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Renaissance Rad Feature: Meet AJ Gunn, MD
AJ Gunn, M.D. graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT, earning a BS in exercise physiology with a minor in sociology. He then returned home to South Dakota to attend medical school at the University of South Dakota. During medical school, he participated in the competitive Howard Hughes Medical Institute – National Institutes of Health Research Scholars Program and was awarded the Donald L. Alcott, M.D. Award for Clinical Promise. He graduated summa cum laude in 2009. He completed his diagnostic radiology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA ...
Source: radRounds - February 21, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Robin Pine Miles Source Type: blogs

Textiles from Human Cells for Replacement Vessels, Tissues, Organs
Scientists at University of Bordeaux/French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Inserm) have developed a completely new biological material, made using human fibroblast cells, that can be turned into sutures, vascular grafts, and many other medical devices and tissue replacements. They showed that their Cell-Assembled extracellular Matrix (CAM) can be turned into yarns of different strength, flexibility, and to have various other characteristics. These yarns can be used as sutures, but also to create artificial vessels and other devices for implantation. Because these yarns are similar to those used in cl...
Source: Medgadget - February 11, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Cardiac Surgery Materials Plastic Surgery Thoracic Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs

Aromatherapy Safe and Effective for People With Alzheimer's
Photo credit Drew L Nihjew Alzheimer's disease can't be cured. There are medications that help slow the development of symptoms for some people, but the type of care that seems to help most people with Alzheimer's is hands-on attention. This often means that caregivers need to use a tool-box approach to providing care. Thus, opening our minds to ancient medicine can give us additional options. One ancient technique that's been studied by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the use of aromatherapy. Continue reading on HealthCentral to learn more about how aromatherapy can help older adults (and their caregivers) rela...
Source: Minding Our Elders - February 9, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Menopause and insomnia: Could a low-GI diet help?
Sleep disturbances such as insomnia are extremely common, especially in women after menopause. According to data from the National Institutes of Health, sleep disturbance varies from 16% to 42% before menopause, from 39% to 47% during perimenopause, and from 35% to 60% after menopause. Insomnia is a serious medical problem defined by frequent difficulty falling or staying asleep that impacts a person’s life in a negative way. Hormone changes around menopause can lead to sleep problems for many reasons, including changing sleep requirements, increased irritability, and hot flashes. What menopausal women eat could have an ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Fatigue Food as medicine Healthy Eating Menopause Nutrition Sleep Source Type: blogs

Starting Therapy: Where to Begin
Taking the steps to go to therapy can feel ambitious, especially when you are struggling with an emotional or mental issue. It takes a lot of courage to speak to someone about your problems and go through the learning process to endure and grow into a stronger person. With Nearly half of American households having had someone seek mental health treatment, it is important that we make the therapy process known. In this blog we are going to talk about what are some types of therapy, how to find a therapist and what to ask the therapist during your first appointment. Let’s start by looking at some types of therapy as ther...
Source: World of Psychology - January 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Matthew Boyle Tags: Psychology Treatment Entering therapy therapy basics Source Type: blogs

Eating to Heal the Mind
Generations of moms and grandmothers have gone to their gardens and cupboards to heal ailments of all kinds. Herbs, medicinal recipes (including chicken soup), and vegetables are gaining the attention of doctors and scientists, who rely on controlled studies rather than anecdotal evidence to prove what works in the body reliably and safely. Today, just as throughout history, in every culture, there are foods that can be used as medicine, but can what you eat affect your mental health as well? Is it possible to treat things like anxiety and depression with food? Research is showing the Mediterranean Diet and the DASH Diet...
Source: World of Psychology - December 26, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jan McDaniel Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Mental Health and Wellness Depression food Mood Disorder Mood Swings Source Type: blogs

Higher Quality Healthcare Correlates with Lower Blood Transfusion Rates
In a previous life in the 1970s, I was a blood banker at a large academic hospital. This may sound unbelievable to some of the currentLab Soft News readers but one of our cardiac surgeons in the 1970's would often transfuse six or more units of blood during a CABG (see: Variation in Use of Blood Transfusion in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery). Although modern blood transfusion can be life-saving, it can sometimes be a substitute for controlling hemorrhage by other and more appropriate means. In other words, less transfusion can often be equated with higher quality care. There is also a financial benefit when a hos...
Source: Lab Soft News - December 10, 2019 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Blood banking Clinical Lab Industry News Cost of Healthcare Lab Industry Trends Medical Research Quality of Care Source Type: blogs

Not-So-Golden Years for NIH ’s Retired Chimpanzees
The National Institutes of Health recently announced that it will retire-in-place the remaining 44 chimpanzees at the Alamogordo Primate Facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico, rather than transfer them to a sanctuary as originally planned. NIH’s decision is disappointing for those who believe that the chimpanzees—many of whom have spent decades in research—should experience the freedom and quality of life a sanctuary would provide. The post Not-So-Golden Years for NIH’s Retired Chimpanzees appeared first on The Hastings Center. (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 7, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Susan Gilbert Tags: Health Care animal welfare cihmpanzees Hastings Bioethics Forum National Institutes of Health research syndicated Source Type: blogs

