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James earns Doctor of Pharmacy degree

Posted: Published on June 24th, 2012

Special to The T&D The Times and Democrat | Posted: Sunday, June 24, 2012 5:00 am | Kellee T. James, daughter of Constance J. Brooks, has earned a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C. James will begin her first year of post-graduate residency at the University of California, San Francisco, in July. She is also a graduate of Felton Laboratory School, Orangeburg-Wilkinson High School and Duke University in Durham, N.C. James has served as a student representative on the College of Pharmacy Curriculum Subcommittee, vice president of membership for the American Pharmacists Association, student chapter adviser for Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity Inc., secretary of the Phi Lambda Sigma National Pharmacy Leadership Society and tutor at Howard Universitys College of Pharmacy Center of Excellence, among others. She has been named to Howard Universitys School of Pharmacy deans list, served as a clinical skills challenge team member for the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, was a patient counseling finalist for the American Pharmacists Association, and recipient of the Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Award and American Pharmacy Association Leadership Training Award, among others. James has also volunteered for a variety of causes, including the American Heart Associations Go Red/Redskin … Continue reading

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Pharmacy contract in chaos as deadline looms

Posted: Published on June 24th, 2012

Maryan STREET Health Spokesperson 24 June 2012 MEDIA STATEMENT Pharmacy contract in chaos as deadline looms 900 pharmacies up and down the country are being forced to sign a contract for services this week with many not having had time to digest its contents, says Labours Health spokesperson Maryan Street. Pharmacists are essential, frontline, health service providers that New Zealanders see and rely on most, after their doctor. This contract, enforced by DHBs, introduces a new way of looking after people with long term conditions, such as the elderly, people with chronic illnesses and the very frail. It has potentially huge implications for the way pharmacists work and for the funding structures they work within, Maryan Street said. It also has a complicated funding formula which has no figures attached to it after 1 February 2013. The 160+ page, three year, contract for services gives pharmacists no knowledge as to the fee they will be paid after 1 February 2013, yet must be signed by 5pm on 26 June. This process is causing chaos. Pharmacists across the country dont know what they are signing up to, Maryan Street said. After inadequate answers from the Associate Minister of Health in the … Continue reading

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People's Pharmacy: Mouthwash as an insect repellent

Posted: Published on June 24th, 2012

Q: To keep your picnic area free of insects, put Listerine in a spray bottle and spray the outdoor table and chairs. You will be bug-free for a few hours, if not days. It doesn't hurt the environment, you or your pets. It's also inexpensive. A: Others also have recommended Listerine (or its house-brand counterpart) as a way of discouraging insect invaders. Perhaps the herbal ingredients (eucalyptol, menthol, thymol and methyl salicylate) that give amber Listerine its distinctive aroma also repel bugs. Q: I developed rosacea a few years ago. My wife told me to use Selsun Blue. I wash my hair with it and drag the suds down over my face. I thought this idea was bogus, but the rosacea disappeared. A: Rosacea is an inflammation of the skin that causes redness and bumps on the nose, forehead and cheeks. Dermatologists think it might be due to an immune response to fungi, bacteria or virus. Selsun Blue has antifungal activity. That might explain why many readers report this dandruff shampoo can be helpful against rosacea. Q: I quit Zoloft after nine years and suffered horrendous withdrawal symptoms: nausea; brain zaps; vertigo; headaches; digestive problems; and numbness and tingling in … Continue reading

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Caddo adds pharmacy classes

Posted: Published on June 24th, 2012

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) Caddo Parish high school seniors will be able to train as pharmacy technicians by taking a course that starts in August. The Times reports (http://bit.ly/MK0CD6) Fair Park High in Shreveport will add the two-semester course to its medical careers program. The class also will offer three hours of college credit through Bossier Parish Community College. Students who successfully complete the classes will be eligible to take the state licensing exam when they reach age 18. The community college will provide the instructor. The college offers a certificate program and associate degree in pharmacy technology. "We feel like the pharmacy technician program will be a really good fit at Fair Park with the medical careers program," said Renee Sears, director of dual enrollment at the community college. "The principal made very plain that he wants to afford his students the opportunity to earn a good wage while they are pursuing whatever (college) degree they want to pursue." Jobs for pharmacy technicians are expected to grow by 3 percent over the next six years. Pay for someone with a moderate amount of experience averages $27,000 a year, Sears said. ___ Information from: The Times, http://www.shreveporttimes.com View post: Caddo adds … Continue reading

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Treating epilepsy while trying to conceive

Posted: Published on June 24th, 2012

In the United States, epilepsy affects nearly one million women of childbearing age. Many women with epilepsy experience seizure exacerbations around the time of their menstrual periods, and that is thought to do to the cyclic hormones during the menstrual cycle, said Dr. Cynthia Harden, director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Care Center at North Shore-LIJ Health System. We are working on ways to treat specifically those hormone-exacerbated seizures for women with epilepsy. Years ago, women with the condition were discouraged from getting pregnant, but now, thanks to prenatal care and new treatment options, more than 90 percent of them deliver healthy babies, according to the Epilepsy Foundation. The most important thing that a neurologist will discuss with you is whether the seizures are under good control, said Harden. We really need to have the patient doing well with well-controlled seizures, hopefully no seizures or very mild, very infrequent seizures going into pregnancy. Medications often play an integral role in controlling seizures in epileptic women looking to conceive, Harden explained. Most of the medications we use have a fairly low-risk as far as birth defects, said Harden. So if the woman with epilepsy is taking one of those medications, usually its … Continue reading

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Dr Rima Laibow 4/4 Speaks on Codex Alimentarius – Video

