Medical Experts: Skin Turned to Blood by 2012

A strange new development from the field of medical technology has proposed that by the year 2012, we will have the technology to turn our own skin cells into life giving blood cells.  While this may sound like a useless and horrifying venture, the possibilities for cancer treatments are substantial.  And perhaps most shocking, we may soon live in a world where blood donation is a thing of the past.
For years blood donation has been a serious concern for the medical field.  Doctors and patients alike have always lived with the fear of tainted blood supplies, the availability of blood, the possibility of death due to complications with blood from donors, and other nightmares.  But a new technology developed by researchers in Canada hopes to provide the public with a safe alternative to blood donation for cancer survivors as well as other uses when supplies are limited or not possible to acquire from other sources.


The new technique uses an advanced technique to convert skin cells into other types of cells.  Thanks to previous research, the scientists were able to convert skin cells into stem cells making this incredible medical advancement available to researchers without the ethical concerns many have raised over stem cell research.  And this newest advance hopes to actually allow scientists to grow skin cultures in a lab which are then converted into blood cells.

Essentially, the direction the research is hoping to go in doesn't require someone take a large lump of their own flesh in order to have an adequate blood supply.  Such a treatment would in many cases be worse than the disease it was attempting to cure.  Instead, scientists hope to one day be able to take a small skin sample from patients and then reconstitute the cells grown from these originals in order to create blood for the masses.  You may recall our piece on cell cultivation outside of the body and the miracles provided by T-cells able to be traced to a few cells from one woman though several tons of them exist in laboratories today.

This announcement comes months after an announcement by DARPA that it may be possible in the future to create safe and effective blood from a synthetic form of plastic substitute, but the synthetic blood is expected to be very costly.  On the other hand, once the technique for skin cell blood conversion is adequately researched and developed, the cells involved may be able to create adequate supplies of blood from very little material and at only a fraction of the cost.  The end result may be we as a society could no longer have blood drives where strangers donate blood to be pumped into the bodies of patients.  The possibilities for scientific research are endless.  And countless lives could be saved by this miraculous discovery.  Will we one day live in a world filled with an endless supply of safe and transferable blood even in a world where donors no longer exist?  With medical discoveries and breakthroughs such as these it seems only a matter of time.

Medical experts warn of arthritis rise in young patients

If thought arthritis is an age-related disease and hits ailing or person over 50, time to think again, as Indian medical experts recently revealed, the condition is no longer age-bound and they are witnessing an increase in number of arthritis patients as young as 30 years old.

Commenting on this new rising phenomenon in young people these days, Dr. Raju Vaishya, an orthopedic surgeon at the Apollo Hospital, Delhi, said, “Age is not a factor in arthritis. It can affect the young and old alike. Rheumatoid arthritis affects young women after child birth or due to injury-stress."

He added, people such as dancers, sports persons and others who engage in physical activity are also at risk due to various injuries like swollen muscles, sprains, knee injuries or fractures they suffer over the course of time.

“You never know when that pain aggravates and the swollen joints take the shape of arthritis. Today’s young athletes may become tomorrow`s osteoarthritis patients,” said Dr. Vaishya.

The condition is caused when a protein substance known as cartilage (that serves as a “cushion”) between the bones of the joints, starts degenerating either due to age or constant injuries. It generally affects joints of hands, feet, weight-bearing large joints of hips, and knees.

Troublesome findings
As per medical experts, osteoarthritis hits around 21 million out of nearly 43 million people with arthritis. One in every six people is in its grip and the condition is expected to reach epidemic proportions by 2020.

“Any injury to the cartilage to or injury through minuscule tear will ultimately lead to arthritis of joints. Once the cartilage is injured, the damage is permanent,” said Rajeev K. Sharma, Senior Consultant at the Apollo Hospital.

These days cartilage injury can be cured by cartilage transplant surgery, however, experts believe prevention is better than cure and people should make some lifestyle changes
to stay healthy.

As per Vaishya, regular light exercising such as walking, yoga, proper nutrition and hydration, is better option.

Early detection key to better treatment
There might not be any definite cure for arthritis till date, but medical experts believe that early diagnosis could help in better treatment of the condition and also reduces the risk of mental and physical trauma that would hit the patient if the condition is in its advanced stages.

As per chief orthopedic surgeon of Max Super Speciality Hospital, Saket, S.K.S. Marya, "People need to understand the disease correctly so that precaution can be taken much earlier in life and patients
can get the right treatment. There is no definite cure for arthritis.

