Archive for the 'Natural Alternative Medicine' Category

 Telemedicine inroads from California to Canada

California is one of many states enacting laws for telemedicine and tele-health. The American Telemedicine Association meets with respect to health care reform: Based on current projections, ATA 2010, May 16-18 in San Antonio, Texas will, once again, be the largest meeting on telemedicine and telehealth ever held



 Baba Ramdev Ayurvedic Medicines- Ramdev Herbal Medicine – Ramdev Yoga

Learn home remedies and natural tips related to health, hair, face, weight loss, reduce belly fat, beauty tips , Ayurvedic Medicine treatment, disease and know how to keep your over all body healthy and strong with Yoga. …



 Angiogenesis, angiopoeitin and Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM)

Read and writing about malignant brain cancers, gliomas or glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) always makes me sad as life span from diagnosis is often only a year. Over the last decade we have seen many advances in surgery, radiation, chemotherapy and targeted therapies in many cancers, yet this one remains largely immune to significant progress. Background Angiogenesis inhibitors targeting the VEGF signaling pathway have been shown to be effective both in preclinical cancer models and in clinical trials.



 Natural Cancer Cure – An Ayurvedic Alternative!

Alternative Medicine This is basically termed as any healing process or health care system that does not come under the sphere of conventional treatments but which has shown to produce reliable and commendable results, having the distinctive ability to cure most deadly diseases known to mankind including Cancer. The thought of a realistic Alternative Cancer Cure remedy emerging by exploiting these unique methods of healing has never been more important than it is today.



 Ayurvedic Treatment for Oily Skin – Ayurvedic Description of Oily Skin

Ayurvedic system of medicine is one of the oldest method of treatment of any disorder. There are several treatments for oily skin in Ayurveda . As per Ayurveda , skin is a reflection of an individual’s health.



 Simplified Framingham Model May Miscalculate Risk for Millions

SAN FRANCISCO — September 9, 2010 — A method that is widely used to predict the risk of a major coronary event may over- or under-estimate risk for millions of patients in the United States, according to a study appearing online first in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. The method in question is the simplified version of the so-called Framingham model, which is used to estimate a patient’s 10-year risk of a myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, or other coronary event based on risk factors such as age, cholesterol levels, blood pressure, and smoking.



 Evaluation of rationality of promotional drug literature using …

orthopedic prosthesis and ayurvedic medicines, drug monographs, reminder advertisements (reminder advertisements do not present any therapeutic information and have different criteria for evaluation), drugs name list, and literature …. Important information regarding adverse drug reactions , contraindications, or drug interactions was usually missing. Reference citations were given to earn credibility, but it was difficult to trust them because of ambiguous presentation, …



 MET and KRAS amplification mediate resistance to MET inhibitors

Here's an interesting paper that was just published in Cancer Research that describes some factors driving acquired resistance to MET inhibition with small molecules. MET inhibitors have gained a lot of attention recently (see Comoglio et al's review in the references for a good overview) and we have covered this topic a few times on this blog both in terms of the biology and also on promising inhibitors such as ArQule/DaiichiSankyo's ARQ-197 , which is the leading compound in this field. Acquired resistance is a common and limiting problem for chronic therapy with many tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), not just MET inhibitors



 Researchers Reluctantly Admit Mediterranean Diet Beats Diabetes Drugs for Controlling

(NaturalNews) For the first time, a long-term health study has demonstrated that the Mediterranean diet may help diabetes patients control their blood sugar without the use of medication. “A Mediterranean-style diet is a very important part in the treatment of diabetes,” said endocrinologist Loren Greene of New York University Medical Center, who was not involved in the study



 Telemedicine laws allow entry into neurophysiology

If you haven’t heard of teleneurophysiology, know that the word tele is going to become as ubiquitous in health care over the next few years as the e- in e-prescribing. Telemedicine news : Feedback from service users will provide insight into opportunities for improvement so that performance can be optimised. In the context of a formative evaluation referring clinician and patient satisfaction with a teleneurophysiology service was examined during a 20 week pilot period.