The News Review:
- New surgeon general should back alternative medicine
- Some breast cancers just go away researchers say
- Data Published in Nature Medicine Highlights Ability of Peregrine …
- Advanced CT Scans Valuable To Check For Clogged Arteries
- CIS All-Canadian OUA All-Star looks to career in medicine
- Molecular Partnership Controls Daily Rhythms Body Metabolism …
New surgeon general should back alternative medicine
Buffalo News United States
For me and my patients drugs are not the only answer. And my patients are not alone in wanting a choice besides medication. Barack Obama should heed this complaint and appoint a surgeon general who takes alternative medicine seriously. The public is far ahead of medical experts and politicians on alternative medicine. A Harvard Medical School survey done 10 years ago found that more than 40 percent of Americans used some form of alternative medicine. It’s probably higher today. The study found that Americans spent as much out of pocket for alternative treatments as they did for conventional health care.
Some breast cancers just go away researchers say
Los Angeles Times CA
But now researchers say that mammograms detect some cancers that would go away on their own. In a report published Nov. 24 in the Archives of Internal Medicine researchers at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health compared breast cancer rates among regularly screened women (three mammograms in six years) with rates among women who had only one screening at the end of six years. The regularly screened group had higher rates of breast cancer during that time frame than did the control group. But you’d think that the total number of cancers would be about the same among both groups at the end of six years.
Data Published in Nature Medicine Highlights Ability of Peregrine …
MarketWatch
Bavituximab is in clinical trials for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and in preclinical development for the treatment of viral hemorrhagic fevers under a contract worth up to $44. 4 million with the bioterrorism program of the U. Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).
Advanced CT Scans Valuable To Check For Clogged Arteries
Science Daily (press release)
26 researchers at nine medical centers say the faster 64-CT scans were 93 percent as precise as invasive conventional imaging better known as cardiac catheterization and virtually 100 percent accurate in detecting people with at least one artery dangerously clogged by the buildup of cholesterol and plaque. Comparison of CT and catheterization results also showed for the first time that they were equally useful in patients with heart attack symptoms such as chest pain and shortness of breath for predicting the need for cardiac bypass surgery or angioplasty to restore their blood flow. The CT scans accurately predicted 84 percent of invasive procedures performed and catheterization predicted 82 percent. More than a quarter-million Americans undergo coronary bypass surgery each year and another 1.
CIS All-Canadian OUA All-Star looks to career in medicine
Belleville Intelligencer Canada
“Jimmy could’ve done better too but a lot of teams decided not to kick the ball to him as the season went on. But his numbers were still remarkable. “If pro football doesn’t work out Allin will turn his full attention to a career in medicine. “He’s a model student” said Tracey. “He’s a two-time CIS Academic All-Canadian with an 80 per cent average in pre-med life sciences. He also tutors high school biology students. “As well Allin contributes to the community as a member of the Gaels Reading Heroes program an ALS volunteer and coach at local high school football camps.
Molecular Partnership Controls Daily Rhythms Body Metabolism …
Insciences Organisation Switzerland
Lazar and his colleagues including the study’s first author Penn Veterinary Medicine doctoral student Theresa Alenghat studied a protein called NCoR that modulates the body’s responses to metabolic hormones. They engineered a mutation into mice that prevents NCoR from working with an enzyme that is normally its partner HDAC3. These animals showed changes in the expression of clock and metabolic genes and were leaner more sensitive to insulin and on different sleep-wake cycles than controls. The role of the NCoR-HDAC3 partnership in regulating the body’s internal clock was previously unknown. HDAC3 is an enzyme that affects gene expression by binding to receptors in the cell nucleus to affect genes' activity but not by directly changing DNA.
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