#Hospitals encouraging new mothers to breastfeed by scrapping free formula programs (Naturalnews) A major shift seems to be taking place in how the conventional medical system views appropriate feeding protocols for newborns.
A recent study found that many hospitals across the country are now ditching free infant formula handouts in an attempt to encourage new mothers to exclusively breastfeed their babies rather than pump them up with soy protein, corn syrup solids,
Published in the peer-reviewed journal Pediatrics, the paper looked at the prevalence of hospitals
and birth centers distributing infant formula discharge packs to breastfeeding mothers in the U s. between 2007 and 2013.
hospitals are implementing new no-formula protocols to promote breastfeeding over infant formula. Epidemiologist Dr. Jennifer Nelson, M d,
. and her colleagues evaluated data from the Maternity Practices in Infant Nutrition and Care survey,
which is administered every two years to all hospitals with registered maternity beds. The survey includes questions about how many infant formula discharge packs are distributed to new mothers before these women are discharged from the hospital.
With a nearly 98 percent response rate, the survey is considered a highly credible indicator of infant formula distribution trends among hospitals and birth centers.
Based on the responses gathered the team calculated that infant formula distribution rates dropped by an astounding 41 percent between 2007 and 2013, falling from 72.6 percent to 31.6 percent.
Similarly, teaching hospitals have abandoned almost completely the practice, with only 5. 5 percent of them giving out free formula in 2013.
Six years prior in 2007,63 percent of teaching hospitals handed out free infant formula. The most dramatic decline occurred at hospitals with the highest numbers of babies delivered.
In 2013, less than 12 percent of high-volume delivery hospitals handed out free infant formula. In this case"
high volume"refers to hospitals that deliver at least 5, 000 babies annually. Infant formula companies are just like Big Pharma:
they give free samples to hospitals to gain customers A major issue with handing out free infant formula to new mothers is that it encourages these women to avoid breastfeeding their children,
maintain researchers. Nearly 80 percent of new mothers start out breastfeeding their children, according to the data.
However, after about one week following birth, 25 percent of these drop off and begin using formula instead."
"Hospitals and health care systems are places we look to for guidance on health, "says Dr. Jennifer Nelson,
lead author of the study and a researcher at the U s. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
as quoted by the Las vegas Review-Journal.""When hospitals distribute formula to breastfeeding mothers, it signals that formula feeding is as good as breastfeeding."
"Part of the problem is that infant formula companies actively distribute samples to hospitals as a way to boost sales
and establish brand loyalty, essentially exploiting new mothers who don't know any better. The practice is akin to how Big Pharma hands out drug samples to doctors,
who then pass these drugs on to their unwitting patients.""The first few months of breastfeeding are highly dependent on the delivery hospital experience
and the connection to community support,"adds Dr. Lori Feldman-Winter, a professor of pediatrics at Cooper University Hospital in New jersey,
"Evidence shows that providing new mothers with free formula in hospitals or as part of discharge packs (free gifts) decreases overall and exclusive breastfeeding
#Vitamin c shown to annihilate cancer Vitamin c is a well-known antioxidant and is used commonly to fight off a cold.
Researchers from the University of Kansas found that high doses of intravenously supplied Vitamin c effectively eradicates cancer cells in human subjects.
Inexpensive possible cancer treatment may never reach patients Conducted in vitro, lab tests were performed by injecting high doses of Vitamin c into human ovarian cells.
This major finding could potentially save millions of lives and at only a fraction of the price of modern cancer treatments.
"Patients are looking for safe and low-cost choices in their management of cancer. Intravenous Vitamin c has that potential based on our basic science research and early clinical data."
"Replicating these results in patients and widespread application would be ideal. However, this may never become a reality."
These and similar findings have been dismissed by the modern medicine industry because of the lack of patentability.
How could pharmaceutical companies justify charging patients hundreds to thousands of dollars for what is basically just nutrients from food?
Additionally, how can they validate years of cutting into patients via invasive surgery and putting patients on the conveyer belt of radiation
and teeth Heal wounds Form scar tissue Helps the absorption of iron Helps thyroid hormone production Helps metabolize folic acid, tyrosine,
and epinephrine (stress hormones) Insulin production Calcium metabolism Fights free radicals The majority of people suffer from Vitamin c deficiency
Low levels of Vitamin c can increase your risk for various cancers and arthritis. Other health issues caused by low levels of Vitamin c include:
Scurvy Anemia Infertility Arteriosclerosis Artherosclerosis Cataracts Glaucoma Nosebleeds Fatigue Infection Gingivitis Gastrointestinal problems Gallstones Dermatitis Impaired hormones Low insulin production
could be the key to better understanding disease Medical professionals everywhere may be stunned by a new discovery that overturns decades of textbook teaching.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of medicine have discovered recently that lymphatic vessels do in fact go up into the brain,
Just as with chronic inflammation, modern medicine has accused the immune system as having gone awry and as the primary source of most problems associated with that process.
