Clinical Features All patients presented with a painful VOC of unusual—for them—severity. Two patients had type I respiratory failure at presentation while 1 had E. Coli sepsis. [mdpi.com]

Wordfest presents Ashley Bristowe Apr 20 @ 7 PM - 8 PM MT Online Wordfest’s Imagine On Air presents Ashley Bristowe and her raw, refreshingly honest memoir My Own Blood. [wordfest.com]

In Western society, we are not championing the idea of ‘love thy neighbour.’ ” Wordfest presents Ashley Bristowe in conversation with Sheila Heti on April 20 at 7 p.m. Visit wordfest.com. [calgaryherald.com]

This memoir presents an urgently necessary and heart-wrenching refutation of layer upon layer of what we are being told we should think and feel. In her personal narrative, Bristowe’s voice wryly asserts the political legitimacy of maternal agency. [albertaviews.ca]

• Seizure

  The founder was a physiotherapist, had fought in World War II, came home, and started working trying to prevent seizures in brain-injured adults. They gradually moved their work toward kids. [todaysparent.com]

• Agitation

  Similar to the spirals Bristowe described, Johns Hopkins Medicine states these symptoms include agitation, insomnia, aggression, anxiety, and depression. According to Dr. [insider.com]

Treatment of Post-Concussive Vision Syndrome Your optometrist will recommend an individualized treatment program to address your symptoms of post-concussive vision syndrome. [visionsource-idoctors.com]

The good news about issues such as PMS and PMDD is that there are effective treatments for easing symptoms. "If you are experiencing any symptoms associated with your menstrual cycle, please talk to your doctor," says Dr. [shape.com]

People with PMDD should seek treatment and not ignore their symptoms. Treatments for PMDD range from changing your diet to hormone therapies to anti-depressants, as there is not one-size-fits-all approach to managing it. [insider.com]

Although it is debatable whether it is a rare, severe idiosyncrasy or one of many neuromuscular side-effects of dopamine antagonists (Levinson & Simpson, 1986), most clinicians nowadays regard it as a serious but recognisable risk of neuroleptic treatment [cambridge.org]

After becoming frustrated with a lack of access to therapies in Calgary, you ended up applying to get into an intensive private treatment program in Philadelphia. [todaysparent.com]

Prognosis of patients with sickle cell disease and COVID-19: A French experience. Lancet Haematol. 2020, 7, e632–e634. [mdpi.com]

The Elusive Pathogenesis The pathophysiological process causing extensive bone marrow necrosis resulting in systemic fat embolism in patients with sickle cell disease is not known. [mdpi.com]

Dominant mutations in COL1A1 and COL1A2 can prevent cleavage and cause arthrochalasia, while recessive loss of the N-procollagen peptidase cause dermatosparaxis. (V) Collagen molecules self-assemble into heterotypic fibrils. [jci.org]

The founder was a physiotherapist, had fought in World War II, came home, and started working trying to prevent seizures in brain-injured adults. They gradually moved their work toward kids. [todaysparent.com]