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How To Avoid China ’ s Medicine Monopoly
I want to share a shocking statistic with you…
Around 80% of all the pharmaceuticals sold in America — both prescription and over-the-counter — are manufactured in China.
I’m talking about drugs for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, blood pressure and blood thinners, diuretics, aspirin, antibiotics, and a big chunk of the world’s insulin and diabetes drugs — just to name a few.1
We don’t even make penicillin anymore. The last penicillin plant in the U.S. closed its doors in 2004.
Americans who rely on medicine are now almost entirely at the mercy of a country whose relations with the U.S. have become more ...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - September 19, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Health Source Type: news
Sleep duration and risk of stroke and coronary heart disease: a 9-year community-based prospective study of 0.5 million Chinese adults
CONCLUSIONS: While abnormal sleep duration (≤ 6 h or ≥ 9 h) was associated with higher risks of CVD, the risks were more extreme for those reporting ≤ 5 or ≥ 10 h, respectively and such individuals should be prioritised for more intensive treatment for CVD prevention.PMID:37710209 | DOI:10.1186/s12883-023-03367-4
Source: Cancer Control - September 14, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Yiping Chen Christiana Kartsonaki Robert Clarke Yu Guo Huaidong Du Canqing Yu Ling Yang Pei Pei Rebecca Stevens Sushila Burgess Yujie Hua Junshi Chen Jun Lv Liming Li Zhengming Chen China Kadoorie Biobank Collaborative Group Source Type: research
News at a glance: A win for obesity drugs, NIH unionization roadblocks, and Mexican fireflies under threat
CONSERVATION
Researchers raise alarm over threat to Mexican fireflies
Scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last week delivered a letter to the Mexican government requesting it regulate tourism centered on the threatened firefly species
Photinus palaciosi
. Endemic to Mexico’s Tlaxcala forests,
P. palaciosi
is one of the few species that glow in synchrony, offering an annual spectacle that attracts thousands of visitors during summer mating season. The letter describes how littering, artificial light, and noise interfere with the insects’ courtship and eg...
Source: ScienceNOW - August 10, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
News at a glance: A win for obesity drugs, a new infectious disease institute head, and Mexican fireflies under threat
CONSERVATION
Researchers raise alarm over threat to Mexican fireflies
Scientists from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last week delivered a letter to the Mexican government requesting it regulate tourism centered on the threatened firefly species
Photinus palaciosi
. Endemic to Mexico’s Tlaxcala forests,
P. palaciosi
is one of the few species that glow in synchrony, offering an annual spectacle that attracts thousands of visitors during summer mating season. The letter describes how littering, artificial light, and noise interfere with the insects’ courtship and eg...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - August 10, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research
The effects of Baduanjin on physical function, daily living activities and quality of life in patients with stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis
CONCLUSIONS: Baduanjin is probably an effective rehabilitation method to improve balance, motor, trunk, neurological functions, daily living activities, and quality of life in stroke patients. However, the result of Baduanjin in improving walking function is unstable, and further high-quality randomized controlled trials are needed to confirm the results.PMID:37555455 | DOI:10.1080/10749357.2023.2238433
Source: Cancer Control - August 9, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Lirong Wei Yun Liu Yanan Wang Jiping Bian Zhengyang Song Xiaofeng Liu Shen Wang Source Type: research
Association between depression and chronic diseases among middle-aged and older Chinese adults
CONCLUSION: Depressive symptoms were significantly associated with chronic diseases (including diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and stroke), which suggests that psychological factors, such as depressive symptoms should be taken into consideration in the prevention and control of chronic diseases.PMID:37534639
Source: Cancer Control - August 3, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: C S Zhu Z W Lian Y M Cui Source Type: research
Life's Essential 8 and Risk of Stroke: A Prospective Community-Based Study
CONCLUSIONS: The CVH score as assessed by the Life's Essential 8 metrics significantly predicted future stroke risk and arterial stiffness status.PMID:37466001 | DOI:10.1161/STROKEAHA.123.042525
Source: Cancer Control - July 19, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Shouling Wu Zhijun Wu Dongmei Yu Shuohua Chen Aitian Wang Anxin Wang Xiang Gao Source Type: research
