since the Epilepsy Foundation of America, uploading seizure-inducing content to its forums. They also targeted the kid who started The No-Cussing Club
#Colorado Struggles to Create First Pot Regulations Samples of marijuana are tested in an oven at Full Spectrum Laboratories in Denver.
Colorado is working toward becoming the first state to regulate production of medical marijuana. Regulators say pot consumers deserve to know what theyre smoking,
Right now, patients have no way to verify pot-shop claims that certain products are organic,
or how potent a strain might be. oeyou dont go into a Walgreens with a headache
when they buy marijuana, said Buckie Minor of Full Spectrum Laboratories in Denver, which currently does voluntary marijuana analysis for about 100 growers and dispensaries.
Minor and others in the pot business say industry standards are needed. But Colorado officials are having a tough time writing regulations for a product thats never been scrutinized
New mexico requires marijuana products to be labeled by strain and potency, and is planning by the end of the year to allow health inspectors to review samples.
But currently none of the 14 states that allow medical marijuana regulate how its grown. oetheres no experience with this,
said Dr. Alan Shackelford, a Denver physician heading up Colorados effort to write labeling and safety regulations for medical marijuana.
Colorado hopes to have in place by early next year some sort of labeling and inspection standard for marijuana sold commercially, under provisions of a new state law.
But its a daunting task. Physicians, pot shop owners and state regulators all say standards are needed
but guidelines dont exist. Some of the questions: -Should marijuana sellers be able to attach medical claims to their products?
What if no research exists to back up a claim that a certain strain of pot is best for,
say, pain or nausea? -Should medical pot be labeled by potency? Patients using over-the-counter and prescription drugs can read the medicines ingredients,
but no analogy exists for pots active ingredient, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. -What about chemicals, such as pesticides or fertilizers, used on marijuana plants?
Should those be limited, as they are for food and tobacco? -Agencies that routinely inspect farms,
restaurants and pharmaceutical factories have no experience regulating pot. Can they be tapped to inspect marijuana grows?
-What happens if someone gets sick from medical marijuana? Should growing operations have guidelines to limit contamination, such as mildew and mold?
oegiven the lack of USDA or other oversight of this agricultural industry, were at square one,
Shackelford said when introducing proposed regulations recently. According to regulators and physicians on the committee to establish regulations under the new law,
the recommendations are likely to include basic labeling requirements, including potency. The regulations are also likely to call for pot growers to submit random samples for state testing,
and rules for labeling pot products oeorganic. Shackelford says hell borrow from federal tobacco regulations for limits on chemicals that can be used in material to be smoked or ingested.
The regulations will also likely include the nations first guidelines for the safe production of hashish
which is concentrated marijuana. Hash production can be a fire risk because its often prepared using butane,
and sometimes hash is made using plastics that can leave unsafe carcinogens as residue. Matt Cook, who leads the Department of Revenue committee considering the new regulations,
conceded that state regulators face a challenge overseeing the state pot supply. oehow do I enforce this?
Cook asked Shackelford when the doctor was talking about limiting pesticide use on the plants. oei just dont want to create something that creates a regulatory nightmare for all of us.
But the so-called oeganjapreneuers working in the marijuana business say that regulation and safety standards are needed. oepatients are interested definitely to get as much information as they can about what theyre ingesting,
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#South korea Training Children as Dementia Supporters in One of the Worlds Fastest Aging Countries High school students in Seoul, South korea assist a woman with dementia at a nursing home.
They were stooped, hobbled, disoriented, fumbling around the house. They got confused in the bathtub and struggled up stairs that seemed to swim before them. oeoh,
it hurts, said Noh Hyun-ho, sinking to the ground. oei thought I was going to die,
said Yook Seo-hyun. There was surprisingly little giggling, considering that Hyun-ho, Seo-hyun and the others were actually perfectly healthy 11-to 13-year-old children.
Alzheimers disease and other dementias. As one of the worlds fastest-aging countries, with nearly 9 percent of its population over 65 already afflicted, South korea has opened a oewar on Dementia, spending money and shining floodlights on a disease that is,
here as in many places, riddled with shame and fear. South korea is training thousands of people,
and care for patients. The 11-to 13-year-olds, for instance, were in the governments oeaging-Friendly Comprehensive Experience Hall outside Seoul.
