Autoimmune disease and stress: Is there a link?
A new study has raised the possibility that stress may cause autoimmune disease, such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis, because it found a higher incidence of autoimmune diseases among people who were previously diagnosed with stress-related disorders.
I have patients who heard about this research and are saying, “I knew it!”
But before we accept a potential link between stress and autoimmune disease, let’s look at some details of the study and consider how we define the terms “autoimmune disease,” “stress,” and “stress-related disorder.”
What is autoimmune disease?
These are fascinating and mysterious co...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - July 11, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Autoimmune diseases Health Stress Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, July 2nd 2018
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! - July 1, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Some Benefits of Intermittent Fasting are Mediated by the Gut Microbiome
There is a growing interest in the role of microbial populations of the gut in aging and health, with evidence from recent years suggesting that their level of influence might approach that of exercise. Some fraction of the benefits to health and longevity that occur due to the practice of either calorie restriction or intermittent fasting are thought to be mediated by resulting changes in gut microbe populations. This seems a safe assumption, given the evidence to hand, but the still open question is just how large or small that fraction might be. The consensus view remains that benefits largely result from increased cell...
Source: Fight Aging! - June 25, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Defining Engagement in an Age of Patient Monitoring and Data Collection
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What is healthcare without patients? For decades physicians have been a one-stop shop for diagnosis and treatment, a trusted source. And yet it’s only been in recent years that the entire healthcare industry has woken up to the notion that patients can and should have an active role...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 22, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: matthew holt Tags: Health 2.0 Tech #G4A Bayer patient engagement Xbird Source Type: blogs
Pureed Food Recipes: Swallowing Impairment Needn't Signal the End of Great Eating
Dysphagia is a swallowing impairment that can occur after someone has a stroke or any type of brain injury. Dysphagia is also a concern with Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), oral cancer, and many other injuries and diseases. However, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), dysphagia is also a growing concern in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The NIH says that dysphagia “frequently leads to aspiration pneumonia, a common cause of death in this population, particularly in the later stage of AD.”
Read full article on HealthCentral and get free downloads, and free recipes, and lo...
Source: Minding Our Elders - June 18, 2018 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
ResQ is Using Games to Fight Opioid Addiction: Interview with Dr. Paul Glimcher
Earlier this year at the Health 2.0 WinterTech Conference, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and Catalyst @ Health 2.0 launched the RWJF Opioid Challenge, an initiative aimed at bringing together healthcare and technology innovators to solve a growing epidemic of addiction in the United States. A panel of 19 judges evaluated 97 initial submissions based on innovation, scalability, and overall design and intuitiveness of the solution, resulting in five semifinalists.
Resilience IQ (ResQ)
Hey, Charlie
Luceo/Canary App
Sober Grid
HashTag
Preparation for Phase 2 of the competition is underway with final submission...
Source: Medgadget - June 14, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Medicine Net News Pain Management Psychiatry Public Health Rehab Source Type: blogs
MKSAP: 29-year-old woman is evaluated during a routine follow-up examination of multiple sclerosis
Test your medicine knowledge with the MKSAP challenge, in partnership with the American College of Physicians.
A 29-year-old woman is evaluated during a routine follow-up examination of multiple sclerosis, which was diagnosed 3 years ago. The patient says she wishes to discontinue her oral contraceptive and attempt to become pregnant. She has no other personal or family medical history of note. Medications are fingolimod, vitamin D, and an oral contraceptive.
On physical examination, temperature is 36.9 °C (98.5 °F), blood pressure is 100/50 mm Hg, pulse rate is 66/min, and respiration rate is 14/min; BMI is 27. A righ...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 2, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/mksap" rel="tag" > mksap < /a > Tags: Conditions Neurology OB/GYN Source Type: blogs
Three years of research into #thedress, digested – a lesson in humility for perceptual science
By Christian Jarrett
Three years ago, in a time before Trump or Brexit or This Is America, someone posted an overexposed photograph of a black and blue striped dress on Tumblr. Soon millions of people had seen it and started arguing about it. The reason? It quickly became apparent that about half of us – more often women and older people – perceive the dress, not as black and blue, but white and gold.
In a neat example of real life echoing a classic psychology experiment (I’m referring to Asch), #thedress was enough to make you think your friends were gas lighting you – how could it be that you and they were ...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - May 16, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Cognition Feature Perception Source Type: blogs
Exclusive: BeCare Link ’s Innovative App for Multiple Sclerosis Patients
BeCare Link has created a mobile application (“BeCare MS Link” in the Google Play app store) that connects patients to physicians and researchers to provide unprecedented levels of insight into multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neurodegenerative diseases. As paraphrased from a MS patient: “Much of MS is what is happening in your head, and you need the objective evidence that maybe things are not going as badly as you think.”
