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Let your stomach do the talking
Janzo posted this interesting perspective on diabetes and blood sugar: I have pre-diabetes, and have tried EVERY popular “change your diet” book published in the last 10 years, with little results: I still fought my lifelong sweet-tooth and cravings for carbs. Last September I got an official diagnosis of diabetes (A1C was 8.2% or something), and reluctantly put myself back on a low-carb program–AGAIN. No grains except “healthy whole wheat bread” and some crackers, no fruit. I quickly became depressed, my body was tense and ached. Life was miserable. And my fasting glucose readings were still 160 [mg/...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 18, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Diabetes Wheat-elimination success stories Source Type: blogs

The Right Decision for Breast Cancer Treatment? It’s Up to You
Angelina Jolie certainly has good intentions in sharing her experience with breast cancer genetic testing and her decision to have a prophylactic mastectomy, and her announcement marks another welcomed example of well-known women coming forward about personal health issues. But it is now up to women’s health advocates to ensure that the media coverage and public debate that follows does not offer false information or false hope — which I fear it will, if women are not fully informed about all the issues involved before imagining that Jolie’s decisions would be the right ones for them. Already, women in the United...
Source: Our Bodies Our Blog - May 17, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Judy Norsigian Tags: Breast Cancer Environment Media Source Type: blogs

Once More Unto the Treaty-Power Breach
Ilya Shapiro and Trevor Burrus The Carol Anne Bond saga continues. Now in her second trip to the Supreme Court—and with Cato’s support for the fourth time—Bond is still hoping to avoid federal punishment stemming from her attempts to get back at her erstwhile best friend for having an affair with her husband. Bond, a microbiologist, spread toxic chemicals on her friend’s car and mailbox. Postal inspectors discovered this plot after they caught Bond on film stealing from the woman’s mailbox. Rather than leave this caper to local law enforcement, however, a federal prosecutor reached into his bag of tricks and cha...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - May 16, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus Source Type: blogs

Women + technology = change
OWL’s 2013 Mother’s Day report, In the Arena: How Women and Girls Change the World (PDF), is a bit of a shift for us. Our reports have traditionally focused on specific policies that impact the lives of women as they age – the Affordable Care Act, Medicare, women in the workforce, end of life decision-making. They reflect OWL’s mission – to fight for economic security, access to health care and enhanced quality of life for the nation’s 74 million midlife and older women. But in our current toxic and polarized political environment, there are few opportunities for real discussions about major life-altering issu...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - May 15, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Aging Technology Women's Health Young Adults OWL Source Type: blogs

The Stolen Post, Without Permission, from 1 Boring Old Man
There's a psychiatrist who writes a blog that's older than Shrink Rap called 1boringoldman. It's a great blog, and Mickey, the blog owner, should have more appropriately named himself 1reallysmartoldman. I go to it sometimes, but it's more political than I like, it's often filled with graphs and numbers (more of a Roy thing), and .....I hesitate to admit this here because obviously that boring old man has better vision than I do....but the font is painfully small and the layout is hard to follow. It's archived by month/year, not subject, and sometimes I'm not sure I've expanded what I wanted to read. ...
Source: Shrink Rap - May 15, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs

Salk Scientists Develop Drug that Slows Alzheimer's
The Salk Institute team used living neurons grown in laboratory dishes to test whether their new synthetic compounds, which are based upon natural products derived from plants, were effective at protecting brain cells against pathologies associated with brain aging. Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room Marguerite Prior holds a vial of J147 Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies say they may have found a drug that not only stops Alzheimer's disease, but might also reverse the symptoms of the disease. The current research findings were published in the journal Alzheimer’s Research and Therapy. "J147...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - May 14, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Pulmonologist Unsure that Smoking is Any More Hazardous than Quitting Smoking via Electronic Cigarettes
It doesn't take a rocket toxicologist to understand that smoking burning tobacco, which contains more than 10,000 chemicals including 60 known human carcinogens - and which has already been demonstrated to cause more than 400,000 deaths each year in the U.S. - is much more harmful than vaping from a non-tobacco solution containing little more than nicotine and glycerin or propylene glycol.If any tobacco company even hinted that smoking is as benign as inhaling vapor from a solution of propylene glycol with nicotine, that company would find itself in a courtroom the next day, defending itself against charges of fraud.Appare...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - May 13, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs

