'Feed A Cold, Starve A Fever'? Here's What Science Says
By Lindzi Wessel "Feed a cold, starve a fever" is an adage that has been around for centuries. Now a new study in mice finds that it might actually have some truth -- but it depends what exactly is the cause of your fever. Why it matters: Loss of appetite is common with sickness and Ruslan Medzhitov, an immunologist at Yale University, and his colleagues wanted to know why. Is it just a consequence of illness, or does it have some protective benefit we don't fully understand? The nitty gritty: Researchers infected mice with either a bacteria that causes food poisoning or a flu virus. All the mice began to ea...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 12, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Confessions of a Female Plastic Surgeon
Image Source Celebrities are doing it, your co-workers are doing it, and even your inner circle is doing it. Your besties, however, are loath to admit they've had some "work" done. Is your colleague or friend looking a little younger these days? Or is that booty of theirs seeming just a little bit tighter all of a sudden? Trust me, it's not the Zumba classes, nor is it the juice cleanse they recently powered through. They've had something done - a bit of Botox, some liposuction, or maybe a facelift -- even if they vehemently deny it. According to Aviva Preminger, MD, a NYC female plastic surgeon, she's seen it all. Everyo...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 31, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

LJI researchers gain new understanding of how neutrophils
(La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology) As an arm of the innate immune system, white blood cells called neutrophils form the first line of defense against invading pathogens. Neutrophils spend most of their lives racing through the bloodstream, patrolling for bacteria or other foreign particles. Once they arrive at tissues besieged by infectious agents, they halt on a dime and then blast through the vessel wall to reach the inflammatory attack site.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - August 31, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news

Boosting brain protein alleviates Alzheimer's symptoms, study says
Stephen FellerLA JOLLA, Calif., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- Increasing levels of a protein in the brain appears to decrease symptoms of Alzheimer's disease by preventing the formation of plaques linked to the condition.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - August 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Singlera Genomics Raises $20 Million In Series A Financing Led by Lilly Asia Ventures
LA JOLLA, Calif., Aug. 22, 2016 -- (Healthcare Sales & Marketing Network) -- Singlera Genomics, a fast-growing, non-invasive genetic testing company, today announced it has successfully raised US$20 million in a Series A financing. The financing round was... Diagnostics, Personalized Medicine, Venture Capital Singlera Genomics
Source: HSMN NewsFeed - August 22, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Animal research suggests Zika could affect the adult brain
Conclusion This experimental study in mice investigated the effect of Zika virus on adult brain cells, hoping to increase knowledge of the long-term outcomes of Zika virus on the adult brain. Zika was thought to be a short-term virus for adult humans without many long-term effects. The researchers' experiments in mice found that the two small areas in the adult mouse brain containing cells active in cell division can be susceptible to pronounced Zika infection leading to cell death and reduced cell division. While healthy humans may be able to mount an effective immune response to the virus, it is possible that immunocompr...
Source: NHS News Feed - August 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Neurology Source Type: news

Could Zika virus devastate the brain like Alzheimer's?
An investigation by La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology in California found the virus can 'wreak havoc' in adults' brains by attacking immature cells, vital to learning and memory.
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Neural stem cells in adult mice also vulnerable to Zika
(Cell Press) Zika infection kills off neural stem cells in adult mice bred to be vulnerable to the virus, researchers at the Rockefeller University and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology report Aug. 18 in Cell Stem Cell. It has yet to be studied whether the death of these cells has any short or long-term effects in the rodents.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - August 18, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Baby Boomers Changing The Healthcare Landscape
Kendra and Jay Jeffcoat are the quintessential baby boomer couple. Kendra, 69, recently retired after a long and successful career as a college professor and administrator. Jay, 70, who spent his college years as student body president at the University of California, Santa Barbara, protesting the Vietnam War, continues to work full time as a corporate attorney in San Diego. In January 2013, Kendra was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, which had metastasized in her brain. She never smoked, nor was she around secondhand smoke. But as Healthline noted in November 2014, lung cancer among women who don't smoke is on the ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

We Can Do Better
I am lucky. Choosing a creative life and having the opportunity to do satisfying work that is sometimes meaningful is a blessed existence and worth the price paid in the subsequent challenges of public life. Sometimes it means resigning to humiliation, and other times, understanding when silence perpetuates a bigger problem. In October 2014, a tabloid newspaper article reported that I'd likely had surgery to alter my eyes. It didn't matter; just one more story in the massive smut pile generated every day by the tabloid press and fueled by exploitative headlines and folks who practice cowardly cruelty from their anonymo...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

This Is What Rio ’s Terrible Pollution Looks Like On the Ground
Forget about the floating tires. You can spot those in the water even in clean cities around the world. What gobsmacks you as you approach a canal near the Rio international airport, a body of water that flows into the city’s Guanabara Bay – home of the 2016 Olympics sailing venue — is the smell. It’s a gaseous stench: inhale it at your stomach’s own risk. There’s also the sludge, so thick you slip on it. And the sheer mass of stuff: Christmas ornaments, milk cartons, cookie packaging, clothes sitting in the stew. Then there are all the insidious things you can’t see. Why is Guanab...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - August 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sean Gregory/Rio de Janeiro and Julia Lull Tags: Uncategorized 2016 rio olympics 2016 Summer Olympics Pollution Science Sports World Source Type: news

Lifeguards Perform Multiple Patient Rescues and Removals
On March 29, 2016, at approximately 12:30 p.m., 62 high school swimmers between the ages of 14–17 years old and two adult coaches from a high school swim team from Riverside County, Calif., went to the beach at La Jolla Cove, a popular, internationally-recognized diving and snorkeling area in San Diego, to prepare for a group swim. The lifeguards approached the team leaders to talk about their plan and provide a safety briefing about the area and the conditions. The water temperature was 59 degrees F, the surf was 2–4 feet and the wind was 10–15 knots from the west. Lifeguards advised against the group's ocean swim. ...
Source: JEMS Operations - August 1, 2016 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: John Sandmeyer, EMT Tags: Major Incidents Rescue & Vehicle Extrication Source Type: news

Artist Kindra Crick Remembers Her Grandfather, Nobel Prize Winner Francis Crick
Francis Crick, shared the Nobel Prize in 1962 for discerning the structure of DNA. It was perhaps the most important biological discovery of the past century. But then Crick became fascinated with the nature of consciousness, an imprecise and controversial field at the time, and moved from England to La Jolla, CA, to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. His granddaughter Kindra Crick, a cell biologist and artist who created the DNA sculpture called "What Mad Pursuit" for the billion dollar Crick Institute in London, recalls those heady times of early science on La Jolla's Mesa, "The Miracle Coast." Intellectual Cap...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - July 13, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Stem cell reprogramming allows scientists to model autism development
Stephen FellerLA JOLLA, Calif., July 8 (UPI) -- Researchers have modeled the development of neurons in some autism patients, offering what they say is a new understanding of the condition.
Source: Health News - UPI.com - July 8, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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