asked its audience if they have used a mobile phone app to help manage insomnia. Nearly 100 people wrote back suggesting a range of apps, including podcasts created to put a listener to sleep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are usually relaxation strategies, white noise, meditation,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/faculty-profiles/az/profile.html?xid=35378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Ong\u003c/a>, an associate professor of neurology specializing in sleep at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He studies non-pharmacological treatments for various sleep disorders and treats patients at the university’s Sleep Medicine clinic. “It’s not that there’s something wrong with those apps. It’s a reasonable first thing to try.”[contextly_sidebar id=”ljN7S8LuvqENw8QrvBPFbhASn6EIv1oE”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he adds, these kinds of apps aren’t based on scientifically-proven solutions, and they don’t really fix the problem of why someone is not sleeping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ong wanted to do something about that, so a few years ago, he consulted for a team that developed an app that uses a science-based approach to address insomnia called \u003ca href=\"https://www.sleepio.com/cbt-for-insomnia/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sleepio\u003c/a>. (However, he doesn’t have any ongoing financial interest in the product, he says.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sleepio and a few other apps like \u003ca href=\"http://www.myshuti.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SHUT-i\u003c/a> and a free one developed by the Veterans Administration use the most sustainable and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15451764\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evidence-based\u003c/a> solution for insomnia. It’s a kind of therapy called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia — \u003ca href=\"https://www.sleepfoundation.org/sleep-news/cognitive-behavioral-therapy-insomnia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBT-I\u003c/a> for short, he says. It helps the patient understand the biology of sleep and gives them a bag of tools and tricks to change their own thought patterns and behaviors to treat their underlying sleep issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CBT for insomnia is a specific package … [that] includes different techniques like spending less time in bed [and] what to do if you are in bed and can’t sleep,” says Ong. “It’s teaching you how to change your behavior to better work with your brain to give you confidence that you’re going to be able to sleep on a regular basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be surprising to us, but our own thought patterns and sleep habits \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621793/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affect our biology\u003c/a>, in this case how our brains regulate sleep. “If you modify some of your behaviors, you can work better with how your brain regulates sleep and wake,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American College of Physicians \u003ca href=\"https://www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom/acp-recommends-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-as-initial-treatment-for-chronic-insomnia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first recommended\u003c/a> Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia as the first-line treatment for insomnia in 2016. “The evidence is quite strong to support the effectiveness of CBT-I treatment and there really aren’t a lot of side effects,” says Ong. And, because it changes behavior, “in the long run CBT-I tends to perform quite well in maintaining the benefits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past the only way for people to get Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia was to see a therapist, now they can access the therapy on their mobile phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In Sleepio, it’s like an avatar of a real therapist that’s walking the patient through that process,” explains Ong. Sleepio also allows users to keep a sleep diary so the app can use its algorithm to suggest a better bedtime schedule. It also reminds people to get up when they’ve spent too much time in bed trying to fall asleep, for example.[contextly_sidebar id=”wEwpbDeWifEPnKULBpzGtSdpZ0ZUBzcu”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like a real therapist, the apps that use Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia also provide practical tools to help the user worry less about their sleep and over time, be less anxious and more confident about their ability get a good night’s rest. “It’s very similar to what we do face-to-face with patients,” adds Ong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5427093/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Studies show\u003c/a> that CBT-I delivered digitally through mobile phone apps is effective in treating insomnia. And a \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2704019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent study\u003c/a> of Sleepio by Ong and the team that developed the product found that participants who used the product reported an improvement in insomnia symptoms and overall wellbeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an impressive study in size and scope,” says \u003ca href=\"http://www.johntorousmd.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Torous\u003c/a>, the director of digital psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. “But like any study, we have to interpret it within reason.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The participants in the study were mostly white and female, he notes, and so it’s hard to generalize the findings to the larger population. And, he adds that the study was designed and funded by Big Health, the company that created the app and is now marketing it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, Sleepio is only available on a limited basis. You can get it through employers, health insurance and national health systems at the moment, says Mike Radocchia, the marketing and business development lead at Big Health. Although the company does give it to researchers and charities for free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while apps that use Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia cost less than in-person therapy, they can be pricey. A 26-week subscription of SHUTi \u003ca href=\"http://www.myshuti.com/shuti-pricing/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">costs $149\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why Torous often directs his patients with insomnia to a free app developed by the Veterans Administration called \u003ca href=\"https://mobile.va.gov/app/cbt-i-coach\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBT-I Coach\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anyone can access it. You don’t have to be a veteran,” Torous says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.nextbreathcounseling.com/credentials/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Hanks\u003c/a>, a mental health counselor based in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, agrees. “CBT-I Coach would be my absolute favorite,” he says. “It includes a lot of the cognitive restructuring, the true things about sleep that we want patients to keep in mind.” And so, he too, recommends the free app to his patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Torous notes that these apps don’t work for everyone. The recent study by Ong and his colleagues hints at why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even in this clinical study, less than 50 percent [of people who were assigned to use the app in a randomized controlled trial] are able to make it through the entire course of CBT delivered through digital platforms,” he notes. “For some people it may be hard to make it through all the sessions of CBT.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is true of most health and wellness apps, he says. Torous \u003ca href=\"https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/2616170\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has studied\u003c/a> this and found that of the 10,000 mental health apps out there, very few are actually being used. “I don’t think we really understand how people are using technology towards their health and recovery,” he notes.