Besides the aging simulation exercise, they viewed a Powerpoint presentation defining dementia and were trained, in the halls Dementia Experience Center, to perform hand massage in nursing homes. oe
What did I do with my phone? Its in the refrigerator, said one instructor, explaining memory loss. oehave you seen someone like that?
They may go missing and die on the street. In another striking move, South korea is also pushing to make diagnoses early,
and bias, said Kim Hye-jin, director of senior policy for the Health and Welfare Ministry.
and give patients oea higher chance of being taken care of at home. Hundreds of neighborhood dementia diagnostic centers have been created.
Nursing homes have tripled nearly since 2008. Other dementia programs providing day care and home care, have increased fivefold since 2008, to nearly 20,000.
Care is subsidized heavily. And a government dementia database allows families to register relatives and receive iron-on identification numbers.
Citizens encountering wanderers with dementia report their numbers to officials, who contact families. To finance this, South korea created a long-term-care insurance system,
paid for with 6. 6 percent increases in peoples national health insurance premiums. In 2009, about $1 billion of government and public insurance money was spent on dementia patients.
Still, with the over-65 population jumping from 7 percent in 2000 to 14 percent in 2018 to 20 percent in 2026
dementia is straining the country, socially and economically. oeat least one family member has to give up work to provide caregiving,
said Kwak Young-soon, social welfare director for Mapo District, one of Seouls 25 geographic districts.
families may also lose dementia sufferers incomes. Most families no longer have generations living together to help with caregiving,
but oewe cant keep building nursing homes, Mr. Kwak said. oewe call it a ghost. Its basically eating up the whole house.
Dementia Epidemic South korea is at the forefront of a worldwide eruption of dementia from about 30 million estimated cases now to an estimated 100 million in 2050.
the National Alzheimers Project Act was introduced this year to establish a separate Alzheimers office to create oean integrated national plan to overcome Alzheimers.
whose late husband had Alzheimers. South korea also worries that dementia, previously stigmatized as oeghost-seeing
or oeones second childhood could oedilute respect for elders, Mr. Kwak said. oetheres a saying that even the most filial son
So the authorities promote the notion that filial piety implies doing everything possible for elders with dementia,
disease of knowledge and the brain which makes adults become babies. But South koreas low birth rate will make family caregiving tougher. oei feel
as if a tsunamis coming, said Lee Sung-hee, the South korean Alzheimers Association president, who trains nursing home staff members,
or neglecting patients, and advocating for preserving their skills and self-esteem. One tip: give demented relatives oea washing pan
she told 200 senior citizens interested in nursing home jobs or family caregiving advice. If patients say, oe Im good at making soy soup,
but forget ingredients, guide them step by step, she advised. Otherwise, oethey may make it into salt soup,
Mr. Kwak, the local government official, arranges for nursery school classes to play games with nursing home patients
saying that it destigmatizes dementia and that patients who oeregress to earlier days may oefind it easier to relate to young children.
And Dr. Yang Dong-won, who directs one of many government-run diagnostic centers in Seoul,
has visited kindergartens, bringing tofu. oethis is very soft, like the brain, he said, letting it crash down.
and saying, oe Daddy, dont drink so much because its not good for dementia. At a Dementia March outside the World cup Soccer Stadium
children carried signs promoting Dr. Yangs Mapo district center: oemake the Brain Smile! and oehow is Your Memory?
Free diagnosis center in Mapo. The Mapo Center for Dementia perches at a busy crossroads of old and new, near a university and a shop selling naturopathic goat extracts.
It has exercise machines out front and a van with pictures of smiling elderly people. Even people without symptoms come,
Dr. Yang said. They are oeeased by hearing, You do not have dementia and can visit two years later.
Cha Kyong-hos family was wary of getting him tested. oedementia was a subject to hide,
said his daughter, Cha Jeong-eun. oei worried his pride would be hurt going through this kindergarten experience.
Dr. Yang asked, oewhat do you call dog and tiger? oei call them dog and tiger. oepencil and brush?
Dr. Yang said. oethis is the very beginning stages of Alzheimers disease. He suggested that Mr. Cha get a government-subsidized brain M. R i. to confirm the diagnosis,
and said drugs might delay symptoms slightly. He recommended Mapos free programs oeto stimulate what brain cells he has.
These include rooftop garden oefloral therapy, art classes making realistic representations of everyday objects, music therapy with bongos sounding oelike a heartbeat.
