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Leading Cancer Care Roselle Park NJ - Advanced Treatments

Cancer is a battle no one should face alone. Fortunately, residents of Roselle Park, NJ, have access to some of the most advanced cancer care available. This blog post will explore the cutting-edge treatments and compassionate care options available in Roselle Park. Whether you are a patient, a caregiver, or simply interested in learning more about cancer care advancements, this guide is for you.

The Importance of Advanced Cancer Care

Cancer treatment has evolved significantly over the years. From traditional chemotherapy to innovative immunotherapy, the landscape of cancer care is continually changing. Advanced cancer care in Roselle Park NJ offers patients access to the latest treatments and technologies, improving outcomes and quality of  life.

What is Advanced Cancer Care?

Advanced cancer care encompasses a range of treatments and services designed to provide comprehensive support to cancer patients. This includes state-of-the-art diagnostic tools, personalized treatment plans, and holistic support services. In Roselle Park, NJ, patients have access to some of the most advanced care options available.

Why Roselle Park NJ Stands Out?

Roselle Park, NJ, is home to medical facilities that are at the forefront of cancer treatment. These institutions employ top-tier oncologists and healthcare professionals dedicated to providing the best possible care. The community's commitment to excellence in cancer care makes it a standout location for those seeking treatment.

Benefits of Advanced Cancer Care

Advanced cancer care offers numerous benefits, including improved survival rates, reduced side effects, and enhanced quality of life. Patients can expect personalized treatment plans tailored to their specific needs, ensuring the best possible outcomes.

Cutting-Edge Treatment Options

Chemotherapy and Radiation

Traditional treatments like chemotherapy and radiation remain essential components of cancer care. These therapies have been refined over the years to become more effective and less invasive, helping patients combat cancer more efficiently.

Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy is a groundbreaking treatment that uses the body's immune system to fight cancer. By stimulating or enhancing the immune response, immunotherapy offers a targeted approach to eliminating cancer cells while minimizing damage to healthy tissue.

Targeted Therapy

Targeted therapy involves the use of drugs designed to attack specific cancer cells without harming normal cells. This treatment is particularly effective for cancers with known genetic mutations, allowing for more precise and effective intervention.

Clinical Trials

For patients seeking the latest treatments, clinical trials offer access to new therapies not yet widely available. Participating in a clinical trial can provide hope and potential benefits, especially for those who have exhausted standard treatment options.

Personalized Care Plans

One of the hallmarks of advanced cancer care is the development of personalized care plans. These plans are tailored to each patient's unique needs, taking into account factors such as cancer type, stage, and overall health.

Comprehensive Diagnostics

Accurate diagnosis is the first step in developing an effective treatment plan. Advanced cancer care facilities in Roselle Park, NJ, utilize cutting-edge diagnostic tools to identify the specifics of each patient's condition, ensuring the most appropriate treatment options are selected.

Multidisciplinary Approach

A multidisciplinary approach to cancer care involves a team of specialists working together to create a cohesive treatment plan. This collaboration ensures that all aspects of the patient's care are considered, from medical treatment to emotional and psychological support.

Ongoing Monitoring and Support

Advanced cancer care doesn't end with treatment. Continuous monitoring and support are essential to ensure patients remain healthy and detect any recurrence early. Regular follow-ups and check-ins help manage side effects and provide ongoing care.

Holistic Support Services

Cancer care extends beyond medical treatments. Holistic support services play a crucial role in helping patients and their families cope with the physical and emotional challenges of cancer.

Counseling and Psychological Support

Dealing with cancer can be overwhelming. Access to counseling and psychological support services helps patients and their families manage stress, anxiety, and depression. These services are an integral part of comprehensive cancer care Roselle Park.

Nutritional Guidance

Proper nutrition is vital for cancer patients. Nutritional guidance from dietitians ensures patients receive the nutrients they need to support their treatment and recovery. Personalized meal plans can help manage side effects and improve overall well-being.

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

Physical therapy and rehabilitation services help patients regain strength and mobility after treatment. These services are tailored to each patient's needs, promoting recovery and enhancing quality of life.

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Palantir and Microsoft partner to provide AI services to government

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Palantir and Microsoft partner to provide AI services to government

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Palantir, a data analytics company known for its work in the defence and intelligence sectors, has announced a significant partnership with Microsoft. The collaboration aims to deliver advanced services for classified networks utilised by US defence and intelligence agencies.

According to the recent announcement, Palantir is integrating Microsoft’s cutting-edge large language models via the Azure OpenAI Service into its AI platforms. The integration will occur within Microsoft’s government and classified cloud environments. As this collaboration is the first of its kind, this specific configuration has the potential to completely transform the use of AI in critical national security missions.

Palantir, whose name draws inspiration from the potentially misleading “seeing-stones” in J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional works, specialises in processing and analysing vast quantities of data to assist governments and corporations with surveillance and decision-making tasks. While the precise nature of the services to be offered through this partnership remains somewhat ambiguous, it is clear that Palantir’s products will be integrated into Microsoft’s Azure cloud services. This development follows Azure’s previous incorporation of OpenAI’s GPT-4 technology into a “top secret” version of its software.

The company’s journey is notable. Co-founded by Peter Thiel and initially funded by In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, Palantir has grown to serve a diverse clientele. Its roster includes government agencies such as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and various police departments, as well as private sector giants like the pharmaceutical company Sanofi. Palantir has also become deeply involved in supporting Ukraine’s war efforts, with reports suggesting its software may be utilised in targeting decisions for military operations.

Even though Palantir has operated with a large customer base for years, it only reached its first annual profit in 2023. However, with the current surge of interest in AI, the company has been able to grow rapidly, particularly in the commercial sector. According to Bloomberg, Palantir’s CEO, Alex Karp, warned that Palantir’s “commercial business is exploding in a way we don’t know how to handle.”

Despite the urgency of this mission, the company’s annual filing clearly states that it neither does business with nor on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, nor does it plan to do so. This indicates that Palantir is especially careful in developing its customer base, considering the geopolitical implications of its work.

The announcement of this partnership has been well-received by investors, with Palantir’s share price surging more than 75 per cent in 2024 as of the time of writing. This dramatic increase reflects the market’s optimism about the potential of AI in national security applications and Palantir’s position at the forefront of this field.

Still, the partnership between Palantir and Microsoft raises significant questions about the role of AI in national security and surveillance. This is no surprise, as these are particularly sensitive areas, and the development of new technologies could potentially transform the sector forever.

More discussions and investigations are needed to understand the ethical implications of implementing these innovative tools. All things considered, the Palantir and Microsoft partnership is a significant event that will likely shape the future use of AI technologies and cloud computing in areas such as intelligence and defence.

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See also: Paige and Microsoft unveil next-gen AI models for cancer diagnosis

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Arthritis & the COVID vaccine: What you need to know

22/01/2022

Some arthritis drugs may reduce the effectiveness of COVID vaccines, according to the Arthritis Foundation, which also offers advice on booster shots.

Research is limited, but evidence suggests that disease-modifying drugs used for arthritis may reduce the response of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, according to the foundation.

A small study of 133 fully vaccinated people taking immunosuppressive medications found that their antibody levels and ability to neutralize the virus were three times lower than in people not taking these medications.

However, "most patients in the study were able to mount antibody responses in response to SARS-CoV-2 vaccination, which is reassuring," study co-author Dr. Alfred Kim, an assistant professor of rheumatology at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, told Reuters.

