The News Review:
- Composing Concertos in the Key of Rx
- CMPD hosts ‘peration Medicine Drop’
- Books ffer Comprehensive View f Medicine
- ADHD Medicine’s Value ver Time
- NYU School of Medicine awards 3 biomedical researchers
- HCLA Releases Report on Status of Medical Liability Reform
Composing Concertos in the Key of Rx
New York Times
“Listening to finer music and attending concerts on a consistent basis makes your real age about four years younger” Dr. Roizen — the chief wellness officer of the Wellness Institute at the Cleveland Clinic said recently. “Whether that’s due to stress relief or other properties we see decreases in all-cause mortality reflecting slower aging of arteries as well as cancer-related and environmental factors.
CMPD hosts ‘peration Medicine Drop’
Charlottebserver.com
Drug Enforcement Administration and the NC State Bureau of Investigation for peration Medicine Drop Saturday. Members of the community are encouraged to drop off any unused or outdated prescription medicine at one of seven participating Harris Teeter stores within Mecklenburg County.
Books ffer Comprehensive View f Medicine
Tampa Tribune
•”1000 Cures for 200 Ailments” (Collins $34. 95): ffers professional advice from experts in five fields: conventional medicine homeopathy traditional Chinese medicine herbalism and naturopathy. Lets the reader compare Western medicine with alternative approaches. You might also like: “Your Best Medicine” (Rodale $23. •”Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child” (Avery $21. 95): Written by a medical doctor a naturopath and a registered nurse “Smart Medicine” offers both conventional and natural approaches to the most common infant and childhood disorders.
ADHD Medicine’s Value ver Time
PoliGazette
?And James Swanson another MTA co-author and a psychologist at the University of California at Irvine said:?If you want something for tomorrow medication is the best but if you want something three years from now it does not matter? he said. ?If you take medication long-term beyond three years I don?t think there is any evidence that medication is better than no medication. ?William Pelham who seems to have done an about-face in regard to his original findings now says that the primary purpose of ADHD medicine is to give parents an opportunity to get their child behavioral counseling. A yet-to-be published study Pelham added found that 95 percent of parents who were told by clinicians to first try behavioral interventions for ADHD followed through on that advice. When parents were given a prescription for a drug and then told to enroll their children in behavioral intervention programs 75 percent did not seek out the behavioral approaches. bviously that doesn’t bode well for the majority of children diagnosed with the disorder given the short-term nature of drug therapy. Two reason spring to mind that might explain the drop-off in parental follow-through.
NYU School of Medicine awards 3 biomedical researchers
EurekAlert (press release)
Gerald Weissmann will chair the awards symposium on April 6 2009. The symposium is co-sponsored by the NYU School of Medicine’s Honors Program and will feature presentations by each of the awardees. The Biotechnology Study Center serves as an academic center for the study of biotechnology as a means of impacting public health. Since 2004 the awards have been aided by a generous grant from Dart Neuroscience LLC and are awarded on behalf of the Fellows of the Center at The Biotechnology Center. BACKGRUND N 2009 AWARD RECIPIENTS:In Basic Biotechnology: Mark S. Ptashne PhD Ludwig Chair of Molecular Biology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center showed that a bacterial protein (the lambda phage repressor) binds to specific sites on DNA and controls the expression (transcription) of genes.
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HCLA Releases Report on Status of Medical Liability Reform
FXBusiness
Since reforms were passed in 2003 76 counties have experienced a net gain in emergency physicians including 39 medically underserved counties and 30 counties that are partially medically underserved. The HCLA supports inclusion of medical liability reforms as a part of any comprehensive health care reform taken up by Congress this year. Incremental reforms such as “early offers” specialized health courts and the practice evidence-based medicine are all steps to address the medical liability reform crisis and the HCLA will continue to evaluate the effectiveness of these reforms. The report notes that “While these reforms are not comprehensive in nature and do not address the root cause of our dysfunctional liability system some may promise positive results and they all continue to highlight the critical need for a real and lasting solution. The HCLA will continue to make the case for reform that puts effective curbs on excessive lawsuits in order to lower health care costs and to ensure patient access to quality medical care.
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