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Mariya Kopyrina, M.D. – Family Medicine, Henry Ford Health System – Video

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Dr. Kopyrina is a Family Medicine physician at Henry Ford Health System. She practices at Henry Ford Medical Center - Pierson in Grosse Pointe Farms. Call 1-800-HENRYFORD (1-800-436-7936) or...

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Pharmaceutical science graduate aspires to study Medicine – #ProudlyGriffith – Video

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Griffith pharmaceutical science graduate Sam Mischewski was seleced to represent his cohort in the health sciences as a student speaker for his Griffith graduation ceremony on the Gold Coast...

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The Medicine Man

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Family ties: (from left) Marcus Blackmores son Alexander Borromeo, Blackmore, his wife Caroline and her daughter Imogen Merrony at their wedding.

Marcus Blackmore is riding the crest of a boom in sales of vitamin supplements, even though his products have been dismissed as a waste of money by many in the medical profession.

Long before Marcus Blackmore became king of the largest nutraceutical empire in the southern hemisphere, he used to study the scriptures of his father's faith, a heretic creed to many because of its fundamental belief in nature's healing powers. "Doctors can bury their mistakes," Maurice Blackmore, the man widely regarded as the father of Australian naturopathy, used to tell his son. "So why do patients only come to seek my advice after they've been to five doctors without any results?"

It was a good question and Marcus Blackmore was keen to learn. In 1950, at the age of five, he used to visit his father in his Queensland naturopathic clinic and idle away the hours by sticking product labels into an exercise book: "Fluvacs" (a mixture of iron and potassium) to combat flu; "Pep Ups" (a multi-mineral formula to restore energy); "Renatone" (to tone the kidneys) ...

Alternative view: complementary health-products mogul Marcus Blackmore at home in Pittwater, NSW. Photo: Tim Bauer

As a young teenager, Marcus Blackmore learnt how to prepare skin creams and ointments, although during one school holiday he and a friend decided to concoct a laxative formula consisting of dates, raisins and senna. His friend - later to become an eminent doctor - couldn't stop licking his fingers for the taste. "The next day he just shitted himself away," says Blackmore now, laughing. "He's never forgotten it."

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Raised in a household that banned white sugar and white bread (but gave considerable licence to Sanitarium Nutmeat!), Blackmore began working for his father full-time at the age of 18. Over the years - as young bull clashed with old - he was sacked three times before eventually taking over the business at 28.

That was in 1973 - 12 years before the company was publicly listed - and today Marcus Blackmore bestrides a complementary medicines industry in Australia that has grown 54 per cent in the past five years to be worth $3.5 billion in revenue a year, part of an estimated $138 billion annual global market.

Blackmore's father, Maurice, was already a pioneering figure in the world of Australian natural health when Marcus was born in 1945.

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Sunset Overdrive – Gameplay Walkthrough – Fizzco Medicine – Part 25 – Video

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This is TheMediaCows Sunset Overdrive Gameplay Walkthrough Part 25. Sunset Overdrive is being played by Ray with Dewey along for the ride! Sunset Overdrive was released on October 28, 2014...

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Subcommittee on Issues Relating to the Development of Chinese Medicine(2014/12/16) – Video

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Subcommittee on Issues Relating to the Development of Chinese Medicine(2014/12/16)
Panel on Health Services Subcommittee on Issues Relating to the Development of Chinese Medicine Third meeting to be held on Tuesday, 16 December 2014, from 10:15 am to 12:15 pm in ...

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The bloody truth: How blood donations can save animals' lives

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Blood transfusions are of importance not only in human medicine. Also animals do need blood donations. The University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna operates a blood bank for dogs for more than a decade. But also cats can donate blood for acute emergencies. Horses need blood donations especially during operations that involve high blood loss. Sheep, goats and other ruminants require transfusions when plagued by serious infestations of parasites. Three vets from different areas of expertise explain how blood transfusions work with different animal species and how they can save lives.

Blood can hardly be created through artificial means, but it can be transferred within a species. Reasons for a blood transfusion among dogs and cats are usually serious accidents, large operations, certain types of cancer, cases of intoxication with rat poison, serious infectious diseases such as the tick-borne babesiosis, and blood illnesses including haemolytic or inherited bleeding disorders such as haemophilia.

At the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna dog owners can bring their animals to donate blood regularly or as needed. Blood donations two to four times a year per dog is the maximum. About 15 minutes are required for a donation. Dogs must have a minimum weight of 25 kilograms and usually donate about 450 millilitres of blood. For cats, depending on their size, the amount taken is about 50 millilitres. Cats are typically sedated for the procedure. For most dogs, on the other hand, donating blood does not involve any serious stress. Should a donation cause too much anxiety or stress, the animal will be excluded as a donor.

