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Tell Me a Story: Teen Sees Past His Stroke

2011-11-18T23:08:00.000-08:00

Adam Zust is a high school senior who survived a stroke. No one can explain why he collapsed while he was home running on his treadmill. But his recovery amazes and inspires people. After months of rehab at the Outpatient Neurorehabilitation Therapy center at Cincinnati Children's, he is walking and talking again. The specialized therapy has helped him communicate and regain his self-esteem. He says he wants to use his experience to motivate others.

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Executive Dysfunction and Neurorehab 1

2011-11-18T23:06:00.000-08:00

Executive dysfunction is a crucial issue in brain injury rehabilitation. This video introduces the topic and describes methods of screening, with two case studies.

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2011-11-18T22:46:00.000-08:00

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Dieter's quarter-life crisis changed everything

2011-02-12T04:02:00.000-08:00

"I always told myself that it was just who I was and I couldn't change that," she says.

Then, in January 2009, on the eve of her 25th birthday, she weighed 292 pounds and lacked the confidence to go out to party with her friends.

"I couldn't keep up with them. I felt like I was 50 years old. I was lazy and slow, and I wanted more out of my life. I was only 25, for crying out loud.

"I decided to take a new direction in my life."

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Whalen threw out the junk food in her house and started eating healthier and exercising more. She lost 6 pounds in a couple of weeks, and then a friend suggested they both sign up for the Weight Watchers program online and support each other.

So she did that and lost 56 pounds in seven months, dropping from a size 24 to a size 18. She has worked hard to keep it off since then.

At 5-foot-5, Whalen, 27, now weighs 236.

Emily Whalen

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At her heaviest, Whalen weighed 292 pounds.

Whalen is one of the readers who volunteered to share her story as part of this year's eighth annual USA TODAY Weight-Loss Challenge. Stories about other readers who have slimmed down and kept the weight off are published at dietchallenge.usatoday.com.

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FDA Approves First 3D Mammogram Device

2011-02-12T04:00:00.000-08:00

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved on Friday the first X-ray mammography device that provides three-dimensional images of the breast for cancer screening and diagnosis.

The Selenia Dimensions System, an upgrade to Massachusetts-based Hologic Inc.'s FDA-approved two-dimensional system, can provide 2-D and 3-D X-ray images of the breasts. The 3-D images may help physicians more accurately detect and diagnose breast cancer, the FDA said in a news release.

"Physicians can now access this unique and innovative 3-D technology that could significantly enhance existing diagnosis and treatment approaches," said Dr. Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

A mammogram is a low-dose X-ray of the breast and is considered the best tool for early detection of breast cancer. But, with conventional two-dimensional imaging, an estimated 10 percent of women must endure additional testing because an initial screening exam found abnormalities that were later determined to be noncancerous, the agency said.

The combined use of the Selenia's 2-D and 3-D images roughly doubled the amount of radiation a patient received. But, it improved accuracy, decreasing the number of women called back for additional testing, the FDA said. The agency added that there is uncertainty about radiation risk estimates. However, the increase in cancer risk from having both a 2-D and 3-D exam is expected to be less than 1.5 percent compared to the natural cancer incidence, and less than 1 percent compared to the risk from conventional 2-D mammography.

The U.S. National Cancer Institute recommends that women ages 40 and older have a mammogram every one to two years. Nearly 40 million mammograms are performed each year in the United States.

As part of the approval process, the FDA reviewed results from two studies where board-certified radiologists were asked to review two-dimensional and three-dimensional images from more than 300 mammography exams. In both studies, the radiologists viewing both the 2-D and 3-D images realized a 7 percent improvement in their ability to distinguish between cancerous and non-cancerous cases, compared to viewing 2-D images alone, the agency said.

According to the NCI, nearly 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, and 1 in 8 women will face a diagnosis of breast cancer sometime during their lifetime. However, there is a 98 percent survival rate when breast cancer is detected early and still localized to the breast.

