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- Genomic medicine sector needs government backing
- Contemporary Medicine: Applied Human Science or Technological …
- National Health Service: A revolution in caring for our health
- Common drugs may combat aging disease
- But We Live Longer Today
- Doctors, researchers and a matter of trust
Genomic medicine sector needs government backing
The Statesman, India
Some developing countries are using genomic science, aiming both for public health benefits and to produce knowledge to stimulate their economies. They often do this by setting up large-scale genotyping projects to assess susceptibility to disease. The researchers — from the Canada-based McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health — compared the genotyping initiatives set up by the Mexican National Institute of Genomic Medicine, the Indian Genome Variation Database Consortium, the Thai SNP Discovery Project and the Pharmacogenomics Project at the Thai Centre of Excellence for Life Sciences, by carrying out 56 interviews. They found that institutional leadership in all three countries has led to international collaborations, allowing the countries to take part in decisions on the international stage.
Contemporary Medicine: Applied Human Science or Technological …
RedOrbit, TX
The authors argue that this relationship is located within a tension at the heart of the clinic, between the demands of cutting-edge medicine (and ever-advancing technology) and the demands of a medical tradition long sworn to hold patient well- being in the highest regard. As members of a pluridisciplinary research team (anthropology and medicine), the authors carry out ethnographic research in a third-line pediatric hospital in Montreal, Canada. Involving interviews, informal exchanges, and observation with practitioners, patients, and families in clinical spaces, the ongoing research project broadly addresses humanism and medicine. Mainly drawing on interview material with clinicians and observation, we examine here the importance attributed by the specialists to human dimensions of the clinical encounter and the sometimes problematic relation between the cure and care aspects of medical practice. Technological and medical progress in recent years has given rise to tremendous scientific advancements that are engaged daily in the hospital context.
National Health Service: A revolution in caring for our health
Scotsman, United Kingdom
THE CONSULTANTProfessor John Forfar, former Western General, Leith Hospital and ERI consultantIt was when the US Senior Medical Officer demanded to know just what the young member of the 47th Royal Marine Commando regiment planned to do with his medical career after the war, that the future of John Forfar was set. “You want to be in paediatrics,’ he boomed at me, “smiles Professor Forfar recalling that day in Southampton. “I had no interest in children’s medicine before that. But he was right – there were hardly any paediatricians in the UK then. In fact about 100 in the whole country. “So it was, that after doing his bit for Queen and country – he was involved in the D-Day landings at Normandy – he returned to Scotland and was given a university post in Dundee’s training hospital. He was there when the NHS was launched, although two years later he moved to Edinburgh’s Western General – a hospital then managed by the local authority – as a consultant paediatrician, and spent the rest of his career caring for the city’s children.
Common drugs may combat aging disease
New Scientist (subscription), UK
The damaged prelamin A binds to molecular fragments in the body called farnesyls, which in turn bind to the nuclear membrane, causing the build-up of protein that underlies the disease. Statins, which are used to reduce cholesterol, and bisphosphonates, which curb osteoporosis, are known to reduce farnesyl levels, so Carlos L
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