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Researchers say a combination of anti-retrovirals and Chinese traditional medicine is more effective at rebuilding the immune system.

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This picture taken on February 28, 2017, shows a sample of "Ejiao," a form of Chinese traditional medication derived from boiled donkey skin, displayed in factory packaging at a licensed specialised slaughterhouse in Baringo.

There are around 600,000 people infected with HIVin China, but many of those patientsstruggle to access the anti-retroviral medicine they need.

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)has long been used to supplement western treatments. China is planning to increase the use of the alternative therapiesto fight AIDS.

According to the researchers, ancient recipes have proven effective in treating illnesses associated with HIV.

But critics say TCM studies haven't been large enough in scale, and lack scientific collaboration between western and Chinese professionals.

The World Health Organization advises caution, saying it only recommends anti-retrovirals for the treatment of HIV. According to the WHO, traditional medicines may only have an adjunct role in improving the patient's overall well-being.

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company that sells a new opioid-addiction medication is a secret funder of an advocacy group fronted by Newt Gingrich and Patrick Kennedy that ispushing for more government funding and insurance coverage ofsuch treatments.

Gingrich, the former Republican House speaker and a Trump confidant, andKennedy, a former congressman and son of former US Senator Edward Kennedy, are paid advisors to Advocates for Opioid Recovery. They have generated a flurry of media attention in those roles, including joint interviews with outlets ranging fromFox Newstothe New Yorker.

Gingrich told STAT this week he didnt know who was funding Advocates for Opioid Recovery, and the nonprofit groups officials refused to disclose its financial backers.

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The answer, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is Braeburn Pharmaceuticals Inc. The private company, based in Princeton, N.J., won approval last year to market an implant that continuously dispenses the opioid addiction medicine buprenorphine.

Opioid treatment group fronted by Newt Gingrich and Patrick Kennedy keeps its funders secret

In a prospectus filed with the SEC in late January as part of a now-postponed effort to take the company public, Braeburn disclosed it entered into an agreement to make a $900,000 charitable donation to Advocates for Opioid Recovery. The filing indicates the company had paid $675,000 to the nonprofit group as of Sept. 30. It did not specify when the remaining funds would be paid.

The filing indicates Braeburn entered into the agreement to fund the nonprofit group through the private equity fund that owns the drugmaker.

That fund, called Apple Tree Partners, is also an investor inCleanSlate Addiction Treatment Centers. Kennedy has been a member of the board of directors of CleanSlate since 2015. The treatment center is also a sponsor of the Kennedy Forum, a mental health advocacy outfit headed by Patrick Kennedy.

Anne Woodbury, a former Gingrich aide who serves as executive director of Advocates for Opioid Recovery, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A request for comment from Braeburn was also not immediately returned.

Kennedy declined to be interviewed this week, as didVan Jones, the CNN commentator and former Obama aide who is another paid adviser. Earlier this week, Woodbury and a spokesman for the nonprofit refused to say who was funding it, adding thatthe donors wanted to remain anonymous.

Can a pricey implant to treat opioid addiction save lives and money?

While there iswidespread supportin the treatment community for use of the medicines being promoted by the three men, there is growing concern about misuse of the drugs. And some addiction experts have expressed skepticism that the Braeburn implant will be an effective treatment option.There are alternative opioid-addiction treatments that do not rely on medication, including abstinence-based and behavioral therapy programs.

Last month, Braeburn shelved a planned initial public offering, citing poor market conditions. The companys implant drug, branded as Probuphine,relies on four tiny rods implanted under the skin of the upperarm todispense the addiction-treatment drugbuprenorphinefor six months at a time.

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Most occupations probably cannot boast that 93 percent of their members find their work rewarding and that 91 percent think it makes the world a better place, as discovered in a recent survey of U.S. physicians. Yet that research also suggests those numbers can drop precipitously when physician burnout increases.

The purpose of the study, published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, was to evaluate the association between professional burnout and physicians sense of calling. Researchers found physicians who experience burnout are, indeed, less likely to view medicine as a calling, as measured by true-false responses to six survey items, including I find my work rewarding, My work is one of the most important things in my life, and If I were financially secure, I would continue with my current line of work even if I were no longer paid.

Almost 30 percent of the more than 2,200 respondents reported experiencing some level of burnout. Physician views on calling that varied the least between those who were not burned out and those who were completely burned out were for the item, My work makes the world a better place. More than 83 percent of physicians who were completely burned out responded affirmatively to this item, which was only 14 percent lower than those who reported no burnout.