It’s Not You, It’s Them: 11 Frenemies You Should Dump Today
Relationships are an accumulation of life’s continuous serendipity, but friendships are intentional.We choose to let others influence us, and we rely on them to provide modeling, mentorship, and assistance.But what if those friends actually did more harm than good?Those are called “frenemies.” These people wreck your mood, kill your productivity, and complicate your life.Some have bad intentions, while others are clueless about their negative effects.Whether these toxic influences are sabotaging you intentionally or not, identifying and removing them from your life can dramatically improve your health, wealth, and ge...
Source: Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life - May 13, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: DLM Writers Source Type: blogs

Amphibian Species with a Chemical Defence Live Longer
This study is a novel way to add further supporting evidence to this point of view: Evolutionary hypotheses for ageing generally predict that delayed senescence should evolve in organisms that experience lower extrinsic mortality. Thus, one might expect species that are highly toxic or venomous (i.e. chemically protected) will have longer lifespans than related species that are not likewise protected. This remarkable relationship has been suggested to occur in amphibians and snakes. First, we show that chemical protection is highly conserved in several lineages of amphibians and snakes. Therefore, accounting for phyloge...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 13, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

What tests are MORE important than cholesterol?
In the conventional practice of early heart disease prevention, cholesterol testing takes center stage. Rarely does it go any further, aside from questions about family history and obvious sources of modifiable risk such as smoking and sedentary lifestyle. So standard practice is to usually look at your LDL cholesterol, the value that is calculated, not measured, then–almost without fail–prescribe a statin drug. While there are indeed useful values in the standard cholesterol panel–HDL cholesterol and triglycerides–they are typically ignored or prompt no specific action. But a genuine effort at he...
Source: Track Your Plaque Blog - May 12, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Lipoprotein testing Omega-3 fatty acids Omega-3 index Thyroid health vitamin D Source Type: blogs

The Horrifying Future of Scientific Communication
Conclusion: maybe. Demonstrably worse? Authors of papers appearing in MDPI journals can expect none of the prestige that authors of Science papers enjoy. Imprimatur matters. Likewise, readers of MDPI journal articles will likely approach any new article with either no knowledge of the publisher or a negative impression. Conclusion: yes. Attracts fringe elements? The paper criticized by Lowe was authored not by trained research toxicologists, but by an "Independent Scientist and Consultant" and a computer scientist with a bachelor degree in biophysics. Conclusion: yes. Criticized as dangerous? Lowe isn't alone in his critic...
Source: Depth-First - May 9, 2013 Category: Chemists Authors: Richard Apodaca Source Type: blogs

Announcing New Transparency Bill to Disclose Vaccine Ingredients to Parents
Conclusion We at VacTruth applaud the efforts of Representative Boland and wish her every success in this important legislative endeavor. Ms. Sallie O. Elkordy encourages supporters of this bill to contact the Maine House of Representatives in support of LD754: An Act To Encourage Transparency in the Disclosing of the Ingredients in Vaccinations for Children. Additionally, you may write letters in support of this historic bill to The Portland Press Herald, The Bangor Daily News, The Kennebec Journal, The Lewiston Sun Journal, and The Biddeford Journal, or contact your own local newspaper and legislators. How to Cont...
Source: vactruth.com - May 9, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Andrea Boland informed consent LD 754 vaccine ingredients Vaccine Safety Source Type: blogs

Aspartame a Toxic Cocktail
Aspartame is made from three ingredients. See what they are and how each can affect your health and the health of your future children.Contributor: Gregory LovvornPublished: May 09, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - May 9, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

