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Monthly Archives: August 2018
Putting heads together: Brain researchers collaborate to understand and battle dementia, addiction, schizophrenia and more
BY AMBER SMITH What do drug addiction, neurodevelopmental disorders and dementia have in common? All three disorders have origins in the brain, with causes and potential treatment methods that tend to overlap. For instance, they are all caused, at least in … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, aging/geriatrics, Alzheimer's/dementia, brain/neurology, health care, psychology/psychiatry, research
Tagged addiction research, ADHD, dementia research, dopamine, epigenetic modifiers, frontotemporal dementia, molecular signaling pathway, neurodevelopment disorders, neurodevelopmental research, neurons, neuroscience, neuroscientific research, plasticity, schizophrenia, synapses
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Yoga for all: Physical therapist adapts exercise for those with developmental disabilities
From its origins in India more than 3,000 years ago, yoga in America today has a reputation for improving flexibility, balance and muscle strength. Rebecca Alexander, who graduated from Upstate with her doctor of physical therapy degree this spring, extols … Continue reading
Posted in community, disability, fitness, health care, physical therapy/rehabilitation
Tagged inclusive yoga, mainstream yoga, unified yoga, yoga and disabilities
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How do you choose between a medical and a musical career? Find a way to do both
BY JIM McKEEVER Future Upstate medical student Kaitlyn DeHority started classes at Ithaca College as a music major. She decided to add chemistry in her second semester. Four years later, she graduated with a dual degree in music and chemistry. … Continue reading
Posted in education, health care, health careers, medical education, medical student
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Interventional radiologist loves solving problems
BY AMBER SMITH In a typical day, Mitchell Karmel, MD, may take a biopsy of a liver tumor in one patient, install a port, so another patient can receive chemotherapy, and drain an abscess from deep within the abdomen of another. … Continue reading
Posted in health care, medical imaging/radiology, technology
Tagged image-guided biopsy, image-guided diagnosis, interventional radiologist, interventional radiology, minimally invasive diagnosis, peripherally inserted central catheter, PICC line
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Clot-busting medicine saved her from stroke: Retired physician assistant knew something wasn’t right
BY JIM HOWE Eileen Rosecrants became alarmed during a phone call. “I couldn’t speak clearly,” she recalls of that evening last fall. It wasn’t that her speech was slurred. She couldn’t figure out what to say, so she abruptly hung up, … Continue reading
Posted in brain/neurology, emergency medicine/trauma, health care, patient story, physical therapy/rehabilitation, stroke
Tagged clot-buster tPA, clot-dissolving drug tPA, post-stroke rehabilitation, stroke rehabilitation, tPA drug
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Damage control: Surgeons rely on Navy strategy in operating on severely injured trauma patients
BY JIM HOWE Peter Corigliano is a living example of what “damage control surgery” can accomplish. The Rome resident, now 62, was injured in a horrific industrial accident in 2012. He was working at Rome Strip Steel when a giant electromagnet … Continue reading
Posted in emergency medicine/trauma, health care, HealthLink on Air, surgery
Tagged damage control surgery, hernia repair, hernia surgery
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Scientist walks political tightrope: He deals with Taliban to help his native land rebuild
BY JIM HOWE An Upstate faculty member who lost his mother as a baby and grew up in a refugee camp hopes he can help his war-scarred homeland, Afghanistan. To do this, he has secured the permission of the local … Continue reading
Posted in community, education, fundraising, health care, HealthLink on Air, international health care, public health, research, volunteers
Tagged Afghan charities, Afghan education projects, Afghan NGOs, Afghan nonprofits, Afghanistan, Afghanistan charities, Afghanistan education projects, Afghanistan nonprofits, Afghanistan school projects
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A chance to look at occupational and physical therapy careers
By Amani Mike, Synergy intern I have dreamed of working in health care since I was 6 years old. Today, as a 20-year-old college student preparing for a career, I asked to spend a day shadowing occupational and physical therapists … Continue reading
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A remarkable recovery: His stroke care included fast-moving, coordinated efforts by his wife, ambulance crew and specialists at Upstate
BY JIM HOWE Dave Cartner has a remarkable story to share. The patient The 50-year-old Marcellus resident had finished breakfast on Feb. 13 and was about to leave for his job as a meat supervisor for a local food chain. … Continue reading
Posted in brain/neurology, emergency medicine/trauma, health care, HealthLink on Air, medical imaging/radiology, patient story, stroke, surgery
Tagged clot-bluster tPA, stroke, stroke care, stroke treatment, thrombectomy
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How to save someone from an opioid overdose
BY AMBER SMITH In preparation Purchase naloxone (trade name, Narcan), available without a prescription in New York pharmacies. Keep it with you, but do not store it in extreme temperatures (such as a car glove box), which can damage the … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, drugs/medications/pharmacy, health care, poison center/toxicology, public health
Tagged naloxone, opioid antidote, opioid overdose, opioid overdose antidote
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