Understanding the Effects of Inflammation over time in Humans: Lessons from Psoriasis
Inflammation is critical to atherosclerosis initiation, progression and complications. The goal of The Laboratory of Inflammation and Cardiometabolic Diseases at the NHLBI Intramural Program is to understand how chronic systemic inflammation drives development of cardiometabolic diseases in humans. For the past decade, Dr. Mehta ’ s research program has utilized psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease, as a model to probe inflammatory, lipid and metabolic pathways associated with atherosclerosis progression. In 2012, Dr. Mehta founded the Psoriasis Atherosclerosis Cardiometabolic Initiative (PACI) at the NHLBI Int...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 18, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Human Oncogenic Viruses: Nature and Discovery
This is the annual George Khoury Lecture. Speaker Yuan Chang, M.D., University of Pittsburgh, performs basic and applied research on viral oncogenesis with efforts focused in the following three areas. Merkel cell carcinoma and Merkel cell polyomavirus: We recently discovered a new human polyomavirus, that we call Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV). This virus is etiologically associated with a rare, but one of the most clinically aggressive skin cancers in humans. We are currently involved in the primary characteristics of this virus including transcript mapping, transforming properties, origin replication, transmission, and ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 10, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Microneedle patch
Engineers have developed a microneedle patch that can be applied to the skin, capture a biomarker of interest from interstitial fluid and allow clinicians to detect its presence due to its unprecedented sensitivity.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant CBET ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - January 30, 2021 Category: Science Source Type: video
Demystifying Medicine - Viruses and Immunodeficiency and Skin Microbiome
Demystifying Medicine Lecture Series
How do virus and other pathogens penetrate the fortress that is human skin? What tricks do they use to slip past the guards? How do they compromise the immune system, and how do they take advantage of and reveal inherited immunodeficiency? These are the topics of the next Demystifying Medicine.
Philip Murphy, M.D., is chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Molecular Immunology and its Molecular Signaling Section. His laboratory studies G protein-coupled receptors of the immune system with the goal of elucidating mechanisms by which the receptors relay chemotactic signals to cells and identify...
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 29, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIAMS Advisory Council - January 2021
103rd MEETING NATIONAL ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES ADVISORY COUNCIL, Robert H. Carter, M.D., Chair, January 26, 2021, Held via ZoomFor more information go tohttp://www.niams.nih.gov/About_Us/Committees/council_roster.aspAir date: 1/26/2021 9:30:00 AM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - January 12, 2021 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Researchers have designed a skin-like device to help ALS patients communicate.
Researchers have designed a skin-like device that can measure small facial movements in patients who have lost the ability to speak. Using this approach, patients could communicate a variety of sentiments using small movements that are analyzed by a handheld processing unit. The work was led by ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - November 13, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
Researchers have designed a skin-like device that can measure small facial movements in ALS patients
Researchers have designed a stretchable, skin-like device that can be attached to a patient’s face and can measure small movements such as a twitch or a smile. Using this approach, patients with ALS, for example, could communicate customizable messages and a variety of sentiments, such as “I love ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - November 12, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
Changing landscape of digital dermatology
Gavin Matthews, UK business development director at SkinVision, explains how smartphones can help detect skin conditions. (Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos)
Source: Healthcare ITNews Videos - October 20, 2020 Category: Information Technology Tags: Medical Devices Telehealth Source Type: video
NIH HEAL Initiative Workshop on Myofascial Pain (Day 2)
It is estimated that 30 to 85 percent of patients with musculoskeletal pain are affected by myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) — pain originating from muscles and/or associated soft tissues such as fascia. Interactions between fascia and muscles remain mostly unknown and there is a strong need to address the contributions of the myofascial tissues to chronic pain. This represents one of the last “ unturned stones ” of all the tissue types involved in musculoskeletal pain. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering are proud to join forc...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 4, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH HEAL Initiative Workshop on Myofascial Pain (Day 1)
It is estimated that 30 to 85 percent of patients with musculoskeletal pain are affected by myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) — pain originating from muscles and/or associated soft tissues such as fascia. Interactions between fascia and muscles remain mostly unknown and there is a strong need to address the contributions of the myofascial tissues to chronic pain. This represents one of the last “ unturned stones ” of all the tissue types involved in musculoskeletal pain. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering are proud to join forc...
Source: Videocast - All Events - August 4, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH HEAL Myofascial Pain Workshop (Day 2)
It is estimated that 30 to 85 percent of patients with musculoskeletal pain are affected by myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) — pain originating from muscles and/or associated soft tissues such as fascia. Interactions between fascia and muscles remain mostly unknown and there is a strong need to address the contributions of the myofascial tissues to chronic pain. This represents one of the last “ unturned stones ” of all the tissue types involved in musculoskeletal pain. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering are proud to join forc...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 30, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
NIH HEAL Myofascial Pain Workshop (Day 1)
It is estimated that 30 to 85 percent of patients with musculoskeletal pain are affected by myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) — pain originating from muscles and/or associated soft tissues such as fascia. Interactions between fascia and muscles remain mostly unknown and there is a strong need to address the contributions of the myofascial tissues to chronic pain. This represents one of the last “ unturned stones ” of all the tissue types involved in musculoskeletal pain. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health and the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering are proud to join forc...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 30, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Optical tactile finger
Researchers at Columbia University Engineering developed an optical tactile finger, shown here without skin to illustrate its operation, with a sense of touch.
[Research supported by National Science Foundation grants IIS 1551631 and CMMI 1734557.]
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Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - May 29, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
The Case for BK Polyomavirus as a Cause of Bladder Cancer
NCI ’ s Center for Cancer Research (CCR) Grand Rounds
Dr. Buck ’ s lab studies polyomaviruses. A great majority of healthy adults chronically shed
polyomavirus virions in their urine and from the surface of their skin. Although these lifelong infections generally aren't known to cause symptoms in healthy individuals, under conditions of immune impairment polyomaviruses can cause disease. For example, BK polyomavirus (BKV) causes kidney and bladder damage in organ transplant patients, while its close relative JCV causes a lethal brain disease in patients on immunosuppressive therapies and in individuals suffering from ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 2, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Medicalizing Blackness: Lessons from the American Atlantic and Antebellum Worlds
will highlight how white physicians in the Americas generated ideas about racial difference that were rooted in the body. The process through which physicians transformed race into a function of physiology was gradual, messy and at times contradictory. Indeed, part of this process, involved the medicalization of blackness, a phrase I use to show physicians in slaveholding societies in the Americas defined blackness as a surrogate marker of difference to stabilize and reify racial differences. More to the point, the medicalization of blackness, resulted in the creation of a corpus of knowledge about black people ’ s bodi...
Source: Videocast - All Events - December 6, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
