Ayurvedic Medicines

Ayurvedic remedy for excessive sweating. There are many herbs, medicines and massages in Ayurveda that can help with this condition. Some of these are: Vinegar: Soak a piece of cloth with vinegar and keep it under your armpits for about …

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Ayurveda – Ayurvedic Remedy for Excessive Sweating, treatments

In a case begun immediately after the Obama administration took office – under New Source Review rules that have not been enforced for over a decade, a Kansas coal power company has just settled with the newly activist EPA led by Lisa Jackson.

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EPA Win: Kansas Coal Power Plant Must Install $500 Million Pollution Scrubber

The Wall Street Journal interviewed Dr. Catherine Ulbricht, co-founder of Natural Standard and senior attending pharmacist at Mass General Hospital in Boston , to learn about the safety and effectiveness of detoxification foot pads

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Wall Street Journal Interviews Natural Standard

It’s been a while since I took a look at what’s happening in the prostate cancer arena, but it seems a good time after the recent flurry on lung and colorectal cancers, especially as it’s Groundhog Day . There are three particular agents that I’m interested in: MDV3100 (Medivation/Astellas) Abiraterone (Cougar Biotech/J&J) Provenge (Dendreon) I’m going to spend most of this post talking about the first two, as much has been said on Dendreon already.

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Update on Prostate Cancer therapies

Although a bit cheesy at times, this DVD is informative and the men who follow the hosts’ instructions are guaranteed to please their pregnant wife or girlfriend. There are some jokes you really won’t be able to resist laughing at, but most of it is just silly

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Due Dads: The Man’s Survival Guide to Pregnancy

The Federal government is asking the fuel industry to incrementally raise the levels of ethanol in the country’s gas. California has state legislation called the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 calling for car fuels to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions

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Ethanol Industry Sues California

Natural Standard is offering a series of upcoming complimentary webinars on integrative medicine. Natural Standard offers these impartial webinars as an informational public service. All webinars are recorded and archived at www.naturalstandard.com/webinars

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Webinar Forum: Hypertension: An Integral, Bodymind Healing Approach

A lot of Pharma people often ask about the ROI or Return on Investment of new media, including social media.  The reality, though, is that it’s a lot more complicated than that. Why? Because the value of any marketing or sales channel is more than just push marketing and measuring the impact on various metrics.  It’s about building strong relationships in time, rather than investment in money.  My friend Rory Murray calls this “return on relationships” .

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ROI or ROR for business in Pharma

Written by Tena MooreDecreased energy levels can be caused by a variety of things, such as your age, weight, and diet, as well as medical issues such as hypothyroidism, unstable blood sugars, high stress, or chronic fatigue syndrome. Since the vitamins and minerals found in food are the fuel for energy, it is oftentimes one’s diet that is the cause of low energy. Overeating can cause a drop in

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Decreased energy levels – Overeating, Sleep, Nutrition

One of the books I am currently reading, when I am not frantically busy consulting on social media, new product development, competitive intelligence, strategic landscape opportunity assessments, disease overviews or even KOL market research studies, is “Negotiation Genius” by Deepak Malhotra and Max Bazerman of Harvard Business School. They draw attention to the concept of “parasitic value creation” in the pharmaceutical industry and how this occurs when a pharmaceutical company pays a generics company to stay out of the market.  Despite the fact that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) considers such deals illegal, there are numerous examples of this occurring. How does it work

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Generics: “Pay for Delay” is parasitic value creation

Tobacco, once the glory crop of the South Atlantic region of the United States, has fallen in stature as health problems associated with smoking the plant have come to light.  Now tobacco may be able to redeem itself by producing solar cells, according to researchers at the University of California at Berkeley.  By infecting tobacco [ Engineered Virus Causes Tobacco Plants to Grow Solar Cells from Green Living Ideas ]

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Engineered Virus Causes Tobacco Plants to Grow Solar Cells

Over the last few weeks I’ve received a bunch of emails from frustrated Pharmers in sales, marketing, PR and even R&D, all wanting to engage and interact with patients while providing better and more accurate information for the general public on a variety of topics. In each case, these were intelligent people who had got the hang of social media themselves from personal experience and saw the unlimited possibilities it offers

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Pharma and Social Media: What’s the State of the Union?

When the moisture and the elasticity of the skin is lost it leads to wrinkles. Wrinkles is commonly observed with old age. Prominent wrinkles appear on the skin when the elastin as well as the collagen found in the joining tissues of the skin becomes weak or reduce in number.

