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We have pretty much been beat to death with the news that the ACCORD study was discontinued due to an increased incidence of heart disease in the tightly controlled glycemic group. For those of you who want to catch up on the ACCORD study, click here to to catch up on the details.

Dr. Jeff Poplarski demonstrates cold laser therapy which produces no heat, is painless, and claims to speed up the healing process.

Consultant oncologist David Levy explains the difference between benign and malignant brain tumors and the treatment options.

Headlines in the Sacramento Business Journal state “Study: Nurse staffing ratio hasn’t improved patient care”. The California Nursing Outcomes Coalition conducted the study to evaluate the quality of nursing since the advent of nurse patient ratio laws in California.

“The first study of the effect of nurse-to-patient ratios on care in California hospitals concludes hospitals have hired more registered nurses, but they’ve had little effect on two areas of care — patient falls and bed sores.”

According to the March 15 Journal of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, women who are overweight or obese have a lower breast cancer survival rate and the cancer appears to be more aggressive.

Prion diseases are responsible for many of our neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson’s and Alzheimers. Some process, as yet unidentified, causes the normal prions to fold over into an alternatively formed isoform that we call a PrPSC. It is this substance that is found in the brains of people who have died with a neurodegenerative disease. It is known that many of the neurodegenerative diseases are modified by the administration of drugs that inhibit cholesterol synthesis, so scientists set out to examine the effects of cholesterol balance within the neuronal cells themselves.

The next 10 to 15 years will produce major changes in the clinical laboratory regarding the use and application of molecular diagnostics. Today, molecular genetic testing promises to provide an entirely new means for individualizing and personalizing patient care at a level never imagined before. While currently utilization of molecular genetic tests is applied to 1 percent of the general population, it is estimated that molecular genetic testing in the era of personalized medicine will be applied to 60 percent of the general population. Molecular genetic testing is being touted as a new tool to provide clinicians with information needed to predict the risk of developing disease and therapeutic outcome before treatment.

There’s new hope for people with brain cancer. Cleveland Clinic is one of two medical centers in the country offering a new innovative approach.

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