Cool Images: A Colorful —and Halloween-Inspired—Collection
Transformations aren’t just for people or pets around Halloween. Scientific images also can look different than you might expect, depending on how they’re photographed. Check out these tricky-looking images and learn more about the science behind them. Credit: Nilay Taneja, Vanderbilt University, and Dylan T. Burnette, Ph.D., Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Do you have a hunch about what this image is? Perhaps something to do with dry leaves? It’s a human fibroblast cell undergoing cell division, or cytokinesis, into two daughter cells. Cytokinesis is essential for the growth and development...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - October 31, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Cells Biofilms Cellular Imaging Cool Images Source Type: blogs

Bisexuality and health: The cost of invisibility
On September 23, 2019, the 20th anniversary of Bi Visibility Day, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) held its first-ever bisexual health research workshop. As an invited panelist at this event, sponsored by the NIH’s Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office, I joined 19 other researchers to discuss key findings, gaps in knowledge, and future directions. You may be asking yourself: Is there really a need for this workshop? How is bisexual health different from the health of other groups? How many people even identify as bisexual? What is bisexuality? Robyn Ochs, a prominent bisexual activist and writer, defines bis...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sabra Katz-Wise, PhD Tags: Adolescent health Relationships Sex Stress Source Type: blogs

Coaxial Electrospinning Creates Novel Contraceptive, Other Medical Devices
Electrospinning is a manufacturing technique that has recently been getting a lot of attention in medicine because it allows researchers to produce novel materials and devices. Essentially, a polymer is melted and squeezed through a nozzle and an electric field is used to pull and spin it into a mesh of very fine fiber. The material has a huge surface area, given its volume, and it can be combined with drugs and other devices, and used as a part of therapies in all sorts of ways. There’s also a type of electrospinning called coaxial electrospinning, and it allows for two or more very different polymers to be spun ...
Source: Medgadget - October 28, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Medgadget Editors Tags: Materials Medicine Neurosurgery Ob/Gyn Oncology Source Type: blogs

A Living Legend Will Talk About Making Resilience Happen
By: Melissa Hladek, PhD, CRNP, FNP-BC I first met Dr. Kate Lorig in person—after talking and e-mailing for over a year—in the cafeteria at the National Institutes of Health. She was there giving a lecture as part of the National Institute for Nursing Research Director’s series. We sat at a beige breakfast table. I was The post A Living Legend Will Talk About Making Resilience Happen appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - October 25, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: On the Pulse promote Resilience Source Type: blogs

Podcast: Using Music to Spark Your Inner Hero
Are you a badass? Do you want to be? We all know that music has the ability to affect mood, and today’s guest takes that to the next level by helping you craft a personalized playlist to evoke specific feelings and emotions. Kelly Orchard’s unique program could help you find your inner badass. Using music and a variety of psychotherapy tools, Kelly helps individuals and groups become more confident, more productive and most importantly, more badass. SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Guest information for ‘Badass’ Podcast Episode Kelly Orchard is a professional speaker, author and trainer and Licensed Psychother...
Source: World of Psychology - October 24, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: Anxiety and Panic Brain and Behavior Depression Happiness Interview LifeHelper Mental Health and Wellness Podcast Psychiatry Psychology Psychotherapy Self-Help Stress The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs

On the RISE: Joshua and Caleb Marceau Use NIGMS Grant to Jump-Start Their Research Careers
A college degree was far from the minds of Joshua and Caleb Marceau growing up on a small farm on the Flathead Indian Reservation in rural northwestern Montana. Their world centered on powwows, tending cattle and chicken, fishing in streams, and working the 20-acre ranch their parents own. Despite their innate love of learning and science, the idea of applying to and paying for college seemed out of reach. Then, opportunities provided through NIGMS, mentors, and scholarships led them from a local tribal college to advanced degrees in biomedical science. Today, both Joshua and Caleb are Ph.D.-level scientists working to imp...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - October 23, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Being a Scientist Infectious Diseases Scientific Process Training Source Type: blogs

Women (still) Don ’t Get AIDS, They Just Die From It
In recent years HIV prevention science has been revolutionized by the realization that some of the drugs originally approved to treat HIV infection are also very effective at preventing HIV infection in people considered at high risk, such as those with HIV-positive partners. Known as “pre-exposure prophylaxis” or “PreP”, the HIV medication Truvada (tenofivir plus an older antiviral called emtricitabine) is now taken on a daily basis by millions of people worldwide in order to prevent HIV infection. While optimists see PreP as an important step on the road to “ending AIDS”, critics note ...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 21, 2019 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs