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Oral rehabilitation: a case-based approach. / Iven Klineberg, Diana Kingston (ed). Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.This book provides a structured approach to decision-making and case design in oral rehabilitation, with an emphasis on interdisciplinary support for prosthodontics. Its format is based around clinical cases that demonstrate from simple to complex actual patient cases, demonstrating the formal process by which a diagnosis and treatment plan is reached. Human physiology: from cells to systems. / Lauralee Sherwood. 7th ed., Belmont,CA: Brooks/Cole, 2013.Organized around the central theme of ho...
Source: DentistryLibrary@Sydney - April 12, 2012 Category: Dentists Tags: New books Source Type: blogs
Annie Levy: Telling Personal Stories through PhotosEmail this article to a colleague.
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Disruptive Women is honored to announce our newest blogger, Annie Levy. Annie is working with us on our Health In Place (HIP) initiative.
Annie Levy creates images and projects that tell stories. Stories of individuals both old and young. Stories of people who are hospital patients, residents of nursing homes, those in other medical contexts and young people dealing with life threatening illnesses. They are people who, Ms. Levy makes clear, should not be categorized by their health status or where they are receiving treatment. Their conditions “are not all of who they are,” she said.
Ms. Levy is a New York Cit...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - April 11, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Children Innovation Patients Publc Health Brain Tumor Foundation International Longevity Center Mount Sinai School of Medicine Youth Source Type: blogs
Happy Patients vs Healthy PatientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Recently, I published a blog post entitled "The Disneyfication of Nursing" wherein I examined the relatively new practice of "scripting" nurse-patient interactions, demanding that nurses communicate with patients in a specific manner. The reality is that hospitals now want to provide care with any eye towards positive scores on patient satisfaction surveys upon which Medicare will soon begin basing some of their payments. While this is an understandable reaction on facilities' part, it is clear that there is a slippery slope that may very well backfire when it comes to desired patient outcomes.An anonymous comment on "The ...
Source: Digital Doorway - April 10, 2012 Category: Nurses Tags: nurse-patient relationships nursing practice nurses Medicare medical care healthcare healthcare delivery healthcare economics Source Type: blogs
Faith Based Rehabilitation ProgramsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Faith based rehab programs for drugs and alcohol have better recovery rates than secular programs.Contributor: Brian HigginsPublished: Apr 10, 2012
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - April 10, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Perfection...US News Honor Roll for Best Nursing HomesEmail this article to a colleague.
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U.S. News Best Nursing Homes aims to make one of life’s most difficult decisions a little easier. For the 3.3 million Americans who move into a nursing home each year, and for their caregivers and loved ones, the realization that a move is inevitable can be just the beginning of an agonizing process: figuring out where to go. Everyone deserves a home that will take care of their health needs and treat them with dignity. But only some nursing homes consistently deliver.
The 39 nursing homes listed alphabetically below make up the 2012 Honor Roll. They were the only homes, out of more than 15,500 that U.S. News reviewed, ...
Source: Aging with Grace CareConnection - April 9, 2012 Category: Caregivers Source Type: blogs
Video To Watch ‘The Scott Showcased in NEWSWEEK Magazine as “One of the Top 11 Leaders in Treatment” in 2011.’Email this article to a colleague.
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Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - April 8, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Medical Detox Source Type: blogs
Are You The Cause Of Your Lower Back PainEmail this article to a colleague.
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Although eighty percent of adults will suffer at some stage with lower back pain it still remains very much a mystery to the medical world. Are we missing something? Is the answer a little closer to home? If you have had a medical examination for your lower back pain and no specific cause has been diagnosed what can you do? You may have been told that it is either 'all in your mind' or, worse still, be suspected of faking it to get time off work. The problem is that if medical tests cannot find a probable cause it is assumed there is nothing wrong with you. Now this isn't much use to you is it! The problem as I see it is t...
Source: My Page - April 8, 2012 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Source Type: blogs
**Special Guest Blogger** Lynn Harrison on: The Case of Laura Johnson #mhuk #ukmh #prison #riotsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Case of Laura Johnson
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/apr/05/uk-riots-laura-johnson-faces-jail?newsfeed=true
“Laura Johnson Faces Jail”
“A millionaire’s daughter who drove a gang of looters around London during the riots last August is facing a jail sentence, a judge has said”
Guardian April 5th 2012-04-06
On first impression this story appears to be one about class and indeed it has incited a media-fuelled debate around how a young woman from a privileged background came to be involved in the riots and what punishment is appropriate.