[contextly_sidebar id=”LqkvTN1dfENdC3n50jRUdIl6PSPHOHGb”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in some ways, he says, people with insomnia may be ahead of scientists in figuring out what works well for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you find something that works [for you], I think that’s always a good first step,” he says. “Quick fixes or simple solutions may get you feeling better right away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, he notes, insomnia is a complex disorder with many underlying causes. 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It helps the patient understand the biology of sleep and gives them a bag of tools and tricks to change their own thought patterns and behaviors to treat their underlying sleep issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CBT for insomnia is a specific package … [that] includes different techniques like spending less time in bed [and] what to do if you are in bed and can’t sleep,” says Ong. “It’s teaching you how to change your behavior to better work with your brain to give you confidence that you’re going to be able to sleep on a regular basis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may be surprising to us, but our own thought patterns and sleep habits \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3621793/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">affect our biology\u003c/a>, in this case how our brains regulate sleep. “If you modify some of your behaviors, you can work better with how your brain regulates sleep and wake,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American College of Physicians \u003ca href=\"https://www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom/acp-recommends-cognitive-behavioral-therapy-as-initial-treatment-for-chronic-insomnia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first recommended\u003c/a> Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia as the first-line treatment for insomnia in 2016. “The evidence is quite strong to support the effectiveness of CBT-I treatment and there really aren’t a lot of side effects,” says Ong. 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What's been your reaction to the use of the term lately?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many people confuse the idea of a blackout with someone who's had so much to drink that they are unarousable — they're not awake and they don't know what's going on. That's not at all the case. A blackout is when you don't remember what happened. You can appear to be completely awake. An observer can't tell when someone is in the midst of not forming a memory.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second common misconception is that having a blackout is characteristic of an alcohol use disorder more commonly called alcoholism — that you only have blackouts if you have an alcohol use disorder. And that's just not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>It's a curious phenomenon — a very selective kind of temporary memory impairment. What's going on in there?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It involves those parts of the brain that are required to take in what's happening and allow you to remember it later. You might remember it two or three minutes later but not 10 hours later or two days later or ever again, because it didn't get permanently encoded by the brain. It probably happens in the hippocampus and it involves the frontal lobes of the brain as well.[contextly_sidebar id=\"nWd7zNE3xlJLE0K0o8Op2Mrh7FV5jCXX\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What touches it off?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you drink a substantial amount quickly, you might experience a blackout. Drinking games would be an example of that because that's the point of the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How common are blackouts?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We don't have great epidemiologic data about this. I've seen the prevalence of blackouts ranging anywhere from 10 percent to up to 50 percent of young people who drink. It's fair to say it's not rare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Does blackout seem to explain, at least potentially, the great divergence we heard last week in the testimony of Ford and Kavanaugh?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's plausible that if he were drinking heavily and rapidly that he might have a blackout. So it's possible he might have no recollection of what happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What do you think when you hear Kavanaugh say, in response to a question about whether he's ever \"passed out from drinking,\" that he's \"gone to sleep, but ... never blacked out\"?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I have no knowledge of what Judge Kavanaugh knows about the definition of \"blackout\" versus \"passing out\" versus \"falling asleep after drinking.\" Passed out is not a clinical term and usually people use it to mean that they drank so much that they ended up falling asleep. I'm not sure if he could say that he had a blackout or not. The only way he would know is if somebody later told him that something happened while he was intoxicated and he didn't remember it, and then he believed they were telling the truth. So it's not a particularly easy question to answer unless you know the definition of blackout and your memory has been questioned, or somebody told you about it.[contextly_sidebar id=\"cOFlriGvdakmZZ3kgLOVmpocMiXNOj0A\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ford placed Kavanaugh's companion, Mark Judge, in the room where the alleged assault occurred. If he also was drinking heavily and also had a blackout, neither of them would remember and nobody else would be in a position to call their attention to it.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure. It's conceivable they both could have had a blackout about the same event, although that begins to get a little bit less likely. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Updated 6:45 a.m. ET\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Dr. Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist, and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi survivor of rape and captivity by ISIS, for their contributions toward combating wartime sexual assault.[contextly_sidebar id=\"NXJQbyDb7jC8ES9o3yGFx6gEvwbaL22U\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prize was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway, on Friday morning. The committee praised the winners for being symbols in the fight to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mukwege has treated victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for most of his adult life. 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In 2016, she was named the U.N.'s first Goodwill Ambassador for the Dignity of Survivors of Human Trafficking.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is believed that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2018/08/22/640956251/once-held-captive-by-isis-nadia-murad-is-now-engaged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">some 3,000 Yazidi women and girls\u003c/a> remain enslaved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Murad, who is in her mid-20s, has spoken extensively about her experience, despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/12/10/369636434/for-yazidi-women-escaping-isis-doesnt-mean-the-ordeal-is-over\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the immense shame\u003c/a> her culture associates with rape — many Yazidi survivors refuse to be named. As NPR has reported, health authorities administer so-called virginity tests to some Yazidi women who return from captivity. 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"content": "\u003cp>The trauma of sexual assault or harassment is not only hard to forget; it may also leave lasting effects on a woman's health. This finding of a study \u003ca href=\"http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.4886\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published Wednesday\u003c/a> adds support to a growing body of evidence suggesting the link.