As Iraq vets return with increasing incidence of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) health care use and costs have increased. Most PTSD research has focused on male veterans and female assault victims–leaving the impact on other sectors of the population uncertain. Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) interviewed [...]
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Patients with Lou Gehrig’s disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: ALS) suffer from a progressive degenerative motor neuron disease that is almost always fatal. Patients with ALS often demonstrate a range of coping capabilities. Joanna H. Fanos, Department of Pediatrics, Dartmouth Medical School, New Hampshire, and colleagues, sought to find the different ways ALS patients use internal and [...]
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ALS - Lou Gehrigs Disease
Researchers used an unique approach to target immune suppression with human umbilical cord blood cells to improve the pathology and cognitive decline associated with Alzheimer’s disease–based on a study involving mice genetically engineered for the neurodegenerative condition. Jun Tan, PhD, MD, and colleagues, performed a series of low-dose infusions of human umbilical cord blood cells [...]
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Alzheimer - Dementia
A researcher at the University of Alberta was analyzing data from a Saskatchewan health database when she started to connect the dots between antidepressants and type 2 diabetes. Lauren Brown, researcher, University of Alberta, studied the medical history of 2,400 people diagnosed with depression. She divided the people who were using antidepressants into one of [...]
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Diabetes
There is an estimated 5.7 million Americans who care for an aging relative and also have children under 21 who still live at home; they are termed ‘sandwich caregivers’. As baby-boomers age there will be a marked increase of sandwich caregivers. A recent survey of sandwich givers concludes: 70% of sandwich caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients said [...]
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Alzheimer - Dementia
Parkinson’s disease is thought to be caused by missing dopamine neurons. Stem cell research has sought a way to restore the missing dopamine neurons, but often the immune system rejects the transplanted cells. Lorenz Studer, MD, Head of Stem Cell and Tumor Biology Laboratory, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, feels that their latest study reduces the chances that [...]
Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) are debilitating diseases with no known cause and both with limited treatments for the symptoms and nothing for the underlying cause. Kent Holtorf, MD, medical director, Holtorf Medical Group Center for Endocrine, Neurological and Infection related illness, Torrance, Calif., reports that after a comprehensive literature study that the majority [...]
War veterans who suffer physical and emotion illness frequently suffer financial hardships due to their inability to find suitable employment. Veterans Affairs (VA) offers substantial medical services and benefits to those who have suffered a disability. Unfortunately, the VA disability benefits can serve as an incentive to commit fraud and abuse. Psychiatric disabilities, like Post Traumatic [...]
A central question in post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) research is why some individuals are at a greater risk of developing the disorder than others who face similar levels of trauma exposure. Rebekah G. Bradley, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, studied the role the variations of the gene (polymorphisms) FKBP5 has in predicting PTSD symptoms [...]
Previous studies on stress suggest that post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) could be either environmental or genetic. One study found the size of several regions of the brain are inherited and presumably one region in particular, the hippocampus, may increase stress reactivity or impair the capacity for resilience. Another study found that stress can cause brain [...]
