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I try to be as objective as I can in this video. There is still a lot of testing to be done, but as of right now, I am sold on CBD for my pain and anxiety. I used to stress more, these days...

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Austin Sports Medicine Practice to Host Grand Opening Event for Second Location

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Austin, Texas (PRWEB) September 23, 2014

Medicine in Motion (MIM) is proud to announce the grand opening of its central Austin location at 711 W. 38th, Suite G4. After serving the areas sports medicine needs for five years at their north Austin location, increased demand for MIMs superior care led to the need for their expansion.

My team and I are extremely excited about bringing our high-quality brand of sports medicine to central Austin, said Dr. Martha Pyron, owner of Medicine in Motion. Well continue to provide patients with the same great service theyve come to expect from us but now with a location that provides greater convenience to those in south and central Austin.

To celebrate both its five-year anniversary and the opening of its new location, MIM will host a free-of-charge health and fitness fair in at the new location. MIM will also be joined by several other health and fitness vendors, who will be on hand to discuss their services and provide demonstrations. These include: ATX SUP, Camp Gladiator, Core Power Yoga, Hand and Stone Massage, Kind Bar, Premier Athletic Complex, Austin Aztex, Austin Fit Magazine, Floss Dental, Live Kombucha, Title Boxing, Trigger Point Austin, River Ranch Radiology, Texas Running Co., and Relson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Austin.

Medicine in Motions grand opening event will be held at their 711 W. 38th, Suite G4 location on Saturday, September 27, 2014, from 11am to 3pm. Festivities will include music, office tours, fitness activities, giveaways and raffle prizes to include: Spurs basketball tickets, $100 in Austin Aztex game tickets, BOOST teeth whitening, UT football tickets, dinner for two at Chuys/Shady Grove, $200 gift card for SUP ATX, one week passes to Core Power Yoga, one month membership to Camp Gladiator, LIVE Kombucha eight-pack, and much more.

For more information or to RSVP to the event, please visit: Medicine in Motion's Grand Opening Event & Five-Year Anniversary!

Medicine in Motion (MIM) specializes in providing top quality sports medicine in Austin, Texas, for athletic individuals of all ages and levels. The staff at MIM believes active bodies are healthy bodies, therefore it is the office's goal to keep patients energetic and fit. To that end, MIM provides treatment of injuries and illnesses, including the use of physical rehabilitation; promotes healthy living with personal training and nutrition coaching; and offers comprehensive sports medicine evaluations to optimize health, activity level and sports performance. For more information or for questions regarding sports medicine in Austin, contact Medicine in Motion at 512-257-2500 or visit the website at http://www.medinmotion.com.

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UC Riverside Med School seeks out, fast-tracks local med students to keep new doctors in region

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Medical student Crystal Deedas leans over and peeks into the ears and noses of pint-sized patients she's caring for during her rotation at the Riverside Medical Clinic. "Does this hurt?" she asks an 8-year-old boy visiting the clinic with his mother.

"What about now?"she says, as she further examines his ear. Theres nothing unusual about a medical student, such as Deedas, doing supervised work on real- life patients. Thats all part of the clinical rotation experience required by medical schools.But what is unique is that Deedas is seeing patients in her first year of medical school. Typically, med students wait until their third year before getting such clinical experience. Deedas, of Riverside, is part of the second class to enroll at the new University of California Riverside School of Medicine. The school opened last summer, in large part, to address the growing doctor shortage in the Inland Empire. We need physicians," says Dr. Ravi Berry, a pediatrician at the Riverside Medical Clinic who mentors Deedas. "If we grow our own they stay in the area." To combat that dearth of doctors, administrators at UCR's School of Medicine have created a novel program aimed at attracting home-grown med students, training them and then keeping the newly-minted doctors in the region. We have to provide for the physician manpower for inland Southern California. We also have to train doctors that are going into the fields that society needs, says Richard Olds, dean of the School of Medicine and UCR vice chancellor of health affairs. We want the physicians that we train to be reflective of the cultural, ethnic and economic diversity of our region and we want to improve the health of the community we serve. And key, he says, is to attract and enroll local students. About 40 percent of the decision where doctors practice is based on where they come from, their family connections, where they were born, went to high school and went to college, Olds says. Tofind those candidates, he says, admissions officers sift through a pile of applications in search of students who have local roots and community ties.

Olds says there were 5,600 applicants for the 50 seats in this year's class. Only 10 percent of them were from the area. Still, administrators managed to fill more than half of the seats with local students, such as Deedas.

But the efforts don't end there.

The other important factor in where a doctor ends up practicing is where they finish their training, Olds said.

So he aims to address that, too, by creating new residencies in the area.

This is the three to five year training that doctors get after they graduate from medical school.

But those offered at the UC Riverside Medical School veer from tradition, Olds says. Most residency programs, which provide doctors with three to five years of post-graduate clinical training, take place at university-run hospitals. UC Riverside doesnt have its own med center, it instead collaborates with local hospitals and clinics to provide the training.

So far, 100 med school graduates are now enrolled as residents. Olds hopes the community training they'll receive will further embed the young doctors into the community.

That sounds appealing to Sarah Gomez, a Riverside local and second year student at UC Riverside Medical School. Gomez says she's eager to apply for one of the local residencies once she graduates. You want to be somewhere where you can impact change," she says. "The easiest and best way to do that is in your home town.

