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Thalamic pain alleviated by stellate ganglion block: A case report
Rationale: Thalamic pain is a distressing and treatment-resistant type of central post-stroke pain. Although stellate ganglion block is an established intervention used in pain management, its use in the treatment of thalamic pain has never been reported. Patient concerns: A 66-year-old woman presented with a 3-year history of severe intermittent lancinating pain on the right side of the face and the right hand. The pain started from the ulnar side of the right forearm after a mild ischemic stroke in bilateral basal ganglia and left thalamus. Weeks later, the pain extended to the dorsum of the finger tips and the whole pa...
Source: Medicine - February 1, 2017 Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Research Article: Clinical Case Report Source Type: research

Lessons Learned From Trends in Insufficient Sleep Across the United States
This article originally appeared on the Amerisleep blog. Rosie Osmun is the Creative Content Manager at Amerisleep, a progressive memory foam mattress brand focused on eco-friendly sleep solutions. Rosie writes more posts on the Amerisleep blog about the science of sleep, eco-friendly living, leading a healthy lifestyle and more. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 16, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Predict and Prevent: The Emergence of Real-Time Sensor-Based Care
Technology industry veteran Eran Ofir knows there is a lot of luck involved in successfully bringing a new device, especially one designed to create a new treatment vector, to market. Ofir is the CEO and co-founder of New York-based Somatix, which uses wrist-worn sensor data to dynamically monitor a person's situation. Used in conjunction with cloud-based computing resources and a communications device, the technology is capable of dynamically helping someone quit smoking, through detecting smoking gestures and automatically sending messages to the user encouraging them not to smoke. "We got lucky on two fronts," Ofir said...
Source: MDDI - December 19, 2018 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Greg Goth Tags: Digital Health Source Type: news

Light-Induced Pupillary Responses in Alzheimer's Disease
Light-Induced Pupillary Responses in Alzheimer's Disease Pratik S. Chougule1, Raymond P. Najjar1,2, Maxwell T. Finkelstein1, Nagaendran Kandiah3,4 and Dan Milea1,2,5* 1Department of Visual Neurosciences, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore, Singapore 2The Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences ACP, Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS) Medical School, Singapore, Singapore 3Department of Neurology, National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore, Singapore 4Duke-National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore 5Singapore National Eye Centre, Singapore, Singapore The impact of Alzhe...
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - April 11, 2019 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

A Prospective Intervention to Increase Goals of Care Conversations with Hospitalized Patients Suffering Severe Stroke (Sci204)
1. Through analyzing the process and results of an intervention to increase documented goals-of-care conversations, participants will self-report the ability to apply lessons learned to their clinical practice.2. Participants will self-report the ability to define goals-of-care conversation domains and the ability to demonstrate and integrate these domains within clinical practice.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - April 14, 2023 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Amber R. Comer, Shilpee Sinha, Laura Tormoehlen, Lyle Fettig, Stephanie L. Bartlett, Lynn E. D'Cruz, Veronica R. Kassab, Xochitl G. Rivera-Cordova, Leigh Anderson, Lindsay Schroeder, James Slaven, Alexia Torke Source Type: research