The News Review:
- Man’s vigor a headache for deer.
- Doctors Medicate Strangers on Web
- Group warns of biological agent research.
- Ethics and the iPhone
- Estrogen Therapy Gives Aging Brain Cells A Boost
Man’s vigor a headache for deer.
Free with registration - Chicago Tribune - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jun 28, 2007
More than 7,000 lakes adorn meadowy hillocks and vast stands of white birch. Above it all tower the majestic, snow-capped peaks of the Altai range. For Russia’s nouveau riche, however, it’s the blood of another natural beauty of the Altai _ the maral deer _ that lures them here. Every summer, farmworkers saw off the antlers of thousands of maral deer a few months before they naturally shed, boil the antlers in vats and use the murky soup to produce baths and steam treatments treasured by many Russians as a cure for everything from arthritis to impotence. For an extra jolt of health, devotees swig shots of maral deer blood sweetened with fruit syrup. Like college kids at the campus liquor store, they leave Altai spas with boxes of bottled deer blood to ensure breakfasts at home don’t go by without a spoonful. “I drink the blood of maral every day in the morning for a month,” said Sergei Trubchaninov, 46, a supermarket supplies.
Doctors Medicate Strangers on Web
Washington Post - Jun 28, 2007
"There is wide variation. Some states are very strict and some states have no enforcement whatsoever. "The borderless nature of the Internet works against state regulation. In one case, a customer in New Jersey visited a site in Arizona that used a doctor in Alaska, while a pharmacy in California filled the order. "Until this happened, medicine was not really an interstate commerce problem," Anderson said. A uniform rule would allow regulators to track dangerous doctors across state lines. "Right now if a California doctor did something to a kid in Texas, Texas has no authority over that," said Jon E… "The borderless nature of the Internet works against state regulation. In one case, a customer in New Jersey visited a site in Arizona that used a doctor in Alaska, while a pharmacy in California filled the order. "Until this happened, medicine was not really an interstate commerce problem," Anderson said. A uniform rule would allow regulators to track dangerous doctors across state lines. "Right now if a California doctor did something to a kid in Texas, Texas has no authority over that," said Jon E. Porter, a lawyer who formerly directed compliance at the Texas medical board. "We have no idea how many people are being hurt.
Group warns of biological agent research.
Free with registration - Fort Worth Star-Telegram - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jun 28, 2007
28–AUSTIN — Unbeknownst to many Texans, at least a half a dozen facilities in the state are handling biological warfare agents — including one at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas — according to an organization that disclosed what appears to be an accident with an infectious agent at Texas A&M University. Edward Hammond, executive director of the Austin-based Sunshine Project, also said that the personnel and funding devoted to biological warfare research have increased by about tenfold in the United States over the last five years. Although the research is supposed to be defensive in nature, the advocacy group says the little-known biological weapons rush in the United States could lead to an accident potentially more devastating than any attack from the outside. “Either through an accident, or a researcher going wacko, this.
Ethics and the iPhone
BusinessWeek - Jun 28, 2007
The first is an opportunity cost. Our social fabric is in danger of being ripped to shreds as we swap electronic connection for personal relationships. The very nature of community depends upon us being connected to one another. Being civil means, or at least used to mean, valuing our relationships beyond our immediate circle of family and friends. If upon leaving home we immerse ourselves in idle chatter on the phone, listen to music nonstop at volume levels that preclude hearing the world around us, read every piece of e-mail sent since the last time we checked, or hunt for bargains on the Internet, we miss the chance on the way to work to make new friendships, renew old ones, or simply say hello to a stranger. A community is not merely a collection of individuals. It is a web—the kind with a small "w"—of interconnectedness, and this web cannot exist for long if each of its constituents is concerned primarily or exclusively with itself… The nonstop avalanche of images and sounds from electronic media (among other distractions) is a barrier, not a portal, to creativity. Increased Morbidity RiskThe third cost of our absorption in technology is the most serious of all: the possibility of an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. A study published in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded that drivers who use a cell phone are four times more likely to be involved in an accident than are drivers who do not. The American Automobile Assn. has challenged that study, but it doesn’t really matter who is right. Imagine that your son or daughter has just gotten a driver’s license and is taking your car out for a spin. Would it matter to you if other drivers are yakking away on a cell phone while cruising next to, or heading toward, your child? Of course it would, and it should.
Estrogen Therapy Gives Aging Brain Cells A Boost
Medical News Today - Jun 28, 2007
If the brain is too old, then age-related decline may be difficult to reverse. However, our study suggests that if we jump before it’s too late, we may possibly prevent memory loss. ” What is also unclear, Dr. Morrison adds, is at what point the natural course of aging trumps the effects of any estrogen treatment. Rapp and Morrison plan to extend their research through similar behavioral and microscopic studies in monkeys that have not been ovarectomized, so that the aging process is more natural and not acutely induced. —————————-Article adapted by Medical News Today from original press release.
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