Giving Back to The Hospital That Gave A Family So Much
Guest Blog By: Deb Montgomery, University of Maryland Children’s Hospital Parent
My daughter, Neriah, has had many varied health issues over the course of her childhood, including severe asthma, allergies, gastrointenstinal issues, and more. We have been blessed to have her under the care of several of the doctors in the Pediatric Specialty Clinic at the University of Maryland Childnre’s Hospital (UMCH). During the past several years, we’ve been through a multitude of appointments, testing, and hospitalizations.
As you can imagine, this has been really hard, and especially heartbreaking to see all that ou...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - June 23, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Community Outreach Hospitality Kids Miscellaneous patient care Patient Stories book drive children's hospital fundraising giving back maryland Source Type: blogs
Does President Trump Support " Unrestrained Freedom " ?
The Republican National Committee, in the person of Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel, informs me that I “have been selected to represent the Commonwealth of Virginia as a member of The President’s Club.” I know that this is an important responsibility because it comes with a Priority Mail BRE and a request for $750. There’s a lot of boilerplate in the letter about “fake news” and the Democ rats and their “radical left-leaning allies.” (Really, if they’re radical, surely they’re more than “left-leaning.” Why not just come out and say it – they’re left-wingers!)But I ’m particularly struck by th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 13, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 12th 2017
In this study, we focused on two pathways of cardiomyocytes or heart cells: the Hippo pathway, which is involved in stopping renewal of adult cardiomyocytes, and the dystrophin glycoprotein complex (DGC) pathway, essential for cardiomyocyte normal functions."
Previous work had hinted that components of the DGC pathway may somehow interact with members of the Hippo pathway. The researchers genetically engineered mice to lack genes involved in one or both pathways, and then determined the ability of the heart to repair an injury. These studies showed for the first time that dystroglycan 1, a component of the DGC pathw...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 11, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Trade-Offs in the Middle East
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump delighted in waving to packed crowds whilethe Rolling Stones ’“You can’t always get what you want” played. At the time, the song seemed like a repudiation of the Republican elites who had failed to support his campaign. Today, as his Middle East policy careens off the rails, it’s a concept the President himself should learn to grasp.Mere hours afterSecretary of State Rex Tillerson announced that tensions between Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other regional states were negatively impacting the fight against ISIS and calling for all sides to defuse tensions, the Presidentc...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Emma Ashford Source Type: blogs
An Update on the Work of Oisin Biotechnologies: Building Therapies for Aging, Cancer, and Other Conditions by Targeting Harmful Cells for Destruction
Oisin Biotechnologies is a creation of our core community of longevity advocates, researchers, philanthropists, and others. The present CEO, Gary Hudson, was one of the first donors to support the newly formed Methuselah Foundation fifteen years ago. The company's seed funding was provided by the Methuselah Foundation and SENS Research Foundation a few years ago. A number of people in the audience here, myself included, invested in the company early last year in order to support this initiative. The initial goal of development at Oisin Biotechnologies is the targeted destruction of senescent cells, a path to produce one of...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 5, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, June 5th 2017
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - June 4, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
A High Level View of the State of SENS Rejuvenation Research
The Life Extension Advocacy Foundation (LEAF) volunteers caught up with Aubrey de Grey of the SENS Research Foundation at the recent International Longevity and Cryopreservation Summit held in Spain, and hence the publication of the high level view of current progress in SENS rejuvenation research that I'll point out today. The conference was an opportunity for members the overlapping European communities focused on longevity science, cryonics, and transhumanism to present their work, build their networks, and plan future initiatives. When it comes to longevity, the SENS research program looms large: its focus on repair of...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 1, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
World MS Day 2017 Is All About #LifewithMS
Wednesday, May 31, is World MS Day this year. Events are planned — or have already happened — worldwide, and people living with multiple sclerosis (MS) are encouraged to share their life tips (the little things we’ve learned that help us get on with living with our disease) in videos and texts.
When sharing your tips on social media, be sure to use the hashtag #LifewithMS.
Here in Ireland, we’ve seen a lovely uptick in the national media taking note of the day by featuring people living with MS. Today my friend Aoife was featured in an article in the Irish Examiner, and I was given space in yesterday’s I...
Source: Life with MS - May 30, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Trevis Gleason Tags: multiple sclerosis awareness MS Around the Globe MS in the news trevis gleason world MS day Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 29th 2017
In this study, we utilized an imaging-based assay to monitor the ability of disease-associated amyloid assemblies to rupture intracellular vesicles following endocytosis. We observe that the ability to induce vesicle rupture is a common feature of α-synuclein (α-syn) assemblies, as assemblies derived from wild type (WT) or familial disease-associated mutant α-syn all exhibited the ability to induce vesicle rupture. Similarly, different conformational strains of WT α-syn assemblies, but not monomeric or oligomeric forms, efficiently induced vesicle rupture following endocytosis.
The ability to induce vesicle rupt...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 28, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Do Fundraising Emails Work?
How many emails does it take to get a donation?
According to a new study from M+R Benchmarks it takes 2000 emails to land one donation. For every 1000 emails, non-profits receive $36.
The pace of change in online marketing, advocacy, and fundraising is taxing. Non-profits and associations are finding it harder and harder to have their messages heard.
According to a new study from M+R Benchmarks it takes 2000 emails to land one donation. For every 1000 emails, non-profits receive $36.
Probably not. Email is still an essential part of reaching members and donors, but lists must be nurtured and email efforts must be ...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - May 17, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Tips for event planners Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 15th 2017
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more.
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Source: Fight Aging! - May 14, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
An Interview with Ilia Stambler on the History and Future of Longevity Science
Ilia Stambler is, I think, perhaps the foremost historian in our longevity science community at this time. That position was earned by setting forth to do the hard work of assembling a history of advocacy and efforts to extend healthy life spans. The resulting book is freely available online and well worth reading. Every movement needs its historians; without them it is all too easy to forget exactly how matters unfolded, even over timescales as short as a decade or two, never mind over centuries. If nothing else, since those who found movements and those who toil upon the incremental bootstrapping of the early years tend ...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 12, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
The Love Blanket Project Spreads Love Around UMCH
Love comes in many shapes and sizes, but for Robin Chiddo it’s square, 44×44 and fuzzy.
Today, Robin from the Love Blanket Project dropped off 33 custom t-shirt blankets that will be given out to children staying at the University of Maryland Children’s Hospital.
The Love Blanket Project started in 2015 when Robin, who recently retired from her position as director of business development at the UMD Alumni Association at College Park, was looking for a heartfelt gift for her sister. In her research, Robin also wanted to find a company that had a clear, mission-driven purpose—then she came across Deaf Initiative...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - May 10, 2017 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: UMMC Tags: Kids Child Life children's hospital Love Blanket Project Robin Chiddo UMCH Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 8th 2017
This report captures the state of the research community in a nutshell: progress in the sense that ever more scientists are willing to make the treatment of aging the explicit goal of their research, but, unfortunately, there is still a long way to go in improving the nature of that research. It is still near entirely made up of projects that cannot possibly produce a robust and large impact on human life span. The only course of action likely to extend life by decades in the near future is implementation of the SENS vision for rejuvenation therapies - to repair the molecular damage that causes aging. Everything else on th...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 7, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
