Painless Laser Therapy Improves Memory By 25% In Minutes (M)
The laser treatment that improves memory is known as transcranial photobiomodulation (tPBM). (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - February 17, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Memory subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Want healthy eyes? What to know at 40 and beyond
Did the print on that label suddenly shrink? If you’re in your 40s or beyond, you may have asked yourself that question as you struggled to read something that you used to be able to see clearly with no problem.
Blame your aging eyes. Much like our joints, our eyes undergo age-related changes. While eye problems can affect people of any age, some conditions become more common after age 40.
Getting older? Three common eye conditions
Presbyopia. The lens of the eye gets stiffer with age, which makes it harder to focus on objects nearby — hence your label-reading struggles. Many people find satisfaction with inexpensive r...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kelly Bilodeau Tags: Diabetes Eye Health Healthy Aging Source Type: blogs
Diabetic retinopathy: Understanding diabetes-related eye disease and vision loss
Over 30 million people in the United States live with diabetes, and approximately 7.7 million people have diabetic retinopathy, making it the most common cause of vision loss in working-aged adults. The prevalence of diabetic retinopathy has increased significantly over the past 20 years, due to the rise in the number of people diagnosed with diabetes.
How does diabetes affect the retina?
The retina is the light-sensing component located in the back of the eye. It is composed of blood vessels, nerve cells (neurons), and specialized cells called photoreceptors that are involved in directly sensing light. The ability of the ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Leo Kim, MD, PhD Tags: Diabetes Eye Health Source Type: blogs
HairBoom Air Helmet FDA Cleared to Treat Hair Loss
WONTECH, a Korean company, won FDA clearance for its HairBoom Air hair loss treatment helmet.
The device delivers low-power laser therapy to the scalp, bathing it in light. This kind of treatment has been shown to help increase blood flow around hair follicles, increasing oxygenation in nearby tissues, resulting in more hair growth and improved hair quality.
The HairBoom Air, similar to the already available iGrow device, looks like a bicycle helmet and was designed to be as light as possible (600 grams, 1.3 lbs). WONTECH hopes that this will lead to patients using the system for the entirety of the prescribed r...
Source: Medgadget - October 16, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: OTC Source Type: blogs
Broncopolmonite!
I realize it’s been quite some TIME since I’ve written a post, almost a MONTH!, so today I decided to sit down and write one, and it’s going to be a long one, so get yourselves some tea and get comfy…
CHAPTER ONE. PEEKABOO: in September I spent a lot of time researching possibly helpful but definitely non-toxic treatments for Peekaboo, my 11-year-old kitty whom I’ve written a lot about in recent times. She has a slipped disc, basically, and has been having a VERY hard time walking. The risk, of course, is that she’d stop walking altogether. Couldn’t let that happen!
I discover...
Source: Margaret's Corner - October 19, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Source Type: blogs
The Future of Making Sense of the World
Hug shirts, smellphones, virtual tastes, bionic eyes and hearing aids doing translations – just a few keywords showing how technology will take human perception to a higher level in the future. Innovative healthcare solutions will go way beyond improving our senses when we experience problems, they will augment our capabilities and open new horizons for humanity. Let’s jump into the pool of details.
How humans perceive the sensory cacophony called the world
Car. Flower. Smartphone. Leaf. Shadow. Ponytail. Red Sweater. Monitor. Water. Coffee. Beeps. Sidney Bechet tunes. Bicycle. Laugh. Light breeze. Holiday memorie...
Source: The Medical Futurist - September 20, 2018 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Biotechnology Cyborgization Health Sensors & Trackers Medical Professionals Patients body augmentation future Healthcare hearing human human perception Medicine sense sensing smell taste touch vision Source Type: blogs
FDA warning on vaginal laser procedures should emphasize informed choices, not fear
On July 30th, the FDA sent out a stern warning against the use of energy devices (laser therapy) to perform “vaginal rejuvenation,” and for procedures to treat symptoms related to sexual function, because of worries about adverse events. I agree with the FDA that these devices need more study, clear indications, informed patients, and skilled and ethical physicians to be used safely.
However, I have concerns that the FDA, in an overabundance of caution, may limit availability of innovative therapies, which when used correctly may benefit women’s reproductive health. In addition, press coverage is causing confusion ab...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 2, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Hope Ricciotti, MD Tags: Health Menopause Women's Health Source Type: blogs
Blindness and laser therapy
We spent almost the entire day Thursday at the vet clinic with Piccolo, our (now) eldest cat. He was recently (last month) diagnosed with spondyloarthrosis, a joint disease of the vertebral column. It’s a very painful, degenerative condition…
Thanks to my research online, however, for the past two weeks he has been having laser therapy at the vet clinic, three times a week. These sessions have proven to be extremely beneficial: he’s no longer in pain, which means he’s able to walk around the house, stairs included.
