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Organise online to succeed offline – the connected world
Business online architecture is driven by the culture of cloud computing adapted for use with mobile technologies. And it creates a “constantly connected” environment that we either master to serve us in three major themes, or we become slaves to our own electronic environment. Those themes are effectiveness and productivity, balance and awareness, growth and…
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Virotherapy: skin cancer successfully treated with herpes-based drug
‘Virotherapy’ uses modified herpes virus to attack melanoma cells and has potential to overcome cancer even when disease has spread throughout the body A 3D model of virus particles. The ability of viruses to specifically infect and kill human cells makes them promising cancer treatments. A 3D model of virus particles. The ability of viruses…
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Implantable Device Delivers Medicine One Molecule at a Time
It could be used someday to treat fractured spines, pinched nerves, and epilepsy. It’s smaller than your index finger, and it might be the future of implantable devices to treat a fractured spine, pinched nerve, or neurological disorder like epilepsy. As they report in the journal Science today, a team of engineers and medical researchers in Sweden has…
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Plant extracts offer hope against diabetes and cancer
Diabetes is the fastest growing metabolic disease in the world. A new study has shown that traditional Aboriginal and Indian plant extracts could be used to manage the disease and may also have potential use in cancer treatment. Researchers from Swinburne University of Technology identified plant species that could potentially be applied in the management…
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A Missed Opportunity?
The recent BioCeuticals Symposium in Sydney was titled “Interrelated Drivers of Health and Disease” and was attended by 350 health practitioners. Speakers at this outstanding forum included Dr Mark Houston, the world’s leading Functional Cardiologist, Dr David Haase, renowned Integrative Neurologist, Dr Joseph Pizzorno, pioneering naturopath and advisor to the Clinton Administration White House Commission…
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CBD-Rich Cannabis Versus Single-Molecule CBD
Editor’s Note: Medical Marijuana is set to become accessible in NSW. Liberal MP Catherine Cusack, who is co-ordinating the NSW government’s policy on cannabis, said there would be no decriminalisation or legalisation of the drug. “It is going to be a permitted activity. There is no way we are decriminalising marijuana – that is not how…
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3D-Printed Liver Cells Commercially Available
I’ve sometimes wondered, though, why people care so much about space when there are so many real problems back on Terra. One company that is attempting to improve the quality of life on Earth is Organovo. This year will be described in history books as the year that the first 3D printed liver cells were…
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Signs Future Clinical Trial Data Will be Transparent
In December of 2012, the BMJ announced a new policy regarding the sharing of data from clinical trials that included that BMJ would not publish material for trials on drugs and medical devices unless the authors committed to making the relevant anonymised patient level data available on reasonable request. This was to apply to any…
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E-Commerce Giant May Interest Pharmacy Inventors
Health and wellness, apart from providing opportunity in product retailing and the sale of health services, is also a rich source for research projects involving new inventions that represent a vast range of opportunities. Many pharmacists have an inventive component in their make-up and many useful products and services have been invented and designed to…
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Instant-start computers possible with new breakthrough
To encode data, today’s computer memory technology uses electric currents – a major limiting factor for reliability and shrinkability, and the source of significant power consumption. If data could instead be encoded without current – for example, by an electric field applied across an insulator – it would require much less energy, and make things…