[contextly_sidebar id=\"HEpAUbCt2g19YW7Y7Rht6rrTaYElddh0\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the study of roughly 300 middle-aged women, an experience of sexual assault was associated with anxiety, depression and poor sleep. A history of workplace sexual harassment was also associated with poor sleep and with an increased risk of developing high blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These are experiences that [a woman] could have had long ago ... and it can have this long arm of influence throughout a woman's life,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/home/directory/rebecca-thurston\">Rebecca Thurston\u003c/a>, lead author of the study, and a research psychologist and director of the Women's Behavioral Health Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study data come from a survey of healthy women between ages 40 and 60 who had been recruited for a study on menopause and cardiovascular disease — not sexual harassment or assault. They all had their blood pressure checked at study visits, as well as height and weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other questions, the survey asked the women if they had ever experienced sexual harassment at work. Participants were also asked if they had ever \"been made or pressured into having some type of unwanted sexual contact.\" The women were not asked when those events occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Twenty-two percent reported a history of sexual assault, and 19 percent said they'd experienced workplace sexual harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the sample size was small, the results are statistically significant. Women who had experienced sexual assault had on average an almost threefold increased risk of developing depressive symptoms, compared to women who hadn't. They also had a greater incidence of clinically significant anxiety.[contextly_sidebar id=\"IsNCC9ByhjKnhi0QhEGUW78GbGlaWQIA\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 1 in 4 women who had been sexually assaulted met criteria for depression, while approximately 1 in 10 who had not were depressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who experienced sexual harassment at work had a twofold increased risk compared to women who hadn't of developing high blood pressure. Poor sleep was more common, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These [traumatic experiences] are clearly critical things that happen to people early on, that have these really long-lasting effects,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://directory.sph.umn.edu/bio/sph-a-z/susan-mason\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Susan Mason\u003c/a>, an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota who studies the effects of trauma. \"These really shape people's life trajectories.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mason was not involved in this study, but says the findings dovetail with other research on the relationship between trauma and physical or mental health later in life. Intimate partner violence, for example, has been associated with the development of \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23248189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">diabetes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22717307\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high blood pressure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's study is particularly noteworthy, Mason says, because it includes clinical data — in-office blood pressure checks, for example, and validated diagnostic tools for depression and anxiety — rather than depending exclusively on self-reported diagnoses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clinicians don't have the ability to corroborate women's memories of sexual assault or harassment, however. Thurston points to literature on the way traumatic memories are processed that demonstrates that discrete events like a sexual assault often remain vivid in a way other memories don't. This is why, she says, she trusts the study participants who say they've been through these experiences.[contextly_sidebar id=\"aop33xdUj0MLT7LwmTHbeoNCW1mJ7lyp\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the patient thinks it's important, it's important,\" says Dr. Valerie Gilchrist, chair of the department of family medicine at the University of Wisconsin who has written about screening for sexual violence in primary care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recommends that clinicians ask patients if they've experienced sexual assault, particularly patients who are experiencing significant stress or have difficulty with pelvic exams. 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Many companies use so-called digital phenotyping, collecting scientific data on a person’s digital life, to gain insights into his or her physical or mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s app collects information about how people are typing and runs it through a machine learning algorithm to determine which data can predict their emotional state. Mindstrong has already used it in controlled clinical settings and trials — including one run by a company developing new antidepressants and another done in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/24/ketamine-clinics-severe-depression-treatment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ketamine clinic\u003c/a>. The app is available in Apple’s app store, but requires a participant code to access it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done the validation work against the gold-standard clinical tests for depression, for anxiety, for cognitive decline, whether it’s memory or executive function,” said Dr. Paul Dagum, the company’s founder. “We’re confident, we’re already seeing some really exciting results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last year, Mindstrong’s footprint and reach have already grown exponentially. The Palo Alto-based company’s workforce has doubled to 42 employees and it made \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/philanthropic-impact-digital-phenotyping/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a sizable gift\u003c/a> to Harvard’s school of public health. In February, it launched a partnership with Takeda to develop new biomarkers that will be able to aid the pharmaceutical giant’s clinical trials for depression treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to use that data to establish a “normal” pattern — so it can be compared against someone’s typing habits on any given day. If the habits look off, slower or more agitated than normal, the app can alert a health care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abnormal patterns, Mindstrong says, might show up if a person is more depressed or anxious, or if just about anything else about their mental health changes. When asked which disorders Mindstrong might be able to detect, Dagum replied, “all of them.” (Dagum, a data scientist and physician, founded the company in 2017 with Rick Klausner, the founder and director of CAR-T pioneer Juno Therapeutics and \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/02/grail-cancer-blood-test-asco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grail\u003c/a>, a liquid biopsy company.)