Wednesday December 12 / 2007

12:10: The Health Roundup with Jay, Jamie and Jimmy.

12:20: Blood clots! A local doctor has had a piece published in the American-based Annals of Internal Medicine on prognosis for patients who have blood clots. Interesting stuff.

Guest: Dr. James Douketis, Physician, Department of Medicine over at St. Joseph's Healthcare

12:35: About 2-Hundred local health care workers will lose their jobs in the new year. 88 VON nurses and another 1-Hundred workers at St.Joe's Homecare will be laid off in March.

Guest: Lucy Martin, VON Nurse and Acting President of OPSEU Local 269.

12:45: DayNight Pharmacy segment.

Guest: Irene.

Anti-Aging medicine is based on principles of sound and responsible medical care that are consistent with those applied in other preventive health specialties. The American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine ( A4M ) is a non-profit medical organization dedicated to the advancement of technology to detect, prevent and treat aging related disease and to promote research into methods to retard and optimize the human aging process. A4M is dedicated to educating, physicians, scientist and members of the public on anti-aging issues. A4M believes that the disabilities associated with normal aging are caused by physiological dysfunction which in many cases are made better by medical treatment, such that the lifespan can be increased. With the equality of one's lifespan can also come better health. Here are just a list of the exciting speakers and topics new to this years Anti-Aging Conference:

• Physicist Kong-Thon Tsen and his son Shaw-Wei Tsen a student at Johns Hopkins University can destroy a common virus using a super fast pulsing laser, without harming healthy cells, this discovery could lead to new treatments for viruses like HIV that have no cure.
  
• DNA analysis, which can calculate susceptibility to common illnesses, such as cardio-vascular, Alzheimer's or osteoporosis. Kits are already available online.
• Scientist treating Cancer as an infectious disease, with promising results. Researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine have shown for the first time that cancers can be successfully treated by targeting the viruses that caused them. This raises the possibility of preventing cancer by destroying virus-infected cells before they turn cancerous.
  
• Statins help kill Prostate Cancer cells. Drugs used to lower cholesterol have shown to improve the effectiveness of radiation in killing prostate cancer cells. Dr. M. Zelefsky a radiation oncologist at Memphis Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York has produced the study in which the greatest benefit of the statins was observed in patients who has more aggressive or advanced forms of prostate cancer.
  

• Drug commonly used to treat Bipolar Disorder dramatically increases lifespan in worms. Worms treated with lithium show a 46 % increase in lifespan, raising the tantalizing question of whether humans taking the mood affecting drug are also taking an anti-aging medication. New research and studies are being done in the field on pharmacogenetics.

Whether you are involved in anti-aging or not, it's a given that people are living longer. By limiting illness and disability in the later stages of life, anti-aging medicine is a quantum leap in people's enjoyment of the later years.