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Mistletoe Injection Linked to Tumor-Like Growth
Case report adds to debate over value of the alternative treatment for cancer. (Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:13:06 GMT)
Mistletoe for Cancer? Maybe Not
Title: Mistletoe for Cancer? Maybe Not Category: Health News Created: 12/22/2006 Last Editorial Review: 12/22/2006 (Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:38:00 GMT)
Mistletoe Does Not Fight Cancer, Docs Say
Taking mistletoe for cancer may be ineffective and possibly harmful, British doctors report. (Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:54:48 GMT)
Asian Medicine Helps Swimmer to Gold
Park Tae-hwan (pictured), 17, of Kyeonggi High School, who became a national hero by winning three gold medals in swimming at the 2006 Doha Asian Games, has one physical weakness. (Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:04:00 GMT)
Private Hospitals Complain About Medicine Shortage
JEDDAH, 23 December 2006 — Private hospitals across Jeddah and Taif have been short of vital medicines and injections for months jeopardizing the quality of treatment that patients potentially receive. (Sat, 23 Dec 2006 00:19:14 GMT)
Whistleblower files suit against UMDNJ
The state medical school was hit yesterday with another lawsuit from a former executive who claims he lost his job because he helped uncover illegal financial practices at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. (Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:58:22 GMT)
How to act at the grown-up party table
Being a guest does not just mean showing up and chowing down. It requires graciousness, conviviality and an appreciation that someone has... (Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:18:13 GMT)
• Hibiscus: An alternative medicine
Hibiscus (Hibiscus rosa-sinensis) is commonly known as China Rose, Rose of China, Chinese Hibiscus, Hawaiian Hibiscus, Rosa Mallow, Jamaica Sorrel, Sudanese Tea, Red Sorrel, Japakusuma, Gumamela. (Sat, 23 Dec 2006 16:35:19 GMT)
The Dangers Of Alternative Health Products
Bandar Seri Begawan - In the quest for alternative medicine, the products on the market may offer either a cure or a poison. (Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:26:11 GMT)
Children thrive with alternative therapy
HADLEY - Whole Children, a movement center for children with disabilities, just finished its second year of operation here. It was Carrie McGee's experience with her son, Alex, that led her to found the center in 2004. Alex was born in 1999 with Williams Syndrome. (Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:12:31 GMT)
Acupuncture Charlotte, NC - Charlotte Acupuncture & Wellness Center - Profile of an Alternative Medicine and Holistic ...
Charlotte Acupuncture and Wellness Center recently opened in Charlotte, North Carolina to offer personalized, holistic care to their patients. Board certified, licensed acupuncturists & herbalists Hope Peek, L.Ac. and Todd Trembula, L.Ac. have extensive training in Traditional Chinese medicine, classical & holistic acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and Oriental nutrition. They have obtained ... (Sun, 24 Dec 2006 08:08:58 GMT)
Lykins offering alternative heating oil
Lykins Cos. thinks its customers will warm up to the idea of alternative, environmentally friendly heating oil as the company begins offering it this month. (Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:36:11 GMT)
December Nursing News And Research Briefs
High Risk Patients Use Both Conventional Medicine and Alternative Therapies for Asthma; Some Alternatives Pose Risk In depth interviews with a group of low income mostly female African Americans, all of whom had severe asthma, revealed that all participants used some form of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in combination with conventional medicine. [click link for full article] (Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:12:27 GMT)
Link Between Nanoparticles And Kidney Stones
Researchers at Mayo Clinic have successfully isolated nanoparticles from human kidney stones in cell cultures and have isolated proteins, RNA and DNA that appear to be associated with nanoparticles. [click link for full article] (Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:13:27 GMT)
Snake-like Robot And Steady-hand System Could Assist Surgeons
Engineers are designing new high-tech medical tools to equip the operating room of the future, in an effort to help doctors treat patients more safely and effectively and allow them to perform surgical tasks that are nearly impossible today. (Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:02:36 GMT)
Popular herb ineffective as menopause treatment
A popular herbal treatment called black cohosh is practically ineffective at relieving hot flashes and night sweats in women going through menopause, a study found. (Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:20:49 GMT)
30-M medical tourists seen in next 5 years
MANILA -- Beginning next year, the Philippine Medical Tourism Program (PMTP) is expected to attract between 20 and 30 million foreign medical tourists, generating an income estimated at $2 billion within the next five years. (Mon, 25 Dec 2006 14:53:48 GMT)
