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European experts in respiratory care have warned that a class of common asthma medications called long-acting beta-agonist (LABA) drugs can cause severe asthma attacks, and potentially even death. They have called on the Europe's drug watchdog, the European Medicines Agency, to warn patients of the possible dangers. Last year, the U.S. FDA also warned that LABA drugs may be connected to asthma-related deaths. A 26,000 person study looking at the effects of the LABA salmeterol found that there were more respiratory-related deaths among patients using salmeterol than those using a placebo. Some doctors argue that the warnings against the drugs are based on this single study, but even they note that LABAs should never be used on their own, as often happens; they should only be taken in combination with a steroid inhaler. LABAs include Serevent, salmeterol and formoterol, and work by relaxing the muscles around the airways of the lungs. Times online July 27, 2006
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ The root so many love to hate! These beautiful
roots from the garden, which we love fresh sliced and eaten raw or the
greens cooked and a dash of rice vinegar added or the root sliced and
cooked crunchy tender. This particular root is not a very popular root
and most kids will turn up their noses at them just from the smell but
are packed with nutrients. That root being Turnips! Turnips and
rutabagas are among the most commonly grown and widely adapted root
crops. They are members of the Cruciferae or mustard family and belong
to the genus Brassica. Turnips are (Brassica rapa) and rutabagas are
(Brassica napobrassica). The two are similar in plant size and general
confused as to which is which. You can tell the differences as turnip
roots generally have little or no neck and a distinct taproot, while
rutabaga roots are often more elongated and have a thick, leafy neck and
roots originating from the underside of the edible root as well as from
the taproot. Good-quality turnips will be very firm, smooth-skinned and heavy for their size. The coloring will be light-purple on the top fading to bright-white at the bottom. Avoid turnips that are soft, spongy, blemished with brown spots, cut or lightweight for its size. Healthy nutrients: Heavy in fiber content, which is needed to keep the intestinal tract working properly and healthy flora thriving. Good healthy nutrients include the minerals; Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, Zinc, Copper, Manganese and Selenium. Vitamins are; Vitamin C, Riboflavin, Niacin, Pantothenic acid, B-6, Folate, Folic acid, B-12, Vitamin A, Retinol and Vitamin E. Turnip green tops are loaded with nutrients but not usually taken from full grown roots as they will be tough and require a much longer cooking time and a lot of flavoring to mask the bitter taste. Greens are usually picked for eating before the roots develop into full grown bulbs. Mature turnips or greens are really too tough and strong to eat raw and will need to be cooked. Young turnips make for great healthy raw food with any meal! Fooling Turnip Haters Recipe 2 pounds fresh
turnip roots First peel the turnips with a vegetable peeler. Peel the apple too if you like, but it isn't necessary, unless he skin is really ugly or tough. Chop or slice the turnips, (and the apple) into the chunks the right size for eating. Fill a big pot half full of water. Add the turnips, apple (if you're using it), the margarine, sugar and salt and pepper as you like. Cover the pot and simmer on the back of the stove for about 20 minutes, or until the turnip chunks are tender to your preference. Serve hot. They will never know they are eating turnips. Root vegetables
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^~^~^~^~^~^~~^~^ Costly Drugs Force Life-Death Decisions Aug 12, 2006 By JEFF DONN Dying of lung cancer, Carolyn Hobbs tried a new biotechnology drug that produced an unanticipated side effect: acute sticker shock. She was waiting for her second treatment in a hospital near Denver less than two years ago, when someone from the business office marched in to warn that her share would cost more than $18,000, since the drug wasn't insured for her type of cancer. How to decide? In her six decades, she had shared in a long marriage, raised three children, worked in a nursing home, painted as a hobby - and wasn't ready to leave it all behind. But she was also a careful spender who sometimes returned new clothes to the store, deciding she didn't really need them. Maybe this new drug, Erbitux, could extend her life by a small fraction, but she wouldn't be cured. "She was just very frugal, and she said it wasn't worth it," her husband Larry remembers. So she refused the treatment. More patients are confronting this wrenching decision, as the latest generation of pricier cancer drugs and heart implants stretches out the final months of advanced disease. Is the chance for several more months of life - maybe a year or more with luck - precious enough to spend a small fortune? This dilemma is also challenging governments, employers and insurers, who all help finance America's longer life spans and innovative technologies. Extraordinary care for dying patients can make for inspiring medicine, but its extraordinary