The study was published on the preprint server MedRxiv, and has not been peer-reviewed.

No research on the one shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine in people taking immunosuppressive medications has been reported, according to the Arthritis Foundation.

"Not all medications that our patients take have been shown to have significant effects on responses to vaccination," said Dr. David Karp, president of the American College of Rheumatology, who suggested patients ask their health care provider if they are likely to see benefits from additional vaccination.

"Luckily, we have not seen any safety signals in patients with autoimmune and rheumatic diseases from the COVID-19 vaccines, so there should be no concern for the third dose," he said.

Karp added that it's still unclear how much protection a third or fourth booster provides to immunocompromised patients, such as those with cancer, organ transplants and those taking immunosuppressive medications.

So, even if these patients do receive additional COVID vaccine doses, they should continue to take precautions such as physical distancing and wearing masks, Karp advised.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises immunocompromised patients who received an mRNA vaccine to seek third doses at least four weeks after their second shot. If possible, the booster should match their previous shots.

In other words, those who received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine should stick to that for their third shot. Those who initially received the Moderna vaccine should get a Moderna booster.

Immunocompromised patients who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine should receive a second shot at least two months after their first dose. They can get a second J&J shot or an mRNA vaccine, the CDC says.

The Arthritis Foundation noted that there is some evidence that an mRNA booster may improve immunity in those who first received the J&J vaccine.

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Elise Cooper Interviews Karin Slaughter

False Witness by Karin Slaughter shows why she is one of the best for writing fabulous characters. This story has two sisters’ childhoods tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal, and ultimately destroyed by a brutal act of violence as well as one of the sister’s tragedy of addiction. She was portrayed with empathy and grace by the author. This story is brutal, honest, real, and heartbreaking at times involving issues of rape, drug use, murder, and abusive violence.  

Kudos to Slaughter for balancing the strong relationship between the sisters. Readers will grow attached to the sisters Leigh, Callie and Leigh’s husband, Walter, as he becomes involved to help them. Each of the sisters have taken a different route through life. Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life after being sexually harassed as a child babysitter. She’s an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, who would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, while managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter. The other sister, Callie, is a drug addict, but sympathetically humanized. She was a child gymnast and cheerleader, who after suffering a broken neck, had constant back pain. Her childhood experience involved being groomed and regularly sexually assaulted by a violent pedophile while babysitting his 10-year-old son, and turning her into a heroin addict.

As Leigh is asked by her boss to defend a serial rapist, she is confronted with her past. When she meets the accused face-to-face, Andrew, she realizes that it’s no coincidence that he’s specifically asked for her to represent him. They know each other. Leigh wonders how much he knows about what happened over twenty years ago. The only person who can help her is Callie, the younger, estranged sister. With the life-shattering truth in danger of being revealed, she has no choice to involve Callie. The shocking twist at the end of the book will keep readers engrossed.

This complex plot has as its central theme, the heart of the relationship between Callie and Leigh. Both these heroines are believable, flawed, and courageous.  The highly intense themes, along with the horrible graphic actions of the evil doers, makes for a riveting read.

Elise Cooper: Why write about the pandemic?

Karin Slaughter:  I started with a character, Leigh Collier, who I thought about three years ago.  I knew I was going to write a story during the pandemic.  When the book was finished the vaccines came, so I knew I wanted to incorporate the virus into the story.  It was fun and challenging for me as an author.  I tried to make Covid exist, but not as an intricate part of the story.  I made sure not to politicize it.  

EC:  There is a difference between the two sisters?

KS:  Some have the luxury to keep themselves as safe as possible and some do not.  To highlight this, I used the two sisters, Callie and Leigh.  Callie always had to work.  Because of her addiction she had to be on the streets.  Having a disability made her vulnerable.  

EC:  Why the addiction angle?

KS:  I wanted to humanize someone struggling with addiction.  She had an emotional, mental, and physical addiction.  Hopefully, I showed how we are really failing in how to handle addicts and help them.  Callie figured out a way to help herself through maintenance doses.  If only addicts could get levels that could help them function in society and eventually wean themselves off of the drugs.  Instead of punishing the people into the ground we should look at ways people could get help.  

EC:  Drug addicts?

KS:  The personality of the person must be considered.  If someone is actually a good person who is controlled by addiction, they are still decent.  If someone is a horrible jerk, addiction will definitely amplify it.  We spend trillions of dollars on the war on drugs, which has failed miserably.  Imagine if we spent that money on helping low-income students get better Internet, classrooms, schoolbooks, nutritional meals, and safe schools.  This would be more useful.

EC:  How would you describe Leigh?

KS:  She experienced a horrific trauma with her sister when they both were younger.  She is now a successful lawyer.  But Leigh is a control freak, compartmentalizes people, never likes to feel powerless, and is a survivor. She presents a front to hide her guilt and deep vulnerability.  

EC:  How would you describe the bad guy, Andrew?

KS:  My grandmother used to say, ‘if someone wants to be bad, they will find any excuse to be bad.’ He is definitely an illustration of that.  Andrew is someone looking for a reason to justify the bad things he wants to do.  He thinks he should be able to do whatever he wants in life because he is entitled to do it.  He is cruel and likes to terrorize people.  When I wrote that fish scene with him, I laid a foundation for his personality.  

EC:  Speaking of fish, there is some humor?

KS:  I love puns and love to be silly.  It was delightful time for me to make up all that stuff, such as “Anne Chovey, Genghis Karp, Mr. Dar-Sea, and James Pond.”  I spent far more time than I care to admit on this.

EC:  There is a quote about prosecutors and judges caring more about optics than justice.  Please explain

KS:  Many prosecutors only take cases they think they can win.  They plead out everything else.  Many overcharge to get someone to plead out to a lesser charge.  As voters we need to look at how the justice system runs.  For example, women in prison are limited to the number of tampons and pads they can have.

EC:  There is also a quote about losing someone.  Please explain.

KS:  You are referring to this one, “Your relationship with a person doesn’t end when they die.  It only gets stronger.”  Someone told me that after I lost my 9th grade teacher who I consider my mentor.  She died about five years ago from cancer.  I had all these memories of her.  I remember our relationship and how important she was to me.  The choices I make in the present are based on what she told me in the past.

EC:  Your next book?

KS:  It will have a murder and be out this time next year.  A couple of characters from a previous stand alone will be back.

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#TechStandsWithPP: A message from Tumblr’s CEO and Planned Parenthood’s president

When Planned Parenthood was founded a century ago, it was illegal to even hand out information about birth control. Thanks to generations of brave women and men who formed secret societies, challenged unjust laws, and started Planned Parenthood health centers in their own towns, we’ve come a long way since. Millions of people, regardless of income or insurance coverage, now have access to birth control, cancer screenings, and STI testing and treatment. Each year, Planned Parenthood proudly provides health information to nearly 70 million people online and 1 million people in classrooms and communities across the country. Today, America is at a 30-year low in unintended pregnancy and a historic low in teen pregnancy.

But all of that progress is a reminder of how much women and men in America now stand to lose. Extreme politicians at every level of government are doing everything they can to block millions of people from coming to Planned Parenthood, deny access to affordable health care, and roll back women’s rights over their own bodies. We are facing a national health disaster, especially in our most vulnerable communities.