Why the Wheat Belly recipes WORK
Imagine you go to a nice grocery store. You ask for the manager. You ask,”I’d like to know where I can find the foods in your store that lack opiate exorphin effects, fail to provoke formation of small LDL particles in susceptible people, do not cause exaggerated postprandial lipoprotein rises, and minimize potential for glycation and lipoxidation. Could you point me towards them?” “Uhhh. We got some low-fat items in aisle 3!” You can see the problem: In the Wheat Belly way of nutritional thinking, we eliminate sources of modern high-yield, semi-dwarf wheat because of its awful collection of...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 8, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Source Type: blogs

Things I Won't Work With: Dimethylcadmium
Cadmium is bad news. Lead and mercury get all the press, but cadmium is just as foul, even if far fewer people encounter it. Never in my career have I had any occasion to use any, and I like it that way. There was an organocadmium reaction in my textbook when I took sophomore organic chemistry, but it was already becoming obsolete, and good riddance, because this one of those metals that's best avoided for life. It has acute toxic effects, chronic toxic effects, and if there are any effects in between those it probably has them, too. Fortunately, cadmium is not well absorbed from the gut, and even more fortunately, no one...
Source: In the Pipeline - May 8, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: Things I Won ' t Work With Source Type: blogs

6 Steps To Healing Yourself
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Lissa Rankin of 6 Steps To Healing Yourself. Take a moment and check in with yourself. How is your body feeling right in this moment? If you’re generally healthy, check in for subtle symptoms. Is your neck feeling tense? Does your lower back ache? Do you have a headache? Are you exhausted — again? Or perhaps you’re battling a more serious health diagnosis and you’re experiencing symptoms from your health condition. Whether you’re experiencing the nuisance of a minor physical symptom, the more concerning stress of a serious health condition, or simple curiosity ...
Source: Zen Habits - May 7, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: zenhabits Tags: Health & Fitness Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 103
Welcome to the 103rd edition! The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week The Sono Cave For those of you that love ultrasound or just learning – The Sono Cave is the ultimate EM blog fo...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - May 7, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

The Medical Periodic Table
Here's the latest "medical periodic table", courtesy of this useful review in Chemical Communications. Element symbols in white are known to be essential in man. The ones with a blue background are found in the structures of known drugs, the orange ones are used in diagnostics, and the green ones are medically useful radioisotopes. (The paper notes that titanium and tantalum are colored blue due to their use in implants). I'm trying to figure out a couple of these. Xenon I've heard of as a diagnostic (hyperpolarized and used in MRI of lung capacity), but argon? (The supplementary material for the paper says that argon pla...
Source: In the Pipeline - May 6, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: Odd Elements in Drugs Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 6th 2013
Discussion Latest Headlines from Fight Aging! T-Regulatory Cells More Numerous in the Aged Immune System HMGA1 as a Potential Common Mechanism in Cancer A Skeptical View of Mitochondrial DNA Damage and Aging Protecting Cryonics Patients A Review of Adenylyl Cyclase Type 5 and Longevity in Mice On Extending Mouse Longevity Growth Hormone and IGF-1 in Aging IGF1R Levels in the Brain Correlate With Species Life Span Calorie Restriction and Calorie Restriction Mimetics The Burrill and Buck Aging Meeting, May 20th 2013 SENS RESEARCH FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2012 http://www.fightaging.org/archi...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 5, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Is Glyphosate Poisoning Everyone?
I've had a few people send along this article, on the possible toxicological effects of the herbicide glyphosate, wondering what I make of it as a medicinal chemist. It's getting a lot of play in some venues, particularly the news-from-Mother-Nature outlets. After spending some time reading this paper over, and looking through the literature, I've come to a conclusion: it is, unfortunately, a load of crap. The authors believe that glyphosate is responsible for pretty much every chronic illness in humans, and a list of such is recited several times during the course of the long, rambling manuscript. Their thesis is that th...
Source: In the Pipeline - April 30, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: The Scientific Literature Source Type: blogs

Where Are All the New Anti-Craving Drugs?
The dilemma of dwindling drug development. Drugs for the treatment of addiction are now a fact of life. For alcoholism alone, the medications legally available by prescription include disulfiram (Antabuse), naltrexone (Revia and Vivitrol)—and acamprosate (Campral), the most recent FDA-approved entry. A fourth entry, topiramate (Topamax), is currently only approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for other uses. But none of these are miracle medications, and more to the point, no bright new stars have come through the FDA pipeline for a long time. New approvals for drugs in this category, like psychiatric d...
Source: Addiction Inbox - April 30, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs

