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Wisdom Of Addiction: Turning Poison Into Medicine (Tse Chen Ling Talk) – Video

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Looking at the nature addiction from the broad perspective of rejecting the present moment and focusing on the "next fix", the teachings of the Buddha on mindfulness will be explored as a remedy...

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GlaxoSmithKline tops table in effort to get drugs to developing countries

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A biennial access to medicine index says that leading pharmaceutical companies are doing more to get drugs to people in developing countries. Photograph: Alamy

GlaxoSmithKline has once again topped a league table that measures the major pharmaceuticals companies efforts in enabling people in developing countries to get the drugs they need, while rivals Pfizer and Sanofi have slipped down the rankings.

The Netherlands-based non-profit Access to Medicine foundation said that an estimated 2 billion people around the world still do not have access to the medicines they need.

But, it added, the companies often called big pharma are increasingly working to improve the situation. They are not acting for altruistic reasons, but partly because they see a commercial opportunity, especially in middle-income countries such as China, South Africa and Brazil, which account for just under half the worlds population.

The latest biennial access to medicine index shows GSK came first for a fourth year although its score was lower than in 2012. It was closely followed by Danish diabetes specialist Novo Nordisk, American firm Johnson & Johnson and Switzerlands Novartis.

Twenty of the worlds largest drug companies are assessed on a range of measures, including their willingness to discount prices in poor countries, research on neglected tropical diseases, lobbying, patent policies, breaches of codes of conduct, corruption or bribery, transparency and conduct in clinical trials.

GSK was recently found guilty of bribery by a Chinese court and fined 3bn yuan (300m) by the government in Bejing, but the ranking does not take this into account. If it had, GSK would probably still have come first, said Wim Leereveld, who devised the index, owing to its activities in developing countries and GSK boss Sir Andrew Wittys overhaul of sales practices in the US. Witty said: There is more that we can do and are doing. This year, the index is tougher than ever. It challenges us to think harder about how we drive innovation and enable access to our products. This is a challenge that we are ready and willing to take on. We will continue to push ourselves to go further and faster to make sure our medicines and vaccines reach more people.

Pfizer fell to 16th place from 11th, while Frances Sanofi dropped to eighth place from third. Neither has provided evidence of significant improvement in access to medicine since 2012, and have been overtaken by other companies, the report said. The researchers found little evidence that Pfizers pricing strategies help the poorest people while the share of its research pipeline dedicated to diseases prevalent in developing countries is relatively small, and has shrunk since the 2012 index.

Pfizer said: Pfizer continues to pursue a social investment strategy and is undertaking work to find new mechanisms to improve access to medicines for low-income patients.The report also found that more than half the companies scored (11) are working on medicines tailored for children, with 7% of the overall research pipeline devoted to child-size drugs in areas such as tuberculosis and HIV/Aids.

Five companies are developing more than half of the products in the research pipeline for developing countries Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, GSK, AbbVie and Sanofi.

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BA2762: The Balancing Act on Lifetime Talks Organic Produce, Personalized Medicine – Video

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Today #39;s show focuses on organic produce from farm to plate -- and healthy recipes that help kids eat more vegetables; plus personalized medicine and advancements in laboratory testing for cancer.

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Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA – Video

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St. Louis Schools- Townships Warn Residents to Stock Up On Water, Food and Medicine! – Video

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MidPoint | Dr. Kevin R. Campbell Assistant professor of medicine division of cardiology at the UNC – Video

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Donna Eden Insights At The Edge Podcast w/Tami Simon (#IATE 4/15/14) – Video

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Donna Eden Insights At The Edge Podcast w/Tami Simon (#IATE 4/15/14)
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ISIS denying food, medicine to hundreds of thousands in Syria, UN report says

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Published November 14, 2014

Nov.14, 2014 - Brazilian Paulo Pinheiro, Chair of the Commission of Inquiry on Syria, at the European headquarters of the UN in Geneva, Switzerland. The UN panel investigating war crimes in Syria says ISIS has denied food and medicine to hundreds of thousands of people and hidden its fighters among civilians since a U.S.-led coalition began launching airstrikes in Iraq and Syria.(AP)

GENEVA The Islamic State group has denied food and medicine to hundreds of thousands of people and hidden its fighters among civilians since a U.S.-led coalition began launching airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, a U.N. panel investigating war crimes in Syria reported Friday.

The panel said Syrians and Iraqis are subjected to an Islamic State "rule of terror" from its calculated use of public brutality and indoctrination to ensure the submission of communities under its control, and that the tactics include repeated violations against children and women.

The conclusions from the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, a four-member panel of independent experts, are based on more than 300 interviews with people who fled or are living in IS-controlled areas and on collected video and photographic evidence.

"Those that fled consistently described being subjected to acts that terrorize and aim to silence the population," said Brazilian diplomat and scholar Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, who chairs the panel. He said whatever "services" the group provides to civilians is "always in the framework of this rule of terror," similar to criminal organizations that use such means to control populations.

Commission member Vitit Muntarbhorn told reporters in Geneva the report is meant to amplify the voices of victims, who describe executions, amputations, public lashings and the use of sexual slavery, child soldiers and widespread indoctrination.

The group has "become synonymous with extreme violence directed against civilians and captured fighters," the report said.

Humanitarian groups have been unable to reach almost 600,000 people in IS-controlled Deir el-Zour and Raqqa provinces, it says, and the group has obstructed the flow of medicine, doctors and nurses into Hassakeh province.

"The group deploys its fighters and materiel in close proximity to civilian areas," the report concludes, adding that since U.S.-led airstrikes began civilians living in the northern Syrian town of Manbij have described IS fighters positioning themselves in local homes and farms.

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Do spinal cord injuries cause subsequent brain damage?

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14-Nov-2014

Contact: University of Maryland School of Medicine Public Affairs dkohn@som.umaryland.edu 410-706-7590 University of Maryland School of Medicine @ummedschool

Baltimore, Md., November 14, 2014--Most research on spinal cord injuries has focused on effects due to spinal cord damage and scientists have neglected the effects on brain function. University of Maryland School of Medicine (UM SOM) researchers have found for the first time that spinal cord injuries (SCI) can cause widespread and sustained brain inflammation that leads to progressive loss of nerve cells, with associated cognitive problems and depression.

The research, published recently in two articles, one in of the Journal of Neuroscience, the other in Cell Cycle, highlights the close links between spinal cord injury and loss of brain function, and suggests potential treatment to prevent such changes.

"Animal studies have shown that traumatic brain injury, even mild repeated injuries, can result in progressive brain tissue damage and cognitive decline, as well as widespread brain inflammation. But little research has examined whether these problems occur after spinal cord injuries," said UM SOM anesthesiology professor and noted neurobiologist Alan Faden, MD, who led the study.

"Our studies the first to show that isolated SCI can cause progressive loss of brain cells in key brain regions," said Faden. "The brain degeneration was demonstrated in different experimental models and animals. We also have identified certain molecular mechanisms responsible for these pathological changes and shown that certain drugs can prevent these injuries, including inflammation, brain cell loss, cognitive decline and depressive-like behaviors after injury."

"This is an important and significant advancement in our understanding of the overall effects of spinal cord injuries," said UM SOM Dean E. Albert Reece, MD, PhD, MBA. "The link between spinal trauma and brain function is now more clear, and we believe that further research in this area will offer the hope of new ways to treat this devastating trauma, and perhaps even reverse its effects on the brain."

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