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Incontinence Due to Abuse Suffered As a Child Is Not As Rare As We'd Like to Think
Child abuse causes untold mental, emotional, and physical trauma to millions of kids. Most of us can't even wrap our minds around some of it. What an eye-opener it's been to hear the stories of many younger people who live with incontinence due to this type of abuse. Heartbreaking it is. Disgusting to think that this happens. But this is reality to many who are teased and tormented for being "babies" ad wearing "diapers" because they are so damaged by this abuse. Here is another story to spur on our drive to stop the stigma that surrounds incontinence.
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Source: Minding Our Elders - September 27, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
If Falls Are a Problem, Look At Medications As a Possible Contributor
Falls are a big fear for older adults because they can be disabling or even fatal. Therefore, looking for reasons behind the falls - other than just age - is important. One potential risk factor is medications, either on their own or in combination. If falls are an issue, it's time to check with the doctor.
Read more on Egosancares for other reasons for falls, as well:
Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories. “I hold onto your book as a life preserver and am reading it slowly on purpose...I don't want it to end.” ...Craig William Dayton, Film Composer
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Source: Minding Our Elders - September 22, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month: Get Educated!
The prostate, a mall organ located just below the bladder and in front of the rectum, can cause men a lot of anxiety and trouble as they age. It wraps around the urethra (the tube that carries urine and semen out of the body). As men age, the prostate tends to grow larger which can eventually cause any number of health issues including urine retention, but it can become cancerous, as well.
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Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories. “I hold onto your book as a life preserver and am reading it slowly on purpose...I d...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 4, 2021 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs
More Than 25 Years of Competition and Collaboration Advance the Prediction of Protein Shapes
Proteins (such as hemoglobin, actin, and amylase) are workhorse molecules that contribute to virtually every activity in the body. Some of proteins’ many jobs include carrying oxygen from your lungs to the rest of your body (hemoglobin), allowing your muscles to move (actin and myosin), and digesting your food (amylase, pepsin, and lactase). All proteins are made up of chains of amino acids that fold into specific 3D structures, and each protein’s structure allows it to perform its distinct job. Proteins that are misfolded or misshapen can cause diseases such as Parkinson’s or cataracts.
While it’s straightforwa...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - July 14, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Molecular Structures Cool Tools/Techniques Modeling Proteins Scientific Process Source Type: blogs
AI System Spots Prostate Cancer During Routine CT Scans
Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, created an AI system that can identify prostate cancer during routine CT scans. It is typically difficult to spot prostate cancer in CT images, and the radiation makes CT unsuitable as a screeni...
Source: Medgadget - July 8, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Oncology Radiology Urology Source Type: blogs
Mobility-Enabled Compression Device for Lymphedema: Interview with CEO of Koya Medical
Koya Medical, a medtech company based in California, has developed the Dayspring active compression system for the treatment of lymphedema. The company received FDA clearance for the use of Dayspring on the upper extremities in June 2020, and just re...
Source: Medgadget - June 23, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Surgery Vascular Surgery Source Type: blogs
Why “Radiopharmaceutical” Should be Part of your Healthcare Vocabulary
By JAY T. RIPTON
Not to sound too alarmist, but the radiopharmaceutical industry is on the verge of an explosion. But don’t worry; it’s not the type of explosion one often associates with nuclear materials… I love those movies too! It’s the beginning of a new wave of innovation for the diagnosis and treatment of certain cancers and other diseases.
This new radiopharmaceutical boom quite literally has the life sciences industry in a nuclear arms race of sorts, as companies like Y-mAbs, Novartis and others are pushing through clinical trials for the next blockbuster for the treatment and detection of hard-t...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice jay t ripton nuclear medicine radiation oncology radiopharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs
Localized Prostate Cancer Therapy: Interview with Shyam Natarajan, CEO of Avenda Health
Avenda Health, a medtech company based in Santa Monica, California has developed the Focal Therapy System. It provides AI-powered prostate cancer therapy with the aim of treating only tumorous tissues, while reducing side-effects compared with conven...