What Stem Cells Need to Survive in the Brain

2011-02-12T03:58:00.000-08:00

Stem cells have been a hot and also controversial topic in research and in the media for the last few years, as they might be used in the future to repair injured tissue in such diverse disease like heart attacks, strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and many more. But, there are also unsolved ethical issues about their procurement. There is a lot of confusion about what is meant by the expression “stem cells” in the media.

In principal there are three kinds of stem cells:

Embryonic stem cells. These cells are present in an embryo. They have the ability to develop into all of the different tissues types within the embryo. To use these cells in research (or in the future for therapies) embryos have to be destroyed which makes the use of these cells highly controversial.
Adult stem cells. These are cells isolated from adult tissues that retain the ability to develop into a limited number of different kinds of cells. These stem cells are the cells that repair injuries in adult organs.
Induced stem cells. In theory, cells from any tissue can be reprogrammed to go back to a state in which they behave like embryonic stem cells. While this has been understood in principal, and there are many examples of them in research, the reprogramming involves the use of genes that can also cause cancer, so that the use of induced stem cells still is hampered by safety issues.

Many adult organs such as the liver contain adult stem cells which give these organs impressive regenerative capacity. Most areas of the adult brain, however, do not contain any stem cells, which is most likely the reason, why brain injuries are so hard to repair. In a recent publication, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, showed that stem cells in the brain of juvenile fruit flies need two different signals to persist into adult life: a signal from insulin which acts as a growth factor and the disruption of signals that lead to programmed cell death (apoptosis). If these findings hold true for the survival of stem cells in mammalian brains, they could be used in the future to re-introduce stem cells into a injured or diseased area of an adult brain and keep them alive long enough for tissue repair to happen. Remaining stem cells could then be starved off the insulin to remove them and thus reduce the risk that they will develop into cancer cells later on. However, since the brain cannot act as a source for adult brain stem cells, these stem cells would need to be induced or embryonic stem cells. Even if ethical concerns are not considered, much research is still necessary before these stem cells are safe enough to be used in humans.

Choose Your Sandwich Meat Wisely

2011-01-10T06:57:00.000-08:00

When shopping for lunch food, don't be misled by "fat-free" labels. As the table below shows, a slice of regular turkey breast would be a better choice than a deli meat labeled "95% fat-free" - in terms of both calories and fat content.

The table shows the fat content and calories from a 1-oz serving of various sandwich meats. In the turkey bologna, more than 60% of the calories come from fat -- double the recommended guideline.

Lunch meat	Fat content	Calories
turkey breast - 1 oz	0.2 g	35
turkey bologna - 1 oz	4.0 g	55
lean ham (labeled "95% fat-free") - 1 oz	1.4 g	37
regular ham - 1 oz	3.0 g	52
chopped pressed pastrami - 1 oz	2.8 g	40

Be sure to read labels carefully, and look at the actual fat content, when you're shopping for heart-healthy choices.

Nutrition Facts and Information Center

2011-01-10T06:55:00.001-08:00

If you're interested in making better, healthier food choices, youâ€™ve come to the right place. lifeclinic.com nutrition channel offers comprehensive, understandable news and features about how nutrition plays a role in your health. Read our nutrition articles to learn the basics of good nutrition, figure out how to read a food label and understand the role of different vitamins, nutrients and minerals in keeping your healthy.

If you have health problems that require special diets or nutritional considerations, look no further for information about nutrition and diet and their roles in diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, cancer and lung conditions. If you are an athlete or a vegetarian, you have nutritional concerns of your own - and you can find answers to your questions in our sections designated just for you.

Obama issues rules on mental-health coverage

2010-01-29T23:50:00.000-08:00

Advocates for mental-health and substance-abuse patients have long lobbied for a "level insurance field," asking for the same kinds of coverage offered for physical ailments.