Not all blood is alike

As with people, animals also have different blood types. Animal blood, as well as human blood, is divided into various groups based on different surface proteins found on the red blood cells. More than twelve different blood type systems have been described for dogs, although in practice dogs are only tested for DEA 1.1 positive or DEA 1.1 negative. Cats exhibit three different types of blood, horses eight and bovines eleven. The transfusion of an unsuitable blood type can have fatal consequences for animals, especially when a cat with blood type B receives type A blood. For horses and ruminants, the first time transfusion of 'wrong' donor blood is generally safe. With each additional transfusion, however, blood types become crucial, as the animals have produced antibodies against the foreign blood that can cause serious immune reactions.

Blood donations come with a health check

Dogs and cats can be registered as blood donors at the Clinical Unit of Internal Medicine Small Animals of the Vetmeduni Vienna. The animals receive a donor card and undergo a thorough examination before each donation. This mandatory health check includes a complete blood count, a test for blood parasites, and a check-up for viral infections.

"Donating blood does not harm the animals. The donated amount can be quickly regenerated by the animal's organism," says specialist for small animal internal medicine and blood bank coordinator Nicole Luckschander-Zeller. "We pay special attention to making sure that donor animals feel good during donation. That's why, after every donation, we give the animals a little snack."

Dog and cat blood is not only used as a whole. Individual blood components, such as plasma or erythrocyte concentrates, are stored and used when needed.

Horses as blood donors and recipients

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For Ebola Patients in Sierra Leone, Survival Takes More Than Medicine

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BO, Sierra LeoneMorning rounds have just begun at an Ebola treatment center here in the city of Bo, in central Sierra Leone.

The patients who are ableshuffle out of a tent towards two layers of chain-link fence that separate them from the outside2 meters minimum distance. Some clutch bottles of water, bright orange soda, or foil-wrapped nutritional bars. A woman in an orange printed wrap skirt lags behind the others, struggling to slide a sandal on to her foot. She came here in bad shape with her husband and three children, but she is improving; she was recently taken off intravenous fluids.

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For all the medicine they provide at this center, physicians and staff from Doctors Without Bordersspend as much time encouraging the patients to eat, drink, and keep fighting. Every patient gets a standard regimen of antibiotics, paracetemol and other pain medications, vitamins, oral rehydration therapy or intravenous fluids. Drugs can control nausea for those who need them; everyone gets antimalarials.

When de Polnay and the other staff enter the containment tents where patients are housed, they attend to medical tasks first. Then, they coax patients to eat; the centers kitchen dishes up soup, rice, and local comfort foods like corn or rice porridge called pap, and cassava root-based foo foo, to encourage patients. Take a bite for your son, de Polnay tells one patient, a mother whose toddler arrived here at the treatment center with her.

Many of the patients arent in any condition to feed themselves, thoughthey need to be fed, to have fluids administered, and to be bathed. Doctors and nurses have limited time to spend with their patients, who total 54 today. The clock starts ticking once the health workers don their personal protective equipment: Tyvek suit, apron, two layers of gloves, boots, goggles, a hood and a respirator. Its almost too hot to actually work. After an hour or more with their entire bodies enclosed in rubber and polymers, the doctors time with the patients is up.

Then its up to the patients themselves.

Everyone who has worked with Ebola patients talks about the will to survive, and how much difference it makes. Maybe they say it because the treatment is symptomatic, addressing the dehydration and pain caused by Ebola instead of attacking the virus itself. Maybe they say it because theyve seen patients who seem to be improving suddenly start to backslide. Or maybe they say it because they want to believe it. Unlike in a Western hospital, where patients this ill are plugged into monitors and watched over all day and night, even the desperately sick patients here spend a lot of time alone in their beds. Its simply too dangerous for someone to stay with them around the clock. Few people know what goes on in those lonely hours when patients are on the ward with only the sick for company.

On her first evening on the ward, de Polnay went to check on a boy in the treatment tent; the boy asked her to check on his father, lying next to him first. But the father was dead. The boy had spent the night beside his fathers corpse.

Amid this routine calamity, some patients give up. De Polnay tells the story of an ambulance driver who was admitted here not long ago. Though he seemed relatively well to her, he told her one night: You wont find me here tomorrow; Ill be dead. He was right.

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Help For Medicine Donated To Carolina Family Healthcare By Charles Myrick of ACRX – Video

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http://www.2healthhelp.com -Enjoy a brief recap of this great organization doing a fantastic service in the community!" -Charles Myrick - President and CEO of American Consultants Rx...

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