Curcumin kills malignant mesothelioma cell lines
Well no, it’s not myeloma, but mesothelioma (but its acronym is MM, too), which is a terrible cancer with poor survival rates, high resistance to conventional therapies, etc.
Previous studies have showed that curcumin might help in the treatment of mesothelioma, but the one I read about today has just come out, and it’s from the University of Rome, Italy (I always have a soft spot for Italian studies…): goo.gl/AkwLBg Interesting…Poor mice, though…!!!
From this link, you can read more about it, if you want. And if you want to have a look at the abstract, click on this link: goo.gl/ytXK0c
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Source: Margaret's Corner - February 28, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll curcumin mesothelioma Source Type: blogs
The Sir James Knott Anti-aircraft flats
The “Sir James Knott Memorial Flats” in Tynemouth, commonly known as Knott’s Flats (although they have also been known locally as Colditz), were built when war clouds were gathering over Europe in the 1930s, ironically enough.
They had special design features meant to protect the occupants from putative air-raids, probably the first residential building to be designed for such an eventuality. They had lots of fire-resistant materials (asbestos, presumably) and huge cellars constructed as in-house air-raid shelters.
They were completed in 1938 and are still home to many people today. More information abou...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - February 27, 2017 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs
TC Heartland v. Kraft Foods: Will the Court Curb Patent-Law Forum Shopping?
Twelve years ago Congress passed the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005,much of whose point was to curb the then-rampant practice in class actions of national forum-shopping, that is, filing a lawsuit in whichever of many possible courts around the U.S. was most favorable to the plaintiff, whether or not the state or district associated with that court had a natural link to the underlying controversy (such as being the place where the alleged misconduct occurred or where its defendant had its base of operations). But forum-shopping remains rampant and damaging in some other areas of litigation, such as product liability: th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 27, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
What a CT Scan Can Tell You About Your Lungs
Over the last half century, technology has made possible the probing of the solar system and galaxy beyond. People can instantly correspond with anyone in the world. We can see —in real time—events and phenomena heretofore only reported by second and third hand accounts. Yet with all of the distance breached by modern devices, we are also able to know in detail the goings on inside our own bodies. With the advent of computed tomography (CT) imaging, known familiarly as “CAT scans,” doctors and their patients now get a bird’s eye view of internal organs. This scientific know-how goes beyond simple x-rays to reveal...
Source: ePharma Summit - January 23, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: Anatomy CT Scan Lungs Medical Devices Source Type: blogs
Litigation Policy In the Trump Administration
For a quarter century Republicans in American politics have broadly campaigned on a promise of reducing the volume and cost of litigation. At first glance, it might seem that the rise of President-elect Donald Trump might signal a discarding or even a reversal of this position. As a businessman, Trump has been an intensive, sometimes zealous litigant; unlike earlier GOP candidates he has said little about lawsuit reform on the campaign trail; and some of what he has said, especially his instantly famous remarks about “opening up” libel law to allow more damage suits against the press, is in tension with the goal of a l...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - November 11, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Trumping the Evidence - The Donald Denies Asbestos Related Disease, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy but Asserted Vaccines Cause Autism
One of the main causes of health care dysfunction identified by demoralized health care professionals in our 2003 qualitative study was threats to evidence-based medicine, and by extension, evidence-based public health and health policy.(1) Since then, we have frequently discussed threats such asmanipulation andsuppression of clinical research to further vested interests, and distortion of research dissemination, such asghost written articles, often enabled byindividual andinstitutional conflicts of interest.These and other causes of health care dysfunction which we discuss, however, have hardly been the stuff of political...
Source: Health Care Renewal - November 2, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: asbestos Donald Trump evidence-based medicine health policy public health Source Type: blogs
Kathy ’ s Story: Living Better with Mesothelioma – Possible with the Right Team of Experts
Kathy Ebright was enjoying life with her husband, 2 kids and 7 grandchildren in rural Pennsylvania, when everything changed suddenly. This is true for thousands of people fighting cancer across the world, but hearing the word “mesothelioma” is not common.
“I went numb, I might have said a few words, but I couldn’t put words together to speak,” Kathy said.
Kathy and her husband, Doug
Almost everyone has been touched by cancer, but Kathy and her husband didn’t know anyone with mesothelioma in their small town of Richfield. They only heard of the disease from commercials for lawyers who specialize in asbestos...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - September 23, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chris Lindsley Tags: Cancer Patient Stories Research surgery Uncategorized asbestos joseph friedberg lung sparing surgery mesothelioma Source Type: blogs
Round atelectasis: Teaching Video
Round atelectasis is a type of lung atelectasis where there is infolding of a redundant pleura associated with asbestos exposure.Also called as folded lung or Blesovsky syndromeTeaching videoFamous Radiology Blog http://www.sumerdoc.blogspot.com
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Source: Sumer's Radiology Site - September 14, 2016 Category: Radiology Authors: Sumer Sethi Source Type: blogs
Why Don ’t We Take Tanning As Seriously As Tobacco?
