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Stem cells edited to fight arthritis – Science Daily

Posted: Published on April 30th, 2017

Science Daily Stem cells edited to fight arthritis Science Daily Using new gene-editing technology, researchers have rewired mouse stem cells to fight inflammation caused by arthritis and other chronic conditions. Such stem cells, known as SMART cells (Stem cells Modified for Autonomous Regenerative Therapy), ... and more » See the article here: Stem cells edited to fight arthritis - Science Daily … Continue reading →

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Emerging Companies Look to Treat Conditions that Medication Cannot Relieve – Bioscience Technology

Posted: Published on April 29th, 2017

Autism, paralysis, and persistent, medication-resistant pain are among the challenges that emerging companies and organizations hope to alleviate through neuromodulation therapy. Neuromodulation therapy, sometimes referred to as bioelectric medicine or electroceuticals, is one of medicine's fastest-growing fields, driven by rising neurological disease in an aging population, and the need for non-pharmacological approaches to manage symptoms. The first use of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) to treat chronic pain of neuropathic origin was reported in 1967 by C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. Neuromodulation devices, such as SCS and deep brain stimulation systems, leverage technology developed for cardiac pacemakers and cochlear implants to re-balance neural activity. Neuromodulation therapies help relieve chronic pain or restore function. Existing and emerging devices operate through targeted application of electrical, magnetic, chemical, or optical stimulation. Current or emerging neuromodulation therapies address deficits in vision, hearing, breathing, mobility, grasp or gait, motor function, mood, memory, and digestion. Three panels of innovators will present emerging therapies in a daylong preconference before the International Neuromodulation Society 13th World Congress in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Innovations Day preconference on May 28, 2017 also includes discussion by commercialization experts and financiers about capturing data to support reimbursement. Twelve participating start-up companies and research organizations … Continue reading →

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Beach injuries can ruin a good day, change a life – Delmarva Daily Times

Posted: Published on April 29th, 2017

Accidents involving those sent Spinal and neck injuries sent nine people to a hospital near Rehoboth Beach alone last year. Up the coast, hundreds are injured during the summer in the beach towns. Produced by Megan Raymond Kids play in the waves in Ocean City, Md., during Memorial Day weekend 2016.(Photo: Megan Raymond photo)Buy Photo On a recent sunny afternoon, Katie Workman, of Doylestown, Ohio, was watching her sonplay on the Ocean City sand by the ocean a body of water she won't even dip a toe in. "I have never been in it," she said. "I don't want to be swept away by a shark." But another danger lurks in the water, and it has nothing to do with fear of jaws: spinal and neck injuries. Accidents involving those sent nine people to a hospital near Rehoboth Beach alone last year. Up the coast, hundreds are injured during the summer in the beach towns. And some say the chances for injuries may be worse along the coast's replenished beaches. READ MORE:As Ocean City evolves, it shoots for the sky Trips to the emergency room occur in a variety of ways, such as diving into the water where it's too … Continue reading →

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Parkinson’s Relief May Come From a 150-Year-Old Drug – R & D Magazine

Posted: Published on April 29th, 2017

Researchers are tapping into a century-old drug to help treat patients suffering from Parkinsons disease. During the American Academy of Neurologys 69th Annual Meeting in Boston from April 22 to 28, a research team presented new evidence from a double-blind, randomized phase III study that the drug apomorphinewhich dates back to 1865could be effective in treating Parkinsons. Levodopa has been the standard of care for Parkinsons for several years, helping to improve the quality of life and longevity of patients. However, as the disease progresses, the medication often wears off quicker after each dose, leaving patients to experience periods of immobility called off time. If a person with Parkinsons disease can reduce their off times, that can have a great impact on their everyday life, Dr. Regina Katzenschlager of Danube Hospital, affiliated with the Medical University of Vienna, Austria and study author, said in a statement. In some patients in the trial, the insecurity of unpredictable periods of incapacity was completely alleviated. Apomorphinean oral drugwas first used in the U.S. in 1950 and its use expanded in the 1990s when European doctors started using the drug to treat fluctuations in mobility that could not be controlled by pills. The researchers … Continue reading →

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4yo disabled boy safe, parents won’t be charged after amber alert – Ten Eyewitness News

Posted: Published on April 29th, 2017

A quadriplegic four-year-old boy has been found safe and has been released into his familys care, after Queensland Police issued an amber alert yesterday when his parents took him from an appointment at a Brisbane hospital. Chase Walkers parents, Jacinda Walker and Marc Steven, have blasted police, Child Services and Lady Cilento Childrens Hospital, posting many emotional videos to social media claiming authorities lied about Chases medical situation and the family has been failed by the system. "Australia, stand up, everyone, this is beyond a joke," Ms Walker said last night, after Chase was found and taken back to hospital. "My son isn't in any danger, he has not lost any weight, he is stable, his stats are completely fine, and now they want to take my child and keep him in overnight with police standing there waiting around. "I'm overwhelmed with the fact that people can just stand there and watch a mother heartbreaking in tears, and try to protect her own, and they say we've got to listen to the doctors." The anti-vax parents claim Chase was born with cerebral palsy, but his condition worsened after receiving vaccinations. They say conventional medical treatment, including formula he was fed … Continue reading →

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Boy found safe in Newcastle after being taken from Brisbane’s Lady Cilento Hospital – ABC Online