The calling item with the greatest response difference was I would choose my current work life again if I had the opportunity, to which completely burned-out physicians responded affirmatively less than 32 percent of the time, a difference of 61 percent from those unaffected by burnout. On the I find my work rewarding item, nearly all physician respondents unaffected by burnout98 percentagreed with the statement. In contrast, just 65 percent of completely burned-out physicians said they find their work rewarding.

Given the personal and collective-level consequences of medicine as a calling, concerns have been raised that the changing physician workplace may be eroding such a professional identity, the studys authors wrote. Over the past decade, the rapid adoption of electronic health records and the proliferation of pay-for-performance metrics have markedly altered how physicians experience their everyday work lives.

Although detrimental to the well-being of physicians, professional burnout is also associated with lower patient satisfaction, increased medical errors, poorer health outcomes and higher health care costs, wrote the authors, Andrew J. Jager, Michael A. Tutty, PhD, and Audiey Kao, MD, PhD. Jager and Dr. Kao work in the AMAs Ethics Standards Group, of whom the latter is vice president. Tutty is group vice president of Professional Satisfaction and Practice Sustainability at the AMA.

Given the significance of outcomes linked to burnout, promoting physician wellbeing is seen as an essential element of successful health system transformation, leading some to refer to a quadruple aim that explicitly recognizes the need for physician and care team well-being, they added.

With passage of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015, the authors noted, the health care system is poised for transformation, so the time is right to implement system-wide changes that advance the goals of the quadruple aim. At the 2016 AMA Annual Meeting, the House of Delegates adopted policy on the quadruple aim, adding the goal of improving the work-life balance of physicians and other health care providers to the existing triple aim of improving population health and patients care experiences while cutting per capital health care costs.

The AMA also has policy encouraging further studies and disseminating the results of studies on physician and medical student burnout to the medical education and physician community. AMA policy supports programs to assist physicians in early identification and management of stress, focusing on the physical, emotional and psychological aspects of responding to stress in physicians' professional and personal lives, as well as when to seek professional assistance for stress-related difficulties.

In addition, the AMA last year adopted policy supporting strategies to destigmatize mental illness and enable timely and affordable access to mental health services for undergraduate and graduate students. It also supports collaborations among university mental health specialists and local public or private practices to provide a larger pool of resources, such that any student is able to access care in a timely and affordable manner.

The AMAsSTEPS Forward collection of practice improvement strategies helps physicians make transformative changes to their practices. It offers modules onpreventing physician burnout in practice,preventing resident and fellow burnoutandimproving physician resiliency.

The Physician Wellness section of AMA Wire features ongoing coverage of issues related to burnout, including advice from experts in achieving work-life balance.

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Dr. Ari Levy, a former member of the medical team for the Chicago Blackhawks, says hell never forget how his peers looked at him when, as a freshman at Highland Park High School, he stood just 4-feet-9-inches tall because of a kidney condition.

I could see how people would look at you differently, says Levy, now 38, living in Lake View and heading a River North startup health and fitness venture called SHIFT that combines personalized training with medical care.

His parents helped him take responsibility for his own health, taking daily medications and testing the level of protein in his urine. By 15, he overcame his condition.

He got his medical degree from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Chicago, which he started working on while doing his residency in internal medicine.

After starting a workplace wellness-consulting firm, he raised $3 million in private equity funding for SHIFT, a high-end, all-in-one workout, health-care and well-being center that opened in February on North Orleans Street. Levy spoke the Chicago Sun-Times Sandra Guy about his vision. An edited transcript follows.

Question: Whats SHIFT?

Answer: It really started 19 years ago, when I sent one of my brothers an email with a bunch of my first ideas, including combining a gym with a doctors office. We bring together experts in fitness, nutrition, medicine and recovery.

Goals, habits and accountability are such an important part of the SHIFT experience. A lot of us think were climbing Mount Everest to do whatever our goals and aspirations are. But it just takes one step a little shift which leads to another one.

SHIFT offers three memberships: The basic starts at $3,000 for personalized medical well-being care; $4,300 for people who travel or prefer remote personalized fitness and medical oversight; and a yearly $6,000, or $550 a month, for making day-to-day lifestyle changes in eating, exercising and recovery. The programs are covered by most health savings and flexible spending accounts but not by medical insurance.

Q: How do you get to your goal of opening this up to communities in the direst need?

A: I hope SHIFT proves so successful we can be in a position to work in underserved communities. Im not doing this to be a wealthy man. Im here to help people live better.

Q: Youve shifted several times walking away from the tennis team in college to become an emergency medical technician and focus on medical studies; becoming a personal trainer; selling part of your former company, Engaged Health Solutions, and shutting the rest of it to focus on the new venture.

