Guest guest Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 ALON MARCUS [alonmarcus] 26 November 2003 17:39 No Adverse Lipid Effects Seen With High Fat, No-Starch Diet In a study of patients with atherosclerosis following a high fat, no-starch diet, similar to the Atkins diet, for 6 weeks produced weight loss without adversely affecting lipid levels. Reuters Health Information 2003 http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eeUk0EDHzl0D2i0FlUm0AY UNFORTUNATELY -- December 27, 2003 Page Error The article you requested can not be found. Please be advised that if you are trying to access an article from Reuters Health news wire, those articles expire after 30 days on our site. After that time, they can no longer be displayed. If the article you are trying to access is not from Reuters, please let us know by contacting medscapetechsupport. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 6, 2004 Report Share Posted January 6, 2004 Treatment With Anti-Cytomegalovirus Agent May Improve Schizophrenia Symptoms Supplementary treatment with the oral antiviral valacyclovir appears to reduce symptoms in schizophrenic patients seropositive for cytomegalovirus, researchers report in the December issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry. Reuters Health Information 2003 http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eeuA0EDHzl0D2p0FnpY0Ae Smoking May Protect Against Schizophrenia Cigarette smoking at age 18-20 seems to be associated with a reduced risk of subsequently developing schizophrenia, according to researchers. However, they say, any possible benefit is greatly offset by the harm of smoking. Reuters Health Information 2003 http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eeuA0EDHzl0D2p0Fnpa0Am Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 4, 2004 Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 CME Moderate-Fat Diet Better Than Low-Fat Diet at Improving Cardiovascular Risk Factors http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/efbH0EDHzl0DzC0FpzH0Ap 6. CME Dietary Fatty Acids May Reduce Risk of Cognitive Decline http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/efbH0EDHzl0DzC0Fpy50AV Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 27, 2004 Report Share Posted March 27, 2004 2: Streitberger K, Witte S, Mansmann U, Knauer C, Kraemer J, Scharf HP, Victor N Efficacy and safety of acupuncture for chronic pain caused by gonarthrosis: A study protocol of an ongoing multi-centre randomised controlled clinical trial [iSRCTN27450856]. BMC Complement Altern Med 2004 Mar 24;4(1):6. Background Controlled clinical trials produced contradictory results with respect to a specific analgesic effect of acupuncture. There is a lack of large multi-centre acupuncture trials. The German Acupuncture Trial represents the largest multi-centre study of acupuncture in the treatment of chronic pain caused by gonarthrosis up to now. Methods 900 patients will be randomized to three treatment arms. One group receives verum acupuncture, the second sham acupuncture, and the third conservative standard therapy. The trial protocol is described with eligibility criteria, detailed information on the treatment definition, blinding, endpoints, safety evaluation, statistical methods, sample size determination, monitoring, legal aspects, and the current status of the trial. Discussion A critical discussion is given regarding the considerations about standardisation of the acupuncture treatment, the choice of the control group, and the blinding of patients and observers. >>>Anybody seen the actual study? Alon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 25, 2004 Report Share Posted May 25, 2004 Experts Reject Link Between Thimerosal and Autism The mercury-containing preservative thimerosal formerly used in several childhood vaccines is not to blame for autism in vaccinated children, an expert Institute of Medicine (IOM) panel concluded Tuesday. Reuters Health Information 2004 http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eg2x0EDHzl0D2p0Fy8e0Av Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 25, 2004 Report Share Posted May 25, 2004 MORE EVIDENCE SUPPORTS LOW-CARBOHYDRATE DIET http://mp.medscape.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eg2w0EDHzl0D2i0Fyzz0AG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 This sounds pretty cool. I'm going to check it out at some point. I've been trying to figure out how to use an i-pod for carrying around and accessing files. . . although my kids hog their i-pods and rarely let me get a chance to tinker with them! On Jul 24, 2004, at 12:25 PM, wrote: > I may have mentioned this before. But does everyone know that apple's > ipod (version for Mac, at least) can play text files. An add on > download called ispeakit gives the ability to convert any word, PDF or > webpage in spoken word in MP# format that can be played on the ipod. > This means pretty much anything you might normally read on your > computer can be listened to instead. The trick I have found is getting > a tolerable computer voice. I don't like any of the ones that come > with OSX. I wonder if this works with other languages, too. > > > Chinese Herbs > > > FAX: > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 2004 Report Share Posted August 28, 2004 Vickers AJ Interesting article Statistical reanalysis of four recent randomized trials of acupuncture for pain using analysis of covariance. Clin J Pain 2004 Sep-Oct;20(5):319-23. PMID: 15322438 [PubMed - in-data-review] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 Alon, Does Taiwan have a short term program for english speaking students similar to China Thanks Brian Alon Marcus <alonmarcus wrote: By the way in Taiwan most of the practitioner i followed practiced both acupun and herbology Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 16, 2004 Report Share Posted December 16, 2004 , " Alon Marcus " <alonmarcus@w...> wrote: > By the way in Taiwan most of the practitioner i followed practiced both acupun and herbology > > My experience in Taiwan has been that most acupuncturists are familiar with herbal prescription, but most TCM internal medicine doctors are minimally trained in acupuncture. Of course, there are many, many exceptions, but I think that most people who use both selected to study both for their own personal edification or for employment potential. I think that the number of people who are trained in acupuncture is much lower than the number trained in herbal medicine, but I am under the impression that almost all Taiwanese acupuncturists know at least the basics of herbs. By contrast, even if some of the internal med (herbs) doctors do know how to use acupuncture, most don't have all that much experience in it unless they have worked in the acupuncture dept. Interestingly, tui na is a seven-year course of study in Taiwan, independent of acupuncture or herbs. They do bone manipulation and external plasters and such in addition to the narrower tui na that is used in the West, and they are often very well-trained. My experience of a few dozen doctors is hardly representative of the entire island of Taiwan. Nonetheless, I think most people in Taiwan who know acupuncture know herbs, but fewer people who know herbs know acupuncture. I meet lots of doctors that know both to some degree, but specialists that do one or the other are common. Eric Brand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 By the way in Taiwan most of the practitioner i followed practiced both acupun and herbology Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 , " Alon Marcus " <alonmarcus@w...