That’s why we’re calling on the tech industry to join Tumblr in standing with Planned Parenthood and standing up for access to health care.

A 100-year-old health care provider and the platform powering 335 million blogs may seem like an unlikely pair. But over the last few years, Tumblr and Planned Parenthood have teamed up to provide information and organize communities in support of reproductive rights. We’re proud of all we’ve accomplished together and with overwhelming support from the Tumblr community.

Technology has become instrumental in the fight for fairness and equality across a range of issues. It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are. Finally, the tech industry owes its success to the brilliant people it employs and the communities it serves — and we cannot take their health for granted.

It won’t be easy, but doing nothing isn’t an option when lives are at stake. We need to work together to break down barriers to care and information for the millions of people desperate to take ownership of their sexual and reproductive health, and tackle disparities in health care access and outcomes.

Now is the time to be vocal, visible, and active in your support of Planned Parenthood — starting with the #TechStandsWithPP hashtag to share stories about how Planned Parenthood has touched your life, or the life of anyone you know. Call on your co-workers and peers to do the same.

In health care, education, and nearly every industry, we’re doing things that would have been unthinkable a century ago. Think of all we can achieve together in the decades to come if we combine the creativity, innovation, and energy of the tech community with Planned Parenthood’s commitment to helping people everywhere — no matter what.

— David Karp + Cecile Richards

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Healthy Child Healthy World - Christopher Gavigan

Healthy Child Healthy World Creating a Cleaner, Greener, Safer Home Christopher Gavigan Genre: Parenting Price: $10.99 Publish Date: April 17, 2008 Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Seller: PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC. Learn how to create a cleaner, greener, safer home with Christopher Gavigan and the trusted experts at Healthy Child Healthy World. Healthy Child Healthy World is the essential guide for parents! All parents want a happy and healthy child in a safe home, but where do they start? It starts with the small steps to creating a healthier, less toxic, and more environmentally sound home, and this is the definitive book to get you there. Unfortunately, tens of millions of Americans, overwhelmingly children, now face chronic disease and illnesses including cancer, autism, asthma, allergies, birth defects, ADD/ADHD, obesity/diabetes, and learning and developmental disabilities. The number gets higher each year and more parents ask WHY? Scientific evidence increasingly finds chemicals in everyday products like cleaning supplies, beauty care and cosmetics, home furnishings, plastics, food, and even toys that are contributors to these ailments. The good news is that you can something to protect your children with a few simple changes! Inside, you'll find practical, inexpensive, and easy lifestyle advice for every stage of parenting including: *Advice on preparing a nontoxic nursery for a new baby *What every expectant mom needs to do to have a safer pregnancy *Clarifying which plastics and baby products to avoid and the healthier solutions *Tips to take to the grocery store, including the most and least pesticide-laden fruits and vegetables and the best healthy kid-approved snacks *Which beauty care / cosmetic products pose the biggest risk to health *The best recipes for healthy snacks, low-cost and safe homemade cleaners, and non-toxic art supplies *How to easily minimize allergens, dust, and lead *A greener garden, yard, and outdoor spaces *Tips to keep your pets healthy, and the unwanted pests out naturally *Renovation ideas, naturally fresher indoor air, and safer sleeping options, *An 27 page extensive shopper's guide to most trusted and best products every home needs Inside is also packed with over 40 featured contributions from renowned doctors, environmental scientists, and public-health experts like Dr. Harvey Karp, Dr Philip Landrigan, and William McDonough, as well as many celebrity parents like Gwyneth Paltrow, Tobey Maguire, Sheryl Crow, Erin Brockovich and Tom Hanks. A special featured contribution from First Lady Michelle Obama on her best ways of coping with her daughter's asthma. http://bit.ly/2Lh9szZ

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Where you die can affect your chance of being an organ donor

If Roland Henry had died in a different part of the country, his organs might have been recovered. And lives could have been saved.

But the local organ collection agency said no. It gave no reason, no explanation to his family, though the Connecticut man appeared to be a well-qualified donor despite advancing age: He died in a hospital, on a ventilator, previously healthy until a car crash that led to a stroke.

“It was devastating to be told there was nothing they considered worthy of donation. Nada. Not a kidney, not a liver, not tissue,” recalled Henry’s daughter, Donna Cryer, president of the nonprofit Global Liver Institute and herself a recipient of a liver transplant.

Henry’s case illustrates troubling uncertainty in a transplant system run by government contractors that are under fire for letting potentially usable organs go to waste.

The Associated Press took a close look at that system and calculated that some of those agencies are securing deceased donors at half the rate of others — even as 113,000 people linger on the nation’s transplant waiting list, and about 20 die each day.

“What we have is broken. We know it is costing people’s lives,” said Dr. Seth Karp, Vanderbilt University’s transplant chief.

Under U.S. transplant rules, the country is divided into 58 zones, each assigned an “organ procurement organization” in charge of donation at death. Those OPOs are matchmakers with a tough job: get donation consent , collect organs quickly and get them to the right transplant center before they deteriorate, even if a hospital calls with a possible donor at 3 a.m.

How well are they doing? It’s almost impossible to tell. OPOs self-report to the government a subjective measure, one even they call flawed. That standard offers little way to directly compare OPOs and learn which could do better, or to hold poor performers accountable for missed opportunities.

“Nobody comes behind them and says, ‘You actually could have recovered 20 to 30% more and you didn’t,'” said Kevin Longino, a kidney transplant recipient who heads the National Kidney Foundation.

That may be about to change. The Trump administration is planning a major overhaul , stricter standards to make it easier to compare OPOs and push them to improve. One measure under consideration: Using federal death records to determine the entire pool of potential donors each OPO can draw from.

A study published this summer in the American Journal of Transplantation called that approach more fair and verifiable than today’s standard. The AP modeled its own analysis of OPO performance on that research, and found that in 2017, even comparing regions with similar pools of acceptable donors, disparities were large. Philadelphia outperformed New York City, for example. The OPO serving parts of Kentucky lagged nearby Missouri.

More important, the analysis shows the biggest impact would be in places with large populations of potential donors. For example, OneLegacy in Los Angeles recovered 487 donors in 2017, second only to Philadelphia’s Gift of Life. However, the Los Angeles OPO also had the highest number of potential donors. If OneLegacy had matched Gift of LIfe’s higher donor rate, the AP calculated it would have secured 866 donors, instead.

OneLegacy CEO Tom Mone cautions that measure overestimates potential donors, including people who are disqualified after scrutinizing their medical records.

It also counts less-than-perfect donors — older donors, or those with certain medical conditions — that can be hard for OPOs to handle, Mone added. Those organs can be life-saving for the right patient but too often transplant centers won’t take the chance, a disincentive for OPOs to collect them.

Still, with the organ shortage so severe that transplant centers are fighting over scarce livers in court, a growing number of OPOs say the death record-based standard will spur more aggressive pursuit of donors.

“It’s a denominator that can’t be manipulated,” said Ginny McBride, executive director of OurLegacy in east-central Florida. She was one of 17 OPO leaders who recently wrote Medicare, which regulates the nonprofits and reimburses costs of organ acquisition, to push the change.

“It might tell us, ‘Hey, we need to kick it up a notch.’ And it might tell the government who they should and shouldn’t be certifying” to collect organs, she added.

WHO CAN DONATE?