I’ve also been giving him a daily dose of cortisone and, until a couple of days...
Source: Margaret's Corner - August 12, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll blindness in cats laser therapy Source Type: blogs
If you have low back pain try these steps first
Low back pain, the scourge of mankind: it is the second leading cause of disability here in the United States, and the fourth worldwide. It’s also one of the top five medical problems for which people see doctors. Almost every day that I see patients, I see someone with back pain. It’s one of the top reasons for lost wages due to missed work, as well as for healthcare dollars spent, hence, a very expensive problem.
Looking at two kinds of back pain
Let’s talk about the most common forms of back pain: acute (which lasts less than four weeks) and subacute (which lasts four to 12 weeks). Most of these cases (approximate...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 3, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Back Pain Managing your health care Pain Management Source Type: blogs
Short Pulsed Electric Fields for Prevention of Burn Scars
Appearance of treated and untreated wound healing 6 months after burn injury. Images from representative rats from all treatment groups are shown (n=3 animals per experimental condition). Yellow lines indicate the measured surface area of burn scars.
Although the proliferation of collagen-producing cells following burn injury is the body’s natural response to trauma, the excessive collagen production leads to the formation of permanent, painful scars. Burn scars secondary to collagen cell proliferation cause intense and ongoing physical and psychological suffering to burn patients who survive the initial destruction of...
Source: Medgadget - August 11, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Iris Kulbatski Tags: Dermatology Plastic Surgery Source Type: blogs
Novel Femur Window Chamber Model for Long-Term Optical Access to Bone Marrow Compartment
The biological complexity of bone marrow is driven by the diverse array of hematopoietic and non-hematopoietic cells that orchestrate intricate biological activities, such as immune and tumor regulation, as well as hematopoiesis. Observing and tracking the complex cellular interactions and activities within the bone marrow niche are limited by currently available techniques, such as blood counts and histology, which use a “snapshot” of static evidence to infer such dynamics in vivo.
Researchers from the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, have developed a novel pre-clinical technique to visualize ...
Source: Medgadget - August 9, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Iris Kulbatski Tags: News Source Type: blogs
Transparent Skull Implant for Repeat Brain Laser Therapy
Researchers at University of California, Riverside and Mexico’s Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada have been working on confirming the safety and usefulness of their transparent cranial window implant we first reported on a few years ago. It was designed to allow lasers to be used to repeatedly treat locations deep inside the brain that are currently impossible to get to using traditional means. This would allow for new therapies to be developed that rely on treating patients over long periods since access to the brain would remain.
The implant that replaces a part of the skull...
Source: Medgadget - July 21, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Neurology Neurosurgery Oncology Source Type: blogs
Making an informed choice about indoor tanning
With May being Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event today co-hosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are running a series on skin cancer. Be sure to check back daily for posts on skin cancer including how you prevent and detect it. Enjoy!
I am so pleased to have the opportunity present on behalf of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) during “The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses” event co-hosted by Disruptive Women in Health Care and Congressional Families for Cancer Pre...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs
An Ontario court dooms a First Nations girl with cancer
A few weeks ago, Steve Novella invited me on his podcast, The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe, to discuss a cancer case that has been in the news for several months now. The case was about an 11-year-old girl with leukemia who is a member of Canada’s largest aboriginal community. Steve wrote about this case… (Source: Respectful Insolence)
Source: Respectful Insolence - November 17, 2014 Category: Surgery Authors: Orac Tags: Cancer Complementary and alternative medicine Naturopathy Politics Quackery Religion Science aborigine Abraham Cherrix Amish Bio-energy treatment Brian Clement chemotherapy cold laser therapy Daniel Hauser detox First Natio Source Type: blogs
Clinical and radiographic outcomes of the use of Low-Level Laser Therapy in vital pulp of primary teeth
ConclusionThese findings suggest that Low Level Laser Therapy may be considered as an adjuvant alternative for vital pulp therapy on human primary teeth. Low Level Laser Therapy preceding the use of calcium hydroxide showed satisfactory results. (Source: Dental Technology Blog)
Source: Dental Technology Blog - July 9, 2014 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