With our Back to School series highlighting how best to navigate through the college journey; we also revisit a series that ran last year in May covering the hazards of indoor tanning beds. The following is one of the posts that spoke to the risks and concerns as they relate to skin cancer. It’s Flashback Friday here at Disruptive Women in Health Care!
With May being Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event Wednesday co-hosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are running a series on skin cancer. Be sure to ...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Wellness prevent cancer foundation Source Type: blogs
The most powerful driver of medical costs is hope
When diagnosed with abdominal mesothelioma, a rare cancer with a blighted future, evolutionary biologist and writer, Stephen Jay Gould, turned his attention to the statistics; specifically, the central tendency of survival with the tumor. The central tendency — mean (average), median and mode — project like skyscrapers in a populated city and are the summary statements of a statistical distribution.
The “average” is both meaningful and meaningless. The average utility of average is zero. Consider a gamble: a fair coin toss where you get $50 if it lands heads and lose $50 if it lands tails. The average (net)...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 1, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/dr-saurabh-jha" rel="tag" > Dr. Saurabh Jha < /a > Tags: Physician Cancer Source Type: blogs
Hope, Statistics and the Overtreatment of Cancer
BY SAURABH JHA, MD
When diagnosed with abdominal mesothelioma, a rare cancer with a blighted future, evolutionary biologist and writer, Stephen Jay Gould, turned his attention to the statistics; specifically, the central tendency of survival with the tumor. The central tendency – mean (average), median and mode – project like skyscrapers in a populated city and are the summary statements of a statistical distribution.
The “average” is both meaningful and meaningless. The average utility of average is zero. Consider a gamble – fair coin toss where you get $50 if it lands heads and lose $50 if it lands tails. T...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 16, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Living with Mesothelioma: A New Normal
In December of 2007, Timonium resident Jen Blair was pregnant with her second son, Kevin. It was a “very painful pregnancy.” She went to a few doctors, who told her the pain was normal. The pain returned, “worse than ever,” six weeks after giving birth to Kevin. More doctors. More tests. She was first told she needed laparoscopic surgery, then that she had stage 4 cancer in her abdomen. She was told to get her affairs in order.
It turns out Jen had peritoneal (in the abdomen) mesothelioma, in which cancer cells are found in the membranes around organs in the abdomen. This is very rare — only about 350-500 c...
Source: Life in a Medical Center - July 15, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Chris Lindsley Tags: Cancer patient care Patient Stories surgery advocacy mesothelioma volunteer Source Type: blogs
Best of 2015: Why Don’t We Take Tanning As Seriously As Tobacco?
Back in May being to celebrate Skin Cancer Awareness Month and in tandem with our event we co-hosted with the Congressional Families Cancer Prevention Program, The Hazards and Allure of Indoor Tanning Beds on College Campuses we are ran a series on skin cancer. Today’s best of 2015 posts is from that series.
In 2009, upon review of the science on tanning beds and cancer, the International Agency for Research on Cancer assigned tanning beds a class 1 carcinogen, joining tobacco and asbestos in the highest classification of harm. In spite of this development, skin cancer rates have steadily climbed over the last 3 d...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 28, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Advocacy Source Type: blogs
After the Sheldon Silver Conviction
The federal corruption trial of former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) has concluded with a conviction on all counts, despite his lawyers’ interesting argument that trading favors — in this case, funneling state grant money to a doctor’s clinic in exchange for highly lucrative asbestos-claim referrals to Silver’s law firm — is just the way everyone does politics in New York. It’s a huge win for Preet Bharara, who holds Rudy Giuliani’s old job as chief federal prosecutor in Manhattan — often seen as the only jobholder capable of cleaning up New York politics, because all the relevant a...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - December 4, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Walter Olson Source Type: blogs
Their Cheating Hearts - Latest Allergan Settlement Is a Reminder of Merger Participants' Sketchy Pasts
A Huge, but Sketchy Merger The announced merger and "tax inversion" of Pfizer and Allergan would be one of the largest corporate marriages in US history. It has drawn more than its share of criticism. For example, per the Los Angeles Times, former US Senator and Secretary of State, and current presidential candidate Hilary Clinton said "this proposed merger, and so-called inversions by other companies, will leave U.S. taxpayers holding the bag." By creating the world's largest drug company, it could certainly further consolidate the US and global pharmaceutical market and raise already high drug prices. W...
Source: Health Care Renewal - November 24, 2015 Category: Health Management Tags: Allergan crime deception fraud impunity kickbacks legal settlements obstruction of justice Pfizer RICO Source Type: blogs