Only about 2 percent of Americans die in circumstances that allow for donation. Die before reaching a hospital, and organs can’t be preserved. Illnesses such as cancer or infections also can rule out donation.

While young donors tend to be healthier, there’s no upper age limit: Studies show healthy organs from seniors like Henry, who was 78, and even octogenarians still can work well, especially if given to an older recipient.

Last year, out of about 2.8 million deaths, there were 10,721 deceased donors. Their organs led to 29,680 transplants.

But a 2017 study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers examined deaths, donations and health records and calculated that a better-functioning system could produce up to 28,000 more donated organs a year.

Objectively evaluating OPOs is one key to that goal but even if the estimate is too high, “every single donation we recover is another life saved and makes it worth it,” said Greg Segal of the transplant advocacy group Organize, whose father waited five years for a heart transplant.

SPURRING CHANGE

The recent spike in drug overdose deaths has increased donors. Some OPOs are aggressively looking for additional boosts.

LifeCenter Northwest — which serves Washington state, Alaska, Montana and northern Idaho — has doubled the number of organs transplanted from area donors to 878 last year, up from 440 in 2009, before CEO Kevin O’Connor arrived.

It focuses on organs often considered too difficult to recover — not those taken from brain-dead donors, which are most common, but from people who die when their heart stops beating. O’Connor staged “mock donations” to train donor hospitals and his own employees to handle those complex cases. Nationally, they make up about 19% of donations; at LifeCenter, they’re 29%.

At LifeGift in Houston, where donors are up about 40 percent since 2013, CEO Kevin Myer has hired dozens of new employees to reach far-flung hospitals faster. Increasing donation “comes down to how good your staff are and how many people you have to get to the hospitals and take care of people who are losing somebody,” Myer said.

And in Hawaii, where lung transplants aren’t offered so donor lungs often go unrecovered, Legacy of Life is testing a new incubator to preserve the organs for shipping long distances. The first pair was successfully transplanted in North Carolina more than 20 hours after donation.

HOW TO MEASURE SUCCESS

Today, OPOs report to Medicare how many deaths they classify “eligible” for donation, the baseline. That’s supposed to include hospital referrals of brain-dead patients 75 and younger without disqualifying diseases. Comparing that denominator with the OPO’s actual donors measures its success.

“I’m always stunned at the variability” in how many eligible deaths OPOs of similar sizes report, said Diane Brockmeier, director of Mid-America Transplant Services in St. Louis, who supports the death record-based standard.

But different OPOs can define eligibility differently. There are disincentives to pursuing every organ.

And sometimes there are breakdowns. Dr. Dorry Segev, a Johns Hopkins University transplant surgeon, described “a very depressing and disappointing case” where several patients were promised a young donor’s organs only to have the offers rescinded a few hours later. The OPO, in another state, couldn’t find a local surgeon to recover the organs — and didn’t give the recipients’ surgeons a chance to fly in and do it themselves.

Then there’s the role of transplant centers, which are graded on how well their patients recover after surgery without taking into account how many die on the waiting list. When local transplant centers refuse less-than-perfect organs, OPOs can be reluctant to collect them because they may not find a recipient elsewhere.

“The metrics are driving the wrong behaviors,” said the kidney foundation’s Longino, who says transplant centers must be held accountable, too. “If 60-year-olds are not being given a 60-year-old kidney that’s in good working order, not being given that choice, that’s a problem. And they’re not.”

A recent study suggests U.S. transplant centers are too picky. Surgeons in France regularly implant lower-quality kidneys from older donors than their American counterparts, with success. Medicare recently took a small step to counter transplant center reluctance.

On the donation side, many OPOs and patient groups see value in reform that bases OPO success on the largest possible pool of donors, an easy-to-track number.

But some OPO leaders are lobbying for a different measure, one whittled down to just people on ventilators. Some Midwestern OPOs are testing that approach.

“We are troubled by some of these broad-based, easy-to-calculate numbers not portraying a picture of what potential donation might be,” said Susan Gunderson, CEO of LifeSource Upper Midwest OPO in Minneapolis.

PATIENTS LANGUISH ON THE WAITING LIST

More donors can’t come quickly enough for waiting patients, especially those caught in a legal battle over how to distribute scarce livers. For nine days earlier this year, a new national policy meant hospitals that once got first dibs for livers donated nearby instead saw the organs shipped to sicker patients up to 500 miles away, with pediatric donations earmarked for sick children. Then a federal judge put the new rules on hold .

In Pennsylvania, toddler Evelyn Yargar got a new liver during that window, from a teen who died several states away. A few days later and the organ might have gone to an adult instead. And because University of Pittsburgh surgeons knew 14-month-old Evelyn needed just a small piece of that liver, which can grow into a fully functioning organ, an adult in still another state got the rest.

“I just don’t understand why a child can’t have a part of any donor’s liver,” said Evelyn’s mother, Bobbi Yargar of Charleroi, Pennsylvania.

However the court fight turns out, only a bigger supply will ease struggles over organ distribution. And if Medicare changes performance standards, that won’t make OPOs collect more organs overnight.

“I don’t think there’s another 30,000 organs out there lying around to get transplanted,” cautioned Brockmeier, the Mid-America chief. Still, she knows her own OPO could improve, and she called on others to “stop battling over what the metric is and decide what we’re going to do to maximize donation.”

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AP’s analysis used a mortality database from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to calculate deaths involving hospital in-patients under 75 from causes consistent with donation for every OPO except Puerto Rico’s. Dividing the actual number of donors by those counts yields a comparable success rate.

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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

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Find Supportive Cancer Care Communities in Elizabeth

Cancer is a battle no one should face alone. For the residents of Elizabeth, there are numerous supportive communities and resources dedicated to making this tough journey more manageable. This blog post will guide cancer patients and caregivers through the supportive cancer care Elizabeth.

We’ll cover essential aspects of cancer treatment and care, providing valuable insights, practical tips, and relevant examples to help you find the support you need.

Understanding Cancer Treatment in Elizabeth

A Comprehensive Approach to Cancer Care

Cancer treatment in Elizabeth involves a multidisciplinary approach. This means that oncologists, surgeons, radiologists, and other specialists work together to provide the best possible care. The goal is to treat the cancer effectively while maintaining the highest quality of life for patients.

Advanced Technologies and Treatments

Elizabeth boasts several state-of-the-art medical facilities that offer advanced cancer treatments. These include targeted therapies, immunotherapies, and precision medicine tailored to the specific type and stage of cancer. Such treatments increase the effectiveness of cancer care while minimizing side effects.

Personalized Patient Care

Personalized care is at the heart of cancer treatment in Elizabeth. Each patient receives a treatment plan tailored to their unique needs, preferences, and medical history. This approach ensures that patients receive the most effective and least invasive treatment options available.

The Importance of Supportive Cancer Care

Emotional and Psychological Support

Cancer takes a toll not only on the body but also on the mind. Emotional and psychological support is crucial for cancer patients and caregivers. In Elizabeth, various organizations provide counseling, support groups, and therapy sessions to help patients and their families cope with the emotional challenges of cancer treatment.

Financial Assistance and Resources

Cancer treatment can be financially draining. Fortunately, Elizabeth offers multiple resources to help alleviate the financial burden. Nonprofits, government programs, and community organizations provide financial assistance, helping patients afford necessary treatments and medications.

