The News Review:
- Readers speak out on ’boutique’ medicine
- Herpes Often Unknowingly Spread
- Stem cell proposal opens way to unrestricted research
- The best alternative?
- Fast-Changing Field of Medical Genetics Embraces Personalized …
- GP doctor facing ten sex-related charges still allowed to practice …
- Singapore Medicine – Breakthrough Development of Cell Therapy …
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.
Herpes Often Unknowingly Spread
WebMD
Gail Shust, MD, and colleagues at Albert Einstein School of Medicine studied the genital fluid from 16 healthy women aged 18 to 25 who were at low risk of acquiring sexually transmitted diseases. Genital fluid has been shown to have natural antimicrobial activity against HSV-2, Shust says. Nine of the 16 women were using hormonal contraception: Seven were on the pill, one used injectable Depo-Provera, and one the vaginal ring.
Stem cell proposal opens way to unrestricted research
Detroit Free Press, United States
(or) muscle spasms. ” Armed with the doctor’s statement, the employee can grow and use marijuana free from any “disciplinary action,” under Section 4(a). There is no scientific evidence that smoked marijuana is a safe and effective medicine. Nor has the FDA approved marijuana or any smoked delivery system as a medicine. How are employers to monitor use of marijuana for medical purposes without directives on quantity, frequency, duration, time or method of administration?Smoking is a crude delivery system that leaves undetermined the dose inhaled, the strength of the dose necessary, and is no different than the use of tobacco in the workplace. Others are affected by the harmful chemicals and carcinogens that are byproducts of smoked marijuana. Marijuana possession and use are illegal under federal law, and not ADA protected.
The best alternative?
Johns Hopkins News-Letter, MD
substring(0, thispageresult. Alternative medicine has been proven to be a safe and effective form of treatment for some conditions, and the attractiveness of this more natural form of medicine has propelled it into the realm of mainstream Western medicine including at Hopkins’s own Hospital and medical school. Homewood’s Health and Wellness Center has followed this trend by recently incorporating alternative medicine as part of its services. Although we supported the Hospital in taking the progressive step of creating a branch for alternative medicine, we feel that hiring a clinical herbalist for the Center for Health and Wellness is an unnecessary and ill-conceived move on the part of the University.
Fast-Changing Field of Medical Genetics Embraces Personalized …
exduco.net, Italy
But much of what you can find out today about your risky genes is not information that can easily be used to lower health risks or to choose the best treatments. Physicians, scientists and entrepreneurs talked about this fast-moving field of personalized medicine Wednesday at the UCSF Foundation Wellness Lecture Series event, “Medical Genetics: Are We Ready to Get Personal with Diagnosis and Treatments?”
The speakers for the event included Robert Nussbaum, MD, chief of medical genetics at UCSF; Steven Kayser, PharmD, professor of clinical pharmacy at UCSF; biotech entrepreneur Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe; and Bradley Aouizerat, PhD, associate professor of physiological nursing at UCSF. The speakers pointed to several new genetic tests that already are available from clinical laboratories. Still, it will be years before the bulk of the benefits of personalized medicine will be delivered, they said.
GP doctor facing ten sex-related charges still allowed to practice …
Energeticcity.ca, Canada
Palaniswami Murthi was arrested this past June on nine sex-related charges against four patients, including two minors–one male, one female. At that time, the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons didn’t suspend Dr. Murthi’s right to practice, but instead stipulated that he must be chaperoned in situations when he would normally be alone with patients.
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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