SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - Dec 3, 2012) - VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. ( OTCBB : VSTA ), a biotechnology company applying stem cell technology for drug rescue, predictive toxicology and drug metabolism screening, has formalized its membership in the Toronto-based Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine's (CCRM) Industry Consortium.

"VistaGen's membership reflects our strong association with CCRM and its core programs and objectives, both directly and through our strategic relationships with Dr. Gordon Keller and the University Health Network (UHN).Our long-term sponsored research agreement with Dr. Keller, UHN and UHN's McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine offers both a solid foundation and unique opportunities for expanding the commercial applications of our Human Clinical Trials in a Test Tube platform by building multi-party collaborations with CCRM and members of its Industry Consortium," says Shawn Singh, VistaGen CEO. "These collaborations have the potential to transform medicine and accelerate significant advances in human health and wellness that stem cell technologies and regenerative medicine promise."

"Even before VistaGen joined CCRM's Industry Consortium it was active in the Toronto regenerative medicine community and advising us as we prepared to launch in 2011," explains Dr. Michael May, CEO of the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine. "I'm confident that our relationship will grow stronger with VistaGen as a formal partner and I look forward to us working closely together on projects that will accelerate drug discovery and benefit patients."

CCRM is a not-for-profit, public-private consortium funded by the Government of Canada, six Ontario-based institutional partners and more than 20 companies representing the key sectors of the regenerative medicine industry. CCRM supports the development of foundational technologies that accelerate the commercialization of stem cell- and biomaterials-based products and therapies. Other members of CCRM's Industry Consortium include such leading global companies as Pfizer, GE Healthcare and Lonza.

The industry leaders that comprise the CCRM consortium benefit from proprietary access to certain licensing opportunities, academic rates on fee-for-service contracts at CCRM and opportunities to participate in large collaborative projects, among other advantages.VistaGen is especially well positioned through its existing relationships with key members.

Gordon Keller, Ph.D. is Director of the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine at UHN. A CCRM partner, the McEwen Centre is a world-renowned centre for stem cell biology and regenerative medicine and a world-class stem cell research facility. He is also a Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of Medical Biophysics and Senior Scientist of the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto.Dr. Keller's lab is one of the world leaders in successfully applying principles from the study of developmental biology of many animal systems to the differentiation of pluripotent stem cell systems, resulting in reproducible, high-yield production of human heart, liver, blood and vascular cells.The results and procedures developed in Dr. Keller's lab are often quoted and used by academic scientists worldwide.

UHN, a major landmark in Canada's healthcare system, is one of the world's largest research hospitals, with major research in transplantation, cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, surgical innovation, infectious diseases and genomic medicine. Providing care to the community for more than two centuries, UHN brings together the talent and resources needed to achieve global impact and provide exemplary patient care, research and education.

About VistaGen Therapeutics

VistaGen is a biotechnology company applying human pluripotent stem cell technology for drug rescue, predictive toxicology and drug metabolism screening. VistaGen's drug rescue activities combine its human pluripotent stem cell technology platform, Human Clinical Trials in a Test Tube, with modern medicinal chemistry to generate new chemical variants (Drug Rescue Variants) of once-promising small-molecule drug candidates. These are drug candidates discontinued by pharmaceutical companies, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) or university laboratories after substantial investment and development due to heart or liver toxicity or metabolism issues. VistaGen uses its pluripotent stem cell technology to generate early indications, or predictions, of how humans will ultimately respond to new drug candidates before they are ever tested in humans, bringing human biology to the front end of the drug development process.

Additionally, VistaGen's small molecule drug candidate, AV-101, is completing Phase 1 development for treatment of neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain, a serious and chronic condition causing pain after an injury or disease of the peripheral or central nervous system, affects millions of people worldwide.To date, VistaGen has been awarded over $8.5 million from the NIH for development of AV-101.

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Jakarta (The Jakarta Post/ANN) - Esti Winarni, 39, has been selling Indonesian traditional herbal medicine (known locally as jamu) for the past 25 years and not once has she experienced a slump in demand. Instead of taking drugs, many people choose herbal drinks such as curcuma or temulawak. The plant species has been long known for its wide-range of health benefits, including anti-inflammatory effects.