[contextly_sidebar id=\"XHhLlvPBCoPTlN54jyme2G0wpse1GITN\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindstrong officials told STAT that among their most encouraging results is that its app can even predict how a person will feel next week, or at least how a person will perform on the Hamilton Rating Scale for depression — kind of like a weather app for your mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data behind this claim is being published soon, said Insel, who is the former head of the National Institute of Mental Health and came to the company in 2017 after a short stint at \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/28/google-life-sciences-exodus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Verily\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app can detect a seven-point change on the Hamilton scale, Insel said. That kind of difference could indicate a patient who is not normally depressed now shows signs of mild or moderate depression, or that a person with moderate depression is now showing signs of a very severe condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a clinician and for someone taking care of a patient, knowing that, it could be very, very powerful,” Dagum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s momentum has taken it to the cusp of a real-world deployment in California. About 15 counties — including the most populous county in the United States, Los Angeles County — will be spending about $60 million over the next four years to bring companies like Mindstrong and other apps into their health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These counties hope apps will help them get better services to people with mental illnesses like depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mindstrong program itself is limited: Patients can choose voluntarily whether to use the app, which will be free to them, and that decision won’t affect the rest of the mental health services they can access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lack of Public Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Mindstrong app has only been used in controlled clinical settings and trials — including one run by a company developing new antidepressants and another done in a ketamine clinic. The company has also claimed that a “\u003ca href=\"https://mindstronghealth.com/clinical-programs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nationwide employer\u003c/a>” and private substance abuse clinics in D.C. are using the app.[contextly_sidebar id=\"KGoxoWR6m8MUKnLishPvyacpod0HWpt7\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other than the change on the Hamilton scale — which hasn’t yet gone through peer review and was disclosed to STAT in an interview — almost no data about how well Mindstrong’s technology works is available to independent observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s website describes five completed clinical trials, but it has not yet published the results of any. Only a handful of other published works — all from the last year — have hinted at how well it works or its scope with data to back up the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-018-0018-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published\u003c/a> a 27-person pilot study in the journal npj Digital Medicine earlier this year. Dagum is also an author on a poster \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2017265#t122-assessing-anhedonia-with-quantitative-tasks-digital-and-patient-reported-measures-in-a-multicenter-doubleblind-trial-with-btrx246040-for-the-treatment-of-major-depressive-disorder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presentation\u003c/a> given at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology’s 2017 conference, another \u003ca href=\"https://isctm.org/public_access/Feb2018/PDFs/Smith-poster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poster\u003c/a> that reported results from a very wide variety of digital phenotyping techniques — not just typing — and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29074231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper\u003c/a> describing a clinical trial protocol — not results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mindstrong steps toward a wider rollout, the scientific studies behind its claims will matter. Federal regulators, for one, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2016/01/mind-gap-what-lumosity-promised-vs-what-it-could-prove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cracked down\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/12/marketers-blood-pressure-app-settle-ftc-charges-regarding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commercial apps\u003c/a>that misleadingly reference a study’s conclusions to market their app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on her own research, at least one expert in digital health and mood said she’s skeptical that Mindstrong can, in a general population, work as well as the company claims. MIT’s Picard said that while there are ways to predict or detect mood changes, you usually need more than just a single type of data to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m suspicious that a single modality like typing is going to be sufficient. It would be like saying there’s a single question [on a screening questionnaire] that a doctor could be using,” said Picard, who is also CEO of a company that works on digital phenotyping, like Mindstrong does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My guess is that their specificity to depression is going to be relatively low,” Picard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her \u003ca href=\"https://www.jmir.org/2018/6/e210/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">own\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/954607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a>, for example, relies on temperature and skin conductivity as well as calls and the amount of time spent on a phone to predict mood changes. It is about 80 percent accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"quote-inner\">\n\u003cp>Especially in the field of digital mental health, “we need more peer review,” said Dr. Steven Steinhubl, the director of digital medicine at Scripps Research Translational Institute. (Steinhubl is also the co-editor-in-chief of npj Digital Medicine.) Though he said he strongly believes in the potential of apps like Mindstrong, Steinhubl cautioned that peer review has a purpose.[contextly_sidebar id=\"8bFNH4xsL9O8lTSDRHnxnqtYwxOF2Z5k\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Peer review] is a very imperfect system, but there’s really nothing in the peer-reviewed literature. That means that other experts aren’t able to weigh in,” he said. “If you have committees and other people reviewing something who maybe don’t have the same level of expertise, you’ll have people saying, ‘Yeah, that sounds good.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other researchers have also found that neuropsychological tests, more broadly, have relatively low accuracy rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a study that examined people who were already being treated for depression, one computerized test could only accurately predict their condition in about 40 percent of cases. Another showed a 44 percent accuracy rate for a similar computerized test used to examine people with major depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A neuropsychological test — if it’s used as a screening test — is “going to miss a lot of people who are depressed,” said Richard Porter, a psychology researcher based at the University of Otago in New Zealand who conducted one of the studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if depressed people do show some kind of cognitive impairment, it’s impossible to tell what caused it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many things other than mental illness might cause a person to perform poorly on cognitive tests — like living with another disorder, having a lower baseline performance on cognitive tests, having a drink or taking prescription, over-the-counter, or illegal drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindstrong’s leaders aren’t worried about that kind of noise in their data. Some of those factors are important to note, both for patients and the health care professionals working with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re hungover, you didn’t sleep well, you didn’t take your medication, you have a medication side effects, you’re having stress and challenges at work and at home. Those are things that we want to measure,” Dagum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even Insel admitted that there are plenty of issues that could affect typing speed — and which Mindstrong hasn’t figured out how to sort out yet. Sticky fingers after lunch, full hands at an airport, wearing gloves during winter, or a broken hand might also plausible affect a person’s typing speed — and, therefore, the app’s performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing we’ve thought about is how we factor in those unusual environmental issues,” Insel said. “We’re working on that. But I can’t say that we’ve solved all of those possible issues.