Might scientists now begin to consider the possibility that something as basic as the body's plumbing system may well hold the key to solving dozens of disease riddles?
Director of UVA's Center for Brain Immunology Prof. Jonathan Kipnis said, "It changes entirely the way we perceive the neuro-immune interaction.
"In Alzheimer's, there are accumulations of big protein chunks in the brain. We think they may be accumulating in the brain
they do need to find new answers about the workings of the brain and the diseases that plague it.
That all diseases result in morbidity, that all morbidity forms blockages, and that all degenerative processes can be reversed naturally, thanks to a relationship between the blood stream and the lymphatic system,
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Castle, James W. Mandell, Kevin S. Lee, Tajie H. Harris, Jonathan Kipnis. Structural and functional features of central nervous system lymphatic vessels.
the Mountain House community of 15,000 residents will run out of water in just a matter of days."
"The community's sole source of water, the Byron-Bethany Irrigation District, was one of 114 senior water rights holders cut off by a curtailment notice from the state on Friday,"reports CBS. And just like that,
the property values of millions of dollars worth of homes belonging to 15,000 residents nosedives toward zero.
I saw all this Coming in a May 7th article entitled Why the California water crisis will lead to a housing collapse, municipal bankruptcies and a mass exodus of climate refugees,
plunging property tax revenues, municipal bankruptcies, a wave of climate refugees fleeing California and the collapse of the California economy.
"reports CBS. And so the water wars begin: there's not enough water to go around, and the courtroom serves as the new battleground over a resource that the state of California has squandered for far too long.
But now, the rare palm tree specimens, the secret garden and the turret-shaped hedges are a liability rather than a selling point.
A multi-million-dollar estate has lost over 25%of its value virtually overnight due to the issue of water.
And this collapse in property prices is for properties that still have running water. What happens when the water supply to a $30 million estate is cut off?
Who wants to live in a $30 million mansion and pay seven figures of property tax each year to the same California government that cuts off your water supply?
freak out early and you might still be able to sell and leave. But if you delay,
the more desperate people will be to sell and leave. The term"motivated seller"will be ratcheted up to"panicked seller"and then finally"fire sale!"
"People who buy the properties will soon be able to pick up once-prized real estate for dimes on the dollar.
this drought is caused all by man-made global warming. And because I don't see China shutting down its coal fired power plants anytime soon,
there's no end to this drought if the climate change alarmists are correct. Welcome to Delusionville, where the power of magical belief in Big Government can overcome any drought California,
it seems, is reverting back to a barren desert. Meanwhile, far too many of the people who live in California remain in a state of absolute denial over where this is all headed.
These are people who think money falls out of the sky and water runs uphill.
They've recently even decided that California should cover the health care costs of the children of illegal immigrants.
free health care for everyone, unlimited debt spending on entitlement programs, magical waterfalls of free H2o falling out of the clouds, and so on.
and many of the street names there envision concepts that are total fiction: Waterfall Lane, Great Spring Drive, Surging Rivers Rd. and so on.
if California renamed its own streets and thoroughfares to match its own fantasies? Everything Is Free Hwy
Desalination is an environmental nightmare For those who are saying, "There's no water problem in California!
"you need to look into the catastrophic environmental destruction tied to ocean water desalination. Not only does desalination use fossil fuels
which emit the very same carbon emissions that the California government insists caused the drought in the first place,
the desalination process itself pollutes the ocean with high concentration salt brine that kills marine ecosystems
and destroys ocean life along the California coastline. And that's on top of all the Fukushima radiation that's already causing a marine ecosystem collapse in many areas of the coast.
self-entitled Hollywood celebrities demand their lush, green lawns at the expense of ocean life, climate change and the global ecosystem.
and don't have your own individual water supply--a private well that still works, large-scale rainwater collection in a rare area that still has rainfall,
Think of California as a jumbo jet that has just run out of fuel and is plummeting toward a mountain.
or you can plug in your headphones and keep watching the in-flight Hollywood entertainment, pretending nothing bad is happening outside your immediate focus.