Gov’t expects to attract 20-30M medical tourists
BEGINNING nexy year, the Philippine Medical Tourism Program (PMTP) is expected to attract between 20 and 30 million foreign medical tourists, generating an income estimated at $2 billion within the next five years. (Mon, 25 Dec 2006 18:14:02 GMT)
COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD
Crisis Center Alexandra provides legal assistance and counseling to victims of domestic violence. English speaking staff. 12-ya liniya V.O. 13-a, St. Petersburg 101002. Call 320-6724 (Mon, 25 Dec 2006 21:51:11 GMT)
Swingin' success
This 23-year-old former tennis pro is now the young face of Ayurveda Tall, but unassuming, smartly dressed and mobile toting, this former tennis champ may seem like any other 23-year-old Chandigarhian his age. But it's a glass encased brass award placed along the table that sets Akash Sharma Rudra more than a hop, skip and jump apart from his contemporaries. Winner of the Bharat Udyog Ratan ... (Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:44:45 GMT)
Merck receives US FDA approval for ertapenem
Merck & Co., Inc. has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Invanz (ertapenem). It is a once-daily injectable antibiotic, for the prophylaxis of surgical site infection (SSI) following elective colorectal surgery in adults. (Tue, 26 Dec 2006 03:50:19 GMT)
142 alternative medicine colleges lack infrastructure
In an alarming finding about alternative medical institutions, a parliamentary panel has said that 142 colleges of Ayurveda, Unani and Homoeopathy colleges in the country lack minimum infrastructure. (Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:09:33 GMT)
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Exhibitions Mr. Whatman's Mill: Papermaking and the Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-Century Britain. (Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:04:20 GMT)
WP: Democrats vow to restrain spending
Determined to banish their old tax-and-spend image, Democrats want to shrink the federal deficit, preserve tax cuts for the middle class and challenge the president to raise money for the Iraq war when they take control of Congress next week. But it won't be easy. (Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:09:22 GMT)
Ex-coach taking fight to Lou Gehrig's disease
All Tommy Finnegan wanted to do was one push-up. Down, up. Inhale, exhale. One push-up. Easy. How many push-ups had he done in his life? Thousands? We're talking about a guy who turned a state championship basketball career at Flaget High into a starting guard position at the University of Louisville, where he averaged 13 points as a senior. (Tue, 26 Dec 2006 10:44:07 GMT)
Mechanism Of Black Cohosh Versus Hot Flashes Revealed
The natural herb black cohosh is commonly used by women to treat menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, but the molecular mechanisms underlying its action have eluded scientists -- until now. (Tue, 26 Dec 2006 11:16:47 GMT)
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Protein's Effects Essential For Kidney-to-bladder Urine Transfer
Tests of a protein's role in the immune system have revealed a surprising connection to a kidney problem that occurs in approximately one percent of all live births. The condition, known as functional obstruction, impairs the ability of the ureter to pump urine from the kidney and the bladder. If untreated, it leaves the kidney at risk of failure. (Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:16:17 GMT)
Women Can Take 'Vacation' From Osteoporosis Drug
Postmenopausal study participants continued to reap benefits. (Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:43:08 GMT)
Women Can Take 'Vacation' From Osteoporosis Drug
TUESDAY, Dec. 26 (HealthDay News) -- In a nod to the adage that you can get enough of a good thing, a new study found that most postmenopausal women who stopped taking the osteoporosis drug Fosamax after five years did not increase their risk for nonvertebral fractures over the next five years. (Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:54:04 GMT)
Therapy dogs find a place in health care
MERIDIAN -- Dogs have been used for years in law enforcement and in hospitals as therapy dogs. But some think man's best friend can do even more in the field of medicine. (Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:26:32 GMT)
Experts chew on pros and cons of bark supplement
Naturalist Euell Gibbons became famous partly because he ate twigs. Even though he died at 64, he might have been on to something. (Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:05:24 GMT)
Children grow, thrive with alternative care
HADLEY - Whole Children, a movement center for children with disabilities, just finished its second year of operation here. It was Carrie McGee's experience with her son, Alex, that led her to found the center in 2004. Alex was born in 1999 with Williams Syndrome. (Wed, 27 Dec 2006 05:14:13 GMT)
The free market is no model for health careA healthy metaphor, 12/27
