Epilepsy in Our Lives: Women Living with Epilepsy (The Brainstroms Series)
The Known Causes of Seizures (Free subscription) | yesterday
ONE HELPING of agony, Mekete Gebrehanna saw coming. The second portion, he wasn’t prepared for. Gebrehanna left his home in Ethiopia to earn a degree in environmental science in Guyana. Afterward, his wife and two sons joined him for their new life in Truro, where he began studying for a master’s degree at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Bible Hill. They loved living in Canada....
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
The state can now decide who is entitled to have a baby and remove the child from those they claim are not intelligent enough. A heavily pregnant woman and her fiance have gone on the run after social workers threatened to take away their baby at birth. Kerry Robertson, 17, and Mark McDougall, 25, had been told that she was not bright enough to raise their child and that they would have to give him...
The Food & Drink Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Peter Abertoning Is it possible that there are drugs in your drinking water? Surely it's not possible that when you drink a glass of water you're drinking drugs? Lets take a look at the possibility that there are drugs in drinking water in the US. Lets start with a quote from the Ralph Nader Institute. "U.S. drinking water contains more than 2,100 toxic chemicals that can cause cancer."...
Cheri Quite Contrary (Free subscription) | yesterday
That is what I am dealing with now - what appears to be Central Pain Syndrome, which has hit me completely out of the blue. Entirely related to my severely damaged lumbar nerves but completely unlike any of the other pain I have experienced to date. CentralPain.org This new pain is a burning feeling from my bra strap to my hips, on my back. It is only on the skin, but feels like the worst sunburn you...
PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Abbott Laboratories this morning confirmed the company's sales and marketing practices of Depakote, the widely used drug to treat bipolar disorder and epilepsy, are under federal investigation. The U.S. Department of Justice , through the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia , is handling the probe, the company said in a statement. "We are cooperating with the investigation,"...
Flesh is Grass (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I just can’t get my head round it. Total blank (mind your epilepsy). Is it something more than ideas against hegemony? Sometimes I feel a bit anxious because I don’t understand it, just can’t at all get to grips with it as a discipline. Maybe this, by Michael Berube, is why: in his piece Cultural [...]
Phd Position in Biology (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
University Bonn,Department of Epileptology .We offer a PhD position (TVL 13/2) in the field of cellular electrophysiology . The scientific interests of our working group include physiology of synaptic transmission, pathophysiology of epilepsy and mechanisms of pharmacoresistance in people with chronic epilepsy. The announced project deals with activity-dependent alterations of proteins which are involved...
monochrom (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Life as a Labradoodle may sound free and easy, but if you're Jet, who lives in New Jersey, there is a lot of work to be done. He is both a seizure alert dog and a psychiatric service dog whose owner has epilepsy, severe anxiety, depression, various phobias and hypoglycemia. Jet has been trained to anticipate seizures, panic attacks and plunging blood sugar and will alert his owner to these things by...
B P Collins: Chalfont Suite Art Exhibitions (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The 'Creating Possibilities' exhibition of paintings, by artists based at The National Society for Epilepsy, drew to a close this week having raised nearly £3500 for the residents of the Chalfont St Peter based charity. Heralded as our most successful exhibition to date, the vibrant and eclectic style of paintings certainly caught the imagination of visiting clients, with two of the paintings...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
From a slew of new brainwave toys and bionic monkeys to advanced brain scans and wireless neuro-implants that will soon enable paralyzed people to remotely operate computers with their minds, the gap in the human-machine interface is closing. But while mind-reading gets all the glory, other researchers are developing new amazing non-drug methods to control the brain as well. We've posted many times...
Mary's World (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
It is not a new leaf, actually it is the same old leaf so I don't expect it to last, but I am turning it over again. It all started with Rosie O'Donnell having a new radio show on Sirius/XM. I thought the show was from 10am to noon...no problem there, I try to at least get up by 10am or maybe 10:30...ok some times 11am. Since I don't have a kid to take to school anymore I don't get up in the morning...
4 - Alzheimers (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
High blood pressure, evidence of arterial disease and markers of inflammation in the blood in middle age appear more common in individuals whose parents have Alzheimer's disease than in individuals without a parental history of the condition, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Related posts: High Blood Pressure Likely in...
Obesity and the Salt Connection (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
BBC News reports that breast cancer is more complex than was previously realised. " Lead researcher Dr Dana Faratian said: "We were surprised that such a high proportion of tumours change form when they spread beyond the breast. This suggests there is a need to test which type of disease a woman has in the lymph nodes, because it could radically alter the course of treatment she receives....
Jimmy Moore's '30-In-30' Challenge (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
PLEASE CONSIDER FINANCIALLY SUPPORTING THE #1 LOW-CARB PODCAST ON THE INTERNET! If you have enjoyed and benefitted from the many interviews I have conducted with the best and brightest experts on the subject of diet, fitness, and health, then consider helping keep the show going by clicking on the DONATE button on the official podcast web site . We are privileged to have literally tens of thousands...
Brainicane (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Most online hoaxes are mildly annoying, and a few are hilarious. But propagating a false AMBER Alert over Twitter? Plastering an epilepsy forum with flashing images? Not cool.
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