The News Review:
- Novartis Cancer Drug Gleevec May Harm Heart, Researchers Say
- The art & science of healing
- Is gender selection a right-to-choose dilemma or simply a technologica…
- Preclinical study shows chronic stress agitates ovarian cancer;…
- News no. 24983 from www.uruknet.info :: informazione dall’Iraq…
- Importance of radiology in diagnosis stressed
Novartis Cancer Drug Gleevec May Harm Heart, Researchers Say
Bloomberg - Jul 23, 2006
The scientists collected clinical data from 10 patients whosuffered heart failure while on Gleevec and looked at hearttissue from two of the patients. They concluded Gleevec isharmful to the heart after a comparison with data gathered afterfeeding the drug to mice and investigating the effect on heartcells. The research was published in the medical journal NatureMedicine today. Side Effects “Just because a drug is targeted and has fewer obviousside effects, it does not mean it is devoid of side effects,''John Stevens of the American Cancer Society said in aninterview. Experience with the drug has shown that heart failuresamong patients taking Gleevec are rare, Novartis spokesman ChrisLewis said in an e-mailed statement. Last month, a study found Gleevec helps leukemia patientskeep their disease in check for five years, suggesting thatlong-term use increases survival. The product is sold as Glivecin some markets.
The art & science of healing
St. Petersburg Times - Jul 23, 2006
By JODIE TILLMANPublished July 23, 2006HUDSON - The patient is 81 years old. He has already lost his lower left leg. He worries about his lower right leg, now the color of wine… And the scuba diving instructor. And the Clearwater motorcycle cop. "He has a gentle nature," said Diane Morgan, director of the wound center. But "certainly, those kinds of experiences enhance your vision. "A roundabout pathA short history of Vierling's path to medicine: As a young man, he was a motorcyle-riding patrolman in Clearwater. Then there came a rainy day when "some guy in a big black Buick pulled out, right in front of me. "His aches and pains from the accident sent him to a chiropractor.
Is gender selection a right-to-choose dilemma or simply a technologica…
San Francisco Chronicle - Jul 23, 2006
” Marcy Darnovsky, associate executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society in Oakland, agrees that gender selection in the United States won’t drastically skew the gender ratios. But she worries about the potential for discrimination and the possibility of creating designer babies. “One of the really big concerns for us is that if you’re going to choose the sex of your child, what’s next — height, musical aptitude or how well bodies metabolize oxygen so they can be athletes?” The ethics committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine acknowledges these concerns but doesn’t suggest a ban on gender selection for family balancing. It concluded in a 2001 report on PGD that if sex-selection methods are proven safe and effective, then doctors should be free to offer them to couples who want “gender variety” if they’re informed about the possibility of failure and agree to accept children of the wrong sex. And there is no shortage of couples — and single women — interested in choosing the sex of their children. Of more than 23,800 votes in an online poll posted by BabyCenter. com, 40 percent said they tried methods to select the sex of their baby.
Preclinical study shows chronic stress agitates ovarian cancer;…
EurekAlert - EurekAlert (press release) - Jul 23, 2006
Anderson Cancer Center. The finding, published in the journal Nature Medicine, now available on-line, provides the first measurable link between psychological stress and the biological processes that make ovarian tumors grow and spread. Specifically, the researchers showed that stress hormones bind to receptors directly on tumor cells and, in turn, stimulate new blood vessel growth and other factors that lead to faster and more aggressive tumors. “This study provides a new understanding of how chronic stress and stress factors drive tumor growth,” says Anil Sood, M. , associate professor of gynecologic oncology and cancer biology and director of ovarian cancer research.
News no. 24983 from www.uruknet.info :: informazione dall’Iraq…
uruknet.info - Jul 23, 2006
Bridges are blown up and destroyed and so are the infrastructures of Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon. Poverty is spreading among people; for instance poverty in Gaza Strip is 78 percent. There is not enough medicine and food. Farms are being bulldozed, trees are being uprooted and the produce of the farmers are getting spoiled and rotten at the check points. In Palestine, people cannot move freely from one place to the other. Patients die at the check points waiting to be allowed to cross to go to get medical treatments. Even dead people are not allowed to cross these check points without delay… Bush said it was for self-defence and “Israel” has the right to kill, destroy and occupy more territories. The US Imperialists and the Zionist Leaders consider the Arabs worthless and insignificant, and for this reason Bush sends more arms to kill more Arabs, in Lebanon, in Palestine and in Iraq. Here are few quotes by some Zionist leaders that reflect the racist nature and practices of the Zionist entity that Washington and London support. “There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies
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