The News Review:
- Readers speak out on ’boutique’ medicine
- Singapore Medicine – Breakthrough Development of Cell Therapy …
- Jenks grad does medicine at Olympics
- Key To Sonic Hedgehog Control Of Brain Development Found
- Newly Formed Institute to Transform How Research Becomes Patient …
- Feel-good foods: What you eat can affect your mood
Readers speak out on ’boutique’ medicine
Baltimore Sun, United States
WalshJarrettsville I am one of the thousands of Howard County residents impacted by Charter Internal Medicine’s move to a “boutique” practice, and I am not happy about it. I prefer to pay as I go. Boutique medicine is, by its very nature, unfair and divisive, and it will weaken the relationship between primary-care providers and the community at large. Hal HolzmanColumbia I am a physician who cares for geriatric patients in. I see several new patients a week who cannot afford their newly converted boutique doctors, and I always tell them the same thing: I don’t blame their doctors at all. As internists, we are among the lowest-paid doctors (making one-third the salary of many specialists) and are asked to provide comprehensive personal care to all of our patients about a broad range of medical and psychological issues in shrinking bits of time.
Singapore Medicine – Breakthrough Development of Cell Therapy …
PR Web (press release), WA
The first was done by the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, while the second was done in Pavia, Italy. "Singapore is extremely well-placed to perform this trial because NPC is so common in Asia. We can truly become a hub of excellence in this area," says Dr Toh, whose clinical and research team is in frequent contact with the Centre for Cell and Gene Therapy in Houston. "We are very grateful to be partnering the Centre for Cell and Gene Therapy. They are actively involved with us in ramping up capabilities, technologies, clinical trials development using adoptive T-cells to fight NPC.
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Jenks grad does medicine at Olympics
Wagoner Tribune, OK
Hargrove graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1981-Chemical Engineering, and in 1987 from OU Medical School, Orthopedic Surgeon training completed at OU Health Sciences Center, 1992. His subspecialty is ports medicine training (1993-Richmond, Va. ), thus his Olympic connection. By Jeff Massie The Sunday Sun The details were amazing. Everything in the Olympic Village was perfectly sculpted and manicured. But for Midwest City doctor Kevin Hargrove, it was kind of hard to pay too much attention to all the finer details when each person you bump into is the best at what they do in the entire world.
Key To Sonic Hedgehog Control Of Brain Development Found
Science Daily (press release)
28, 2008) — University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine researchers have discovered how the expression of the Sonic hedgehog gene is regulated during brain development and how mutations that alter this process cause brain malformations. The results appear online this month in Nature Genetics. See also: Health & MedicineBrain TumorBirth DefectsNervous SystemMind & BrainBrain InjuryIntelligenceNeuroscience Reference.
Newly Formed Institute to Transform How Research Becomes Patient …
MarketWatch
Barchi, MD, PhD,
President, Thomas Jefferson University. “Our
education plan is a key component–being
jointly developed with our partners. We’re
training a new cadre of scientists who will understand both the clinical
and translational side of medicine. ”
“Discoveries that could fuel groundbreaking,
real-world practices are limitless,”
emphasizes Robert Laskowski, MD, President and CEO, Christiana Care
Health System. “The DVICTS will have a direct
impact on the lives of people in Delaware, southeastern Pennsylvania and
southwestern New Jersey. ”
Joint projects of member institutions are already underway. Molecular
genetic markers are being developed to tailor and individualize cancer
therapy and research is being carried out on the use and applications of
proton beam therapy (housed at Jefferson) for cancer treatment.
Feel-good foods: What you eat can affect your mood
Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA
Back to Health page Gordon, a clinical professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, believes what we eat affects how we think and feel. “It’s a wake-up call to let us know our body is out of balance. ” Food can help restore that equilibrium, Gordon wrote in his new book, “Unstuck” (The Penguin Press, $25. The trick is knowing which key nutrients to include, and which foods to avoid.
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