Nutritional and Lifestyle Guidance

Proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle play a significant role in cancer care. Elizabeth’s cancer care communities offer nutritional counseling and lifestyle guidance to help patients maintain their strength and improve their overall well-being during treatment.

Finding Local Support Groups and Communities

Cancer Support Groups

Support groups provide a safe space for cancer patients and caregivers to share their experiences, fears, and hopes. Elizabeth has numerous support groups that meet regularly, both in-person and online, offering a sense of community and understanding.

Volunteer Organizations

Volunteer organizations in Elizabeth play a crucial role in providing support to cancer patients. These organizations offer services such as transportation to medical appointments, home care assistance, and companionship. Volunteers are often cancer survivors themselves, providing invaluable empathy and support.

Online Communities

In today’s digital age, online communities have become a vital source of support. Elizabeth’s cancer care organizations often have active online forums and social media groups where patients and caregivers can connect, share information, and offer mutual support.

Practical Tips for Navigating Cancer Care

Communicating with Your Healthcare Team

Every cancer patient's struggle is unique—defined by different stages, types, and personal circumstances. Personalization in treatment is hence crucial. In Elizabeth, specialized cancer care Elizabeth institutions harness the power of precision medicine to tailor treatments that align perfectly with the individual needs of patients.

Managing Side Effects

Cancer treatment often comes with side effects. Knowing how to manage these side effects can improve your quality of life. Elizabeth’s cancer care centers provide resources and guidance on managing common side effects such as fatigue, nausea, and pain.

Staying Active and Engaged

Staying physically active and mentally engaged can positively impact your well-being during cancer treatment. Elizabeth offers various programs, such as gentle exercise classes, art therapy, and meditation sessions, designed specifically for cancer patients.

The Role of Caregivers in Cancer Care

Providing Emotional Support

Caregivers play a critical role in providing emotional support to cancer patients. Listening, offering reassurance, and simply being present can make a significant difference in a patient’s emotional well-being.

Assisting with Daily Activities

Cancer treatment can make everyday tasks challenging. Caregivers often assist with daily activities such as cooking, cleaning, and transportation. In Elizabeth, there are resources available to support caregivers in these roles, ensuring they also take care of their own health and well-being.

Advocating for the Patient

Caregivers often act as advocates for the patient, ensuring they receive the best possible care. This includes attending medical appointments, understanding treatment options, and communicating with healthcare providers on behalf of the patient.

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When a mental illness suddenly appears in a partnership, it can shake the foundation of a marriage. While dealing with the erratic behavior of a spouse in mania or depression is difficult, through counseling, love and acceptance of the illness, partners can grow even stronger as a couple.



Mood changes

It’s stressful for a spouse to deal with the confusion of ever-changing moods from their partner that has bipolar. It helps for this spouse to view their continued support as an investment in something worthwhile.

Confusion and chaos

When symptoms of bipolar first begin to surface, most spouses aren’t sure what to think—they’re very confused. Amid the chaos of behaviors they fear they’ll never see the person they’d fallen in love with again.

When sympathy isn’t enough

When a spouse is first diagnosed, the initial response from their partner is usually sympathy––until anger, frustration and even hate arise down the road, according to sociology professor and author David A. Karp, Ph.D. Karp remarks that “caring for someone who has a mental illness can be more draining than caring for someone with cancer.” When a spouse with bipolar denies their diagnosis, it can cause even more frustration and anger, and make the well partner feel like ‘the enemy’ for even breaching the topic.

Reach acceptance

If a spouse can move through these times, he or she will reach a place of acceptance, says Karp. “Those difficult emotions will then be replaced with softer feelings of love and compassion.” Just because life with your spouse looks different from the one you originally imagined, it doesn’t mean you can’t still have a loving, fulfilled life.

Redefine spousal expectations

Acceptance also means redrawing the picture of what your life as a couple looks like. For some, that may mean having to rely on only one income, going without certain luxuries, or even choosing not to start a family. For others, it may mean that many of the responsibilities of daily life fall on the well partner.

Share responsibility

Couples who have the most success share the belief that the partner with bipolar and the partner without bipolar each share an equal amount of responsibility within their relationship. Bipolar is biologically based, and can be properly managed if an individual shoulders the responsibility to help themselves––unless they are extremely manic or depressed, in which cases they are temporarily unable to.

Prepare ahead

In periods of wellness, successful couples prepare for episodes that lie ahead. That may mean realigning chequing accounts or giving power of attorney as a means of limiting control to the ill spouse during manic episodes. Some couples will have a list of symptoms the bipolar spouse exhibits when on the brink of a manic or depressive episode and agree at what point to seek help, thus removing the emotions from such a decision.

Carry the burden

Following a diagnosis many spouses are left with most of the responsibilities of their life together—from caring for the children to working to pay the bills to caring for their ill partner. It’s a heavy burden for many.

Draw boundary lines

Many spouses struggle with how to help the person they love without becoming engulfed in the spouse’s misery or mania. They may even feel their own identifies are being buried, and they are losing themselves or jeopardizing their own health. Spouses must learn to draw a boundary line, or risk losing themselves, Dr. Karp says.

Mutual wellness

Many couples attribute their successful marriages to a commitment to mutual and personal wellness. This could mean daily exercise, eating well, good sleep habits or focusing on the wonderful things shared by both. If both partners wholeheartedly want their relationships to work, they will find ways to make it work.

Move forward

Dr. David A. Karp argues that sometimes the well spouse has to withdraw. It may sound harsh, but it’s for the sake of their health. He says spouses must learn to take care of themselves before they can take care of others. It’s important for the well spouse to fulfill their own goals, and continue to move forward, even when their partner is struggling.

Learn more:

9 Life Lessons We Can Learn From People With Bipolar Disorder

The Best Things You Can Do For A Friend With Bipolar Disorder 

4 Caregiver Tips When Dealing With Bipolar Disorder

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Hannah July 14, 2019 at 9:00 pm

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I am looking for support for my marriage and my husband. He was diagnosed after a breakdown and stay in the hospital. He has used drugs before we were married and a blamed the drugs assuming he had started using again but when he tested clean I felt shame for even assuming that. I want to help him but still help myself (I have mdd and very high anxiety and numerous other health issues) and keep our marriage strong.

J June 7, 2019 at 3:54 pm

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My wife of 25+ years was recently diagnosed with BP 2, which isn’t as severe but can be more insidious. She was diagnosed with depression 20 years ago and has been on anti-depressants since. A few months ago, she announced she was looking for jobs in different cities to get away from her mother who had abused her as a child and to continue working in her field. I supported the move because she had been so miserable and thought I would join her (or she would return) within a year. I found out afterwards she was actually having an affair with a man she knew from high school and had moved to be with him. This was shockingly out of character for her and when confronted, she chose to return home immediately and seek treatment. I love her deeply, but I’m having trouble understanding how much of her behavior was a result of the disease and how much was genuine feelings for the other man.

Discouraged January 14, 2019 at 10:19 am

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I’m struggling because I am the one with Bp II. My husband is getting very discouraged. He feels alone. I have a hard time not taking that personally. The illness is changing our marriage. I feel like I’m the one ruining it. I am gettin treatment but finding the right medicine is exhausting. I either have horrible side effects or it doesn’t work.