A: When I say Im going to do something, rest assured it will happen. I know when Im not thriving at a goal any longer. I am very aware of when Im not totally alive, excited and thrilled, and pushing on all cylinders. For eight years, up until this past year, I was one of the Blackhawks team internists. I had the fortunate experience of seeing the team win three Stanley Cups. But it was a natural transition to leave after eight years to focus on SHIFT and attend to the moving pieces of this wonderful opportunity.

Dr. Ari Levy. | James Foster / Sun-Times

Q: You credit your parents with being your advocates in your health care.

A: My father, Hezi Levy, was a Davis Cup tennis player for Israel in the 1970s. He met my mom and decided that was his new profession. His literacy level was very low. Yet he worked real hard. He modeled what it was like to get up every day, work hard and be a good husband and father and helped show us how to live in this world. He taught tennis in the late 1970s and early 1980s at Lakeshore Athletic Club in Lincoln Park.

My mom, who grew up in Skokie, was teaching English as a second language in Israel when she stumbled upon this tennis pro. She worked as a travel agent and later became a personal trainer. She was a wonderful, strong maternal influence on all of us. She ensured that education was a priority.

Q: What do you do for fun?

A: I play with my kids Gabrielle, 5, and Benjamin, who will be 3 in April. I hang out with my wife Alicia and my friends. I love to exercise. In the morning, exercise is calming for me. I dont have a specific routine. I try to constantly challenge my body and allow it to repair and recover. I run, swim or row for cardio. I play tennis. I do weights or resistance training. And I love group workouts.

Dr. Ari Levy. | James Foster / Sun-Times

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Candy Gunther Brown's The Healing Gods is an effort to explain how Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) entered the American cultural mainstream, and especially how it achieved a niche among evangelical and other theologically conservative Christians, although much of CAM is religious but not distinctively Christian and lacks scientific evidence of efficacy and safety.

This is surprising in part because many CAM providers make religious or spiritual assumptions about why CAM works, assumptions inspired by selective interpretations of multifaceted religious traditions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism (Daoism) that developed in Asia or metaphysical spirituality that grew up in Europe and North America. It is surprising also because a half-century ago these same practices and therapies were religiously questionable among Evangelicals. She wonder What causes practices that most Americans once classified as illegitimate for medical and religious reasons to be redefined as legitimate routes to physical and spiritual wellness?

Her central argument is that CAM promoters strategically marketed products to consumers poised by suboptimal health to embrace effective, spiritually wholesome therapies. Once-suspect health practices became mainstream as practitioners recategorized them as nonreligious (though generically spiritual) health-care, fitness, or scientific techniquescongruent with popular understandings of quantum physics and neurosciencerather than as religious rituals. CAM makes dubious use of recent developments in physics to argue that matter is simply a form of energy. Recast as science and secular rather than religious, the way was smoothed for them to become mainstream, even among cautious Evangelicals.

Brown is suspicious, not to say cynical, about this mainstreaming, but there's an alternative explanation. Much of modern medicine assumes a mechanistic materialism very much at odds with Christian understandings of matter and bodies. It's not hard to see why biblically-oriented Christians might gravitate to therapies and practices that promise to treat the whole person - therapies that recognize there's a whole person to treat.

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Princeton HealthCare Systems decision to become a part of the University of Pennsylvanias medical division will mean more care for Central Jersey residents suffering from complex medical conditions, the head of Princeton HealthCare said Thursday.

So we are anxious to be able to take care of people who, now, we would discharge from our emergency department or from the hospital to another provider for care, President and CEO Barry S. Rabner told the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce.

So in partnership with Penn, we expect to be able to do more locally with cancer care, neurosciences, womens health services, he said in citing examples.

At the same time, he offered some perspective of how he envisioned the flagship hospital on Route 1 once it becomes part of Penn Medicine.

We do not aspire to become the Penn that you know downtown or Johns Hopkins or Mass General or New York Presbyterian or any other of these terrific hospitals, Rabner said. But we do expect to be able to provide more care in the acute care hospital for more complex medical cases than we do now.

Earlier in his remarks, Rabner outlined the decision to join Penn Medicine, one of the top financially performing health systems in the country.

I guess, in a word, the reason were doing it is you, because you folks, as employers, have finally hit the wall in terms of how much youre able to pay in premiums for your health insurance, either for your employees or for your family, he said. And weve been predicting that wall for thirty or forty years, but its actually happening.

He said the pressure that customers put on their health insurers, in turns leads companies like Horizon to pressure hospitals to reduce costs.

So weve been working on it, Rabner said, but it hasnt been enough.