"This [curcuma] is the cure for all health problems," she said.

Winarni believes that people regularly consuming curcuma are also less likely to have chronic health problems such as diabetes, high cholesterol and hypertension.

The 2010 Health Basic Research report says that 59.12 per cent of the country's population knows about or regularly consumes curcuma.

"If we can further promote the use of jamu and make around 80 to 90 per cent of the population interested in consuming jamu, people won't get ill anymore. This should secure the place of jamu in our health care system," said the Health Ministry's traditional, alternative and complimentary health service director, Abidinsyah Siregar.

Integrating the traditional medicine into the existing formal health care system is one of several health development goals in the 2010-2014 Health Ministry Strategic Plan.

The government expects that by 2014, 250 regencies and municipalities - 50 per cent of local administrations - will have developed traditional health care services.

Under the programme, each regency and municipality should have several community health centres, or Puskesmas, that work as service models for delivering traditional care.

The two types of traditional health care services provided by the community health centres are herbal medicines and acupuncture and acupressure services.

The centres will also have to conduct various activities to introduce plants with positive health effects.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 — The Dewan Negara today passed the Traditional and Complementary Medicine Bill 2012 which requires all traditional medicine practitioners to register with the Council of Traditional and Complementary Medicine. Deputy Health Minister Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin, in winding up debate on the Bill, said the title of “doctor” ...

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A new study offers another reason for women's discontent in academic medical centers: the organizational culture. And it's not just women who are feeling demoralized.

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The Wilderness Medical Society to host the 21st Wilderness & Mountain Medicine Conference in Park City, Utah, February 15-20, 2013, at the Canyon Resort in Park City, Utah. This conference brings together altitude, avalanche, and mountain medicine experts from around the U.S. for a one-of-a-kind medical conference.

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At this conference, the WMS will continue the exciting new program in association with the University of Utah and the University of Colorado the Diploma in Mountain Medicine(DiMM). This program is designed to train participants in the essentials of mountain medicine and rescue in technical alpine environments. The International Diploma in Mountain Medicine has set the standard over the past 10 years in Europe and other parts of the world for education of doctors, nurses, and medics in mountain medicine and rescue.

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The origins of traditional medicine in Asia, Africa and the Americas can be traced back thousands of years. A successful history of traditional disease prevention and treatment has been viewed with skepticism by contemporary scientists. But such views seem to be changing.

The World Health Organization is meeting in Hong Kong as preparations continue to update a global strategy for traditional medicine first outlined in 2001.

One fifth of the worlds population is believed to rely on traditional healthcare. According to WHO figures, 119 countries have developed regulatory frameworks for traditional medicine - or TM.

Dr. Zhang Qi is coordinator of the Geneva-based agency's traditional and complementary medicine unit.

This shows we should recognize the existence and harness the potential of TM [traditional medicine] to contribute to healthcare. We also [need to] ensure the safety, quality and effectiveness of TM for the public," he said.

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I have been a physician for 35 years and a literary critic for 14. I have gradually come to understand that the care of the sick is an art form.

Beethoven, Rembrandt, and Henry James created art. Listening to the Razumovsky string quartets, looking at a Rembrandt self-portrait, or reading The Wings of the Dove are also creative acts that transport the listener, the viewer, or reader. One mobilizes ones capacity to perceive, to appreciate, to think about, and to be moved by the music, painting, or novel so as to understand itor, more simply and profoundly, to undergo it. These acts of creative perception summon the witness into complex actions and states of attention. They admit the witness into a state he or she did not inhabit before that act of perception. The dividends of such acts of aesthetic witnessing include some new comprehension of the work itself. The dividends also, inevitably, include the witnesses comprehending themselves in a new way.

