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POPSScientists crack 'entire genetic code' of cancer I hope these scientists aren't related to the Climate Change ones but, indeed, this sounds so promising. But then also, when the treatments ultimately reach the average person, surely it will be too expensive or potential recipients too sick to be covered by the Health Care Bill. :~(
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POPSRight, so tell me again how the "free market" is the best way to manage health-care delivery An editorial from 2007 shows how research into three promising anticancer drugs has been abandoned. The reason is that the compounds on which the drugs are based cannot be patented (melatonin, for example), which means that pharma companies are unlikely to turn a profit. Understandable, from the perspective of the pharma companies, but unconscionable, from the perspective of cancer patients.
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POPSCould smoking pot cut risk of head, neck cancer? Hmmm now why is this not too surprising? This is probably the reason why the Govt. doesn't want to legalize it -they are probably aware of this probability, but would rather you drink and smoke cigarettes two things they can make money from... You see POT is mother nature and you can get that for FREE!! Needs no special production in a lab - no special mixture of this and that ... Its like Herbs which falls under something their are trying to ban now -- Codex (banning of health supplements), and upcoming banning legislation on Organic Farms.. So this is no surprise and I wouldn't be shocked if it were true!
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POPSGenome engineering goes high speed "In a paper published Sunday in Nature, Church and Wang describe how they turned E. coli bacteria into factories for lycopene, an antioxidant that might have anti-cancer properties. In just three days, they ended up with billions of cells containing various combinations of 24 lycopene-linked genes. Some cells produced five times more lycopene than usual. According to Church, the process would normally take months, even years." Needless to say how good it is. Just great, great news!
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POPSCentral Control of Your Doctor and Your Health!
The House bill calls for this appointed board, dubbed the Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, to be at least 50 percent "physicians or other experts with clinical expertise." However, there is no way the Council's 15 members - all of whom also must be employed in federal government agencies - can determine which drug or treatment is going to work . You are a unique human being, with genetic and environmental factors influencing your health. Your sister has severe depression, and she responds only to one antidepressant. What if it isn't the one that works for most people? Or it's the most expensive one? Peter Pitts, head of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest and a former FDA associate commissioner, explained why "one-size-fits-all" medicine doesn't work: Most comparative effectiveness studies "don't capture the genetic variations that explain differences in response to medicines by different patients."
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POPSweed helps a boy with autism This little boy is getting help by smoking pot - less aggression, more thoughtful interactions with others, more peaceful expressions. Maybe if the big drug companies could make bajillions off of pot it would become legal!
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POPSSolve Prostate Problems Symptoms In No Time http://askdrnerenberg.com Believe me. Prostate Problems Symptoms is easy to battle.I am a prostate cancer survivor and I want to help you know my secret.Why I had manage to survived and become much stronger. Visit my site http://askdrnerenberg.com and know my advice.
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POPSSolve Prostate Problems Symptoms In No Time Believe me. Prostate Problems Symptoms is easy to battle.I am a prostate cancer survivor and I want to help you know my secret.Why I had manage to survived and become much stronger. Visit my site http://askdrnerenberg.com and know my advice.
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POPSHepatitis Testing Hepatitis B is a serious disease caused by a virus that attacks the liver. The virus, which is called hepatitis B virus (HBV), can cause lifelong infection, cirrhosis (scarring) of the liver, liver cancer, liver failure, and death. Approximately 200,000 new HBV infections in the United States each year, approximately half are transmitted through sexual intercourse. Preliminary data from a large U.S. multisite study indicate that approximately one third of persons with acute hepatitis B virus infections in 1995 had a history of another STD¹In the United States, the most common way people get infected with hepatitis B that attacks liver, or spread is through having unprotected sex with a person who has the disease. By sharing drugs, needles or from an infected mother to her baby during birth. In fact, up to one in every 50 people living in the United States will become infected with the hepatitis B virus - and the risk of infection is greater among people who have unprotected sex or inje
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POPS10 Facts on American Healthcare
Fact No. 8: Americans are more satisfied with the care they receive than Canadians. When asked about their own health care instead of the “health care system,” more than half of Americans (51.3 percent) are very satisfied with their health care services, compared to only 41.5 percent of Canadians; a lower proportion of Americans are dissatisfied (6.8 percent) than Canadians (8.5 percent). Fact No. 9: Americans have much better access to important new technologies like medical imaging than patients in Canada or the U.K. Maligned as a waste by economists and policymakers naïve to actual medical practice, an overwhelming majority of leading American physicians identified computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as the most important medical innovations for improving patient care during the previous decade. The United States has 34 CT scanners per million Americans, compared to 12 in Canada and eight in Britain. The United States has nearly 27 MRI machine
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POPSAdvance In Throat Cancer Treatment? The headline on the article itself is misleading. Doctors are not planning voicebox transplants from human to human; they're debating about growing new voice boxes from stem cells & then implanting them. Still, I can only say, wow! A friend's husband just lost his voice box to throat cancer.
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POPSEasy Assessment Tool It only took me about 3 minutes...As a nurse, I think this is so important because it's a cancer that hides for a long time, but is so easily cured if found early (age 50 or so). The polyps are removed during a colonoscopy and usually that's it! And we give really really good drugs for the procedure - the prep is what sucks.
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