Researchers wanted to better understand what brain circuits suppress or assist in long-term memory retrieval.
Yadin Dudai and colleagues report in the 01/10/2008 journal of Neuron on a study performed on a group of volunteers. The group was divided into those who were susceptible to hypnotic suggestions and those not. Both groups were shown a documentary [...]
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During the past 2 decades there has been an increase in the reporting of neck pain which is now second only to back pain. The increased incidents are attributed to women who perform repetitive tasks, such as a computer keyboard, in the work place.
Whether neck pain benefits from exercise is a key question in several studies, all of which [...]
Arthritis is one of the leading causes of disability and those who suffer from it tend to be less fit than their peers.
Leigh F. Callahan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, studied 346 people with self-reported arthritis, average age of 70-years. Participants were divided into 2 groups. In one group the participants followed the Arthritis [...]
In the late 1950s, Chairman of the United States Senate’s Anti-Trust and Monopoly, Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver, put together an extensive indictment against the pharmaceutical industry. His 3 key charges were:
Patents sustained predatory prices and excessive margins.
Costs and prices were extravagantly increased by large expenditures in marketing.
Most of the industry’s new products were no more [...]
Thioredoxin is a naturally occurring protein. Its existence has been known to be secreted by the body to counter stressful chemical reactions that occur with inflammation.
What wasn’t known about thioredoxin is its ability to open ion channels, which allow the movement of ions. Ions are electrically charged atoms across a cell’s membrane that carries out a variety [...]
Drug therapy in older adults often consists of preventing illnesses by decreasing the risks so an illness will never affect them. Several factors should be considered when older adults are prescribed drugs, as reported by Tufts University School of Medicine clinicians in an article recently published in the American Family Physician.
An older patient that is [...]
Several decades ago a study found that the majority of the responding physicians prescribed placebos to determine which patients were faking their symptoms and those with genuine symptoms. A recent study sought the attitude of Chicago internists toward placebos.
Researchers sent questionnaires to internists at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and University of Illinois - Chicago. [...]
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Medical Issues
In 1997, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) changed the advertising rules and allowed pharmaceutical companies to promote their products on television. The FDA included guidelines that required direct-to-consumer advertising to present a fair balance between drug information and its risk.
Wendy Macias, associate professor, University of Georgia-Athens, and her team, surveyed pharmaceutical television advertising to see [...]
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Medical Issues
Patients who have elective surgery that requires general anesthesia sometimes experience postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD). For some time, heart surgery patients have been known to be at risk for POCD–problems with memory, concentration , and processing of information.
Terri Monk, M.D., anesthesiologist Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Duke University, reports in the January 1, 2008, [...]
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Alzheimer - Dementia
Death by Prescription, by Ray D. Strand M.D., tells how Americans were once protected by the Federal Drug Administration, which now acts more like an advocate for the pharmaceutical companies than a guardian for the general public.
There was a time when Americans could feel protected by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA). It was a time when only 3-4% of [...]
