The Smallest Revolution: 5 Recent Breakthroughs in Nanomedicine | Guest Blog. Nanotechnology is a cutting-edge advancement within science and engineering. It is not a single field but an intense collaboration between disciplines to manipulate materials on the atomic and molecular level. When this technology is applied to medicine, the results are especially exciting, and can better our lives in drastic new ways. Its inventive and interdisciplinary nature constantly surprises me, as do the men and women behind these projects. Each breakthrough in nanotechology solves a problem that many thought could not be overcome. Here are five innovations in nanomedicine in the past year and the faces behind them: Lung Cancer Early Screening: We constantly come across depictions of lung cancer in anti-smoking ads. The lung cancer screening test, designed by pathologist Dr. Dr. Gold Nanoparticle Flu Test: Most flu tests today are either time-consuming or incredibly inaccurate.
Besides for determining influenza, the test works for a whole host of other diseases as well. Dr. CDC Highlights 10 Notable Health Achievements of Last 10 Years | All Sites Nursing News. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has named 10 noteworthy public health achievements of the first decade of the 21st century. “Americans are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives than ever before thanks in part to extraordinary achievements in public health over the past decade,” said CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH. “However, we can do much more to protect and promote health. Continued investments in prevention will help us and our children live even longer, healthier and more productive lives while bringing down healthcare costs.” The achievements include: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: A number of new vaccines were introduced during the first decade of the 21st century.
Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases: The first decade of the 21st century included a 30% reduction in reported tuberculosis cases in the United States and a 58% decline in central line-associated bloodstream infections. The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf.
US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in the face; the scene of unresisting, supine students at UC Davis being pepper-sprayed by phalanxes of riot police went viral online; images proliferated of young women – targeted seemingly for their gender – screaming, dragged by the hair by police in riot gear; and the pictures of a young man, stunned and bleeding profusely from the head, emerged in the record of the middle-of-the-night clearing of Zuccotti Park. But just when Americans thought we had the picture – was this crazy police and mayoral overkill, on a municipal level, in many different cities?
– the picture darkened. To Europeans, the enormity of this breach may not be obvious at first. Why this massive mobilisation against these not-yet-fully-articulated, unarmed, inchoate people? Norman Corwin, American radio’s ‘poet laureate,’ dies at 101. In an era when radio was a dominant news and entertainment medium, Mr. Corwin was considered a visionary in the business. He wrote more than a dozen books and plays and received an Academy Award nomination for his literate screenplay of “Lust for Life” (1956), starring Kirk Douglas as tortured artist Vincent Van Gogh. Mr. Corwin was the writer of the legendary 1938 radio program “The Plot to Overthrow Christmas,” and his honors included two Peabody Awards. He was inducted to the Radio Hall of Fame in 1993. He attracted high praise from artists as varied as Hollywood director Robert Altman and writer Ray Bradbury, who once called Mr.
Often called the “poet laureate of radio,” Mr. His most enduring radio drama, “On a Note of Triumph,” debuted coast to coast on May 8, 1945, the day the Allies declared victory in Europe after the surrender of the Germans. “So they’ve given up,” the program began. While writing the script, Mr. “How much did it cost? Mr. Mr. Mr. Until his death, Mr. Mr. The Livestream Ended: How I Got Off My Computer And Onto The Street At Occupy Oakland. When I heard the “We Are the 99%” slogan, I worried. I am movement-skittish. I don't like being spoken for. Anytime I hear the language of political clichés, whether about “workers” or “job creators,” my ears shut down. I know those vocabularies, and I don't agree with the worldviews that produce them. So I didn't go to Occupy Oakland during the two weeks it was a camp in the Frank Ogawa/Oscar Grant Plaza.
I listened with enormous interest, but I still didn't go. . • I do not believe the police are evil. • I do not believe in utopian societies. • I distrust extremists of whatever stripe. • I believe inflammatory rhetoric shuts down rational thought. • I was (and remain) afraid of nighttime Oakland—the desperate Oakland that Occupy Oakland insisted on caring for and actually living with. • I am lazy, prone to migraines, and unwilling to be cold, wet, uncomfortable and in constant danger of arrest. In short, I'm a moderate: small, fearful, skeptical, selfish, with privilege aplenty. President to Ease Student-Loan Burden for Low-Income Graduates. Asian Honey, Banned in Europe, Is Flooding U.S. Grocery Shelves. A third or more of all the honey consumed in the U.S. is likely to have been smuggled in from China and may be tainted with illegal antibiotics and heavy metals.
A Food Safety News investigation has documented that millions of pounds of honey banned as unsafe in dozens of countries are being imported and sold here in record quantities. And the flow of Chinese honey continues despite assurances from the Food and Drug Administration and other federal officials that the hundreds of millions of pounds reaching store shelves were authentic and safe following the widespread arrests and convictions of major smugglers over the last two years. Experts interviewed by Food Safety News say some of the largest and most long-established U.S. honey packers are knowingly buying mislabeled, transshipped or possibly altered honey so they can sell it cheaper than those companies who demand safety, quality and rigorously inspected honey.
EU Won’t Accept Honey from India Where Is Our Honey Coming From? Sens. The CIA's impunity on 'torture tapes' | Glenn Greenwald. Lee Hamilton and Tom Kean – the co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission – are the prototypical Wise Old Men of Washington. These are the types chosen to head blue-ribbon panels whenever the US government needs a respectable, trans-partisan, serious face to show the public in the wake of a mammoth political failure. Wise Old Men of Washington are entrusted with this mission because, by definition, they are loyal, devoted members of the political establishment and will criticise political institutions and leaders only in the most respectful and restrained manner.
