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10 Mar 08

AlterNet: Health and Wellness: The Cholesterol Con -- Where Were the Doctors?

  • But "this is relative peanuts compared to Dr P. Trey Sunderland III, a senior psychiatric researcher at the NIH, who took $508,500 in fees from Pfizer, Inc. whilst collaborating with them and endorsing their drug [Lipitor],"
  • Returning to Goozner's story, did the letter his group wrote to the NHLBI in 2004, spark public discussion about the new cholesterol guidelines? No. "We released the letter to the press, but the mainstream of the national press ignored us," Goozner recalls.
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Cognitive Dysfunction in Multiple Sclerosis

  • These impairments can vary in intensity, affecting the circumscribed domains of memory, attention, information processing speed and visuospatial abilities.

Fibromyalgia Is Not a Rheumatologic Disease Anymore

  • Research has demonstrated that various pain-related processes in the brain and spinal cord are abnormal in fibromyalgia
  • Therefore, in the future, with new insights and therapies on the horizon, we will no longer need to refer our fibromyalgia patients to the rheumatologist.
28 Feb 08

AlterNet: DrugReporter: Debunking the Hemp Conspiracy Theory

  • Anslinger's other theme was that white girls would be ruined once they'd experienced the lurid pleasures of having a black man's joint in their mouth. "Colored students at the Univ. of Minn. partying with female students (white) smoking and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution," he noted. "Result, pregnancy."
  • . From the 19th-century campaigns against opium and alcohol to the crack panic of the 1980s, they have all been fueled by racism and cultural war, conflated with fear of crime and occasionally abetted by well-intentioned reform impulses.
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Fungal beta-glucan interacts with vitronectin and stimulates tumor necrosis factor alpha release from macrophages -- Olson et al. 64 (9): 3548 -- Infection and Immunity

  • we postulated that vitronectin
    binds fungal beta-glucans and subsequently augments macrophage TNF-alpha
    release in response to this fungal component
  • whereas higher
    concentrations of beta-glucan (> or = 500 micrograms/ml) caused apparent
    suppression of the TNF-alpha activity released.
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21 Feb 08

AlterNet: Health and Wellness: Michael Pollan Debunks Food Myths

  • It's the rest of us that have taken what are very partial, imperfect findings and tried to organize a food supply around them, such as when we took all the fat out of the foods.
  • But there are very few people left who think that dietary cholesterol is a problem. There is a link between saturated fat and cholesterol in the blood. There is a link between cholesterol in the blood and heart disease. But the proof that saturated fat leads to heart disease in a causal way is very tenuous.
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Medical gaze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • For the 19th Century moderns, doctors in a way replaced the increasingly-discredited medieval clergy; instead of saving souls, medical professionals saved the body. This myth, according to Foucault, was part of a larger discourse of the humanist and Enlightenment schools of thought that believed the human body to be the sum of a person. This notion, known as biological reductionism, became a powerful tool of the new sages: Through thorough examination (or gazing) of a body, a doctor deduces symptom, illness, and cause, therefore reaching an unparalleled understanding of the patient.

Stop the diet: Is it better to be bigger? - Features, Health & Wellbeing - Independent.co.uk

  • Lead researcher Dr Katherine Flegal says she wouldn't make recommendations to the public "that differ in any way from current public health recommendations to eat right, get some exercise and not smoke". But she admits that "the relation of weight to mortality is a fairly complex issue".
  • Now, Flegal's research suggests that "normal" may not be optimum in terms of life expectancy.
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Research backs theory that vitamin C shrinks tumours - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - Independent.co.uk

  • New research suggesting that vitamin C can be effective in curing cancer will renew interest in the "alternative" treatment for the terminal disease.

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    Three cancer patients who were given large intravenous doses over a period of several months had their lives extended and their tumours shrunk, doctors reported yesterday.

18 Feb 08

Chronic Pain May Harm the Brain

  • Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), investigators at Northwestern University, in Chicago, Illinois, found individuals with chronic back pain (CBP) had alterations in the functional connectivity of their cortical regions — areas of the brain that are unrelated to pain — compared with healthy controls.
  • However, the study found that compared with healthy controls, the regions of the DMN in chronic pain patients never "quiet down."
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10 Feb 08

Managing Chronic Pain: When Does Morphine Become Less Effective?

  • These data indicated that under conditions of chronic pain, endogenous opioid compounds prevent morphine from causing tolerance, inferring that the use of peripherally acting opioids for the prolonged treatment of inflammatory diseases such as chronic arthritis, inflammatory neuropathy, and cancer is not necessarily accompanied by opioid tolerance.

Chronic pain can alter the brain - Mental health- msnbc.com

  • When a person performs a task, this network quiets down, he said, but not in people with chronic pain.

    Instead, a front region of the cortex mostly associated with emotion is constantly active, disrupting the normal equilibrium.

    To study this activity, Chialvo did a type of brain scan known as functional magnetic resonance imaging on 15 people with chronic back pain and 15 healthy people.

    They gave their volunteers a simple attention task — tracking a moving bar on a computer screen — to observe the brain shifting out of default mode to handle the task.

    Both groups performed the task well but when they measured areas of the brain activated, differences emerged.

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