He said Princeton HealthCare looked at 17 different potential partners, a yearlong process that ended with the selection of Penn Medicine. The two sides signed an agreement a few months ago, although New Jersey and federal regulators have to approve. Some 16,000 pages of information, for example, had to be submitted to the New Jersey Attorney Generals Office, with a review taking anywhere from six to nine months. Rabner was confident the state would approve.

Were really optimistic about the outcome because, at the end of the day, hundreds of millions of dollars are coming into New Jersey to be used by a not-for-profit organization to improve clinical care and access to the people of the state, he said. So thats as close to motherhood and apple pie as I can think of.

Rabner said Penn Medicine would make capital investments to improve Princetons clinical capabilities, its information technology system, among other things. None of that can happen until regulators approve.

But the challenge for us is, the way the rules work, were not allowed to actually do anything practical until we have all the governmental approvals in place, Rabner said. So were spending a lot of time being nice to each other, thinking and planning, so that the day after we get the approvals, we can move forward and make the investments that are necessary.

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US nixed India's plea on reforms in medicine The Hindu A month after the 140th World Health Organisation's (WHO) Executive Board meeting, a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) response has revealed that the United States government had opposed including agenda items proposed by India, which aimed at ...

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GROVE CITY (WCMH) Grove City Police arrested two men who robbed Advanced Family Medicine on Thursday.

Alexander Bond, 26, of Circleville and Robert Kean, 39, of Harrisburg allegedly threatened employees and patients at knifepoint and stole a cashbox full of money. They fled in a silver SUV.

Witnesses at the scene helped police find the suspects hiding in a backyard shed.

Kean was charged with aggravated robbery, and Bond with aggravated robbery using a deadly weapon.

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A new hospital is coming to the Health Sciences Campus over the next few years, which the University hopes will expand medical care at the Keck School of Medicine.

President C. L. Max Nikias announced the construction of the hospital at his State of the University address on Feb. 14. According to Keck Dean Rohit Varma, the announcement could not have come at a more appropriate time.

Our current hospital and facilities are very old, Varma said. We spend a fair amount of money fixing the infrastructure of the current hospital tens of millions of dollars. The needs of the hospital have grown to the point where we need much more modernized space and equipment to provide care.

Keck maintains three facilities: the Keck Hospital of USC, the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital and the USC Verdugo Hills Hospital. The largest one, Keck Hospital, opened in 1991 and serves as a research and teaching hospital with 401 licensed beds. Seven of the hospitals medical specialties have earned a top 50 national ranking from U.S. News and World Report.

Varma is confident that the new hospital will also contribute specialized and complex services.

This new building will primarily be for providing high-end, in-patient care, Varma said. This includes cancer care, care for patients with heart disease and stroke [and] patients who have undergone transplants.

Thomas Jackiewicz, the CEO and senior vice president of Keck Medicine of USC, is optimistic that the new hospital will implement emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and nanotechnology. He envisions a hospital that will incorporate these technologies in treatments while making patients feel comfortable and at home.

The challenge is making sure we plan this hospital for the future, Jackiewicz said. [That means] taking in new technologies and really thinking about the totality of the experience of the patient coming in.

Jackiewicz also believes that the hospital can increase access to health care for low-income groups who live near USC. One of his priorities is to ensure that Keck benefits the local community.

Today, 20 percent of Keck patients are on the Medi-Cal program, Jackiewicz said. Its not about insurance its about being a resource and being committed to the community.

However, construction on the hospital will likely not begin until 2020. According to the California Health Care Foundation, organizations must first go through a planning phase, including a needs assessment, blueprint and budget for the hospital. Then, the project will undergo a design phase, in which the organization will finalize designs and submit drawings and specifications for official approval and a building permit. Once the project has been approved by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development and the permit has been granted, bidding for the construction contract can start.

Our first steps are to get a good idea of the site location, services that we want to give, modeling the impact [of the hospital] and looking at the projected demographic changes in Los Angeles, Jackiewicz said. We want to be a hospital that focuses on Los Angeles and the Southwest: We want to meet the needs of our community.

Some aspiring doctors are excited about the learning opportunities a new hospital will bring. One such individual is Scott Valena, a sophomore majoring in human biology who is interested in applying to the Keck School of Medicine.

I think that its very noteworthy that USC is continuing to improve the future of healthcare with the development of this new hospital, Valena said. With so many advances in medical and surgical techniques, its important to have facilities that are capable of providing the highest level of care for high priority patients.