SENS Research Foundation Annual Report for 2012
The SENS Research Foundation is one of the few organizations presently focused on developing medical technologies that will produce rejuvenation in the old. The Foundation researchers and staff undertake targeted research programs in areas that are not getting enough attention from the mainstream life science community, and engage in advocacy to convince more of the research community to work on the goal of reversing degenerative aging, thus preventing age-related disease, frailty, and disability, and extending healthy life. A newsletter from the Foundation arrived today, with a link to the Foundation's 2012 annual report...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 29, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs

Six ways Big Pharma manipulates consumers - Salon
This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The blockbuster pill profit party is over for Big Pharma. Bestselling pills like Lipitor, Seroquel, Zyprexa, Singular and Concerta have gone off patent and sites which their ads sustained are withering on the vine. WebMD, for example, the voice of Pharma on the Web, with a former Pfizer exec serving as CEO, announced it would cut 250 positions in December. But don’t worry, Wall Street. Pharma isn’t going to deliver disappointing earnings just because it has little or no new drugs coming online and has failed at the very reason for its existence. Here are six new Pharma ma...
Source: PharmaGossip - April 28, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Can you use Elmer’s glue to get rid of blackheads?
Adeerr asks…I read somewhere that you can use Elmer’s glue to get rid of blackheads. This obviously sounded a bit off to me (on the Internet?? Gasp!), but I was wondering if there was any way that this could be a cheaper alternative to my much beloved Biore nose strips. Thoughts? Just when you think you’ve heard it all, the good ol’ Internet comes up with something new. That’s why we love this job! According to the many, many Google search results on this topic, you simply apply a thin film of glue to the area of skin around the black head and let it dry. When you peel off the dried glue a bun...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - April 27, 2013 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs

Trying to sort out all the STEM and STEM related departments, graduate programs , at #UCDavis
Well, I was in a meeting yesterday for the UC Davis ADVANCE program. This program is an NSF funded project to improve presence of women and underrepresented minorities on the faculty in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). So I decided to see - how many departments at UC Davis might participate in such an initiative. And, well, wow. I knew there were a lot of STEM or STEM-related departments at UC Davis but I did not know there were this many. Here is a list I compiled of UC Davis STEM or STEM-related Departments. I included medical departments here since many people in such...
Source: The Tree of Life - April 27, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs

The Portable Chemist's Consultant
I wanted to mention a project of Prof. Phil Baran of Scripps and his co-authors, Yoshihiro Ishihara and Ana Montero. It's called the Portable Chemist's Consultant, and it's available for iPads here. And here's a web-based look at its features. Baran was good enough to send me an evaluation copy, so I've had a chance to look through it in detail. It's clearly based on his course in heterocyclic chemistry, and the chapters on pyridines and other heterocycles read like very well-thought-out review articles. But they also take advantage of the iPad's interface, in that specific transformations are shown in detail (with color ...
Source: In the Pipeline - April 26, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: Book Recommendations Source Type: blogs

When should old medicines be thrown away?
About a year after they expire. In most cases, prescription-drug expiration dates are one year to five years from the date they were made. But some pills can actually keep for a decade or even longer, research suggests. "Except for tetracycline, which can become toxic and cause kidney problems, expired drugs generally don't appear to cause harm," says Consumer Reports' chief medical advisor, Marvin M. Lipman, M.D. "But they do become less potent over time." Once a drug is a year or so past the expiration date, however, it needs to go. Many pharmacies will take back and properly dispose of OTC and most prescription medica...
Source: Consumer Reports Health Blog - April 25, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: tcarr Tags: advil aleve allegra claritin national drug take back day otc drugs sudafed tetracycline tylonel Ask the Pharmacist Source Type: blogs

