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 ▶ Prostate cancer DNA mapped in Australasia, a world 1st. | do tumor mapped + cancer + prostate + tumor + dna + sequenced + mutations prostate | genome. ◀ | It makes you wonder whether scarce resources are truly used effectively. Researchers have mapped the complete genome of prostate cancer. It is not known if it will lead to treatment or cure. However, there have been some "firsts" in the exercise.      ||| me dna genome no mutations mapped um dna as genome eh cancer en prostate of dna if sequenced go mutations australia| Only one type of tumor from a patient was analyzed. It was the first time that DNA was successfully extracted from a human tumefaction without causing damage to the specimen. The aim is to correctly categorize prostate tumors. They are the most common kind of cancer in men.      ||| mutations oxo tumor in dna get from sequenced mapped ha genome hi cancer ho prostate la tumor my sequenced on job go cancer | |     ...

| ▶ When asked to submit to genetic testing, about half of the public refused. | stories news. | ◀ | Are scientists trustworthy? It appears not. Researchers simply appear to need the funding with no genuine advantage to society. Of the US$3 billion in funding each year, just 3 percent goes into research with results beings adopted by physicians. |    ||| funding do Refused to Genetic is Testing |||funding| It ought to be recognized that such positive breakthroughs accepted by doctors is not for reducing existing diseases. Cash ought to be distributed specifically to stop ailments, yet it is most certainly not. Indeed, even projects to test relatives when a patient is found to have a hereditarily connected disease are generally not finished.     ||| public as Refused it Genetic go Testing | australian australia funding articles |||     About half of individuals surveyed said they would not be exmined to check whether they were carrying a problem...

CHEMISTRY What are the French good for? Supplying top class engineers to Britain because they still use the rote system in education maybe? The French do have some good ideas though. They have come up with a way to strengthen bones. For years foam has been injected into walls of houses to improve insulation. The concept has been adapted to health. Calcium phosphate cement has been used for some time to repair bones. It is a bone substitute during surgery. The compound has now been made into a foam. It can be injected into bone to repair defects. Tests have shown it regenerates bone growth in osteoporosis treatment. French chemists at the University of Nantes have used hydrogen to push air bubbles into the calcium phosphate compound. These cavities enable new bone growth to strengthen weakened bones.  Medical breakthroughs are ongoing.  It is a pity health provision in all countries of the world is failing while new treatment techniques continue. ◆ Chemi...

New medical discoveries are pushing the cost/patient envelope as more low-end subsidized drugs are taken off the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and new $1,000 plus a week treatments are being added at the top end. Rationally, it is obvious that this will result in fewer patients benefiting. Recently, I went to the pharmacy with a script for a medication that I assumed was still subsidized. The chemist arrogantly said drug companies are not making profit any more: you should pay the $60.00 . I responded saying, how do you know anything about my finances and if you believe pharmaceutical firms need sympathy you are absolutely stupid and unfit to be in the profession . Upon leaving the shop I thought I shouldn't have said that. However, on consideration I believe that I was right. It needed to be said. Pharmacists are a protected breed. They make millions when the government pays them full-recommended list price which it is set artificially high by drug companies. New...

When things get tough people will try anything. Antibiotics are no longer working, so researchers are asking for newly mixed compounds by chemists to be sent along to them. This a new project set up by the University of Queensland. The belief is that scientists are working on the same middle of the road compounds. It is in new compounds where hope lies. Every day new compounds are made and just discarded. They are never screened to see what they can do against pathogens. Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery (CO-ADD researchers located at UQ are ready to test the compounds against fungi and bacteria, especially superbugs. This will work because rights remain with the chemists who provide the samples. Funding has been been gained from sources in Australia, New Zealand, the U.S., France and India. The project began in February and will be ongoing. Prevalent diseases like malaria an dengue fever will be included in the target list. The database will be open...

It is always a worry when drug manufacturers and pharmacists force themselves on decision-making bodies. Self interest rules both groups. Drug manufacturers want to increase sells and raise prices by " hook or by crook ". Pharmacists want to hold onto their monopoly provided first by a piece of paper provided by a college and secondly by the government paymaster. Pharmacists are like real estate agents - there is one on every street corner. In a competitive market this shouldn't be the case. Skills learned at university in chemistry is never used. Everything today is prepackaged. An unskilled person could do the job. They even want to do the work of doctors extending prescription repeats. The Victorian Pharmaceutical Misuse Summit includes the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia. They want to bring in a medication monitoring system to reduce the number of drug overdoses. Being cynical, confiscation would be an ideal tact to increase sales. But aren't over...

It seems odd than in a country with the brightest sunlight of just about any nation on earth that women could possibly lack vitamin D. But "experts" are squabbling over screening for vitamin D deficiency. The government is saying that the cost is far too high and the value of doing this has questionable benefits. At present obstetricians have to decide whether to test pregnant women who appear to suffer from a shortage of vitamin D. Australia's health system is already "cracking at the edges". Funding is a serious problem. With the Endocrine Society of Australia and the Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group Assuming the government will take the advice and test all pregnant women, GPs are confused. The number of women tested for vitamin D has gone up by an incredible 5,000 per cent over the last decade. Idle claims that diabetes and heart disease are "caused" by not enough vitamin D in the body are not proven. Many health professionals still q...