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Whenever I consider my time in medical school, I am surprised by how quickly I have been able to cultivate a sense of belonging at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, far from home and in a very unfamiliar setting. After all, I grew up in a single-parent household with my dad in a small, weary mill town in central Massachusetts called Ware. He was a carpenter who always carried at least two jobs to make ends meet. I did not really thrive in medical school until my first rotation on the wards, where I was reintroduced to my kind of people patients. I saw aspects of my father in one of our frequent flyer veterans with resistant hypertension and substance abuse. I saw my grandmother and her 100 pack-year smoking history in my first patient admitted with achronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseexacerbation. I saw my best friends deceased father in the lineman admitted with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. My past has allowed me to quickly relate to and bond with my patients. My love of these relationships has solidified my career choice of internal medicine.

Upon reflection, I can start to see why I have felt comfortable working on the wards. I have worked in restaurants since I was old enough to have a job, and I am all too familiar with the chaos of the kitchen during a dinner rush or the complaints of difficult patrons. Although the setting has changed, many of these situations are not that different. The rush of a busy call day, juggling the issues of old and new patients and prioritizing what needs to happen next, does not feel foreign to me. The skills I learned at a young age when soothing upset customers remaining levelheaded, communicating clearly and collaborating to address their concerns now seem as effective when applied to my patients. Because my father has always struggled with his own chronic health and substance abuse issues, I naturally feel at home working with patients with medical conditions like resistant hypertension, diabetes or addiction. One morning my dad and I discussed making dietary choices for better control of his blood glucose, and he seemed willing to make an effort. Two hours later, he walked in the door eating donuts stating, See? I got the ones without the sugar on em! Through these instances I have learned not be frustrated by, but rather be supportive of, my patients through their setbacks, whether it be their dietary indiscretions, medication compliance issues or relapses with drugs and smoking. I can be understanding of many of the problems internists encounter daily because I have grown up with them with people whom I deeply love.

Being away from my little hometown gave me the space to carve my own path within the field of medicine. I love many things about internal medicine. It fits well with my analytic and contemplative nature. I enjoy the collaborative environment created by my peers, residents, and attendings. But most of all, I love the patients. When I consider all of the patients I have cared for during my time on the wards, it becomes clear that my favorite patients have a few things in common: 1) they are elderly 2) they struggle with management of many chronic conditions and 3) they are full of stories to share and things to teach. These people come with their needs, pride, hopes, desires and frustrations. I think I can make a difference in each of their lives, and I take joy in every accomplishment we achieve together. I contemplate my years in medicine and feel so much pride and gratitude for where I am now and how far I have come. While I greatly miss the people I grew up with, I love that I get to see parts of them every day in the patients I meet. A real home can be many things, and I have never felt happier or more comfortable than I do now, settling into my new home in the world of internal medicine.

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JEDDAH: Dr. Dalal Moheealdin Namnaqani, a career educator in medicine, has become the first Saudi woman to be appointed dean of a university in which she supervises both male and female faculties. Ahmed Al-Eissa, education minister, appointed this week Namnaqani as dean of the Taif University College of Medicine. Previous appointments to deanship had been limited to men. The highest administrative position for female academics at public colleges and universities was vice-dean. No Saudi woman academic previously occupied a deanship position at a public college or university. Namnaqani said the government, led by King Salman, considers women as important partners in serving the nation in a number of fields, including the Shoura Council, academia and private sector. This is what motivates me to work hard to achieve my aspirations and goals to enhance the academic quality at the college of medicine, in cooperation with my colleagues and members of faculty, Namnaqani said. She expressed appreciation to the education minister for making the appointment. She also praised the director of the university, Dr. Hossam bin Abdulwahab Zaman, who played a role in her nomination for the post. Namnaqani said she did not expect to reach this position due to the organizational structures of Saudi universities, but she said she now realizes that Saudi women have proved their capabilities. I hope all those who care to serve our country will focus on accomplishments and not wait to be appointed in certain positions to begin to be productive, Namnaqani said. We can all cooperate with those in key positions to produce and innovate for the sake our country. The appointment is expected to open the door to other women faculty members at other public Saudi universities and widen employment opportunities for women in academia. Taif University said in a statement that the decision to appoint Namnaqani was based on her high scientific qualifications and merit. Faisal Al-Harthy, a student at the College of Medicine, said Namnaqani enjoys a good reputation throughout the college and is considered one of the most distinct members of the faculty, both at the academic level and in her personal relations with students. Student Adel Bokhari said the deans position should go to someone who has the skills and capability to carry out the role, regardless of the gender. Namnaqani, a consultant of histopathology and anatomic diseases and a member of the Faculty of Medicine at the university, was acting dean of university studies before her appointment to the highest position in the female section. She holds a bachelors degree in medicine and surgery (MBCHB) from King Abdulaziz University (1991), as well as seven fellowships in the cell and tissue diseases sciences. She is member of a number of scientific societies and organizations. She began her career in 1991 working as a doctor at the King Abdulaziz University College of Medicine in Jeddah. She held different positions at that college, as well as at Al-Hada Military Hospital, King Abdulaziz Specialist Hospital in Taif and the University of Taif. Her last position was assistant professor of pathology at the College of Medicine.