However, it emerges ...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - April 6, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: *Special Guest Writers* Source Type: blogs
Call for Presentation Proposals – 2013 ADARA ConferenceEmail this article to a colleague.
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Call for Presentation Proposals – 2013 ADARA Conference www.adara.org May 29 – June 1, 2013 Hilton Minneapolis/Airport/Mall of America 3800 American Boulevard East Bloomington, Minnesota 55425 Goal of the Conference The American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association (ADARA) is pleased to announce the 2013 ADARA Conference, a national conference to be hosted in Minnesota. Our conference [...]
Source: Deaf Village - April 6, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Authors: ASCDEAF Tags: Deaf vm Source Type: blogs
Upcoming Motions in the House of DelegateEmail this article to a colleague.
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As we know, the House of Delegates at APTA Annual Conference is rapidly approaching. I am posting some information on behalf of Dr. John Heick regarding a couple of motions that will be considered.
The first motion is an extension of the article published by Bob Boyles and colleagues in JOSPT about the role of physical therapists in ordering appropriate imaging and laboratory studies. For example, physical therapists employed by Kaiser Permanente in Northern California already have imaging privileges, and therapists employed by the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics are able to order plain film radiography. Of c...
Source: MyPhysicalTherapySpace.com - April 4, 2012 Category: Physical Therapists Authors: John Childs Tags: Autonomous Practice Clinical Practice Legislative & Regulatory Source Type: blogs
What is ARHL? Seniors and Hearing LossEmail this article to a colleague.
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OK, I admit it: I listened to loud music as a kid. Lots of loud music. Earsplitting. LOUD. Music. For years. And I know what’s in store for me.
Strike one: both my parents had hearing loss in their older years. Your genetic makeup has a definite impact on the susceptibility of ear damage.
Strike two: aging. I’m getting up there, slowly but surely.
Strike three: recreational noise. That means repeated exposure to explosive sounds and dangerously high noise levels, such as firearms (check), fireworks (check), and Jimi Hendrix at volume 11 (check).
So for me it’s just a matter of time.
Which brings me to an article I re...
Source: HealthMedWatch - April 3, 2012 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Tom Tags: Elder Care Health Care Health Education Health Promotion Public Health arhl hearing aids hearing loss older adults Source Type: blogs
Birmingham Cognitive Screen: A new cognitive screen for brain-damaged patientsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Not an endorsement of any kind. Have never seen or used it. Just an FYIeUpdates - Taylor & Francis Group New in Neuropsychology Birmingham Cognitive ScreenBy Glyn W. Humphreys, Wai-Ling Bickerton, Dana Samson, M. Jane Riddoch Following different kinds of brain damage, including stroke, head injury, carbon monoxide poisoning, and degenerative change, people can experience a range of cognitive problems, in addition to any difficulties in motor function. These problems strongly influence a patient's ability to recover, but often patients are not routinely screened to detect them. ...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - April 2, 2012 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs
The War Rages: My March Cancer PeepEmail this article to a colleague.
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Alexander Jack Green
I received an email in September from two sisters, Sandful and Sandless. They had gone to high school with JD and knew about my cancer journeys. Sandless’ son, Alex, was approaching his two-year cancer-free anniversary of Wilms’ tumor, a childhood cancer of the kidneys. The Sand sisters invited me to participate in their special event, “Alex's 3rd Annual Walk Toward Wellness 2011.”
On a beautiful Saturday afternoon in October, I joined the large close-knit Sand family and friends at Burke Lake Park in celebration of Alex. If I hadn’t been told that Alex’s mother was Sandless and his aunt S...
Source: I've Still Got Both My Nuts: A True Cancer Blog - March 30, 2012 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer-free anniversary Source Type: blogs
The Special Issue SpotterEmail this article to a colleague.
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We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to:
Mental Time Travel: Social Psychological Perspectives on a Fundamental Human Capacity (European Journal of Social Psychology).
Cyberbullying: Development, consequences, risk and protective factors (European Journal of Developmental Psychology).
College Students with ADHD Revisited (Journal of Attention Disorders).
Errorless Learning and Rehabilitation of Language and Memory Impairments (Neuropsychological Rehabilitation).
Implicit and explicit theory of mind (British Journal of Developmental Psychology).