That is why it was so remarkable when Hamilton and Kean, on 2 January 2008, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times repeatedly accusing the CIA and the Bush White House of knowingly "obstructing" their commission's investigation into the 9/11 attack. But with those orders pending, the CIA destroyed the very evidence it was legally compelled to preserve. Tests Show Most Store Honey Isn't Honey. More than three-fourths of the honey sold in U.S. grocery stores isn’t exactly what the bees produce, according to testing done exclusively for Food Safety News. The results show that the pollen frequently has been filtered out of products labeled “honey.”
The removal of these microscopic particles from deep within a flower would make the nectar flunk the quality standards set by most of the world’s food safety agencies. The food safety divisions of the World Health Organization, the European Commission and dozens of others also have ruled that without pollen there is no way to determine whether the honey came from legitimate and safe sources. In the U.S., the Food and Drug Administration says that any product that’s been ultra-filtered and no longer contains pollen isn’t honey.
However, the FDA isn’t checking honey sold here to see if it contains pollen. Food Safety News purchased more than 60 jars, jugs and plastic bears of honey in 10 states and the District of Columbia. You’ll Never Know. The Shame of College Sports - Magazine. A litany of scandals in recent years have made the corruption of college sports constant front-page news. We profess outrage each time we learn that yet another student-athlete has been taking money under the table. But the real scandal is the very structure of college sports, wherein student-athletes generate billions of dollars for universities and private companies while earning nothing for themselves. Here, a leading civil-rights historian makes the case for paying college athletes—and reveals how a spate of lawsuits working their way through the courts could destroy the NCAA.
Evan Kafka “I’m not hiding,” Sonny Vaccaro told a closed hearing at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C., in 2001. “We want to put our materials on the bodies of your athletes, and the best way to do that is buy your school. Or buy your coach.” Vaccaro’s audience, the members of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, bristled. Vaccaro did not blink. Scandal after scandal has rocked college sports. The Shortage of Essential Chemotherapy Drugs in the United States.
For the first time in the United States, some essential chemotherapy drugs are in short supply. Most are generic drugs that have been used for years in childhood leukemia and curable cancers — vincristine, methotrexate, leucovorin, cytarabine, doxorubicin, bleomycin, and paclitaxel.1 The shortages have caused serious concerns about safety, cost, and availability of lifesaving treatments.
In a survey from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, 25% of clinicians indicated that an error had occurred at their site because of drug shortages. Many of these errors were attributed to inexperience with alternative products — for instance, incorrect administration of levoleucovorin (Fusilev) when used as a substitute for leucovorin or use of a 1000-mg vial of cytarabine instead of the usual 500-mg one, resulting in an overdose.
These shortages have increased the already escalating costs of cancer care. The main cause of drug shortages is economic. Flacking for Big Pharma: an article by Harriet Washington | The American Scholar. Article - Summer 2011 Print Drugmakers don’t just compromise doctors; they also undermine top medical journals and skew medical research By Harriet Washington “Drug Makers Cut Out Goodies for Doctors” and “Drugmakers Pulling Plug on Free Pens, Mugs & Pads” read headlines in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal Health Blog at the end of 2008 after, in a very public act of contrition, 38 members of the pharmaceutical industry vowed to cease bestowing on prescribing physicians goodies such as pens, mugs, and other tchotchkes branded with their names.
Some physicians and ethicists had long expressed concern about the “relationship of reciprocity” that even a pizza or cheap mug can establish between doctors and drugmakers, and branded trinkets also send a message to the patient, who might reason that Gardasil must be a good drug if her doctor wields a reflex hammer inscribed with its name. How can this be? Comparing their drug to a placebo. Beyond PTSD: Soldiers Have Injured Souls - Miller-McCune. John Fisher got his soul back when he visited a cemetery in Greece. Shelley Corteville felt “rocketed” into healing when she told her story at a veterans’ retreat after 28 years of silence.
Bob Cagle lost his decades-long urge to commit suicide after an encounter at a Buddhist temple. These veterans and thousands like them grapple with what some call “the war after the war” — the psychological scars of conflict. Working with the U.S. The psychological toll taken by war is obvious. “My colleagues and I suspect that the greatest lasting harm is from moral injury,” says Litz, director of the Mental Health Core of the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiological Research and Information Center. While the severity of this kind of wound differs from person to person, moral injury can lead to deep despair. “They have lost their sense that virtue is even possible,” Shay says. [class name="dont_print_this"] The Sept-Oct 2011Miller-McCune Vietnam veterans John Fisher and Bob Cagle know that weight. Drone War Exposed – the complete picture of CIA strikes in Pakistan. Pakistani villagers at funeral of drone victim – December 29 2010- AP CIA drone strikes have led to far more deaths in Pakistan than previously understood, according to extensive new research published by the Bureau.
Some 175 children are among at least 2,347 people reported killed in US attacks since 2004. There are credible reports of at least 392 civilians among the dead. In a surprise move, a counter-terrorism official has also released US government estimates of the numbers killed. These state that an estimated 2,050 people have been killed in drone strikes to mid-August – of whom all but an estimated 50 are combatants.
Reassessment The Bureau’s fundamental reassessment of the covert US campaign involved a complete re-examination of all that is known about each US drone strike. ‘The Obama administration must explain the legal basis for drone strikes in Pakistan to avoid the perception that it acts with impunity. Civilian casualties do seem to have declined in the past year.