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A doctor’s love affair with medicine and literature

By Guest PostDecember 10, 2015Health, Scienceanna reisman, doctor, literature, love affair, magic mountain, medicine, nu haven kapelye, thomas mann, yale university

For Anna Reisman, M.D., it was a summer novel that pointed her to a career in medicine.

As a rising Yale senior and English major with no thought of becoming a doctor, she read Thomas Mann’s classic 1924 novelThe Magic Mountain, a tale of tuberculosis patients at a Swiss sanatorium. Surprised by her own fascination with the disease, she went on to read physician-writers Oliver Sacks, M.D., Richard Selzer, M.D., HS ’61, and Lewis Thomas, M.D. Soon she was a medical student at New York University. (more…)

Study finds where our brain stores the time and place of memories

By Guest PostDecember 8, 2015Healthbrain records, hippocampus, memories in humans, memory hub, real life memories

A first view of real-life memories ‘on the scale of our lives’

COLUMBUS, Ohio – For the first time, scientists have seen evidence of where the brain records the time and place of real-life memories. (more…)

Quiet ‘epidemic’ of drugs, alcohol and suicide has killed half a million middle-aged white Americans

By Guest PostDecember 6, 2015Culture, Healthaids, aids epidemic, alcohol, america, angus deaton, anne case, drugs, oxycontin for kids, princeton university, quiet epidemic, suicide, survey, white americans

Despite advances in health care and quality of life, white middle-aged Americans have seen overall mortality rates increase over the past 15 years, representing an overlooked “epidemic” with deaths comparable to the number of Americans who have died of AIDS, according to new Princeton University research. (more…)

The heart of medicine: Dr. Anna Reisman on how the humanities inform medical practice

By Guest PostDecember 3, 2015Healthanna reisman, days of solitude, heart of medicine, medical practice, nabokovs lolita

The Program for Humanities in Medicine offered its 4^th lecture of this year on Nov. 11 with the James Kenney Lecture, “What the Humanities Know,” presented by Amy Hungerford, professor of English and American studies and divisional director of the humanities. (more…)

A ‘home run’ approach: Yale lab finds new ways to synthesize HIV inhibitor

By Guest PostOctober 27, 2015Healthapproach, cathedral mosque building, ceramic nanofiber, dagestan, derbent, juma mosque, madrasah, mosque in derbent, mr splashy pants, naryn kala citadel, synthesize, yale university

Yale University chemists have created a new process for synthesizing an organic, nitrogen-based compound that inhibits HIV.

The process represents a fundamentally different approach to synthesizing alkaloids, which are naturally occurring compounds that contain nitrogen. The new approach uses a set of starting materials that do not require the usual tempering of nitrogen’s reactive tendencies. (more…)

Neue Behandlungsmethode für Gehirninfektion

By Guest PostOctober 19, 2015Healthbat transmitted rabies, blood feeding bats, care n grow, disturbance mediated dispersal, earth orbit changes, jc polyomavirus, sea ice melting, thilo stehle, universitaet tuebingen, vampire bat colony

Biochemiker der Universität Tübingen und Schweizer Forscher finden erstmals Weg, gefährliche Virusinfektion zu bekämpfen

In einem internationalen Forschungsprojekt haben Wissenschaftler der Universität Tübingen eine neue Behandlungsstrategie für Patienten mit einer Virusinfektion des Gehirns entdeckt. Das JC Polyomavirus kann in immungeschwächten Patienten die tödliche Erkrankung Progressive Multifocal Encelphalopathy (PML) auslösen, indem es gezielt Zellen im Gehirn angreift. Bislang gibt es keine Therapie für diese Erkrankung. In Kooperation mit dem Team von Professor Roland Martin an der Universität Zürich und der Schweizer Firma Neurimmune zeigen Professor Thilo Stehle und Dr. Luisa Ströh vom Interfakultären Institut für Biochemie an der Universität Tübingen nun erstmals eine Behandlungsmöglichkeit. Die Ergebnisse wurden kürzlich im Fachjournal Science Translational Medicine publiziert.
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Experimenteller Wirkstoff lindert Beschwerden neurodegenerativer Hirnerkrankung im Laborversuch

By Guest PostOctober 16, 2015Healthbaerenarten in asien, bristlecone pine researchers, evolutionsgeschichte der baeren, game theorist, lippenbaer, neurodegenerative erkrankungen, protein, strategic maneuvering, strategically adept characters, theory of games, verena kutschera

Testsubstanz verlangsamt Krankheitsverlauf

Forscher des Deutschen Zentrums für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen (DZNE) in Bonn haben gemeinsam mit Forscherteams um Christian Griesinger vom Max-Planck-Institut (MPI) für biophysikalische Chemie und Armin Giese von der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) einen neuartigen Wirkstoff untersucht, der als Prototyp für die Entwicklung von Medikamenten gegen Alzheimer und andere Hirnerkrankungen dienen könnte. Die Substanz mit der Bezeichnung „anle138b“ linderte bei Mäusen Krankheitsbeschwerden und verbesserte deren kognitive Leistung. (more…)

Mensch und Affe werden im Amazonasgebiet vom gleichen Malariaerreger befallen

By Guest PostOctober 12, 2015Healthceleste gonzalez bustamante, combat global disease, hearing clinics, hearing screening system, hearing screenings, ibm watson commercialization, low cost earbuds, medical record keeping, mensch, newborn hearing screening, ozcan research group, randall bly, watson case competition

Tübinger Forscher finden Hinweis darauf, dass zwei Parasitenarten eigentlich eine sind, die mehrere Wirtsarten hat – Folgen für die globale Bekämpfung der Krankheit (more…)

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