Ivanhoe Insider
Newsletter
6/23/08
Easing the Pain, Taming the Beast
It’s our mission at Ivanhoe Broadcast News to inform people of the latest breakthroughs and treatments so they may seek better care in order to live healthier lives. One of our up-and-coming producers, Lindsay Braun, has made it her personal goal this year to talk to people whose lives have been impacted by a story that Ivanhoe has produced. If you have read about a new procedure and had it performed, or have come across some tips from our site that have helped you in some way, she wants to hear about it!
Also, if you’re suffering from a problem that you can’t seem to find enough information about, let Lindsay know. We’d love to be able to produce a story that will impact you personally. If we’ve already produced a story on the topic, she will send it to you along with our research material.Click here to contact Lindsay at Ivanhoe or click here to fill out the survey and share your story.
News on the site this week includes a myriad of topics, from how cell phones could be an important tool to help dieters stay on track, and a new procedure from UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas that helps stop male incontinence, to the study of a drug which is easing the painful symptoms of Crohn’s disease in kids. With diabetes diagnosed in 250 million people worldwide, 20 million in the United States, make sure you also check out our In-Depth Doctor’s Interview with Robert Ratner, M.D., who talks about an accurate, fast and painless diabetes test which takes five minutes, and uses a light instead of needle sticks.
Fast and painless is also what women wish for who take hormone replacement therapy to relieve their uncomfortable menopausal symptoms. Though it was believed low-doses of hormones for short periods of time were safe, new findings from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center show that even short-term hormone replacement therapy (HRT) could be risky. And from the University of Miami we have news about how selenium may help slow HIV. Dr. Barry Hurwitz says, “I liken the effect of selenium to a lion tamer in a zoo. What it tends to do is make viruses more docile.”
In case you missed them, you may want to check our past reports, Vitamin D: Magic Bullet Against Cancer or Sleep Vital to Children's Development Premium Content in the Archives may be purchased for as little as $9 for 24-hour, unlimited access. If you would like to access Premium Content for the first time click here.
Finally, speaking of taming lions, if you want to see Nature at its most raw,click here to watch the video and see who you’re pulling with by the end!
And there's more where that came from...
Marjorie
Bekaert Thomas
President, Ivanhoe Broadcast News