Association of stage 1 hypertension defined by the 2017 ACC/AHA guideline with cardiovascular events and mortality in Chinese adults
CONCLUSION: Using the new definition, Chinese adults with untreated stage 1 hypertension are at higher risk for MI, stroke, and all-cause mortality. This finding may help to validate the new BP classification system in China.PMID:37319412 | DOI:10.1097/CM9.0000000000002669
Source: Chinese Medical Journal - June 15, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Qiannan Gao Liuxin Li Jingjing Bai Luyun Fan Jiangshan Tan Shouling Wu Jun Cai Source Type: research
Duration-dependent impact of cardiometabolic diseases and multimorbidity on all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a prospective cohort study of 0.5 million participants
CONCLUSION: Among Chinese adults, mortality risk increased with the number of the CMDs and changed with prolonged disease duration, the patterns of which varied among the three CMDs.PMID:37308998 | DOI:10.1186/s12933-023-01858-9
Source: Cancer Control - June 12, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Yuting Han Yizhen Hu Canqing Yu Dianjianyi Sun Yuanjie Pang Pei Pei Ling Yang Yiping Chen Huaidong Du Jingchao Liu Dan Schmidt Daniel Avery Junshi Chen Zhengming Chen Liming Li Jun Lv Source Type: research
Alcohol consumption and risks of more than 200 diseases in Chinese men
Nat Med. 2023 Jun 8. doi: 10.1038/s41591-023-02383-8. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlcohol consumption accounts for ~3 million annual deaths worldwide, but uncertainty persists about its relationships with many diseases. We investigated the associations of alcohol consumption with 207 diseases in the 12-year China Kadoorie Biobank of >512,000 adults (41% men), including 168,050 genotyped for ALDH2- rs671 and ADH1B- rs1229984 , with >1.1 million ICD-10 coded hospitalized events. At baseline, 33% of men drank alcohol regularly. Among men, alcohol intake was positively associated with 61 diseases, including 33 not defi...
Source: Cancer Control - June 8, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Pek Kei Im Neil Wright Ling Yang Ka Hung Chan Yiping Chen Yu Guo Huaidong Du Xiaoming Yang Daniel Avery Shaojie Wang Canqing Yu Jun Lv Robert Clarke Junshi Chen Rory Collins Robin G Walters Richard Peto Liming Li Zhengming Chen Iona Y Millwood China Kadoo Source Type: research
Effect of Tai Chi Yunshou training on the balance and motor functions of stroke patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
CONCLUSION: Initial evidence seems to show that Tai Chi Yunshou training can improve the balance and motor function of stroke survivors and further improve walking ability and daily living ability, and the rehabilitation effect may be better than that of conventional rehabilitation training.SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.php?RecordID=376969, identifier [CRD42022376969].PMID:37251239 | PMC:PMC10213663 | DOI:10.3389/fneur.2023.1178234
Source: Cancer Control - May 30, 2023 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Liying Zhang Lijuan Zhang Xiaoming Yu Huanxia Zhou Yuwu Ding Jiening Wang Source Type: research
Acori Tatarinowii Rhizoma: A comprehensive review of its chemical composition, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and toxicity
Acori Tatarinowii Rhizoma (ATR, Shi Chang Pu in Chinese), a natural product with multiple targets in various diseases. This review provides the comprehensive summary of the chemical composition, pharmacological effects, pharmacokinetics parameters and toxicity of ATR. The results indicated that ATR possesses a wide spectrum of chemical composition, including volatile oil, terpenoids, organic acids, flavonoids, amino acids, lignin, carbohydrates and so on. Accumulating evidence from various studies has shown that ATR exerts a wide range of pharmacological properties, including protecting nerve cells, alleviating learning an...
Source: Frontiers in Pharmacology - March 16, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research
The 3rd Beijing Forum of Evidence-Based Medicine and 2023 Cochrane China Network Symposium successfully held
Cochrane China recently hosted a virtual event for the evidence-based medicine community that brought together many of its partners, local expertise, and international speakers. Here the team provides an overview of who was involved and what was covered at the event. The3rd Beijing forum of evidence-based medicine and Cochrane China Network Symposium was successfully held virtually on January 15th, 2023. The host of this conference wereCochrane China Network and Beijing GRADE Center. The organizers are Centre for Evidence-based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, affiliate of the Cochrane China Ne...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - February 17, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: Muriah Umoquit Source Type: news
