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Skate-A-Thon Raises $20,000 For Parkinson’s Research, Treatment

Posted: Published on January 11th, 2014

The fourth annual UNMC Skate-a-thon for Parkinsons wrapped up at noon Saturday, highlighted by four skaters making it through all 24 hours on the ice. The four skaters were Jim Hinrichs, Kevin Powers, John Seminara and Ronnie Stark. More than 500 skaters paid $10 to participate. Some friends and I go swing dancing Friday nights and a group of us came ice skating after swing dancing," said Dena Rennard. "We were there first and got here about midnight and we stayed through the skivvy skate. Its not as cold as last year so were still here, but were going to turn in pretty soon to get warmed up I think. Rennard said the temporary rink gave people a chance to help others and provided a fun, late night activity. What an effort, said Ted Wuebben, whose family started the skate-a-thon in 2008 by flooding their back yard. Its almost unimaginable what they did. They are all personal friends of our family and I couldnt be prouder of them for stepping up and making this happen. The event raised about $20,000 according to Jenny Knutson, daughter of Ted and Colleen Wuebben. This years skate-a-thon served as a memorial for Colleen, who … Continue reading →

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TUSD hit with $23 million claim over child’s head injury

Posted: Published on January 11th, 2014

A mother has filed a claim seeking $23 million from the Tucson Unified School District after her son fell from a slide at Fruchthendler Elementary and suffered a brain injury. While the extent of the injury is unknown at this time, the mother says TUSD was negligent in maintaining the playground equipment, in supervising students on the playground, in caring for the boy after the incident and in failing to obtain professional care. An administrative claim was sent to the Tucson Unified School District on behalf of Danette and Trevor Pahl regarding the Aug. 8 incident. According to the claim, which is frequently a precursor to a lawsuit, the then-9-year-old Trevor fell about 5 feet from the slide, striking the left side of his head, his arm and wrist on a piece of cement embedded in the play area during afternoon recess. Rather than seek medical attention, the school called Danette Pahl, who then took her son to a hospital, where it was discovered that the fourth-grader had suffered a broken wrist and a life-threatening injury to his head and brain, attorney Ron Mercaldo said. While Trevor went back to school three weeks later with special provisions, he has received … Continue reading →

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Multiple Sclerosis natural treatment with herbs, vitamins …

Posted: Published on January 11th, 2014

Multiple Sclerosis natural treatment, vitamins, herbs, supplements, alternative therapy and remedy by Ray Sahelian, M.D. Nerve fibers inside and outside the brain are wrapped with many layers of insulation called the myelin sheath. Much like the insulation around an electrical wire, the myelin sheath permits electrical impulses to be conducted along the nerve fiber with speed and accuracy. When myelin is damaged, nerves don't conduct impulses properly. Multiple sclerosis is a disorder in which the nerves of the eye, brain, and spinal cord lose patches of myelin. IgG antibodies to the myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein appear to participate in the more severe type of multiple sclerosis. Children who spend more time in the sun have a lower risk for developing multiple sclerosis as adults. Something in relation to sunlight and/or vitamin D exposure during childhood may play a protective role. High-salt diets could speed the onset and progression of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis in individuals already genetically predisposed to develop such conditions. Natural treatment for multiple sclerosis MS At this point it is very difficult to know with any certainty which supplements, in what dosages, and in what combination (s) would be helpful for multiple sclerosis, if … Continue reading →

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Indian diplomat leaves US under immunity

Posted: Published on January 11th, 2014

The case caused a serious rift between the United States and India, which described Devyani Khobragade's treatment as outrageous and heavy-handed. "As a family, (we) would not like to touch the soil of the country (USA) which treat human being in such a inhuman way in an utter violation of the human right, utter violation of the Geneva convention," her father Uttam Khobragade, a retired bureaucrat, said. Ms Khobragade had been facing charges of underpaying her Indian-born housekeeper and lying about it on a visa form. Her departure from the US could signal a cooling of tensions and give both countries a way to claim victory, although her father said the case was a triumph for India because his daughter was leaving the US with full diplomatic immunity. The issue of immunity is key to the case, which erupted a month ago when Ms Khobragade, a 39-year-old mother of two, was arrested. She was strip-searched and kept in a cell with other criminal defendants before being released on bail of $250,000. In recent weeks, federal officials have said that Ms Khobragade's immunity is limited to acts performed in the exercise of consular functions. But on Thursday, a US government official … Continue reading →

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Stem cell replacement for frequent age-related blindness

Posted: Published on January 11th, 2014

Jan. 10, 2014 Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most frequent cause of blindness. Scientists at the Department of Ophthalmology at the Bonn University Hospital and from the Neural Stem Cell Institute in New York (USA) have developed a method for using stem cells to replace cells in the eye destroyed by AMD. The implants survived in rabbit eyes for several weeks. Additional research is needed for clinical application. The results are now presented in the journal "Stem Cell Reports." About four and a half million people in Germany suffer from age-related macular degeneration (AMD). It is associated with a gradual loss of visual acuity and the ability to read or drive a car can be lost. The center of the field of vision is blurry, as if covered by a veil. This is caused by damage to a cell layer under the retina, known as the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). It coordinates the metabolism and function of the sensory cells in the eye. Inflammatory processes in this layer are associated with AMD and "metabolic waste" is less efficiently recycled. To date, there is no cure for AMD; treatments can only relieve the symptoms. Scientists from the Bonn University Department … Continue reading →

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A shift in stem cell research

