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Experience Journal: Growing up with cerebral palsy
Cerebral palsy (CP) is the most common physical disability of childhood. The term CP is an umbrella term for a group of disorders that affect body movement and posture as a result of damage to a baby’s developing brain. There are many causes for CP, but all occur either during pregnancy, birth or shortly after birth. Common causes include differences in brain development, infection or stroke. Oxygen deprivation is accountable for only a small percentage of cases of CP; often, the cause is unknown. Although CP is a lifelong condition that can’t be reversed, children with the diagnosis can lead rich, fulfilling lives wit...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - March 18, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Erin Horan Tags: Experience Journal Cerebral Palsy Program Source Type: news

NICE greenlights clot removal procedure for use on NHS
NICE has approved a procedure for use on the NHS that uses a mechanical device to remove clots from stroke patients.
Source: NHS Networks - March 1, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

If You Eat Any Fruits Or Vegetables At All, You're Doing Better Than Half Of America
If you’re feeling down about how you eat, consider this: if you eat about one cup of fruit and more than 1.5 cups of vegetables a day, you’re actually eating better than about half of all Americans. If you eat 1.5 cups of fruit (the recommended serving size for an adult), you’re doing better than more than three-fourths of Americans. And if you eat two cups of vegetables a day (another recommended serving size), that’s better than almost 90 percent of your neighbors. We say this not to put down our fellow Americans, but to point out that eating more fruits and vegetables is linked to lower rate...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 29, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Fewer patients die with more nurses on ward
It’s unwise to keep substituting nurses with healthcare support workers, shows researchRelated items from OnMedicaHospitals in England are struggling to recruit enough nursesNursing associates must not be ‘nurses on the cheap’ We don’t have enough time to care for patients, say nursesWeekend nursing ratios hit stroke mortalityMinimum staff ratios needed in A&E, NICE recommends
Source: OnMedica Latest News - February 10, 2016 Category: UK Health Source Type: news

Women have more empathy, but do even we care any more? | Christina Patterson
People are becoming more self-centred, says new research. The shocking death of Louise Wolstenholme suggests this may be truePsychopaths don’t yawn. They might yawn when they’re tired, or bored, or when the conversation switches to a subject that isn’t linked to them, but when other people yawn, psychopaths don’t. They don’t yawn because they don’t give a monkey’s what other people feel.In this they are different to orangutans, which apparently laugh when another orangutan laughs; and from elephants, which use their trunks to stroke an elephant in pain. They are different to macaque monkeys, which make an eff...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 5, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Christina Patterson Tags: Psychology Science UK news Society Source Type: news

A roadmap to improve the quality of atrial fibrillation management: proceedings from the fifth Atrial Fibrillation Network/European Heart Rhythm Association consensus conference
This report ends with a list of priorities for research in AF patients.
Source: Europace - February 3, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Kirchhof, P., Breithardt, G., Bax, J., Benninger, G., Blomstrom-Lundqvist, C., Boriani, G., Brandes, A., Brown, H., Brueckmann, M., Calkins, H., Calvert, M., Christoffels, V., Crijns, H., Dobrev, D., Ellinor, P., Fabritz, L., Fetsch, T., Freedman, S. B., Tags: EHRA CONSENSUS STATEMENT Source Type: research

NICE consulting on possible new indicators for stroke
Source: PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News - February 1, 2016 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news

Arguments favoring low versus high dose aspirin in the prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism
The use of aspirin in the prevention of venous thromboembolism (VTE) is still controversial. In a profound review on the use of aspirin for primary and secondary prevention of venous thromboembolism and other cardiovascular disorders Cohen et al. [1] conclude that the benefits of aspirin are well documented for conditions like myocardial infarction, coronary heart disease, and stroke, but less clearly for prevention of VTE after orthopedic surgery. The latter indistinctness has been a matter of concern in many earlier reviews and meta-analyses, and has even led to non-uniform guidelines on VTE prevention from the American ...
Source: Thrombosis Research - January 27, 2016 Category: Hematology Authors: Piet Borgdorff, Geert Jan Tangelder Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research