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Looming Launch in the Golden State\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insel and others linked with the company are fond of comparing their app to a smoke detector — something that’s intended to enhance humans’ senses to detect danger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But part of the value of a smoke detector is that if it’s functioning properly, we know it isn’t going off at random. It only goes off in certain conditions and carries a specific message: Your house is on fire or about to be. Do something.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least for now, that’s where Mindstrong differs from a smoke detector. There’s no way to tell, yet, how specific it is or how sensitive its algorithm is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insel said that information is coming. He said the company has the data about the app’s accuracy — but he declined to provide those figures, citing papers pending publication. “[They] square very well with clinically used biomarkers,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California authorities suggest they have been shown some of that data. But they’re nevertheless cautious about how the app will work in their new, different setting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One official said there will be “clear writing” included with the state’s version of the app about what it can do, what it cannot do, and what goals the counties hope it will help them achieve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those goals are pretty lofty. At least some counties eventually plan to use it not only to supplement the existing system, but potentially to bring more people into its fold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might be able to go to colleges, emergency departments, other places,” said Debbie Innes-Gomberg, a deputy director at the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health. “There’s a process of identifying that they’re symptomatic, but [our target population is] people that are in our system and people who maybe need to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even before the app launched in the original five counties that had signed on, the pilot has expanded. Another 11 counties have recently decided to join.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Innes-Gomberg said, it’s going to be rolled out with caution. “We’re not going to oversell this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/10/04/mindstrong-questions-over-evidence/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">story\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was originally published by STAT, an online publication of Boston Globe Media that covers health, medicine, and scientific discovery.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">In the world of digital health, Silicon Valley-based \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/07/mindstrong-insel-mental-illness/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mindstrong\u003c/a> stands out. It has a star-studded team and tens of millions in venture capital funding, including from Jeff Bezos’ VC firm.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">It also has a captivating idea: that its app, based on cognitive functioning research, can help detect troubling mental health patterns by collecting data on a person’s smartphone usage — how quickly they type or scroll, for instance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"danger-zone\">The promise of that technology has helped Mindstrong build incredible momentum since it launched last year; already more than a dozen counties in California have agreed to deploy the company’s app to patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">Does the app live up to its promise? There’s no way to tell. Almost no one outside the company has any idea whether it works. Most of the company’s key promises or claims aren’t yet backed up by published, peer-reviewed data — leading some experts to wonder if the technology is ready for the real world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"\">“I wouldn’t waste all that time and money in the wild until they get sure that some of those things are as specific as they hope they are,” said Rosalind Picard, a researcher at MIT Media Lab who is familiar with Mindstrong’s work and tries to use data from smartphones and wearables to detect a person’s mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as one of the company’s executives, Dr. Tom Insel, acknowledged to STAT that the app isn’t perfect, the company’s CEO emphasized that Mindstrong could provide unprecedented insight into conditions like depression.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindstrong is not alone in pushing the frontiers of smartphone-based digital health. Many companies use so-called digital phenotyping, collecting scientific data on a person’s digital life, to gain insights into his or her physical or mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s app collects information about how people are typing and runs it through a machine learning algorithm to determine which data can predict their emotional state. Mindstrong has already used it in controlled clinical settings and trials — including one run by a company developing new antidepressants and another done in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/24/ketamine-clinics-severe-depression-treatment/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ketamine clinic\u003c/a>. The app is available in Apple’s app store, but requires a participant code to access it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve done the validation work against the gold-standard clinical tests for depression, for anxiety, for cognitive decline, whether it’s memory or executive function,” said Dr. Paul Dagum, the company’s founder. “We’re confident, we’re already seeing some really exciting results.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last year, Mindstrong’s footprint and reach have already grown exponentially. The Palo Alto-based company’s workforce has doubled to 42 employees and it made \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/magazine/magazine_article/philanthropic-impact-digital-phenotyping/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a sizable gift\u003c/a> to Harvard’s school of public health. In February, it launched a partnership with Takeda to develop new biomarkers that will be able to aid the pharmaceutical giant’s clinical trials for depression treatments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is to use that data to establish a “normal” pattern — so it can be compared against someone’s typing habits on any given day. If the habits look off, slower or more agitated than normal, the app can alert a health care provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abnormal patterns, Mindstrong says, might show up if a person is more depressed or anxious, or if just about anything else about their mental health changes. When asked which disorders Mindstrong might be able to detect, Dagum replied, “all of them.” (Dagum, a data scientist and physician, founded the company in 2017 with Rick Klausner, the founder and director of CAR-T pioneer Juno Therapeutics and \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/02/grail-cancer-blood-test-asco/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grail\u003c/a>, a liquid biopsy company.)\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindstrong officials told STAT that among their most encouraging results is that its app can even predict how a person will feel next week, or at least how a person will perform on the Hamilton Rating Scale for depression — kind of like a weather app for your mood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data behind this claim is being published soon, said Insel, who is the former head of the National Institute of Mental Health and came to the company in 2017 after a short stint at \u003ca href=\"https://www.statnews.com/2016/03/28/google-life-sciences-exodus/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Verily\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The app can detect a seven-point change on the Hamilton scale, Insel said. That kind of difference could indicate a patient who is not normally depressed now shows signs of mild or moderate depression, or that a person with moderate depression is now showing signs of a very severe condition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For a clinician and for someone taking care of a patient, knowing that, it could be very, very powerful,” Dagum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s momentum has taken it to the cusp of a real-world deployment in California. About 15 counties — including the most populous county in the United States, Los Angeles County — will be spending about $60 million over the next four years to bring companies like Mindstrong and other apps into their health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These counties hope apps will help them get better services to people with mental illnesses like depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mindstrong program itself is limited: Patients can choose voluntarily whether to use the app, which will be free to them, and that decision won’t affect the rest of the mental health services they can access.