Mr. Cha sighed. oei think, he said, gesturing toward his brain, oethat somethings wrong with this,
Students as Helpers Schools offer community service credit, encouraging work with dementia patients, whom students call grandmas and grandpas.
Teenage girls do foot massage at the Cheongam nursing home, which is run by Mrs. Lee, the Alzheimers Association president,
for women without sons to care for them. In South korea, sons families traditionally shoulder caregiving responsibilities.
During one massage session, 16-year-old Oh Yu-mi rubbed a patients toes, saying:
17, was shaken to realize that dementia could explain why her grandfather recently grabbed a taxi
A patient wept as the girls left, upsetting 16-year-old Kim Min-joon, the massage groups leader.
She said social workers suggested being less effusive to patients so the girls leaving would be less traumatic:
A boys high school selects top students to help at Seobu Nursing Center, doing art therapy
and attempting physical therapy with dances and oeballoon badminton (the racket is stretched pantyhose on a frame).
The boys write observations to help Seobu adjust programs. At school, they wrote questions on the blackboard:
got Alzheimers, and oei would just feel it was annoying and walk out of the room, he said. oeshe would ask to do an activity,
The dementia caregiving program had made him oewonder why I wasnt able to do that with my own grandma,
a patient half his height with missing teeth who laughed, but spoke incoherently. oewhen I come next time,
maybe you should try applying the extra ingredients to your face, body and hair instead According to skin and beauty expert Stacy Cox, who runs the Pampered People spa in Los angeles,
I offer a facial with pumpkin enzymes all year long at my spa, said Cox.
she said turkey meat isnt exactly a traditional spa ingredient. Instead of putting turkey or your eyes or body,
and act as an instant narcotic so you can wind down from Thanksgiving while wearing your pumpkin mask,
The city of Alphen aan den Rijn ordered the study five years ago after officials found unexplained abnormalities on trees that couldnt be ascribed to a virus or bacterial infection.
Additional testing found the disease to occur throughout the Western world. In The netherlands, about 70 percent of all trees in urban areas show the same symptoms,
#Plants and Animals Fending Off Diseases! This is a plant nothing touches! Contrary to long-held beliefs, plants and animals have developed remarkably similar mechanisms for detecting microbial invasions.
This holds promise for the future treatment of infectious diseases in humans. It may have been 1 billion years
and resisting diseases. This revelation was arrived at over a period of 15 years by teams of researchers from seemingly disparate fields who have used classical genetic studies to unravel the mysteries of disease resistance in plants and animals
according to a historical overview that will appear in the Nov 19 issue of the journal Science.
The report, written by Pamela Ronald, a UC Davis plant pathologist, and Bruce Beutler, an immunologist and mammalian geneticist at The Scripps Research Institute, describes how researchers have used common approaches to tease apart the secrets of immunity in species ranging from fruit flies to rice.
It also forecasts where future research will lead. oeincreasingly, researchers will be intent on harnessing knowledge of host sensors to advance plant
drug targets to control deadly bacteria for which there are currently no effective treatments, she said.
which the receptor resides to mount an immune response and fend off microbial infection and disease. Beutler and Ronald have played key roles in this chapter of scientific discovery.
In 1995, Ronald identified the first such receptor a rice gene known as known as Xa21 and in 1998
Their overview in Science includes illustrated descriptions of the disease-resistance or immunity pathways in the mouse, Drosophila fruit fly,
and respond to infection. The 1980s brought about an intense hunt for the genes that control production of the receptor proteins, followed by an oeavalanche of newly discovered receptor genes and mechanisms in the 1990s.
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The marine/terrestrial similarities are reflected also in the body condition and health of species, the researchers noted.
The final third of his daily intake came in the form of a multivitamin pill and a protein shake
said Dawn Jackson Blatner, a dietitian from Atlanta, Georgia. Is that the bottom line to being healthy?
How much does that affect the risk for cancer? We cant measure how diet changes our health,
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#Treegreetings The ecard That Plants a Tree Featured invention at the Davinci Inventor Showcase Treegreetings...
It is likely that the gene transfer was mediated by a parasite or a pathogen. The debate over genetically modified organisms (GMOS) is heated.
The most plausible explanation is that the gene was transmitted by a parasite or pathogen, such as a virus, perhaps with the help of a sap-sucking insect, says Professor Bengtsson.
