The News Review:
- A closer look at holistic medicine
- New Risk Factor For Melanoma In Younger Women
- National Post editorial board: Make mine meat
- The Weight Loss Hype: Why Counting Calories Never Works
- Raw: Triple H and Undertaker get tastes of their own medicine
- Stanford Cancer Expert Ronald Levy Will Receive King Faisal Prize …
- How Evidence Based Medicine is Impacting Global Clinical and …
A closer look at holistic medicine
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Holistic treatments can be also be used to help with allergies and asthma arthritis chronic abdominal pain headaches (migraines included) and to some degree attention deficit and autism among other things. Are there problems with holistic medicine? Holistic medicine becomes dangerous when used inappropriately. Some people have died or have been seriously harmed because they wanted a “natural” approach to treat cancer or a serious infection. Such cases need the powerful treatments of chemotherapy and antibiotics. To disregard the great advances of modern medicine is unfortunate. There is no reason why we cannot use the best of both worlds.
New Risk Factor For Melanoma In Younger Women
Science Daily (press release)
The new study evaluated the effects of this natural genetic variation in 227 melanoma patients enrolled in NYU’s Interdisciplinary Melanoma Cooperative Group between August 2002 and November 2006. Polsky and colleagues from NYU School of Medicine recorded each patient’s MDM2 and p53 genetic variations as well as age sex personal and family history of melanoma and tumor thickness. The results showed that more than 40 percent of women diagnosed with melanoma under the age of 50 had the genetic variation in the MDM2 gene promoter. In contrast only about 16 percent of women diagnosed after the age of 50 had the variation. The difference in the frequency of the variation corresponded to a 3. 89-fold increase in melanoma risk for women under the age of 50—an elevated risk over background levels that increased more among even younger women according to the study.
National Post editorial board: Make mine meat
National Post
But on the other hand it?s what we?re made of. So skepticism was our first response to the new headline-making study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine which comes with the appropriately grandiose title "Meat Intake and Mortality. " In most cases it is difficult to study the health effects of different nutritional regimes: You can?t lock people up for 10 years and monitor every bite they eat (you can?t do it with very many people at a time anyway) so you invariably have to count on self-reported recollections which introduce bias and accuracy problems. And as everybody knows there are plenty of natural confounding variables when it comes to a topic such as meat and health. A person who eats a lot of red meat is probably more likely to be the hedonistic sort who also enjoys the occasional cigar the occasional motorcycle ride. But a vegetarian is more likely to be assaulted in public for intolerable smugness and sanctimony.
Related from Medcylopaedia: New Medical Study Warns Us Against Red Meat
The Weight Loss Hype: Why Counting Calories Never Works
Huffington Post
That dietary adage was confirmed last week by researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health with a widely reported study in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the study researchers put 811 overweight adults on one of four weight loss plans which were supposed to vary widely in fat protein and carbohydrate content. Most of the reporting discussed Atkins-style high protein diets as similar to the diet’s high protein plan and rnish-style low fat vegetarian diets as similar to the study’s low fat plan. Since everyone who cut out 750 calories per day from their diets lost basically the same amount of weight the take home message seemed to be that none of the popular diets are any better than any of the others. But upon closer analysis a very different conclusion emerges.
Raw: Triple H and Undertaker get tastes of their own medicine
SLAM! Sports
There’s no stopping the superstars on collision courses with each other now as the fans in Kansas City are about to find out. It’s not anyone in one of the big matches in Houston but the Nature Boy Ric Flair who comes to the ring to start the show. n behalf of fellow legends Jimmy Snuka Ricky Steamboat and Roddy Piper Flair accepts Chris Jericho’s challenge for a handicap match at WrestleMania. Jericho has more to say about that speaking first on the TitanTron as he makes his way toward the ring. Chris says he knew the legends would accept because they’re scared they will be forgotten. But Jericho says it’s better to be forgotten than to tarnish your own legacy for one last desperate grab at glory and he promises a disturbing and uncomfortable beating of Flair’s friends.
Stanford Cancer Expert Ronald Levy Will Receive King Faisal Prize …
Medical News Today (press release)
More than 30 years ago Levy now chief of the oncology division at the Stanford University School of Medicine embarked on a research agenda that harnessed the power of the body’s own immune system to fight cancer. Levy developed the concept that a drug made from a naturally produced blood protein called an antibody could be a cancer-fighting machine. n March 29 Levy who holds the Robert K. Summy Professorship at Stanford will be honored for this seminal discovery by Saudi Arabian royalty who will present Levy with his most prestigious international award to date.
How Evidence Based Medicine is Impacting Global Clinical and …
PharmExec.com
Globally speaking however EBM remains unproven although a number of current trends—such as the rising need for healthcare and pharmaceutical cost-containment—are driving higher acceptance of the practice. EBM-based decisions draw on clinical experience and evidence (both of published and test-stage data) professional expertise and skills as well as patient values and expectations. Nevertheless the practice has been criticized for excessive focus on individual decisions and for not using the best data given that some of it is outdated unknown or simply left out because physicians are pressed for time. n a more practical level EBM guidelines and recommendations have come under criticism for denying some treatments in the public sector while some clinicians resent the loss of individual decision-making freedoms.
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