"Pain can be reduced and controlled through medicine and physiotherapy. If diagnosed late, one might even have to go for a joint replacement surgery as the damage is irreparable,” he added.

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Mercury is toxic - that is a generally known and accepted fact. The big question was then, whether it would be feasible, given today's conditions, to start this production process again?

Before commencing work some leading German health & safety medical experts were consulted. Prof. Scheuch of the Medical School at the University of Dresden is one such health & safety expert, specialising in „working with mercury“. He wrote: „ ... that if all work-based health and safety precautions were observed, the work could be carried out without hazard to humans and environment“. The coating room was sealed using tiles on the walls and synthetic materials soldered into the flooring. The atmosphere is the room was as sterile as that of an operating theatre. The staff wore protective breathing masks and full sets of protective clothing. The clothing was changed in an anteroom. All waste materials from the production process and all work clothing articles were collected in special containers and sent to a specialist recycling company in Lübeck for disposal. Employees working with mercury were regularly subjected to medical examinations. In microelectronics and chemical industries far more hazardous substances are used. It is always important to observe correct health and safety regulations. Photo: Ronald Bonss / Momentphoto.de

Finally some examples from the 17th and 18th century which illustrate how careless handling of mercury caused extreme health problems to the employees in the factories. In the research carried out before we developed this technology, we can across many publications relating to poisoning of staff in thermometer manufacturing, dentistry and other professions in which mercury was used. The purify mercury it was placed into leather pouches and pressed out again. The pollutants remained in the pouch. After some time the leather became brittle and was no longer usable. But it could still be deployed in shoe manufacturing, as described in the 1888 book "Die Fürther Quecksilber - Spiegelbelegen und ihre Arbeiter" (Furth Mercury Coatings and the employees): „ ... the people employed to press the remaining mercury out of the pouches before the leather was deployed for other purposes..... often suffered from mercury poisoning. My investigations did not just cover those who handled the pouches, but also employees concerned with packaging materials, cobblers, etc who purchased the old mercury pouches and deployed them for other purposes. It was not abnormal to buy boots from a junk dealer and find that a mercury layer appeared on the leather. The victorious Swiss wore golden ring on their toes after the Wars of Burgundy - today's proletarians wore silver-coated boots. An alloy of lead and pewter was generally used to manufacture lead soldiers, a favourite toy in our martial times. To economise some Nuremburg and Furth manufacturers did not use pure pewter, but purchased waste pewter from mirror manufacturers, which contained varying quantities of mercury. In this way the poison was passed on to other manufacturing industries ...“

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When did B movie starlets become medical experts?

 http://medicalexperts-r3-v1.blogspot.com/ I’m dismayed to discover that I apparently wasted 8 years in medical training. Four years of medical school and four years of residency were over-kill (pardon the expression). It seems that in 2009 the most important requirement for a medical authority is to be a former B movie starlet.
That’s right. Ricki Lake is evidently an expert on childbirth, Jenny McCarthy is an expert on immunology, and Susan Somers is an expert on chemotherapy (in the immortal words of Orac of Respectful Insolence, she is currently carpet bombing the media with “napalm-grade stupid about cancer”).
What, you might ask, are the qualifications of these experts beyond their tawdry celebrity? Well, Ricki Lake completed two (count ‘em, 2) semesters at Ithaca College; Jenny McCarthy dropped out of Southern Illinois University in favor of a career at Playboy; and Suzanne Somers dropped out of Lone Mountain College after 6 months.
All three had advanced training as well. Ricki Lake has actually given birth to two children. Jenny McCarthy has a child she believed was afflicted with autism. And, Suzanne Somers actually had cancer. If that’s not enough to make you a medical authority, I don’t know what is.
It’s hardly surprising that celebrity has gone to the heads of these women and made them think they are medical experts (look at Kate Gosselin if you want to see what celebrity can do), but what is the matter with the millions of people who appear to believe the drivel fabricated and spouted by these women? What has happened to us, America?
How can anyone believe anything they have to say on any medical topic? Does anyone seriously think they are qualified to dispense medical advice? Aren’t you embarrassed to be consulting actresses for information on sophisticated medical issues?
Is this part of the dismaying strain of anti-intellectualism that has longed plagued our country? Do people honestly think that those smarty-pants doctors don’t have any knowledge that couldn’t be acquired on “Three’s Company”?
Or should we blame this farcical behavior on the American penchant for conspiracy theories, the more outlandish the better? Do people really have so little faith in organized medicine that they consider Suzanne Somer’s cancer advice more likely to cure them than medical treatment?
Personally, I blame it in part on the Republicans. For the past 30 years we have been subjected to a relentless drumbeat of propaganda insisting that government can do nothing right, while they simultaneously distributed the contents of the public coffers to their personal friends or themselves.
I am a cynical person, but really folks? The government is paying for and recommending the distribution of injectable poisons? Big Pharma wants to create of generation of autistic people? Chemotherapy is a plot to keep you from the real cure for cancer? That’s not cynicism; it is credulousness.
Inquiring minds want to know: How can anyone claim with a straight face to believe that Ricki Lake knows anything about childbirth? How could anyone possibly believe that Jenny McCarthy knows about immunology simply by dint of having a child who she thought was autistic. And Suzanne Somers? Does anyone seriously believe that the purveyor of the “Thigh-Master” just happened to discover the cure for cancer in her spare time?
Someone please explain it to me, because for the life of me I, like other doctors, cannot figure it out.