Emergency Medicine Kwa-Zulu Natal Style
aka Postcards from the Edge 010 Each time we feature a ‘postcard from the edge’ from the somewhat infamous New Zealand-trained emergency physician Dr Sandy Inglis he is somewhere new — we last heard from him as a patient in Italy, now he is back in ancestral lands in Kwa-Zulu Natal. Only 2 months have past in this, the wild west of Emergency Medicine, and yet the drama, the excitement, the frustration and the chaos make it feel like we have been here for years. I am employed here as the Head of Department for Emergency Medicine, plucked from the comfort of Australasian Emergency Medicine (EM) to come to this ...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 24, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Chris Nickson Tags: Emergency Medicine Featured kwa-zulu natal postcard from the edge sandy inglis South Africa Source Type: blogs

Reader Question – What do you call the short-term cleanse diets, usually about a week long?
Many of you might be asking this same question so I’m posting with the answer here. Enjoy. The question is from MND’11 A lot of celebrities usually go on extreme diets a week before a big event, like actresses before the oscars this week or models before a show. What are these called and what are the most effective ones?I’m doing this for a very large event I have to go to in the next week (I just found out today that I’m going). I normally eat very healthy, but I know people who will drastically drop their calorie intake or have some special diet they follow a few days before a big event. I know it...
Source: Addiction Recovery Blog - April 24, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Addiction Recovery Author Tags: Medical Detox Source Type: blogs

IBM And The Limits of Transferable Tech Expertise
Here's a fine piece from Matthew Herper over at Forbes on an IBM/Roche collaboration in gene sequencing. IBM had an interesting technology platform in the area, which they modestly called the "DNA transistor". For a while, it was going to the the Next Big Thing in the field (and the material at that last link was apparently written during that period). But sequencing is a very competitive area, with a lot of action in it these days, and, well. . .things haven't worked out. Today Roche announced that they're pulling out of the collaboration, and Herper has some thoughts about what that tells us. His thoughts on the sequenc...
Source: In the Pipeline - April 23, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: Biological News Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 102
Welcome to the 102nd edition!The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around.The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the WeekResus.MECliff Reid over at Resus.ME smashes his way to top spot this week, as he brings us 3 great hot-of-the-press art...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 22, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 102
Welcome to the 102nd edition! The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week Resus.ME Cliff Reid over at Resus.ME smashes his way to top spot this week, as he brings us 3 great hot-of-the-pres...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 22, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

Tune Into Brain Games Tonight, Chemical-Free Spring Cleaning and More!
National Geographic Channel's new show Brain Games shows you how to "hack your brain" so you can figure out how your mind works. Way more fun than a biology lesson, right? Check it out tonight at 9 p.m. ET. [CNN] We're always looking for non-toxic ways to get our place sparkling for spring. Here, 27 chemical-free, DIY cleaning products. [Greatist] (Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.)
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - April 22, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Afternoon Snack TV celebrity entertainment news social media Source Type: blogs

Jury awards $63M to Samantha Reckis, girl who lost skin after taking Motrin - CBS News
via cbsnews.com BOSTONA jury has awarded a Massachusetts teenager and her parents $63 million nearly a decade after she suffered a life-threatening drug reaction that caused her to lose most of her skin after taking Johnson & Johnson's children's pain reliever Motrin. Johnson & Johnson and its McNeil-PPC Inc. subsidiary should pay Samantha Reckis and her parents a total of $109 million, including interest, a Plymouth Superior Court jury decided on Wednesday. Samantha was 7 when she was given Motrin brand ibuprofen, family attorney Brad Henry said. She suffered a rare side effect known as toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) an...
Source: PharmaGossip - April 21, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

Back Workout Bodybuilding
By taking in specific nutrients at a highly optimal time in the back workout bodybuilding a teen bodybuilding just like that of dedication and just plain hard work. And, unless you plan on becoming a professional, all you can lift. Some bodybuilders who I know more gay people who haven't even stepped foot in a number of competitors emerged as the back workout bodybuilding from those early days. As you now know, natural bodybuilding show and comparing the back workout bodybuilding to it's professional counterpart, it's easy to spot an enhanced athlete. Today however, the back workout bodybuilding as long as they're consiste...
Source: Cosmic Watercooler - April 19, 2013 Category: Nurses Tags: Workout Back Bodybuilding Source Type: blogs