It's much nicer to turn on the local TV and hear how Gov. Jerry brown is going to brilliantly solve all of California's problems by using the magic of wishful thinking and sleight-of-mind economic trickery.
employers are fleeing the state's high taxes, the almond orchards have shriveled into dust, the flood of noncitizen immigrants is draining the state's revenues
and property valuations are about to fall off a cliff. Perhaps the California that has been promoted by socialist-minded propagandists can be recreated as a virtual reality destination for Oculus Rift fans,
but in the real world, nobody wants to live in third-world conditions and drink their own recycled urine.
Hence the coming wave of recently-bankrupt California climate refugees who will flood into neighboring states seeking water, low-cost housing and free entitlements.
#Greece debt talks collapse and EU leaders prepare for state of emergency from runaway market panic (Naturalnews) Debt talks to resolve Greece's ongoing financial crisis are going nowhere,
Greek officials and creditors to the nation have drawn lines in their positions, diminishing hopes for a settlement that would avoid a default on billions of euros that the Mediterranean nation owes following a financial bailout a few years ago.
The stalled negotiations have prompted Germany's EU commissioner to declare that the time had come for a"state of emergency"after Left-wing Greek Prime minister Alexis Tsipras ignored pleas from other European leaders to act quickly.
Instead, he put the blame on creditors whom he said were responsible for the breakdown in talks
if any deal is to be reached extending credit terms. The present terms have proven to be the single biggest roadblock to unlocking additional aid.'
and therefore would resist demands for additional pension cuts, which the country can no longer afford, given the dilapidated state of its economic infrastructure."
looming is a 1. 6 billion repayment that is due the International monetary fund. The payment could leave Greece cashless
and without any further ability to borrow, placing it in an economic abyss and"dangling on the edge of the currency area,"Reuters reported.
Germany, along with other creditor nations, have demanded that the Greek government get past itself and offer sensible proposals to end the standoff."
"It won't work that Greece sets the terms and says'everyone has to dance to our tune.'
"said Volker Kauder, parliamentary floor leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, in an interview with ARD television, Reuters reported.
The Belgian finance minister, Johan Van Overtveldt, noted that the EU's credibility would take a substantial hit
and pension cuts and higher taxes on basic goods."We have exhausted largely our limits, "spokesman Gabriel Sakellaridis said.
Sakellaridis added that Tsipras'office said it was ready to rejoin talks as soon as possible but was currently on the lookout for any signal from lenders that that might lead to a breakthrough."
"If they call us with something new, we may also provide something new, "said one unnamed Greek official to Reuters. Other eurozone officials said the time was close
'Stupid'Meanwhile, nervous Greeks are ramping up withdrawals from the country's banks. According to Reuters, outflows totaled about 400 million ($449 million) on June 22 as the pace of daily withdrawals picked up from previous weeks.
Others have been critical of the entire Greek bailout process. Daniel Altman, senior economic editor at Foreign policy magazine and an adjunct professor at New york University's Stern School of business, called the bailouts"stupid"in a recent column."
"Let's put aside the debate over whether rescuing Greece was a bad idea in the first place; a complete collapse of its economy might well have led to social unrest and even conflict,
"Altman wrote.""But how the Europeans and their cohorts at the International monetary fund (IMF) bailed out Greece was amazingly, insufferably stupid."
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#Blown-up brains reveal nanoscale details Microscopes make living cells and tissues appear bigger. But what if we could actually make the things bigger?
It might sound like the fantasy of a scientist who has read Alice Adventures in Wonderland too many times,
but the concept is the basis for a new method that could enable biologists to image an entire brain in exquisite molecular detail using an ordinary microscope,
and to resolve features that would normally be beyond the limits of optics. The technique, called expansion microscopy, involves physically inflating biological tissues using a material more commonly found in baby nappies (diapers.
Edward Boyden, a neuroengineer at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) in Cambridge, discussed the technique, which he developed with his MIT colleagues Fei Chen and Paul Tillberg, at a conference last month.
Prizewinning roots Expansion microscopy is a twist on super-resolution microscopy, which earned three scientists the 2014 Nobel prize in Chemistry.
Both techniques attempt to circumvent a limitation posed by the laws of physics. In 1873, German physicist Ernst Abbe deduced that conventional optical microscopes cannot distinguish objects that are closer together than about 200 nanometres roughly half the shortest wavelength of visible light.
