Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CuAavX3uCKn/

Recall by: CPSC; Sound Around

Problem:

These helmets fail to comply with the positional stability requirements of the CPSC federal safety standard for bicycle helmets. They fail to protect in the event of a crash creating a risk of head injury.

Sold: About 1,800 helmets were sold at amazon.com, nordstrom.com, pyleusa.com and ruelala.com.

Actions:  

Immediately stop using these helmets and contact Sound Around at 1-877-238-1863 or via email at [email protected]to receive a full refund. To receive the refund, destroy the helmet by cutting off the straps and upload photos of the destroyed helmet to pyleusa.com/  and then dispose of the recalled helmet.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/Sound-Around-Recalls-Childrens-Multi-Purpose-Helmets-Due-to-Risk-of-Head-Injury

#hurtle #helmets #poorlyprotective #injury #recall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CuAZzs-OvUI/

Recall By: CPSC; Research Products Corporation 

Brands: AprilAire, Coleman, Luxaire, Bryant, Carrier and York.

Problem:

The humidifiers contain an electrode wire with a “D” shaped connector that can loosen causing arcing and/or overheating, posing fire and burn hazards to consumers.

Sold: About 36,200 were sold in the US and about 3,800 were sold in Canada at HVAC contractors nationwide and online at Amazon.com, Sylvane.com, Supplyhouse.com, Humidifiers.com and other websites.

Actions:

Immediately stop using and shut off the recalled humidifiers and contact Research Products at 1-888-742-2401 to receive a free electrode wire repair kit and assistance with identifying a qualified contractor to replace the faulty electrode connector wires free of charge.

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/Research-Products-Recalls-Steam-Humidifiers-Due-to-Fire-Hazard

#humidifier #electric 3overheating #fire #burns #recall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CuAYwbksIOC/

Recall by: CPSC; Infanttech

Problem:

The baby monitor’s battery can malfunction, overheat and burst, posing fire and burn hazards.

Sold: About 17,100 units were sold at infant tech.com and amazon.com.

Actions:

Consumers should immediately remove the battery from the plush camera and can continue using the zooby plush camera and monitor if it is plugged in to a power source. Contact Infanttech via the email [email protected] for a free replacement battery. 

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2023/Infanttech-Recalls-Zooby-Video-Baby-Monitors-for-Cars-Due-to-Fire-Hazard-Recall-Alert

#zooby #babycarmonitor #battery #overheating #fire #burn #recall

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CuAXkKKuS6R/

The FDA has approved the oral medicine fezolinetant, branded as Veozah, as an effective treatment for severe vasomotor symptoms brought on by menopause.  This age is a neurokinin 3 receptor antagonist that effectively shields the receptor that controls body temperature.  The pill should be taken once a day, each day at the same time.  The drug’s effectiveness and safety were determined in two randomized, controlled, double-blinded trials.

https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-novel-drug-treat-moderate-severe-hot-flashes-caused-menopause

#hotflashes #menopause #Veozah #fezolinetant

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CuAWkQEJjdq/

Data from a wearable, in this case the Apple Watch, can predict a person’s ability to cope with adversity and manage stress.  Digital health researchers at New York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital and medical school have studied data from 329 healthcare workers, average age 37 years, 63% women and 37% men.  All had iPhones and Apple Watches and downloaded a Warrior Watch Study app.

At study onset, each subject completed a survey to pinpoint her or his psychological well-being and ability to effectively manage psychic adversity.  The smart watch recorded heart rate data over a 2 week period.  The Apple Health App calculated heart rate variability which is an indicator of activity in the involuntary nervous system.  Using watch-derived and demographic data, the researchers trained various algorithms to predict psychic resilience.  