Special section devoted to Seymour Sarason (Journal of Communi...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 28, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Christian Jarrett Source Type: blogs
Doctors Clash Over Best Treatments for Lyme DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague.
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As tick-borne illnesses continue to spread, a long-running dispute between two groups of medical professionals over how best to treat Lyme disease continues to simmer.
As WSJ reports in todays Informed Patient column, efforts are underway to prevent people and their pets from picking up illnesses that ticks carry, led by Lyme, which is most common in 12 states, primarily in the Northeast, but is expanding across the U.S.
Patients may have a rash that looks like a bulls eye; once Lyme is diagnosed using blood tests and a physical exam, guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America call for standard treatme...
Source: WSJ.com: Health Blog - March 27, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Laura Landro Tags: Drugs Antibiotics Lyme disease Source Type: blogs
All is OK in the End, but the Middle SuckedEmail this article to a colleague.
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By Jan Chait
“You can stay here for three hours, or you can stay here overnight,” said the nurse standing in the doorway of my room in the surgery recovery area. “Those are your choices.”
“But I’m fine!” I replied.
“Your LIPS,” said my friend — also a nurse — who had accompanied me, “were BLUE! You’ll be staying the three hours.”
They were conspiring against me. All I wanted was to get out of there and get something to eat. So I’d had a little problem with my oxygen saturation rate during my second colonoscopy in less than one year. W...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - March 27, 2012 Category: Diabetes Authors: Jan Chait Source Type: blogs
Pay some doctors more to save moneyEmail this article to a colleague.
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One of the strange things about health care in America is the manner in which decisions are made about how different kinds of doctors should get paid for their services. It turns out that the system is controlled in a way most consumers would find unbelievable. As noted by the Wall Street Journal:Three times a year, 29 doctors gather around a table in a hotel meeting room. Their job is an unusual one: divvying up billions of Medicare dollars.The group, convened by the American Medical Association, has no official government standing. Members are mostly selected by medical-specialty trade groups. Anyone who attends it...
Source: Running a hospital - March 26, 2012 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
What Are the Different Kinds of Rehabilitation Centers?Email this article to a colleague.
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There are several types of rehab centers available across the country. The main goal of all the rehab centers is to help patients in overcoming the injury, illness and addiction problem.Contributor: Alaya LewisPublished: Mar 25, 2012
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - March 25, 2012 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
Stroke support groupEmail this article to a colleague.
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Yesterday, Dr. Milton Lum wrote an article in the Sunday Star about Stroke support groups playing a crucial role in stroke rehabilitation and recovery. The article mentions NASAM, the National Stroke Association of Malaysia as the leading support group for stroke in Malaysia. There is no link to the NASAM website in the Star article but we have linked it here in the MMR.
I realise though that NASAM is listed under the Public Societies and Associations page rather than the Support groups page. As some societies or associations may function as a support group as well, I have decided to duplicate the listing in both pages if ...
Source: Malaysian Medical Resources - March 25, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Palmdoc Tags: - Featured site - Palmdoc - Site changes - Site updates NASAM stroke Source Type: blogs
Five Crises in Pain Management Dr. John D. Loeser - Pain: Clinical Updates, IASPEmail this article to a colleague.
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I believe that there are five preeminent crises in pain management today: (1) the lack of evidence for the outcomes of most of the things providers do for patients, (2) the inadequate education of primary care providers about pain and how to treat it, (3) the largely unknown value of opioid treatment for patients with chronic nonmalignant pain, (4) funding for the providers of pain management, and (5) access to multidisciplinary care. All of these issues may loom larger in the United States than elsewhere, but they are not unique to this country. Yes, there are other issues, but these seem to me to be the most important.Pr...
Source: Psychology of Pain - March 25, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
Oxford handbook of clinical rehabilitation, 2nd ed.Email this article to a colleague.
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Scan or click to go to Ward, A.B., Barnes, M.P. , Stark, S. and Ryan, S. (2009) Oxford handbook of clinical rehabilitation, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Ward, A.B., Barnes, M.P. , Stark, S. and Ryan, S. (2009) Oxford handbook of clinical rehabilitation, 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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The Oxford handbook of clinical rehabilitation is a comprehensive reference suitable for the whole rehabilitation team, that summarises the management of common symptoms and disorders, but also outlines the increasing evidence base for the efficacy of these techniques.
