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The desert toad, an exotic treatment against addictions

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The health contingency due to Covid-19 has brought changes for thousands of people, many of them positive, as in the case of Dr. Octavio Rettig Hinojosa, who during these months has had the opportunity to work and follow up on addiction treatments with help of traditional medicines.

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Dr. Rettig has spent the last few years studying and publicizing 5-Meo-DMT, a molecule extracted from the glands of the desert toad, the bufo alvarius, by more than 40 countries where thousands of people have discovered that its use helps with addiction control and that it is not only recreational.

The Sonoran toad has gained popularity in recent years thanks to the work done in the Seri tribe by being classified as traditional medicine and its important help in combating the use of hard drugs, such as crystal.

For Dr. Rettig Hinojosa it is not an unknown subject, he is one of the shamans authorized by the traditional Serian authorities, to whom he thanks the distinction for bringing medicine to those who need it and after thousands of people have participated in his ceremonies, Covid-19 made it impossible for him to continue with his journey and now, he confirms the effects that the use of toad toxin has on people when they are followed.

I stopped and realized that there are many young people with serious problems of addiction to hard drugs, he points out, many have already been interned several times in rehabilitation clinics, annexes, farms, but nothing changes. Their addiction problem continues and their parents no longer know how to help them.

“I decided to extend my help to young boys who can make a change, the pandemic gives me the opportunity to follow up because I do not have to move from one place to another,” he noted.

Kambó, the poison of an Amazon frog, the toxin of the desert toad and the inhalation of snuff, a preparation made from the leaves of the tobacco plant, are the three ancient medicines that are included in the protocol that the specialist is following.

“It is something pioneering, which is not described in any medical book or in any protocol. It is a mixture of various therapies with different natural medicines from different parts of the world. I think it is something very proactive, it is medicine based on experiences. I am not experimenting with people, I am doing this because experience has shown me and shown that this works, “he explained.

The shaman doctor traveled to countries in South America to learn about their medicines and narrates that it was in this sharing and dialogue of knowledge with the members of different tribes and native peoples where his knowledge has enriched the medical practice, “today I can talk about treatment protocols for specific conditions such as addictions to hard drugs, with an incredible response ”.

Beto, Adrián and Enrique, originally from Sinaloa, Mexico City and Jalisco, are three of the young people who during the pandemic have received the treatment that has kept them away from drug use.

It is important, he warns, that everyone knows that they are not incurable patients, there is a solution; I share with you the certainty that there is something that will help you. “Whoever does not drop out of treatment has a success rate of almost 100%. This is something that I was unaware of on my way and my learning of these plants ”.

Adrián Ayala Villalobos is 19 years old and a few months ago he left his eighth detention center against addictions. As a child, he was diagnosed with attention deficit and the medication affected his development. He started with drugs very young, at age 13 he was hospitalized for the first time. He had a five-year addiction to cocaine and was also taking psychiatric medications.

“I had been consuming non-stop for a week, I had just come out of an internment, that’s how his dad took him to me. We started with kambó, there was no reaction from his body because he was intoxicated, when he tasted the toad he fell asleep. In total, he has taken ten sessions and to date he has four months without consuming any drugs or medications. Eat and sleep well and gained weight, ”explained Rettig Hinojosa.

Originally from Mexico City, he arrived in Hermosillo in the middle of the summer. Adrián did not travel alone, he did it with two other young people, all sharing the same condition: addictions. It was a journey, they came by car to the Sonoran desert to continue their treatment at the hands of the specialist.

The whole addiction process was very difficult, Adrián remembers, because I went through totally unexpected places such as annexes, clinics, psychologists, psychiatrists. I got to take 15 pills a day. “I couldn’t find that answer to my problem, something that would tell me why I was in that trance. After a long time and being very tired, my father contacted Dr. Rettig and we decided to start a treatment with ancient medicines ”.

“I found the answer in medicines that I had been looking for for a long time, it showed me the way I had to go and the reality is that I found all those answers, it was a difficult process, of confronting myself and with that personality that I was ceasing to be when taking medicines and it is interesting because when taking medicines one finds oneself ”, he pointed out.

