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Theres a line in a Tim Minchin song which I like to quote from time to time. In it, hes addressing a hippyish alternative-medicine type called Storm, whos banging on about the healing power of herbs. Before we came to tea, I took a natural remedy, he tells her, derived from the bark of a willow tree, a painkiller thats virtually side-effect free. Of course, he means aspirin.
Yesterday, we reported that another natural remedy may actually work as well. Chinese researchers have found that an extract of honeysuckle could fight flu; specifically, a bit of RNA (DNAs simpler cousin) called MIR 2911 seems to interfere with the workings of the influenza virus. The researchers bought their honeysuckle from a Chinese herbal medicine shop, and made it into a sort of tea, in impeccable folk-remedy style.
If the results are confirmed, its quite exciting news: viruses generally, and the fast-mutating flu virus in particular, are tricky things to treat, and flu causes plenty of misery (killing about 100 people a year in Britain, and hundreds of thousands worldwide). The if its confirmed is a big if, because the trials have only been carried out on mice. The researchers themselves are optimistic to the point of overexcitability, pushing it as the first virological penicillin, although an expert I spoke to was very wary about it, saying that there are plenty of hurdles before it could be a real, practical medicine.
The reason people are getting excited about this is because Chinese herbal medicine types have been using honeysuckle tea to treat colds and flu for 1,000 years. The hippyish alternative-medicine types will be crowing. You can almost hear it: Not so cocky now, eh, Mr Scientist Man?
But thats missing the point. Lots of real, actual medicines come from natural sources; the original, bacteriological penicillin was derived from a mould. Aspirin, as Minchin notes, is a willow-bark product. St Johns wort works to relieve low moods and anxiety (and, I should warn you, interacts dangerously with some other medicines). Digitalin is extracted from foxglove and is used to control heart rate. Quinine, the first antimalarial, comes from the cinchona tree.
There are well over 100 medicinal compounds derived from plants. One major reason that the destruction of the rainforest is such a loss is because there are thousands of unknown species of plant in there, any one of which may be the source of a powerful, useful drug that could save your life. Theres nothing wrong with a natural remedy, if it works.
That, though, is the issue: if it works. And the way you find out whether it works is simple: give one group of people the medicine, one group of people a fake medicine, dont tell anyone which is which, and see if one group gets better faster. Thats what science does; thats what the honeysuckle researchers did, albeit with mice rather than people.
Science isnt about ignoring mother nature; its about seeing what works. Sometimes what works is natural, whatever that means. Sometimes its not: in the case of homeopathy, for instance, there have been lots and lots of these sorts of trials, and it has been found not to work. The same is true of reflexology, and of acupuncture.
The reason we know which natural remedies work and which dont is not because we listened to the witch doctors or traditional Chinese herbalists, but because some scientists tested them.
The thing is, there isnt really a divide between medicine and alternative, natural medicine. Theres medicine that works, and everything else. Its science that tells us the difference.
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STOCKHOLM A U.S.-British scientist and a Norwegian husband-and-wife research team won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discovering the brain's navigation system the inner GPS that helps us find our way in the world a revelation that could lead to advances in diagnosing Alzheimer's.
The research by John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser represents a "paradigm shift" in neuroscience that could help researchers understand the sometimes severe spatial memory loss associated with Alzheimer's disease, the Nobel Assembly said.
"This year's Nobel Laureates have discovered a positioning system, an 'inner GPS' in the brain, that makes it possible to orient ourselves in space," the assembly said.
O'Keefe, 74, a dual U.S. and British citizen at the University College London, discovered the first component of this system in 1971 when he found that a certain type of nerve cell was always activated when a rat was at a certain place in a room. He demonstrated that these place cells were building up a map of the environment, not just registering visual input.
Thirty-four years later, in 2005, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, married neuroscientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, identified another type of nerve cell the grid cell that generates a coordinate system for precise positioning and path-finding, the assembly said.
Monday's award was the fourth time that a married couple has shared a Nobel Prize and the second time in the medicine category.
"This is crazy," an excited May-Britt Moser, 51, told The Associated Press by telephone from Trondheim.
"This is such a great honor for all of us and all the people who have worked with us and supported us," she said. "We are going to continue and hopefully do even more groundbreaking work in the future."
