Monthly Archives: January 2012

Autism treatment, her speech becomes unclear without fatty acids.. 6 months into biomedical – Video

Posted: Published on January 28th, 2012

02-12-2011 18:29 Autism Biomedical Excerpt from: Autism treatment, her speech becomes unclear without fatty acids.. 6 months into biomedical - Video … Continue reading →

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Richmond Traumatic Brain Injury Attorneys Applaud White House Research Initiative Targeting Veterans’ Health Issues

Posted: Published on January 28th, 2012

The Virginia personal injury firm of Marks & Harrison says ‘Joining Forces’ initiative will benefit veterans as well as civilians suffering from TBI, PTSD and other disabilities. Richmond, VA (PRWEB) January 28, 2012 The Richmond traumatic brain injury attorneys[1] of Marks & Harrison today released a statement in support of a White House initiative to expand the study of military veterans’ health care issues, like traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, at the nation’s medical schools. Marks & Harrison, a Virginia personal injury firm[2] that focuses on traumatic brain injury (TBI) cases, said First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden’s Joining Forces initiative will provide needed medical support to 800,000 veterans who call Virginia home. The Joining Forces initiative unites the Association of American Medical Colleges and the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine with 130 schools and medical research facilities “to leverage their missions in education, research and clinical care to train the nation’s physicians to meet the unique health care needs of the military and veterans’ communities,” a White House statement[3] said. Obama and Biden announced the program at Virginia Commonwealth University earlier this month. “The advances in treatment and understanding of traumatic brain injury … Continue reading →

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Research teams making progress collecting critical data on CCSVI: MS society

Posted: Published on January 28th, 2012

TORONTO - Research teams investigating a potential and hotly debated cause of MS say they are making good progress toward providing essential data that will help to design a clinical trial of a proposed treatment for the disease. The seven Canadian and U.S. teams were given $2.4 million in July 2010 to probe the connection between multiple sclerosis and a condition called chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency, or CCSVI, put forth as a possible cause of MS by Italian vascular surgeon Dr. Paolo Zamboni. Zamboni has theorized that MS could be caused by narrowed neck veins, which he suggests cause a backup of blood in the brain, leading to iron deposits that destroy brain cells and set off the cascade of nerve damage characteristic of MS. Multiple sclerosis is an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system, which interrupts the flow of information within the brain and between the brain and body. Symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. An estimated 55,000 to 75,000 Canadians have the disease. “The research underway is significantly advancing our understanding of CCSVI and what its relationship might be to the MS disease process,” Dr. Tim Coetzee, chief research officer at … Continue reading →

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Pasco: Disabled woman rescued service animal when roaming dogs attacked

Posted: Published on January 28th, 2012

By Lisa Buie[1], Times Staff Writer Lisa Buie[2]Tampa Bay Times In Print: Saturday, January 28, 2012 ZEPHYRHILLS — Whenever Beth Fortner needed help crossing busy streets, she could always count on her dog, Tushcanay. "She's saved me so many times," said Fortner, 54, who suffers from ataxia, a condition that causes uncontrollable movements. Fortner took in the stray husky/shepherd mix puppy 10 years ago while living in Kentucky. She had her trained and considers her a service dog. "There would be a car coming around the corner and she'd block me," said Fortner, who also has trouble seeing. When Fortner needed help getting in and out of her wheelchair or getting up stairs, Tushcanay, nicknamed Tush because of her large, furry backside, would bear Fortner's weight on her 80-pound frame. So Fortner thought nothing of risking her own safety to save Tush on Jan. 20 when two roaming dogs attacked as Fortner escorted her 8-year-old niece to her school bus stop. As the dogs tried to clamp their jaws on Tush's neck, Fortner flung own body over her pet. She told her niece to run and get help. "I put my hands in the dogs' mouths," she said. "They were … Continue reading →

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