Bit by the Research Bug: Priscilla ’s Growth as a Scientist
This is the third post in a new series highlighting NIGMS’ efforts toward developing a robust, diverse and well-trained scientific workforce.
Credit: Christa Reynolds.
Priscilla Del Valle
Academic Institution: The University of Texas at El Paso
Major: Microbiology
Minors: Sociology and Biomedical Engineering
Mentor: Charles Spencer
Favorite Book: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot
Favorite Food: Tacos
Favorite music: Pop
Hobbies: Reading and drinking coffee
It’s not every day that you’ll hear someone say, “I learned more about parasites, and I thought, ‘This is so cool!’” But it’s al...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - March 28, 2017 Category: Research Authors: Christa Reynolds Tags: Being a Scientist Bacteria BUILD Infectious Diseases Profiles Training Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 180
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 180.
Question 1
You are stuck in the wilderness and your friend has an anaphylactic reaction. You swiftly deploy his epipen into his thigh but there is limited effect after 5 minutes. His airway is becoming compromised. How do you get more adrenaline into him? Do you extrac...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five adrenaline Anaphylaxis bolivia combs sign coxsackie virus EpiPen lithium measles muffin muffin technique pimping polio Salar de Uyuni salt flats Source Type: blogs
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 180
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog
LITFL: Life in the Fast Lane Medical Blog - Emergency medicine and critical care medical education blog
Just when you thought your brain could unwind on a Friday, you realise that it would rather be challenged with some good old fashioned medical trivia FFFF…introducing Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 180.
Question 1
You are stuck in the wilderness and your friend has an anaphylactic reaction. You swiftly deploy his epipen into his thigh but there is limited effect after 5 minutes. His airway is becoming compromised. How do you get more adrenaline into him? Do you extrac...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - March 10, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Neil Long Tags: Frivolous Friday Five adrenaline Anaphylaxis bolivia combs sign coxsackie virus EpiPen lithium measles muffin muffin technique pimping polio Salar de Uyuni salt flats Source Type: blogs
Economic Benefit Of Vaccines Highlighted In 2017 Bill & Melinda Gates Annual Letter
Bill Gates and Melinda Gates released their annual letter on February 14, 2017, and this year’s letter highlights the couple’s optimism about progress in global health. The letter, written in the form of a response to a query from Warren Buffet about the effectiveness of his investment in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ten years ago, explains that 122 million children’s lives have been saved since 1990, through sustained reduction in childhood deaths. (1990 is typically the baseline year considered for measuring recent progress to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which were health and...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 21, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Margaret K. Saunders Tags: Costs and Spending Global Health Policy GrantWatch Public Health Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Children Health Philanthropy Prevention vaccines Source Type: blogs
Let ’s spend money on autism support, not conspiracy theories
I spent many sleepless nights in the months after my son’s autism diagnosis fretting whether I could have done something to prevent it. I recounted, in obsessive detail, the course of my pregnancy, the birth, and the two years of child-rearing that led to the moment when our pediatrician confirmed my fears — and life as I’d known it tilted off its axis. In my spare waking hours, I pored over research that exhausted me mentally and emotionally.
It was a painful period of reckoning — and it’s the reason I vehemently oppose a commission to investigate a link between autism and vaccines, as proposed by Presid...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 30, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jessica-berthold" rel="tag" > Jessica Berthold < /a > Tags: Meds Medications Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
A Necessary Retelling of the Smallpox Vaccine Story
A curious confluence
of events unfolded Tuesday night. Just hours before President Obama uttered the
powerful “science and reason matter” in his farewell address, Robert F. Kennedy
Jr. announced that the incoming president had tapped him to head a committee on
vaccine safety.
RFK Jr. is not a
pediatric immunologist nor an epidemiologist, but a vocal “vaccine
skeptic.” Although the
PEOTUS dialed back on the purported appointment shortly after social media
erupted, a tweet from March 28, 2014 makes his analysis
of the history and science of vaccines clear: Healthy young child goes
...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - January 30, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care syndicated vaccines Source Type: blogs
TWiV 425: All picornaviruses, all the time
The TWiVaniellos discuss a thermostable poliovirus empty capsid vaccine, and two cell genes that act as a switch between entry and clearance of picornavirus infection.
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Source: virology blog - January 22, 2017 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology autophagy empty capsid gene trap haploid cell LGALS8 picornavirus PLA2G16 polio eradication poliovirus thermostable vaccine viral virus entry viruses Source Type: blogs
Resilience: ‘T’ain’t What You Do (It’s the Way That You Do It)’
Resilience can mean the ability of a person to solve problems and bounce back from difficult situations. That, at least, is the definition a group of researchers from the University of Washington gave to resilience when they surveyed a cadre of 1,574 people with a range of chronic conditions that included multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, post poliomyelitis syndrome, and spinal cord injury.
