Ayurvedic Medicines

GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily talks about buying products that are “better for you and better for the planet” with  Doug Farquar, co-founder and CEO of BuyGreen. Doug helped to create the site in response to his own search for earth-friendly products.

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Sourcing Sustainable Consumer and Office Products with BuyGreen

The garden at the Sambhavna clinic is used to grow plants and herbs which are used in the manufacture of ayurvedic medicines that are manufactured on site and dispensed at the clinic. Around a half of all the ayurvedic medicines used at Sambhavna are manufactured from plants grown on the premises

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The ayurvedic garden at the Sambhavna clinic December 2009

The cancer stem cell (CSC) concept has important implications for understanding carcinogenesis as well as for the development of cancer therapeutics. According to this concept, tumors are initiated and maintained by a cellular subcomponent that displays stem cell properties

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CXCR1 blockade selectively targets human breast cancer stem cells in vitro and in xenografts

I’ve always been mesmerized by the powerful caged tigers of my childhood zoo visits.  Although I would not want to meet one in the wild, worldwide tiger populations have dropped to 3,200, falling by “95 per cent in the past century”.  The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has placed the tiger at the top of its [ Last 3,200 Tigers Top Most Endangered Species List from Green Living Ideas ]

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Last 3,200 Tigers Top Most Endangered Species List

According to ayurveda, cirrhosis is caused by highly damaged Vata. This is a disease that affects one of the most important organs of our body – the liver. The liver performs various vital functions such as production of bile, elimination of wastes from the body, production of urea, filtration of harmful substances from the blood, making of proteins, and so on

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Liver Cirrhosis – Ayurveda Panchakarma Management

Priority Review designation may be granted by the FDA to an NDA for drugs that offer major advances in treatment, or provide a treatment where no adequate therapy exists. This designation has the potential to expedite the NDA approval process by reducing the target review period for the application from approximately 10 months to six months. Based on the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA), the FDA has set an action date for the NDA of May 4, 2010.

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InterMune gets priority review for pirfenidone

One of my Twitter buddies, Dr Bertalan Mesko ( @Berci ) has built a superb collection of RSS aggregators, catchily called PeRSSonalized Medicine , on his Webicina  site around different medical topics a broad range of topics including diabetes, depression, cancer, psoriasis, nephrology etc. He graduated from medical school last year (while running ScienceRol l and Webicina !) and is now a qualified doctor with a strong interest in genetics as well as research in psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis. Here’s the full list you can choose from:   More recently, he extended this excellent theme and launched his Pharma resource as you can see at the bottom of the above checklist

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PeRSSonalized Pharma

Alternative energy and green living are often criticized as being only accessible to well-off individuals in developed nations. Out of necessity, poor Egyptians have become a “model of clean energy living”.  Thanks to Solar CITIES (Connecting Community Catalysts and Integrating Technologies for Industrial Ecology Systems), co-founded by UCLA PhD candidate T.H

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Cairo Slums Benefit From Homemade, Recycled Green Technology

There may be different types of arthritis but generally, arthritis involves pain, swelling or stiffness of the joints. Although there are medicines for this condition, it is helpful however to find some natural treatment for arthritis, which can at least help you avoid some side effects of medications.

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Natural Treatment For Arthritis – Some Natural Ways to Overcome the Pain

Enrico Forte, President and co-founder of the Mediterranean Book Association, discusses how to integrate the principles of the Mediterranean diet into an overall healthy lifestyle. The Mediterranean diet is rich in heart-healthy fiber, fish, fruits, vegetables and unsaturated “good” fats (particularly olive oil); low in meats, dairy products and saturated fats and includes moderate amounts of alcohol.

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Webinar Forum: Mediterranean Diet

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as they say on their web page, helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges- and in 2010, they will be pragmatically using the Internet to shine a daily spotlight on endangered species from around the world. The United Nations has declared [ 365 Endangered Species To Be Featured in 2010 on IUCN Red List from Green Living Ideas ]

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365 Endangered Species To Be Featured in 2010 on IUCN Red List

Voltaire was not a Chinese, but understood the legacy of the elementary therapeutic modality of medicines, which is also the rudimentary working principle of the Chinese herbs (approximately 500) that we know today. Around a half of them find extensive usage as agents to keep the bodily systems fit by ruling out paroxysms; the rest, find usage as combinations with different formulas for adapting better to any specific need and to speed up recovery

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Herbs and the Ancient Chinese

NGM Blog Central – The Cost of Care – National Geographic Magazine – NGM.com The United States spends more on medical care per person than any country, yet life expectancy is shorter than in most other developed nations and many developing ones. Lack of health insurance is a factor in life span and contributes to an estimated 45,000 deaths a year (tags: healthcare costs USA mexico reform insurance infographics visualization politics ) In New Way to Edit DNA, Hope for Treating Disease – NYTimes.com Only one man seems to have ever been cured of AIDS, a patient who also had leukemia. To treat the leukemia, he received a bone marrow transplant in Berlin from a donor who, as luck would have it, was naturally immune to the AIDS virus.

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links for 2009-12-30

This is my second to last report on the interesting new data coming out from the American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting in New Orleans, LA earlier this month. They’ve taken a little long than I expected to get through due to our current workload and client reports, so sincere apologies for the backlog. The final update will be a comprehensive one on chronic myeloid leukemia (CML), but today I wanted to focus on myelodysplastic syndromes or MDS for short

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#ASH09 meeting report: Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS)

At the end of each day I do a spot check of my Twitter stream to see what’s going on.  Imagine my surprise to see the following suddenly appear: Oh wow, that was the trial we reported on when Pfizer suspended the patient enrollment into the study back in September and notified the clinical trial database, but did not put out a press release about it.  It subsequently turned out that there were more deaths from strokes in the figitumumab arm, suggesting that either the groups were unbalanced for co-morbidities or cardiotoxicity might possibly be an issue.  Previously, we posted a blog expressing concern about the potential for cardiotoxicity with this class of drug. Here is the actual press release from Pfizer relating to the tweet above.