Rules issued yesterday by the Obama administration regarding the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008 take a major step toward achieving that goal.

The legislation -- passed with broad bipartisan support -- aims to remove financial barriers to treatment for people with mental-health and substance-abuse problems.

About 140 million Americans in more than 450,000 employer plans will benefit from improved coverage, according to the administration.

Included among the rules that will take effect July 1 are:

□ Health plans for employers with more than 50 workers cannot charge a higher co-pay or deductible for treatment for mental health or substance abuse than for a visit to the doctor or medical specialist. There also is no separate deductible.

□ The plans cannot set restrictions on the number of visits or hospital days for mental-health and substance-abuse problems that are different than those for medical problems.

□ The plans must offer out-of-network benefits for mental-health and substance-abuse treatments as they do medical and surgical treatments.

However, the act does not require that a group health plan provide benefits for mental health and substance abuse. It also does not apply to issuers who sell health-insurance policies to employers with 50 or fewer employees or who sell health-insurance policies to individuals.

Still, local and state mental-health officials and advocates applauded the approval.

"It is the right thing to do because health plans will now have to recognize mental illness as an illness," said Judy Briggs, the CEO of Carolina Behavioral Health Alliance and a local mental-health advocate.

For instance, Briggs said, previous standards limited the number of times a mentally-ill patient could see a doctor or therapist "regardless of how sick they were."

"You would never tell a diabetic you can only see your doctor 20 times a year even though your diabetes is totally out of control," Briggs said. "Both are biologically-based illnesses.

"But health plans enforced these limits on people with bipolar illness even if the illness was out of control."

Kathleen Sebelius, the U.S. secretary of health and human services, said that the rules "will, for the first time, help assure that those diagnosed with these debilitating and sometimes life-threatening disorders will not suffer needless or arbitrary limits on their care."

The N.C. Division of Mental-Health Services has been active in supporting legislation requiring parity in mental-health and substance-abuse treatment services, said Leza Wainwright, the director of the agency. "Since the rules just came out today, we have not had the opportunity to analyze them to begin to determine the impact upon North Carolina," she said.

Briggs cautioned that health plans, government agencies and advocates must "make sure that the care being provided is effective and efficient, and does not add unnecessary cost for health plans."

Profit of Using Nutritional Supplements.

2009-07-10T01:34:00.000-07:00

It has been suggested that in order to maintain human cells in a state of optimum health that 400 IU (International Units) of vitamin E should be consumed on a daily basis.

This value is higher the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) for a number of reasons:

Vitamin E is the most powerful anti-oxidant and is present in many vegetables, nuts, pulses, etc. To put this into context, an individual would have to consume 14.5 kg of spinach each day to achieve this dosage. Alternatively, 1kg or almonds would provide the optimum protection to the human cells. This example should highlight that it is very difficult to consume 400 IU of vitamin E without incorporating nutritional supplementation.

An example would be for vegetarians who generally find it difficult to consume sufficient quantities of protein. In this instance, I would strongly recommend supplementing with a Soy Protein supplement. Soy protein does not contain animal products and can provide all of the essential amino acids that the body requires for building and repairing bodily tissues.

Firstly, RDA s were established in the 1940s and were guidelines to prevent diseases such as scurvy and rickets

and are considered to be considerably out of date. In addition, the external environment in which we live today contains higher levels of pollutants, radiation and other harmful substances, which significantly increases our need for anti-oxidants.

Firstly there are the macro nutrients. Macro nutrients include Carbohydrates, Proteins and Fats. At the most simplified level, carbohydrates provide our bodies with energy, proteins are responsible for building and repairing muscle tissue and fats provide additional energy reserves and allow for the transportation of micro nutrients around the body and are also necessary for the production of many hormones.

It is known that the levels of vitamins in fresh fruit and vegetables depletes over time, so in order to get the best anti-oxidation defense from our food, we would have to consume them immediately after they were picked. This is very difficult due to the nature of how supermarkets distribute their produce and the shelf lives of these products.

