Has Incontinence Changed Your Life? Sharing Your Story Can Help Normalize the Condition
A young man kicked off the Egosan search for others who were willing to share their stories about what led to their incontinence. For Matt, it was a car accident at age 22. For many, it's some type of cancer treatment or nerve damage from a disease. Whatever the reason, shame needs to be eliminated in order to truly get on with their lives.
Read more about Matt and how he learned to cope with this dramatic change in his young life:
Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories. “I hold onto your book as a life preserver and am reading it slowly on purpose...I don't want it to end.” ...Craig W...
Source: Minding Our Elders - May 25, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
Brain Stimulation Lets User Feel Robotic Arm
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated that providing direct sensory feedback into the brain dramatically enhanced an impaired patient’s control of a robotic arm. The arm was operated through a brain-computer interface, but the system also included brain implants in an area of the brain responsible for sensory feedback. When the patient completed tasks using the arm, he was significantly faster when sensory feedback was enabled, mimicking the way someone can feel an object they are gripping with their hand. The technique could make brain-computer interface systems easier and more intuitive to use, ...
Source: Medgadget - May 21, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Rehab Source Type: blogs
Do Girls Really Show More Empathy Than Boys?
By Emma Young
Three people are walking down the street, two women and one man. One of the women trips and falls. Which of the two observers will feel more empathy for her pain? Hundreds of studies suggest that it’ll be the woman. However, these results almost overwhelmingly come from self-reports. Objective evidence that women genuinely feel more empathy than men is very thin on the ground. This has led to the idea that women report more empathy not because they actually feel it but to conform to societal expectations that they should. However, a new study in Scientific Reports claims to provide evidence that, even w...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 19, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Gender Social Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 17th 2021
This study is consistent with previous evidence showing that inflammaging, or age-related inflammation, is naturally heightened in the nervous system. Moreover, the authors disproved their hypothesis that anti-inflammatory microglia-specific genes are responsible for the elevated inflammatory response in aged brains since the expression of anti-inflammatory mediators was elevated in middle-aged brains following infection. Thus, the cause for the increase in pro-inflammatory genes remains to be elucidated.
Mixed Results in Animal Studies of Gene Therapy Targeting Axonal Regrowth
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Source: Fight Aging! - May 16, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
The Freshwater Fish Species of Bigmouth Buffalo Exhibits Negligible Senescence
In this study we examined the potential relationship between age and multiple physiological systems including: stress levels, immune function, and telomere length in individuals ranging in age from 2 to 99 years old in bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus), the oldest known freshwater teleost fish.
Contrary to expectation, we did not find any evidence for age-related declines in these physiological systems. Instead, older fish appeared to be less stressed and had greater immunity than younger fish, suggesting age-related improvements rather than declines in these systems. There was no significant effect of age on ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 11, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
“Necessitous Men Are Not Free Men” – Words to Remember
By MIKE MAGEE
In the second half of the 19th century, Emily Dickinson wrote a short poem that could easily have been a forward looking tribute to two American Presidents – one from the 20th, the other the 21st century.
Dickinson’s poem “A WORD is dead” is hardly longer than its title.
“A WORD is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
She certainly was on the mark when it came to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s signature legislation. FDR’s New Deal, extending from 1933 to 1939, ultimately came down to just three words – the...
Source: The Health Care Blog - May 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Health Policy Politics Biden FDR Mike Magee Source Type: blogs
The health care documents needed at each stage of life
If your 85-year-old mother was rushed to the hospital, would you be able to get the information you need about her condition from the doctors treating her? If your college-age son showed signs of severe depression, could you talk to his therapist? What if your spouse or partner was in a car accident? Would you […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - May 7, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/miles-j-varn" rel="tag" > Miles J. Varn, MD < /a > < /span > Tags: Physician Primary Care Source Type: blogs
How to Make an Aligned Decision About Joining CGC
Today, May 1st, is the deadline for deciding whether to join Conscious Growth Club for our 5th year together.
Last year on this same day, more than 25% of the people who joined or renewed CGC for Year 4 did so in the last 7 hours of the day (between 5pm and midnight Pacific time), so it wouldn’t be surprising if we see a big surge in sign-ups today. That sort of thing has happened with every launch we’ve done.