Rivaroxaban for Preventing Atherothrombotic Events in People with Acute Coronary Syndrome and Elevated Cardiac Biomarkers: An Evidence Review Group Perspective of a NICE Single Technology Appraisal
Abstract As part of its Single Technology Appraisal process, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) invited the company that manufactures rivaroxaban (Xarelto, Bayer) to submit evidence of the clinical and cost effectiveness of rivaroxaban for the prevention of adverse outcomes in patients after the acute management of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The School of Health and Related Research Technology Appraisal Group at the University of Sheffield was commissioned to act as the independent Evidence Review Group (ERG). The ERG produced a critical review of the evidence for the clinical and cos...
Source: PharmacoEconomics - December 21, 2015 Category: Health Management Source Type: research

Persistent (patent) foramen ovale (PFO): implications for safe diving.
Authors: Germonpré P Abstract Diving medicine is a peculiar specialty. There are physicians and scientists from a wide variety of disciplines with an interest in diving and who all practice 'diving medicine': the study of the complex whole-body physiological changes and interactions upon immersion and emersion. To understand these, the science of physics and molecular gas and fluid movements comes into play. The ultimate goal of practicing diving medicine is to preserve the diver's health, both during and after the dive. Good medicine starts with prevention. For most divers, underwater excursions are not a profess...
Source: Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine - December 11, 2015 Category: Sports Medicine Tags: Diving Hyperb Med Source Type: research

Updated NICE guidelines on the management of type 2 diabetes in adults
Updated NICE guidelines stress the need for individualising care for people with type 2 diabetes, and include new recommendations on managing blood glucose, effective drug treatments and lifestyle interventions. The vast majority of people who have diabetes have type 2 diabetes, a form of the condition that tends to appear in people over 40, but that is increasingly being seen in younger people due to rising obesity levels. The condition is also common among people from people from African, African Caribbean and South Asian family origins. It can result in blindness, kidney failure, premature heart disease strok...
Source: Society for Endocrinology - December 2, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Source Type: news

How Gratitude Can Benefit Your Physical Health All Year Long
Now that we're officially in the holiday season, generosity and gratitude reign supreme. We're altruistic because we're motivated at this time of year to support others who are less fortunate, and we express thanks for those who have extended similar kindness to us. And honestly, why wouldn't we want to tap into this sort of holiday spirit? Both generosity and gratitude have an incredible influence on our emotional health. When we practice them, we're happier, more optimistic and have a lower risk for depression and anxiety. New research also shows that gift giving reflects how we feel about others and could give more...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 23, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Nov 20 Cardiology NewsNov 20 Cardiology News
Watchman CMS proposal, NICE proposal on evolocumab in the UK, cryptogenic stroke, disclosing genetic risk of future CHD, and coffee intake are the topics for this week's podcast from Dr John Mandrola. theheart.org on Medscape
Source: Medscape Cardiology Headlines - November 20, 2015 Category: Cardiology Tags: Cardiology News Source Type: news

Healing through music
The last time I had a mammogram, I got a big surprise — and it was a good one. A string quartet was playing just outside the doors of the breast imaging center, and my thoughts immediately shifted from “What are they going to find on the mammogram?” to “Is that Schubert, or Beethoven?” By the time my name was called, I had almost forgotten why I was there. The unexpected concert was the work of Holly Chartrand and Lorrie Kubicek, music therapists and co-coordinators of the Environmental Music Program at Massachusetts General Hospital. But bringing music to hospital corridors is just a sideline for music therapist...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - November 5, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Beverly Merz Tags: Behavioral Health Mental Health Pain Management Surgery Source Type: news

Riding to the Storm: Behind the Scenes Hassles of Stem Cell Research Funding
When my paralyzed son Roman Reed told me, he was going on a little trip, I said, "Oh, that's nice!", and went on with my chores. I figured he meant a couple-hour jaunt from Fremont to Sacramento, something like that, no big deal. But his mother Gloria is more suspicious than I am, and managed to wheedle out of him that the "little trip" involved California, Texas, Alabama, and Louisiana--and that he would be driving all the way. Complicating matters was a massive storm heading in, perhaps the most powerful ever recorded in this hemisphere... "That's why I have to go right now," he said, with perfect Roman logic. Some might...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 28, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news