Free radicals are harmful molecules, which are produced by chemical reactions within the human body, as well as by factors in our external environment. They attack healthy cells causing them to break down (degenerate), in the long term potentially leading to the development of degenerative disease.

Macro nutrient supplements (i.e. proteins, meal replacements and healthy snacking options), also serve a purpose to many individuals:

Secondly there are micro nutrients. Micro nutrients include vitamins (also known as anti-oxidants) and minerals. Each vitamin (A, B12, C, D, E, K, etc.) and mineral (Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Zinc, etc.) serves a specific function within the body and all of them are required for good bodily function. Deficiencies in vitamins and minerals have been identified as one of the primary factors in the development of degenerative disease, as vitamins in particular are responsible for the removal of free radicals within the body.

It is commonly believed (especially amongst older generations) that eating a balanced diet and exercising regularly is sufficient to maintain good health, but there is also the conflicting argument that without supplementation, many people’s intake of vital nutrients falls far short of their body’s requirements.

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Health Savings Plans

2009-07-02T22:23:00.001-07:00

Calculating the yet rising penalty of physical condition assurance has take place a splendor priority. If you continue strong point insurance, whether anyone basic knowledge or group, you come up with undoubtedly skilled premium increases all schedule your guiding principle renews.

One of the furthermost ways of life of compelling keep in check of your power expenditure and remedial expenses is to set up a come into being Savings Account, generally referred to when you come right down to it as an HSA.

It is notable to dredge up with the purpose of many, if not most, those by way of wellbeing declaration don't indulge plenty resources on remedial expenses in any granted day to nonetheless greet the deductible on their policy. This means, of course, so as to they are paying for coverage with the aim of they don't must or standardized use! So come again? To do? Impose out a physical condition protection research and a peak deductible and set up an HSA.

Next are my top ten reasons for having an HSA:

1. Your HSA is a fascination conduct savings account. Different banks and financial institutions go through legendary the development of HSAs and are jumping on the hoop car to get you to use them for your account. a quantity of contain companies set up your send the bill to them what time you put your name down in one of their have an effect on plans. One such bash is checkup Savings assurance concert party which is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

2. The change for the better you earn on your HSA is tax overdue pending you are 65

3. Elevated deductible wellbeing promise translates interested in less important premiums as you are now pretentious supplementary of the danger your sketch pays for.

4. Persons operation partakes of unattached one deductible for the rotund stance and not on a per qualities basis. The lowest possible sum of the deductible is set by the significant constraint on a yearly basis.

5. Currency you deposit hooked on the report can be worn for judiciously any health-giving purpose. Firm of these expenses are: doctor of medicine undertaking visits, lab occupation and x-rays, prescriptions, dentist bills, eyesight and eye care, complementary medicine such as chiropractors, examination aids, etc.

6. notes you put interested in your HSA is tax deductible. Not single-handed can you eliminate your HSA deposits from your significant yield tax take back but lots of states now also make available the deduction.

7. The riches you apart from in your forte Savings correct aren’t misplaced at the end of the day as it are in approximately employer sponsored programs. The clarification pray rotate more than on or after generation to day earning you compounded amusement on any burial you haven't second-hand as of the account.

8. Set up a fitness Savings financial credit is indistinguishable to nation up a curative IRA. This allows you to pre-fund medical expenses for your retirement years.

9. The possessions in your HSA are yours. If your employer has complete deposits on your behalf, it's put to rest yours. If you distinguish employers or steady promise companies, it's even so yours and goes by means of you. If you ensemble disappointed by the economic mass reveal your HSA, you can spool the wealth ended to another.

10. Lastly, by via your potency Savings report coupled along with your exalted deductible hit tact and shopping for your physical condition care, you are charming statute of how your physical condition impenetrability dollars are spent.

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