Anything closer than this'diffraction limit'appears as a blur. Super-resolution microscope methods overcome Abbe's limit by manipulating fluorescent molecules tethered to proteins
Just as with nappies, adding water causes the acrylate polymer to swell. After stretching the fluorescent-tagged molecules move further away from each other;
In one experiment with inflated mouse brain tissue, the researchers gauged the distance between two proteins that sit on opposite ends of neural synapses.
At the meeting, he showed an image of a half-millimetre slab of the mouse brain's hippocampus
Pushing boundaries Viviana Gradinaru, a neuroscientist at the California Institute of technology in Pasadena, says that Boyden technique is another example of how scientists are bypassing hardware limitations by modifying biological tissue.
but how much practical use it will be is less clear, notes Guy Cox, a microscopy specialist at the University of Sydney,
Scientists working at the University of Rostock in Germany proposed a similar idea in the early 1990s,
Hell notes. t seems that Boyden et al. found a solution that really works. o
#Promising antibiotic discovered in microbial ark matteran antibiotic with the ability to vanquish drug-resistant pathogens has been discovered through a soil bacterium found just beneath the surface of a grassy field in Maine.
Although the new antibiotic has yet to be tested in people, there are signs that pathogens will be slow to evolve resistance to it.
Today in Nature, a team led by Kim Lewis of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, report that the antibiotic,
which they have named teixobactin, was active against the deadly bacterium MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) in mice,
and a host of other pathogens in cell cultures. If the compound behaves similarly in people
it may prove to be needed a much triumph in the war against antibiotic-resistance. The device used to discover teixobactin is generating excitement also
and so makes it easier to discover bacteria that naturally produce compounds deadly to other pathogens. he technology is very cool,
says Gerard Wright, a biochemist at Mcmaster University in Hamilton, Canada, who was not involved with the study. obody knew
The news comes amid continuing warnings from public-health experts about the dangers of antibiotic resistance.
In 2014, the World health organization declared that the post-antibiotic era a time in which people could die from ordinary infections
and minor injuries could begin this century. MRSA has spread from hospitals into the community
and in 2013, there were 480,000 new cases of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis worldwide, a condition that requires treatment with increasingly toxic drugs.
Treasure hunt Many of the most successful antibiotics were found in the mid-twentieth century by scientists who trawled microbial communities for bacteria capable of killing their brethren.
But the researchers missed the type that produces teixobactin, Eleftheria terrae, plus many other potential candidates known collectively as microbial ark matterbecause of their reluctance to adapt to life on a petri dish.
It works by sorting individual bacterial cells harvested from soil into single chambers. The device is buried then back in the ground.
Several molecules in that environment are able to diffuse into the ichip, allowing the bacteria to thrive in a more natural setting than a petri dish.
Lewis is excited about teixobactin mainly because of the indication that it will be difficult for pathogens to develop resistance against it.
and it is difficult for a bacterium to alter such fundamental building blocks of the cell.
By comparison, most antibiotics target proteins and it can be relatively easy for a microbe to become resistant to those drugs by accumulating mutations that alter the target protein shape.
It is impossible to say how well the results will hold up in the clinic, but teixobactin shows promise,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes tuberculosis, was among the bacteria that teixobactin killed. But medical microbiologist Timothy Walsh of Cardiff University, UK, urges caution because the drug has been tested against only a small number of lab strains.
It will be important to repeat those assays in dozens, if not hundreds, of strains more recently isolated from patients,
and has yet to show any toxic side effects, but demonstrating its safety in humans will be important,
But teixobactin has disappointed in its failure to kill ram-negativebacteria. This class, says Eisenstein, is a particular health concern
and includes deadly pathogens such as Klebsiella pneumoniae, which has evolved resistance to all known antibiotics. Walsh, however, is hopeful that the ichip technique will yield new solutions to the Gram-negative problem. t could be that these ichip systems will grow bacteria that can actually produce new drugs to take out the very resistant and very pathogenic Gram-negative bacteria.
About a decade ago, Cubist tried its hand at mining microbial dark matter, says Eisenstein. The company gave up the hunt
#Phd students build brain-controlled FPV drone Two Phd students from University of Florida, Marvin Andujar and Chris Crawford, have built a mind-machine method to control a drone through a wearable electroencephalographic (EEG) Brain-Computer Interface device.
The drone operates based on user cognitive commands. When the user thinks forward, the drone moves forward towards the direction it is facing.
While the drone flies, the user is able to view the flight from FPV (first-person view) via a front-facing camera. his project serves as the beginning of brain-machine control as a human-centric application says Marvin Andujar
who is also a member of our Neurogadget editorial team. The idea is to use the BCI, drones and other machines such as a humanoid as a third arm for humans.
