SHEA Physical Therapy Introduces the NG360 Functional Performance System

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2012SHEA Physical Therapy, an innovative leader in the physical therapy industry, is proud to announce the release of the NG360

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ShapeUp Enhances Online Health Tracking with BodyMedia FIT Armband System Integration

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2012BodyMedia FIT teams up with ShapeUp for system integration that will include tracking for how many calories burned, activity level, sleep and food tracking.

(1888PressRelease) July 25, 2012 - Social networking-based employee wellness platform provider ShapeUp today announced the addition of calorie burn tracking and other key data to advance individual weight loss and wellness efforts through integration with the BodyMedia FIT armband-based body monitoring system. The integration enhances the clinically proven social wellness tools that ShapeUp offers to drive cost-effective participation, long-term engagement and positive outcomes in corporate health programs.

By wearing BodyMedia FIT Armbands that collect physiological data with highly accurate proprietary sensors and also maintaining food logs in the online BodyMedia Activity Manager, participants in ShapeUp's employee wellness programs can track their daily calorie consumption, steps, activity, how many calories they've burned and sleep quantity and quality - all important measures for health and weight loss. Once they have synced to the BodyMedia system, users can upload this data to ShapeUp's corporate wellness platform to share progress with colleagues in a social networking environment for team support, assess progress toward their goals, and in many cases earn financial incentives from their employers for their participation and achievements.

"Integration with BodyMedia technology allows our program participants to effortlessly and accurately track and analyze their personal health data, which is a critical component for successful behavior change and health improvement," said Dr. Rajiv Kumar, founder and chief executive officer of ShapeUp. "We are constantly working to provide our clients and participants with the most effective technology-powered tools for success, and BodyMedia systems are an important addition to the arsenal."

"Programs like ShapeUp have embraced behavioral modification tools to help participants make lifestyle changes that benefit their health. Our BodyMedia FIT armband system aligns directly with that mission," said Christine Robins, BodyMedia CEO. "With our system measuring variables like calorie burn and food intake on a daily basis, companies using the ShapeUp program enable their employees to see what they're doing wrong in terms of weight management, motivate them to change, and ultimately bring their weight under control ."

Both ShapeUp and BodyMedia FIT armband technology have been clinically proven to help promote weight loss, with BodyMedia systems having been shown to help users lose three times more weight (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3112373/) than behavioral support alone.

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Mouse With Human-Like Immune System Could Advance AIDS Research

HealthDay – Thu, Jul 19, 2012 WEDNESDAY, July 18 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists who created mice with elements of the human immune system believe the rodents will further efforts to develop a vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

One of the challenges facing researchers striving to develop an HIV vaccine has been the lack of a laboratory animals that accurately reflect the human response to HIV and how the virus evolves to avoid that response.

The U.S. team of scientists transplanted human bone marrow cells and other human tissue into mice without a functioning immune system. This gave the mice aspects of the human immune system.

"Our study showed not only that these humanized mice mount human immune responses against HIV but also that the ability of HIV to evade these responses by mutating viral proteins targeted by CD8 'killer' T-cells is accurately reflected in these mice," study senior author Todd Allen, an associate professor medicine at the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard, explained in a MGH news release.

T-cells are immune cells that protect the body from infection.

The mice might significantly reduce the time and costs required to test experimental HIV vaccines, according to the researchers.

The study was published in the July 18 issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine.

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The New Mexico AIDS Education and Training Center has more about HIV/AIDS vaccines.

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Keeping the flu away: Synthetic protein activates immune system within two hours

ScienceDaily (July 6, 2012) — San Diego State University researchers at the Donald P. Shiley BioScience Center may have found the secret to helping the immune system fight off the flu before it gets you sick.

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A new study published July 6 in the Public Library of Science journal PLoS ONE, finds that EP67, a powerful synthetic protein, is able to activate the innate immune system within just two hours of being administered.

Prior to this study, EP67 had been primarily used as an adjuvant for vaccines, something added to the vaccine to help activate the immune response. But Joy Phillips, Ph.D. a lead author of the study with her colleague Sam Sanderson, Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, saw potential for it to work on its own.

"The flu virus is very sneaky and actively keeps the immune system from detecting it for a few days until you are getting symptoms," Phillips said. "Our research showed that by introducing EP67 into the body within 24 hours of exposure to the flu virus caused the immune system to react almost immediately to the threat, well before your body normally would."

Because EP67 doesn't work on the virus but on the immune system itself, it functions the same no matter the flu strain, unlike the influenza vaccine which has to exactly match the currently circulating strain.

Phillips said while this study focuses on the flu, EP67 has the potential to work on other respiratory diseases and fungal infections and could have huge potential for emergency therapeutics.

"When you find out you've been exposed to the flu, the only treatments available now target the virus directly but they are not reliable and often the virus develops a resistance against them," Phillips said. "EP67 could potentially be a therapeutic that someone would take when they know they've been exposed that would help the body fight off the virus before you get sick."

It could even be used in the event of a new strain of infectious disease, before the actual pathogen has been identified, as in SARS or the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak, Phillips said.

Right now, the testing has been done primarily in mice by infecting them with a flu virus. Those that were given a dose of EP67 within 24 hours of the infection didn't get sick (or as sick) as those that were not treated with EP67.

The level of illness in mice is measured by weight loss. Typically, mice lose approximately 20 percent of their weight when they are infected with the flu but mice treated with EP67 lost an average of just six percent. More importantly, mice who were treated a day after being infected with a lethal dose of influenza did not die, Phillips said.