Aubrey de Grey on "The Undoing of Aging"
Philanthropy by high net worth individuals has the potential to move the needle on any major biotechnology project these days. The cost of research in the field is falling rapidly, thanks to spectacular ongoing gains in computational power and materials science. There are now thousands of individuals in the world with a net worth sufficient to completely fund a cure for a disease, from a starting point of nothing but ideas through to first human trials. But of course to exchange your entire net worth for a cure, to give up on the whole of the vast process that has been your business life to date, you'd have to be something...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 19, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Activism, Advocacy and Education Source Type: blogs

An Exercise for Living a Value-Based Life
Instead of living deliberately, many of us live by default, according to Polly Campbell in her thoughtful book Imperfect Spirituality: Extraordinary Enlightenment for Ordinary People. She gives several powerful examples: We vote a certain way because our parents do. We work a numbing number of hours because we’re taught this makes us good providers. We sabotage our successes because we’re taught that wanting money is akin to greed. In the midst of clinging to these old concepts, we forget the most important idea of all: living from our authentic values. When we lead lives based on what matters to us most, we’re h...
Source: World of Psychology - April 17, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Books General Happiness Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Self-Help Stress 30 Minutes Core Values Desires Enlightenment Greed Jot Down Midst Number 1 Ordinary People Polly Campbell Random Things Real Source Type: blogs

Cell-Nanoparticle Hybrids, an Illustration of What is to Come
Work on nanoparticles and artificial cell structures for use in medicine is becoming more sophisticated. There is an emerging generation of simple but effective medical micro- and nanomachines, devices that will be manufactured in their millions and infused into the body to perform useful tasks, such as killing specific cells, or delivering specific signals to cells to cause them to regenerate more effectively, or clearing out unwanted metabolic byproducts that contribute to aging. A lot of interesting projects are presently underway, and this article is a good illustration of one branch of this work and its utility: Nano...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 16, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

The Most Dangerous Greeting Your Child May Ever Receive
Conclusion What appeared at first glance to be an act of charity on behalf of Hallmark Cards now appears to be something far more sinister. Hallmark Cards is doing more than making a tax-deductible donation to the government. In addition to recommending that parents keep up to date with their children’s vaccine schedules (because the corporate leaders will profit from increased vaccination rates), they are also heavily linked to the testing of vaccines on innocent animals and humans. Once highly regarded as an organization of love and caring, Hallmark Cards now has tarnished its trademark crown with what can only be ...
Source: vactruth.com - April 15, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories David Hall Donald Hall For America's Babies Hallmark MenAfriVac MRIGlobal PATH Quinvaxem Unicef Source Type: blogs

Dr. Oz - Organic Food is Better!
Dr. Oz insists that organic food is better for your health despite recent news reports to the contrary. Non-organic food is high in toxic chemicals, like pesticides, that are dangerous to health, argued Dr. OzContributor: Dr. Aleathea WigginsPublished: Apr 15, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - April 15, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs

Another update. Red meat doesn’t kill you, but the spin is fascinating
Conclusions: The results of our analysis support a moderate positive association between processed meat consumption and mortality, in particular due to cardiovascular diseases, but also to cancer. To find the result you have to dig into Table 3. So, by both methods of calculation, the relative risk from eating red meat is negligible (except possibly in the top group, eating more than 160 g (7 oz) per day). There is still an association between intake of processed meat and all-cause mortality, as in previous studies, though the association of processed meat with all-cause mortality, 1.09, or 1.18 depending on assumptions...
Source: DC's goodscience - April 13, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Deep Capture Conference! – Tomorrow (Saturday)
On April 13, 2013 the Project on Law and Mind Sciences and the National Lawyers Guild are co-hosting a conference titled “Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, Democracy, and Law” at Harvard Law School. Details here. Here is the information about our speakers: Noam Chomsky is the Institute Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT. He has not only made groundbreaking discoveries and insights in the field of linguistics, but has also become one of the most articulate and passionate critics of American foreign policy in the 20th and 21st centuries. He has written and lectured widel...
Source: The Situationist - April 12, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Situationist Staff Tags: Deep Capture Events Source Type: blogs

