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For therapy biz, the first step in expansion: Research

Posted: Published on April 16th, 2014

COURTESY OF THE RECOVERY PROJECT Polly Swingle helped Charles Parkhill come back from a spinal cord injury. Today, they're in business together as The Recovery Project and facing the challenge of how to expand into new markets. The Recovery Project LLC was born out of adversity. Its founders met when one of them, Charles Parkhill, injured his spinal cord when a wave hit him just the wrong way off a beach in Mexico in 1998, leaving him unable to move from the neck down. He made progress working with a Detroit Medical Center physical therapist, Polly Swingle, and in 2003 the two formed the business to help others with traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries. In 2005, Parkhill took his first unassisted steps since the accident -- he now uses a wheelchair and can walk short distances. By 2012, the company had reached $2.3 million in revenue. Problem: After some years in business, The Recovery Project faced more adversity, albeit of a more routine variety and one that all second-stage businesses face: the need to enter new markets to keep the enterprise growing. Parkhill and Swingle saw their business missing out on a big market in the elderly population. "One … Continue reading →

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'Healing cured my brain tumour' says former TV producer from…

Posted: Published on April 16th, 2014

Comments(0) WHEN former BBC producer Anna Parkinson was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2002 her whole world crashed down around her. And with doctors deeming it too dangerous operate, her life became a waiting game. But as her symptoms worsened, the mother-of-two from Sissinghurst Road in Biddenden decided to take her health into her own hands and follow an alternative and often derided treatment in the form of healing. Ten years on from her diagnosis, her brain tumour has now virtually disappeared and the 59-year-old puts it down to healing. For about 18 months after being diagnosed I paddled around going to see specialists expecting I was going to have some miracle operation, she said. But I was having scans and my symptoms were getting steadily worse. I had this voice going on in my head. You react to shock and I just began to listen to it. It was like an internal dialogue. People offered me healing and really I would have taken anything. I was open-minded. I wanted the problem to go away so I could get on with my life. I was aware the fear and the panic was getting worse. My eyesight was completely flipped … Continue reading →

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Deep Brain Stimulation Devices Market for Parkinson's Disease (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America …

Posted: Published on April 16th, 2014

WEST HARTFORD, Conn., April 15,2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Global Information Inc. announces the addition of a new market research report "Deep Brain Stimulation Devices Market for Parkinson's Disease (North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America) - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019" at GIIResearch.com A rise in the world's aging population, increase in the number of patients living with Parkinson's disease and growing awareness about neurological movement disorders among patients have triggered the growth of deep brain stimulation devices market. Globally, neurological disorders are the main causes of mortality; these account for approximately 12% of total number of deaths. Of these, cerebrovascular diseases are responsible for 85% of deaths. Parkinson's disease is the most common neurodegenerative movement disorder after Alzheimer's. Symptoms associated with this disease include tremors, slowness of movement, muscle stiffness and trouble with balance. Drug therapy is the most effective treatment option available to control Parkinson's disease in the initial stages; however, a large number of medicines are required to control the disease during the advanced stages. In late stage of the disease, deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgical treatment is used to control the involuntary symptoms. DBS is an effective, clinically proven and … Continue reading →

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Charge: Couple left North Bend girl with cerebral palsy to rot, starve while living on her welfare

Posted: Published on April 16th, 2014

They had two flat screen TVs, an extensive reptile collection and a steady stream of welfare checks meant to help a blind teen with cerebral palsy. She had 23 rotten teeth, a dirty diaper and a bedroom the King County Sheriffs Office detective on the case described as the worst shed seen during her career. Now, the young womans state-paid caretakers April and Jeffrey Henderson face felony charges related to the 19-year-olds treatment and a purported Medicaid fraud that saw thousands of dollars paid for care that the girl was cruelly denied. The North Bend couple is alleged to have lived on the $4,100 or so per month in government benefits meant to provide for the young woman, who was orphaned at age 7 and left in the Hendersons care. When investigators arrived at the wooded, rural home, they found the teen naked except for a diaper, left in a room littered with soiled clothing, dried vomit and trash. Weighing just 67 pounds, the girl was described as skeletal by the case detective. Writing the court, Detective Belinda Paredes-Garrett said the young woman was flailing and crying when help arrived. The only way to describe her moaning was that of … Continue reading →

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Cancer drugs block dementia-linked brain inflammation, UCI study finds