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Four members of the Yale School of Medicine have been released from the hospital following a hazmat situation at a building on campus, according to the university.

The four individuals fell ill Tuesday afternoon at 333 Cedar St., New Haven, and they were released from Yale-New Haven Hospital the same day, said Karen Peart, external communications director for Yale. Peart said she did not know whether the four people were staff or students.

The situation was investigated by the hospital, Yale Police, the New Haven Fire Department, the State Department of Energy and Environmental Protection - which responds to hazardous materials - and the Yale Environmental Health and Safety office.

DEEP said Wednesday it could not detect anything that would have made the people ill. The department took air samples and other materials for sampling from the building, but recommends Yale retain an industrial hygienist for further testing, spokesperson Cyndy Chanaca said.

Fox 61 reported Tuesday that officials examined a Keurig Coffee maker as a possible source of the illness.

New Haven Deputy Fire Chief Orlando Marcano told the station that at least three people reported feeling sick around 2:40 p.m. after drinking something, likely from the coffee maker, in Sterling Hall.

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) Environmental officials are still trying to figure out what caused four people to get sick at the Yale School of Medicine on Tuesday.

Officials with the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) told News 8 that they responded to 333 Cedar Street in New Haven Tuesday afternoon for a report of two unconscious females. The building is a part of the Yale School of Medicine.

New Haven Fire Chief John Alston says just before 2:40 p.m., the call came in for three people feeling sick. Responders found two people in a lab and one in a clerical office. One person fainted and one person felt faint and weak. Chief Alston says another person had already left sick and went home. They were brought back to be examined.

DEEPs Emergency Response Unit took air samples and other materials for sampling and could not detect anything that would have made the people feel ill. The DEEP ERU recommended that the Yale Medical School get an industrial hygienist for further testing.

Officials said all of them drank from the same coffee maker, but nothing was found in air and other samples.

The four victims have been released from the hospital.

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Scientists, clinicians and entrepreneurs shared the latest innovations and initiatives in the rapidly evolving movement to make health care more personal, predictive and preventive at the Precision Medicine World Conference (PMWC) in January.

UCSF faculty and leaders joined the speakers at the yearly event that shares the latest innovations and initiatives in precision medicine.

UC San Francisco scientists joined about 200 speakers representing business, government, pharma and biotech who talked about advances in cancer therapies, such as liquid biopsies, gene-editing technology, clinical research informatics, deep machine learning, data visualization and digital health.

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Ensuring that news tools and technology in health and wellness reach as many people as possible was a recurring theme that emerged at the World Economic Summit, UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, said in his opening remarks at the PMWC, which UCSF co-hosted.

Hawgood, who attended the forum in Davos, has made precision medicine a priority in his administration. UCSF faculty scientists are working at the local, state and national levels on biomedical research that involves racial and ethnic minorities and the socioeconomically disadvantaged.

We know that minorities and underserved communities both bear a much higher burden of disease, Hawgood said. Addressing health disparities is where precision medicine can have the greatest impact.

With new leadership in Washington, D.C., Tal Behar, co-founder and president of the event PMWC International, opened the three-day conference in Mountain View, Calif., by acknowledging what was on the minds of many: We are anxious, curious and eager to know about the changes in our industry.

While questions remain about the state of science and federal funding in health care and biomedical research in the Trump administration, speakers at the PMWC say scientific and technological innovation will continue through projects already in the pipeline and through public-private partnerships, emerging start-ups and established companies.

The future is still unfolding in precision medicine, a nascent approach that began in 2011 with a National Academy of Sciences report. Precision medicine efforts was expanded nationally by President Obama who announced a bold new research effort to revolutionize how we improve health and treat disease in his 2015 State of the Union address.

The dawn of light is just coming up over the horizon in precision medicine, said Euan Ashley, PhD, director of Stanford Clinical Genomics Service, referring to new developments in immunotherapy, data sharing and digital diagnostics. We should be able to predict and prevent disease.

Executives and entrepreneurs in the technology and health care marketplace say theyre taking a long-term view on investing in new companies. Well wait and see what comes out of Washington, D.C., said Alexis Borisy of Third Rock Ventures. This is a golden time of innovation.