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European Journal of Neurology
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Source: Fade Library - March 23, 2012 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Ooops Missed Category! Handbooks Rehabilitation Source Type: blogs
Oxford handbook of cardiac nursingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Scan or click to go to Johnson, K. and Rawlings-Anderson, K. (2007) Oxford handbook of cardiac nursing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Johnson, K. and Rawlings-Anderson, K. (2007) Oxford handbook of cardiac nursing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Book Blurb
This Oxford handbook of cardiac nursing provides a systematic account of the main areas of cardiac nursing including assessment, investigation, treatment, rehabilitation, and pharmacological interventions. Cardiac nurses in all settings will find this a practical and evidence-based summary of the relevant issues related to the appropriate care of their patients.
Rev...
Source: Fade Library - March 23, 2012 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Ooops Missed Category! Handbooks Heart Diseases Nursing Rehabilitation Source Type: blogs
Oxford handbook of neuroscience nursingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Scan or click to go to Woodward, S. and Waterhouse, C. (2009) Oxford handbook of neuroscience nursing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Woodward, S. and Waterhouse, C. (2009) Oxford handbook of neuroscience nursing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Book Blurb
The Oxford handbook of neuroscience nursing is an invaluable resource covering relevant and practical clinical guidance in dealing with complex clinical situations, for those caring for people with neurological problems for the first time. It enables the user to meet the needs of people with neurological problems wherever they are encountered, be it in a neurology, ne...
Source: Fade Library - March 23, 2012 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: western4uk Tags: Ooops Missed Category! Handbooks Neurology Nursing Surgery Source Type: blogs
Prison breakEmail this article to a colleague.
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Today, one of the longest overstaying patient I had finally went out of the hospital. Everyone gonna miss this jolly, friendly guy for sure. But he seem not happy. He’s... Read more »Read more of this POST by clicking this >>> Prison break
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Source: The Orthopedic Logbook - March 22, 2012 Category: Surgeons Authors: Bonedoc Tags: Personal patients rehabilitation sadness Source Type: blogs
Robins creates Muscle AngelsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Some companies arise out of personal travails. As I continue my occasional series about local health care entrepreneurs, I want to report on one such case, Muscle Angel Massagers. The company came about because Susan Robins had such bad tendonitis that she could not even lift a pencil to write or turn a key in a door, much less play her beloved cello with the Longwood Symphony. She needed a therapeutic device that she could use anywhere, hands free, and requiring no electricity. No engineer by training, she nonetheless designed and figured out how to fabricate this handy tool.It turns out that you can use...
Source: Running a hospital - March 22, 2012 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Immediate Loading in Mandible Full-Arch: Pilot Study in Patients With Osteoporosis in Bisphosphonate TherapyEmail this article to a colleague.
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This is the type of research I love finding as it has a direct impact on patient treatment. MJ Alessandro Leonida, Paolo Vescovi, Marco Baldoni, Gabriele Rossi, and Dorina Lauritano (2012) Immediate Loading in Mandible Full-Arch: Pilot Study in Patients With Osteoporosis in Bisphosphonate Therapy. Journal of Oral Implantology: February 2012, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 85-94. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1563/AAID-JOI-D-09-00132.1Dental implants have been used clinically in a routine manner to restore completely edentulous mandibles. A recent systematic review of the literature conducted by Bryant1 describes the 5-ye...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - March 22, 2012 Category: Dentists Source Type: blogs
Nova Vision: Brain Training Product Review SurveyEmail this article to a colleague.
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As part of our ongoing market research we’d like to ask past and current users of Nova Vision products to share their experience with us via this 3-question anonymous survey. Please take this survey if you have used a Nova Vision product yourself or have seen someone else use it.
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Please note that we do not endorse this product (or any other) or any of the claims below. We independently track and analyze emerging brain/ cognitive science, technology and innovation, and their real-world applications. This survey helps us learn more about the...
Source: SharpBrains - March 22, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Technology Brain-Fitness brain-fitness-software Brain-Training brain-training-software cognitive-performance Cognitive-Training Executive-Functions neuroplasticity nova vision VRT Working-memory working-memory-training Source Type: blogs
Hearing loss in older adults is currently undertreatedEmail this article to a colleague.
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Although 26.7 million U.S. adults 50 and older have significant hearing loss, less than 15 percent use hearing aids. Two articles published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this week report on how age-related hearing loss is currently poorly addressed.
In "Hearing Loss in Older Adults, Who's Listening?" Frank Lin, M.D., Ph.D., says that our current way of treating hearing loss is flawed, and simply getting a hearing aid is not enough to 'treat' hearing loss. Counseling, rehabilitative training, environmental accommodations and patience are needed.
