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Certain gut microbes may affect stroke risk and severity, scientists find
Studies of ischaemic stroke patients open up possibility of treatments to prevent condition and improve recoveryScientists have identified specific groups of gut microbes that could increase or decrease someone ’s risk of suffering the most common type of stroke. The research, presented at the European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) in Lyon, France, adds to growing evidence that alterations in the gut microbiome could play a role in cardiovascular disease.Previous studies have suggested that certain microbes may influence the formation of atherosclerotic plaques in the arteries, and that the gut microbiomes of str...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 4, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Linda Geddes Science correspondent Tags: Stroke Biology Science Microbiology Health Medical research Source Type: news

Sinclair Lough obituary
My friend and former colleague Sinclair Lough, who has died aged 62 following a stroke, was a clinical psychologist who specialised in the care of older people.I first met Sinclair at theFaculty of the Psychology of Older People conference in Birmingham in 2000, where he was giving a talk onfrontotemporal dementia. This was in the days before PowerPoint and Sinclair was struggling with a projector, but it quickly became apparent that he was more than able to talk about the subject without the slides.Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - May 16, 2018 Category: Science Authors: Chris Allen Tags: Dementia Psychology Older people Scotland Source Type: news

Medical marijuana could save my daughter's life | Margaret Storey
My child doesn't want to get high, she wants to get better. She can't do that while weed remains criminalized in most of the USMy 10-year-old daughter has big blue eyes and is a serious fan of the Chicago Blackhawks. She loves music, fairy tales, and driving under city streetlights at night. She also cannot walk, talk or feed herself, thanks to the uncontrolled seizures that have resisted all attempts at treatment since she was three months old. Every day, she is at risk of SUDEP, or Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy.Just in the last year, something truly promising has appeared on the horizon for her and other children w...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - January 25, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Margaret Storey Tags: Comment theguardian.com United States Children Health Medical research Drugs Epilepsy Drugs policy Medicine Comment is free Source Type: news

Carlos Juan Finlay: Cuban physician celebrated in Google doodle
Cuban physician and scientist, who would have been 180 today, developed theory that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoesGoogle's latest doodle celebrates the birthday of Carlos Finlay, the Cuban physician and scientist who theorised that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoes.Of French and Scottish descent, Finlay was born in 1833 in Puerto Príncipe, now the Cuban city of Camagüey, and studied at Jefferson medical college in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He finished his studies in Havana and Paris before settling in Cuba to open a medical practice.Finlay was appointed by the Cuban government in 1879 to work with a North Am...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 3, 2013 Category: Science Tags: theguardian.com Search engines Google doodle Biology World news Medical research Technology Internet Science Source Type: news

COP19: the UN's climate talks proved to be just another cop out
The idea that a meaningful agreement can be forced upon countries is farcical, writes Joseph Zammit-Lucia, we need co-operation on achievable policiesPredictably, COP19 in Warsaw has achieved little. Maybe the biggest achievement is that is has now become abundantly clear that the prospects are now close to zero that a meaningful legally binding, global agreement on carbon emissions will be signed in Paris in 2015.Of course, some agreement may well be signed to enable all to claim success. But that can only happen if a form of words can be found to make such an agreement largely meaningless. As famously said by Geoffrey Ho...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 2, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Comment Collaboration Guardian Professional Climate change Sustainability COP 19: UN climate change conference Warsaw Guardian sustainable business Leadership Source Type: news

Music gives people a voice when words fail them at the end of their lives | Bob Heath
A music therapist describes how improvising songs can open a vital channel of communication in palliative careAll that was dear to me, down below the seaI cannot hold this piece of driftwoodWhen life abandons meLiz, a patient at the Sobell House hospice, 2013In palliative care, when clients and their therapists get to know one another they do so with a shared knowledge, whether voiced or not, that while both of them are going to die eventually, at least one of them is going to be doing it very soon.The relationship between client and therapist is always unique. And whatever you may think about "therapy", all (or most) of i...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 5, 2013 Category: Science Tags: Psychology theguardian.com Music Health Medical research & wellbeing Society Life and style Editorial Science Source Type: news

If only a Scotsman had boldly gone… | Kevin McKenna
The UK Space Conference opens in Glasgow this week – where better to hold it with all these UFOs around?Like many Scots, I am proud of my country's role in Earth's understanding of outer space. When it first dawned on me as a child that the most important member of Captain James T Kirk's Starship Enterprise was Scottish, I was bursting with pride. Neither do you get to have names such as Neil Armstrong or John Glenn unless there is a significant quotient of Scots blood in you. And when it was revealed many years later that Obi-Wan Kenobi too was Scottish, well… our place in cosmology was finally secured. There have eve...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 13, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Kevin McKenna Tags: Comment UFOs Star Trek UK news Scotland The Observer Space Comment is free Source Type: news