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
In the kitchen of my dreams, chef Bahija shows us how to simmer eggplant separately from other vegetables in the coucousiere. Eventually all the spice infused vegetables will be arranged over the golden couscous, along with chickpeas, almonds and sweet onions. It’s the plague from hell.
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Antidote for a Winter Flu: A Sunny Marrakech Kitchen–and 3 Essential Tools for Your Own Batterie de Cuisine
ShoesForHaitNow.com has a simple goal: collect 100,000 pairs of shoes to send to the people of Haiti. BlogCatalog and BloggersUnite have offered their support to the Shoes For Haiti Now project. Not only will we be helping to promote the site, but we will also be collecting shoes at our BlogCatalog offices.
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BlogCatalog Accepting Donations For ShoesforHaitiNow.com
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
Fox10TV video: Chilling allergy – cold urticaria and anaphylaxis (embedded above). Patients with cold urticaria “can have symptoms such as drops in blood pressure, redness, blushing, significant itchiness, even to the point with blood pressure drops that they can have a passing out. When people are going swimming, if they jump into a cold pool and they have a reaction where their blood pressure drops, they can actually faint and there have been drownings from it.
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Chilling allergy – cold urticaria and anaphylaxis
Fish and omega 3s: sometimes more is more By now most of us are aware of the benefit of including omega-3 fatty acid-rich fish in our diets once or twice per week to help protect against cardiovascular and other disease. Now the findings of a study published in the January 17, 2006 issue of Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association, show that consuming more fish and, consequently, more omega-3s, leads to an even greater reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease
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Fish and omega 3s: sometimes more is more
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?
By Al Case One of the neatest things in cinema was when David Carradine in the old Kung Fu TV series walked on the rice paper. Rice paper is extremely thin, and the moisture on the sole of the foot, along with the weight of the body, was enough to tear the stuff. The legend, of course, was there is this thing called Light Kung Fu, where one could actually make the body lighter, maybe even levitate it.
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Kung Fu Master…and the Secret of Light Kung Fu!
It occurred to me the other day the reason why I pass a drive-thru pharmacy on the way to work, why our hospitals are always full, why so many people accept unfulfillment as a natural human condition: “Some things just happen.” – no cause, no reason, they just happen. It’s because of this belief that such an infantile method for solving problems is so pervasive in western society – most notably in health. The situation reminds me of a cartoon I saw when I was a kid where a mouse is discovered by a woman in her home and to get rid of the mouse she gets a cat.
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The Fundamental Western Belief
DoshaCare offers a complete line of 98% natural and organic Ayurvedic skin care products , customizable to an individual’s unique Dosha and skin type. Clients take a brief quiz to determine their Dosha and choose the corresponding mix of …
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It has excellent remedies for insomnia, ranging from adapting your your body and mind to nature’s rhythm and healing herbs like Gotu Kola and calamus root. Ayurvedic treatment for insomnia has been proven to work over the centuries and …
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Ayurvedic Treatment for Insomnia: Say Goodbye to Your Sleep Problems
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
Rachel Broune asked: The health and fitness business are minting money every year on herbal supplements, fitness apparatus, gyms and special diets. Prepare yourself for a complete makeover as you discover the inner world of true beauty as we dispense tips and advice on every aspect of beauty from homemade remedy to beauty pageant secrets. There are many cosmetics, involving eyes, lips, face, hair, body, especially grafted for teenagers, offering more natural overall look, including natural fragrances to make you feel like a queen
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Advanced Beauty Tips
This particular video demonstrates different stages of Panchakarma treatment, a rejuvenation process for the human body. For more information on this video click – www.indiavideo.org Video by www.invismultimedia.com
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Panchakarma, Ayurveda Massage, Invis Multimedia, India, DVD, Video
A Product or Line of Products Inspired by The Ayurvedic & Native Traditions. Used for centuries with great results 100% Organic, non-toxic & BENEFICIAL to the environment. So versatile and efficient that it could literally replace all …
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Ethical Investor wanted to help market revolutionary Ayurvedic Product
On the busiest, most stressful days, when I most need good nutrition, I’m more likely to eat something quick – like a pre-made Trader Joe’s Indian dinner or some other pre-packaged meal. This Christmas brought me a Slow Cooker which allows me to eat whole, unprocessed food with very little prep time even on a busy day. I add ingredients to the Slow Cooker in the morning while my tea water is boiling, hit “Go” and 8-10 hours later I have something delicious to eat that is completely made out of fresh ingredients. Whole foods, by the way, is my favorite subject and I am very, very into it for good reasons. I feel dramatically better when I eat unprocessed organic food and since I switched to this diet my health has improved radically. In fact, I first started with the diet when I was very sick – and what the doctors could not do with their prednisone and other wacky chemical cures – my diet did for me. I have been very healthy and mostly happy since I started migrating towards this diet years ago.
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Slow Fast Food
With advent of Google health and online personalized, health care recommendations, telemedicine legal issues frequently arise. Telemedicine laws vary by state, and frequently take some digging to discover. For example, this little legal rule is buried inside a disciplinary provision of one of the Administrative Rules of the Georgia Composite Medical Board: (6) Providing treatment via electronic or other means unless a history and physical examination of the patient has been performed by a Georgia licensee
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Telemedicine prohibitions and legal rules governing online patient consults
A state version of the federally proposed “Access to Medical Treatment Act” expands consumer health care choices by softening physician discipline for alternative therapies. The law in Georgia reads: (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as provided in subsection (c) of this Code section, an individual shall have the right to be treated for any illness or disease which is potentially life threatening or chronically disabling by a person licensed to practice medicine under this article with any experimental or nonconventional medical treatment that such individual desires or the legal representative of such individual authorizes if such person licensed to practice medicine under this article has personally examined such individual and agrees to treat such individual.
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Acccess to Medical Treatment Act Softens Physician Discipline for CAM
Medical science can be a wonderful thing and at times seemingly performs miracles. However, it does not have an answer to everything. In many cases while cures are not possible managing a condition is as good as it gets.
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Arthritis Pain Treatment – From the Well Known to the Downright Bizarre
Gout is a form of arthritis and a nightmare, if you have ever had you know what I mean. Usually gout effects the big toe joint in men but has made appearances in woman as well
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Finding the Best Treatment For Gout With Home Remedies and Modern Medicine
“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
Leukotrienes are lipid mediators involved in the pathogenesis of asthma: – Cysteinyl leukotrienes are important in airway remodeling – Leukotriene B4 has an important role in the development of asthma (sensitization) Leukotrienes are key mediators of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction and leukotriene modifiers reduce the severity of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction during short-term and long-term use. Genetic variation in the leukotriene synthetic pathway affects the clinical response to leukotriene modifiers
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2010 Review: Role of leukotrienes in asthma
This video shows the different methods in panchakarma treatment in ayurveda, a rejuvenation and detoxification process for good health.
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Panchakarma, Ayurveda Treatment DVD Invis Multimedia
Patient paging systems are achievement activated in abounding NHS Hospitals and clinics alternating with medical centres in the artful across to beforehand all-around breeze in alive out all-around departments. It is added accustomed to see the use of all-around pagers which are issued to patients aback cat-and-mouse for their appointment. The annual of these to both the all-around and the hospital is clear, the use of these systems offers the all-around carelessness of movement rather than achievement belted to what can about be a congested, alive cat-and-mouse area
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Patient Paging Systems