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Upper Dublin girl names semi-finalist for medical school scholarship

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Jennifer Deasy has suffered from migraines since she was 11 years old more than half the 18-year-old Upper Dublin girls life. And she has an idea that just may ease the pain a bit for her and other migraine sufferers.

It also could net her a medical school scholarship.

Basically, her idea is to cure migraines with stem cell treatment.

Deasy has been named one of 12 semi-finalists for a National Academy Medical School Scholarship Challenge sponsored by the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists.

Three of the 12 will be selected to present their research proposals at the November Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Washington, D.C., according to an academy press release. One will receive a medical school scholarship up to $185,000, with $10,000 scholarships going to the runners-up.

The winners will be determined by scholars attending the November Congress.

Deasy was one of 3,100 honor high school students who attended the February Congress, where students were challenged to identify an unsolved medical/scientific/world health problem and create an original investigation to solve that problem.

My guidance counselor nominated me to attend the February Congress, said Deasy, a 2014 Upper Dublin High School grad and current freshman at Franklin & Marshall. Attending medical school has been a dream for as long as I can remember.

I always found [medicine] cool and interesting, she said, noting her dad is an oral surgeon, three uncles are doctors and one is a nurse. She hopes to become a neurologist, both seeing patients and doing research on the brain and its workings with different hormones and how they can affect brain function, like seizures and migraines.

Pain medication or caffeine pills are currently used to treat migraine symptoms, she said. It is not known what causes the severe headaches often accompanied by nausea, and there is no cure. Continued...

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Research evaluates neurodevelomental, medical outcomes in single family room NICU

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The prevalence of preterm birth -- the birth of an infant prior to 37 weeks of pregnancy -- is a significant health problem that has increased over the past two decades. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), preterm birth affects nearly 500,000 babies each year, or one of every eight born in the U.S. While medical care has improved survival rates for preterm infants, questions remain about ways to positively impact the neurodevelopmental outcomes of preterm infants.

Research led by Barry M. Lester, PhD, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and James F. Padbury, MD, pediatrician-in-chief and chief of Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine at Women & Infants Hospital and the William and Mary Oh -- William and Elsa Zopfi Professor of Pediatrics for Perinatal Research at the Alpert Medical School, entitled "Single Family Room Care Improves Neurobehavioral and Medical Outcomes in Preterm Infants," is published in the October issue of Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The researchers found that a single-family room environment provides for appropriate levels of maternal involvement, developmental support, and staff involvement, which are essential to provide the kind of care that can optimize the medical and neurodevelopmental outcome of the preterm infant and lead to the development of preventive interventions to reduce later impairment.

As medical care has improved the survival rates for preterm infants, especially those born weighing less than 1,000 grams, nearly half of these infants still suffer long-term neurodevelopmental impairment and/or serious health consequences. Drs. Lester and Padbury led a research team that performed a prospective, longitudinal study to examine associations between the open bay vs. single family room NICU and medical and neurobehavioral outcomes at hospital discharge. They also examined, for the first time, factors that could help explain, or mediate, potential differences in NICUs.

"There are few studies that have compared the individual single family room neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with the traditional 'open bay' model of care. In particular, two critical issues have not been systematically addressed," explained Dr. Padbury. "First is the effect of the single family room NICU on neurodevelopmental outcome. The second is how and why positive or negative effects of the single family room NICU occur."

In September 2009, Women & Infants Hospital, a U.S.News 2014-15 Best Children's Hospital in Neonatology, opened what was at the time the largest single family room NICU in the country. Prior to that, approximately 1,400 babies each year were cared for in the hospital's open bay NICU. The single family room model also offered an opportunity to more comprehensively implement a family centered model of care, where families are now more actively involved in their baby's care and care team.

Dr. Lester explained, "We hypothesized that infants cared for in the single family room NICU would have better medical and neurobehavioral outcomes than infants cared for in the open baby NICU, as well as that medical and neurobehavioral differences between NICUs could be explained, in part, by developmental support, parenting factors and the adoption of family centered care."

Approximately 400 infants born weighing less than 1,500 grams were enrolled at Women & Infants Hospital -- 151 were cared for in an open bay NICU and 252 were cared for in the single family room NICU. The open bay data were collected consecutively over 18 months in 2008 and 2009 prior to the opening of the hospital's new NICU. After a three-month hiatus (no new patients were enrolled during the first three months in the new single family room NICU, and no patients were enrolled who were cared for in both settings), data were again collected consecutively over 31 months from 2010 to 2012 in the single family room NICU.

The results showed that the infants cared for in the single family room weighed more at discharge, had a greater rate of weight gain, required fewer medical procedures, and had a lower gestational age at full enteral feed and less sepsis. In addition, these infants showed better attention, less physiological stress, less hypertonicity, less lethargy, and less pain.

"What we found was that the single family room provides more opportunities to do things that improve outcomes, such as increased maternal involvement and increased developmental support," said Dr. Lester. "If you build a single-family room unit and do not change how you care for the babies, it would be unrealistic to expect to see any significant improvement."

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First Half Push Leads No. 24 Liberty over No. 25 Bryant (9/20/14)
No. 24 Liberty scored on four of their first five possessions of the game and added two second-half touchdowns to secure a 38-21 Hall of Fame game victory over No. 25 Bryant, Saturday evening...

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