There is a different solution to John R. Graham's metaphoric restaurant where everybody is entitled to a free burger and salad three times a day, with the bill paid for by the government. (Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:41:05 GMT)
Gifts with purpose: A pig, handcrafts and more
FEELING CHARITABLE? www.heifer.org -- Heifer International wants to end poverty and care for the earth. Money raised goes toward buying farm animals, small loans for equipment, agricultural education and more. (Wed, 27 Dec 2006 07:12:33 GMT)
Inflation Fizzle Rivals Democrats' Win as Year's Big Surprise
Dec. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Inflation was the dog that didn't bite in 2006. In a year of surprises -- hurricanes that didn't hit, oil that didn't soar to $100 a barrel, a Republican majority in Congress that didn't hold -- the non-arrival of inflation was the biggest non-event of all. (Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:12:30 GMT)
HIV-1 Kills Immune Cells In The Gut That May Never Bounce Back
Two new studies from Rockefeller University and the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center (ADARC) show that the immune cells in other body tissues may never rebound after HIV infection, suggesting the need for additional ways to monitor immune system health, and the need for hypervigilance as HIV-positive patients live into their forties, fifties, sixties and beyond. (Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:16:20 GMT)
Profiling Of Cancer Genes May Lead To Better And Earlier Detection
A research team at UT Southwestern Medical Center has for the first time identified several genes whose expression is lost in four of the most common solid human cancers -- lung, breast, prostate and colon cancer. (Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:19:03 GMT)
Therapy dogs find a place in health care
Dogs have been used for years in law enforcement and in hospitals as therapy dogs. But some think man's best friend can do even more in the field of medicine. (Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:44:12 GMT)
Alternative Medicine: Celiac and Gluten 101
Celiac disease, a previously overlooked and underestimated genetic disorder, is now believed to affect 1 in 133 people in the United States. For celiac sufferers, foods containing gluten damage the lining of the small intestines. This results in nutrient malabsorption, plus a barrage of frustrating symptoms difficult to diagnose. Gluten is a common protein found in wheat, rye, barley and oats. (Wed, 27 Dec 2006 19:45:50 GMT)
Women Can Take 'Vacation' From Osteoporosis Drug
Title: Women Can Take 'Vacation' From Osteoporosis Drug Category: Health News Created: 12/27/2006 2:06:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 12/27/2006 2:05:44 AM (Wed, 27 Dec 2006 20:38:27 GMT)
FDA Approves New Indication For INVANZ® (ertapenem) For The Prevention Of Surgical Site Infections Following Elective ...
Merck & Co., Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved INVANZ® (ertapenem), a once-daily injectable antibiotic, for the prophylaxis of surgical site infection (SSI) following elective colorectal surgery in adults. [click link for full article] (Thu, 28 Dec 2006 08:12:58 GMT)
Antibiotics Unnecessarily Prescribed For Acute Bronchitis
Antibiotics are routinely prescribed unnecessarily for acute bronchitis, according to Virginia Commonwealth University findings published in the New England Journal of Medicine. (Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:16:10 GMT)
Divergent views share a fine point: pain relief
The objective: Learn how to relieve back pain, headaches, and other chronic conditions. Two rows of examining beds filled the Watertown classroom, where students took turns placing 32-gauge steel needles into their foreheads, backs, feet, and arms. (Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:43:32 GMT)
Landmark Tykerb(R) (Lapatinib) Data Published in the New England Journal of Medicine
Data from a Phase III study reporting that Tykerb® plus Xeloda® is superior to capecitabine alone in women with HER2 positive advanced breast cancer who had progressed following prior therapy, including Herceptin® , was published today in the New England Journal of Medicine . (Thu, 28 Dec 2006 13:00:00 GMT)
Immune System Cells Linked To Heart Failure
A study in mice shows the immune system and, more specifically, cells recruited from it are key players in the muscle dysfunction that results in some forms of heart failure. (Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:02:10 GMT)
Glaxo drug may fight early-stage breast cancer
Scientists said on Thursday that an experimental drug from GlaxoSmithKline to treat late-stage breast cancer has also shown promise in treating early stages of the disease. (Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:19:07 GMT)
GSK Cancer Drug Shows Promise In Fight Against Advanced Breast Cancer
PHILADELPHIA — GlaxoSmithKline’s cancer drug Tykerb combined with chemotherapy drug Xeloda shows promise in helping women with advanced breast cancer, according to a new study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. (Thu, 28 Dec 2006 22:21:03 GMT)
Modern Snake Oil?