Posted: Published on April 29th, 2017

Updated April 28, 2017 17:50:00 A sick four-year-old boy, taken by his parents from a Brisbane hospital, has been located safe and well after a major police search across Queensland and New South Wales. The boy was located in Newcastle on Friday afternoon and was being transported by ambulance to a local hospital. The major search was sparked on Thursday afternoon when the parents who have complained about the boy's medical treatment took him from the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane while he was being treated. Police said the boy, who is wheelchair-bound and has cerebral palsy and epilepsy, required urgent and ongoing medical attention. Detective Acting Inspector Grant Ralston said the parents had not explained why they took their son. "I believe hospital staff were talking to the parents and minutes later the hospital staff had gone into another room intending to return to talk to the parents, and they found the parents gone with the child," he said. The trio were located in Newcastle late Friday afternoon, with the mother speaking to police shortly before the father came forward with his son. "The mother gave police information as to where her son and the father may be, … Continue reading →

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Gym helps in recovery of local member after brain injury – KRCRTV.COM

Posted: Published on April 29th, 2017

Anderson Family Fitness raises money... ANDERSON, Calif. - Chaz Baldwin's family is determined to see him receive treatment for his traumatic brain injury at a special clinic in Colorado. The total cost is around $15,000, of which they have raised $1,710. On Saturday, Anderson Family Fitness, where Chaz is a member, will hold a car wash fundraiser to help get him to Colorado. Baldwin, 25 of Anderson, was involved in a head-on motorcycle crash in Napa, Calif. in 2014. He spent 64 days in a coma and 4 months in the hospital, with no promise from doctors that he would ever walk or talk again. Baldwin's motherLeeann Small said it was atSanta Clara Valley Medical Center that Chaz made leaps and bounds with his recovery. He took his first steps and began talking again. Now, Chaz works out almost every day at Anderson Family Fitness, according to owner Chris Frost. He also recently obtained his driver's license. Frost said he has seen the miraculous physical progress Baldwin has made due to his determination. He would do anything to help Chaz get to Colorado. "I'd drive him to the airport if he needed," Frost said. "Just to see him earning some … Continue reading →

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The same brain disease battering the NFL may have killed Ernest Hemingway – Washington Post

Posted: Published on April 29th, 2017

In one of Ernest Hemingwaysfirst publishedstories, a mangoes into the woods andmeetsa disfigured prizefighter insightful, thoughprone tofits of paranoia and violence. Youre all right,says the visitorafter theyve chatted a while. No, Im not. Im crazy, the fighter says. Listen, you ever been crazy? No. How does it get you? I dont know. When you got it you dont know about it. Nearly a century after The Battlerwas written, psychiatrist Andrew Farah contends,we wouldrecognize that the prizefighter suffered fromchronic traumatic encephalopathy or CTE the same concussion-induced brain diseasenow infamous insports, particularly professional football. And theprizefighters renownedauthor had CTE, too, Farahargues inhis new book,Hemingways Brain. The psychiatrist from High Point Universityin North Carolina writes of nine serious blows to Hemingwayshead from explosions to a plane crash that were a prelude tohis declineintoabusive rages,paranoia with specific and elaborate delusionsand the final violence of his suicide in 1961. Hemingwaysbizarre behavior in his latteryears (he rehearsed his death by gunshotin front of dinner guests, for example) has been blamed on iron deficiency, bipolar disorder, attention-seeking and any number of other problems. After researching the writersletters, books and hospital visits, Farah is convinced that Hemingway haddementia made worseby alcoholism and other maladies, but dominatedby CTE, the … Continue reading →

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Menopause is surrounded by unhealthy misinformation – The Sydney Morning Herald

Posted: Published on April 29th, 2017

There comes a time in every woman's life (for argument's sake, let's say it's around 48) that she can no longer ignore the elephant in the room. Andso during a recent visit to a women's health clinic I finally broached the menopause talk. When I mentioned hormone replacement therapy (HRT, the medical replacement of a woman's oestrogen and progesterone and, sometimes, testosterone) the nurse's eyebrows almost took flight. "HRT can really help manage the symptoms of menopause and it's safe," she added a little too quickly. She went on to tell me that few women my age enquired about HRT. She suspected that they simply didn't trust it. This didn't come as a complete surprise. I'd recently read that since the early 2000s, the number of women taking HRT had fallen by more than 60 per cent. This downward trend was reflected in women I know: of the 10 menopausal and post-menopausal women I spoke with for this article, only two had chosen HRT. Several told me that their symptoms weren't severe or long-lasting enough to warrant intervention, others had looked at alternative medicine, but a few were still, some years down the track, suffering from anxietyand those interminable hot … Continue reading →

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Savage Love Letter of the Day: His Wife Wants Him Hard But Hates the Boner Pills That Get Him Hard – TheStranger.com

Posted: Published on April 29th, 2017

I am a 47-year old man and I have been married to my wife for 20 years. We have been together for 23 years. Around age 44 or 45, I started having ED problems. My urologist prescribed Cialis and put me on hormone replacement therapy. My wife was OK with the testosterone, but acted disappointed about the Cialis. For example, she would act all excited about how we just had sex without any pillsonly for me to say, yes, I did take one. Then she would mope. I explained several times that I find this very hurtful and insulting. If it were a problem about my not being attracted to her, then the Cialis would not help. The fact that it is a medical condition that can be treated should make her feel better, not worse. Saying that non-Cialis sex is somehow better or purer implies that there is something wrong with my needing it. Gee, I really need to feel there is something wrong with me to perform better! Nothing like pressure to help with ED, right? By the way, I don't tell her there is anything wrong when she needs to use lube or a vibrator. The frequency … Continue reading →

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