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The News Review:
- Resveratrol is “Nature’s Medicine” for Cancer Heart Disease and …
- “Socialized” medicine: Next front in the right’s “-isms” arms race
- Two genetic variants raise risk of breast cancer
- How stem cells find their way around
- Molecular diagnostics
- Exams of Injured Workers Fuel Mutual Mistrust
Resveratrol is “Nature’s Medicine” for Cancer Heart Disease and …
Natural News.com
–>(NaturalNews) Just how good is resveratrol at preventing cancer and heart disease? It’s so good that drug companies are trying to mimic its molecules in order to claim they’re “creating” a new drug to prevent heart disease. But this is Mother Nature’s miracle drug — only it’s not a drug. It’s a molecule synthesized by plants for protecting themselves! And it turns out the same molecule can protect you from cancer heart disease and a whole lot more. I wanted you to read about the amazing benefits of.
“Socialized” medicine: Next front in the right’s “-isms” arms race
Media Matters for America
Hocus-pocus indeed. No issueincurs the wrath of these modern-day Red hunters more than health-carereform. For more than 75years conservatives have smearedprogressive attempts to reform our faltering health-caresystem as “socialized medicine. Let’s getone thing straight. Anyone who argues that progressive health-care reform initiatives amount to “socializedmedicine” is being disingenuous at best. At worst theylack a basic understanding of what “socialized medicine” really is. Simply put health-care reformthat leaves the for-profit health insurance industry intact reform that leavesdoctors and other medical professionals free to offer their services outside ofa government system reform that leavescitizens free tochoose a private health-care plan over agovernment plan simply can’t be described honestly as”socialized medicine.
Two genetic variants raise risk of breast cancer
News from Washington University in St. Louis
associate director of prevention and control at the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital. “The increased risk is fairly small — comparable to the increased risk represented by such factors as being overweight or lacking physical activity. A number of environmental and lifestyle factors can raise the risk of breast cancer to varying degrees. These include current use of oral contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy alcohol consumption being overweight and lack of physical activity. A woman’s genetic makeup also contributes to the likelihood of developing breast cancer and the disease is nearly twice as frequent in women who have a close relative with breast cancer.
How stem cells find their way around
Harvard University Gazette
–>Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have for the first time identified in mice a cellular mechanism that directs stem cells to their ultimate destination in the body. The finding in blood stem cells by HSCI co-director David Scadden and colleagues holds the promise of greatly increasing the efficiency of the bone marrow transplants used to treat various forms of cancer and has enormous implications for future therapies utilizing all forms of stem cells. “Figuring out the mechanisms that tell stem cells how to get to where they need to go is a major problem when we’re thinking about stem cell therapies” said Scadden who is the director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and is also the co-chairman of Harvard’s new Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. “… I look forward with great anticipation to seeing this work by Scadden’s group successfully translated into the clinic for patients” Broxmeyer said. Scadden a physician-scientist who specializes in the treatment of cancers of the blood system notes that the “system has paved the way for so much of our understandings of stem cell therapy. ” Bone marrow transplantation which has been used for several decades to treat a number of cancers is essentially stem cell therapy as the donated marrow transplanted into the patient carries blood stem cells that it is hoped will provide the patient with a new blood-producing system.
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Molecular diagnostics
Nature.com (subscription)
Medco Health Solutions is an independent PBM company that processes and pays prescription drug claims for more than 60 million Americans. Bryan Dechairo is Development Head of Medco’s Personalized Medicine R&D division responsible for developing a broad range of personalized medicine products. “The aim is to develop products that drive down the cost of health care improve drug efficacy and safety for the individual patient and are cost effective for implementation” says Dechairo. Following his degree in Biology from the University of California Berkeley USA while working as a laboratory assistant a collaborative project led to a placement opportunity for Dechairo at Roche in Alameda California. From there he moved to Sequana Therapeutics a biotechnology company in La Jolla California but quickly realized that he would need a Ph.
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Exams of Injured Workers Fuel Mutual Mistrust
New York Times
“There are some noble things you can do in medicine without treating. This ain’t one of them. ”New York uses independent medical examiners far more extensively than many states do and critics say the practice adds to the mistrust in the system. The examiners’ opinions can empower an insurer to slash benefits withhold medical treatment or stall a case. Workers say that psychologically there is something particularly damaging about being dishonestly evaluated by a medical professional.
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