It's easy to hate the pharmaceutical industry. Prescription drugs are expensive, sometimes dangerous, and often overhyped. So why not turn to so-called natural remedies, the kinds of herbs and minerals that have been used for thousands of years by indigenous peoples? (Thu, 28 Dec 2006 23:09:44 GMT)
Alternative medicine loses its champion
Stephen Straus brought credibility to the field. (Fri, 29 Dec 2006 03:52:49 GMT)
2006: The Best Medicine
In 2006, scientists mourned disappointing clinical trial results, pulled faulty drugs from the market, and fought needless political battles. But the news wasn't all bad. Here are the medical breakthroughs that gave us the most hope for a healthy future. By Randy Dotinga. (Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:00:31 GMT)
Hen Sen Chin, longtime Chinese herbalist, dies at age 83
For 53 years, people from Seattle and as far away as Europe knew who to turn to for alternative cures: Hen Sen Chin. From his longtime office... (Fri, 29 Dec 2006 08:24:54 GMT)
Researchers Identify New Drug Targets For Cancer
Solving a 100-year-old genetic puzzle, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have determined that the same genetic mechanism that drives tumor growth can also act as a tumor suppressor. Their findings could lead to new drug targets for cancer therapies. (Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:19:30 GMT)
Tanning Beds No Holiday Gift for Your Skin
FRIDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- While many people like to get a tan because they think it makes them look their best during holiday celebrations and vacations, the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) wants to remind people that indoor tanning is always dangerous. (Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:02:00 GMT)
Thoughts Of Li Ka-Shing
Asia's richest man recalls his past and projects the future of his business empire. (Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:26:49 GMT)
Assembly leaders have modest ambitions for 2007 session
PROVIDENCE — Mark these words, because legislative leaders say you are going to hear more about them during the 2007-08 General Assembly session that opens for business on Tuesday: (Sun, 31 Dec 2006 03:33:03 GMT)
Doctor and invention outlast jeers and threats
He is a doctor and innovator. Years ago, he took aim at a medical curse that has disabled millions of people and defied treatment. He came up with a cure that was astonishingly simple. No surgery. No pills. (Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:08:02 GMT)
Doctor and invention outlast jeers and threats
He is a doctor and innovator. Years ago, he took aim at a medical curse that has disabled millions of people and defied treatment. He came up with a cure that was astonishingly simple. No surgery. No pills. (Sun, 31 Dec 2006 08:14:13 GMT)
SPINAL TAPS
Making resolutions for a happy, healthy new year? Studies prove that pets help humans live longer just by lowering our blood pressure when we stroke them. So let's return the favor by doing what we can to help Kitty and Fido enjoy all of their... (Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:31:47 GMT)
Looking at medical benefits of massage, meditation for hospice patients
Along with colleagues from Bastyr University in Kenmore and the University of Washington, Kozak is part of a C3 (Complementary Comfort Care) team. They provide free treatment to reduce pain and stress while gathering information that may change the future of health care. (Sun, 31 Dec 2006 11:12:21 GMT)
Health Care
PPI | Front & Center | April 17, 2006 Massachusetts Raises the Bar for Health Care Reform By David B. Kendall Massachusetts has become the first state to enact a law that will ensure nearly all of its residents have health insurance. (Sun, 31 Dec 2006 14:46:54 GMT)
New Treatments Prevent Brain Injury Hours After Stroke In Rats
Two novel treatments -- a basic compound found in every cell in the body and an extract of green tea -- may prevent brain damage caused from stroke, according to two studies in rats led by a researcher at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. (Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:03:00 GMT)
Real Estate and the Post-Crash Economy
The Economy Drives Real Estate, or Vice Versa? I am taking some time off from writing over the holidays, but good friend Barry Ritholtz offered to write this week's letter. It is a very thought-provoking piece on the importance of what he calls the "real estate industrial complex" to the economy. (Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:13:44 GMT)
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