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- â’Medicine Bags and Dog Tags,â’ by Al Carroll
Expert Novices: Simulation Produces Real-World Results in …
Newswise (press release)
, and her research group from the department of anesthesiology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago studied 21 first-year anesthesia residents as they were tested on simulation scenarios during their first six weeks of training. ?By undergoing simulation-based training, novice residents improved competence in safe practice earlier than that which was achieved by clinical exposure alone,? said Dr. ?Specific simulation training in scenarios when low oxygen and low blood pressure occurred resulted in significantly enhanced scores compared to non-simulation training.
Stem Cell Breakthrough: Mass-Production Of ‘Embryonic’ Stem Cells …
Science Daily (press release)
While scientists have successfully reprogrammed different types of mouse cells (fibroblasts, liver and intestinal cells), skin fibroblasts were the only human cell type they had ever tried their hands on. Fibroblasts help make the connective tissue in the body and are the primary cell type in the deeper layers of the skin, where they are responsible for wound healing and the secretion of proteins that form collagen. For the first set of experiments, first author Trond Aasen, Ph. , a postdoctoral researcher at the Center of Regenerative Medicine in Barcelona, used viral vectors to slip the genes for the master regulators Oct4, Sox2, as well as Klf4 and c-Myc into keratinocytes cultured from human skin explants. After only 10 days — instead of the more typical three to four weeks — one out of 100 hundred cells grew into a tiny colony with all the markings of a typical human embryonic stem cell colony. The researchers then successfully prodded what they call keratinocyte-derived iPS cells or KiPS cells to distinguish them from fibroblast-derived iPS cells into becoming all the cell types in the human body, including heart muscle cells and dopamine-producing neurons, which are affected by Parkinson’s disease.
Business Briefcase
Tampa Tribune, FL
Ramu Chalasani presents “All About Probiotics. ” Chalasani is board certified in internal medicine and is board eligible in gastroenterology. He was raised and educated in Baton Rouge, La. He first performed a residency at Baton Rouge General Medical Center in family medicine and then completed a residency in internal medicine at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport, La. He has recently completed a fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at LSU. The seminar will be presented at the Hernando Medical Park Conference Center, located at 12208 Cortez Blvd.
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Mclean owes me a new keyboard! I was drinking my iced tea as I read that. Clue: The very nature of evidence-based medicine and science is that it changes in response to new evidence. Homeopathy does not. Moreover, homeopathic provings are. sciencebasedmedicine.
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The cholesterol-inflammation connection
CNN
5 times more likely to experience a first cardiovascular event (including heart attack and stroke) than those with the lowest levels of CRP. As a predictor of risk this was 40 percent more effective than LDL cholesterol, which, in the corresponding groups of women, produced an increased risk only 1. These results got everybody’s attention.
â’Medicine Bags and Dog Tags,â’ by Al Carroll
Indian Country Today, NY
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?Medicine Bags and Dog Tags,? by Al Carroll
By
John Christian Hopkins, Today correspondent
Story Published:
Oct 16, 2008
Story Updated:
Oct 16, 2008
Al Carroll’s “Medicine Bags and Dog Tags: American Indian Veterans from Colonial Times to the Second Iraq War” is like a merry-go-round: you anticipate fun, with ups and downs, but when the ride is over you end up right back where you started. His book, published by the University of Nebraska Press, promises to look at Native veterans from colonial times to the current Iraq war, and how Native culture influenced the military. It’s a grandiose ambition, and it only partially succeeds. Too often, the 285-page book – the final 60 pages consisting of a bibliography and index – comes across as a college term paper, padded to book length. In fact, in several instances, Carroll seems to repeat the same points – nearly word for word – in different chapters.
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