Octavio Rettig is the author of the book Bufo Alvrius, The Toad of Dawn, where he tells his story and the discovery of ancestral medicines, he said that “more and more families are coming, more and more people are coming for healing and I need support, help and people who want to join this is for a common good and that is for the good of all. We have in front of us something that will make a difference and will set a guideline in the treatment and prevention of psychiatric illnesses ”.

Audiobook: Octavio Rettig – Bufo Alvarius – The Toad of Dawn

Contact forms: Dr.otac@gmail.com; www.octaviorettig.com @Octavio Rettig (Facebook, Twitter and Youtube); WhatsApp 6621 194 985

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Robotic hand developed for medicine that could allow remote patient care

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robotic hand for use in medicine

In general, when a doctor requires inspection of a patient, he must do so through direct contact with the patient.

And it is that currently existing technologies are still incapable of making it possible for this physical interaction between doctor and patient to be carried out remotely, in a situation where both are at opposite ends of the world.

However, it is likely that this situation will see the solution in the near future thanks to the development of a robotic hand that would allow doctors to treat patients who are outside the same geographical point.

In this sense, a group of researchers announced in the magazine Science Advances a project that consists of the design and production of an intelligent electronic skin together with a medical robotic hand equipped with the ability to carry out evaluations around vital diagnostic data, with the help of a rubbery semiconductor that grants mobility to the wearer.

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According to the associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston and co-author of the work Cunjiang Yu, this rubbery semiconductor material has the potential to be easily scaled during the manufacturing process.

Both the interfacial assembly and the rubbery electronic devices embodied in the document show that there is a path that will lead to the rise of technologies such as soft and elastic rubbery electronics.

Along with these, integrated systems that will replicate the mechanical smoothness of biological tissues, which will prove very useful in the next wave of emerging applications.

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People forcibly remove a body suspected of covid-19 from Legal Medicine in Cali

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September 18, 2020 – 07:48 pm
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Newsroom of El País

A group of people entered the Legal Medicine facilities and removed the body of a young man suspected of covid-19. The event was recorded in the evening hours of this Friday.

The body that was removed from Medicinal Legal was identified as Jhonatan Alexis Cifuentes González, 18 years old, who worked as a hairdresser.

This case was made known through the media and social networks. Apparently, these people would have removed the body of this young man because, according to them, the patient did not have covid-19.

Cifuentes González was the victim of a stray bullet in the Comuneros I sector, east of Cali.

The young man entered the Nuestra Clinic due to a gunshot wound to the head last Tuesday and died the next day in the morning.

Can read: Cali exceeded 1,500 deaths from covid-19 this Friday

Later it was indicated that Cifuentes could be an organ donor, but this was not the case, since, according to the doctors, the patient would have covid-19. However, Jhonatan’s relatives affirm that this is not the case.

According to a relative of the 18-year-old, minutes after the conversation with the doctor, they were informed that their relative could no longer be a donor because he was a suspect for covid-19.

“If it is true that he had covid, why were the alarms activated? Why weren’t they tested us and they didn’t isolate us? No one has come forward with what is supposed to be done with a covid-19 patient. No one He wants to clarify what is happening, “he said.

According to this person, the family took the body out of the morgue, opened it and verified that it was the murdered young man.

After removing him, these people took him to the Comuneros neighborhood, where the young man lived and there he was watched over by friends and family.

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The 943-Dimensional Chess of a Trustworthy Covid-19 Vaccine

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Mostly, the protocols are just thick volumes of procedures—the instruction manuals for the trials. How big a dose of vaccine will participants in the experimental group get, and how many? How will they be monitored, and for what symptoms? For how long? What will count as an infection? How will the data be accounted for? Publishing the protocols in advance is all about accountability. These are the rules the companies plan to abide by, available for criticism but also to ensure that nobody does any shenanigans on the other end, cherry-picking data or changing what counts as success.

The details, though, also give some clues as to how the next few months will go. For one thing, both protocols take so much time to put into action that it’s next to impossible that a vaccine will be available before Election Day. Everyone has to get two doses, and the studies must allow enough time to monitor their outcomes.

(I emailed representatives of the other six signatories to the vaccine science pledge asking if they, too, planned to release their research protocols. Spokespeople at Johnson & Johnson, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline, BioNTech, Novavax, and Sanofi all declined to comment.)