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lack of Public Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the Mindstrong app has only been used in controlled clinical settings and trials — including one run by a company developing new antidepressants and another done in a ketamine clinic. The company has also claimed that a “\u003ca href=\"https://mindstronghealth.com/clinical-programs/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nationwide employer\u003c/a>” and private substance abuse clinics in D.C. are using the app.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other than the change on the Hamilton scale — which hasn’t yet gone through peer review and was disclosed to STAT in an interview — almost no data about how well Mindstrong’s technology works is available to independent observers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s website describes five completed clinical trials, but it has not yet published the results of any. Only a handful of other published works — all from the last year — have hinted at how well it works or its scope with data to back up the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41746-018-0018-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">published\u003c/a> a 27-person pilot study in the journal npj Digital Medicine earlier this year. Dagum is also an author on a poster \u003ca href=\"https://www.nature.com/articles/npp2017265#t122-assessing-anhedonia-with-quantitative-tasks-digital-and-patient-reported-measures-in-a-multicenter-doubleblind-trial-with-btrx246040-for-the-treatment-of-major-depressive-disorder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presentation\u003c/a> given at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology’s 2017 conference, another \u003ca href=\"https://isctm.org/public_access/Feb2018/PDFs/Smith-poster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">poster\u003c/a> that reported results from a very wide variety of digital phenotyping techniques — not just typing — and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29074231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paper\u003c/a> describing a clinical trial protocol — not results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Mindstrong steps toward a wider rollout, the scientific studies behind its claims will matter. Federal regulators, for one, have \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2016/01/mind-gap-what-lumosity-promised-vs-what-it-could-prove\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cracked down\u003c/a> on \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2016/12/marketers-blood-pressure-app-settle-ftc-charges-regarding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">commercial apps\u003c/a>that misleadingly reference a study’s conclusions to market their app.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on her own research, at least one expert in digital health and mood said she’s skeptical that Mindstrong can, in a general population, work as well as the company claims. MIT’s Picard said that while there are ways to predict or detect mood changes, you usually need more than just a single type of data to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m suspicious that a single modality like typing is going to be sufficient. It would be like saying there’s a single question [on a screening questionnaire] that a doctor could be using,” said Picard, who is also CEO of a company that works on digital phenotyping, like Mindstrong does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My guess is that their specificity to depression is going to be relatively low,” Picard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her \u003ca href=\"https://www.jmir.org/2018/6/e210/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">own\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/954607\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">research\u003c/a>, for example, relies on temperature and skin conductivity as well as calls and the amount of time spent on a phone to predict mood changes. It is about 80 percent accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"quote-inner\">\n\u003cp>Especially in the field of digital mental health, “we need more peer review,” said Dr. Steven Steinhubl, the director of digital medicine at Scripps Research Translational Institute. (Steinhubl is also the co-editor-in-chief of npj Digital Medicine.) Though he said he strongly believes in the potential of apps like Mindstrong, Steinhubl cautioned that peer review has a purpose.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Peer review] is a very imperfect system, but there’s really nothing in the peer-reviewed literature. That means that other experts aren’t able to weigh in,” he said. “If you have committees and other people reviewing something who maybe don’t have the same level of expertise, you’ll have people saying, ‘Yeah, that sounds good.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other researchers have also found that neuropsychological tests, more broadly, have relatively low accuracy rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a study that examined people who were already being treated for depression, one computerized test could only accurately predict their condition in about 40 percent of cases. Another showed a 44 percent accuracy rate for a similar computerized test used to examine people with major depression.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A neuropsychological test — if it’s used as a screening test — is “going to miss a lot of people who are depressed,” said Richard Porter, a psychology researcher based at the University of Otago in New Zealand who conducted one of the studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if depressed people do show some kind of cognitive impairment, it’s impossible to tell what caused it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many things other than mental illness might cause a person to perform poorly on cognitive tests — like living with another disorder, having a lower baseline performance on cognitive tests, having a drink or taking prescription, over-the-counter, or illegal drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mindstrong’s leaders aren’t worried about that kind of noise in their data. Some of those factors are important to note, both for patients and the health care professionals working with them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re hungover, you didn’t sleep well, you didn’t take your medication, you have a medication side effects, you’re having stress and challenges at work and at home. Those are things that we want to measure,” Dagum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even Insel admitted that there are plenty of issues that could affect typing speed — and which Mindstrong hasn’t figured out how to sort out yet. Sticky fingers after lunch, full hands at an airport, wearing gloves during winter, or a broken hand might also plausible affect a person’s typing speed — and, therefore, the app’s performance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing we’ve thought about is how we factor in those unusual environmental issues,” Insel said. “We’re working on that. 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"content": "\u003cp>Artificial sweeteners, widely regarded as a healthy alternative to sugar, may be sabotaging your gut biome.