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Music helps keep Parkinson's patients going

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

Listen Story audio 4min 25sec Belly laughs and rousing songs open a weekly choral gathering at the Struthers Parkinson's Center in Golden Valley. All have Parkinson's disease, a degenerative condition that attacks the nervous system. There is no cure. Even though the disease generally is not considered funny, music therapist Sandi Holten wants her patients to laugh. That helps loosen and exercise torso and face muscles rigid with stiffness, a symptom of Parkinson's. "Hah, hah, " she prompts, "Everyone!" "Hah, hah, take that, Parkinson's!" the patients shout back. Then, with Holten at an electronic keyboard, they all begin to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." After an hour of vocal exercises and songs, the chorus members bid Holten goodbye until next week's session. Next on her agenda is a one-on-one session with a patient. Art Grell, 67, is a broad-shouldered bear of a man. But he no longer has a vigorous stride. Instead, Grell takes slow, halting steps, almost a shuffle, another effect of the disease. "A person with Parkinson's has rigidity throughout their body," Holten said. "That's one of the primary symptoms." View original post here: Music helps keep Parkinson's patients going … Continue reading →

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Ayurveda for developmental disorders

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

Ayurveda expertise and care for the treatment of various developmental disorders in children, mental retardation, cerebral palsy, autism, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) will be made available at major Ayurveda hospitals in the State, Health Minister V.S. Sivakumar has said. Steps will also be taken to strengthen the paediatric wing in Ayurveda hospitals, he added. He was inaugurating a scheme that provides Ayurveda treatment for developmental disorders in children, launched in the paediatric division of the Poojappura Ayurveda Hospital for Women and Children, under the Government Ayurveda College here on Thursday. The project is supported by the district panchayat. He also inaugurated a screening programme for identifying developmental disorders in children. A total of 103 children under ten years of age were screened and 60 were detected to be having cerebral palsy, 26 were diagnosed with autism, five children were found to be hyperactive, another five had Downs Syndrome, while seven children were found to be having mental retardation. Distrct panchayat president Ansajitha Russel presided over the function. Steps will be taken to strengthen paediatric wing in Ayurveda hospitals V.S. Sivakumar Health Minister Steps will be taken to strengthen the paediatric wing in Ayurveda hospitals, says Health Minister. Please … Continue reading →

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Choosing the right rehab for MS treatment

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

NEWS San Antonio doctor pushes for proactive inpatient rehabilitation Posted TODAY, 5:47 PM Updated TODAY, 7:16 PM SAN ANTONIO - During Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Month, KSAT has been talking about the difficulty of not only diagnosing the disease but treating it, as well. Now some doctors are pushing for proactive inpatient rehabilitation to reduce severe symptoms. Sherry Rhind was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2003, and soon, walking had become almost impossible. "Just getting up, getting ready to go to work, for instance, putting your foot in the car, that's very challenging," she said. MS causes the body's immune system to attack the central nervous system, resulting in different symptoms for each patient. "No two MS patients are the same," said Rhind's doctor, Dr. Ivan Edwards, with Select Rehabilitation Hospital. After trying many medications, outpatient and at-home treatments, Rhind ended up at Select for 15 days. "Before I came here I couldn't walk, maybe, 25 feet because I had no mobility whatsoever. Now I can walk maybe 300 feet, which is really good for me," Rhind said. Read more: Choosing the right rehab for MS treatment … Continue reading →

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Angelina Jolies bio-identical therapy raises hormone questions

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

Angelina Jolie Susan Donaldson James TODAY contributor March 26, 2015 at 1:22 PM ET Angelina Jolie, thrust into early menopause followingpreventive cancer surgery, said she's using bio-identical hormones a choice that's raised new questions about the safest therapies for easing menopause symptoms. Getty Images file Angelina Jolie recently underwent a second cancer-prevention surgery. Jolie, 39, said in aNew York Times op-ed piece Tuesday that she had consulted both Eastern and Western doctors, looking for natural ways to deal with her cancer risk. It's unclear what specific types of hormones Jolie might be taking, but without hormone replacement therapy, she'd cope with the typical symptoms of menopause: hot flashes, vaginal dryness, insomnia and mood swings. Because shes experiencing menopause much earlier than the average age of 51, she also would be at risk for early osteoporosis and cardiovascular problems. Bio-identical means a lab-made hormone meant to be molecularly similar to the estrogen and progesterone produced in women's bodies. There are dozens of hormone products on the market, and hormone replacement therapy available today is very different from formulations sold in the 1990s and earlier. The Food and Drug Administration approves some plant-based hormones, but cautions about using those made by unregulated … Continue reading →

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5th World Congress on Cell & Stem Cell Research Day 2 – Video