She said there are also huge implications for veterinary applications, since EP67 is active in animals, including birds.

Future research will examine the effect EP67 has in the presence of a number of other pathogens and to look closer at exactly how EP67 functions within different cells in the body.

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Poor Sleep Affects Immune System Much Like Physical Stress

HealthDay – 7 mins ago MONDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Severe sleep deprivation has the same effect on the immune system as physical stress, according to a new study.

Researchers in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom found sleep loss triggers the production of white blood cells, known as granulocytes, particularly at night.

"The granulocytes reacted immediately to the physical stress of sleep loss and directly mirrored the body's stress response," explained the study's lead author, Katrin Ackermann, a postdoctoral researcher at the Eramus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam in the Netherlands, in a news release from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

In conducting the study, the researchers tracked the white blood cell count of 15 healthy young men who followed a strict schedule of eight hours of sleep every day for a week, then compared that with their white blood cell counts during 29 hours of sleep deprivation.

The investigators found that the white blood cells showed a loss of day-night rhythmicity and also increased during the sleep deprivation.

The research was published in the July issue of the journal Sleep.

Previous studies have shown sleep deprivation is linked to the development of diseases, including obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure. Prior research has also suggested that chronic sleep loss is a risk factor for impairment of the immune system.

Looking ahead, the study authors concluded that future research should examine exactly how sleep loss contributes to the development of certain diseases.

"Future research will reveal the molecular mechanisms behind this immediate stress response and elucidate its role in the development of diseases associated with chronic sleep loss," said Ackermann in the news release. "If confirmed with more data, this will have implications for clinical practice and for professions associated with long-term sleep loss, such as rotating shift work."

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The American Psychological Association has more about the importance of sleep.

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Species-Specific Microbes May Be Key to a Healthy Immune System

and so do we. These microorganisms help both mice and us break down dinner. As we are finding, these bugs also help to regulate the immune system. But we are just starting to learn how these tiny organisms influence us and how changing their composition changes us.

In an attempt to find out, postdoctoral researcher Hachung Chung and her colleagues at Dennis Kasper's Lab at Harvard Medical School tried raising mice with exclusively human gut microbiota.

The human microbes did pretty well in the mice guts (the researchers could tell by culturing fecal pellets from these mice). Interestingly, though, the mice with these microbes did not: their immune systems remained underdeveloped. Even when researchers gave rat microbiota to mice, the mice's immune systems failed to mature. The results were published in the June 22 issue of Science.

The findings are "perhaps the most definitive that I've seen," says Eugene Chang, a professor of medicine at the University of Chicago, who was not involved in the new study. They show "the critical and specific relationship between host and gut microbes, which is needed for proper development of the host immune response," he says.

The results support the thinking that we humans have coevolved with our microbes

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A Wrinkle Cream System Suited For Everyone

June 23, 2012 by admin

More often than not, wrinkle creams have a definite effect such as focusing on eliminating wrinkles, eliminating dark lines under the eyes, or improving the complexion of your skin. Because of this, it is better to combine several creams to obtain all of the effects that you desire at once.

If you want a product line that can do all of these, then you can try the Two Minute Wrinkle Drill. This does not contain a single cream which it claims can get rid of all of the signs of aging. Instead, it uses a combination of products to prevent and slow down the effects of aging.

There are exactly three products included in the Two Minute Wrinkle Drill. These three work together in cleaning the face and preventing it from looking older faster. The three specific products included are the Extreme Cleansing Gel, the Wrinkle Reduction Cream and the Dark Circle Serum.

The first product is the Extreme Cleansing Gel which does not have much of an anti-aging effect. Instead, it works by cleaning the face and eliminating and dirt or oil that may get stuck within your pores. By doing this, it ensures that your pores and open so that the other creams may enter the skin faster and more efficiently.

The next cream in this system is the Wrinkle Reduction Cream which focuses on eliminating the wrinkles on your face. It works with the help of Matrixyl 3000, which is an effective and proven ingredient when it comes to getting rid of wrinkles. Aside from this, it is also effective in preventing new wrinkles from forming.

Lastly, its Dark Circle Serum focuses on eliminating dark lines that form under your eyes, which are often a result of stress and lack of sleep. This serum helps reduce the appearance of these dark lines which makes you look old and tired all of the time.

Aside from explaining how the Wrinkle Reduction Cream works, it does not say how exactly the Dark Circle Serum is able to carry out its effects. But even though it does not explain how it works, most of its users have a lot of positive things to say about the product. Clinical trial results also showed an improvement in the puffiness under the eyes and the smoothness of the skin.

The Two Minute Wrinkle drill is a good set of products to help eliminate the signs of aging on your face. Aside from being effective at its job, it is also very easy to use as you won’t spend more than two minutes in using all three products on your face. What makes this better than other creams is that it also has a cleaning effect which makes it easier for your skin to absorb the Wrinkle Reduction Cream and the Dark Circle Serum.

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Belly 'Membrane' May Regulate Immune System, Mouse Study Finds

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Myanmar's health system on life support

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New cancer drug delivery system shows promise

"A new method of delivering cancer drugs that could cut down on chemotherapy's side effects and boost the strength of the tumor-fighting medicine has shown promise, US researchers said Wednesday. (AFP Photo/Anne-Christine Poujoulat)" title

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Facial Skin Care System

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