Posted: Published on June 24th, 2012

23-06-2012 23:23 Dr Rima Laibow Speaks on Codex Alimentarius Global Eugenics -- Using Medicine To Kill' is a feature length documentary using a collaboration of various materials. It covers topics such as the swine flu, vaccines and vaccinations, quarantine, water, depopulation, eugenics, Monsanto, gm seeds, Agenda 21, and Codex Alimentarius. In 2008, BA Brooks, a director specialized in meanwhile at The New York Film Academy in the creation of digital movies, launched his first exclusive documentary created with videos downloaded from YouTube, a technique that was used successfully in the documentary at hand, Global EUGENlCS -- Using Medicine to Kill, from 2009, which in over two hours of footage, he could afford to treat a wide range of topics: the avian flu and swine and their possible genetic manipulation, the vaccines and the aggressive vaccination campaigns, the origins of AIDS / HIV , martial law, medical news, water, GD Searle and genetically modified food, Agenda 21 -- the imposition of "sustainable development", HR 875 -- the legislation enforcement of the Codex Alimentarius in the US and others, all of which can be grouped under a single logo -- eugenic politics. Follow this link: Dr Rima Laibow 4/4 Speaks on Codex … Continue reading

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Dr Rima Laibow 3/4 Speaks on Codex Alimentarius – Video

Posted: Published on June 24th, 2012

23-06-2012 23:23 Dr Rima Laibow Speaks on Codex Alimentarius Global Eugenics -- Using Medicine To Kill' is a feature length documentary using a collaboration of various materials. It covers topics such as the swine flu, vaccines and vaccinations, quarantine, water, depopulation, eugenics, Monsanto, gm seeds, Agenda 21, and Codex Alimentarius. In 2008, BA Brooks, a director specialized in meanwhile at The New York Film Academy in the creation of digital movies, launched his first exclusive documentary created with videos downloaded from YouTube, a technique that was used successfully in the documentary at hand, Global EUGENlCS -- Using Medicine to Kill, from 2009, which in over two hours of footage, he could afford to treat a wide range of topics: the avian flu and swine and their possible genetic manipulation, the vaccines and the aggressive vaccination campaigns, the origins of AIDS / HIV , martial law, medical news, water, GD Searle and genetically modified food, Agenda 21 -- the imposition of "sustainable development", HR 875 -- the legislation enforcement of the Codex Alimentarius in the US and others, all of which can be grouped under a single logo -- eugenic politics. See the rest here: Dr Rima Laibow 3/4 Speaks on … Continue reading

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Dr Rima Laibow 2/4 Speaks on Codex Alimentarius – Video

Posted: Published on June 24th, 2012

23-06-2012 23:24 Dr Rima Laibow Speaks on Codex Alimentarius Global Eugenics -- Using Medicine To Kill' is a feature length documentary using a collaboration of various materials. It covers topics such as the swine flu, vaccines and vaccinations, quarantine, water, depopulation, eugenics, Monsanto, gm seeds, Agenda 21, and Codex Alimentarius. In 2008, BA Brooks, a director specialized in meanwhile at The New York Film Academy in the creation of digital movies, launched his first exclusive documentary created with videos downloaded from YouTube, a technique that was used successfully in the documentary at hand, Global EUGENlCS -- Using Medicine to Kill, from 2009, which in over two hours of footage, he could afford to treat a wide range of topics: the avian flu and swine and their possible genetic manipulation, the vaccines and the aggressive vaccination campaigns, the origins of AIDS / HIV , martial law, medical news, water, GD Searle and genetically modified food, Agenda 21 -- the imposition of "sustainable development", HR 875 -- the legislation enforcement of the Codex Alimentarius in the US and others, all of which can be grouped under a single logo -- eugenic politics. Read the rest here: Dr Rima Laibow 2/4 Speaks on … Continue reading

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Predicting treatment response in central nervous system diseases: Simple way of avoiding dangerous side effects?

Posted: Published on June 24th, 2012

ScienceDaily (June 23, 2012) The commonly-used epilepsy drug, valproic acid (VPA), can have a highly beneficial effect on some babies born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the number one genetic killer during early infancy. But in about two-thirds of such cases it is either damaging or simply has no effect. Now, for the first time, researchers have found a way to identify which patients are likely to respond well to VPA prior to starting treatment. Their results have major implications, not just for SMA patients, but for other conditions treated with the drug such as migraine and epilepsy, and may even provide the conditions for turning VPA non-responders into responders, the researchers say. Dr. Lutz Garbes, from the Institute of Human Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany, will tell the annual conference of the European Society of Human Genetics on June 24 that he and his colleagues had analysed blood RNA samples from a small group of SMA patients who had been treated with VPA. They found, as expected, that only about one third of patients responded well. In an attempt to discover whether blood sampling was the most appropriate test method to use, they also looked at VPA response in … Continue reading

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Words best visual cues in autism test

Posted: Published on June 24th, 2012

Japanese researchers say people with autism usually gauge warmth or hostility through verbal rather than visual indicators such as facial expressions, and have identified the area of the brain that determines the process, according to a study released Saturday. The findings could lead to the development of an objective method to diagnose communication disorders or even a treatment for the symptoms, they said. "Autistic patients are known to have difficulty understanding jokes or ironic remarks where facial expressions and verbal content are incongruent, and the latest results underline this," said Hidenori Yamasue, an associate professor at the University of Tokyo who participated in the study. The research, published online by the PLoS ONE scientific journal, studied 15 adult males with autism spectrum disorders but no mental disabilities. The subjects were shown videos of a smiling actor reading negative words such as "dirty," and another with a disgusted expression saying positive words, such as "great." They were then asked to determine if the actors were friendly or hostile while changes in their brain activity were monitored via functional magnetic resonance imaging. The results showed they tended to place a greater emphasis on words instead of nonverbal cues and that brain activity … Continue reading

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