Lead researcher Dr Joy Singarayer from the University of Bristol, said: Our current studies on crop reflectivity are at an early stage,
as they suggest that simply by choosing to plant specific strains of crops, we could alter the reflectivity of vast tracts of land
where Dr. Rush scribbled in chalk, oelots of firms and lots of buyers. The curtains were drawn in the dorm room.
The University of Florida broadcasts and archives Dr. Rushs lectures less for the convenience of sleepy students like Mr. Patel than for a simple principle of economics:
Dr. Joos said in a peppy voice recently to about 60 students who had logged on.
As Dr. Joos lectured, a chat box scrolled with students comments and questions. The topic was sexual identity,
which Dr. Joos defined as oea determination made through the application of socially agreed upon biological criteria for classifying persons as females and males.
which has been linked to heart disease and is high in calories. And Dairy management, which has made cheese its cause,
Dr. Walter C. Willett, chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public health and a former member of the federal governments nutrition advisory committee, said:
while switching to unsaturated fats has been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease. The departments nutrition committee issued a new standard this summer calling for saturated fat not to exceed 7 percent of total calories, about 15.6 grams in a 2, 000-calorie-a-day diet.
a Dairy management official said it was inspired by newly relaxed federal rules on health claims and the ensuing oerapid growth of better for you products.
It was based on research by Michael B. Zemel, a University of Tennessee nutritionist and author of oethe Calcium Key:
Dr. Zemel said in interviews and e-mails, but in part it involves counteracting a hormone that fosters fat deposits
Dairy management licensed Dr. Zemels research, promoted his book and enlisted a team of scientific advisers who oeidentified further research to develop more aggressive claims in the future, according to a campaign strategy presentation.
and at scientific meetings she heard from other researchers who also failed to confirm Dr. Zemels work,
including Dr. Jack A. Yanovski, an obesity unit chief at the National institutes of health. But in late 2006, Dairy management was still citing the weight-loss claim in urging the Agriculture department not to cut the amount of cheese in federal food assistance programs. oethe available data provide strong support for a beneficial effect of increased
two organization officials wrote, making no mention of Dr. Harvey-Berinos findings. Having dismissed the weight-loss claim in 2005
when the Federal trade commission acted on a two-year-old petition by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine,
its pretty hard to identify a contributor more significant than this meteoric rise in cheese consumption, Dr. Neal D. Barnard,
president of the physicians group, said in an interview. The trade commission notified the group that Agriculture department
Dr. Zemel said he remained hopeful that his findings would eventually be upheld. Meanwhile Dairy management, which allotted $12. 4 million for nutrition research in 2008, has moved on to finance studies on promising opportunities,
whose cheese oehabit outpaces their concern about the health risks, Dairy management documents show. One study gave them a name:
The research was led by Professor Ryszard Maleszka of The Australian National Universitys College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, working with colleagues from the German Cancer Institute in Heidelberg,
¢Tuna fish Eyes The fatty, jellylike tissue around the eyeballs of a tuna fish is considered to be a great delicacy in Japan that costs about US $1.
you can buy this oehealth drink that many Hindus believe has medicinal qualities. A sacred animal in India, urine from the cow is distilled before it is blended with traditional Indian herbs and medicinal plants.
One brand, Gauloka Peya, is available in four flavors: orange, khus (fragrant grass), rose and lemon.¢
the bigger a gourd gets the more physical stress it experiences thus triggering giant pumpkins to grow even more. oetheir weight generates tension,
such as how tissues cope under stress, Hu says. All giant pumpkins are grown from a single strain, the Atlantic Giant seed,
which has a longer growing season than normal pumpkins. The fruits start out round, but once they get to about 220 pounds they begin to flatten under their own weight,
Hus group squashed regular-sized gourds in the lab see how much stress they could take before rupturing.
The researchers then created a mathematical model of how the fruits could accommodate the stress.
or irreversible, deformation allows the fruit to distribute stresses so it can grow sometimes adding 50 pounds a day without breaking.
Eating almonds can help the body to fight off viral infections such as the common cold and flu, according to new research.
A new study has revealed that naturally occurring chemicals found in the skin of the nut boost the immune systems response to such infections.
including those that cause flu and the common cold. They said although they have still to carry out research on how many almonds must be eaten to obtain a beneficial effect,
while it could also help those already infected to fight off their illness. Dr Giuseppina Mandalari, from the Institute of Food Research, said:
oealmond skins are able to stimulate the immune response and thus contribute to an antiviral immune defence.