In the second JAMA article, "Hearing Deficits in the Ol...
Source: Consumer Reports Health Blog - March 21, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Consumer Reports News Tags: Conditions & treatments Health Source Type: blogs
Going the extra mile.Email this article to a colleague.
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I recall being a newbie occupational therapist and having a keen sense of "having to put my time in." It is probably a broad cultural value passed to me first from my family. My Dad was a hard working person who I saw go to work every day and sometimes even every night when he was assigned an evening shift.When I graduated from college I gravitated toward home care and consultative occupational therapy; the freedom and responsibility of these settings matched my interests and work style. Since I was a newbie and trying to work for home care agencies all of the preferred geographic areas were taken by more seasoned occupati...
Source: ABC Therapeutics Occupational Therapy Weblog - March 19, 2012 Category: Occupational Therapists Tags: OT stories OT Education OT practice Source Type: blogs
Physical Therapy Myths De-bunked – Part 2Email this article to a colleague.
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In conclusion, I liked this quote that Matt Rupiper posted from Lorimer Moseley, who is addressing the myth that pain can be inextricably linked to an anatomical source. He is quoted as saying, "I would go so far as to suggest that even the use of these erroneous terms – pain receptors, pain fibers and pain pathways – leaves the patient with chronic pain feeling illegitimate and betrayed, and leaves the rehabilitation team lacking credibility when they look beyond the tissues for a way to change pain".
The way forward is obviously being able to differentiate between fact and myth and elucidate this distinction for the...
Source: MyPhysicalTherapySpace.com - March 19, 2012 Category: Physical Therapists Authors: John Childs Tags: Clinical Practice Healthcare Quality Research Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 19th 2012Email this article to a colleague.
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In conclusion, the present candidate gene based association study, the largest to date applying a pathway approach, not only points to potential new longevity loci, but also underlines the difficulties of replicating association findings in independent study populations and thus the difficulties in identifying universal longevity polymorphisms."
A GENERAL METHOD FOR CORRECTING MITOCHONDRIAL MUTATIONS
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/03/a-general-method-of-correcting-mitochondrial-mutations.php
A therapy that can robustly correct any mitochondrial DNA mutation throughout the body can be turne...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 18, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
New Imaging Technique Offers Hope For Patients With Traumatic Brain InjuryEmail this article to a colleague.
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Brain injuries are exceedingly complex, which makes treatment and rehabilitation difficult in many cases. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have reported using a new imaging technique called High-Definition Fiber Tracking (HDFT) to identify the disrupted neural pathways (paths made up of brain cells that communicate with one another) in patients with traumatic brain injury.
Images come from computer processing of MRI data; the processing reveals breaks in fiber tracts, or neuronal pathways.
Dr. Walter Schneider, who led the research team that developed HDFT, says of the technique:
In our experiments, HDFT ha...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - March 16, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Kirstin Hendrickson Source Type: blogs
Exercising the Mind as a Basis for TherapyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Just as physical exercise is beneficial, so too is exercising the mind. This open access paper examines structured mental exercise as a basis for therapy that might do at least some good for neurodegenerative disease patients: "Non-pharmacological intervention of memory difficulties in healthy older adults, as well as those with brain damage and neurodegenerative disorders, has gained much attention in recent years. The two main reasons that explain this growing interest in memory rehabilitation are the limited efficacy of current drug therapies and the plasticity of the human central nervous system and the discovery that ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 16, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
How occupational engagement might work in pain managementEmail this article to a colleague.
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Intuitively, most of us know that when we’re actively involved in doing something we either enjoy or is sufficiently complex enough to need attention, we can lose awareness of things like hunger, thirst – or pain. In the very early years of occupational therapy, this “distracting” factor of occupation was employed to good effect to while away the time needed to recover from serious trauma following the World Wars. Over the years following, the positive effects of being involved in occupation were somehow overlo0ked in the desire to get scientific about the serious business of rehabilitation. Fri...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - March 15, 2012 Category: Occupational Therapists Authors: adiemusfree Tags: Coping strategies Motivation Pain Pain conditions Research goals Occupational therapy Psychology treatment Source Type: blogs
Video: Sunshine Health Center Video | Health Care in Powell RiverEmail this article to a colleague.
