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Stem Cell Tourism and Patient Education
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;"><span style="line-height: 19.0400009155273px;">What is the role of public education and stem cell tourism? What type of education is available to patients, caregivers and the public? Can public education actually change people’s minds such that they won’t undergo an unproven stem cell-based intervention (SCBI)? These are the questions I will discuss here. But first, let’s just give a brief description of stem cell tourism and outline some of the proposals discussed to stop this industry.</span></p>...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 23, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Hayley Dittus-Doria Tags: Health Care Patient Education stem cell tourism syndicated Source Type: blogs

How Neural Stem Cells Help to Repair Damage
Researchers have identified a novel mechanism by which neural stem cells can help to repair and assist other brain cells: Stem cells hold great promise as a means of repairing cells in conditions such as multiple sclerosis, stroke or injuries of the spinal cord because they have the ability to develop into almost any cell type. Now, new research shows that stem cell therapy can also work through a mechanism other than cell replacement. A team of researchers [has] shown that stem cells "communicate" with cells by transferring molecules via fluid filled bags called vesicles, helping other cells to modify the damaging immune...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 19, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Podcast: Botox Injections for Medical Conditions
In this episode of the Sarasota Neurology Podcast, Dr. Kassicieh, a recognized expert in clinical Botox, provides an overview of current techniques for treating dystonia, muscle spasm (which may be associated with pain), spasticity from stroke or brain injury with Botox. Share url : embed : × ...
Source: Sarasota Neurology - August 20, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: Dan Kassicieh, D.O. Tags: Botox Movement Disorders Pain Podcast Stroke Botox injections cerebral clinical dystonia FDA headaches migraine spasm spinal cord Source Type: blogs

Digging Into the Biochemistry of Lizard Tail Regeneration
Many lower species are far more proficient at regeneration than mammals. Some tiny creatures like hydra are enormously capable regenerators, and may even be so good at it that they are effectively ageless. But the simple strategy of "regenerate and replace everything, all the time" is most likely inapplicable to higher organisms that need to maintain the complex fine structure of the brain and central nervous system: a sweeping regeneration of much of the brain would most likely be equivalent to death for mammals, erasing the data of the mind and disrupting other structures and relationships necessary for moment to moment ...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 20, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Be Careful Where You Send Your ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Donation
You have no doubt seen a video of a friend on Facebook being doused with buckets of ice water. What would possess a human being to do something so chilling? It is the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money and awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), often called Lou Gehrig's Disease. ALS is a devastating, progressive neurodegenerative disease that is fatal and has no cure. Here is how Ice Bucket Challenge works. People video themselves getting doused with ice water then share that video on social media. They challenge others to do the same in the next 24 hours. If anyone rejects the challenge they are encouraged to...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - August 15, 2014 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Stem cells, Fetal Source Type: blogs

Recent News in Stem Cell Research
The rejuvenation toolkit of the near future must include ways to replace some populations of cells. The ones you might be familiar with are immune cells and some populations of long-lived cells that tend to diminish over time such as the dopamine generating neurons whose loss leads to Parkinson's disease and certain cells in the retina essential to vision. The situation for stem cell research is somewhat different to that of much of the rest of the scientific effort needed to bring degenerative aging under medical control and prevent all age-related disease. There is no real lack of funding for one: it is a very energetic,...
Source: Fight Aging! - August 8, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

Intense Heat, Mosquitos, and Unsafe Drinking Water Test EP in Haiti
By Jon Virkler, MD Arrival in Haiti was a stark contrast from departure in Miami. I had my passport scanned by an electronic sensor and rode two moving sidewalks and a train to gate D55 in Miami. I deplaned in Haiti at one of the two gates at the only international airport in the country, walked down the steps from the airplane onto the tarmac, and got onto a standing-room-only bus that took us to customs. Our bags arrived on the only baggage carousel in the airport. The airport in Haiti. We left the airport as a group, and fought through the throng of porters hoping for a tip of one or two American d...
Source: Going Global - August 5, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs

Intense Heat, Mosquitos, and Unsafe Drinking Water Test EP in Haiti
By Jon Virkler, MD Arrival in Haiti was a stark contrast from departure in Miami. I had my passport scanned by an electronic sensor and rode two moving sidewalks and a train to gate D55 in Miami. I deplaned in Haiti at one of the two gates at the only international airport in the country, walked down the steps from the airplane onto the tarmac, and got onto a standing-room-only bus that took us to customs. Our bags arrived on the only baggage carousel in the airport. The airport in Haiti. We left the airport as a group, and fought through the throng of porters hoping for a tip of one or two American dollars, p...
Source: Going Global - August 5, 2014 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs

