The News Review:
- Penn Medicine to disclose doctors’ drug ties
- Imagination Medicine
- Unconventional Hospital in Senegal Gives Traditional Medicine Top …
- Some Blood-system Stem Cells Reproduce More Slowly Than Expected
- John Goff: Salem’s most storied citizen — Medicine Story
- O Christmas Tree! Fresh or Fake?
- The false scare of ‘socialism’
Penn Medicine to disclose doctors’ drug ties
Philadelphia Inquirer PA
5 2008 Penn Medicine to disclose doctors’ drug ties By Josh Goldstein Inquirer Staff Writer Some local patients may soon be able to learn whether their doctors are paid on the side by pharmaceutical firms or medical-implant makers. In the spring the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and its health system known collectively as Penn Medicine plan to launch a Web site that will contain searchable information on all outside activities of its doctors and scientists. "When all of us are up there transparently it may make us a little more responsible" said Arthur H. Rubenstein dean of the medical school and head of Penn Medicine. "It is just human nature: If you know someone else is going to know what you are doing you may be more careful. " Rubenstein emphasized that the process was still in the planning stage.
Imagination Medicine
Science News
And in each person that activation was proportional to theperson?s capacity for a placebo-generated release of dopamine during the painexperiments the team reported in 2007 in Neuron. ?Both dopamine release and activity during rewardanticipation predicted analgesia? says Zubieta. Pain or relief same networkPain Parkinson?s and even anxiety over medicine may seemunconnected but these conditions share circuits in the cerebral cortex?thepart of the brain that evaluates a situation and its consequences?and in thebrain stem a routing area for information going to and from the brain. Think of the brain as a distribution of networks. Each may have a different jobbut all the regions are connected. Many brain areas overlap with those involved in pain andstress because pain and mood affect each other. Depression and movementproblems are typical symptoms of Parkinson?s disease and dopamine levels arecrucial to both.
Unconventional Hospital in Senegal Gives Traditional Medicine Top …
Voice of America
Gbodossou who founded an organization to promote traditional healing called PROMETRA says an unpublished study analyzing results from 10 years at the center showed that 65-percent of the patients were cured and 25-percent showed good improvement. Many of the treatments include medications made from local plants. But he says natural local drugs are not the only thing traditional medicine has to offer. He says the most important aspect of traditional medicine that he hopes conventional doctors will learn from can perhaps be symbolized by the interaction between Mariam and her fortune teller. “The healers they give time to study the patient global holistic. This helps to know more than just the physical body. And when you see also the therapeutic approach they can give you medicinal plant but added to that they have some ritual and they have some kind of communication between the healer and the patient.
Some Blood-system Stem Cells Reproduce More Slowly Than Expected
Science Daily (press release)
"If we can find more markers for these slow-cycling cells and identify them in human bone marrow we may be able to make more of them and find additional clinical applications. " An assistant professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School Hock is also associated with the MGH Cancer Center and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Co-lead authors of the Nature Biotechnology report are Adlen Foudi PhD and Konrad Hochedlinger PhD of the MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine and Cancer Center. Additional co-authors are Denille Van Buren and Jeffrey Schindler MGH; Rudolf Jaenisch MD Whitehead Institute and Vincent Carey PhD Harvard Medical School. The study was supported by grants from the Ellison Foundation the Harvard Stem Cell Institute the American Society for Hematology the National Institute of Health the Kimmel Foundation and the V Foundation. Adapted from materials provided by.
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John Goff: Salem’s most storied citizen — Medicine Story
Salem Gazette USA
One exceptional individual who is strikingly storied in several respects was born in Salem at 259 Lafayette St. in the summer of 1929. First given the English name Francis Story Talbot II this pronounced progressive has earned the Native name Manitonquat or Medicine Story. I first met Medicine Story at a Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness (MCNAA) event held in Randolph in October. An elder of the Assonnet Band of the Wampanoag Nation Manitonquat is perhaps best known for six major contributions. First he met extensively with Native elders across America who “encouraged [him] to spread the Indian message as they knew it holding it was human-being knowledge the world had forgotten. ” During the Vietnam War he penned a public prayer and vision for peace and global unity that has motivated millions of people worldwide.
O Christmas Tree! Fresh or Fake?
U.S. News & World Report DC
Says the Times:“Many of the pesticides particularly the organophosphates and pyrethroids will break down in rain and UV light” said Dr. Thomas Arcury a professor and research director for the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem N. who is studying the effects of these chemicals on farm workers. “Some residues would probably remain just as they remain on the food we eat. How much that is — how dangerous that is — nobody knows.
The false scare of ‘socialism’
Barre Montpelier Times Argus VT
Obama should ask self-appointed defenders of the free-market faith which of these essentials they would like to leave entirely to private purchasing power. (You could after all but it’s a fair bet that the equilibrium quantity of aircraft carriers produced would be somewhere around zero. )Obama should point out the highly selective character of the right’s opposition: You can be sure that many of the folks howling over “socialized medicine” have no problem socializing a response to the credit crisis that many of them helped cause. If it’s socialized medicine in particular they fear they’re a little late. The federal government already accounts for 45 percent of all health care spending 56 percent if you count the cost of subsidizing employer health plans. And to be sure Obama’s plan does not amount to “socialized medicine” as it’s really practiced in Britain for example where providers are nationalized. But facts rarely stop an ideologue in high dudgeon so a few more questions might be in order.
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