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The News Review:

- How much leeway do parents have?
- Genetic study of malaria
- Spiritual Medicine: Bridging the Gap Between Religion and Psychology
- Superbugs learning to ‘network’ with human immune system: researcher
- Medical evidence on marijuana blows both ways

How much leeway do parents have?
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg issued an arrest warrant for Colleen Hauser on Tuesday after she and her son Daniel citing their religious beliefs refused medical treatment for his cancer and failed to make a scheduled court appearance. The Hausers belong to the Nemenhah movement which claims belief in Native American healing methods. The friction between faith and medicine flares up periodically around the country. This week in Weston Wis. Leilani Neumann is standing trial charged with second-degree homicide in the death of her 11-year-old daughter Madeline Neumann who died last year from untreated diabetes. The parents followers of the Unleavened Bread Ministry had believed prayer would cure her. The girl’s father will stand trial in July.

Genetic study of malaria
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Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research Madang Papua New Guinea. Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine University of xford xford UK. Institute of Child Health College of Medicine University of Ibadan Ibadan Nigeria. National Institute for Biological Standards and Control Hertfordshire UK. The Malaria Research & Training Centre University of Bamako Bamako Mali. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Keppel Street London UK. Joint Malaria Programme Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre Moshi Tanzania.

Spiritual Medicine: Bridging the Gap Between Religion and Psychology
Religion Dispatches
For the most part though organized religion in the United States reflects the views of the country as a whole which typically includes significant misinformation about the prevalence causes and prognosis associated with having a mental illness. It appears that spirituality is very important to people who have lived with mental illness. What role does it play in recovery and wellness? Jay Mahler: The experience of ?madness? can include a profound experience of connection and spirituality; oneness with nature; and the meaning and purpose of life. The mental health system has viewed this spiritual aspect of madness as delusional and as only a manifestation of the mental illness; denying the profound and potentially positive effects of this experience. The experience of madness can also lead to a painful and heightened awareness of the hand you were dealt in your life and the inequities of society. For many people with mental health issues spirituality is key to understanding this experience. It is essential in their journey of recovery.
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Superbugs learning to ‘network’ with human immune system: researcher
Calgary Herald
? It helps us explain why in some individuals the superbug can live without causing damage. Madrenas and his research team have identified the process that allows the bug to stay in the body without causing that massive activation of the immune system. Madrenas’ findings are being published in the journal Nature Medicine. ?We knew we weren’t seeing as much toxic shock as one should see when considering the frequency of infections by superbugs is increasing. But we didn’t know that it was the bug itself that was the one that is preventing this massive immune response to the super-antigen. ?Madrenas says this discovery of superbugs working with human immune systems will allow researchers to try to design alternative treatments. ?nce we know exactly what type of molecules we are talking about we can then look at getting molecules that look like but do not dampen the immune response or enhance the immune response.

Medical evidence on marijuana blows both ways
eTaiwan News
Such recitation of conflicting marijuana studies can be manipulated and selected buffet-style to serve whatever political and health agenda is being touted. Even governmental findings can be contradictory. In 1999 for instance the ffice of National Drug Control Policy asked the Institute of Medicine to review evidence. The institute found that “except for the harms associated with smoking the adverse effects of marijuana use are within the range of effects tolerated for other medications. “Yet in 2006 the Food and Drug Administration ruled that marijuana has no health benefits and has known and proven harms. It is classified a Schedule 1 drug – the highest risk of addiction – in the Controlled Substances Act. Wading through the medical literature though makes those conclusions less cut and dried.
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