[contextly_sidebar id=\"yjhBwHasobhXnJ18NYXbIYtjXOq70PwF\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new study published \u003ca href=\"https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/10/2454\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in the journal\u003c/a> \u003cem>Molecule\u003c/em> found that \u003cem>E. coli\u003c/em> bacteria in the intestinal tract became damaged when exposed to several different kinds of artificial sweeteners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study zeroed in on six artificial sweeteners to determine their toxicity to the healthy bacteria present: aspartame, sucralose, saccharine, neotame, advantame, and acesulfame potassium-k.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The researchers used as markers special light-producing bacteria known as bioluminescent \u003cem>E. coli\u003c/em> that light up when toxicity is detected, according to the collaborative study by researchers at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sucralose displayed the most significant effects, with as little as 1 milligram affecting a strain of the \u003cem>E. coli.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is further evidence that consumption of artificial sweeteners adversely affects gut \u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181001101932.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">microbial activity\u003c/a> which can cause a wide range of health issues,\" co-author Ariel Kushmaro, a professor of biotechnology engineering at Ben-Gurion, said in a statement.[contextly_sidebar id=\"zlhu2orfRNf238Xnhya1R1LkDBb9jMGv\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Disturbances in the gut ecosystem can seriously harm human health with previous studies showing that pathogenic\u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4425030/\"> bacteria\u003c/a> can cause many chronic diseases, including inflammatory bowel disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The presence of these chemicals is not always obvious, with many popular foods, such as microwave popcorn and fruit juice, labeling the ingredient as a \"natural sweetener.\" That's because the Food and Drug Administration has \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/GuidanceDocumentsRegulatoryInformation/LabelingNutrition/ucm456090.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">yet to define\u003c/a> the term “natural” for use in food labeling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with possible adverse health effects, the study warns that artificial sweeteners have become so ubiquitous that they're increasingly turning up in drinking water and groundwater basins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They are resistant to wastewater treatment processes, therefore they are continuously introduced into the water environments,\" write the authors. \"Such concentrations [of artificial sweeteners] are among the highest known for anthropogenic trace pollutants.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://caloriecontrol.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calorie Control Council\u003c/a>, the trade group for the artificial sweetener industry, criticized the study for relying solely on \u003cem>E. coli \u003c/em>bacterium, which they argue is not directly comparable to the human microbiome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\"More specifically, it is unknown whether the changes to the bacterium noted in the study, or any changes in microbiome bacteria, are indicative of negative health outcomes in humans,\" the \u003ca href=\"https://caloriecontrol.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">group \u003c/a>said in a statement emailed to KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">Moreover, the group says that all the sweeteners included in the study have been approved for use by several scientific and regulatory authorities, including the FDA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To determine toxicity, researchers modified different types of \u003ci>E.coli \u003c/i>bacteria to emit light when experiencing distress. Researchers then could see what type of damage occurred, depending on which type of modified \u003cem>E. coli\u003c/em> glowed. Researchers found that each sweetener produced a specific fingerprint using three stripes of bacteria, with each stripe representing a different type of damage. From \u003ca href=\"https://www.livescience.com/63743-artificial-sweeteners-gut-health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Live Science\u003c/a>, quoting senior author Evgeni Eltzov:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">The pattern of colors was unique for each sweetener; one might've caused more DNA damage than protein damage, for example. However, all sweeteners damaged the bacteria in some way, Eltzov said. But Eltzov noted that these findings don't mean the chemicals are \"toxic\" to humans. More research is needed to make that determination.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">One cited shortcoming of the study is that the concentrations of artificial sweetener used were higher than what's typically consumed in a can of diet soda. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.livescience.com/63743-artificial-sweeteners-gut-health.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">findings do\u003c/a> not\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> \u003c/span>\"tell us what happens in real life. 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"content": "\u003cp>In some parts of the country people are learning their drinking water contains pollution from a group of chemicals called \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/pfas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances\u003c/a> (PFAS). These chemicals have been linked to illnesses, including cancer. But a lot of questions remain including how exactly they affect people's health and in what doses.[contextly_sidebar id=\"6zIBNiaB7i0Hof1u8JCSiwQIZioEoqoi\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These chemicals have been around for decades but the issue gained urgency in recent years as water suppliers tested for and found PFAS pollution as part of an Environmental Protection Agency program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA is working on a plan to manage PFAS but members of Congress are \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/9f387f98e705432e9278001687fe99aa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushing the EPA to move faster\u003c/a>. A few states already have established strict new standards to limit the compounds in drinking water. And in some places, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/09/25/water-pollution-pennsylvania-gop-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">such as the Philadelphia suburbs\u003c/a>, PFAS pollution has become an issue in mid-term election races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As scientists and policy-makers work to limit human exposure to the compounds here are a few key points that are worth knowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. PFAS Chemicals Useful But May Be Dangerous \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PFAS chemicals are good at repelling oil and water. That makes them useful in a lot of products including non-stick cookware, fast food wrappers, pizza boxes, water-repellent fabrics and fire-fighting foam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's difficult to pin down exactly how harmful these chemicals are because research is limited. There was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.c8sciencepanel.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">big health study\u003c/a> involving one form of PFAS in the Mid-Ohio Valley. From that and other studies scientists are comfortable saying certain diseases are linked to PFAS exposure but they won't be more definitive than that.