The News Review:
- Chinese menus, medicine threatening wildlife
- Bederra Corporation Announces Equipment Installation for Nuclear …
- POZEN’S PA32520 Study Data Demonstrated Better Upper …
- Motivating Elderly And Chronically Ill To Use Computers To Learn …
- Natural Medicine: Feel the burn: Chiles and your health
- Naturally good?
- Frozen embryos ‘may create healthier babies’
Chinese menus, medicine threatening wildlife
Reuters
legal liability, deteriorated living environment, hazardous to one’s health) instead of a ‘be compassionate’ approach could have a more immediate effect,” the report said. The demand for medicine could also be as destructive to natural vegetation and habitats as the quest for food, in a country where traditional medicine is widely used and has also yielded valuable compounds for use in Western treatments. The country’s total exports of traditional medicine were also worth $1. 1 billion last year. Catering to this market and the demand from an expanding and increasingly wealthy domestic population is straining areas where wild plants are gathered. Up to a fifth of medicinal plants and animals are now considered endangered, Traffic said.
Bederra Corporation Announces Equipment Installation for Nuclear …
MarketWatch
The Lumar division will offer the Nuclear Testing for patients in need
of Cardiac, Bone, Brain, Thyroid, Gastrointestinal and a variety of
other specialized Imaging tests. This Joint Venture has the equipment
and testing being done at the Bederra Facilities, and the reading and
interrupting of the results with the Advance Nuclear Consultants, of
Houston, Texas; for a complete diagnostic end result to the Doctor. The Non-Invasive nature of nuclear medicine imaging systems makes it
favorable for physicians and patients alike, and demand for nuclear
medicine is dramatically on the rise. Nuclear Medicine as a whole billed
18 Billion dollars worth of services in 2007, and that number is
expected to top 20 Billion in 2008. The Joint Venture between Bederra Corporation and Advanced Nuclear
Consultants was entered into as part of the acquisitions put forth by
the new Business Plan adopted in March of 2008. The Business Plan
completed two other acquisitions within the first quarter of 2008. About Bederra Corp.
POZEN’S PA32520 Study Data Demonstrated Better Upper …
MarketWatch
Additional large scale
prospective studies will be required to confirm efficacy,”
said Dr. Gurbel, Director, Sinai Center for Thrombosis Research,
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, Associate Professor of Medicine, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine. POZEN’s
efforts are focused primarily on the development of pharmaceutical
products for the treatment of acute and chronic pain and other
pain-related conditions. POZEN has development and commercialization
alliances with GlaxoSmithKline for Treximet(R),
which was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for
the acute treatment of migraine attacks; and with AstraZeneca for
proprietary fixed dose combinations of naproxen with the proton pump
inhibitor esomeprazole magnesium in a single tablet for conditions such
as osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis in patients who are at risk
for developing NSAID-associated gastric ulcers. The company’s
common stock is traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol “POZN”.
Motivating Elderly And Chronically Ill To Use Computers To Learn …
Science Daily (press release)
The most effective disease self-management systems, the study found, are those that provide the patient a complete feedback loop that includes active participation by physicians or other health professionals, a current individual assessment of the patient’s health status, and new or adjusted treatment advice when necessary. In a randomized trial of patients with hypertension, for example, 261 patients who used a Web site to report daily monitoring of blood pressure and received biweekly adjustments from a pharmacist kept better control of their blood pressure than patients in a similar sized group who simply monitored their blood pressure and had online access to their medical records and another group who only had a routine briefing on the dangers of hypertension and also had online access to their records. "As the Institute of Medicine’s 2001 report, ‘Crossing the Quality Chasm,’ made clear, the widespread adoption of many IT applications will require behavioral adaptations on the part of large numbers of clinicians, organizations and patients," said Jimison. "Although health IT has the potential to empower the elderly, the chronically ill and the underserved to be more active in the care process, our study shows there are significant usability and accessibility issues. More than a quarter of all American adults have no online presence, according to a Pew survey. The elderly are at a particular disadvantage. Their needs are seldom explicitly considered by designers of software and hardware technology and they need to be.
Natural Medicine: Feel the burn: Chiles and your health
Seattle Post Intelligencer
PT
Natural Medicine: Feel the burn: Chiles and your health
Chile peppers have more to offer than just spice — they’re also full of a variety of vitamins, minerals and other beneficial compounds. Chiles are the fruit of the Capsicum annuum plant, and they are the most widely grown spice in the world. Before the discovery of chiles, the only known “hot” spices in Europe and Asia were black pepper and horseradish. Chile peppers are rich in ascorbic acid and vitamin E, which are strong antioxidants; potassium, which keeps the heart healthy; and carotenoids, which are good for the eyes. They also contain flavonoids, which give fruits and vegetables their vibrant colors, aromas and flavors.
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Naturally good?
AsiaOne, Singapore
nullWestern-trained physicians and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners may or may not see eye to eye on their health-giving claims. However, confidence in the efficacy of these mostly plant-based remedies is rooted in folklore. After all, nature holds the secrets to good health, it is said. Since their early discovery, the roots of the wild ginseng plant have been conferred extraordinary healing powers. The snow lotus, found on the remote slopes of the eastern Himalayas, has near mythical medicinal 'powers'.
Frozen embryos ‘may create healthier babies’
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor in San Francisco
Last Updated: 11:21PM GMT 10 Nov 2008
Babies born after embryos were frozen and defrosted were less likely to be small at birth, to be born prematurely or to die in the first few days, according to research presented at the American Society of Reproductive Medicine conference in San Francisco. Typical IVF treatment involves removing eggs and fertilising them in the laboratory with sperm and then implanting one or two embryos a couple of days later in the womb. The remaining embryos are frozen for use if the ‘fresh’ cycle fails but many primary care trusts do not include the frozen cycle as part of the couple’s free treatment available on the NHS. Guidelines from the National Institute for health and Clinical Excellence say that couples should be offered three fresh cycles and as many frozen ones as they have embryos for on the NHS. The findings could be significant in encouraging primary care trusts to offer frozen cycles, as they appear to be beneficial to the child.
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