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

5th World Congress on Cell Stem Cell Research Day 2 http://stemcell.omicsgroup.com/ 5th World Congress on Cell Science Stem Cell Research, March 23-25, Chicago, USA has the goal to fill the prevailing gaps in the transformation of this science... By: OMICS International … Continue reading →

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Akron Biotech of Boca Raton poised for growth

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

Claudia Zylberberg began her biotech firm in a one-room office in Boca Raton more than eight years ago. Today Akron Biotech, which produces cell cultures and other raw materials for government and pharmaceutical company research, is moving to a 10,000-square-foot laboratory and manufacturing space. Akron also is collaborating on research, including with a noted scientist from Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter. "I don't want to be just a manufacturer of products, but an innovator as well," Zylberberg said. Akron Biotech was recently noted by Palm Beach County's Business Development Board as one of the county's longest-running biotech startups. And last year, Akron was named among 50 "Companies to Watch" in the state, by the economic development organization GrowFL. With a doctorate in immunology and background in hematology, Zylberberg is passionate about the cell therapy industry. In the coming years, she expects that the field, called "regenerative medicine," will help reduce health care costs by giving alternatives to patients whose organs are failing. If new cell therapies are approved, "we're not looking for an organ, but to fix an organ," she said. Physicians in South Florida and elsewhere are already using patients' own stem cells for certain treatments, such as repairing … Continue reading →

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The switch that might tame the most aggressive of breast cancers

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

IMAGE:Id4+ stem cells are in red, luminal cells in green, and all cells are marked with blue nuclear dye. view more Credit: Garvan Institute of Medical Research Australian researchers have found that so-called 'triple-negative breast cancers'1 are two distinct diseases that likely originate from different cell types. This helps explain why survival prospects for women with the diagnosis tend to be either very good or very bad. The Sydney-based research team has found a gene that drives the aggressive disease, and hopes to find a way to 'switch it off'. The aggressive form of triple-negative breast cancer appears to arise from stem cells, while the more benign form appears to arise from specialised cells. Stem cells have many of the same features as cancers. They are plastic and flexible, and have the ability to proliferate and spread into other tissues - deadly traits in cancers. Previous studies have shown that breast stem cells are needed for breast growth and development during puberty and pregnancy, although how they evolve from stem cells into specialist cells has been unclear. The new study has shown that a gene known as 'inhibitor of differentiation 4' (ID4) determines whether a stem cell remains a stem … Continue reading →

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Scientists Spot Gene Tied to Severe Autism in Girls

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers say they've discovered a new genetic cause of autism, singling out a rare gene mutation that appears to hamper normal brain development early on in powerful ways. The gene, CTNND2, provides instructions for making a protein called delta-catenin, which plays crucial roles in the nervous system, said senior author Aravinda Chakravarti, a professor in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Institute of Genetic Medicine. His research team found that a group of girls with severe autism carried CTNND2 mutations that appeared to reduce the effectiveness of delta-catenin, potentially affecting their neurological development. "There are many, many proteins that in fact 'moonlight,' doing many, many different things," Chakravarti said. "Maybe the severity of the effect of delta-catenin comes from the fact that when you lose function of this protein, you lose not just one function but many functions. Although that remains to be shown, it is strongly implicated by our study." Autism spectrum disorder is a neurological and developmental disorder that begins early in life. The cause is not known, although scientists suspect genes play a role. The researchers discovered the CTNND2 gene's link to autism using … Continue reading →

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LEGACY DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE PRESENTS STACI REITER – Video

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

LEGACY DEVERS EYE INSTITUTE PRESENTS STACI REITER Staci Reiter discusses her personal experience with retinitis pigmentosa. By: rosenbaumh … Continue reading →

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Wearable device helps vision-impaired avoid collision

Posted: Published on March 27th, 2015

16 hours ago Gang Luo, Ph.D., Associate Scientist at Mass. Eye and Ear/Schepens, and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, adjusts the wearable device that his team created to help those who are visually impaired avoid collision while walking. Credit: Peter Mallen, Mass. Eye and Ear People who have lost some of their peripheral vision, such as those with retinitis pigmentosa, glaucoma, or brain injury that causes half visual field loss, often face mobility challenges and increased likelihood of falls and collisions. As therapeutic vision restoration treatments are still in their infancy, rehabilitation approaches using assistive technologies are often times viable alternatives for addressing mobility challenges related to vision loss. Researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Schepens Eye Research Institute used an obstacle course to evaluate a wearable collision warning device they developed for patients with peripheral vision loss. They found the device may help patients with a wide range of vision loss avoid collisions with high-level obstacles. Their findings are featured on Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science (IOVS). "We developed this pocket-sized collision warning device, which can predict impending collisions based on time to collision rather than proximity. It gives warnings only when the users approach to … Continue reading →

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