The News Review:
- The day pain died What really happened during the most famous …
- Tests indicate many dietary supplements have quality problems
- Medical bankruptcies rise
- Is It Evidence? Is it Medicine?
- Nature’s medicine offers relief
- Fatty Foods — Not Empty Stomach — Fire Up Hunger Hormone
- The complex life of George Tiller
The day pain died What really happened during the most famous …
Boston Globe
16 1846 ranks among the most iconic in the history of medicine. It was the moment when Boston and indeed the United States first emerged as a world-class center of medical innovation. The room at the heart of Massachusetts General Hospital where the operation took place has been known ever since.
Tests indicate many dietary supplements have quality problems
Austin American-Statesman
poison control centers each year according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2002. The Institute of Medicine an independent science panel that advises the government studied the situation in 2005. “The committee is concerned about the quality of dietary supplements in the United States. Product reliability is low” says its report which urged amending the 1994 law to tighten protections. Trade associations say the FDA’s new rules do that. “We are FDA-regulated products” though not in the same way as prescription or over-the-counter drugs said Steven Mister president of the Council for Responsible Nutrition.
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Medical bankruptcies rise
Boston Globe
ut-of-pocket medical costs averaged almost $18000 for medically bankrupt families ranging from about $6500 for those with military or veterans coverage to about $26000 for uninsured patients. Hospital bills accounted for the biggest expenses followed by prescription drugs doctors’ bills and insurance. The study’s results which appear online in. Their own five-state survey in 2001 tied illness or medical bills to just under half of all bankruptcies. Because the latest survey ended before the current recession began last fall the authors expect the climb to continue.
Is It Evidence? Is it Medicine?
Atlantic nline
Part ofthe problem is that in the specific case of lower back pain it’s anotoriously difficult condition to understand or treat and a lot ofthe art is simply to find a nice and professional-sounding way ofsaying “live with it there’s nothing we can do” that doesn’t make thepatient give up hope and suffer even more. But another part of theproblem is that the overall assessment of what “the evidence” was wasmade by a committee that had.
Nature’s medicine offers relief
Calgary Herald
Moreover cow or bovine colostrum offers a potent remedy to millions afflicted with diseases and cancers. Mammals evolved to breastfeed their young. Breastfeeding for humans is natural and critical to ensure essential nutrients antibodies and immune system enhancers necessary for a healthy life. Children who are breast-fed have higher IQs and less neurological dysfunctions compared to children who are not breastfed. Infants who are breastfed are one-fifth to one-third less likely to die of sudden infant death syndrome. Mothers who breastfeed have significantly lower rates of developing breast- ovarian- and endometrial-cancers and osteoporosis.
Fatty Foods — Not Empty Stomach — Fire Up Hunger Hormone
Science Daily (press release)
The laboratory study led by Matthias Tschöp MD UC associate professor of psychiatry and internal medicine is published online ahead of print on June 5 2009 in the journal Nature Medicine. Ghrelin is a hormone that was believed to accumulate during periods of fasting and is found in the body in high concentrations just before meals. It is dubbed the "hunger hormone" because it has been shown that administration of pharmacological doses acts in the brain to stimulate hunger and increase food intake in animal models and humans. The ghrelin hormone is unique in that it requires acylation (the addition of a fatty acid) by a specific enzyme (ghrelin -acyl transferase or GAT) for activation. riginally it was assumed that the fatty acids attached to ghrelin by GAT were produced by the body during fasting.
The complex life of George Tiller
Kansas City Star
He received a zoology degree in 1963 and graduated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine in 1967. After graduating from the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute Flight Surgeon School he spent more than a year as a U. Navy flight surgeon.
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