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Friday, 16 April 2010

Healthcare in early 21st century



Healthcare in the 21st century faces many challenges. Optimum integration of communications technologies can dramatically improve access to quality health care.Services can be made available to almost anyone, at any time, at any location. Besides traditional health service outlets, locations as varied as retail stores, community centers, office buildings, hotels, shopping malls, rural outposts, and homes can become effective care-delivery points.

Cisco HealthPresence is a new concept developed by the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG) and prototyped at the Cisco Technology Centre. Using the "Advanced technologies" network as a platform, Cisco HealthPresence combines state-of-the-art video, audio, and medical information to create an environment similar to what most people experience when they visit their doctor or health specialist.

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Wednesday, 14 April 2010

4/14 BBC News | Health | UK Edition

The cancer battle is lost if patients fail to act

April 14, 2010 at 6:00 AM

In this week's Scrubbing Up, Professor Nick Lemoine says the battle against cancer will never be won unless patients are more proactive.

Parasite 'a growing stroke risk'

April 14, 2010 at 1:59 AM

A tropical parasitic disease is becoming an increasingly common cause of stroke, Spanish research suggests.

Aspirin 'reduces migraine pain'

April 14, 2010 at 1:49 AM

An aspirin can reduce migraine headache pain within two hours for more than half of people who take it, research suggests.

Tuesday, 13 April 2010

ACM Global Central Lab Demonstrates Quality Expertise At Roswell Park Cancer Institute's Education Day

ACM Global Central Laboratory, the global central lab that continually defines the customer-service standard with its flexible approach, will be demonstrating its commitment to sharing knowledge and expertise with Lorrie Divers, director of global quality assurance, presenting to clinical research staff at Roswell Park Cancer Institute at their annual education day, on April 16.

The event, now in its third year, provides an opportunity for outside speakers to present on topics identified by Roswell Park Cancer Institute's staff. Divers' presentation is entitled "Preparing for Sponsor Audits" and will discuss why pharmaceutical and medical device companies conduct audits of study sites; what to expect during such audits; the preparation involved (from the simple mechanics of the day right through to ensuring compliance in all documentation/processes) and how to respond to any findings.

"I am honored to be invited to speak at such an esteemed organization," said Divers. "Roswell Park Cancer Institute is among the oldest National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers in the United States and I'm delighted to have the opportunity to present to their clinical research staff."

Divers has worked in clinical trials for 25 years in both the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, as well as in academic research centers and has nine years of experience in GCP quality assurance, compliance and training. She has successfully managed numerous regulatory authority inspections in the site, sponsor, and central laboratory arenas.

"It is a testament to ACM Global's reputation and commitment to quality that Lorrie has been asked to present at this event," said Elena Logan, VP of Clinical Trials at ACM Global Central Lab. "As with many of our staff Lorrie has unparalleled experience in this industry and an occasion such as this provides an excellent opportunity for our experts to share their knowledge and expertise."

ACM Global will also be attending a number of industry events this month, including Partnerships in Clinical Trials, FL; World Vaccine Congress, DC and Institute of Clinical Research Annual Conference & Exhibition, UK.

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ACM Global Central Laboratory

Glyconutrients and Their Importance for the Health

The anatomy needs abounding specific types of amoroso and sugar-like substances to assignment properly. An accumulation of these has been accustomed the name glyconutrients. This appellation is not acclimated in accurate textbooks. The appellation is an apparatus of a supplement company, Nanotech, but the substances included in this accumulation all accept specific roles in the animal anatomy that are declared in accurate literature.
The anatomy has the adeptness to accomplish all the glyconutrients, but there are claims that this assembly tend to be too slow, so that the anatomy may get too little of them if they are not supplied through the diet. These claims are not yet absolutely accurate scientifically. However, abounding bodies address bloom assets afterwards accepting activated a supplement of glyconutrients.
The amoroso blazon glucose is the best axial gyconutrient. Glucose is acclimated as an activity source, and it is acclimated to aftermath added important substances, for archetype the added glyconutrients. Glucose should be supplied in an address that allows it to be captivated analogously through the accomplished day. Such an alike assimilation is anchored by bistro aliment that wills absolution glucose gradually during the digestive process. Such an aliment is said to accept a low glycolic index. Examples of such aliment types are beans, peas, abounding blah cereals or bread, and to a beneath extend potatoes and candied bake-apple in accustomed form. Abounding of these foods accommodate starch that will gradually be burst bottomward to changeless glucose back digested.
Must bodies get abundant glucose, but some accepted law carbohydrate diets may account a deficiency.
Many added glyconutrients are acclimated as alive accoutrement in the body. The anatomy can aftermath these from glucose, but the assembly may be so apathetic that one may get amiss if these substances are not supplied in the diet. These glyconutrients are: Mannose, xylems, fructose, N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylgalactosamine, N-acetylneuraminic acid.
Glyconutrients assignment calm as an accumulation in abounding important actual functions:
- They are accoutrement acclimated to adapt tissue growth, agency development, and agency maturation and to adapt adjustment and regret afterwards abrasion and disease.
- They are acclimated as accoutrement by the afraid arrangement and the acute organs, for archetype in the retina of the eyes.
- They are acclimated as accoutrement by the allowed system, abnormally to adapt the functions aural the allowed arrangement and by the acceptance of adopted elements that shall be destroyed.
- They are important architecture blocks in intracellular structures, abnormally in cartilage, tendons and affiliation tissues. N-glucosamine is the best important structural glyconutrient.
- They advice to arrest microorganisms to adhere themselves to anatomy structures and thereby advice the anatomy to ablution abroad bacteria, fungi or viruses. Mannose and xylems are the best important of the glyconutrients for this function.
Since all the glyconutrients tend to participate in abounding processes, abridgement of any of them will accord problems of abounding kinds.
Lack of glyconutrients will accomplish a being about added affected for any disease, accomplish it difficult to action diseases and accomplish it difficult to ameliorate already the ache is over. A being defective glyconutrinent will additionally add calmly gets physically hurt, and accepts difficulties of acclimation the damage.
Glyconutrirnt absence is believed to account or aggravate diseases like: Infections, arthritic diseases, allergies and asthma, affection problems, stroke, abortion to advance and cancer.
A diet absolute acceptable glyconutrients or supplements of glyconutrients may advice to anticipate or affected the listed diseases. Abundant accumulation of glyconutrient may additionally access the accepted attrition adjoin ache and the accepted wellbeing
A way of accepting bare glyconutrients is to accommodate vegetable and bake-apple in the circadian diet and alter amid altered types. Acceptable sources are: Aloe Vera gel, arena fenugreek, tremendous currant, red currants, gooseberries, blooming beans, cabbage, eggplant, tomatoes, turnips, shiitake mushrooms, and kelp. Additionally bluff cartilage and bovine cartilage are acceptable sources of gyconutrients, but these sources are conceivably best captivated as capacity in appropriate supplements.
On the bazaar you can additionally acquisition appropriate supplements that accouter the anatomy with gyconutrienst you may get too little of by the circadian diet.