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Has a life of drugs and alcohol led you or a loved one to a sense of desperation, crisis, and loneliness? At Sunshine Coast, we are ready to partner with you in your recovery from addiction toward a new path of personal growth and connection with Sunshine Coast Health Center is a fully licensed residential alcohol and drug rehabilitation program that includes counseling, education, therapies for the mind/body/spirit, exercise, nutrition, and off-site Located on a seven acre oceanfront campus, Sunshine Coast Health Cent...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - March 15, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Medical Detox Source Type: blogs
Medical Devices in This Year’s Georgia Tech InVenture Prize ContestEmail this article to a colleague.
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Each year at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), students in the engineering fields participate in a contest of the best inventions and product concepts called The InVenture Prize. This year two of the six finalists are medical devices, Re-Hand a software assisted home-use hand assessment and rehabilitation device, and the CardiacTech, a chest retractor for bypass surgery.This evening, Georgia Tech will be hosting presentations where inventors can explain their devices to a panel of judges. David Pogue, a tech column writer for the New York Times will be the moderator for the contest. The video of the event...
Source: Medgadget - March 13, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Gene Ostrovsky Tags: in the news... Source Type: blogs
#Prison overcrowding impaires rehabilitation #mhukEmail this article to a colleague.
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Filed under: Mental Health News, Interesting Stuff...
Source: Dawn Willis sharing the News and Views of the Mentally Wealthy - March 7, 2012 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Dawn Willis Tags: Mental Health News, Interesting Stuff... Source Type: blogs
Alzheimer's and Dementia News Digest 121Email this article to a colleague.
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We own a nursing home. While it currently serves dementia patients, we are not qualified to house Alzheimer's patients.
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
Cafe Helps Alzheimer's Patients and Caregivers Cope
Though admittedly skeptical at first, John and Rhea Pereira say the Alzheimer's Cafe program offered at the Children's Museum of New Hampshire has provided them with a new outlook on tackling the struggles associated with Alzheimer's disease.
"We're seeing incredible support from strangers," said John. "You've got several people who have no connection to you, they're complete strangers, and they're saying ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - March 4, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Top ten US hospitals in 2011 – 2012Email this article to a colleague.
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Best Hospitals
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, N.Y.
UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Best Hospitals by Speciality
Cancer:
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Houston, TX
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. New York, NY
Johns Hopkins Hospital. Ba...
Source: Unbounded Medicine - March 2, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Jon Mikel Iñarritu Tags: News best hospitals us Source Type: blogs
Ekso Bionics Sells Its First Commercial ExoskeletonEmail this article to a colleague.
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Ekso Bionics (Berkeley, CA) has recently delivered the ready-to-wear, battery-powered Ekso exoskeleton to its first customer, the Craig Hospital in Denver, an institution dedicated to spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation. The Ekso system is strapped on to the user over clothing, enabling paraplegics to stand and walk. The company will deliver more units over the next few months.While the unit weighs in at 45 pounds, it is transferred to the ground rather than to the patient. The system can accommodate most patients who weigh 220 or less and who are between 5’2” and 6’2” in height.Read More
Source: Medgadget - March 2, 2012 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Brian Klein Tags: in the news... Rehab Source Type: blogs
Rhythm for Dementia Care – Help with Sundowning and MoreEmail this article to a colleague.
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Persons with dementia who experience confusion and agitation in the late afternoon and onset of evening, are said to be “sundowning”.
By Monica Heltemes
I read Tom and Karen Brenner's article, Make a Joyful Noise Drum Circles, with great interest.
I attended a course on the use of drumming to help people in rehabilitation and for wellness prevention. At the time, I was all gung ho to bring this back and incorporate it at the memory care facility where I worked, but the constraint of everyday duties got in the way. So I am excited to re-visit this topic!
Rhythm is inborn to all of us.
Yes, some more than other...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - March 2, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Here Come the Disabled-Employee QuotasEmail this article to a colleague.
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By Walter OlsonI’ve got a new op-ed in the Daily Caller about one of the most significant employment-law initiatives out of Washington in years (also reported on by Melanie Trottman in today’s WSJ): the Obama administration is preparing to order federal contractors to comply with a quota (sorry, “required…hiring goal”) of disabled employees, perhaps as high as 7 percent. Businesses have flooded the Regulations.gov comments site with negative reactions to the idea, but to no seeming avail. As I explain, one of the scheme’s maddening aspects is that you’re supposed to achieve the quo...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 29, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Walter Olson Tags: Government and Politics Law and Civil Liberties Regulatory Studies Source Type: blogs
Good Video : Cedars at Cobble Hill Video | Treatment Center in Cobble HillEmail this article to a colleague.
