Medical Literary Messenger (Vol. 5, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2017)

Home Visit / Melissa Fournier -- Stiffness / Hannah Shea -- Exile / Lane Falcon -- Good Intentions / Laura Foley -- Resurrection / Les Cohen -- Visits / Craig W. Steele -- That Last Night / Laura Foley -- Taste / Dan Campion -- Bumblebees Don’t Always Sting / Diane M. Parker -- Mental Status Exam / Melissa Fournier -- Dystrophia I / Ashley Purdy -- Muck Out / Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois -- Endoscope / Lane Falcon -- Leftovers / Erynn Porter -- Another Autumn / Deborah Fleming -- Autism / Laura Foley -- Nearly Sunset / Craig W. Steele -- Palms / Mitchell Krockmalnic Grabois -- concentric / Michele Riedel -- Hashimoto’s / Hannah Shea -- Uncharted Territory / Katacha Díaz -- Skeletal Survey / Melissa Fournier -- Humanism in Medicine: Reflections from Diastole / Helen Lin -- Late Voyage / Laura Foley -- Sponge Bath / Dan Campion

Reply to Melissa Moschella

Professor Moschella begins by discussing confusions in the brain death debate surrounding the use of the concepts of “integration” and “wholeness.” Some scholars, she says, such as Alan Shewmon, take the presence of biological integration as an indication of ontological wholeness. Others, such as the members of the President’s Council for Bioethics, think that some bodily integration can persist in the body of a brain-dead individual; but that the subject in which it persists in not a whole

Melissa Ichiuji: In the Flesh

When she dances, acts, sculpts, sews or films, artist Melissa Ichiuji presents the human figure in political and personal terms, examining its various states of desire or distortion. This exhibition In the Flesh presents three discrete recent bodies of Ichiuji’s work: a series of busts of political figures from the 2012 election season entitled Fair Game, a trio of life-sized sculptures of female bodies, and lastly, Everything to Lose, a film and corresponding photographs of the artist donning an elaborately sculpted costume. Despite seeming differences in medium and subject in this exhibition, Ichiuji works with similar materials and artistic practices in each. She sculpts with fabric and pantyhose and does not hide raw, purposefully crude stitches and seams. Because the pantyhose stands in for flesh; bits of thread under the surfaces look like veins, and gestures seem animated, Ichiuji’s heads and bodies are paradoxically naturalistic and doll-like. “My background as a dancer and an actor,” Ichiuji explains, “informs the physicality of my figures.” Mimeticism, or the evocation of the “real” body, in Ichiuji’s work is mesmerizingly fraught. One sees abstraction and strange realism at once. Her political portraits are uncannily accurate; life-size sculptures approximate the presence of a live figure, and her own body in performance and film hypnotically and paradoxically is obscured and revealed. The perceived fantasy implicit in her work chafes against the viewer’s detection of the “real.” This friction can be seen in how Ichiuji’s real body—her hand, her upper back, her own curves and flesh—is perceptible through the doll-like costume she wears in Everything to Lose. Likewise, from the Fair Game series, one can recognize Newt Gingrich’s characteristic smile through a tangle of women’s underwear, and the distorted figures in her larger-scaled sculptures appear on the brink of movement. [excerpt]https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/1011/thumbnail.jp

Thanksgiving, Christkindlmarkts and First Snow!

Postcard from Melissa Rockow, during the Linfield College Semester Abroad Program at the Austro-American Institute of Education in Vienna, Austri

A Youth Voice at International Summit

Melissa Greenaway ’12 had an unprecedented glimpse of politics on a global scale as one of seven college students representing the United States at the My Summit conference, during the G8 and G20 summits

Sobre Melissa officinalis L. subsp. officinalis en Andalucía occidental

Melissa officinalis subsp. officinalis in west Andalusia Flora.Palabras clave. Lamiaceae, Melissa, Andalucía Occidental.Key words. Lamiaceae, Melissa, Andalucía Occidental

What They Left Behind: Reclaiming the Unknown History of World War II

From 2011 to 2013 RWU student Thanasi Metropoulos interviewed fifteen WW II veterans living in the East Bay. Melissa Patricio\u27s article in RWU Magazine provides more information about Thanasi\u27s project and some of the veterans he interviewed

Investigation of Antimicrobial Activity and DNA Protective Capacity of Melissa officinalis Extracts

In this study, antimicrobial activity, antioxidant capacity of Melissa officinalis leaf extracts and DNA protective effect aginst H2O2-induced oxidative damage were investigated. DNA protective effect of Melissa officinalis's leaf extract from oxidative stress was determined by using yeast comet assay. The comet assay, applied on Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741. We observed that DNA damage decreased in a dose dependent manner in experiments of preincubation and simultaneous incubation with the extract upon oxidative shock. Results indicated that Melissa officinalis's methanolic leaf extract protect the DNA against the damaging effect of hydrogen peroxide. Also we indicated that the antimicrobial effects of Melissa officinalis's extract on the different microorganisms. Extract of Melissa officinalis showed antimicrobial effect on all test test microorganisms.Bu çalışmada, Melissa officinalis yaprak ekstraktlarının antimikrobiyal, antioksidan kapasiteleri ve H2O2- indüklenmiş oksidatif hasara karşı DNA koruyucu etkisi incelendi. Melissa officinalis yaprak ekstraktlarının oksidatif stresten DNA'yı koruyucu etkisi maya comet testi kullanılarak belirlendi. Comet testi Saccharomyces cerevisiae BY4741 üzerinde uygulandı. Oksidatif strese karşı, ekstrenin İnkübasyon öncesi ve inkubasyon sırasında uygulanmasında doza bağlı olarak DNA hasarında azalma gözlendi. Sonuçlar; Melissa officinalis methanolik yaprak ekstraktlarının hidrojen peroksitin zararlı etkisine karşı DNA'yı koruduğunu gösterdi. Ayrıca Melissa officinalis ekstraktlarının farklı mikroorganizmalar üzerindeki antimikrobiyal etkisi incelendi. Melissa officinalis ekstraktları tüm test mikroorganizmaları üzerinde antimikrobiyal etki göstermiştir

Preemie Families Reunite at Cedarville

Melissa looked around and saw freshman student Rosemary Carman. Rosemary didn’t recognize Melissa, but Melissa recognized Rosemary from pictures. Seconds later, Melissa was embracing Rosemary’s mom, Angela. Now mothers of college students, they had met each other 18 years before as mothers of premature babies, or preemies, and they had last seen each other when their daughters were 2