Medical Experts Call for FDA Action on Salt

Decades of Inaction Lead to Thousands of Deaths Yearly

Salt Assault
• Lawsuit Accuses Denny's of Sodium Overload
• Pass The Salt--But Not Too Much
• Denny's Hit With Lawsuit Over Alleged Unsafe Sodium Levels
• Sodium Levels Still High in Processed Foods
• How Much Sodium Is Too Much? It Depends
• Study: Kids Getting Too Much Sodium
• Nutrition Journal Hid Contributors' Ties to Food Industry
• Medical Experts Call for FDA Action on Salt
• Group Petitions FDA to Limit Salt in Processed Foods
• "Salt Assault" Aggravates America's Health Woes
• Salt Kills 150,000 a Year, CSPI Charges

Two dozen leading hypertension experts, physicians, and health groups are urging Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt to swing his agency into action to reduce Americans' salt consumption.
The high salt levels in countless processed foods and restaurant foods are a major factor in raising Americans' blood pressure, which in turn is a major contributor to heart disease and stroke. Blacks are disproportionately at risk for high blood pressure, those experts said.
"There is virtual unanimity within the scientific community regarding the contribution of excessive sodium consumption to cardiovascular disease," the experts write, pointing to various government-funded recommendations, including those of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the Institute of Medicine, and the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC-7).
In 2004, Dr. Claude Lenfant, then the director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, estimated that 150,000 lives could be saved each year if sodium levels in packaged and restaurant foods were halved.

Read more: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/07/salt_attack.html#ixzz0hZhUWPFq

Medical Experts Link the Importance of Vitamin D, H1N1 and Testing

Medical Experts Link the Importance of Vitamin D, H1N1 and Testing

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Portland, OR – October 19, 2009 – Responding to an article published by PARADE Magazine that linked many disease states and general wellness to Vitamin D levels, ZRT Laboratory is increasing its efforts to reach consumers who are looking for simple, cost effective means of testing.
PARADE Magazine recently published an article titled “Why You Need Vitamin D” whereby Contributing Editor Dr. Mark Liponis, author of “UltraLongevity” and the medical director of Canyon Ranch Spas states: “Strong bones, a better immune system, protection from some cancers, lower blood pressure, clearer skin and healthier brain…these are just a few of the apparent benefits of the Vitamin D.  He also stated that the most reliable blood test is known as 25-hydroxy Vitamin D, and it’s now widely available.”
This article and many others like it correspond with the arrival of the flu season and the specific worries surrounding the H1N1 swine flu.  Many experts including noted medical doctor Mehmet Oz, frequent medical guest expert on Oprah, have made public their beliefs of the probable association between Vitamin D levels and the swine flu. On the  Dr. Oz Show recently (September 09)  he stated: "Vitamin D is produced in the body during exposure to sunlight…People who take vitamin D supplements have better luck avoiding the seasonal flu; there is no reason to think that it won't do the same for H1N1 virus.”
As a result of this public demand ZRT has stepped up its efforts to make available simple, accurate testing for Vitamin D levels.  Via website content, internet promotion and both provider and public educational efforts, through the Vitamin D Council among others, ZRT has been investing in resources to help people understand the importance of testing. Testing is a critical step to undertake both prior to beginning supplementation and to monitor levels so an individual does not over or under dose.
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