How do I help my husband when I can barely function myself? I constantly worry he’s just going to give up on me. He’s so down. He’s not a crier but he’s been crying often. I just hold him but I lose it too because I’m the cause of his pain. My “up” results in so much irritability and unwarranted nitpicking. I know I have a choice. I apologize when I recognize it but I know it’s not enough for someone living with someone like me.

Does anyone have any advice? I’ve only been diagnosed for around 6 months. We’ve been married for 3 years with a 1.5 year old daughter.

Maria February 14, 2019 at 11:45 pm

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The best thing is to continue to work and managing the illness. Don’t stop your meds and therapy helps. For your husband, be supportive and encourage him to seek counseling, a support group and self-care. Have him involved in your therapy to work through together so he can identify triggers and know what he can do to help. You may want to check out the book “Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder” by Julie Fast. It’s a great starting point to understanding the illness along with tips on how to navigate as a couple.

Joanne March 31, 2019 at 9:29 am

Hi Maria, just read your post of when you were diagnosed. About your spouses struggling with your bipolar disorder. I was diagnosed 10 years ago. Marital struggles aren’t an easy subject. I think we are just getting used to the issues. My husband does spend a lot of time away from home, but he probably needs too.im sorry I can’t give you specific solution to the problem. Just that you are not alone in this. And apparently I’m not either. There are always situations that creep up that I didn’t expect to. But the “me time” that I have is definitely a start. Joanne

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Antioxidantes – os efeitos dos suplementos no cancro

Os doentes oncológicos devem obter todos os nutrientes a partir dos alimentos, desaconselhando-se o uso de suplementos alimentares. Esta é uma recomendação unânime de instituições de renome como a American Cancer Society, a World Cancer Research Fund e o American Institute for Cancer Research. Contudo, é muito comum os doentes com cancro recorrerem a este tipo de produtos. Os mais populares são os suplementos à base de antioxidantes.

Antioxidantes e cancro

O uso de antioxidantes em doentes oncológicos tem sido estudado em duas grandes vertentes: (1) como agentes anticancerígenos potenciais e (2) para reduzir os danos oxidativos resultantes da quimio e da radioterapia.

Os agentes anticancerígenos diminuem os efeitos prejudiciais no ADN, reduzem a proliferação da doença e a angiogénese e aumentam a apoptose.

Vários estudos têm sido realizados para avaliar o impacto dos antioxidantes no cancro. Atualmente, a ciência sugere que o efeito pode ser negativo.

Considerando o efeito sobre o risco de desenvolvimento da doença, a suplementação com beta-caroteno parece aumentar o risco de cancro do pulmão e do estômago. No que diz respeito à vitamina E, parece aumentar o risco de cancro da próstata e de adenoma colo-retal. Por outro lado, em populações com baixos níveis séricos de selénio (<106 ng/ml), verificou-se uma prevalência mais baixa de cancro do pulmão, contrastando com as taxas elevadas em populações com níveis mais elevados (>126 ng/ml).

Uma meta-análise de ensaios randomizados concluiu que a suplementação com antioxidantes parece ter efeitos adversos na mortalidade da população em geral. A mortalidade aumentou com a suplementação de beta-caroteno, de vitamina E e  com doses elevadas de vitamina A. No caso da vitamina E associada ao selénio, nenhum trouxe benefícios na mortalidade.

Assim, além do aumento do risco de alguns tipos de cancro, a ciência confirma os efeitos adversos dos antioxidantes na mortalidade em geral, sobretudo em doentes com dignóstico de cancro.

Existe, ainda, outro fator de preocupação. Embora os antioxidantes possam reduzir a toxicidade da quimio e da radioterapia, pode ocorrer uma diminuição da eficácia do tratamento. Isto acontece, pois a radioterapia e muitos agentes usados na quimioterapia exercem o seu efeito através da produção de espécies reativas de oxigénio e por aumento da apoptose.

Antioxidantes e radioterapia

Nos doentes com cancro da cabeça e pescoço, apesar dos antioxidantes reduzirem a toxicidade da radioterapia, pode também aumentar a recorrência da doença e da mortalidade, principalmente entre aqueles que mantiveram o consumo tabágico durante o tratamento. Tanto o tabaco como os antioxidantes podem reduzir os efeitos da radioterapia. No caso do tabaco, o efeito assenta no facto de aumentar os níveis de carboxihemoglobina e de hipoxia, os quais reduzem os efeitos do tratamento que estão dependentes do oxigénio. Todavia, é de referir que os estudos realizados não são consensuais quanto aos resultados obtidos. Por exemplo a suplementação com beta-caroteno parece não prejudicar o prognóstico de doentes com cancro da próstata.

Antioxidantes e quimioterapia

Foram realizados alguns estudos de curto prazo para mostrar que efeitos benéficos podemos obter com os antioxidantes. A vitamina E reduziu a neuropatia da cisplatina e o selénio a toxicidade hematológica, sem, contudo, ter influência na nefrotoxicidade e na ototoxicidade do mesmo citotóxico. Quanto à vitamina E, não foi verificado um efeito benéfico da suplementação na redução da toxicidade de vários citotóxicos (neuropatia associada a taxanos, neuropatia periférica induzida pela oxaliplatina, cardiotoxicidade da antraciclina e toxicidade geral associada à caboplatina).

No entanto, dos estudos científicos consultados, nenhum avaliou os efeitos a longo prazo da suplementação com antioxidantes durante a quimioterapia, na recorrência da doença e na mortalidade.

Antioxidantes e doentes oncológicos

Parece não haver influência da suplementação no prognósticos em situações bem definidas: a suplementação com selénio nos doentes pós-cirúrgicos com cancro do pulmão do tipo “não-pequenas células”, em doentes com cancro da cabeça e pescoço, após radioterapia, suplementados com beta-caroteno e em doentes com cancro não tratado e suplementados com vitaminas E e C, selénio e coenzima Q10. Também há evidência de que a suplementação com selénio não diminui a recorrência do cancro da bexiga.

Por outro lado, a suplementação com antioxidantes diminuiu a recorrência de adenomas do cólon entre não fumadores e não consumidores de álcool mas duplicou o risco entre fumadores e naqueles que consumiam mais do que uma bebida alcoólica por dia.

Adicionalmente, verificou-se diminuição da recorrência de cancro não invasivo da bexiga com a suplementação com vitamina E.

Os antioxidantes podem ter efeitos benéficos ou adversos em doentes com cancro. Parece que tudo depende do antioxidante. Isto é: qual é o antioxidante? Em que dose? E de que forma? Mas, também depende das características do doente (estado nutricional, tabaco, consumo elevado de bebidas alcoólicas), da localização do tumor e do tratamento. Assim e nesta matéria, ainda há muitas perguntas sem resposta. Todavia, é importante referir que os efeitos adversos referidos estão associados ao consumo de suplementos e não à obtenção de antioxidantes que naturalmente se encontram nos alimentos.

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Palantir to offer cancer analytics under JV deal with Germany’s Merck

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Palantir Technologies Inc will set up a cancer data analytics joint venture with German lab supplies company Merck KGaA, as the U.S. analytics and security firm makes further inroads into health care.

FILE PHOTO: Merck CEO Stefan Oschmann delivers a speech during the celebrations of the 350th anniversary of German pharmaceuticals company Merck at the Merck headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany, May 3 ,2018. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach

The new U.S.-based venture, called Syntropy, will offer cancer data analytics tools to research centers, combining Palantir’s Foundry data platform with the customer knowledge of Merck’s Life Science business, known as MilliporeSigma in North America, the companies said in a statement on Monday.