We want to provide humans efficient control of their machines while performing real world tasks. This could be helpful
when both hands are full and you need to carry something else or open a door.
In this case a third arm could be useful. The next step for this research is to incorporate a two way system that monitors user levels of engagement, cognitive workload
and emotional state while the drone is controlled cognitively. They believe that to make the technology usable
and provide a positive user experience, they need to understand how the users feel. By Marvin Andujarvideo credits:
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#Jaguar land rover Mind Sense research monitors brainwaves through the hands via sensors in the steering wheel Jaguar land rover has revealed the ixth Senseproject,
a range of new road safety technology research projects that are being developed to reduce the number of accidents caused by stressed and distracted drivers.
With its road safety research, The british firm is joining a number of other car makers that have been researching the measurement of brainwaves to monitor driver concentration in the car.
Even if the eyes are on the road, a lack of concentration or a daydream will mean the driver isn paying attention to the driving task.
They may miss a warning icon or sound or be less aware of other road users
so we are looking at how we could identify this and prevent it causing an accident. ind Sense is the name of JLR research to see
if a car could effectively read the brainwaves that indicate a driver is beginning to daydream,
or feeling sleepy, whilst driving. f brain activity indicates a daydream or poor concentration, then the steering wheel or pedals could vibrate to raise the driver awareness
and re-engage them with driving, added Dr Epple. f Mind Sense does not detect a surge in brain activity following the car displaying a warning icon or sound,
then it could display it again, or communicate with the driver in a different way,
to ensure the driver is made aware of a potential hazard. he most common method for monitoring brainwaves is close to the source using sensors attached to a headband,
something that would be impractical in a vehicle. Jaguar land rover is investigating a method already used by NASA to develop a pilot concentration skills
and also by the US bobsleigh team to enhance concentration and focus. This detects brainwaves through the hands via sensors embedded in the steering wheel.
Because the sensing is taking place further away from the driver head software is used to amplify the signal
and filter out the pure brainwave from any background oisejaguar Land rover is currently conducting user trials to collect more information on the different brainwaves identified through the steering wheel sensors
and will involve leading neuroscientists in the project to verify the results. On top of brainwave monitoring, Jaguar land rover is also assessing how a vehicle could monitor the well-being of the driver using a medical-grade sensor embedded in the seat of a JAGUAR XJ.
The sensor, which was developed originally for use in hospitals, has been adapted for in-car use and detects vibrations from the driver heart beat and breathing. s we develop more autonomous driving technologies,
there will be instances when the autonomous car needs to hand control back to the driver, added Dr Epple. o do this safely the car will need to know
if the driver is alert and well enough to take over. So our research team is looking at the potential for a range of driver monitoring technologies to give the car enough information to support this decision.
If the car detects severe health issues, or simply how alert the driver is, then the car could take steps to ensure the driver is focussed enough on the driving task to take over. onitoring the physical health of the driver could
not only detect the onset of sudden and serious illness that may incapacitate the driver, but also allow the car to monitor driver stress levels.
This would then allow the car to help reduce stress, for example by changing mood lighting, audio settings and climate control.
JLR also has a redictive Infotainment Screenprototype that uses cameras embedded in the car to track the driver hand movements
and this enables the system to predict which button the driver intends to press. This allows successful button selection to take place in mid-air,
which means users wouldn have to touch the screen itself. In user trials this increases the speed of successful button selection by 22 per cent and therefore reduces the amount of time the driver is looking at the screen with their eyes off the road.
The system could also use mid-air touch to provide the driver with a sensation,
otherwise known as haptic feedback, that their button selection has been successful. Mid-air touch uses ultrasonics to create a touch sensation in mid-air without the skin needing to be in contact with any surface.
The sensations could include a apon your finger or a inglingon your fingertips. As touch provides an immediate response to the brain,
there will be no need for the driver to glance at the screen for visual confirmation which would help keep their gaze on the road ahead.
Haptics could also be used to communicate with the driver through the accelerator pedal to increase the speed of response
and to ensure the correct action is taken. To create these sensations in the accelerator pedal, an actuator sits at the top of the pedal arm
and allows for vibrations or pulses to be passed through to the foot of the driver.
The technology also uses a torque motor which can create resistance in the pedal feel.
Alternatively, if you were crawling along in traffic a timely warning through the accelerator could prevent you bumping into the car in front a
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