[contextly_sidebar id=\"q4qiZYcFYSHVK4Y9xGlLpSQ7zRpqCqtg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PFAS chemicals have been linked to a wide range of health effects, including cancer, low birth weight, thyroid disease, elevated cholesterol and effects on the immune system,\" says Laurel Schaider, research scientist at \u003ca href=\"https://www.silentspring.org/research-area/highly-fluorinated-chemicals-pfass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silent Spring Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manufacturers have agreed to stop using two forms of PFAS in the U.S. These chemicals take a long time to break down in the environment, which is why they remain a problem now. And Schaider says newer forms of PFAS chemicals are still being used, though some people believe they are safer because they remain in the environment and in our bodies for shorter periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. PFAS Pollution Affects Communities Around the Country\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some communities PFAS pollution may be known by another name if a specific compound is to blame for problems there. Some of the most common are PFOS, PFOA and Gen-X. PFAS is the overall name for this group of several thousand chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the places with PFAS pollution is \u003ca href=\"http://www.michiganradio.org/post/parchment-residents-can-drink-their-tap-water-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan\u003c/a> where the some residents were warned not to drink the water for a month. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nhpr.org/post/coakley-landfill-site-government-assurances-meet-public-fear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Hampshire\u003c/a> there are concerns a landfill may be polluting water. A case in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/03/31/472501029/elevated-levels-of-suspected-carcinogen-found-in-states-drinking-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York\u003c/a> came to regulators' attention after a resident tested his own water. And in \u003ca href=\"http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20180608/whats-happened-since-we-first-learned-of-genx-year-ago-lot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina\u003c/a> high levels of a PFAS chemical were found in drinking water downstream from a manufacturing plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2017_pfa\">map\u003c/a> of contaminated sites and communities where PFAS has been detected in drinking water has been compiled by Northeastern University and Environmental Working Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawsuits have been filed against companies believed to be responsible for the pollution. For example, Minnesota sued 3M over PFAS pollution and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/02/20/3m-pfc-groundwater-pollution-trial-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled for $850 million\u003c/a> in February 2018\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. 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A few states already have established strict new standards to limit the compounds in drinking water. And in some places, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2018/09/25/water-pollution-pennsylvania-gop-midterms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">such as the Philadelphia suburbs\u003c/a>, PFAS pollution has become an issue in mid-term election races.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As scientists and policy-makers work to limit human exposure to the compounds here are a few key points that are worth knowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>1. PFAS Chemicals Useful But May Be Dangerous \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PFAS chemicals are good at repelling oil and water. That makes them useful in a lot of products including non-stick cookware, fast food wrappers, pizza boxes, water-repellent fabrics and fire-fighting foam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's difficult to pin down exactly how harmful these chemicals are because research is limited. There was a \u003ca href=\"http://www.c8sciencepanel.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">big health study\u003c/a> involving one form of PFAS in the Mid-Ohio Valley. From that and other studies scientists are comfortable saying certain diseases are linked to PFAS exposure but they won't be more definitive than that.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"PFAS chemicals have been linked to a wide range of health effects, including cancer, low birth weight, thyroid disease, elevated cholesterol and effects on the immune system,\" says Laurel Schaider, research scientist at \u003ca href=\"https://www.silentspring.org/research-area/highly-fluorinated-chemicals-pfass\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Silent Spring Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manufacturers have agreed to stop using two forms of PFAS in the U.S. These chemicals take a long time to break down in the environment, which is why they remain a problem now. And Schaider says newer forms of PFAS chemicals are still being used, though some people believe they are safer because they remain in the environment and in our bodies for shorter periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>2. PFAS Pollution Affects Communities Around the Country\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some communities PFAS pollution may be known by another name if a specific compound is to blame for problems there. Some of the most common are PFOS, PFOA and Gen-X. PFAS is the overall name for this group of several thousand chemicals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the places with PFAS pollution is \u003ca href=\"http://www.michiganradio.org/post/parchment-residents-can-drink-their-tap-water-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan\u003c/a> where the some residents were warned not to drink the water for a month. In \u003ca href=\"http://www.nhpr.org/post/coakley-landfill-site-government-assurances-meet-public-fear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Hampshire\u003c/a> there are concerns a landfill may be polluting water. A case in \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2016/03/31/472501029/elevated-levels-of-suspected-carcinogen-found-in-states-drinking-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York\u003c/a> came to regulators' attention after a resident tested his own water. And in \u003ca href=\"http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20180608/whats-happened-since-we-first-learned-of-genx-year-ago-lot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina\u003c/a> high levels of a PFAS chemical were found in drinking water downstream from a manufacturing plant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/2017_pfa\">map\u003c/a> of contaminated sites and communities where PFAS has been detected in drinking water has been compiled by Northeastern University and Environmental Working Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawsuits have been filed against companies believed to be responsible for the pollution. For example, Minnesota sued 3M over PFAS pollution and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/02/20/3m-pfc-groundwater-pollution-trial-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">settled for $850 million\u003c/a> in February 2018\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>3. State and Federal Agencies Not Responding Fast Enough \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA requires most water utilities to test for a list of PFAS chemicals. In 2016 the agency lowered a \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2016-06/documents/drinkingwaterhealthadvisories_pfoa_pfos_updated_5.31.16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">non-binding health advisory limit\u003c/a> for some PFAS compounds to 70 parts per trillion (ppt). That's about 70 grains of sand in an Olympic-size swimming pool, says Christopher Crockett, chief environmental officer for the water utility Aqua America.\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But environmentalists argue that a \u003ca href=\"https://www.propublica.org/article/suppressed-study-the-epa-underestimated-dangers-of-widespread-chemicals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study\u003c/a> indicates the numbers should be much lower. \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloombergenvironment.com/environment-and-energy/glass-half-full-on-state-solutions-to-chemicals-in-water/\">A few states\u003c/a> have set lower standards on their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA is working on a plan to manage PFAS chemicals and expects to release it by the end of this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We need actions to come out of those plans that lead to clear direction for water suppliers,\" says Crockett. 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