Ultimately, products and services will be judged on the value they bring to patients, physicians and the health care system, said Andrew Schwab of SAM Ventures. He also emphasized that increased diversity of the world will improve the quality of the data if patients are willing to share their information.

In a conversation at the PMWC, Robert Califf, MD, former deputy director of the FDA, and Keith Yamamoto, PhD, UCSF vice chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy, emphasized the critical role that the public and patients have on advancing science and discovery.

Califf, who recently resigned from the FDA, stressed the importance and impact of patient advocacy groups can have to champion investment into research and raise awareness and funds to fight intractable diseases.

Yamamoto says realizing the promise of precision medicine depends upon educating the public about whats at stake and engaging them to be active participants in research by sharing their data.

Our success will be depend upon engaging both patients and healthy people who become convinced that their contributions will benefit the health and wellbeing of themselves, their children and their grandchildren, Hawgood said.

Below are videos of some of the UCSF speakers presentations:

Sam Hawgood, MBBS, UCSF Chancellor Topic: Opening Remarks

Keith Yamamoto, PhD, UCSF Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy Topic: Fireside Chat: FDAs Role and Responsibility in Expediting Best Treatments for Patients

Atul Butte, MD, PhD Topic: Generating Insights from Multi-modal Healthcare Data for Precision Medicine

Charles Chiu, MD, PhD Topic: Clinical Next-Generation Sequencing for Infectious Disease Diagnosis

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD, and Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD Topic: Population Precision Medicine

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A Florida woman who is accused of practicing medicine without an active, valid health care license told a Jacksonville news station that the alleged crime was a misunderstanding and denied she ever provided medical care to her company's clients.

However, investigators revealed Amy Suzanne Pohlman, who was arrested Monday and released after posting $50,000 bond, signed a do-not-resuscitate-order (DNR) and performed a physical exam on an applicant while employed by Ponte Vedra Home Care, News 4 Jax reported.

Deputies told the news outlet that 48-year-old Pohlman claimed to be a registered nurse, to have a Ph.D., and to be an advanced registered nurse practitioner when she was hired by the company as a nurse administrator in October 2015. Pohlman reportedly provided documents alleging she had a nursing license, and her job duties included writing patient care plans, visiting clients and assisting with marketing, News 4 Jax reported. Her accusers allege Pohlman began offering medical care to patients as her client base grew.

The auspices under which I worked, as well as my agreement with my partners, was completely legal nothing hidden or not discussed from the beginning, Pohlman told News 4 Jax.

Pohlman is charged with performing a physical exam on an applicant of the home care company, and detectives investigating her case said she did not obtain a doctorate degree, did not have any degree in nursing or any record of a medical license, News 4 Jax reported. Detectives also said an award displayed in her office from Mayo Clinic trustees was falsified.

The inception of this entire disagreement is about the partnership, and it is over money, Polman told News 4 Jax. It was a come after the partner first. So its unfortunate that it was something that became personal. It shouldnt have.

Polhman told News 4 Jax she is cooperating with investigators. Anyone with additional information is asked to contact authorities at 904-209-2161.

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PhRMA Sets In Motion Massive Campaign Launching New Era In Medicine Forbes It's an opportunity to showcase the brains behind the breakthroughs, who are working in every facet of medicineMS, Alzheimer's, cancer, rare diseases, immunotherapy, ALSthe list goes on, said Andrew Powaleny, director of Public Affairs at ...

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Three people have been transported to the hospital following a haz-mat situation at Yale, a fire chief tells NBC Connecticut.

New Haven Fire Department were called to Yale's School of Medicine and found three people who were lightheaded, dizzy and experiencing other flu-like symptoms, the Dep. Chief Orlando Marcano with the New Haven Fire Dept.said.

Two of the victims were unconscious, but were awake by the time first responders arrived, Marcano said.

All three people were transported to the hospital and are expected to be discharge shortly.

Officials have not determined the cause for the illness.

Al three people reportedly drank from the same coffee machine, however, it is not clear if that is the root of the illness, Marcano said.

Connecticut's Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) said they were requested to come on the scene and took air and other material samples of the incident to help determine what may have caused the people to become unconscious.

Published at 5:02 PM EST on Feb 28, 2017 | Updated at 6:20 PM EST on Feb 28, 2017

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Four dolomite hills in eastern Hardeman County fascinated early settlers

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Two of the four Medicine Mounds in eastern Hardeman County.(Photo: TRN archives)

Medicine Mounds, a geologic formation south of U.S. 287 near Chillicothe, have fueled centuries of speculation as to their origin and the source of their name.

No, they are not extinct volcanoes, although their conic shape does call them to mind. They are dolomite hills that represent masses of harder rock left when erosion claimed surrounding soil.

