Tuesday, January 28, 2014

MEM devices: the future of medicine, infrastructures, oil drilling

This device could end/or lessen many diseases. A cure all or merely diagnostic device?

This uses microcropressors and nano tech.  Find out more

There is an existing device, called MEMS Micro Electronical Mechanical Device that shows promise in many areas:    medicine  -  to combat heart disease, asthma, and other diseases, in military, oil drilling, infrastructures monitoring

This devices have sensors and microprocessors.


Friday, January 24, 2014

Hookworms gaining attention in immunotherapy vs asthma and chronic diseases.

Live healthy and long

Rizal Philippines  January 24. 2014

Why doctors are treating allergies with parasitic worms

A strategic paper on Roche's oncology drugs led me to its new drugs research, monoclonal antibodies and immunotherapy.  Immunotherapy will be a new treatment in cancer and other chronic diseases treatment and that may cotnrol 60% of the cancer threatment market.


For asthma and treatment of allergies, the hookworm, Necatour americanus  which causes 85% of hookworm infestation,   Hookworms emit molecules that make them evade detection by body's immune system.  This molecule could be helpful in treatment of auto immune diseases such as MS, Krohn, and other allergic reaction.

The findings came out of the observation of immunologist David Pritchard of University of  Nottingham noted while in Papua New Guinea that those who had worm parasites had less incidence of asthma and other allergic reactions. or auto immune system where the body's defense mechanism turns against iteself.  He and his team examined the stools and blood of the PNGs and noted lower level of antibodies in patients who had high levels of fertile eggs of worm in their feces..  In order tr survive, the worms have found a way to swith off the immune system of the host  which benefits the host too by not having auto immune disease,and allergies.


"And Pritchard's hypothesis has been holding water, both in his own experiments as well asothers. Symptoms from autoimmune disorders ranging from asthma to Crohn's disease have been shown to be noticeably reduced in study volunteers administered "safe doses" of hookworm therapy. Clinical trials that use hookworms to treat Multiple Sclerosis are slated to begin later this year."

One such article is about an Englishman who prescribed injecting ascaris to help cure asthma.  He noted that chidlren in UK have asthma.  In Central Aftica, there is no asthma.  But the children had Ascaris infestation. That could be difference.  The dirty/clean thinking maybe causing plenty of asthma attacks.  So he experimented and injected Ascaris eggs into his asthmatic patients and got well..  Another Brit,Jasper  Lawrence put a  clinic after he was able to treat himself of asthma by having himself infected with hookworm in Central Africa.

Yucksss!

Would you go through a hookwork therapy to cure your asthma?  If that is the only way?

Hookworm therapy for beginners.

AIT (Auto Immunte Therapy) by Lawrence Jasper




Why doctors are treating allergies with parasitic worms

Immunotherapy, a growing trend in fighting cancer and other chronic diseases

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Angono, Rizal Philippines

Breakthrough of the year: Immunotherapy in Cancer cure in Science magazine

Adoptive immunotherapy for cancer: harnessing the T cell response
There are three modes:

1.  monoclonal antibodies that can be paired
2.  cloning T cells
3.  vaccines

There is a an article that says that in the next decade, 60% of cancer cures will come from immunotherapies. This industry will be about $35 billion.

What is immuno therapy?  It is aiding or suppressing body's immune system to fight diseases, allergies, or chronic condition.  While the body's soldiers are very effective, on their own, to locate the invaders and destroy them, the invaders protein/enzymes can fool the body's defense mechanism to ignore them.

One of the research center is that of Fred  Hutchinson  They have worked on cloning T cells to attack cancer cells, and also using radio immunotherapy (cloing antibodies with irradiated bodies, monclonal cells) to target the affected cells, which is more targetted vs. having radiation destroy both healthy and tumor cells.

Watch video of Stan Riddel, oncologiest and researcher at Fred Huthinson  cancer research center.

Read more on immunotherapy at Cancer Research Institute of America