Syntropy will help medical researchers to structure and analyze data from various sources and to selectively share the insight with external partners, they added.

“Our customers will pay a license fee for a software, enabling them to aggregate and analyze data from highly disparate sources,” Merck Chief Executive Stefan Oschmann told Reuters, adding the JV would not buy or sell any data.

The companies would not disclose financial terms, beyond saying each partner would hold a 50 percent stake.

Known for helping the U.S. government track down al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Palantir does confidential work for defense and intelligence agencies. Private sector customers include aircraft maker Airbus.

“When we choose partners, be it in government or the private sector, we are on their side and want to grow a business together and not with five others,” said Palantir co-founder and CEO Alexander Karp.

“Also in this case, we have no intention to handle it any differently,” he said.

Healthcare companies are investing heavily in data analytics. GlaxoSmithKline in July agreed to buy a $300 million stake in Google-backed gene testing company 23andMe.

Roche has spent $4.3 billion this year buying out two specialists in cancer data, U.S. genomic profiling group Foundation Medicine and U.S. cancer data company Flatiron Health.

While Roche is seeking to harness real-life data from cancer units, Merck and Palantir’s offering will for now focus on clinical trial data and early-stage research, Merck said.

Palantir, which won Merck as a customer in January 2017, said the JV deal would make the German company its exclusive partner in healthcare.

The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Palantir was weighing an initial public offering with a valuation of as much as $41 billion.

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'Surgery in a pill' a potential treatment for diabetes

Over the last decade, bariatric surgeons have made strides in performing weight loss surgery that not only reverses obesity but can also reverse type 2 diabetes in patients with both conditions. Despite dramatic improvements in quality of life and diabetes remission, the number of patients who pursue surgery remains relatively low, according to Ali Tavakkoli, MD, co-director of the Center for Weight Management and Metabolic Surgery at BWH. This prompted a collaboration between Tavakkoli and Brigham and Women's Hospital researchers to find a less invasive but equally effective treatment for reversing type 2 diabetes, one that can offer the same benefits as surgery but that may have wider appeal and application. In a paper published this week in Nature Materials, the team reports on results of a preclinical study in which an oral agent was administered in rats to deliver a substance that could temporarily coat the intestine to prevent nutrient contact with the lining in the proximal bowel and avoid post-meal spikes in blood sugar. "We envision a pill that a patient can take before a meal that transiently coats the gut to replicate the effects of surgery," said co-senior author Jeff Karp, PhD, a bioengineer and principal investigator at BWH. "Over the last several years, we've been working with our surgical colleagues on this idea and have developed a material that meets an important clinical need." The team members searched for a starting material that would have just the right properties to adhere to the small intestine and then dissolve within a matter of hours. They selected a substance known as sucralfate, an FDA-approved drug that is used in the treatment of gastrointestinal ulcers. The team further engineered the substance into a novel material that can coat the lining of the intestine without requiring activation by gastric acid. The engineered compound, referred to as LuCI (Luminal Coating of the Intestine), can be made into a dry powdered form that can be encapsulated as a pill. "What we've developed here is essentially, 'surgery in a pill,'" said co-lead author Yuhan Lee, PhD, a materials scientist in the BWH Division of Engineering in Medicine. "We've used a bioengineering approach to formulate a pill that has good adhesion properties and can attach nicely to the gut in a preclinical model. And after a couple of hours, its effects dissipate." The team found that once in the intestine of rats, LuCI can coat the gut, forming a thin barrier that alters nutrient contact and lowers blood glucose response after a meal. After a meal, blood sugar levels rise and can stay elevated over time. However, one hour after LuCI was administered to the rats, the response to glucose was lowered by 47 percent. The team found that this response was temporary, and after three hours, the effect essentially disappeared. The team is now testing the effect of short- and long-term use of LuCI in diabetic and obese rodent models. They also plan to advance some of their pilot studies showing that LuCI can be used to deliver drugs, including proteins directly to the gastrointestinal tract. "Gastric bypass is one of the best studied surgeries in the world, and we know that it can lead to many benefits including positive effects for blood pressure, sleep apnea and certain forms of cancer, and a remarkably fast and weight-independent improvement in diabetes," said Tavakkoli, co-senior author of the study. "Having a transient coating that could mimic the effects of surgery would be a tremendous asset for patients and their care providers." Read the full article

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  Some women at their young age can be at a high lifetime risk of breast cancer. According to a research conducted by New York University, there has been a sharp increase in the number of women undergoing a risk-reducing mastectomy in recent years due to hereditary breast cancer risk. Patients undergoing risk-reducing mastectomy have the highest rate of immediate breast reconstruction. It means that plastic surgeons play an important role in their care, together with other specialists including breast surgeons, oncologists, and genetic counselors. The research was performed by working with young women who seek BRCA (breast cancer-associated) gene testing due to a family history of breast cancer. As BRCA and other genes confer a high lifelong cancer risk, young women with a family history of breast cancer may feel that they should be tested as early as possible. Although surgery may reduce distress and anxiety, mastectomy itself can have negative physical and psychological consequences. “Seamless communication between multidisciplinary teams is essential to offer evidence-based decision making for these patients,” said Dr. Nolan S. Karp, a surgeon. Because of the high public attention to risk-reducing mastectomy and breast reconstruction, plastic surgeons may sometimes be the first physicians to encounter young women at high genetic risk of breast cancer.  ANI : 30th. May,18

  RESEARCHERS SAY YOUNG WOMEN ARE AT HIGH GENETIC RISK OF BREAST CANCER : Some women at their young age can be at a high lifetime risk of breast cancer. According to a research conducted by New York University, there has been a sharp increase in the number of women undergoing a risk-reducing mastectomy in recent years due to hereditary breast cancer risk.

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Home » Protein beverage maker secures $8 million investment Protein beverage maker secures $8 million investment Iconic Protein ready-to-drink protein beverages are made using dairy protein from grass-fed cows in New Zealand. SANTA MONICA, CALIF. — Iconic Protein, maker of protein beverages made with grass-fed dairy, has raised $8 million in a funding round led by private equity firm KarpReilly. Bill Moses, co-founder and former chief executive officer of KeVita, also participated in the round and will join Iconic Protein as the company’s executive chairman. Launched in 2013, Iconic Protein offers a line of ready-to-drink protein beverages that are made using dairy protein from grass-fed cows in New Zealand and are free from hormones, antibiotics and preservatives. The drinks, available in Café Au Lait, Chocolate Truffle and Vanilla Bean flavors, contain 20 grams of protein and 130 calories each. “Iconic has distinguished itself as a leader in the fast-growing protein drink space with the use of clean animal protein, incredible velocity at shelf and an audience that reaches far beyond the typical protein beverage consumer,” said Allan Karp, co-founder of KarpReilly. “There is an enormous market opportunity for Iconic’s better-for-you, New Zealand grass-fed dairy protein offering, and we are excited to work with their team to take the brand to the next level.” Bill Moses, co-founder of KeVita, and Lance Collins, founder of Core Hydration, Bodyarmor and Fuze Beverage, participated in the funding round. Iconic plans to use the funding to build out its senior leadership team and invest in product innovation, the company said. Iconic’s retail partners include Sprouts, Wegmans, H-E-B and Rouses Markets. Additional investors in the funding round include Lance Collins, founder of Core Hydration, Bodyarmor and Fuze Beverage, along with Gunnar Lovelace and Nick Green, founders of Thrive Market. 