Her 52-year-old husband didn't immediately find out about the prize because he was flying to the Max Planck Institute in Munich, Germany, to demonstrate their research. Edvard Moser told the Norwegian news agency NTB he only discovered he had won after he landed in Munich, turned on his cellphone and saw a flood of emails, text messages and missed calls.
"I didn't know anything. When I got off the plane there was a representative there with a bouquet of flowers who said 'congratulations on the prize,'" he was quoted as saying.
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U.S.-British scientist John O'Keefe and Norwegian husband and wife Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser have won the Nobel Prize in medicine for discoveries of brain cells that people use to orient themselves. (AP)
Three scientists, including a husband-and-wife team, have been awarded this years Nobel Prize in Medicine for deciphering the mechanism in the brain that allows us to find our way around.
The three winners of the worlds most coveted medical research prize are John OKeefe, who holds both U.S. and British citizenship and is director of the Sainsbury Wellcome Center in Neural Circuits and Behavior at University College London; May-Britt Moser, a professor of neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology; and Edward I. Moser of the same university.
All worked on different components of the same problem: how we orient ourselves in space and navigate, the Stockholm-based Nobel committee said in announcing the prize Monday. The discovery of what the group called the brains inner GPS has solved a problem that has occupied philosophers and scientists for centuries.
OKeefe discovered the first component of this system in 1971. He found that when he placed rats in certain parts of a room different cells in the brains hippocampus which is believed to be important in functions related to space and memory -- were always activated. He theorized that these areas that he called place cells formed a map of the room.
The Mosers, who are from Norway, followed up on that research in 2005, finding what scientists dubbed grid cells that make up a coordinate system that allows us to navigate. The couple was researching rats moving in a room when they noticed that another area of the brain, the entorhinal cortex, was activated in a unique spatial pattern that corresponded with the location of the animals head and the borders of the room.
Research into the inner workings of the brain has been among the top priorities for the scientific community in recent years. Last year, the European Union launched a 10-year effort to simulate the human brain on supercomputers. And President Obama launched a $100 million initiative to build tools to accelerate the pace of brain research an effort that many believe will be as groundbreaking as the Human Genome Project, which led to the sequencing of the 3 billion base pairs that comprise human DNA.
Last year, two Americans -- James Rothman of Yale University and Randy Schekman of the University of California, Berkeley -- and German-born Thomas Suedhof of Stanford University won the Nobel in medicine for their work on how the bodys cells communicate. The research has had a major impact in our understanding of how the brain transmits signals.
Cornelia Bargmann, a neurobiologist at The Rockefeller University and a 2013 winner of the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences funded by Internet entrepreneurs Mark Zuckerburg, Sergey Brin and others, said this years Nobel-honored work is groundbreaking because it not only tells us about how the brain understands space but more complex cognitive relationships, as well.
Bargmann, co-chair of the advisory committee for the presidents BRAIN (Brain Research Through Innovative Neurotechnologies)initiative, said the scientists showed the brain creates a two-dimensional grid of the world based on a group of neurons that tell you where you are moving and how you have been. Those points are in turn linked to people, places and other sights, smells and experiences.
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In ancient Greece, the physician Hippocrates is said to have stuffed animal skins for patients to toss for 'medicinal' purposes The durable, versatile spheres, which can range from 2 to 25 pounds, fit into today's most intense regimes,from boot camps to interval training
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Published: 04:01 EST, 6 October 2014 | Updated: 09:27 EST, 6 October 2014
Medicine balls, the fitness tool as ancient as Hippocrates, have bounced, slammed, tossed and twisted their way into today's trendiest workouts, fitness experts say.
The durable, versatile spheres, which can range from 2 to 25 pounds (0.9 to 11 kg), fit into today's most intense regimes, from boot camps to interval training.
Alonzo Wilson, creator of the New York City fitness studio Tone House, uses medicine ball exercises to strengthen and condition, and to boost team spirit.
On trend: Medicine balls, a fitness aid once endorsed by Hippocrates, are central to modern workouts again
He said the people who seek out his brand of extreme athletics often find medicine balls less daunting than his resistance harnesses or cords and ropes.
'They make people feel comfortable,' said Wilson, a former professional athlete. 'We use them in partner throws, to hold and turn, to touch the ground with. Slamming the ball down while (jumping) in the air elevates the heart rate.'
In a fast-moving workout, he added, the balls allow freedom of movement.
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