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A health librarian at the cinema - Radioactive
Not at the cinema, really, but a DVD, but it was a feature film.The film is about the life and work of Marie Curie, and her work with Pierre Curie.Marie and Pierre, and Henri Becquerel, were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1903. The film has Pierre reporting that the Nobel Committee did not name Marie on the award. And that Pierre told them that if they did not name her, he would not accept the award. I don ' t know if those things were so. The film does have a scene where Pierre comes back from Stockholm, having accepted the award, and it is clear that Marie has not attended. R...
Source: Browsing - December 10, 2020 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: blogs

Podcast: How to Mentally Prepare for Anything
What’s the worst that could happen? And who will you still be regardless of the outcome? In today’s podcast, Gabe talks with author Shira Gura about her newest method CLEAR, a tool we can all use to prepare for an upcoming event or situation that is causing anxiety. Worried about an upcoming exam, a date, or a party where you won’t know anyone? Join us to learn a great method to help CLEAR your head before you go. SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Guest information for ‘Shira Gura- Mentally Prepare’ Podcast Episode Shira Gura is an emotional well-being coach. Her background as an occupational therapist, yog...
Source: World of Psychology - October 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Anxiety and Panic General Interview Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs

The COVID Pandemic: WHO Dunnit?
By ANISH KOKA, MD COVID is here. A little strand of RNA that used to live in bats has a new host. And that strand is clearly not the flu. New York is overrun, with more than half of the nation’s new cases per day, and refrigerated 18-wheelers parked outside hospitals serve as makeshift morgues. Detroit, New Orleans, Miami, and Philadelphia await an inevitable surge of their own with bated breath. America’s health care workers are scrambling to hold the line against a deluge of sick patients arriving hourly at a rate that’s hard to fathom. I pause here to attest to the heroic r...
Source: The Health Care Blog - April 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Zoya Khan Tags: COVID-19 Health Policy Anish Koka coronavirus Pandemic Sars-CoV-2 WHO World Health Organization Source Type: blogs

Podcast: Helping Children Grieve
When children experience the deep pain of separation or death, it can be extremely healing to learn they are still connected to their loved ones by an invisible string of love. That’s the premise of the children’s book The Invisible String, written by Patrice Karst, today’s guest on the Psych Central podcast. Patrice sits down to talk with Gabe about what sparked her idea for writing this classic book as well as her subsequent books, including The Invisible Leash, a story to help kids deal with the loss of a pet. As Patrice puts it, her books are about love and connection to each other, to our animals, and to the...
Source: World of Psychology - March 19, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Children and Teens Death & Dying General Grief and Loss Inspiration & Hope Interview The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs

Microneedles Offer Possibilities for Inner Ear Treatments
Researchers at Columbia University’s medical and engineering schools are developing 3D-printed microneedles that may safely deliver drugs to the largely inaccessible inner ear. Because of the ear’s anatomy, delivering drugs—including promising gene therapies and other drugs for hearing loss—to the inner ear is challenging. The inner ear is almost completely surrounded by bone, and is shielded from substances in nearby blood vessels by a barrier similar to the blood-brain barrier. Study Identifies 38 New Hearing-Related Genes in Mice ASHA Voices: What If Permanent Hearing Loss Could Be Reversed? New Drug Linked...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - February 14, 2020 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Carol Polovoy Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care News Private Practice Slider hearing loss Source Type: blogs

Is your IVF doctor using you as a guinea pig ?
All of us believe that as medicine advances, IVF pregnancy rates will constantly keep on improving, and this is perfectly normal. After all, science does progress , and IVF pregnancy rates today are much better than what they were 10 years ago.Unfortunately , this expectation also gives rise to the phenomenon of treatment creep . Doctors start introducing all kinds of new ancillary procedures , even though they haven't been proven to be effective.Part of the problem is that many doctors are very optimistic that something which is new will be more effective better than the current solutions. We are always under pressure to ...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - December 29, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs

The role of "fate" and "luck" in IVF
Embryo implantation is a still a "black box" as far as medical science is concerned, because we can't predict or control which embryos will implant. This is hardly surprising, given that it's a complex biological process, which involves an intricate interchange of signals between the embryo and the uterine lining.There are lots of factors which determine success, and while we know what some of these are, many are still beyond our comprehension.For example, we know that a top quality embryo has a better chance of resulting in a pregnancy, as compared to a poor quality embryo.However, we also know that not every perfect embr...
Source: Dr.Malpani's Blog - December 9, 2019 Category: Reproduction Medicine Source Type: blogs

