Baby with hydrocephalus, also known as “water in the brain,” a medical condition in which there is an abnormal accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid in the cavities of the brain. Transillumination, a diagnostic technique, is being used to help better identify the problem.
Say No To MGM is a new website with a powerful image. Today, in the United States, we still practice male genital cutting. We condemn female genital cutting, but we condone male genital cutting. Cutting the healthy sex organs of any child, male or female, is an abhorrent practice that needs to stop. Every child has the right to bodily autonomy and the right to grow up with their complete and whole body.
This is my niece Cailyn, she’s three years old and was recently diagnosed with Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG) . This is a very rare form of tumor diagnosed in only 200 children a year in the united states. The tumor is sitting on her brain stem and is inoperable. She just finished her first round of radiation, but other wise there is not much else the doctors can do. UNLESS she gets to take part in an experimental treatment in NY. My brother is in the Navy, and their insurance will not cover the cost.
I am asking that my followers help me out with a signal boost for Cailyn, whether it be for prayers or donating to her fund to help her recieve treatment. The average length of survival with this type of cancer is 9 months, with about 30% making it a year, and less than 10% making it 2 years.
You can donate to her fund by following this link, where you can also read more about her illness: Cailyn’s Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation
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Researchers at the Comprehensive Alzheimer’s Program at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have announced two new clinical trials for patients with either mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and one trial for Mild Cognitive Impairment.
“Two of these studies represent an exciting new approach to treating Alzheimer’s, focusing on improving memory in patients with early symptoms of impaired memory and possibly slowing down the disease progression long before symptoms appear,” said Michael Rafii, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurosciences and director of the Memory Disorders Clinic at UC San Diego .
All three are randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies.
Bacillus subtilis
A big step writ small
Microbial colonies are tiny cities of life. Understanding how they work – their integrated chemistry, genomics and phenotypes – has long been a sort of “holy grail” among microbiologists.
A step in that direction is reported this week by Pieter C. Dorrestein, PhD, associate professor at the UC San Diego Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, and colleagues in a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The scientists describe a new, highly sensitive, broadly applicable and cost-effective technique using mass spectrometry to profile the metabolic activity of live microbes directly from a Petri dish without any sample preparation.
Though most people will never see it at work, the new visualization platform is a significant advance in understanding the space and time dynamics of interacting microbial colonies and communities. It’s a big step writ small, akin perhaps to the qualitative difference between studying a dinosaur fossil and watching a whole herd of frolicking sauropods.