The information for this study was collected from mail-in surveys as part of an ongoing study of people as they age with disability.
In their report of the study, published in December 2016 in Archives of Physical Medicine and Reh...
Source: Life with MS - January 20, 2017 Category: Neurology Authors: Trevis Gleason Tags: multiple sclerosis emotions inspiration Living with MS ms community research trevis gleason work Source Type: blogs
A 7-Pound Premature Baby Died After Receiving 8 Vaccine Doses, Her Death Was Blamed On Co-Sleeping Instead Of The Toxic Vaccines
Conclusion
Medical examiners are putting the blame on parents for co-sleeping, while completely ignoring the vaccines given to the child hours or days before, when investigating these infant deaths. They will also relate an infant’s death to poisoning of the body due to something the child ingested or inhaled, but not from the poisons injected through the vaccines. [29]
In the state of Louisiana, health officials have been applauded for having fairly high vaccination rates, but at the same time, Louisiana has consistently been ranked one of the worst states in the nation for having high infant mortality rates, but nowher...
Source: vactruth.com - January 19, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Augustina Ursino Tags: Augustina Ursino Case Reports on Vaccine Injury Human Recent Articles Top Picks Top Stories Aysia Hope Clark Lafayette General Medical Center National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program Recombivax Source Type: blogs
Anti-Vaccinators and their Brave Fight Since the Smallpox Vaccine
With the development of the very first vaccination of smallpox, brave anti-vaccinators fought against the dangerous, ill-advised practice of vaccinations. Those fighting against vaccines included the most intelligent and respected physicians of their time. [1]
This fight has been steadfast and continuous, as anti-vaccinators fought against an unjust, dangerous medical procedure. Vaccinations have always only profited the vaccine makers, not the people targeted for vaccines. Today’s anti-vaccination movement, while still in the minority, is most likely the largest we have had in history.
First Anti-Vaccinators
The smallpo...
Source: vactruth.com - November 20, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Michelle Goldstein Tags: Logical Michelle Goldstein Recent Articles Top Picks anti-vaccination Polio Vaccine smallpox vaccine truth about vaccines Source Type: blogs
Aluminium Adjuvants Have Never Been Approved For Use In Vaccination
Conclusion
Over the years, hexavalent vaccinations have been responsible for many deaths and disabilities worldwide, and yet they remain in use today. It is shocking to know that a leading pharmaceutical company such as GlaxoSmithKline has known of the danger of these vaccines for years, and yet they continue to portray them as safe and effective.
This is just one of the many papers that have been hidden over the years. How many more scholarly papers that reveal similar adverse reactions have the pharmaceutical industries and governments hidden in their archives?
To learn more about hidden documents, read At Last! Governm...
Source: vactruth.com - November 17, 2016 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England, BA Hons Tags: Christina England Physical Top Stories adjuvants Aluminum truth about vaccines Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
The Work of the Aoki Foundation to Support SENS Rejuvenation Research
Music business entrepreneur Steve Aoki has been a supporter of the SENS rejuvenation research programs for a while now. I'm always pleased to see successful people being vocal about their support for SENS, putting it front and center when talking to their audiences. Placing this important scientific work - as well as the prospects for near future therapies, and the need for philanthropic funding - in front of a bigger audience is a vital to the continued growth of our community and continued progress towards the medical control of aging. We need to reach out to entirely new networks of people, those who would never seek ou...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 12, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs
Three countries endemic for poliovirus
I cannot let September pass without noting that 34 years ago this month, I arrived at Columbia University to start my laboratory to do research on poliovirus (pictured). That virus is no longer the sole object of our attention – we are wrapping up some work on poliovirus and our attention has shifted elsewhere. But this is a good month to think about the status of the poliovirus eradication effort.
So far this year 26 cases of poliomyelitis have been recorded – 23 caused by wild type virus, and three caused by vaccine-derived virus. At the same time in 2015 there were 44 reported cases of polio – sma...
Source: virology blog - September 30, 2016 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: Basic virology Information afghanistan eradication IPV nigeria OPV pakistan poliovirus Sabin Salk vaccine-derived poliovirus VDPV viral viruses Source Type: blogs
This version of health care is purely a business
Many of us harbor an archaic view of what health care is, so let me offer a little history. During the past century, it’s changed from Healthcare 1.0 to 2.0, and now it’s Healthcare 3.0.
In the early twentieth century, Healthcare 1.0 was a service, though it amounted more to personal contact than effective medicine. At best, medications and procedures were hit-and-miss, so doctors relied heavily on their relationship with their patients. One of the era’s foremost practitioners, Dr. Edward Trudeau, advised his colleagues, “Cure sometimes, relieve often, and comfort always.”
After 1910, health care bega...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 23, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/jeff-kane" rel="tag" > Jeff Kane, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Health reform Source Type: blogs
