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Electrical stimulation of the brain may help people who stutter
When Guillermo Mejias was 7 years old, his parents sent him out to buy bread during a family holiday in southern Spain. Mejias still remembers his growing anxiety as he walked to the bakery, repeating what he would say over and over in his head. But when the moment arrived, he was unable to produce a single word. He recalls returning empty-handed, ashamed, and wondering what to tell his parents. “I was so tense that I had been inadvertently biting my cheeks and tongue and my mouth was bleeding,” he says. Mejias still stutters, but today, as a brain researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid, he investigate...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - June 22, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

Napping Once Or Twice A Week Could Lower Heart Attack & Stroke Risk, Study Finds
By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Some good news for nap fanatics — a new study has found that a daytime nap taken once or twice a week could lower the risk of heart attacks or strokes. Researchers from the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland studied the association between napping frequency and duration and the risk of fatal and non-fatal cardiovascular disease complications. Tracking 3,462 people between the ages of 35 and 75 for just over five years, the report authors found that those who indulged in occasional napping — once or twice a week, for between five minutes to an hour — were 48% ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - September 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Health News Syndicated CBSN Boston CNN Heart Attack Stroke Source Type: news

Effects of Normothermic Machine Perfusion Conditions on Mesenchymal Stromal Cells
In this study the effect of NMP perfusion fluid on survival, metabolism and function of thawed cryopreserved human (h)MSC and porcine (p)MSC in suspension conditions was studied. Suspension conditions reduced the viability of pMSC by 40% in both perfusion fluid and culture medium. Viability of hMSC was reduced by suspension conditions by 15% in perfusion fluid, whilst no differences were found in survival in culture medium. Under adherent conditions, survival of the cells was not affected by perfusion fluid. The perfusion fluid did not affect survival of fresh MSC in suspension compared to the control culture medium. The f...
Source: Frontiers in Immunology - April 9, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research

Studies: Low-Dose Aspirin May Not Prevent Initial Heart Attack, Stroke
Taking a low-dose aspirin every day has long been known to cut the chances of another heart attack, stroke or other heart problem in people who already have had one, but the risks don’t outweigh the benefits for most other folks, major new research finds. Although it’s been used for more than a century, aspirin’s value in many situations is still unclear. The latest studies are some of the largest and longest to test this pennies-a-day blood thinner in people who don’t yet have heart disease or a blood vessel-related problem. One found that aspirin did not help prevent first strokes or heart attacks...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - August 27, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Health Healthwatch aspirin Source Type: news

More Americans being hospitalized for a hypertensive emergency, but fewer are dying
(Oxford University Press USA) A new article published in the American Journal of Hypertension finds a rising trend in hospitalization for hypertensive emergency with reduction in hospital mortality during the last decade. The presence of acute cardiorespiratory failure, chest pain, stroke, acute chest pain, and aortic dissection were most predictive of higher hospital mortality among other complications.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - April 20, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Book Reviews Great Ormond Street Handbook of Paediatrics ( 2nd edn ) Edited by Stephan Strobel , Lewis Spitz , Stephen D Marks CRC Press 2016 Price £63.99 . Pp 736 ISBN 9781482222791 Stroke Medicine ( 2nd edn ) Hugh Markus , Anthony Pereira , Geoffrey Cloud Oxford University Press 2017 Price £39.99 . Pp 596 ISBN 978 0 19873 788 9 Drug Dosing in Obesity. Volume I: Antimicrobials Edited by Syed Tabish R Zaidi , Jason A Roberts Springer 2016 Pri ce £82.00 . Pp 133 ISBN 978 3 319 44032 3.
Book Reviews Great Ormond Street Handbook of Paediatrics ( 2nd edn ) Edited by Stephan Strobel , Lewis Spitz , Stephen D Marks CRC Press 2016 Price £63.99 . Pp 736 ISBN 9781482222791 Stroke Medicine ( 2nd edn ) Hugh Markus , Anthony Pereira , Geoffrey Cloud Oxford University Press 2017 Price £39.99 . Pp 596 ISBN 978 0 19873 788 9 Drug Dosing in Obesity. Volume I: Antimicrobials Edited by Syed Tabish R Zaidi , Jason A Roberts Springer 2016 Price £82.00 . Pp 133 ISBN 978 3 319 44032 3. Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2017 Apr 02;78(4):237 Authors: Goodyear H, Ngeh J, Panesar P PMID: 28398897 [PubMed - in process]
Source: British Journal of Hospital Medicine - April 2, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Goodyear H, Ngeh J, Panesar P Tags: Br J Hosp Med (Lond) Source Type: research

Book Reviews Managing the Older Adult Patient with HIV Edited by Giovanni Guaraldi , Julian Falutz , Chiara Mussi , Ana Rita Silva Springer 2016 Price £35.99 . Pp 227 ISBN 978 3 319 20130 6 Drugs in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care ( 5th edn ) Edward Scarth and Susan Smith Oxford University Press 2016 Price £34.99 . Pp 448 ISBN 978 0 19876 881 4 Stroke Medicine: Case Studies from Queen Square Edited by SK Gill , MM Brown , F Robertson , N Losseff Springer 2015 Price £53.99 . Pp 270 ISBN 978 1 4471 6704 4.
PMID: 27640665 [PubMed - in process]
Source: British Journal of Hospital Medicine - September 1, 2016 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Post F, Gilbert-Kawai N, Dahdaleh S Tags: Br J Hosp Med (Lond) Source Type: research