For centuries, medicine has looked to philosophy, literature, history, and the visual arts for some sort of nourishment, although it has remained obscure to many exactly why these fields have something to contribute to clinical practice. I see now that the inclusion of the humanities and the arts within clinical training permits an essential development of the aesthetic capacity to behold and to be moved by the presence of another. What occurs in beholding the work of art, I believe, occurs in beholding another person, and certainly in beholding a patient under ones care.

In 1999, I completed a Ph.D. in English at Columbia, and wrote about Henry James under the supervision of professor Steven Marcus. By the time I started graduate school, I was already an associate professor of clinical medicine, seeing patients in the medicine clinic in Presbyterian Hospital uptown. What had driven me to the English department was the happy suspicion that learning how stories are built, how they work, and what to do with them would make me a better doctor. I think it has. As I brought my humanities studies into the medical school at Columbia, the phrase narrative medicine came to mind. I leapt happily to it, for it seemed a much better name for what was otherwise called humanities and medicine or, worse, medical humanities. The name seemed to me to propose that medicine is saturated to its core with narrativityin its teaching, its research, and its practice.

By 2002, I invited several University faculty members to join me in a National Endowment for the Humanities project to figure out why narrative training might benefit clinicians. Maura Spiegel from the English department, David Plante from creative writing, Sayantani DasGupta from pediatrics, Eric Marcus from the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Craig Irvine (a philosopher on staff in family medicine), and I taught one another about our own disciplines and passions to conceptualize why narrative theory, texts, and methods might enter into and improve clinical practice. We realized that literary and aesthetic study might let doctors see multiple perspectives, might equip them to represent and therefore perceive the complex events of illness, and might attune them to the beautiful, unusual, or awesome in their work. The curiosities developed by close reading and creative writing might dispose the doctor or medical student to attend closely to the situation of a patient in his or her care. We thought, perhaps, that doctors might be more ready to behold the mysteries present whenever a patient sits down in the clinical office to give an account of the self. We wanted to provide these doctors and students with the wherewithal to attend to, to perceive, to represent, and ultimately to make contact with the patients in therapeutic affiliation. The narrator in Wings of the Dove describes what the doctor, Sir Luke Strett, does on first meeting his dying patient Milly Theale: So crystal clear the great empty cup of attention that he set between them on the table. That was the attention we sought to develop for our doctors and nurses and social workers, the attention any sick person needs. Since then, the program has grown exponentially: narrative medicine training programs throughout the medical center, a Master of Science in narrative medicine degree program at Columbia, required courses at the medical school, international narrative medicine training workshops, outcomes research projects, and the International Network of Narrative Medicine to launch next spring.

When the clinician is equipped with narrative capacities to receive the accounts that patients give of themselves, the story is heard, the patient is beheld, the situations narrative world is entered. The participants join by virtue of this entry. The membranes between them become permeable. The doctor is moved by the situation of the patient, moved not just to feeling, but to action. And so narrative medicine begins.

The author is professor of clinical medicine and executive director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1978 and received a Ph.D in Columbias English department in 1999.

To respond to this professor column, or to submit an op-ed, contact opinion@columbiaspectator.com.

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The national nonprofit for people with the rare cancer has changed its page on complementary and alternative medicine to ensure reliability.

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"Many treatments once considered alternative are now found in large hospitals and cancer centers," says Siegel, a leiomyosarcoma survivor who lives in Tampa. Common ones include acupuncture, massage, reiki, healing touch, chiropractic, guided imagery, meditation, tai chi, qi gong, yoga, herbal medicine, dietary supplements, and art and music therapy.

Alternative medicine refers to treatments that are alternatives to Western medicine, also known as conventional, standard or mainstream medicine, she says. The same treatments may be called complementary or integrative if used in addition to standard medicine.

Calling alternative medicine medicine is kind," says Dr. George Demetri, director of the Center for Sarcoma and Bone Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. "We need to be careful about how we use language. Show me an alternative medicine that works and Ill show you a medicine that is no longer alternative.

"On the Sarcoma Alliance website, I deleted links to treatments that have not proven helpful," Siegel says. "If people want to get coffee enemas, for example, that's their business. But I'm not going to link to it. Instead, we direct patients to sites that can teach them about safety, research, clinical trials, how to talk to your oncologist, how to pick a CAM practitioner and how to avoid scams. They can search databases alphabetically to learn about particular treatments that interest them."