Posted: Published on April 16th, 2014

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 16-Apr-2014 Contact: Tom Vasich tmvasich@uci.edu 949-824-6455 University of California - Irvine Irvine, Calif., April 16, 2014 A class of drugs developed to treat immune-related conditions and cancer including one currently in clinical trials for glioblastoma and other tumors eliminates neural inflammation associated with dementia-linked diseases and brain injuries, according to UC Irvine researchers. In their study, assistant professor of neurobiology & behavior Kim Green and colleagues discovered that the drugs, which can be delivered orally, eradicated microglia, the primary immune cells of the brain. These cells exacerbate many neural diseases, including Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, as well as brain injury. "Because microglia are implicated in most brain disorders, we feel we've found a novel and broadly applicable therapeutic approach," Green said. "This study presents a new way to not just modulate inflammation in the brain but eliminate it completely, making this a breakthrough option for a range of neuroinflammatory diseases." The researchers focused on the impact of a class of drugs called CSF1R inhibitors on microglial function. In mouse models, they learned that inhibition led to the removal of virtually all microglia from the adult central nervous system with no ill effects or deficits in behavior or cognition. … Continue reading →

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Jesse stem cell research speech – Video

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Jesse stem cell research speech via YouTube Capture. By: Jesse Rollins … Continue reading →

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TED Talk Stem Cell Research – Video

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Tisch MS Research Center of New York Exceeds $300K Crowdfunding Target for FDA-Approved Stem Cell Trial

Posted: Published on April 16th, 2014

New York, NY (PRWEB) April 15, 2014 The Tisch MS Research Center of New York (Tisch MSRCNY) today announced that they surpassed their campaign goal on Indiegogo.com to raise funds for their FDA-Approved Phase I Clinical Stem Cell Trial. The funding will be directly applied to the study and stem cell research at Tisch MSRCNY. The target of $300K was met and surpassed within the allotted four weeks of the campaign's launch raising a total amount of $317,540. We are overwhelmed and grateful for the generosity shown by our community of patients and friends, stated Dr. Saud A. Sadiq, Chief Research Scientist at Tisch MSRCNY and the studys principal investigator. He added, Funding is like oxygen for research. Without financial support, our research into regenerative therapy cannot survive. As a non-profit,Tisch MS Research Center chose Indiegogo as a perfect platform since it has not received federal, state, or corporate funding to cover costs of this study. The crowd sourcing website heightened awareness and introduced new philanthropists to the Centers mission to repair the damage caused by multiple sclerosis. The show of support has been tremendous, but our work is not done, said David Greenstein, Chairman of the Board of Directors … Continue reading →

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Biologist defiant over stem-cell method

Posted: Published on April 16th, 2014

Kimimasa Mayama/EPA/Alamy At a press conference last week, Haruko Obokata insisted that her contentious technique does work. The lead author of two hotly debated stem-cell papers made a tearful plea for forgiveness last week after her employer found her guilty of misconduct. Haruko Obokata, a researcher at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) in Kobe, Japan, struggled to answer questions about errors in the papers, which described how simple stressors such as acid or pressure could reprogram mature cells into an embryonic-like state. But that did not stop her from insisting that the reports were not fraudulent and that the phenomenon described in them is real. Her comments have left observers wondering about the outcome of a controversy that has raged since the papers were published in Nature in January1, 2. Clarity on the claimed creation of STAP cells (for stimulus-triggered acquisition of pluripotency) now awaits three key events, all expected in the next few months. Stem-cell scientists hope that one of these a replication attempt based on Obokatas protocol, by Hitoshi Niwa, a co-author of the papers who also works at the CDB will be conclusive. This looks like a rigorous protocol that hopefully will settle the question … Continue reading →

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Genetic pre-disposition toward exercise and mental development may be linked

Posted: Published on April 16th, 2014

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 15-Apr-2014 Contact: Nathan Hurst hurstn@missouri.edu 573-882-6217 University of Missouri-Columbia COLUMBIA, Mo. University of Missouri researchers have previously shown that a genetic pre-disposition to be more or less motivated to exercise exists. In a new study, Frank Booth, a professor in the MU College of Veterinary Medicine, has found a potential link between the genetic pre-disposition for high levels of exercise motivation and the speed at which mental maturation occurs. For his study, Booth selectively bred rats that exhibited traits of either extreme activity or extreme laziness. Booth then put the rats in cages with running wheels and measured how much each rat willingly ran on their wheels during a six-day period. He then bred the top 26 runners with each other and bred the 26 rats that ran the least with each other. They repeated this process through 10 generations and found that the line of running rats chose to run 10 times more than the line of "lazy" rats. Booth studied the brains of the rats and found much higher levels of neural maturation in the brains of the active rats than in the brains of the lazy rats. "We looked at the part of the … Continue reading →

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