Restoring Function in Spinal Cord Injury
Researchers are making progress on a variety of ways to encourage nerve regrowth in mammals where it normally doesn't occur, such as in the aftermath of spinal injuries: A therapy combining salmon fibrin injections into the spinal cord and injections of a gene inhibitor into the brain restored voluntary motor function impaired by spinal cord injury. In a study on rodents, [researchers] achieved this breakthrough by turning back the developmental clock in a molecular pathway critical to the formation of corticospinal tract nerve connections and providing a scaffold so that neuronal axons at the injury site could grow and l...
Source: Fight Aging! - July 25, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Free-Standing Emergency Rooms; A New Type of Healthcare Facility
Free-standing emergency rooms seem to be emerging as a new category of healthcare facilities, at least in New York City. This according to a recent article about this trend (see: E.R., Not a Hospital, Is Set to Open at St. Vincent’s Site). Below is an excerpt from the article: The shiplike building on Seventh Avenue that used to house part of St. Vincent's Hospital is reopening in the coming days as a stand-alone emergency room and medical care center....The new E.R. [called HealthPlex], however, is part of a trend that has as much to do with a hospital’s bottom line as it does with providing acute care. Free-stand...
Source: Lab Soft News - July 21, 2014 Category: Pathologists Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Cost of Healthcare Healthcare Delivery Medical Consumerism Source Type: blogs

Clot-building nanoparticles raise survival rate following blast trauma Read more: Clot-building nanoparticles raise survival rate following blast trauma
A type of artificial platelet being developed to help natural blood platelets form clots faster offers promise for saving the lives of soldiers, as well as victims of car crashes and other severe trauma.In preclinical tests led by a Case Western Reserve University researcher, the artificial platelets, called "hemostatic nanoparticles," when injected after blast trauma dramatically increased survival rates and showed no signs of interfering with healing or causing other complications weeks afterward."The nanoparticles have a huge impact on survival—not just in the short term, but in the long term," said Erin Lavik, an ass...
Source: Medical Hemostat - June 30, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hemostatguy at gmail.com (hemostat guy) Source Type: blogs

Mystery Solved: Which Patients Are Good Candidates For Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation?
Occupational Therapy Environment, Saint Luke's Hospital, WA For most physicians who practice inpatient medicine, acute inpatient rehabilitation facilities are mysterious places with inscrutable admissions criteria. This is partly because physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) has done the poorest job of public relations of any single medical specialty (Does anyone know what we do?), and also because rehab units have been in the cross hairs of federal funding cuts for decades. The restrictive CMS criteria for inpatient rehabilitation have resulted in contortionist attempts to practice our craft in an environmen...
Source: Better Health - June 16, 2014 Category: American Health Authors: Dr. Val Jones Tags: Health Policy Health Tips 60% Rule Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation Acute Rehab Admissions Coordinator Admissions Criteria Admissions Guidance ARF ARU Case Manager CMS Hospitalists Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation PM&R Rule Source Type: blogs

Researchers generate new neurons in brains, spinal cords of living adult mammals
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers created new nerve cells in the brains and spinal cords of living mammals without the need for stem cell transplants to replenish lost cells. Although the research indicates it may someday be possible to regenerate neurons from the body’s own cells to repair traumatic brain injury or spinal cord damage […] (Source: Biosingularity)
Source: Biosingularity - February 28, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Derya Tags: Biotechnology Source Type: blogs

Cook’s Biodesign Duraplasty Graft for Skull-Base Dura Reconstruction
Cook Medical is launching its Biodesign Duraplasty Graft for repair of the dura mater that surrounds the brain and spinal cord to prevent cerebrospinal fluid leaks. It’s intended for use to wrap up surgeries at the base of the skull, such as tumor resections, and to stop leaks resulting from disease or injury. The graft doesn’t swell when exposed to liquid and doesn’t fold on itself to maintain proper shape when implanted. It can be used with or without sutures. From the announcement: “I started using Biodesign because I found it easier to handle during the endoscopic repair than competing products,�...
Source: Medgadget - February 27, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Editors Tags: Neurological Surgery Source Type: blogs