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 Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:14 am Post subject: Brain Disease Rates Soaring, Pollution Link Cited |
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Brain Disease Rates Soaring, Pollution Link Cited
Posted by CN Staff on August 16, 2004 at 10:33:43 PT
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Source: Dr. Koop.com
Deaths from brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and motor neuron disease appear to have soared in the past two decades in the world's most developed nations, and researchers are blaming the increase on higher levels of pesticides, industrial chemicals, car exhaust and other pollutants.
A report on the study by a Southampton University team, published in the journal Public Health, finds that dementia rates have trebled in men and increased by 90 per cent among women, according to The Independent.
In the late 1970s, there were about 3,000 deaths a year from brain diseases in England and Wales. At the end of the last decade, that figure had risen to 10,000, researchers found.
The study examined rates of the diseases in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, the U.K. and the United States between 1979 and 1997.
Meanwhile, from Spain came more hopeful news: An ingredient in marijuana may be useful for treating brain cancers, Spanish researchers reported Sunday.
The chemicals called cannabinoids could starve tumors to death by halting the growth of blood vessels that feed them, according to a team from Complutense University in Madrid.
Their research, published in the Aug. 15 issue of Cancer Research, showed that the cannabis extracts block a key chemical needed for tumors to sprout blood vessels -- a process called angiogenesis.
And for the first time, the team has shown the cannabinoids impede this chemical in people with the most aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme, which is notoriously difficult to treat.
They took samples from two patients with glioblastoma multiforme who had not responded to surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment, BBC reported. Samples were taken before and after the patients were treated with cannabinoid solution infused directly into the tumor. In both patients, the tumor was reduced following treatment.
Source: Dr. Koop.com (US)
Published: August 16, 2004
Copyright: 2004 ScoutNews, LLC.
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Comment #21 posted by FoM on August 16, 2004 at 22:03:01 PT
Hope
It does say infused. I wonder if that means slowly released into the tumor rather then an injection which would be over quickly.
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Comment #20 posted by Hope on August 16, 2004 at 20:48:45 PT
It doesn't say injection in the article
Maybe "shots"...is liquid to drink.
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Comment #19 posted by Hope on August 16, 2004 at 20:13:49 PT
Am I reading this correctly?
They've figured out a way to inject thc into people?
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Comment #18 posted by ekim on August 16, 2004 at 19:47:39 PT
Mr Bush reorganize wisely be a team player
a while back a friend said they had picked up a Dr Grenspoon book on Cannabis while in Jerusalem hearing this i asked that it be left as the people near there need it more than i. just think what good could come of the people getting together as much suffering is there. i can remember the solar experiment kit i got from the exploratoremum and how i wondered what a place like Israel is as the Author of the kit was from there. i still dream that both groups of people could make a business of solar cells to sell all over the world and it could be called------ I & P for your solar needs. much better than a casino
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread19285.shtml Pot Shots for Israeli Soldiers Posted by CN Staff on August 04, 2004 at 12:40:27 PT Breaking News Source: Daily Telegraph UK
Israeli soldiers suffering from combat stress could soon be treated with cannabis to relieve their symptoms. "The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) medical corps, in cooperation with the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is introducing the use of THC, the active agent in the cannabis plant, which helps relieve post-traumatic stress disorders, on an experimental basis," an army statement said.
The mental health department of the Medical Corps was set to to begin tests on volunteers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after reserve duty.
Hundreds of Israelis have been treated for combat stress after performing their mandatory national service in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
The scientist who will help conduct the experiment heads a research team which discovered that cannabis helped mice which had suffered physical stress, and had even reduced the risk of stroke.
The army said the use of THC had been approved by a military and a civilian committee.
Source: Daily Telegraph (UK) Published: August 04, 2004 Copyright: 2004 Telegraph Group Limited Contact: dtletters@telegraph.co.uk Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
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