Gene therapy has helped a 9-year-old boy regain enough muscle strength to run. If successful in others, the treatment could change the lives of thousands of children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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This isn't really a beauty question, but I just have no energy lately. Part of it's COVID, and it may be thyroid, but I haven't found a way to do better. Tried green tea and HLA.
I can not control it, I've been really stressed lately. A weeks ago I was on weekend holidays with my girlfriend and friends, we had fun, everything was great. In about last day of staying there, my right testicle was a little sensitive but I did not pay enough attention to it because it is normal for men. While i was having a shower with my girlfriend and while i was washing myself, I felt a little bump on my right testicle. I freaked out so much and had no mood till the rest of the day. It was Sunday, so there was no option seeking the doctor. This situation stressed me like crazy, I did not eat a day, because i did not know what it was. On monday, when i came home, i googled it and thats when the stress started to increase. I was going through a mental stress. On tuesday, I decides to seek the doctor with my mom. Long story short, it was nothing serious, it was just a basic bump of some bloodcells or whatever, nothing dangerous. I felt reborn.
It was hard to handle this much of a stress and still is, but this is what happened next. Yesterday I was drinking water and I drank it somehow badly, that thw chug was hurtful. I was having pain all day long, again all stressed because I did not know what it could be. I dont know, i always stress when it comes to my health. I decided to visit a medical centre where i described my problem, yet they added they will measure my blood pressure just in case. 140/90 - 129 pulses. I was sooooo stressed, my heart bumped like a crazy because i did now know what the doctor would tell me. I could not calm myself, not even for a bit. He then did a cardiograph and sent me to the urgent ambulance. - My throat was painful and now Iam going to the urgent ambulance? These were my thoughts. All stressed, couldnt do anything. When i got to the ambulance, doctor took a cardiograph again and wanted me to tell her what happened. I told her my throat was painful and that I am all stressed because i dont know what to expect and that I am worried and hope for nothing serious. I told her that I am really stressed and that last week i was seeking doctors as well because of my testicle and that its been a lot for me lately, yet she saw how stressed i was, Ive been given a magnesium to my blood via infusion to calm down a bit. She then took a samples of my blood that went to the laboratories if my heart enzymes were all okay. I was laying there on the bed, stressed out with the infusion going to my vein waiting for the tests from the doctor. At the meantime i was sent to the X ray scan. After doing all this and going back to the doctor, she said everything is fine. My cardiograph was all fine, only my heart was bumping faster. My enzymes were all good as well. They did not find anything on the xray scan. I felt reborn again. I was so stressed you could not imagine and it just fell off.
A day after this, so today, I woke up, have thoughts about my last week and how stressful iland how scared i was. Later this evening, i went to my grandma to have my blood pressure checked and i had 140/92 - 103 pulses. She said it is high and that i should seek a cardiologist - this stressed me again, I felt anxiety and stress. My parents are firefighters ans they know something about these things and they said my blood pressure can be high because of the hard week i had and even when i think i am calm I am not, because it is my body. Now I am again afraid of my health because of the pressure and idk what to do. ( I used to work out, do cardio and used to be active, but i havent done any of these for a long time. Ive gained a few kilos.) Should i really be worried about my high blood pressure and stressed or is it normal thing that can be treated or reduced? Can it be because of the last week of mine / not working out, gaining weight, eating junk)? I am thinking about starting to train again, because I am really worried. What should i do? Thank you.
The skin on my upper chest is slightly red and patchy from years of poor sun protection. I am in my late 20s and I have now changed my ways. I don't have any dark spots.
In looking for daily serums to apply, I see a lot of products made to fade wrinkles, eliminate dark spots, and hydrate mature skin. My skin is still young; I just want to stimulate healthy cell growth and reduce the redness.
I've seen recommendations about antioxidant oil, vitamin C, and vitamin A/retinol, but I am not sure the best one to choose. If I had to choose one natural serum a day, what would you recommend?
If anyone else also has this problem: I use Gypsy Cream from the Good Stuff Botanicals a few times a week and it is excellent. I am just looking for a serum as well so that I can apply it to my chest and have it absorb instantly so that I can immediately put my clothes on over it and not have it stain or feel sticky.
Thank you!
Hey!
Surgical Tech here - Our leadership is looking for alternatives to things like morning huddles because packing the entire OR staff into a small space doesn't exactly adhere to social distancing guidelines.
Outside of that, some of our practices just seem archaic in light of the fact that everyone has a smartphone in their pocket- like the daily schedule and on-call assignments are just taped to an office door; reference materials are scattered in binders across the OR, etc.
My thought is to digitize as much of that stuff as possible so that it all becomes searchable content that we carry in our pocket; and with the sudden demand and development that has gone into conferencing tech, now seems like a great time to modernize. The catch there is that it seems like conferencing tech is mostly focused on video communication, which imo is super overrated because the content of that meeting is lost as soon as it's spoken. Or even if the video is saved, the content therein isn't searchable.
So, I'm looking for an app with the following features:
Compatible with iPhone, Android, Windows, and Apple OS, so that team members can access it regardless of which device they're using.
Structured like a forum. For example, the on-call schedule could be posted as a thread for everyone to reference; and inside that thread we could discuss things like trading call shifts for that period.
Intuitive interface. The success of this idea would be dependent on people actually using it, which they're not going to do if they don't feel like it's easy and convenient.
Secure? I'd like your opinion on this one... We'd need at least a basic username/password setup so people could use their actual names, but beyond that, idk. The schedule has HIPAA protected info on it (pt names, etc) - can that be posted on a 3rd party application if just has a password login required to access? Some special encryption or authentication? I'm definitely not proficient with IT, but this stands out as a potential obstacle. My thought is it'd be best to just delete or black out HIPAA info before posting, but that'd be another step people would have to take, and again, they won't use it if it isn't easy.
This one might be a tall order, but some kind of document reading capability would be incredible. The folks running the office do a lot of work on excel, so being able to upload an excel document so the contents are visible as an OP (as opposed to a file that would need to be downloaded and opened to be viewable) would help their end.
Do any of you use or know of a good option? Or if you have experience with your team attempting something like this- any do's or do not's to share?
If you haven't used something like this, would you? Or would it just be seen as another unnecessary step to further complicate the day?
Thanks all!!