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Short Shorts are cutting edge medical and healthcare discoveries not quite ready for the clinic, but I want you to know about them now.

 

 A New Zealand study shows that consistent reminiscing with your children about positive family activities helps them grow into adolescence with better overall mental health.  Kids whose positive childhood memories are reinforced grow up with significantly less anxiety and a lower incidence of clinical depression.

 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jopy.12703

 

 

Human skin cells, dermal fibroblasts, can be genetically enhanced to manufacture cellular components called activated extracellular vesicles or ASTEX that capably repair cells previously infected with and injured by CoVid.  Investigators at LA’s Cedars Sinai Medical Center show that this bioengineered therapy may play an important role in the rehabilitation of those with long CoVid.

 

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666534422000046?via%3Dihub

 

 

Teen athletes who suffer a concussion during sports play are 3.5 times less likely to experience subsequent injuries if they work with a neuromuscular athletic trainer to enhance their defensive strengths and landing stability.  Sportsmedicine researchers at the Children’s Hospital Colorado studied 27 youths half of whom received this special training.

 

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03635465211069372

 

 

French clinicians have identified a new, blended variant that is termed “Deltacron."  Three clusters of patients in South France have tested positive for this recombinant which sports mutations characteristic of Delta and Omicron.  No word yet regarding whether this hybrid CoVid is neutralized by vaccine-induced  or natural anti-CoVid antibodies, its transmissibility characteristics, or its virulence.  If its worse that Omicron2 or BA.2, we’re in real trouble.

 

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.03.03.22271812v1

 

 

Recovering your hand dexterity after a stroke isn’t easy, but University of Missouri physical therapists have proven that video gaming can help.  Their studies show that both collaborative online gaming and self-gaming both drive faster and more complete recovery of a stroke victim’s upper extremity function than traditional in-person physical therapy.  The best news: patients don’t have to travel to a center to do it.…. And its cheaper.

 

 

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00520-4/fulltext#%20

 

 

Nanomedicine is all the rage, and researchers are finding ways to package drugs in tiny packets that penetrate better into the diseased tissues that need them.  Oncologists at Harvard’s Mass. General Hospital have shown using mathematical models and lab studies that administering the nanodrugs in small frequent doses, a technique called metronomic schedulin