Electrical Stimulation as a Basis for Some Forms of Compensatory Therapy for Age-Related Degeneration
In conclusion, what we demonstrated is that electrical stimulation, which can be applied to people that cannot carry out normal physical activity, modulates similar factors associated with physical exercise. All of these data might help to design therapeutic strategies to counteract muscle atrophy associated with aging. (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - March 9, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
Microglia Play an Important Role in Neuroplasticity
Specialized components of the immune system present in the brain, such as microglia, are integral to many of the processes involved in or degraded by neurodegenerative conditions. For example, microglia may be a primary cause of the chronic inflammation found in older brain tissue, and which contributes to the pathology of a range of conditions, including Alzheimer's disease. The study noted here focuses on a different aspect of the role of microglia, a way in which they participate in the normal operation of the brain in conjunction with neurons: the researchers involved show that microglia play a necessary role in alteri...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 7, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Safe Sport – Protecting the Players and the Game
Rugby and contact sport has always been a part of my life; from the junior rugby fields where organizing young children is like herding cats, to university rugby with post game beers and weekly rejection from the blondes of the ladies hockey team. I’ve always been passionate about sport but now as I’m aging and no longer finding difficulty putting on weight, I’m noticing a different aspect to it; in particular, a large change in the way we prepare and our awareness of participant safety.
Many of us will be able to name some disasters in sport. One of the most high profile in the last few years would have to be Phill...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 23, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Johnny Iliff Tags: Pre-hospital / Retrieval Sports Medicine Concussion ICIR ICIS Petr Čech pitch-side care Safe Sport sport triage Source Type: blogs
Advanced Cooling Therapy Releases New Temperature Modulation Device
Advanced Cooling Therapy (ACT), a medical device firm, has expanded personnel in its commercial launch of the Esophageal Cooling Device (ECD).
“The ECD is the first device on the market cleared for temperature modulation via the esophagus. This enables efficient core-cooling, or core-warming, without the complexity and risks associated with intravascular catheter placement, and without the obstruction of patient access seen with surface pads and wraps,” said Robin Drassler, the vice president of North American sales.
The device is placed like a standard gastric tube, making placement quick. Placement requir...
Source: Technology & Inventions - November 20, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Advanced Cooling Therapy Releases New Temperature Modulation Device
Advanced Cooling Therapy (ACT), a medical device firm, has expanded personnel in its commercial launch of the Esophageal Cooling Device (ECD).
“The ECD is the first device on the market cleared for temperature modulation via the esophagus. This enables efficient core-cooling, or core-warming, without the complexity and risks associated with intravascular catheter placement, and without the obstruction of patient access seen with surface pads and wraps,” said Robin Drassler, the vice president of North American sales.
The device is placed like a standard gastric tube, making placement quick. Placement ...
Source: Technology & Inventions - November 20, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Cervical fractures
I had a friend that broke his cervical 2 vertebrae. He has to wear a halo device for at least 3 months, and possibly up to a year! There are seven cervical vertebrae in the neck that support your head and connect it to the shoulders and body. A fracture (break or crack) in one of the cervical vertebrae is called a cervical fracture or sometimes, a broken neck. A broken neck is defined as a fracture in one or more of the seven vertebrae that make up the neck. Most people think a broken neck is a catastrophic injury resulting in paralysis. While this is true in far too many cases, the severity of this injury can actually ...
Source: Nursing Comments - November 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Authors: Stephanie Jewett, RN Tags: Advice/Education Caregiving General Public Home/Articles Nursing/Nursing Students Patients/Specific Diseases broken neck C-2 facture cannot move head cervical fracture cervical fractures cervical spine fracture cervicalspine fractu Source Type: blogs
Shaken Baby Syndrome or Death by Vaccine? Doctor Speaks Out…
Conclusion
Head and spinal cord injury consistent with non-accidental injury.” (emphasis added)
Comment from Dr. Innis
“There is no conflict with Dr. Al-Sarraj’s findings, but it is the interpretation of those findings which I dispute. He is evidently prepared to review his interpretation if further information becomes available and I would like to draw his attention to the fact that Amelia had biochemical as well as anatomical abnormalities. The biochemical diagnoses of hyperglycaemia, glycosuria, coagulation abnormality (INR 1,3, APTT 39.6) all suggest she was suffering from an autoimmune disorder tissue scurvy, [1...