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Say Goodbye To Wrinkles With These Simple Home Cures

A Pharma friend who regularly reads this blog attended the ASCO GI meeting last weekend and phoned me to say that cancer is indeed getting much more complex.  She was also highly amused at the buzzword bingo post from the AACR Molecular Targets meeting: “Well, I just thought you might like to know that the latest buzzword bingo is ‘cross-talk’” Funnily enough, I was writing a report on cross-talk at the very moment she called.  Cross-talk occurs when two powerful signaling pathways interact, leading to interactive processes between them downstream of the original receptors.

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Cross-talk: what it is and how it impacts cancer research

A team of UK scientists has made the discovery that drugs that target a fault in a protein called BRAF could actually fuel the progression of cancer in some cases. The findings of the study, which was jointly funded by Cancer Research UK, the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) and the Wellcome Trust, are published in Cell. Malignant melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer and is difficult to treat successfully once it has spread to other organs

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BRAF inhibitors could accelerate tumour growth: Cancer Research UK

Reading one pregnancy page a day will keep pregnancy complications at bay! Susan Magee and Dr. Nakisbendi count down the biggest milestones during your pregnancy with one page of helpful tips each day – or so they say. The tips for your first four weeks are lumped together in the first 15 pages and your daily facts actually start on day 28

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The Pregnancy Countdown Book: Nine Months of Practical Tips, Useful Advice, and Uncensored Truths

One of the many under-appreciated bits of green legislation that Democrats snuck into the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was that electric utilities (as well as businesses and homeowners) could also get a 30% tax credit if they invest in renewable energy. This electric utility eligibility for [ Carrot & Stick Policy is Driving Clean Energy Development from Green Living Ideas ]

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Carrot & Stick Policy is Driving Clean Energy Development

In our world today, it is likely to say that having illnesses and infections is inevitable. Everyday, we are exposed to various kinds of bacteria that linger around us. That is why, we should always be cautious of our health and our environment

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Antibiotic Treatment Guideline – Safety Precaution

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) held their annual symposium on Gastrointestinal cancers over the weekend in Fort Lauderdale, FL.  I was unable to attend the meeting, but it was interesting to follow it remotely via various people at the event.  In 2008, van Cutsem first presented the interim phase III data from the front line trial of cetuximab (Erbitux) with FOLFIRI in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) in a plenary session at the ASCO annual meeting.  The data demonstrated that biomarker data suggested that the presence of wild type rather than mutant type KRAS predicted response to cetuximab in mCRC.

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Erbitux improves survival in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer and wild type KRAS tumours

Measuring and monitoring environmental impact is a continuing challenge. I’m seeing new tools and attitudes that will enable nations and corporations do a better job of monitoring and, hopefully, reducing emissions and impact- from Google Earth’s aggregation of satellite data to track forest size to energy efficient office buildings.

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$1.45 million QinetiQ Research on Remote Environmental Sensors

One of the great things about travelling to scientific conferences around the world, is catching up with old friends, meeting new people, learning new things and also seeing some wonderful sights when least expected.

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Science and medical conferences – is there value in going?

A look at some of the early stages of medicine production at the Sambhavna clinic. The clinic grows plants and herbs, in its own organic garden, which are then processed and manufactured, on the premises, into ayurvedic medicines.

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Preparing plants and herbs to produce ayurvedic medicine.

The Ayurvedic treatment of CC is in the treatment of the tumor targeting, control of symptoms, preventing the blockage of the bile, infection and other complications and prolonging life. Ayurvedic medicines like Arogya-Vardhini, …

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Cholangiocarcinoma – Ayurvedic Herbal Treatment

“Researchers have developed a novel immunoassay for detecting early-stage pancreatic cancer that identifies and quantifies blood levels of the PAM4 protein – a unique antigen present in almost 90 percent of pancreatic cancers and precancers.” ASCO GI Cancer Symposium, 2010 Wow, that little snippet from the ASCO press releases from the Gastrointestinal symposium in Florida woke me up while sipping coffee this morning! The reason is that pancreatic cancer is an insidious disease and most patients are diagnosed late, usually in stage IV when there is little that can be done to successfully attentuate the cancer.  For years, researchers have struggled with ways of detecting the cancer earlier when treatments are more likely to be effective without confusing cancer from pancreatitis. Approximately 7% of pancreatic cancer cases are detected at an early stage, before the cancer has spread to other parts of the body.  The survival rate for early stage pancreatic cancer is around 20%, compared with just 1.8% for those diagnosed when the disease has metastasized.

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#ASCO Early detection of pancreatic cancer using PAM4 as a biomarker

Exposure to the chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) may be associated with thyroid disease in women, according to a new study . PFOA is a persistent organic chemical used in nonstick cookware and stain- and water-resistant coatings for carpets and fabrics.

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Common Chemical Linked to Thyroid Disease