Courtesy of Heather Rendulic
Heather Rendulic, pictured here with her dog Brantley, has written a book about recovering from brain surgery that saved her life. The book chronicling her journey is title “Head Strong: Through Life, Love and Brain Surgery.”
Courtesy of Heather Rendulic
Heather Rendulic was 22 when she underwent brain surgery needed to remove a mass that was causing hemorrhages. The risky procedure required months of rehabilitation to relearn how to walk. Her ordeal is chronicled in a book titled “Head Strong: Through Life, Love and Brain Surgery.”
Courtesy of Heather Rendulic
Brain surgery saved Heather Rendulic’s life, but left her with physical disabilities that prevent her from riding her beloved horse Darius, a 30-year-old Belgian Warmblood who now lives on a farm in Butler County. Rendulic has chronicled her ordeal in a book titled “Head Strong: Through Life, Love and Brain Surgery.”
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Professor of neurosurgery discusses Sweden s COVID strategy
Jessica Haasz
February 03, 2021
The Penn State Department of Health Policy and Administration will host “Overview of the Swedish COVID Strategy: Background and Reasoning on How Policies Have Been Enforced,” at 9 a.m. EST Feb. 23 via Zoom. The talk will feature Lennart Persson, professor of neurosurgery, Uppsala University, Sweden. Registration is not required for the event.
Dr. Persson’s talk will discuss the strategy the country of Sweden took when the COVID-19 pandemic first began in spring 2020.
Sweden‘s pandemic strategy is based on providing recommendations and information to the public. Sweden relied primarily on voluntary measures to reduce the spread of infection which differed from most other countries.
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Berwyn, Pennsylvania (Newsfile Corp. - February 2, 2021) - Annovis Bio Inc. (NYSE American: ANVS), a clinical-stage drug platform company addressing Alzheimer s disease (AD), Parkinson s disease (PD) and other neurodegenerative diseases, today announced study data showing that a combination treatment using the Company s lead candidate ANVS401 and pifithrin-a (PFT-a) after stroke improved mice locomotor activity and cognitive function more so than treatment with just one or the other agent.
The published study, Sequential combined Treatment of Pifithrin-a and Posiphen Enhances Neurogenesis and Functional Recovery After Stroke, was conducted by Yu Agnes Luo, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Immediately after a traumatic brain injury and as long as one year later, there are increased levels of immune cells called ILCs in the brain promoting inflammation, which can worsen brain damage, scientists report.
They also report for the first time that the cell energy sensor AMPK is a brake that can stop what becomes a chronic state of destructive inflammation driven by these ILCs, or innate lymphoid cells.