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The News Review:
- Gene therapy gets closer to a ‘cure’
- Headaches come with Heidi-care
- China Medicine to Participate in 2009 Natural Products Expo West …
- Researchers find novel pathway that helps eyes quickly adapt to …
- Hard to swallow
- Cord-blood banking: worth it or not?
- Surgeon Leaves Comfort for Front Lines
Gene therapy gets closer to a ‘cure’
Boston Globe
in Cambridge which has its own gene therapy program. Two other studies this month add to the momentum. The journal Nature Medicine reporting on a trial of 74 HIV patients said gene therapy had modest but promising effects. A study in the journal Human Gene Therapy reported that two patients with rheumatoid arthritis saw a reduction in pain and swelling with gene therapy. Eight-year-old Corey Haas of Hadley N. received gene therapy for a rare disease called Leber’s congenital amaurosis which was causing him to go blind.
Headaches come with Heidi-care
Chicago Tribune
While the exact nature of this expansion remains unclear one thing is certain: President Barack bama’s health-care reforms will have a distinctly European flavor drawing inspiration from countries like Switzerland where health insurance is compulsory by law. Having practiced medicine in Switzerland for nearly 30 years I must sound a note of caution. We Swiss have had compulsory health insurance since 1994 and while it has benefited big insurers it has undermined my ability to deliver the care my patients deserve. In the 1990s Switzerland faced many of the same health-care problems that concern Americans today. Mainly costs were rising due to medical advances and longer life expectancies. So in an effort to hold down expenditures Swiss politicians mainly from the left proposed to compel all residents to buy heavily regulated insurance.
China Medicine to Participate in 2009 Natural Products Expo West …
PR Newswire (press release)
Inaddition the product is free from caffeine and ephedrine. The Company hasfiled and obtained the necessary documentation to launch the new product inthe United States. “We are looking forward to participating in the Natural Products Expo inthe U. for a second time” said Senshan Yang Chairman and CE of ChinaMedicine. “Last ctober we participated in the Natural Products Expo Easttradeshow in Boston with favorable results and as a result we are nowcooperating with a supermarket chain to access the market for supplements inNew York. We are confident that frequent exposure to BeThin at trade showswill lead to more market visibility and positive results.
Researchers find novel pathway that helps eyes quickly adapt to …
News from Washington University in St. Louis
Louis and Boston University School of Medicine has uncovered a new pathway in the retina that allows the cells to adapt following exposure to bright light. The discovery could help scientists better understand human diseases that affect the retina including age-related macular degeneration the leading cause of blindness in Americans over the age of 50.
Hard to swallow
Financial Times
Rationalism in other words was undermined from within the industry as well as from without. Shapiro a popular science writer reaches similar conclusions to those of academics Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst in their volume on the subject Trick or Treatment? They catalogue an extraordinary array of unproven but often highly profitable alternative remedies that exploit faith in the natural world and scepticism about doctors from colonic irrigation and ear candling to homeopathy and Bach flower remedies. Such practices are part of a global alternative medicine industry generating ВЈ40bn a year. A significant minority persists in seeking unproven ?natural? and ?traditional? remedies that may seem harmless. Yet as Singh and Ernst argue they also take lives: through the directly negative effects of ?treatments?; by interaction and intervention with drugs that would otherwise work; or by neglect of proven treatments which may prolong pain and reduce the likelihood of survival of cancer or Aids patients. Rather than bringing in tougher legislation that would impose scientific studies to back the claims for alternative healthcare western governments allow ?traditional? practices to continue. In 2005 the British government even provided nearly ВЈ1m via the Prince of Wales?s ?Foundation for Integrated Health? to create the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council a self-regulatory body for alternative therapists.
Cord-blood banking: worth it or not?
Los Angeles Times
After being diagnosed with cerebral palsy Dallas was given an infusion of his own cord blood that his parents say greatly reduced his symptoms. Umbilical cord blood contains stem cells a coveted commodity in medicine. Stem cells from cord blood — particularly blood supplied by unrelated donors — have been used to treat diseases such as cancer and some genetic conditions. Those cells can be used to treat many of the same illnesses (multiple myeloma or leukemia for example) as stem cells found in bone marrow but they’re easier to use because they’re already banked and the tissue types of the donor and recipient don’t have to be as closely matched. Such treatments appear to be as successful as bone marrow transplants in some cases. Moreover the emergence of regenerative medicine has created potential new uses for cord blood.
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Surgeon Leaves Comfort for Front Lines
Military.com
and his reserve duties. “As the physician for my reserve unit I cared for Marines and Sailors. In the private practice I worked in a state funded health clinic in which I provided obstetrical care and family medicine. ” While conducting duties as a physician and Naval officer Lynch was abruptly called to active duty in 2004. “At the time I got recalled I wasn’t excited. The month before I was recalled I had actually decided that I was going to leave the reserves” said Lynch. “I felt like I wasn’t making the difference that I signed up to make.
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