4+ min ago (670+ words) With the R2.5-million 2024/2025 Harry Oppenheimer Fellowship Award, we have the opportunity to catapult Africa into the forefront of paediatric traumatic brain injury research and expertise. There is a compelling counterpart to South Africa's growing reputation for exploring the complexities of the outer universe with its strategic astronomy programme: an ambitious exploration of the complex internal universe of the human brain. In children, this complexity is even more pronounced. While an adult's brain is essentially physiologically stable, a child's is not: it constantly undergoes rapid structural and functional changes, so much so that we cannot compare a two-year-old's to a 12-year-old's, let alone that of an adult. This also means that what works in treating any brain injury in adults, including medication and surgery, is not necessarily effective in children. Indeed, trying to translate treatments is a profoundly bad idea. We…...

9+ min ago (121+ words) The brain has a specific detoxification network we can support with a healthy lifestyle. Your Brain's Secret Defense Against Alzheimer's For many people, Alzheimer's disease casts an increasingly large shadow as mental fog, forgotten names, or slower thinking appear with age. However, our brains are not helpless. They have their own built-in cleaning and repair system'one that can dramatically reduce your risk of Alzheimer's if properly supported. Your Brain's Hidden Cleaning Crew Defuse Fear Through 3-Stage Visualization Method | Jessica Russo, Psy.D. Beyond Vitamin D: The Hidden Healing Powers of Sunlight Keto and Intermittent Fasting: How to Master Your Metabolic Reboot Fix Bipolar Brain Inflammation With Super Antioxidants | William J. Walsh...

9+ min ago (121+ words) The brain has a specific detoxification network we can support with a healthy lifestyle. Your Brain's Secret Defense Against Alzheimer's For many people, Alzheimer's disease casts an increasingly large shadow as mental fog, forgotten names, or slower thinking appear with age. However, our brains are not helpless. They have their own built-in cleaning and repair system'one that can dramatically reduce your risk of Alzheimer's if properly supported. Your Brain's Hidden Cleaning Crew Defuse Fear Through 3-Stage Visualization Method | Jessica Russo, Psy.D. Beyond Vitamin D: The Hidden Healing Powers of Sunlight Keto and Intermittent Fasting: How to Master Your Metabolic Reboot Fix Bipolar Brain Inflammation With Super Antioxidants | William J. Walsh...

10+ min ago (1072+ words) The bystander effect may explain why no one intervened at a Tauranga fountain where a 4-year-old was lying "face down, a psychologist says. Tauranga girl Nia Lohchab drowned in the Memorial Park fountain on May 21, 2023. Coroner Matthew Bates released his findings in October and said he was "troubled that four people were captured on CCTV near the fountain, but no one pulled Nia out. He said at least three of the bystanders were "clearly aware of her lying in the water, and one appeared to be calling emergency services. Police removed Nia and began CPR when they arrived, about 13 minutes after she had entered the water. While it was "unlikely a bystander's intervention would have changed the outcome, the coroner said, minimising the time in water and starting CPR as soon as possible were "crucial steps for increasing the chances…...

10+ min ago (809+ words) Rodrigo Olin-German is an HIV advocate who has lived with the virus since 2003. He is board chair of the Global Network of People living with HIV and head of services and outreach at the Burnett Foundation Aotearoa. Here, on World Aids Day, he talks to Paulette Crowley about what's it like living with HIV. Have you ever seen the movie Philadelphia? It's about a gay man with a very successful career as a lawyer. He had human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which destroys your immune system. Like many people with HIV back when that movie was made in the 1990s, he got really sick and died. I watched that movie back in my homeland of Mexico when I was 20, while I was waiting for the results of an HIV test. I had symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection but doctors also tested…...

10+ min ago (322+ words) I respect those who would never want euthanasia for themselves, while defending vigorously the choice of those 480 adults who exercised their lawful right to VAD. The grey-haired doctor is in his eighties and moves more slowly now He pivots his body with each step, compensating for a stiffened spine, but you suspect he might have been good at tennis back in the day He looks like one of those old buggers who can pull out a cunning drop shot He wears shorts, long socks and runners, and still sports a fine head of hair It would only take a sleeveless white cardigan to imagine him playing mixed doubles on a grass court, sometime around 1975 Maybe that is where he found contentment, but more importantly, he seems to have held onto it The widower doctor smiles as he makes his rounds…...

11+ min ago (597+ words) Dr. Sai Balasubramanian is a healthcare strategy executive, speaker and writer, focusing on the intersections of healthcare, digital innovation, and technology. He completed an M.D./ J.D. dual-degree with distinguished honors, focusing his scholarship on how systemic changes to healthcare affect the realities of actual patient care and societal health outcomes. Dr. Balasubramanian draws upon his clinical training, legal education, and background in strategy to analyze the operational, business, and political frameworks that impact clinical medicine, innovation in healthcare, and health policy. He is an avid reader of non-fiction books, and enjoys writing, public speaking and biking in his free time. The Healthcare Workforce Shortage Is Growing; States Are Rushing To Fix It A new study published in the Annals of Family Medicine reaffirms a fear that has been persistent for the last decade: the healthcare worker shortage across America is growing, especially…...

14+ min ago (23+ words) Aussie cricket legend Michael Clarke reveals he had a skin cancer cut from his nose just four weeks ago. The Sydney Morning Herald...

15+ min ago (531+ words) A senior Food and Drug Administration official on Friday said the agency will change its vaccine approval process, alleging that COVID-19 vaccination resulted in the deaths of 10 children. Video above: White House links Tylenol in pregnancy to autism; experts say evidence falls short In an internal memo obtained by CNN, Dr. Vinay Prasad " the FDA's chief medical and scientific officer and the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research " claimed, "Healthy young children who faced tremendously low risk of death were coerced, at the behest of the Biden administration, via school and work mandates, to receive a vaccine that could result in death." Prasad did not provide details about the deaths or how the FDA came to that conclusion, but pointed to "an initial analysis" that examined 96 deaths and linked 10 to the COVID-19 vaccination. He also claimed that…...

15+ min ago (531+ words) A senior Food and Drug Administration official on Friday said the agency will change its vaccine approval process, alleging that COVID-19 vaccination resulted in the deaths of 10 children. Video above: White House links Tylenol in pregnancy to autism; experts say evidence falls short In an internal memo obtained by CNN, Dr. Vinay Prasad " the FDA's chief medical and scientific officer and the director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research " claimed, "Healthy young children who faced tremendously low risk of death were coerced, at the behest of the Biden administration, via school and work mandates, to receive a vaccine that could result in death." Prasad did not provide details about the deaths or how the FDA came to that conclusion, but pointed to "an initial analysis" that examined 96 deaths and linked 10 to the COVID-19 vaccination. He also claimed that…...