The News Review:
- Healing Hands?
- A healthy lifestyle as second nature
- UPDATE — Researchers find new clue to Alzheimer’s disease
- Move to new medical center goes smoothly
- It’s Not All in the Genes
- Dedicating a ‘remarkable’ new facility
Healing Hands?
RedOrbit, TX
It is in that room where Dr. Mary Kathryn Saville does much of her mind-and-body work with her patients, including Reiki, a form of touch healing. Saville is one of several people across the state who practice alternative medicine, a broadly defined term that covers any medical practice to fight injury or disease that isn’t generally recognized by the mainstream medical community. It ranges from relatively little-known practices such as reflexology to what is perhaps the most publicly accepted alternative medicine of all: chiropractic. Just how large the alternative medicine market is in West Virginia is hard to gauge because large parts of it are unregulated. Dietary supplements, for example, are not regulated in the same way that prescription medications are regulated. The state requires chiropractors and people who perform acupuncture to have licenses, although each profession has its own governing board that operates separately from the West Virginia Healthcare Authority, which regulates most of the medical community.
A healthy lifestyle as second nature
Newsday, NY
For example: Type 2 diabetes is a growing disease among children, whereas a few decades ago it was virtually unknown among our youngest citizens. From 1979 to 1999, according to the Institute of Medicine, obesity-associated hospital costs for children and youth increased by 262 percent, to $127 million. Studies show overweight children are likely to become overweight adults, whose direct and indirect health care costs have climbed to $117 billion, according to the National Institutes of Health. Much of our taxes support federal and state-supported insurance programs that pay for the chronic diseases caused by being overweight or obese. Schools are the natural place to start to correct this. A recent study found that schools that implemented a nutrition program reduced the number of overweight children by half.
UPDATE — Researchers find new clue to Alzheimer’s disease
Times-West Virginian, WV
Now, researchers have caused Alzheimer’s symptoms in rats by injecting them with one particular form of beta-amyloid. Injections with other forms of beta-amyloid did not cause illness, which may explain why some people have beta-amyloid plaque in their brains but do not show disease symptoms. The findings by a team led by Dr. Selkoe of Harvard Medical School were reported in Sunday’s online edition of the journal Nature Medicine.
Move to new medical center goes smoothly
The UCLA Daily Bruin, CA
This was a minor setback according to Levey, and he said it gave the team even more time to perfect the transfer plans that have been in progress for six years. With the project finished, the team expressed a sense of great satisfaction and felt it has left behind a great legacy with the construction and opening of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. The old medical center will continue to function as home of the School of Medicine as well as all other research-related activities. Levey said the next project underway is updating the old medical center and bringing it up to date with current seismic building standards. With the new medical center up and running, the entire team is ready to face future challenges, Levey said. Comments Post a comment Username: Password: (Forgotten your password?)Comment:.
It’s Not All in the Genes
RedOrbit, TX
Lifestyle and diet can play an important role on your genes. You can change the outcome even if it is ”written” otherwise in your genes. That is the founding basis of holistic medicine. Now there is a new study to prove this.
Dedicating a ‘remarkable’ new facility
Central Maine Morning Sentinel, ME
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He said the building will provide one-stop access to comprehensive medical services. The open house offered tours to the hundreds of community members who wanted to get their first glimpse of the building that has been 18 months under construction. Mills, reflecting on how far medicine has come in Franklin County in the past 100 years, recalled some of the community’s medical “giants” who were the early foundation of the hospital. Bell were two physicians she mentioned who maintained strong community practices by treating patients from their home offices and who also maintained small in-patient hospitals for the more serious cases. Eighty years ago, Pratt, Bell and other prominent physicians and community leaders worked hard to found a hospital on Fairbanks Road in Farmington.
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