Marie Wesselhoft has over thirty years of business experience with a successful track record in Healthcare. Marie held positions such as VP/General Manager, VP Marketing, Area VP of Sales, Product Manager, throughout her twenty year career at Cardinal/Baxter/American Hospital Supply Company. In her role as General Manager of the Scientific Products, an $850 million business, her responsibilities included management of a national sales and marketing team comprised of more than 140 people. Throughout her career she has had opportunities to launch $100 million diagnostic product lines, negotiate partnership agreements, manage key accounts, as well as facilitate the integration of teams for acquisitions and divestitures. During her years at Humana Hospital she was both a Laboratory Director and Medical Technologist. She also has experience with several healthcare start-up companies in her work at the Arizona Center for Innovation. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BS in Medical Technology and completed an MBA at the University of Chicago.

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Brilliant article from Care2

“In our current health care system it is far too easy to wait in anticipation of some miracle drug to alleviate all our ills. After all, we don’t have to do much to take responsibility for our health. But, according to new research, you might want to take a look at your diet if you are suffering from the neurological disorder multiple sclerosis, also known as MS.

MS is characterized by extreme fatigue and weakness, eye pain or vision problems, balance issues, dizziness, pain, depression and cognitive issues. Fortunately new research shows that people can improve their symptoms by 20 percent by making one change to their lifestyle.

The new study published in the medical journal Neurology found that simply boosting up the amount of fruits and vegetables in a person’s diet could improve their MS symptoms by a whopping 20 percent. I’m confident that if a drug had that kind of result it would be considered a miracle drug for the disease.”

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A deterioration in multiple sclerosis patients’ handwriting aligns with drops in their movement, sensory and cognitive skills, a study reports.

MS includes loss of hand dexterity and finger movement control. This affects a patient’s capacity to manipulate objects and coordinate hand movement, skills needed in handwriting.

“Handwriting is an important and high-value activity, which requires complex sensorimotor, perceptual and cognitive skills,” the researchers wrote. “If one of these abilities declines, as frequently occurs in neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease and MS, handwriting could deteriorate.” The result is frustration and handwriting that doesn’t look like the patient’s.

Previous studies have shown that MS patients had less handwriting rhythm and control than healthy people.

This time researchers decided to compare the handwriting movements of both MS patients and healthy volunteers.

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