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John Arnold: I’m not into blogging, but I’ll tell you about my life ‘influencers’
Though the influencer phenomenon seems like a new fad, there always have been people of influence. so says John Arnold as he recalls key figures in his life
Bartlemy Macra Na Feirme history project team, back in 1976. Back row, Moss Dooley, Battie Arnold, Willie Cotter, John Ahern, Mick Browne. Middle row, Tom Lynch, Nora Arnold, Ann O Riordan, Tom O Riordan. Front row, Breda Lane, John Arnold, Anna Lynch, Tom Scanlon, Marian Dooley.
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I SUPPOSE we have always had ‘influencers’ in society, though the term might not have been widely used in the past.
Novel compound appears to protect myelin and nerve fibers
A compound developed at Oregon Health & Science University appears to protect nerve fibers and the fatty sheath, called myelin, that covers nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
The discovery, published in the
Journal of Neuroimmunology, could be important in treating or preventing the progression of multiple sclerosis and other central nervous system disorders. The new research in a mouse model advances earlier work to develop the compound - known as sobetirome - that has already showed promise in stimulating the repair of myelin.
Sobetirome and related drugs are effective at stimulating myelin repair after damage has occurred. Our new findings now suggest that these drugs could also prove to be beneficial for preventing damage from occurring. It means that these drugs have a dual effect that we didn t know about before.
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A compound developed at Oregon Health & Science University appears to protect nerve fibers and the fatty sheath, called myelin, that covers nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
The discovery, published in the
Journal of Neuroimmunology, could be important in treating or preventing the progression of multiple sclerosis and other central nervous system disorders. The new research in a mouse model advances earlier work to develop the compound - known as sobetirome - that has already showed promise in stimulating the repair of myelin. Sobetirome and related drugs are effective at stimulating myelin repair after damage has occurred. Our new findings now suggest that these drugs could also prove to be beneficial for preventing damage from occurring, said senior author Dennis Bourdette, M.D., former chair and professor emeritus of neurology in the OHSU School of Medicine. It means that these drugs have a dual effect that we didn t know about before.
Joyce Eileen Scanlan, longtime leader of National Federation of the Blind of Minnesota, dies at 85 January 11, 2021 12:39pm Text size Copy shortlink:
Joyce Eileen Scanlan could not get a teaching job in Minnesota when she moved to the state in the 1970s. She had been teaching English and Latin for years in North Dakota and Montana, but schools in Minnesota would not hire her because she was blind, said her husband, Tom Scanlan. They d ask, How would you find your way around the school and how would you find the bathroom? he said.
So she took up a job proofreading Braille and spent much of the rest of her life as an advocate and champion for the blind, leading the charge to add disability protections to the Minnesota Human Rights Act and to require the teaching of Braille in public schools.