costs make it an increasingly debated choice to promote public health. Many economists, doctors, and ethicists say this care too often buys too little for too much - and that its expanding share of medical resources might better pay for screening and treating diseases in earlier stages. Already, up to 30 percent of annual payments by federal Medicare insurance go to the 5 percent of members in their last year of life, research shows. "People still have an underlying belief that there's an infinite amount of resources that can be invested in health care," says Dr. Harlan Krumholz, a Yale University heart specialist who studies quality of care. "But I think we're coming to a realization that we're going to need to confront these issues explicitly." Maybe so, but any retreat from last-resort care still raises objections from many patients, doctors and medical companies. They denounce "rationing" of care and defend expensive treatments for the dying as a moral imperative. --- Within the last decade, an array of expensive new treatments has given some patients their first real fighting chance against common diseases once routinely called "terminal." These treatments include: - Cancer drugs manufactured in living cells, instead of beakers. These biotech drugs target just diseased tissue, unlike chemotherapy. Thanks to these drugs, some late-stage colon and blood cancers are no longer hopeless. - Implants that help the heart pump blood. These devices - the most common is the left-ventricular assist - are heir to decades of research in artificial heart technology. They provide an option for some patients with failing hearts. Some of these therapies, like the biotech drug Gleevec for leukemia or implanted defibrillators for some heart problems, work wonders in many patients. The trouble with many treatments, though, is that average patients gain only several more months of life, studies have found. A lucky few may survive for years, so many seek treatment in the hope of beating the odds. "Very few people, when told of a potential life-saving intervention, will not be willing to listen. So the question is now: not whether it will help or not, but who pays?" says Dr. A. Mark Fendrick, at the University of Michigan. Whoever pays, costs are up. This care costs several times more than the older treatments it supplements or replaces. A last-resort cancer drug can cost up to $50,000 a year - if patients survive that long - with insurance typically picking up at least two-thirds. A mechanical heart pump can cost more than $200,000, with hospital care. Reports of these breakthroughs, which often fail to mention the price, may have intensified the distinctly American tendency to view death almost as a personal choice, suggest doctors and ethicists. "I have two small children, and dying right now is not an option," colon cancer patient Rebecca Dague, of Medina, Ohio, said recently. Faced with such a disease, more than a third of Americans now would want "everything possible" done to save their lives, up from just over a fifth in 1990, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. For many on the brink of death, the choice of desperate measures is hardly a choice at all. "It's better to pay the money than sleeping with the worms," said Jake Rogers, 62, of Chicago, of his implanted left-ventricular assist device. His doctors implanted a second one in June, when his first wore out after 15 months. From their first day of medical school, doctors are trained to do their utmost for patients like Rogers. "I think probably there's more tolerance for high cost at the end of life, when all the options have been exhausted," says cost analyst Milton Weinstein, at the Harvard School of Public Health. "I think there's a moral force that causes us to want to do anything we can, irrespective of the cost." While doctors advocate for the interest of dying patients, they may also be subtly swayed by earning their livings partly from providing this care. And many patients don't fret, because they are insulated from huge payouts by insurance. Robert Graham, 73, of East Brandywine, Pa., chuckled when he heard the high price - up to $250,000 - of heart pumps like the one implanted in him last November. It was covered by insurance. "I got to live a long time to be worth that!" he said. Yet the average patient in the best medical test so far lived less than nine more months. Federal safety regulators do not regulate the price of end-of-life treatments. They evaluate only if drugs or devices work, not how well they work for their prices. Medicare, which insures about 80 percent of dying Americans, makes no acknowledged evaluation of cost in deciding what to cover. It is not allowed to negotiate for lower drug prices. Its coverage umbrella sets a standard for private insurers. Under such pressures, the $1.9 trillion spent on U.S. health care in 2004 will balloon to $4 trillion by 2015, federal forecasters project. In that year, health spending, which claimed 16 percent of the economy in 2004, would consume 20 percent and cost the average American $12,400. Some believe the country can afford to spend even more - and that it's worth it. Others fear a crash, with insurance perhaps turning into a luxury item. Nearly everyone, though, agrees there's an upper limit somewhere on the horizon. "So far, we've given everything to everybody," says economist Lester Thurow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "We haven't made the tough choices yet." Click Here to read the rest of the story
