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Opera singer Eric Jordan sings his way through stroke recovery process
One early morning in September 2012, Eric Jordan was awakened by the cries of his 20-month-old son — and that kept him from dying in his sleep. As he tried to go to his child, Jordan fell to the floor, paralyzed. The opera singer would soon learn that he had undergone a severe stroke that...
Source: L.A. Times - Health - October 24, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Transcriptomic Analysis of Mecp2 Mutant Mice Reveals Differentially Expressed Genes and Altered Mechanisms in Both Blood and Brain
This study was carried out in accordance with the recommendations of National Animal Welfare Authority, Ireland. The protocol was approved by the Animal Ethical Committee Trinity College Dublin and HPRA.Author ContributionsAS performed the experiments and wrote the paper; KH provided assistance in the design and analysis of the RNAseq experiment; DT contributed to sample extraction and establishment of the colony; and DT and MG designed and supervised all the parts of the research and the writing of the manuscript.FundingThe study was funded by the Wellcome Trust Grant WT079408/C/06/Z issued to MG, and by an SFI FN Funded ...
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - April 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Pediatric COVID-19 Cases Are Surging, Pushing Hospitals —and Health Care Workers—to Their Breaking Points
Aug. 20 was a good day in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital New Orleans. Carvase Perrilloux, a two-month-old baby who’d come in about a week earlier with respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19, was finally ready to breathe without the ventilator keeping his tiny body alive. “You did it!” nurses in PPE cooed as they removed the tube from his airway and he took his first solo gasp, bare toes kicking. Downstairs, Quintetta Edwards was preparing for her 17-year-old son, Nelson Alexis III, to be discharged after spending more than two weeks in the hospital with COVID-19—fir...
Source: TIME: Health - August 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme/New Orleans, La. Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news

IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 12059: Determinants of COVID-19 Outcome as Predictors of Delayed Healthcare Services among Adults & ge;50 Years during the Pandemic: 2006 & ndash;2020 Health and Retirement Study
Conclusion: Among older adults, sex, education and depressive symptoms are key predictors of delayed healthcare services attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic. Delays in surgical and non-surgical healthcare services may have distinct predictors, with non-surgical delays more frequently observed among individuals with a history of 1 or 2 cardiovascular and/or metabolic conditions.
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - September 23, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Hind A. Beydoun May A. Beydoun Brook T. Alemu Jordan Weiss Sharmin Hossain Rana S. Gautam Alan B. Zonderman Tags: Article Source Type: research