For many people this is a big decision. CGC doesn’t have a monthly membership. It’s year-long experience. And there’s that $1997 price that invites people to think carefully about ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Abundance Announcements Source Type: blogs
A medical ethicist asks questions about CPAP
About a year ago, I was referred to a sleep clinic and was diagnosed with“very mild obstructive sleep apnoea” (OSA). A continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device was recommended with a litany of disorders that would occur (heart disease, CVA, HTN, decreased mortality, motor vehicle accidents, etc.) if I did not use the apparatus […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/m-bennet-broner" rel="tag" > M. Bennet Broner, PhD < /a > < /span > Tags: Conditions Pulmonology Source Type: blogs
Non-Surgical Solution for Fecal Incontinence: Interview with Miles Rosen, CEO of Pelvalon
Fecal incontinence can be extremely challenging for those who suffer it. The condition can be embarrassing, making it difficult for people to tell others or even their doctor about it, and it is more common than you might think. Fecal incontinence can affect anyone, but a key group of patients includes women during menopause, in whom it is often associated with previous pelvic trauma, such as that which occurs during child-birth.
Treatment options are relatively limited and either tend to be minimalist, such as lifestyle changes, or pretty intense, such as expensive surgical implants. There was a gap for a low-risk and ...
Source: Medgadget - April 21, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive GI Ob/Gyn Source Type: blogs
How Many of H.R. 1 ’s Provisions Are Unconstitutional?
Walter OlsonHow many provisions of H.R. 1, if enacted, would be struck down by the courts as unconstitutional? It ’s not clear anyone has tried to compile a full list, but the likely answer is, “quite a few. ”To recap, H.R. 1 is thesprawling omnibus bill passed by the House on party lines that would assert federal control over dozens of areas related to elections,political speech, official ethics, and topics further afield. S. 1 is its Senate version. Earlier posts in this space have discussed problems with ithere (speech ‐hostile, bossy in areas long left to the sound discretion of the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 20, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Dah Poleez
What do they actually do?Here is an informative article from the New HavenIndependent. They got a record of all the dispatch reports in New Haven for a two year period. These include dispatches in response to 9-1-1 calls, non-emergency calls from citizens, and police-initiated actions such as traffic stops. Only 4.4% involved any form of violence. The most frequent reason was for burglary alarm activation. Unfortunately the data doesn ' t specify how many of these were false, but I ' m guessing it ' s a lot. Anyway that was less than 8% of calls. It seems that is within the common perception of what ought to be ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - April 19, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Seizing the Wheel: Need for Uniformity in State Driving Bans for People with Epilepsy
Greyson Young (University of Mississippi), Seizing the Wheel: Need for Uniformity in State Driving Bans for People with Epilepsy, SSRN: Common logic tells us that a driver with epilepsy carries with them a significantly higher risk of causing an accident.... (Source: HealthLawProf Blog)
Source: HealthLawProf Blog - April 13, 2021 Category: Medical Law Authors: Katharine Van Tassel Source Type: blogs
Women, alcohol, and COVID-19
Excessive alcohol use is a common response to coping with stress. Alcohol use increased following the September 11th terrorist attacks and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The COVID-19 pandemic is following this same path. However, this pandemic is different in its scope and duration. COVID-19 is associated with both negative health and economic impacts, as well as grief, loss, and prolonged stress and uncertainty.
The emotional impact of COVID-19 on women
According to the U.S. National Pandemic Emotional Impact Report, compared to men, women reported higher rates of pandemic-related changes in productivity, sleep, mood, healt...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Dawn Sugarman, PhD Tags: Addiction Alcohol Coronavirus and COVID-19 Women's Health Source Type: blogs
The Suez Grounding Was an Accident. The Next Blocked Chokepoint Might Not Be
The recent spectacle of a hulking container ship wedged into the Suez Canal is a reminder of how vulnerable maritime transportation is to blocked chokepoints. The fragility of maritime lifelines may encourage the use of this tactic in future conflict and make it even more effective. (Source: The RAND Blog)
Source: The RAND Blog - March 30, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Scott Savitz Source Type: blogs
