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Caregiver Chronicles: Work From Home, No Experience Necessary
by Marlon Saria
In family caregiving, no amount of prior experience prepares you for the role. Sometimes, referred to as informal caregiving, there is nothing informal in what needs and is expected to be done. Learn more about resources and strategies in the first of this new blog series.
Brain Health Center Opens at Pacific Neuroscience Institute
by Zara Jethani
An experienced multidisciplinary Brain Health team joins Pacific Neuroscience Institute to treat psychiatric and neurological conditions including Alzheimer's disease, depression and anxiety, and to promote healthy brain aging.
The End Brain Cancer Initiative collaborates with PNI and JWCI
by Guest Author
The EndBrainCancer Initiative Receives CITI Certification Becoming the First Brain Tumor Patient Advocacy Organization Listed as a Nationally-Recognized Recruiting Site.
Far Reaching Effects of Pituitary Disorders
by Guest Author
Chronic and/or serious physical illness of any kind has far reaching effects that go far beyond the actual physical symptoms of the disease. Medicine focuses on the patient, so that people close to the patient are often ignored. Read about the deep impact of pituitary disorders on families and what can be done to overcome these challenges.
Bioelectric Therapy for Neurological Disease Treatment
by Zara Jethani
Imagine using electricity to non-invasively treat and cure brain cancer. Or stroke. Or Parkinson’s. Or an aneurysm. Or Alzheimer’s, depression, concussion. Dr. Santosh Kesari is a physician scientist who sees the possibilities in the world of alternating electric field therapy.
Stroke Team Champions Education at 2018 Palisades Will Rogers 5K & 10K Run
by Steven Augustine
Stroke remains a mystery to the majority of this otherwise very well-informed community. Stroke team champions from Pacific Neuroscience Institute and Providence Saint John's Health Center came out to participate and educate at the 41st Annual Will Rogers 5K & 10K Run on July 4, 2018. Find out how to spot a stroke quickly and save a life.
Stroke Care In the South Bay: “Take Me to Little Company of Mary”
by Zara Jethani
As the first Comprehensive Stroke Center in the South Bay, Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance has put together an unbeatable team to save patients. Read this heart-warming story about the first patient to be taken to LCM after a change in paramedic routing protocol. Any patients with suspected large vessel occlusions must now be taken directly to a stroke center with clot removal capabilities rather than primary stroke centers.
ONS Members Share Resources, Experiences With Philippine Colleagues
by Zara Jethani
Cancers are never confined by borders. For most disease types, the ones seen in clinics and institutions throughout the United States are the same found in other first-, second-, and third-world countries. The realities facing cancer, treatments, and patient outcomes are often challenging to address no matter where you live, and it’s one of the many common threads that tie oncology professionals together the world over. Read about the unique challenges faced in The Philippines.
Keeping Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks and Meningitis at Bay
by Daniel F. Kelly
Keeping Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks and Meningitis at Bay. Defining the optimal exit strategy in pituitary and skull base tumor surgery, PNI authors have published a landmark article in the May 2018 issue of Journal of Neurosurgery. Leading the way in the field of minimally invasive surgery, PNI’s expert team reported on intraoperative repair of skull base defects and prevention of post-operative CSF leaks and meningitis in over 500 patients with pituitary tumors and skull base tumors.
A New Gliobastoma Vaccine in Clinical Trials
by Najee Boucher
The Wizard201G clinical trial from Boston Biomedical Inc. is a vaccine treatment for patients with recurrent or progressive GBM following initial treatment. Pacific Neuroscience Institute is a site for this phase 2 study which is currently recruiting. Contact us for eligibility criteria at 310-582-7460.
Last updated: April 24th, 2020