A typical physician’s visit can only provide a snapshot in time of a patient’s overall well-being and functional status, with a patient’s self-recorded logs often being inconsistent or ...
Source: Medgadget - May 10, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Alice Ferng Tags: Exclusive Medicine Neurology Rehab Source Type: blogs
“Smart” Training Devices Alleviate Concerns of Self-Injection: Interview with Noble International’s Joe Reynolds
Most patients encounter shots and injections, like the flu vaccine, in the context of a clinic or local pharmacy. However, for many patients, shots and injections are not an annual occurrence but are required frequently and, as a result, need to be self-administered at home. Biologic drugs have recently found success addressing chronic diseases but can require at-home administration using prefilled syringes (PFSs) and autoinjectors.
Patients using these self-injection devices can experience psychological challenges ranging from mild squeamishness to extreme anxiety. A recent study of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and...
Source: Medgadget - May 3, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Exclusive Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Update: Study finds continued birth of new neurons (neurogenesis) well into our 70s
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Time for SharpBrains eNewsletter, bringing you the latest in in brain health and mental health research, tools and thinking.
Also, a quick heads-up for those based in the UK: the Imperial College Centre for Neurotechnology will host a keynote by Alvaro Fernandez in London on Wednesday, May 30th, titled Why the Future of Brain Enhancement & Mental Health is Digital & Pervasive (free; requires registration). Other upcoming events here.
New research:
Study finds continued birth of new neurons (neurogenesis) well into our 70s
The more hours you sit per day, the smaller ...
Source: SharpBrains - April 25, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology app brain Brain-health brain-scans brain-stimulation Brainnovations Cognitive-Training meditation Mental-Health Neurogenesis Neurotechnology smartphone Source Type: blogs
Study combines MRI brain scans with statistics to better predict cognitive problems after stroke
Conclusions: The brain health index is a new image analysis approach that may usefully capture combined visible brain damage in large-scale studies of ageing, neurovascular and neurodegenerative disease.
The Study in Context:
Next: Brain scans to identify children at high risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) before symptoms appear
25 Key Resources to Improve Brain Health and Mental Health
Five reasons the future of brain enhancement is digital, pervasive and (hopefully) bright
10 neurotechnologies about to transform brain enhancement and brain health
What are cognitive abilities and how to boost them?
Solving ...
Source: SharpBrains - April 23, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology atrophy brain health index Brain-health brain-injury cerebral small vessel diseases cognition computer-assisted image processing magnetic resonance imaging stroke Source Type: blogs
Not just myeloma
First bit of news: I’ve had absolutely no pain in my heel. It’s as good as new. I have to admit I’m still stunned…and I wonder if a more conventional doctor, let’s say a physiotherapist, would have made the connection between my relatively new eyeglass prescription and my heel pain. I doubt it.
This makes me wonder how many similar cases there are, of people who think they have plantar fasciitis or tendonitis or, sorry for the mention! , heel spurs, but whose pain actually originated in a different part of the body, an easy-to-fix part of the body. Mind-blowing, eh?
But the reason I’m ...
Source: Margaret's Corner - April 20, 2018 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll celiac disease curcumin EBV Epstein-Barr virus inflammatory bowel disease lupus multiple sclerosis rheumatoid arthritis type 1 diabetes Source Type: blogs
Cryotherapy: Can it stop your pain cold?
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Let’s say you’ve started working out at the gym and you’re wondering what you can do for your aching muscles. How does this sound? Put on a pair of gloves, shoes, socks, and a protective headband to cover your ears and face — but wear little else. Then step into a cold room for three to four minutes. By “cold” I mean really cold: between −100° C and −140° C (which is −148° F to −220° F)!
If that sounds good to you (really?), you may already be using whole body cryotherapy (WBC). And if it sounds terrible to you (or just strange), perhaps you haven’t heard of this...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 18, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Robert H. Shmerling, MD Tags: Complementary and alternative medicine Health Source Type: blogs
Evidence review finds that computer-based cognitive training can significantly improve memory in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS)
CONCLUSIONS: The present meta-analysis revealed a significant effect for computer-based cognitive training on the performance of the memory domain of patients with MS. This finding may have significant implications in the current treatment practice when cognitive decline is detected in MS patients.
The Study in Context
Next: Brain scans to identify children at high risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) before symptoms appear
Study: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) can reduce fatigue in patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Merck and HAPPYneuron partner to include cognitive remediation program in M...
Source: SharpBrains - April 6, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Technology Cognitive-Training Computer-based cognitive rehabilitation meta-analysis multiple-sclerosis neuropsychological neuropsychological assessment Neuropsychological performance Systematic Source Type: blogs
