Ivanhoe Insider
Newsletter
7/28/08
Surviving the Odds
If you think having a tan makes you look healthy – think again! Though we have long associated having a tan with good health, it is now considered a health risk. Read about the new cream being developed at the University of Arizona where scientists are working to prevent the most common non-melanoma skin cancer. Also check out our report from Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute where researchers are focusing on a way to put a rare form of melanoma into remission, giving hope to both the small percentage of people with this particular melanoma, as well as the one million others who are dealing with sun-related skin cancer.
In other news this week, though it’s one of the most commonly reported medical problems in the workplace, apparently carpal tunnel has not been the easiest or quickest condition to get diagnosed. See our story on the new test that can diagnose carpal tunnel in the doctor’s office in ten minutes. This week’s In-Depth Doctor’s Interview with Emerson Perin, M.D. has a fascinating discussion about how stem cell therapy is being used to treat heart failure, and we have a riveting report on a unique approach to fighting hospital infections. With the risk of developing a hospital-acquired infection now being one in twenty, microbiologist, Michael Schmidt, Ph.D. says, “Hospital-acquired infection is the dirty little secret of healthcare,” and is currently researching the use of copper to kill infection-causing microbes.
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Finally, according to The Emancipation Network, 800,000 women and children are trafficked across national borders annually for sexual exploitation, not counting the millions trafficked within their own countries. Take a look at the story to find out how the network is helping to educate and retrain survivors of human trafficking.
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Marjorie
Bekaert Thomas
President, Ivanhoe Broadcast News