January 31, 2019
Bay Area Biochemist Sells ‘Gene-Editing Kit’ For The Masses
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Apple CEO Tim Cook starts his day at 3:45 a.m. Here’s why you shouldn’t miss the boat on this new trend. Original article by Marcel Schwantes, Principal and founder, Leadership From the Core A few days ago, I shared my thoughts on what billionaire entrepreneurs do to stay productive in their spare time. What I didn’t know is that there’s a recent productivity trend on the rise. A number of successful leaders and entrepreneurs, I have found, are declaring that
January 25, 2019
New Funding Available for Basic and Mechanistic Research on Pain and Complementary Approaches: Explore NIH HEAL Opportunities
Original blog can be found HERE Wen G. Chen, Ph.D., serves as Acting Branch Chief of NCCIH’s Basic and Mechanistic Research in Complementary and Integrative Health in the Division of Extramural Research. She joined NCCIH as a program director in March 2015. She oversees NCCIH’s portfolio on neurobiology and integrative physiology of mind and body programs and natural products; basic and clinical mechanistic studies of acupuncture, meditation, mindfulness, placebo effects, other types of mind and body interventions,
January 23, 2019
Can a Nice Doctor Make Treatments More Effective?
Connecting with patients doesn’t just make them think someone cares. It can make a difference for health outcomes. Original article by Lauren C. Howe and Kari Leibowitz from the New York Times In the age of the internet, it’s easier than ever to pull together lots of information to find the best doctor. And if you’re like most patients, the metric you probably rely on most is the doctor’s credentials. Where did she go to school? How many
January 21, 2019
Chinese scientist who gene-edited babies fired by university
Original article for Reuters on AOL SHENZHEN, China, Jan 21 (Reuters) – A Chinese scientist who created what he said were the world’s first “gene-edited” babies evaded oversight and broke ethical boundaries in a quest for fame and fortune, state media said on Monday, as his former university said he had been fired. He Jiankui said in November that he used a gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9 to alter the embryonic genes of twin girls
January 21, 2019
Draft Report on Pain Management Best Practices: Updates, Gaps, Inconsistencies, and Recommendations
Original article by the US Department of Health and Human Services The Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) of 2016 led to the creation of the Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force (Task Force), whose mission is to determine whether gaps in or inconsistencies between best practices for acute and chronic pain management exist and to propose updates and recommendations to those best practices. The Task Force consists of 29 experts who have significant
January 18, 2019
20,000 Satellites for 5G to be Launched Sending Focused Beams of Intense Microwave Radiation Over Entire Earth
Original article by John P. Thomas for Health Impact News Public attention about 5G has been focused on the plans of telecom companies to install millions of small cell towers on electric utility poles, on public buildings and schools, on bus stop shelters, in public parks, and anywhere they want in national parks and on federally owned land. In local urban communities there would be a cell tower approximately every 500 feet along every street. As bad
January 16, 2019
The Future of Medicine: Evolution or Revolution?
Original article from LIFE by By Michael Finkelstein, MD, Contributor. James Maskell, host of the Evolution of Medicine summit, took this thinking one step further, in our recent interview, postulating that the reason Western medicine is slow to incorporate more holistic models is that the medical structures needed for acute disease and chronic disease are “completely opposite.” Over the past century, conventional medicine has made extraordinary advances in fighting disease and extending life. Thanks to pharmaceutical and
January 16, 2019
USDA Makes GMOs Disappear
Original article by ANH-USA, Jan 10, 2019 It’s official: the “mandatory” GMO labeling rule will obscure more than it makes transparent. Action Alert! The USDA has released its final GMO labeling rule, and it’s not good. As we feared when the agency released its proposal earlier this year, the so-called GMO labeling law will apply only to a narrow set of foods. Congress and the USDA have offered a number of loopholes and exemptions to food companies, undermining
Original article seen 1/4/19 in the New York Times by Sheila Kaplan WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is accusing Juul and Altria of reneging on promises they made to the government to keep e-cigarettes away from minors. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the agency’s commissioner, is drafting letters to both companies that will criticize them for publicly pledging to remove nicotine flavor pods from store shelves, while secretly negotiating a financial partnership that seems to do