The researchers conclude that wearable device output can be used by machine learning models to predict an individual’s level of psychologic resilience, but that more research is needed to improve the precision and accuracy of this determination.

https://academic.oup.com/jamiaopen/article/6/2/ooad029/7147662

#psychology #resilence #wearables #applewatch #machinelearning

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CuAVpBnPmwc/

The Israeli startup Salignostics has developed  a pregnancy test on a card similar to the CoVid tests.  The test, called Salistick, detects the presence in saliva of human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone that surges in the body during pregnancy.  The test is 96% accurate on the first day of a missed period and 97% accurate on the second day.  The test is a rapid, convenient, and accurate method to test for pregnancy without the need to use urine.  Salistick will first be available in Europe, Africa, and the middle east.  No word on when it will be available in the US.  

https://www.medicaldaily.com/first-saliva-based-pregnancy-tests-everything-know-470246

#saliva #pregnancy #HCG #humanchoronicgonadotropin 

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CuAUolwvmnl/

University of Pennsylvania dental researchers in collaboration with Penn bioengineers have developed metallic nano-robotic particles that can be directed to sites of fungal infection and eradicate these dangerous yeasts.  The team has utilized catalytic iron nanoparticles called nanozymes to create microscopic robots that can be driven to infected tissues using magnetic fields.  Once they arrive at the fungus to which they attach, the robots generate highly reactive oxygen compounds that, like your Clorox cleansers, kill the yeast.  Now that we face fungal species like Candida auris that our current antibiotics can’t kill, these micro robots may be called upon to save the day….someday soon.

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/nanorobotic-system-presents-new-options-targeting-fungal-infections?utm_source=Penn+Today+-+Newsletters&utm_campaign=4866b9ab33-5/30/23:+Fungal-fighting+microrobots&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-a88f34f16b-[LIST_EMA

#nanorobots #fungus #candida #magnetic #ironnanoparticles

Vidcast: https://www.instagram.com/p/CuATUmxucVk/

The key to curing male hair loss may come from the unlikeliest source: an ugly hairy mole.  Stem cell researchers at UC-Irvine have discovered that such moles contain hair stem cell hyperactivity.  Investigating the triggers for hair growth in these moles using a mouse model, they found overproduction of a hair signaling factor called osteopontin or SPP1 by aging pigment cells in these hairy moles.  Osteopontin binds to an antigen on the surface of hair follicle cells and stimulates their production of new hair.   Still under study are the factors that drive aging cells to produce the hair-promoting osteopontin.  When that is better understood, it may be possible to prevent hair loss in men, and in some women, as they age.  We hope that understand comes……someday soon.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06172-8

#baldness #moles #hairmoles #aging #osteopontin #ssp1

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CuASZwuuk9o/

Targeted low level electrical stimulation improves blood flow to  sections of the brain that lost this vital circulation as the result of  ischemic strokes.  UCLA neurologists mounted a preliminary study of 10 ischemic stroke patients.  Seven were randomized to receive individually focused very low transcranial direct current stimulation across their skulls to the impacted regions of their brains within the first 24 hours following their strokes.  The 3 control subjects received only sham stimulation.

The electrical stimulation improved blood flow and reduced the size of poorly perfused brain a median of 100%.  At the same time, the controls suffered progression of stroke-affected brain by 325%.  The electrical stimulation improved blood flow by 64% while the sham treatment led to a 4% decrease.

This exciting treatment may lead to a faster recovery from ischemic stroke…..someday soon.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2806322?utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=062123

#stroke #ischemic #electricalstimulation #bloodflow #directcurrent

Vidcast:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CuARaSKNGBM/

Estriol, a relatively weak estrogenic compound that surges during pregnancy due to placental production, can reverse the deterioration of myelin nerve sheaths and may help control or even cure multiple sclerosis or MS.  UCLA neurologists studied the effects of estriol on brain tissue in a mouse MS model.

Exposing the experimental animals with an MS-like autoimmune encephalitis to estriol, demonstrated marked remyelination as the result of increased cholesterol synthesis in the supporting cells that form the delicate cables around the connections between the main brain cells or neurons.  Estriol also decreased the loss of cortical neurons and reduced brain atrophy.

This exciting development offer yet another pathway for treating and possibly reversing multiple sclerosis.  We already suspect that it may be effective since pregnancy itself does inhibit the progression of MS.

https://www.laboratoryinvestigation.org/article/S0023-6837(23)00132-0/fulltext#

#estriol #ms #multiplesclerosis #remyelination #demyelination #brainatrophy