The researchers, whose work is published in the scientific journal Immunology Letters and was funded by the Almond Board of California,
found that even after digestion in a laboratory simulation of a human gut, the almonds skins were still able to increase the immune response.
They tested the immune response to infection by the Herpes simplex virus 2, which can cause cold sores and is a notoriously difficult virus to treat due to its ability to evade the immune system by dampening down the bodys inflammatory response.
They found that almond skin extracts were effective against even this virus . But they found that almond skins that had been removed through blanching in boiling water,
The researchers say they are still to identify exactly what it is in almond skins that cause the antiviral activity,
Dr Martin Wickham, who was involved also in the study at the Institute of Food Research
oeit is an area of huge interest to find natural alternatives that will have an antiviral activity. oenutritional guidelines recommend eating around three ounces a day to benefit from the fibre and other nutritional components in almonds,
whether this would be enough to have an antiviral affect. oethis was just an initial study to find out
if almond skins have this antiviral activity. oethe herpes simplex virus is a very good model of viral infection
An 11-year study of a population of wild sheep located on a remote island off the coast of Scotland that gauged the animals susceptibility to infection may give new insight into why some people get sicker than others when exposed to the same illness.
The answer to this medical puzzle may lie in deep-rooted differences in how animals survive and reproduce in the wild,
The scientists tested the animals for levels of antibodies, natural molecules produced by the sheeps immune systems to fend off infections such as influenza
or those caused by parasitic worms. The sheep whose blood contained the most antibodies lived the longest, the researchers found.
These animals also were most likely to survive harsh winters. However they failed to produce as many offspring each spring as other sheep.
Sheep with lower levels of antibodies tended to die earlier, they found, but also gave birth to more lambs each year.
The tendency to form either strong or weak responses to infection ran in families in the sheep
If differing responses to infection still result in equal long-term reproductive success, she said, this means oeselection seems actually to be maintaining this genetic variation in immunity.
Such a balance could help explain why vaccines seem to protect some people better than others
when exposed to the same infection. oewe have suspected long that strong immune responses should prolong life in the face of infections,
Graham said. oeto find evidence for such tradeoff may clarify why animals vary so much in the strength of their immune responses,
and even in their predisposition to infection or autoimmunity. The technique used to study immunology in the wild was vital to the importance of the study, according to Lynn Martin, an assistant professor in the department of integrative biology at the University of South Florida. oefor so long,
when the body exhibits such a strong immune response that it attacks its own tissues. The study suggests that autoimmunity,
seen in such human diseases as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, might also occur in the wild.
This aspect of the study needs to be explored further, Graham said. The study is significant
said Read, an expert in the evolutionary genetics of infectious disease. In addition to Graham, authors on the paper include Adam Hayward, Kathryn Watt, Jill Pilkington, Josephine Pemberton and Daniel Nussey, all of the University of Edinburgh.
#Watermelon May Cut the Risk of Heart attacks and Strokes Watermelon lowers blood pressure. A dose of watermelon a day could help keep high blood pressure at bay.
Researchers have discovered that the fruit is rich in compounds that widen blood vessels -and may cut the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
And a daily fix of its juices could be enough to lower blood pressure in patients suffering from hypertension, according to a study.
High blood pressure, which affects more than 16million men and women in the UK, doubles the risk of a fatal heart attack or stroke and is blamed for more than 60,
000 deaths a year. But watermelon is an edible source of L-citrulline-a compound vital in the production of nitric oxide,
a gas that widens blood vessels. Researchers in the U s. gave a group of volunteers a daily dose of 6g,
All of those taking part had pre-hypertension, or borderline high blood pressure. After six weeks, readings had improved in all nine participants,
with none experiencing any side-effects. But there is one catch-youd need to eat one -and-a-half watermelons a day to achieve the same effect.
Dr Arturo Figueroa of Florida State university, said: These findings suggest that this functional food has a vasodilatory effect,
and one that may prevent pre-hypertension from progressing to full-blown hypertension, a major risk factor for heart attacks and strokes.
By functional foods, we mean those foods scientifically shown to have health-promoting or disease-preventing properties,
above and beyond the other intrinsically healthy nutrients they also supply. The researchers found that watermelons with orange flesh contain more L-citrulline than those with red flesh.
is credited with a host of health benefits, from warding off cancer to boosting fertility. Fortunately for those who arent fond of the fruit
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