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Recently, I’ve been observing and watching a number of interactions that I’ve been part of, from friends, acquaintances, clients and physicians and healthcare practitioners.  It dawned on me that no matter what we do, our satisfaction with the result of those interactions is directly tied to the involvement we go through

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On valuing the Pharma client – vendor interaction

WBZ Boston News consulted Dr. Catherine Ulbricht, co-founder of Natural Standard and Senior Attending Pharmacist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston to learn about relaxation drinks. These new drinks often contain herbal extracts or natural hormones and are designed to help reduce stress and anxiety and improve sleep.

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Tonight at 6pm, the ASCO abstracts of live online with the exception of the plenaries, late breakers and clinical review abstracts, which will published at the meeting.  7 policy exceptions were granted under SEC guidelines, meaning that limited information to be made publicly available in advance of the meeting: Abstract 8010 : Lenalidomide maintenance after transplantation for myeloma.  Abstract LBA4007 : The AVAGAST trial: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter phase III study of capecitabine and cisplatin plus bevacizumab or placebo as first-line therapy in patients with advanced gastric cancer.  Abstract LBA4507 : Denosumab versus zoledronic acid for treatment of bone metastases in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer.  Abstract LBA1 : Phase III trial of bevacizumab (BEV) in the primary treatment of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), primary peritoneal cancer (PPC), or fallopian tube cancer (FTC): A Gynecologic Oncology Group study.  Abstract LBA4511 : A randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled phase III trial comparing docetaxel, prednisone, and placebo with docetaxel, prednisone, and bevacizumab in men with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (metCRPC): Survival results of CALGB 90401.  Abstract LBA750 2: Results from ARQ 197-209: a global randomized placebo-controlled phase 2 clinical trial of erlotinib plus ARQ 197 versus erlotinib plus placebo in previously treated EGPR-inhibitor naive patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).  Abstract LBA8512 : A phase III random assignment trial comparing percutaneous hepatic perfusion with melphalan (PHP-mel) to standard of care for patients with hepatic metastases from metastatic ocular or cutaneous melanoma

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The big day for ASCO 2010 abstracts

One of the cool things about using social media sites such as Twitter is the myriad of interesting links on science and cancer related topics that fly by my stream every day.  Clearly, the sheer volume means that you can’t track them all or even read half of them, but maybe you can capture and search them later.

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Social media and bookmarking

Over the past few years it has been interesting to watch AACR organise and group it’s sessions by pathways, so you end up with a higgledy piggledy collection of different inhibitors, therapeutics, chemotherapies etc as well as a mix of different tumour types.  This works well for the scientist, less so for the clinician who may specialise in only a few cancer types.   Meanwhile, at ASCO , everything is organised by cancer track, so if you want to search for data on say, MEK, AKT or c-MET inhibitors for example, then the data is now all over the place and trying to get round and find it all is much more difficult.

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The interesting dichotomy of oncology research vs clinical medicine

Hi Robert, Please feel free to cite my experience with the Smart Lounger . I’ve been using it twice a day with Suzanne’s general PD disk and once a day with her Arthritis disk, all since  Easter week end. When I go to sleep I plug in to my earbuds  the Peter Hubner music – this I’ve been doing since mid March

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Researchers found pollen was the most commonly cited source of seasonal allergies (79%), followed by grasses (59%), ragweed (54%), and trees (52%). Only 40% of spring allergy sufferers said they were completely or very successful at managing their allergy symptoms in the previous allergy season. Itchy eyes were the most common symptom (87%), followed by sneezing (80%), runny nose (77%), and watery eyes (73%)

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1 in 5 seasonal allergy sufferers misses work because of their symptoms

“Good Businesses” are not judged solely by better sales, profits, equity returns and sharholder value – these becoming old measures on their own.  Investors are increasingly asking  “So you made a profit – yawn – but did you also make an impact?”  This is what it takes to outperform today and tommorrow. What about Big Pharma

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Betterness is Good Business even for Pharma

My buddy Bill Scully kindly sent me the link to a superb WSJ article on DNA Robots: Source: WSJ   “For the first time, microscopic robots made from DNA molecules can walk, follow instructions and work together to assemble simple products on an atomic-scale assembly line, mimicking the machinery of living cells, two independent research teams announced Wednesday.” Nanobots, FTW! For the technically minded, you can read more about one of the team’s research in their letter to  Nature  and some commentary on robots here .  Two other letters were also published from Gu et al. , and Lund et al.