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Tips That Will Help You Reach Your Fitness Goals!

You do not have to fear the word fitness. You may have negative associations with the idea--perhaps you think getting fit is boring or tedious, or you were bullied in the past because of your inability to play sports. Let go of hurtful feelings and be proud of having a healthy body. The following advice will help you do so. When doing multiple reps of a given exercise, count backwards from your goal. This will allow you to keep track of the number that you are on and also provide more motivation. Exercise burns a lot of calories, but not as much as some dieters wish it would. It can be damaging to go to extremes when it comes to exercise, though. Doing this puts you at risk of muscle and joint damage, heart problems, dehydration, and other physical problems. Also, it can cause you to end up in an anaerobic state. In this state, you aren't burning fat. Get quicker results by completing your exercise regimen in 10% less time than you usually do. Your muscles, then, will need to work that much more to meet the demand you are placing on it. Plus, it will increase your overall endurance levels too. For example, if you can do a full body workout in 30 minutes one day, try to do it in 27 minutes the next time you workout. Do not stop your workout routines on the weekends! Many fall into the habit of kicking back every weekend as a way of putting workweek stress behind them. Staying fit is a job that lasts all week long. Do not waste the weekend only to have to catch up later. Wipe down the fitness equipment at the gym prior to use. People leave germs on the equipment so it's best to keep this in mind. A visit to the gym should leave you feeling fit, not sick! People often try to do abdominal exercises on a daily basis. It isn't recommended for that particular group of muscles. You need to rest your muscles every other day or every two days. Rest your ab muscles for a few days before working them out again. A good rule of thumb is to avoid exercising if you feel poorly. Your body needs the full use of all of its resources for the healing process when you're ill. It will be more difficult for your body to have endurance and to build muscle. This is why you should avoid exercising until you feel better. While you are waiting, you can eat, sleep, and build up your strength. A great fitness tip to help you build up your calf muscles, is to start doing donkey calf raises. These exercises are exceptionally effective for that muscle group. With a partner sitting on your back, simply raise your calves. If you exercised the previous day, work out the muscles you used. A simple way to do this is to slightly work out the tired muscles using a much smaller percentage of effort. Don't overwhelm yourself when you start an exercise routine. You need to start slow and work your way into strenuous exercise, especially if it's been a long time since you were on a regular fitness routine. If your body and muscles are not accustomed to this level of activity, you are more susceptible to injury. Yogurt is a great addition to a healthy diet plan. It has a wide range of benefits to your health, especially when it comes to digestion. Yogurt is a great source of calcium and protein. Your diet should include adequate dairy; people who eat get enough calcium through dairy are proactively improving their health. If you have taken the information in this article to heart, you will probably notice your feelings about exercise and nutrition beginning to change. By accomplishing this, you will increase your lifespan and enjoy a fuller, enriched life.

A Straightforward Breakdown Of Recognising Key Factors Of Canada

In 2013, Ford also faced allegations relating to drugs, with the Globe and Mail reporting that he sold hashish for several years in the 1980s. He has denied the claims. According to Michael McGregor at Toronto’s Ryerson University, what’s at play is not a populist upswell but rather a perfect storm. Ford won the Progressive Conservative leadership race on points, despite losing the popular vote. The race had been hastily called after the former leader, Patrick Brown, was accused of sexual misconduct . The conservatives have long dominated polls; approval ratings for Ontario’s premier, Kathleen Wynne, tumbled to the lowest in Canada as her party scrambled to address issues ranging from soaring electricity prices to a conviction related to destroying documents. Last week her government was called Whey Protein out by the province’s auditor general for dramatically understating this year’s budget deficit and future shortfalls. “So you have the unpopular premier, you’ve got this weird electoral system that propels Ford to victory. You’ve got Patrick Brown getting caught up in the #MeToo movement,” said McGregor. “This is not a groundswell, grassroots movement towards populism. I just think it’s a confluence of strange factors.” Connecting Ford to Trump is a “false comparison”, said Kathy Brock at Queen’s University. Instead she pointed to the digital revolution – and the jarring pace of change it has unleashed – to explain the changes shaking up Canada’s political landscape.

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When You Want To Be The Best, You Have To Learn More About Vitamins

Your health can truly benefit from proper minerals and nutrients. Multivitamins can do the trick by themselves. It is sometimes hard to find the supplement that is right for you. Your best bet is to read on and keep an open mind. If you want your workout to be as effective as possible, make sure to take your vitamins. The right nutrients will make it easier to burn fat and build muscle. Your body cannot always absorb nutrients as-is. Sometimes it need a little help from other nutrients. For instance, calcium makes iron absorption difficult. Try not to have two forms of nutrients that react poorly with one another. Calcium helps build and maintain strong bones. You must also have a good amount of vitamin D in order to absorb calcium. There are a lot of ways to get a lot of vitamin D like food, sunlight, or supplements. These all improve your body's ability to absorb calcium. Try scheduling supplements that have fat around mealtimes to take them with food. Vitamins E, K and A are examples of supplements that should only be taken with food because they are easier to absorb at that time. Try to take them food that contains fat. If you want to have strong and abundant red blood cells, you must get enough iron. These red blood cells deliver oxygen through your system. Women need more iron than men, and often vitamin supplements that are specifically for women will have extra iron. If you're tired and lethargic, you may lack iron. At a time when health care is expensive, promoting good health is important and adding daily vitamins is a good start. Getting the proper amount of vitamins and minerals can help stave off serious medical conditions as well as improve your quality of life in general. Asparagus, dairy products, and bananas are rich sources of riboflavin. If you don't get enough vitamin B2, you could experience scaly sin, dry lips and even lowered red blood cells. Taking riboflavin can prevent anemia, cataracts, carpal tunnel syndrome, and even cancer. It's not uncommon for most people want to eat foods that have the best nutrients in them, but many of those types of foods an be costly. Vitamins and minerals make our bodies healthier and don't cost much. There are many places to find Vitamin C, including tomatoes and citrus fruits. Supplements are a good choice if you don't get enough of this vitamin. This potent vitamin help prevent and treat colds, gum disease, acne, stomach ulcers, and skin infections. In addition, some studies have shown that vitamin C can aid those suffering from ADHD, Alzheimers disease, and dementia. If you want to use gummy vitamins meant for children as an adult, take several of them. This is because an adult would need more than the recommended child dose, so one will surely not be enough. Be careful since taking too many can be a bad thing as well. Fresh produce is usually full of healthy proteins that the body needs, but you must eat them fresh instead of canned. Though you want to eat a healthy diet, you should also consider taking a quality multivitamin and/or mineral supplements to enhance your diet. Are you getting enough manganese? Manganese makes wounds heal quicker and helps with bone formation. Manganese also improves your body's ability to metabolize cholesterol, protein, and carbohydrates. Manganese is not difficult to find as it is often found in the teas we drink as well as the grain foods we consume daily. You can also find supplements through the Internet or local vitamin shop. You should now have a more comprehensive understanding of various vitamins, minerals, and supplements. There are a lot of supplements out there and finding the appropriate ones can be difficult. Thankfully, you read this article and are ready to go!

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