Complementary Medicine in Cancer Patients in The View of Health Literacy

 

Abstract

While nowadays anticancer therapies had gone through fundamental changes, health care providers must pay attention to the emerging utilization of dietary supplements, functional foods and further complementary and alternative therapies. The appropriate health literacy is a key element in the management of cancer patients’ life too, so it has worthwhile implication in the questions of complementary and anternative therapies. Hence, we wanted to measure the food supplements, functional foods and such agent’s utilization and basic knowledge about them in the Semmelweis University Oncology Center. To our questionnaire 71 patients answered. Due to their knowledge about their antitumor therapies, we divided participants to two groups (N=41 for those, who know their therapies; N=30 for those, who do not know it). However, only 43.9% of those, who know their therapies were precise about it, but grouping was not modified by this data. Tendentious differences were seen between the two groups in the vitamin and/or mineral containing food supplements, herb and/or mushroom containing food supplements, functional foods, special diets, utilization of homeopathy, but significantly more people tried deuterium depleted water in the group of those, who know their therapies. All in all, the type of food supplements etc. seems to be a more prominent factor where from the patient heard about it, in the further sources of information, and in the procurement. Still, health care professionals have a significant role in the good patient education and health literacy, because patients better ask their physician about these products while they mainly purchase them in pharmacies, hence pharmacists have a noteworthy role in the revision of harmful therapies.

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A Reflection on Yoga, Acupuncture and Medicine

 

Introduction

In the 20th Century a great effort has been made both to prove that yoga and acupuncture (i.e., Chinese medicine) can be used for health-related purposes and to discover the functional mechanisms of both systems. From the Western point of view, when both yoga and Chinese medicine became popular as a Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) a resistance became perceptible that led to regulation of CAM (CAMDOC Alliance, 2010). The main issue is that Western and Eastern medicine have a different approach to both health and treatment of illness.

In case of yoga, it has to be stated that it was not conceived as a medical system, but as a system for the discovery of the ultimate goal of humans – Self-realization. Thus, its methods – though there are a great number of yoga traditions – are directed to this aim. Nevertheless, hatha yoga has a strong emphasis on health and has a wonderful spectrum of procedures for arriving at a health status that enables intensive pursuing of the said ultimate goal manifested as samadhi that follows from the cessation of the activities of chitta – the substance of mind/mindfield. The result stated in Patanjali Yoga sutra (PYS) is:

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Life Course In HEARTS: Enhancing Telehealth Resilience and Mindfulness Intervention in Older Adults Experiencing Abuse and Trauma-A Conceptualization

 

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Advances in research and evidence-based practice improve the prevention and treatment of diseases, but the marginalized seems to be left behind [1]. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize a telehealth intervention aimed to improve the health and health span of older adults. More particularly, we articulate the conceptual framework underlying our intervention, Telehealth Resilience Mindfulness (TRM) Intervention, which will be delivered via text messaging (for those who have phones or smartphones), video conferencing such as Zoom (for those with internet connectivity), or in-person (when it is practical) to older adults to enhance HEARTS (health, experiences of abuse and trauma, resilience, technology use, and social support). Healthcare is a human right a resource to mitigate disparities in healthspan, defined as the portion of life spent in good health [2]-enriching opportunities if there is collaboration in interdisciplinary education, research, and practice [1,3]. We propose a telehealth intervention as a resource for older adults in mitigating disparities in healthspan. A telehealth intervention is defined as the use of information and communication technologies for health that encompasses positive emotions, optimism, and cognitive appraisal [4-7]. Telehealth interventions have the potential to reduce the psychobiological exposure to abuse and trauma and their health-related consequences as technology provides a safe, timely, and flexible space for the target population compared with traditional face-to-face approaches [7]. Additionally, interventions for the prevention and reduction of abuse among women [8-11] had positive health and social outcomes. Some telehealth interventions were included in these reviews and showed mixed results [7,12]. For these reasons, we are exploring and conceptualizing opportunities for enhancing the feasibility and efficacy of the telehealth resilience-mindfulness intervention in older adults.

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The Effect of Body Mass Index on Components Size in Patients With Total Knee Replacement

 

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Introduction: Nowadays, one of the most common practices in orthopedic surgery is the Total Knee Arthroplasty. Logistic equipment, including prostheses, is the cornerstone of this surgical procedure. Clearly having a general overview of the size of consumable prostheses, the surgeons will act more confidently.

Materials and Method: This descriptive-analytic study employed a census method based on the inclusion criteria of the medical records of all patients who underwent knee replacement surgery in Besat Hospital of Hamedan in 1395 (2016-17) in terms of body mass index, age, gender, and size of tibial and femoral components. Data were analyzed by SPSS software version 16.

Results: A total of 214 patients were included: 21.5% male and 78.5% female. The mean age of patients was 67.95 years, and the mean body mass index was 27.98 kg/m2. As for the assessment of the size of components, most tibial components were of medium size (49.5%) and femoral components were of small size (65.9%). It was seen that there was an inverse correlation between tibial component and body mass index (BMI), and a direct and significant correlation between tibial component and height and weight in terms age and gender (p<0.05). Nevertheless, the correlation between femoral component and weight was statistically significant only at ages under 65 years and it was indirect (p=0.02).

Conclusion: Determining factors of the size of components used in joint replacement surgery include body mass index (BMI), weight and height of the patients for tibial surgeries, and weight of the patients for femoral ones.

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A Comprehensive Study of Isotopic Abundance Ratio Analysis of the Consciousness Energy Healing Treated Berberine Chloride Using LC-MS and GC-MS

 

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Berberine is an alkaloid class of drug which has enormous therapeutic potential, but the bioavailability is very poor (<1%) due to its low solubility and poor intestinal absorption. In this study, the influence of the Trivedi Effect^® on the structural properties and the isotopic abundance ratio of berberine chloride was evaluated using LC-MS and GC-MS analytical techniques. Berberine chloride sample was divided into control and treated parts. Only the treated part was received the Trivedi Effect^®-Consciousness Energy Healing Treatment remotely by a well-known Biofield Energy Healer, Mahendra Kumar Trivedi. The LC-MS spectra of both the samples observed at retention time 2.0 minutes and the molecular ion peak at m/z 336.25 [M]⁺ in the mass spectra. The peak area of the treated berberine was significantly increased by 4.42% compared to the control sample. The LC-MS based isotopic abundance ratio of P_M+1/P_Min the treated berberine was significantly increased by 34.4% compared with the control sample. Similarly, the GC-MS based isotopic abundance ratio of P_M+1/P_M in the treated berberine was very increased by 1547.15% compared with the control sample. Thus,¹³C, ²H, ¹⁵N, and¹⁷O contributions from (C₂₀H₁₈NO₄)⁺ to m/z 337 in the treated sample were significantly increased compared with the control sample. The isotopic abundance ratio of P_M+1/P_M (²H/¹H or ¹³C/¹²C or ¹⁵N/¹⁴N or ¹⁷O/¹⁶O) in the treated berberine was significantly altered compared to the control sample. The increased isotopic abundance might occur due to the interference of neutrino particles via the Trivedi Effect^®-Consciousness Energy Healing Treatment. The increased isotopic abundance ratio of the Consciousness Energy Healing Treated berberine chloride may increase the chemical bond strength, stability, solubility, and bioavailability in the body. The new form of berberine chloride would be more efficacious novel pharmaceutical formulations against diarrhoea, gastroenteritis, bacterial and fungal infections, cancer, diabetes, arrhythmia, inflammation, hyperlipidemia, etc.

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