The News Review:
- Kids’ Sports Injuries on the Increase
- Pope: Treat All Patients With Respect
- Growing a Brain in Switzerland
- Gatlin challenging doping ban
- Cannabis may be safe and effective for HIV-related neuropathic pain
Kids’ Sports Injuries on the Increase
Forbes - Feb 16, 2007
"This research basically adds to the current concerns andclimate that orthopedics have been seeing for probably the lastdecade," said Dr. Richard Schultz, an assistant professor ofsurgery at Texas A&M Health Science Center and chief of staffat Scott & White University Medical Campus, at Round Rock. "The incredible popularity and widespread nature of theclub sports or select sports create a level of year-round intensityand single-sports efforts that can really lead to a lot of theoveruse injuries in these children," he said. Those types ofinjuries, "we used to never see until they were late in highschool or even college," Schultz said. But because pediatric athletes are still growing and developing,they are at a higher risk for injury than adult players. The current research, being presented at the annual meeting ofthe American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery in San Diego, found that40 percent of all emergency room visits involving children aged 5to 14 are for sports injuries. More pre-high school students are sustaining shoulder injuriesserious enough to require surgery, the study found… There is widespread overtraining ofchildren. "The experts agreed that players, parents and coaches need to paybetter attention to the needs of these developing bodies. The neural system needs many different types of activity todevelop motor control, he added. "In the past, the starathletes in high school and college were adept at several sportsand had a natural talent for all sports," McHugh said. "Today I am amazed at how athletically inept these athletesare when taken out of their single sport comfort zone. "And training needs to match the developmental stage of thechild.
Pope: Treat All Patients With Respect
Zenit News Agency - Feb 16, 2007
The Holy Father made this comment in a letter sent today to participants in an international congress on “Communication and Relationships in Medicine: New Perspectives for Medical Etiquette. ”
The letter was sent in the Pope’s name by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state. The meeting, which was organized by the Medicine, Dialogue and Communion Association, inspired by the Focolare Movement, is taking place today and Saturday at the Catholic University of Rome. According to the Holy Father, the subject chosen by the congress “is especially important for contemporary medicine, increasingly subject to manipulation and attempts at manipulation of its specific nature, which is that of knowing how to be of service of the sick person, of his physical and spiritual suffering. ”
The Pope added that of decisive importance in this mission is the relationship “between the doctor and the patient,” which involves “the whole medical team, the health institution, and the home itself, not forgetting the relatives of sick people. ”
The papal messages states that it would be “an error to identify the whole human person with the capacity for relationship and communication, denying those who lack this capacity the intrinsic and objective value that belongs to the human person as such. ”
Quoting Pope John Paul II’s 1995 encyclical “Evangelium Vitae,” Benedict XVI says that there is a “mentality which tends to equate personal dignity with the capacity for verbal and explicit, or at least perceptible, communication… ”
The letter was sent in the Pope’s name by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state. The meeting, which was organized by the Medicine, Dialogue and Communion Association, inspired by the Focolare Movement, is taking place today and Saturday at the Catholic University of Rome. According to the Holy Father, the subject chosen by the congress “is especially important for contemporary medicine, increasingly subject to manipulation and attempts at manipulation of its specific nature, which is that of knowing how to be of service of the sick person, of his physical and spiritual suffering. ”
The Pope added that of decisive importance in this mission is the relationship “between the doctor and the patient,” which involves “the whole medical team, the health institution, and the home itself, not forgetting the relatives of sick people. ”
The papal messages states that it would be “an error to identify the whole human person with the capacity for relationship and communication, denying those who lack this capacity the intrinsic and objective value that belongs to the human person as such. ”
Quoting Pope John Paul II’s 1995 encyclical “Evangelium Vitae,” Benedict XVI says that there is a “mentality which tends to equate personal dignity with the capacity for verbal and explicit, or at least perceptible, communication. ”
The message continues: “It is clear that on the basis of these presuppositions there is no place in the world for anyone who, like the unborn or the dying, is a weak element in the social structure, or for anyone who appears completely at the mercy of others and radically dependent on them, and can only communicate through silent language of a profound sharing of affection.
Growing a Brain in Switzerland
Spiegel Online - Feb 16, 2007
Sakmann had developed a method of applying suction to individual gray cells using tiny glass tubes, prompting the cells to release their electric signals. In 1991 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research. His student, Markram, further developed the method until he was able to monitor several cells at the same time — a number that he has now increased to twelve. “That was the breakthrough,” says Markram. “We had paved the way to the artificial brain by the time we arrived at communication between the cells. PHOTO GALLERY: BLUE BRAIN AND THE RIDDLE OF CONSCIOUSNESS… The stored neurons could be used to construct thinking tools of any size, in principle. Before they can be approved for use, though, the individual cells are randomly provided with individual characteristics — because in the actual brain, no two cells are identical. While none of this is especially challenging for a supercomputer, the real work starts when the time comes to link 10,000 non-identical cells to one another in a way that mirrors nature. The result is a particularly tricky 3-D puzzle, because each cell has about 10,000 protrusions with which it attempts to connect to other cells. The computer, in other words, must rotate and twist all cells in the space until their conductors are connected — correctly — at a total of 100 million points of contact.
Gatlin challenging doping ban
InTheNews.co.uk - Feb 16, 2007
"He continues to work with anti-doping authorities in eradicating doping in sport. "Gatlin’s positive test last year was his second in his career, which meant that under USADA rules he was to receive a mandatory life exclusion from the sport. However, due to the nature of his first positive test – a result of taking prescription medicine to control attention-deficit disorder during the 2001 USA junior championships – the arbitration panel showed some measure of leniency towards the American. The result of his appeal is likely to be known within three months.
Cannabis may be safe and effective for HIV-related neuropathic pain
Aidsmap - Feb 16, 2007
Cannabis smokers reported varying, but generally minimal to mild, degrees of anxiety, sedation, disorientation and confusion, paranoia, dizziness, and nausea. Nobody withdrew from the study due to side-effects. Pain modelling
To help control for the subjective nature of pain reporting, 30 of the participants took part in an additional
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