Legend has it that the hills provided herbs and medicinal plants favored by the Native Americans, leading to their name, although modern visitors claim the hills are distinctly lacking in anything they would call herbs.

The four Medicine Mounds once had a namesake town, complete with doctors, dry goods stores, barber shops, grocery stores and churches that sprang up in 1907 as railroad construction boomed. Most of the town was destroyed by fire in 1933 or 1934, although its school survived until 1954, when it faded into dust as part of a wave of consolidation.

Even with little in the way of population, Medicine Mound - the town - continued to proclaim its existence with events like an annual Medicine Mound Chili Cookoff, although by 1980, the popular culinary competition had been renamed the Chillicothe Chili Cookoff at Medicine Mound.

Today, Medicine Mounds are surrounded by private farms where some evidence of the town and its Indian inhabitants can still be found by those who receive permission to climb the hillsides.

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(Reuters Health) - Women are less likely than men to gain sponsorship from their mentors in academic medicine, a survey of National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant recipients suggests.

"The best way to summarize the distinction between mentorship and sponsorship is as follows: a mentor talks with you; a sponsor talks about you, Dr. Reshma Jagsi from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, told Reuters Health in an email.

The new findings, she said, "suggest that differences in sponsorship may help explain some of the sex differences we see in the outcomes of careers in (medicine).

Jagsi and colleagues surveyed 995 researchers who had won NIH Mentored Career Development grants and who remained in academic medicine, to determine if sponsorship differs among men and women.

More men (77 percent) than women (71 percent) reported any sponsorship experience, as well as specific sponsorship opportunities, the research team reported in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Sponsorship was significantly associated with success: 73 percent of men and 59 percent of women who reported sponsorship were successful, compared with 58 percent of men and 49 percent of women who did not report sponsorship.

We need to recognize the importance of sponsorship in developing the future leaders of academic medicine, Jagsi said. Those in positions to serve as sponsors should actively consider all promising young faculty with whom they interact, and not necessarily just those who remind them of themselves or come to mind most quickly.

Also, she said, "junior faculty who hope one day to lead the field should recognize the importance of cultivating sponsors who are willing to risk their own reputations to give them visible opportunities to demonstrate their abilities."

Dr. Rita F. Redberg from University of California, San Francisco, who coauthored an editorial related to this report, told Reuters Health by email, I was most surprised that both women and men mentors are less likely to sponsor woman mentees than man mentees. To me, this drives home how pervasive and how deeply our differential treatment of the sexes is ingrained. I am sure this difference was not conscious or intentional by the mentors, but a problem for women nonetheless.

I hope that articles like these that raise the consciousness about disparities in opportunities and treatment by sex will be an important step towards changing the behaviors, she said. The article certainly has had an impact on me, and I have been actively working to promote opportunities for women in medicine for more than 20 years without specifically thinking of this sponsorship issue.

Dr. Anne K. Monroe from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore earlier reported on the gender disparity in top leadership positions in academic medicine. She told Reuters Health by email, "These sponsorship opportunities are associated with academic success, and its important to promote equity in achieving success. Thankfully, it is possible to increase sponsorship, which can potentially lead to meaningful advances for women in academic medicine.

She suggested three possibilities for change: 1) Bring transparency to the selection process for leadership positions . . . and give all interested parties the opportunity to apply. 2) Develop systems so that (senior people meet with junior people) to determine types of opportunities that are of interest . . . (and) then sponsor them for those roles. 3) Formally recognize sponsorship . . . the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine now awards an annual Sponsorship Award for demonstrating commitment to supporting and advancing women faculty and fellows by acting as a sponsor.

If you are senior faculty member in an influential role, i.e., someone who controls resources and makes leadership decisions, you have the power to shape the gender and racial makeup of leadership positions in your institution, Dr. Monroe said. For junior faculty, recognize the types of opportunities that support your professional advancement and ask to be sponsored for them.

SOURCE: bit.ly/2kQElNY and bit.ly/2lJEVfA JAMA Internal Medicine, online February 20, 2017.

ZURICH Roche is starting a second late-stage trial of investigational Alzheimer's drug crenezumab that it is developing with Swiss biotech AC Immune, shrugging off failures of similar drugs against the memory-robbing disease.

The world's top agricultural traders and biotechnology firms are finding novel ways to make fish oil substitutes from grains and algae as they seek to cash in on consumer health fads that have led to a scarcity of the fatty acids commonly found in fish.

WASHINGTON The top Democrat in the U.S. Senate predicted on Monday that Republicans would fall short of their stated goal of repealing former Democratic President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law.

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