Qantas monitors brainwaves of pilots and passengers to test 19.5 ‑hour flight from NY to Sydney
Monitoring brainwaves via dreem werable device (Qantas) _______________ Qantas’ first 19.5‑hour research flight from New York to Sydney takes off (Nine News): “Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, who today is in New York for the research flight, told Today Show via a live cross that he will be selecting an aircraft for the mammoth job by the year’s end, in line with a previous time-line. “The flight is going to be ground-breaking, as you said. We’ve got 19 hours — we’ve got a lot of scientists and we’re looking at different ways of making the operation actually great for our passengers,” Joyce said. A handful of Qan...
Source: SharpBrains - October 21, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology alertness Dreem monitor sleep New York productivity Quantas safety Sydney wearable Source Type: blogs

Is There Such a Thing as a Free-Market Gold Standard?
Twice recently I ’ve come across arguments to the effect that, despite what some libertarians, goldbugs, cryptocurrency fans, and Fed Board candidates imagine, the idea that the historical gold standard kept governments from managing money, leaving the job to market forces, is a myth.Inhis June 24th piece criticizing Facebook ’s Libra Currency, which is being marketed as a sort of internationalstablecoin, Barry Eichengreen writes:Mercifully, Facebook avoided the idea that astablecoin will free us from the tyranny of the Federal Reserve. Typically, stablecoin purveyors invoke a mythical past in which the monetary unit o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 9, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs

Why we do research
Why do we study autistic or dyslexic or schizophrenic or other subjects, in our scientific experiments? That is a question that was asked, rather impolitely, by “dyslexic in LA”, who challenged the “arrogance” of a perspective that engages such individuals as “scientific guinea pigs”. There are two simple answers to this question. We want to understand. If possible, we want to help. There are few if any individuals in the current era who have contributed more to understanding and helping autistic individuals than Tito, Soma, and Portia. I’ve tried to help them. I have the GREATES...
Source: On the Brain by Dr. Michael Merzenich, Ph.D. - July 1, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Dr. Merzenich Tags: Aging and the Brain Autism Origins, Treatments Brain Fitness Brain Trauma, Injury Childhood Learning Cognitive Impairment in Children Cognitive impairments Language Development Reading and Dyslexia Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, et ali Source Type: blogs

Podcast: Sexual Abuse: The Last Stage in Recovery
While searching for a way past her own childhood sexual abuse, Rachel Grant learned that many people don’t understand what, exactly, sexual abuse is and how to recover. Using her counseling background, Rachel was able to research and learn valuable coping skills to improve her own life. Join us as Gabe and Rachel discuss the many factors involved in recovering from sexual trauma, steps society could take to reduce sexual abuse, and what the first step could be for others trying to get beyond surviving. SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Guest information for ‘Sexual Abuse Recovery’ Podcast Episode Rachel Grant is the o...
Source: World of Psychology - June 13, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Podcast Recovery The Psych Central Show Trauma Source Type: blogs

Gluteomorphin: The opiate in your food
Yes: there are opiates that derive from various food proteins that exert peculiar effects on the human brain. The worst? The opiates that come from the gliadin protein of wheat and related grains. Opiate receptor researchers at the National Institutes of Health originally coined the term “gluteomorphin” nearly 40 years ago when it was determined that the gliadin protein of wheat undergoes partial digestion (since humans lack the digestive enzymes to fully digest proline-rich amino acid sequences in proteins from seeds of grasses) to yield peptides that are 4- to 5-amino acids long. Some of these peptides were ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 10, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Opioids addictive binge eating bulimia eating disorders Gliadin opiates wheat belly Source Type: blogs

People Have A Hard-To-Explain Bias Against Experimental Testing of Policies And Interventions, Preferring Just To See Them Implemented
By Jesse Singal Randomised experiments (also known as A/B testing) are an absolutely critical tool for evaluating everything from online marketing campaigns to new pharmaceutical drugs to school curricula. Rather than making decisions based on ideology, intuition or educated guess-work, you randomise people to one of two groups and expose one group to intervention A (one version of a social media headline, a new drug, or whatever, depending on the context ), one group to intervention B (a different version of the headline, a different drug etc), and compare outcomes for the two groups. To anyone who believes in evidenc...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 21, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Decision making Occupational Political Source Type: blogs

BB glow facials – DHA safety – and hard water cosmetics 182
The Beauty Brains episode 182 – we cover beauty questions about BB glow facials The safety of self tanners Doing you own research and Hard water and your beauty products Beauty Science News Butt MasksIs natural deodorant necessary?8 Beauty ingredients to know about SeaweedWheatgrassSaffronPatchouliCBD OilKaleKukui Nut OilMarula Oil Beauty questions Alina asks – What do you think of BB Glow facials? BB Glow facial is essentially a semi-permanent makeup treatment in which you take a pigmented BB cream and inject it into your face using a micro needling process. The pigmented product is on...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - May 13, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast bb glow facial DHA hard water microneedling Source Type: blogs