Kris Carr, author of Crazy Sexy Cancer, is a famous example of a sarcoma patient who has combined choices once considered alternative, such as a vegan diet, with conventional medicine. Carr, who has slow-growing epithelioid hemangioendothelioma, promotes healthy and joyful living, but never says that will cure cancer.

Kris can be misinterpreted, says Demetri, her oncologist. Saying a persons lifestyle causes sarcoma or encourages it to grow sort of falls into blame-the-victim thinking.

Im a huge fan of healthy behavior," he adds, but nobody knows if diet affects sarcoma. If it did, he says, the U.S. might have more cases, considering the way Americans eat. One would also expect to see some cross-cultural differences. Im much more concerned about exposures in the environment, such as radiation and chemicals.

The Alliance, based in Mill Valley, Calif., is a national nonprofit that provides education, guidance and support to people affected by sarcoma. The cancer arises in connective tissue, including muscle and bone. That means it can occur in any part of the body in any age, from newborns on up, Siegel says. There are more than 50 subtypes.

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The Detroit Wayne County Health Authority (Health Authority) and Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MSU) have been funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) to establish a teaching health center in Wayne County. Teaching Health Centers are central to the Affordable Care Act as a tool expand primary care in medically underserved areas and increase the supply of primary care health providers over time.

The teaching health center grant, which amounts to $21 million over three years, will involve post-graduate rotations through federally qualified health centers, free clinics, community mental health services, and other provider sites. HRSA has approved funding for 85 new primary care positions in internal medicine, family medicine, pediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics and gynecology, and geriatrics.

The DWCHA GME Consortium was created to establish an innovative community-based model for residency training that will enhance physicians skills and broaden their perspectives in the service of diverse, vulnerable populations. Further, in anticipation of the expansion of the Medicaid-eligible population in 2014, the DWCHA GME Consortium aims to increase the supply of health professionals working in medically underserved communities.

Were very pleased to establish this teaching health center in Detroit together with an outstanding, progressive-thinking medical school, said Chris Allen, CEO of the Health Authority. The first step toward alleviating the chronic provider shortage in medically-underserved areas is to train primary care physicians in this setting. We believe that many of these physicians will choose to locate here permanently following their residency.

This collaboration at this level is a win-win situation for MSU, the Health Authority, and the health care safety net, explained William D. Strampel, D.O, dean, Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. We are excited to work with the Health Authority to create new post-doctoral training opportunities generated as a result of HRSA funding. By establishing six new residency programs based in community health centers offering primary care to the medically underserved, the Health Authority will improve the quality of medical care in the communities it serves. For our medical school, we will be able to offer new ambulatory sites to train medical students and address the need for additional training programs. The Statewide Campus System will oversee curricular implementation, provide educational programs, and assume responsibility for meeting accreditation standards.

Our collective goal as a Consortium is to create an environment that produces primary care physicians that train and remain in medically underserved areas of greater Detroit.

Other members of the consortium include federally qualified health centers: Covenant Community Health Center; Detroit Community Health Connections; The Wellness Plan; Western Wayne Family Health Center, and Family Medical Center; as well as the Detroit Medical Center, Botsford Hospital and Garden City Hospital.

The Teaching Health Center initiative, announced in 2011, is a five-year federal program designed to increase the number of primary care medical and dental residents training in community-based settings. Residency funding comes through the Affordable Care Act.

This initiative has several anticipated benefits, explains John Sealey, D.O., who will coordinate the residency program. The direct involvement of the medical school will improve the quality of medical care provided to the underserved. This patient population provides a wealth of clinical pathology essential for the training of primary care physicians. It is anticipated that osteopathic physicians who receive their postdoctoral education in this educational setting will be more likely to remain in the community which will help address the shortage of healthcare providers in Detroit and Wayne County. It is also a reflection of the Land Grant commitment of Michigan State University to serve for the betterment of citizens in Michigan.

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