Environmental Medicine News

The News Review:

- A taste of ecological medicine
- ‘It’s amazing what’s right under your nose’
- Broken China
- Event Brief of Teleflex Incorporated Conference Call - Final.
- The right dose
- Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan., Tom Keegan column: Amateur champ has…
- Candidates to take questions via YouTube

A taste of ecological medicine
highbeam.com - Jul 23, 2007
In Nature’s Restoration, writer and naturalist Peter Friederici transports the reader to six ecologically damaged landscapes, from Bermuda to Arizona, that people are struggling to restore. Some of the challenges derive from the painstaking work inherent in restoration: plant by plant, species by species, two steps forward, one step back. Friederici also examines the conundrums re-creating nature can pose, such as the controversy over decommissioning Glen Canyon Dam. Friederici provides a taste of what an unsubmerged.

‘It’s amazing what’s right under your nose’
Portland Press Herald - Jul 23, 2007
A student of history, a Maine Guide and a retired crude oil
pipefitter, Roberts is a naturalist by avocation. The South
Portland resident has been a volunteer for Maine Audubon for
22 years and has a repertoire of programs that includes a nature
walk about common edible and medicinal plants. He has noticed
an increased interest in the topic in recent years, particularly in
the natural medicine aspect. His knowledge of plants is largely self-taught, and he stresses
that he doesn’t have the expertise of an herbalist when it comes
to medicinal uses. A native Mainer, some of Roberts’ exposure to
foraging comes from relatives who lived on the coast and
foraged items to eat, such as gull eggs and a plant called
goosegreens. He puts himself in the category of “half-hearted fanatics. ”
“We dabble in it and we have a good time doing it,” he said.

Broken China
BusinessWeek - Jul 23, 2007
Will Beijing complete all of the stadiums, expressways, and hotels in time for the 2008 Summer Olympics? Count on it. It’s also a decent bet China will achieve its goal of winning the most gold medals. Why, then, is it so hard for this same government to crack down on exporters of dangerously tainted seafood, toothpaste, and medicine, despite years of warnings by local and foreign experts? The relentless headlines about unsafe products from China reveal a scary truth: Probe even a little into the Chinese economic miracle and glaring administrative failures abound. Product safety is just one aspect of Beijing’s inability to enforce needed regulation in everything from manufacturing and the environment to copyrights and the capital markets. The same Communist Party apparatus so proficient at censoring the Internet can’t keep peddlers in the heart of Beijing from selling knockoff Callaway golf clubs and fake iPods, despite solemn promises to Washington since the early 1990s about enforcing intellectual property rights. Shanghai’s stock exchange may be one of the world’s hottest and may boast a state-of-the-art paperless trading system. But it was a casino when it opened in 1990 with eight listings, and after years of flaccid regulation it’s an even bigger casino with 1,118… “What is unsaid, but understood, is that if your locality becomes wealthy, so do you,” Lieberthal says. “Instead of the Chinese Communist Party, it ought to be called the Chinese Bureaucratic Capitalist Party. The fuzzy nature of corporate ownership in China heightens the conflicts of interest. Officially, state enterprises account for just one-third of the economy, compared with 80% two decades ago, but that statistic is misleading because it includes only companies directly controlled by Beijing-based ministries. In truth, many mainland companies have financial ties to county, city, and township governments. In some respects, that policy of giving members of China’s immense bureaucracy a personal stake in growth has worked brilliantly. Big-ticket industrial projects get finished in record time, and infrastructure is smoothly put into place.

Event Brief of Teleflex Incorporated Conference Call - Final.
Free with registration - Fair Disclosure Wire - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jul 23, 2007
that has been on the TFX’s radar screen for several years. Is a manufacturer of disposable catheters, heart-assist devices, and related products for critical and cardiac care medicine. TFX and ARRO, together builds to a combined global workforce of over 11,000 employees. TFX has a strong presence in 18 countries worldwide.

The right dose
Calcutta Telegraph - Jul 23, 2007
The Indian Medical Association, a pan-Indian association of doctors, has been crying foul for a while now. And Narender Saini, honorary secretary, IMA, explains why. It is wrong, he reasons, to put medical services under the CPA since they are different in nature from services provided by retailers in the open market. “Medical services are riddled with probability. The human body is a dynamic entity, and things can - and often do - go wrong. After all, the same medicine doesn’t affect two people in the same way,” he says. Holding doctors accountable under the CPA, argues Saini, can often make doctors go on the defensive… “Medical services are riddled with probability. The human body is a dynamic entity, and things can - and often do - go wrong. After all, the same medicine doesn’t affect two people in the same way,” he says. Holding doctors accountable under the CPA, argues Saini, can often make doctors go on the defensive. “Then, it wouldn’t be surprising if a doctor asks a patient to go in for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for as minor a symptom as a headache. After all, no doctor would then want to take a chance with his diagnosis, even if that means undue expenses on the patient’s part,” he says. His argument, however, doesn’t cut any ice with consumer rights campaigners.

Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan., Tom Keegan column: Amateur champ has…
Free with registration - Journal-World - AccessMyLibrary.com - Jul 23, 2007
That’s known as taking your medicine. Well, Gary Woodland is no weekend golfer. He does take his medicine in the form of pain pills to quiet the right wrist injury he suffered in the Big 12 tournament. But he doesn’t go sideways. Just as a pool shark sees shots the guy who gets.

Candidates to take questions via YouTube
Santa Fe New Mexican - Jul 23, 2007
What would you, as president, do to make low-cost or free preventative medicine available for everybody in this country?"
So far more than 1,300 video questions have been uploaded onto YouTube, the popular video-sharing site, many of them as intimate as the one from Kim, who at one point removes a wig to reveal her bald head. CNN will sort through the submissions to select the two dozen or so that Democrats in Charleston will answer after watching them on a 25-by-18-foot screen. No one quite knows how the debate will work. The signature moments of the campaign so far _ the moments when it crossed over from C-SPAN to popular culture _ have occurred on YouTube… com’s "I Got a Crush on Obama. " Kathleen Hall Jamieson sees its co-sponsorship of the debates (the Republicans will get their turn Sept. 17) as a natural progression. "It’s the equivalent of the networks broadcasting the Kennedy and Nixon debate in 1960," said Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of "Presidential Debates: The Challenge of Creating an Informed Electorate. " "It’s a new move for a new medium. "
But the marriage of the old and the new is not without tensions. For many who use it, YouTube is a digital democracy of sorts.