When brakes fail you: oculocardiac reflex elicited by a retained foreign body in a penetrating orbital injury - Asaari SAH, Balasubramaniam D, Ramli N, Ismail F.
PURPOSE: To report a case of oculocardiac reflex following penetrating orbital injury with entrapment of extraocular muscle secondary to a retained orbital foreign body. OBSERVATION: A 19-year-old man with no known comorbidities presented with a foreign ob... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 15, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news

Humanoid robots face continued skepticism at Modex
If your robotics startup is looking to raise, there’s close to a 100% chance you’re going to get two questions from potential investors: 1) How are you incorporating generative AI? and 2) Have you consider building a humanoid? The first is easy enough to answer. If you’re running a robotics firm…#modex #atlanta #promat #agility #pilot #robotics #eriknieves #reflex #akashgupta #robertsun (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

10 lies scammers tell to separate you from your money
New York Magazine financial columnist Charlotte Cowles made waves last month with an article revealing that she'd been scammed out of $50,000. While some people were sympathetic, others criticized the author for falling for what even she herself admitted seemed like an obvious, if highly…#newyorkmagazine #charlottecowles #ftc #cowles #fbi #bitcoin #betterbusinessbureau #pin #trump #georgia (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 13, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Ladybug becomes powerful foe after ‘stealing’ toxins from invasive insect
In a thicket of prickly pear cacti near Valencia, Spain, a troop of predatory ants moves in for the kill. But their target—the white, shaggy-coated larva of a ladybug known as the mealybug ladybird ( Cryptolaemus montrouzieri )—is far from defenseless. As the ants mount their attack, the juvenile beetle tenses its muscles and expels a drop of bright red fluid. Called hemolymph, the substance is chock-full of carminic acid, a toxic chemical that grants the liquid a bloodlike hue and prompts the ants to abandon their assault. Now, new research has shown that C. montrouzieri larvae “steal...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 12, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news

Study on the effect of human sympathetic nerve cold stimulation to relieve driving fatigue based on order recurrence plot - Wang F, Chen D.
Driving fatigue is very likely to cause traffic accidents, seriously threatening the lives and properties of drivers. Therefore, accurate detection and effective mitigation of driving fatigue are crucial for ensuring the personal safety of drivers. This st... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news

Validated COuGH RefleX Score Can Predict Likelihood of GERD
WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 -- The validated Cough, Overweight/Obesity, Globus, Hiatal Hernia, Regurgitation, and Male Sex (COuGH RefluX) score can predict the likelihood of proven gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in patients with chronic... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - March 6, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Reminder: Invitation to Roche ’s Virtual Neurology Investor Event
   We are pleased to invite investors and analysts to participate in our virtual event onMonday,  11 March 2024, highlighting key data presented at 2024 Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and Alzheimer ' s& Parkinson ' s Diseases (AD/PD) conferences. 15:00 – 16:30 CET / 14:00 – 15:30 GMT10:00 – 11:30 AM EDT / 07:00 – 08:30 AM PDT  The webinar will start with presentations, followed by a Q&A session (live access to the speakers). The slides will be available for download at 14:00 CET on the day of the event.>click here AgendaWelcomeBruno Eschli, Head of Investor RelationsNeurology franchise update...
Source: Roche Investor Update - March 4, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

What's Going On Avidity Biosciences Stock Today?
Monday, Avidity Biosciences Inc RNA revealed new long-term AOC 1001 data from the MARINA open-label extension (MARINA-OLE) trial showing reversal of disease progression in myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) patients across multiple endpoints compared to END-DM1 natural history data. These are the…#aoc1001 #qmt #avidity #deldesiran #myotonia #dm1activ #rna (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Delhi HC: No customs duties on rare disease medicines
Delhi High Court clarifies no custom duties on medicines for rare diseases, ensuring expedited clearance and access to necessary treatments. Justice Pratibha Singh's order emphasizes swift clearance by customs authorities, avoiding unnecessary delays. The ruling follows a Finance Ministry notification granting full exemption from basic customs duty on drugs and food for rare diseases. The decision benefits children with conditions like Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, easing the financial burden of treatment. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - March 4, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

UCLA Samueli to lead $4 million cell research project funded by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Key takeawaysThe grant will fund a three-year collaboration among researchers at UCLA, USC and Caltech to advance cell and tissue engineering technologies.The project, led by UCLA ’s Dino Di Carlo, will engineer, manipulate and analyze cell-to-cell interactions that underlie complex multicellular systems in the body.Di Carlo said he aims for the collaboration to develop into a long-term partnership across institutions to advance biotechnology in Los Angeles.The Chan Zuckerberg Initiativetoday announced a $4 million grant to support research led by the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering that will examine cellular behavio...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - February 29, 2024 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news

Sam Bankman-Fried Seeks Lenient Sentence and to Appeal Conviction
Since Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of fraud last year, he has hired a new lawyer known for courtroom showmanship. A group of sympathetic law professors has pushed for a reappraisal of his actions. And his parents have turned for help to former employees of FTX, the collapsed cryptocurrency…#sambankmanfried #brooklyn #usdistrictcourt #manhattan #lewisakaplan #ftx #marcmukasey #donaldjtrump #shapiroaratobach #stanforduniversity (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 27, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The role of concussion history and biological sex on pupillary light reflex metrics in adolescent rugby players: a cross-sectional study - McKee C, Matthews M, Rankin A, Bleakley C.
BACKGROUND: Concussion examination is based primarily on clinical evaluation and symptomatic reporting. Pupillary light reflex (PLR) metrics may provide an objective physiological marker to inform concussion diagnosis and recovery, but few studies have ass... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 26, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Liz Cheney Warns The GOP ’s ‘Putin-Wing’ Will Take Over The White House If Trump Wins
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said people need to “{take seriously the extent to which” is there is now a “Putin-wing” of the Republican party — members of the GOP sympathetic or friendly to Russian leader Vladimir Putin — which would be in power if Donald Trump wins the election. During an…#lizcheney #wy #republicanparty #russian #vladimirputin #donaldtrump #jaketapper #trump #nato #ukraine (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

‘Treasure’ Review: Lena Dunham Faces Holocaust Trauma Through a Feel-Good Father-Daughter Road Movie
To call Julia von Heinz’ “Treasure” both sympathetic and broadly appealing might well be damning the film with faint praise, but circumstances here force our hand. How else to describe a heartwarming father-daughter road movie that takes as its subject the multi-generational, multi-national trauma…#juliavonheinz #treasure #auschwitz #berlinfilmfestival #lilybrett #jewish #poland #shoah #jonathansafranfoer #jesseeisenberg (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - February 17, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Drug Trials Snapshots: AGAMREE
AGAMREE is a corticosteroid indicated for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in patients 2 years of age and older. (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - February 16, 2024 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news