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I think you guys will like this video. Give it a watch and let me know what you think
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Our Vancouver Island rehab addiction treatment center primarily treats alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, ecstasy, heroin and pharmaceutical pain killer addictions as well as gambling and eating Its the choice for Vanvouver Rehabilitation, for a comprehensive list of all addictions we treat click Our Physicians, certified in addiction medicine, work individually with patients to formulate achievable goals supported by their Cedars can also provide psychiatric diagnoses and work with co-occurr...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - February 29, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Medical Detox Source Type: blogs
New Phone Line Offers Advice on Memory Loss, DementiaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Memory Connection is answered by an expert care team that connects patients to physicians, social workers, support groups, and all available services.
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
Let me ask you a simple question, when you received the dementia diagnosis, who did you call first for help and information? Did you call an association, your church, the local university, who?
Did you get help, accurate information, or anything that helped you cope with the situation?
Who did you call next, and next? Did anyone provide you with the kinds of information a dementia caregivers needs to understand the situation,...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - February 29, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Independence at Home, the Medical Home ModelEmail this article to a colleague.
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New studies show that it can be less expensive to care for a person at home; rather than, in a traditional nursing home. The same studies indicate that this also leads to better medical outcomes. A large scale movement to keep the elderly at home is now gaining momentum.
By Bob DeMarco
Alzheimer's Reading Room
There is an excellent article in the New York Times that explains a new type of healthcare and new healthcare model -- A Shift From Nursing Homes to Managed Care at Home.
This new model would include a team of doctors, social workers, physical and occupational therapists, and other specialists, who together ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - February 28, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
CommunicatingEmail this article to a colleague.
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My malpractice is through SVMIC. They periodically sent out a newsletter with upcoming seminars and an article or two on ways to improve your practice/ decrease your risk of getting sued. The current issue’s article is “Communicating with Patients Who Are Deaf.” The article reminds us in health care of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which prohibits all physician's offices (except those operated by religious entities but notes the similar Rehabilitation Act of 1973 covers physician’s offices operated by religious entities) from discriminating against people with disabilities, including those w...
Source: Suture for a Living - February 26, 2012 Category: Plastic Surgeons Tags: practice disability communication Source Type: blogs
SCOTUS Overturns Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia Decision on Nursing Home Arbitration AgreementsEmail this article to a colleague.
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On February 21, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a
ruling by the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia in the matter of Marmet Health Care Center, Inc. v. Brown et al., 565 U.S.(2012). The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia previously
held that all pre-dispute arbitration agreements that applied to personal
injury and wrongful death claims against nursing homes were unenforceable.
In
a strongly worded opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the West Virginia
court misread and disregarded national precedent and controlling federal law
regarding the Federal Arbitration Act.
The litigation i...
Source: Health Care Law Blog - February 24, 2012 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Authors: RCoffield at fsblaw.com Source Type: blogs
US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions: Hearings - HearingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Full Committee Hearing - Pain in America: Exploring Challenges to ReliefDate:Tuesday, February 14 2012, 2:30 PMPlace:430 Dirksen Senate Office BuildingWitnessesreturn to topPanel ILawrence A. Tabak, D.D.S., Ph.D. , Principal Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health, Washington, DCDownload FilePanel IIPhilip A. Pizzo, M.D. , Dean of the School of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CADownload FileJohn E Sarno, M. D. , Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NYDownload FileWilliam Maixner D.D.S., Ph.D , Director, Center...
Source: Psychology of Pain - February 23, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Source Type: blogs
Video To Watch ‘Stuart Kloda, MD – Alcohol Addiction – Naltrexone – Topamax – Baclofen – Neurontin – New York City’Email this article to a colleague.
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Call Kloda directly at (646) 713-6578 Concierge addiction treatment for New York City and New Kloda completed a rigorous two-year Addiction Medicine fellowship at the Addiction Institute of New York, a Columbia University affiliate in Manhattan located at Luke’s & Roosevelt His experience includes serving as the medical director for the inpatient drug and alcohol detoxification and rehabilitation unit at Roosevelt Kloda cared for many patients with co-occurring psychiatric and medical Kloda now provides ...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - February 23, 2012 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Medical Detox Source Type: blogs