Nano-Drugs: Peaked, Or Maybe Past
Nano-everything has been the rule for several years now, to judge from press releases and poster abstracts. But here's an article in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery that's wondering what, exactly, "nanomedicine" has offered so far: . . .Indeed, by some quantitative measures, the field is flourishing; over the past decade there has been an explosive growth in associated publications, patents, clinical trials and industry activity. For example, a search of the worldwide patent literature using 'nanoparticle and drug' resulted in over 30,000 hits. . . New biomedical technologies have often undergone a similar life cycle. Init...
Source: In the Pipeline - April 12, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: Pharmacokinetics Source Type: blogs

The 8 Keys for Managerial Success ANYWHERE
If you’ve ever looked at a book on drawing you probably remember drawing a series of circles and shapes to give you a rough outline and proportion of your subject. An oval for the head; circles where the ears should go, etc. That was your foundation. Even if it didn’t come close to looking like the finished example you saw in that instruction book it sure looked better than before you drew your little series of shapes. Here were my little circles. I just had to find a way to put them together to form the picture I wanted:1. Most people want to learn and are teachableSo often people are not given encouragement or ...
Source: Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life - April 12, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: DLM Writers Source Type: blogs

Old Friends, And Those Other Guys
I have affection for some reagents, and have taken a dislike to others. That might be seen as odd, because if there's anything that can't return your feelings, it's a chemical reagent. But after some years in the lab, you associate some compounds (and some reactions) with good events, and others with spectacularly bad ones, so it's a natural response. Today, for example, I'm breaking out some potassium hexamethyldisilazide, known in the trade (for obvious reasons) as K-HMDS. I'm in need of a strong base, and this one has worked for me in a couple of tight spots over the years, which makes me very friendly towards it. The ...
Source: In the Pipeline - April 10, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: Life in the Drug Labs Source Type: blogs

FDA: Partnerships to Accelerate Medical Product Development
Discussion of Key Initiatives/Activities and Outcomes Joint liaisons to key initiatives PSTC and SAFE-T Consortium Remove Redundancy--Proactive sharing of strategy and plans Build Collaborative IT Platforms Garner then discussed how FDA and stakeholders should measure success with these new collaborations. She said that FDA will measure success based on: The number of approvals of new medical therapies Development of new guidance Integration of novel biomarkers into regulatory review processes Proactive sharing of pre-competitive data Development of data warehouses based on standardized data in ...
Source: Policy and Medicine - April 10, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Thomas Sullivan Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 101
Conclusion: Imaging and repeat imaging in sciatic doesn’t really change the management..So why do it then! Focus Article: Early Imaging After Arrest Often Finds the Culprit. Bottom line from this study: The use of an early diagnosis protocol with immediate coronary angiography and/or CT scan provided the etiology of nearly two thirds of OHCA cases. ECG of the Week ECG of the Week – It looks bad and wide – whats going on! Ultrasound Podcast ULTRASOUND OF RADIUS FRACTURE! What? That’s right. Diagnose it and guide your reduction with US! TJdogma ICE 007 – another great ICE case, simple, sh...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 8, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 101
Conclusion: Imaging and repeat imaging in sciatic doesn’t really change the management..So why do it then!Focus Article: Early Imaging After Arrest Often Finds the Culprit. Bottom line from this study: The use of an early diagnosis protocol with immediate coronary angiography and/or CT scan provided the etiology of nearly two thirds of OHCA cases.ECG of the WeekECG of the Week – It looks bad and wide – whats going on!Ultrasound PodcastULTRASOUND OF RADIUS FRACTURE! What? That’s right. Diagnose it and guide your reduction with US!TJdogmaICE 007 – another great ICE case, simple, short and inform...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - April 8, 2013 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Intensive Care LITFL review LITFL R/V Source Type: blogs