Source: Medgadget - June 7, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Informatics Oncology Urology Source Type: blogs
An update on prostate cancer treatment PODCAST
“Even though prostate cancer patients are anxious to receive treatment, they still want to minimize their exposure to anyone outside their COVID bubble. One procedure that is especially attractive to our patients is focal therapy high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU). Focal therapy HIFU is appropriate for patients whose prostate cancer is diagnosed at a higherRead more …Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more.
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 3, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: < span itemprop="author" > < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/the-podcast-by-kevinmd" rel="tag" > The Podcast by KevinMD < /a > < /span > Tags: Podcast Oncology/Hematology Urology Source Type: blogs
Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 17th 2021
This study is consistent with previous evidence showing that inflammaging, or age-related inflammation, is naturally heightened in the nervous system. Moreover, the authors disproved their hypothesis that anti-inflammatory microglia-specific genes are responsible for the elevated inflammatory response in aged brains since the expression of anti-inflammatory mediators was elevated in middle-aged brains following infection. Thus, the cause for the increase in pro-inflammatory genes remains to be elucidated.
Mixed Results in Animal Studies of Gene Therapy Targeting Axonal Regrowth
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Source: Fight Aging! - May 16, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs
Arming T Cells with IL-24 Improves the Ability to Destroy Cancerous Cells
Altering T cells of the adaptive immune system to enable recognition of cancerous cells is a mainstream area of research these days. The approach of adding chimeric antigen receptors to T cells, tailored to a cancer, is well established for blood cancers, but still challenging for solid tumors, characterized a wide variety of cancerous cells and signatures. Researchers here show that genetic modification of T cells to produce IL-24 allows these immune cells to effectively destroy cancerous cells that lack recognizable surface features, so long as they are close to cancerous cells that can be recognized. Further, the proces...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 10, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs
3D Printed Shields Protect Guts During Radiotherapy
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MIT have developed 3D printed shields to protect the gastrointestinal tract from the side effects of radiotherapy. Using CT scans, the devices can be custom printed to suit each patient’s anatomy. T...
Source: Medgadget - April 27, 2021 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: GI Materials Radiation Oncology Radiology Source Type: blogs
An emerging treatment option for men with recurring prostate cancer after radiation therapy
Prostate cancer is often a multifocal disease, meaning that several tumors can be present in different parts of gland at the same time. Not all of these tumors are equally problematic, however. And it’s increasingly thought that the tumor with the most aggressive features — called the index lesion — dictates how a man’s cancer is likely to behave overall. That concept has given rise to a new treatment option. Called partial gland ablation (PGA), and also focal therapy, it entails treating only the index lesion and its surrounding tissues, instead of removing the prostate surgically or treating the whole gla...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 2, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Health Living With Prostate Cancer Prostate Knowledge Treatments HPK Source Type: blogs
Improving PET scans are good news for doctors and patients alike
A recent blog post discussed a newly approved imaging agent with an unwieldy name: gallium-68 PMA-11. Delivered in small amounts by injection, this minimally radioactive tracer sticks to prostate cancer cells, which subsequently glow and reveal themselves on a positron emission tomography (PET) scan. Offered to men with rising PSA levels after initial prostate cancer treatment (a condition called biochemical recurrence), this sort of imaging can allow doctors to find and treat new tumors that they might otherwise miss. With currently available imaging technology, such tumors could potentially escape detection until they we...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 3, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Health Prostate Knowledge HPK Source Type: blogs
The Art of Explaining: Starting With the Big Idea
By HANS DUVEFELT
We live in a time of thirty second sound bytes, 280 character tweets and general information overload. Our society seems to have ADHD. There is fierce competition for people’s attention.
As doctors, we have so many messages we want to get across to our patients. How many seconds do we have before we lose their attention in our severely time curtailed and content regulated office visits?
I have found that it generally works better to make a stark, radical statement as an attention grabber and then qualifying it than to carefully describe a context from beginning to end.
Once a person shows...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 29, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Physicians Primary Care Hans Duvefelt health communication Source Type: blogs