Source: vactruth.com - October 27, 2015 Category: Allergy & Immunology Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Human Top Stories Adverse Reaction Darryl Elliot ischemic encephalopathy Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) truth about vaccines Vaccine Death Source Type: blogs
The Expanding Store of Human Knowledge
The store of human knowledge continues to expand and so do the incremental improvements of our lives. Here are some of the stories that caught my eye last week:
Deleting genes could boost lifespan by 60 percent, say scientists
Scientists believe that making small tweaks to our genes could dramatically increase our lifespans. Experiments on yeast cells have identified 238 genes that increased lifespan when silenced. Since we share many of same genes, the next important task will be to identify similar genes in human beings. One of the candidates for future research is LOS1 – a gene linked to calorie restriction that could...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - October 13, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Marian L. Tupy Source Type: blogs
Combining EEG, Electrical Stimulation, and Physical Therapy to Bypass Spinal Cord Injury
The research noted here is a good example here of inventively combining presently available technologies to achieve a positive result. The scientists involved have demonstrated a way to work around paralysis following spinal cord injury to allow physical activity. It is interesting to consider that this result could probably have been achieved twenty or more years ago had someone put in the effort. We should all no doubt ask ourselves what else could be achieved today in medicine, and doesn't exist simply because no-one has yet tried in earnest, or assembled the right building blocks in the right way:
The ability to walk ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 24, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Immediate care in sport – time for a change
How confident would you be if you are taken out of your emergency room and transported to be pitchside caring for a critically injured athlete? Your only medical equipment is strapped to your waist in a small bag; you have a physio with you, there are no other Doctors, no nurses and no little red button to press for help. There are twenty thousand people watching you at the ground and you are live on the sports channel with a further million people watching on…
Time critical limb injury
The days of finding a local Doctor who happens to be nearby or a relative of the players to “cover a game” are over. Medical...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 8, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Fraser Brims Tags: Sports Medicine ICIR ICIS Immediate care Pitchside sport medicine Trauma Source Type: blogs
Generating Oligodendrocytes to Spur Remyelination
This study and previous ones have found that loss of NFIX could also increase the growth of adult neural stem cells, which, in turn, generate new neurons in adult animals. "This could also help us find ways to stimulate new neuron production in diseases where neurons die, such as in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and in spinal cord injury." The researchers' next step is to learn which genes are regulated by NFIX, and the best way to promote this increase in both oligodendrocytes and neural stem cells.
Link: http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2015/08/018.html (Source: Fight Aging!)
Source: Fight Aging! - August 24, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
Should you bank your baby ’ s umbilical cord blood?
The promising field of stem cell research is prompting more and more parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood for possible use in treating future disease. Cord blood is rich in blood-forming stem cells and is currently used in transplants for some patients with leukemia, lymphoma, immune deficiencies and inherited metabolic disorders. Most infusions come from unrelated donors, partly because of concerns that receiving one’s own defective cells may cause the same diseases to return.
Now, early research shows that cord blood may be able to safely regenerate other types of cells in the body, fueling optimism ...
Source: Cord Blood News - August 20, 2015 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Joyce Tags: babies brain development Cord Blood medical research parents pregnancy stem cells Uncategorized affordable cord blood banking bone marrow transplant cerebral palsy cord blood banking fees cord blood cost cord blood transplant l Source Type: blogs
Texas Regulators Bark Up the Wrong Tree
For almost 50 years, Dr. Ronald Hines has been a licensed veterinarian in Texas. After a spinal cord injury prevented him from continuing to provide in-person services, Dr. Hines started a website to provide advice on pet care. He never tried to be an animal’s primary veterinarian—he noted a disclaimer to that effect—and did not prescribe medication.
After a decade of such practice without any complaints or problems, the Texas State Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners charged Dr. Hines with violating state law by failing to be physically present at the location of the pets before providing veterinary services....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 27, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro Source Type: blogs
Summer is a busy season for trauma anesthesiologists
A guest column by the American Society of Anesthesiologists, exclusive to KevinMD.com.
Summer is immortalized in popular culture for good reasons — no other season can match it for the variety of fun and exciting activities it brings. Unfortunately, that variety of activities and the large volume of people enjoying them inevitably lead to accidents and mishaps of all kinds. The summer months (May through August) show a significant increase in unintentional injury and deaths, particularly for those aged 0 to 14 years. Thankfully, there are many skilled people always at the ready to treat the injured. Trauma anesthesio...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - July 15, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Maureen McCunn, MD and Karla Villacin, MD Tags: Physician Emergency Surgery Source Type: blogs