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^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ Dying Salt Marshes Puzzle Scientists Aug 11, 2006 By RAY HENRY WELLFLEET, Mass. (AP) - Pockmarked muck blots this formerly lush marsh on Cape Cod, and a creek carves off eroded chunks along its edges. Dead plant roots jut from barren mud once covered with wavy mats of marsh hay. New England scientists began noticing dead patches like this one near Lieutenant Island four years ago and call it sudden wetland dieback. Ecologists warn that saltwater marshes from Maine to Connecticut are suddenly and inexplicably dying, leaving behind land resembling honeycombs, Swiss cheese or an eroded desert landscape. Few scientists can explain it or recommend what to do. Even skeptics concede something unusual is happening. "It's something that people who have spent their entire careers working in salt marshes have never seen before," said Stephen Smith, a plant ecologist who works in Cape Cod for the National Park Service. "There's no precedent for it." Salt marshes are wetlands dominated by plant life sheltered from surf and capable of living where coastal waters fluctuate. Losing a marsh means eliminating a habitat for hundreds of fish, birds, shellfish and mammals and destroying a buffer capable of weakening a hurricane's destructive surge. Southern New England has lost between 50 to 70 percent of its saltwater marshes since white settlers arrived in the 17th century, according to one study. Marshes can migrate to keep up with changing sea levels, but modern development has caged them in. "There's nowhere for it go to go," Smith said. "So, if it's dying, we're kind of worried we may lose that habitat forever." Life on even a healthy marsh is a bit tenuous. Plants serve as the glue holding everything together. Their roots prevent erosion by anchoring the thin soil. When plants die, they decompose and add nutrients to the peat. "Salt marshes (are) structured by the plants," said Scott Warren, a botanist who studies tidal wetlands at Connecticut College. "Take away the plants, you don't have it." Exactly what is killing those plants remains unknown. Plants on healthy marshes can die when tides push wrack, or floating tangles of dead plants, on top of live plants. If the debris remains in one spot too long, it keeps sunlight from plants on the bottom. Mobile chunks of ice can shear off plants. Giant flocks of geese have grazed bare entire Canadian marshes. Rising seas can be equally lethal. None of these explanations seems to fit in Wellfleet, Smith said. The dead spots he's discovered along the upper reaches of Cape Cod don't seem caused by wrack and he rarely sees large numbers of geese. Ice wouldn't produce such extensive damage, he said. Rising sea levels would kill plants along the marsh's lowest edge, but the damage appears spread around. Chemical pollution would likely cause damage nearest homes and runoff sources, but that doesn't appear to be the case. "You formulate this conceptual model in your head about what may be happening," Smith said. "Then you go up the road two miles and there's a completely different scenario. You end up banging your head against your desk." That leads scientists to consider more exotic - and controversial - explanations. One is death by acid. After marshes in Louisiana died, researchers there pinned some of the blame on a drought and chemical changes, Warren said. Seawater contains sulfate, which washes into marshes where bacteria convert it into rotten-egg scented sulfide. A drought, however, allows oxygen to penetrate deeper into the soil. That oxygen allows different bacteria to turn sulfide into sulfuric acid, which weakens the plants. Weak plants may become susceptible to fusarium, a family of related fungi. One research team even found a fusarium strain in Louisiana that originated in the Sudan, said Wade Elmer, a plant pathologist at Connecticut's Agricultural Experiment Station. He isolated fusarium on cord grass samples from a dieback zone in Madison, Conn., but the significance remains unclear. Fusarium is so common that Elmer said he could probably find five strains in a single gram of backyard dirt. Not all researchers are getting into the dieback bandwagon. Mark Bertness, a marsh ecologist from Brown University in Providence, R.I., has documented dieback from South America to Canada. He criticizes some dieback supporters as overzealous, undertrained and too eager to sound the alarm. In past research, he's faulted fellow scientists for overlooking the role of predators in marsh deaths. Bertness has visited Wellfleet and said the marshes are teeming with purple marsh crabs, or sesarma, that munch on plants. He suspects that natural wrack started the dieoffs and that crabs are eating new plants before they can grow. He's planning an experiment to test the idea. "I'm definitely skeptical about a lot of the reports, but I'm not skeptical about the whole thing," he said. "We don't need to run around and get people all frantic about some massive die-off."
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