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The cool side of Science and Technology: DNA robots

One of the interesting things about scientific conferences such as AACR and ASCO is that everyone looks at the same data differently as if it were through a kaleidoscope. Brand marketers focus on their competition by tumour type or disease, scientists look at specific mechanisms or pathways, investors look at particular companies and so on.  Someone asked me the other day how I analyse the data.  I hadn’t really thought about it much until then, but on reflection what I’m interested in is trends and how research evolves from a big picture science view so that means I look at pathways like a true biochemist.  This also teaches us where the gaps are and what opportunities may arise in the future.  It’s not exactly rocket science, but it is a useful approach sometimes. Image via Wikipedia One of the clear trends emerging at AACR the other week is that dual inhibition of both the PI3K-mTOR and RAS-ERK pathways may be necessary in some cancers such as melanoma to reduce cross-talk, feedback and feedforward loops, drug resistance and loss of PTEN gain of function, just as one might also target IGF-1R and EGFR to reduce cross-talk and add in another inhibitor, eg MEK or AKT

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ASCO 2010 Preview #2: PI3K and mTOR inhibitors

The other day I clicked on a link someone shared on Twitter about new findings in breast cancer genes, which sounded really cool and interesting.  On clicking through it turned out to be a rather disappointing Reuters release on several fronts: Where’s the link to the original article (in these days of social sharing leaving it out is plain lazy)? What/where are the ” five common genetic factors” exactly?  No mention is made of them

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Are we becoming immune to daily gene announcements?

An evidence-based systematic review of stevia by the Natural Standard Research Collaboration is featured in the latest issue of Cardiovascular & Hematological Agents in Medicinal Chemistry . The stevia plant is native to Brazil and Paraguay . For more than 20 years, stevia extracts have been sold as commercialized sweeteners in Japan and Brazil

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Natural Standard Stevia Review Published

Some patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) may experience fast-acting symptom relief from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), with benefits lasting several weeks, researchers report in the journal Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology . IBS is considered a functional bowel disorder because the gastrointestinal tract is healthy but does not function normally

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Behavioral Therapy May Improve IBS

It’s only 3 weeks to go to the Annual ASCO meeting in Chicago so I thought it would be a good time to kick off the annual preview of key data.  One of the things that sets the tone of the meeting is which abstracts are in the plenary session.  Sometimes I don’t attend the session if it looks arcane, but this year looks really interesting and worthwhile attending. The selected abstracts comprise the following: #LBA1: Phase III trial of bevacizumab (BEV) in the primary treatment of advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC), primary peritoneal cancer (PPC), or Fallopian tube cancer (FTC): A Gynecologic Oncology Group study.

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ASCO 2010 Preview #1

Complementary and alternative medicines (CAM), such as herbal remedies, are widely used by patients with chronic diseases, such as asthma. The researchers surveyed 326 adults with persistent asthma who received care at 2 inner-city outpatient clinics. Patients were asked about CAM use (teas, herbs, and rubs) for the treatment of asthma in the prior 6 months.

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Herbal remedies in asthma associated with lower adherence to inhaled steroids and worse outcomes

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Herbal Tea Recipes

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Dental Insurance For Individuals

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Secondary Dental Insurance

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Recently, I’ve been doing so much research and analysis of advanced cancers, it struck me that we spend millions of dollars on healthcare at the end of life when it likely won’t have much impact, yet the real change happens when we catch and treat, or preferably prevent, diseases such as cancer earlier.  This is not exactly rocket science

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Is there a better model for health care?

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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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