Posted: Published on January 11th, 2014

Jan. 10, 2014 A team of engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has created a process to improve the creation of synthetic neural stem cells for use in central nervous system research. The process, outlined in a paper published in Stem Cells last month, will improve the state of the art in the creation of synthetic neural stem cells for use in central nervous system research. Randolph Ashton Human pluripotent stem cells have been used to reproduce nervous-system cells for use in the study and treatment of spinal cord injuries and of diseases such as Parkinson's and Huntington's. Currently, most stem cells used in research have been cultured on mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), which require a high level of expertise to prepare. The expertise required has made scalability a problem, as there can be slight differences in the cells used from laboratory to laboratory, and the cells maintained on MEFs are also undesirable for clinical applications. Removing the high level of required skill and thereby increasing the translatability of stem cell technology is one of the main reasons why Randolph Ashton, a UW-Madison assistant professor of biomedical engineering and co-author of the paper, wanted to create a new protocol. Rather … Continue reading →

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DNA links executed convict to 1984 triple murder

Posted: Published on January 11th, 2014

By RYAN J. FOLEY/Associated Press/January 10, 2014 OTTUMWA, Iowa (AP) A killer who was executed in Missouri for the 1987 murder of a 12-year-old girl was also responsible for a long-unsolved triple homicide in Iowa three years earlier, investigators announced Friday. New DNA evidence implicates Andrew W. Six in the 1984 bludgeoning deaths of 20-year-old Justin Hook Jr.; Hooks fiancee, 19-year-old Tina Lade; and Hooks mother, 41-year-old Sara Link, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and Wapello County Sheriff Mark Miller announced. What we know for sure is that Andy Six is responsible, Miller said at a news conference at his office in Ottumwa, in southeast Iowa. Missouri authorities executed Six, then 32, by lethal injection in 1997 for the kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Kathy Allen. Six and his uncle kidnapped the girl from her familys trailer in Ottumwa, then slit her throat and dumped her in northern Missouri. Retired DCI supervisor Sam Swaim said that Six was always a suspect in the 1984 triple homicide, but that investigators could not come up with enough evidence to charge him. He said that he was happy that scientific evidence has linked Six to the crime but wishes Six had been … Continue reading →

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Ballard author has hope that heals

Posted: Published on January 11th, 2014

Photo by Heather B. Allison Photography Ricks said that through writing her memoir she found her voice and healing by sharing it with others. By Christy Wolyniak Ballard author, Ingrid Ricks, has been an unstoppable force since the release of her memoir, Hippie Boy - a coming-of-age story of a girl grappling with abuse, crippling poverty, love, and religious misuse. Hippie Boy sets the stage for a young Ricks up until the age of sixteen, who travels as a tool-selling vagabond with her father in a desperate attempt to escape a dysfunctional home environment with a controlling stepfather and devout Mormon mother. Ricks story was a long time in coming to fruition. Afraid to hurt her family by exposing painful memories, Ricks endured the rubble from her past. Upon being diagnosed with a rare degenerative eye disease in 2004 known as Retinitis Pigmentosa, her doctor recognized that Ricks was suppressing serious issues from her childhood and said to her, If you dont think that carrying this inside of you is impacting your physical health, youre crazy. Ricks hastened to write as her vision was now threatened. Her daughters, Hannah, 11 and Sydney, 15, were also part of her inspiration in … Continue reading →

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Start of stem-cell study offers hope to patients with spinal-cord injuries

Posted: Published on January 11th, 2014

CTVNews.ca Staff Published Friday, January 10, 2014 4:33PM EST Last Updated Friday, January 10, 2014 11:42PM EST A team of doctors at the University of Calgary has, for the first time in North America, successfully performed a stem cell transplant in a spinal cord injury patient, a procedure that could offer a glimmer of hope to patients whose injuries have long been considered untreatable. The doctors injected the neural stem cells into the spine of a 29-year-old paraplegic, who will now be monitored to determine whether implanting those cells is safe. Later studies will look at whether it is possible to regenerate new tissue and repair the mans injury. That is the goal, a cure, the University of Calgarys Dr. Steven Casha, who performed the procedure on Wednesday, told CTV News. Stem cells have the potential to recreate lost tissue, he added, although that remains to be proven in humans with spinal cord injuries. The answer, he said, is a long way away. The transplant is part of an ongoing clinical trial being conducted by StemCells Inc., which harvested the stem cells from the nervous system of a fetus. The company holds a patent on the cells. Data from three … Continue reading →

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Artificial Bone Marrow Created By German Scientists, Could Be Used To Treat Leukemia Someday

Posted: Published on January 11th, 2014

Bone marrow nurtures both red blood cells and white blood cells, with healthy people producing more than 500 billion red- and-white blood cells every day. But when bone marrow is damaged by a disease like leukemia, or by radiation or chemotherapy drugs, the supply of blood cells drops, leaving a person at risk for fatal infections. Leukemia and other types of bone-marrow diseases are often treated by transplanting healthy hematopoietic stem cells, which can develop into various kinds of blood cells, from another person. The donor cells can be taken from another persons bone marrow or bloodstream, or from preserved umbilical cords and placentas. But finding a matching donor can be difficult, and the amount of stem cells harvested from the donor may not always be enough to meet the needs of the patient. One thing that doctors want to be able to do is to find a way to cultivate a bumper crop of stem cells. But blood stem cells thrive in a very specific environment inside bone marrow. And bone marrow has a very complex architecture, like a tiny sponge that contains many sizes of pores, and special docking proteins for stem cells. "We assume that stem cells … Continue reading →

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