> wrote: > Does Taiwan have a short term program for english speaking students similar > to China > Thanks > >>>Not that i know of. > Likewise, I don't know of any. Does anyone? Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 17, 2004 Report Share Posted December 17, 2004 My experience in Taiwan has been that most acupuncturists are familiar with herbal prescription, but most TCM internal medicine doctors are minimally trained in acupuncture. Of course, there are many, many exceptions, but I think that most people who use both selected to study both for their own personal edification or for employment potential. >>>Interesting, every of the Dr i visited did both, although not necessarily very well. Even the tui na practitioners did both, although mostly plasters but also some internal herbs. They did acupuncture as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 18, 2004 Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 Does Taiwan have a short term program for english speaking students similar to China Thanks >>>Not that i know of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine Variability in the Traditional (TCM) Diagnoses and Herbal Prescriptions Provided by Three TCM Practitioners for 40 Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis Jun 2005, Vol. 11, No. 3: 415-421 Grant G. Zhang, Ph.D. L.Ac. Center for Integrative Medicine and School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Wenlin Lee, Ph.D. Center for Integrative Medicine and School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Barker Bausell, Ph.D. Center for Integrative Medicine and School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Lixing Lao, Ph.D. Center for Integrative Medicine and School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Barry Handwerger, M.D. Division of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Brian Berman, M.D. Center for Integrative Medicine and School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD. Objective: To ascertain if previous findings of low levels of agreement of Traditional (TCM) pattern diagnoses made by TCM practitioners in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were a function of practitioner differences or would be replicated with a different sample of clinicians, and to examine the relationship between TCM diagnosis and herbal treatment plans. Design: A prospective survey. Setting: General clinical research center, University of Maryland Hospital System, Baltimore, MD. Subjects: Forty (40) patients with RA. Practitioners: Licensed acupuncturists with at least 5 years??? experience and education in Chinese herbs. Methods: Three (3) TCM practitioners examined the same 40 RA patients separately, following the traditional Four Diagnostic Methods. Patients filled out questionnaires and physical examinations, including observations of the tongue and palpation of radial pulse, were conducted by the 3 practitioners. Each practitioner then provided both a TCM diagnosis and an herbal prescription. These diagnoses/prescriptions were examined with respect to the rate of agreement among the 3 practitioners. Results: The average agreement with respect to the TCM diagnoses among the 3 TCM practitioners was 31.7 % (range, 27.535%). The degree to which the herbal prescriptions agreed with textbook recommended practice for each TCM diagnosis was 91.7% (range, 85100%). The most commonly used TCM assessments in arriving at these diagnoses were inquiry about factors affecting pain and pulse diagnosis. No statistically significant differences were found between this study and our previous study regarding the level of agreement on TCM diagnosis. Conclusion: The average agreement of the diagnoses provided by 3 TCM practitioners was at the same low level as previously reported. No association was found between the diagnostic methods used and the consistency of diagnosis. Both studies, however, found a high degree of consistency between the TCM pattern diagnoses provided and the herbal treatment plans made as a result of those diagnoses. Oakland, CA 94609 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 For example, risk of prostate cancer increases 50% in men after vascectomy. >>>>>>Zev, i do not know were you get that figure, perhaps you are thinking of antisperm antibodies. Here is a link to a review article http://www.ameditech.com/medinfo/weiskereviewofvasectomy2001.pdf Oakland, CA 94609 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Alon, I posted this on another site, but this was a study done about five years ago. I can check out more details if you wish. Z'ev On Sep 22, 2005, at 4:39 PM, wrote: > For example, risk of prostate cancer increases 50% in men after > vascectomy. > >>>>>>> Zev, i do not know were you get that figure, perhaps you are >>>>>>> thinking of antisperm antibodies. Here is a link to a review >>>>>>> article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 I can check out more details if you wish. >>>> I would love to see it, i could not find any ref Oakland, CA 94609 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 Physicians on the Take Dr. Jerome Kassirer, Professor at Tufts University and former editor of The New England Journal of Medicine, encourages professional and academic organizations to eliminate pharmaceutical largesse. Medscape General Medicine 8(1) 2006 http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/524994?src=mp Oakland, CA 94609 - tricia good Monday, March 27, 2006 3:43 PM RE: kiss of death This was an article printed in the BBC news during the time when it was reported the girl had died from the peaunut butter 'kiss.' It is an article that describes why scientists think peanuts in particular, are a common allergen in people. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4022329.stm ...and then here is a follow up article that reports that the peanut butter didn't kill the girl. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4778740.stm hope this is of interest to you - t _______________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement Chinese Herbal Medicine offers various professional services, including board approved continuing education classes, an annual conference and a free discussion forum in Chinese Herbal Medicine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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