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Pfizer terminates figitumumab trial in lung cancer for futility

Despite her unblemished past record of good votes on environmental, renewable energy and climate change prevention; Senator Feinstein has just confounded the media by proposing a bill that would seem to have the effect of slowing solar energy development in California’s deserts, by placing some portion of it off-limits. Of course, most jumped on [ Senator Feinstein’s Desert Monument Bill: Hurting or Helping Solar?

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Senator Feinstein’s Desert Monument Bill: Hurting or Helping Solar?

Lately, we seem to have heard nothing but bad news from across the pond with the National Institute for Clinical Effectiveness (NICE) seemingly rejecting approval for reimbursement of many new cancer drugs, causing an outcry in the physician and patient communities alike.  One such example was the recent rejection of the second generation tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), dasatinib (Sprycel) and nilotinib (Tasigna) after failure of imatinib (Glivec) in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). However, this morning I heard from industry friends that actually, NICE has finally approved something without too much drawn out hassle

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When NICE lives up to it’s name…

These and other fascinating stories enliven this week’s discussion of law and alternative medicine / holistic health care. Wow, the Massachusetts Medical Society has a podcast on integrative medicine: Physician Focus, September 2009: Integrative Medicine Posted on August 28th, 2009 by ffortin Integrative medicine is a new approach to care, combining conventional or evidence-based medical therapies with complementary or alternative treatments such as acupuncture, biofeedback, stress reduction, or herbal medicines

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The Dog that Ate the World

For only $6.00, this book can be yours! The Black Book of Hollywood Pregnancy Secrets includes major celebrities like Angelina Jolie and Katie Holmes talking about their weight gain, cravings and acne. You’ll also learn tips and tricks from the stars on how to lose those extra pounds after pregnancy and how to feel beautiful and sexy during your nine months. You might also enjoy the funny Q&A with baby planners Ellie Miller and Melissa Gould who promise to take the “labor out of your delivery.” These two women help A-list celebrities plan their births, answer questions and even give advice to celebrity dads

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The Black Book of Hollywood Pregnancy Secrets

Is it possible to turn coal power plants into renewable energy producers? According to the supporters of bio coal, the answer is yes – coal plants can burn bio coal, created from biomass, without retooling their storage, handling, or burning systems

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Can Bio Coal Turn Coal Power Plants into Green Energy Producers?

The inference of transcriptional networks that regulate transitions into physiological or pathological cellular states remains a central challenge in systems biology. A mesenchymal phenotype is the hallmark of tumour aggressiveness in human malignant glioma, but the regulatory programs responsible for implementing the associated molecular signature are largely unknown. Here we show that reverse-engineering and an unbiased interrogation of a glioma-specific regulatory network reveal the transcriptional module that activates expression of mesenchymal genes in malignant glioma

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The transcriptional network for mesenchymal transformation of brain tumours: Nature

A just released World Wildlife Fund poll shows that there is overwhelming support for virtually everything in both Waxman-Markey and Boxer/Kerry Climate Cap and Trade bills – – that everybody from James Hansen to James Inhofe says they hate. Bizarre? I’ll say! The WWF (pdf) polled 800 Americans, who were distributed proportionally throughout the country, [ Poll Finds 80% Support For What’s in the Cap and Trade Bill – The One Everybody Hates from Green Living Ideas ]

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Poll Finds 80% Support For What’s in the Cap and Trade Bill – The One Everybody Hates

Earlier this year, we were deep into a consulting report on general trends in the Pharma industry and were struck by data in different yearly reports from PhRMA, the industry body in the US.  Basically, when we pieced the data together, it was clear that the market share of generics was not only growing but also likely to get worse in the next 2-3 years with major expiries expected.

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New trends in Pharma: the growth of generics

Brian McClen, VP of Engineering for Google Geo Group, unveiled a new program called Google Earth Engine during a Copenhagen event hosted by Avoided Deforestation Partners. Earth Engine, powered by Google, is “a computational platform for global-scale analysis of satellite imagery,”  creating a large-scale storage destination for satellite and other data that tracks the status [ Google Earth Engine Counts Trees in the World’s Forests from Green Living Ideas ]

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Google Earth Engine Counts Trees in the World’s Forests

One of the things about running a consulting company is that life is more like a roller coaster than comfy slippers by the fire.  The workload is extremely uneven and veers between insanely busy and very quiet, with little in between.  As Kipling said, one should treat the two imposters the same and make the most of each.  Here at Icarus, we’ve been insanely busy since my mother unexpectedly passed away on July 6th and we’re still busy now while all around us clients are taking their much needed time off over the Holidays. Image by Getty Images via Daylife Thankfully, a quieter inbox means less urgent demands and allows more time for reflection and analysis, as we have several reports due the first week of January, so not much opportunity for slacking here.  Aside from finishing off 2009 projects, we’re also spending some time thinking about new ideas for collaboration projects in 2010 and some exciting new services we’ll be rolling out to help our Pharma new product development and marketing clients too.  It’s easy to forget that it’s not about the technology per se, but the benefits tools bring and how they can be used to make a difference

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The roller coaster of life