Still, even public protocols might not be enough to get the scientific community on board. Hotez hopes the companies will release not only their protocols but also their full Phase III data. He also wonders what an EUA might mean for the other vaccine trials. Ordinarily, ethics would dictate that once a vaccine is available, trials of other candidates should stop. By definition, the risks of those trials now outweigh the potential future rewards. Except here, those other candidates might be better, safer, whatever. EUAs don’t have any guidelines for that, and neither the FDA nor the president have articulated any. They might be forthcoming, but Hotez says he thinks the president is more interested in reelection than vaccines. “He wants a vaccine released under EUA, sort of now, right? He’s never created a national road map or response to Covid-19, this is undermining his candidacy for reelection, and he feels he needs a victory in the area of Covid-19 to be successful,” Hotez says. “But I don’t see a way by which we’d know that vaccines were safe and effective if he tries to release a vaccine in October. So we’re in a bit of a standoff. The scientific community is holding a line.”

It has to; there’s a lot to be suspicious about. Moderna’s leadership has been criticized for questionable stock trades and hyping preliminary results. And in early September, AstraZeneca officials announced that they were pausing their vaccine trial due to an “adverse event”—some kind of medical issue that forced the researchers to stop and determine whether it was a consequence of taking the vaccine. And it wasn’t the first time. A participant got ill in the summer, but they turned out to have a neurological disorder unconnected to the vaccine. This time, an otherwise healthy 37-year-old woman developed a spinal inflammation that looked like a neurological disorder called transverse myelitis, which some scientists think could be an immune issue. That’s disconcerting when it comes to vaccines. But AstraZeneca didn’t release those details on purpose; Stat got them via leaks from a presentation the company made to investors, and CNN obtained an internal report. That’s not transparency. (The trial has since restarted in the UK, and a spokesperson told me they expect it to restart in the US soon.)

And all of these political and scientific pressures combine, like separate wildfires cresting the same hill. When they swirl together with general anti-science sentiment and vaccine hesitancy, you get a fire tornado of skepticism. That’s why the trustworthiness of the science will be so important, and so important to communicate—to three disparate groups of people beyond the science community. One is antivaxxers and the vaccine-hesitant. Another is the people who have little information, who may even be outside the health care system altogether. “But the third group is the one that’s the most interesting in this case. They’re worried about the rush. They’re worried about the fact that there’s political pressure. So they’re going to be a little skeptical until they see pretty good evidence that the vaccine being offered is good,” says Christine Grady, chief of the Division of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. “Yes, you can message it. It’s not easy to do, but you can. The way the trial was run, ethically and methodologically and rigorously, will matter a lot.” The key is making sure that the trials are run well, and then saying so loudly enough that people believe it.

Updated 9/19/20 1:44 PM PDT to include a link to the AstraZeneca clinical trial protocol.

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The super-rapid test may change the fight against coronavirus. In addition, the British one is very reliable – ČT24 – Czech Television

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Testing people with suspected covid-19 only makes sense if it’s as fast as possible. In a recent interview for the professional magazine STAT said Bill Gatesthat it would be ideal if only those tests were reimbursed to private companies that would be evaluated within one day at the latest. After all, if the disease can be detected quickly in a person, it will prevent him from infecting other people in the meantime – and thus reduce the reproductive number of the disease.

However, current PCR tests have a number of weaknesses: their processing is relatively time-consuming and professionally demanding, and in addition, samples must be taken in a very unpleasant way through the nose. Epidemiologists have been calling for quick tests for a long time, which could be taken and evaluated more easily – but so far there have been concerns about whether they will be sufficiently reliable. The first studies of their success were conducted in a hurry and only on a few dozen volunteers.

Faster testing It would also make economic sense – it would speed up the return of suspected people to the workplace and could be used to enter hospitals, which would help slow down the current second sharp rise in those infected. The new test is based on a DNA test developed by a professor at the Royal University of London. Following successful testing, its clinical use was approved by the British drug agency MHRA in April.

A sufficiently accurate test is here

A study published in The Lancet states that the test has an average sensitivity (i.e., the ability to correctly identify cases of covid-19) of 94.4 percent and a 100 percent specificity (the ability to correctly identify uninfected). The research was conducted for the first time on a sufficient number of people, more than three hundred.

“This suggests that the accuracy of the CovidNudge test, which can be performed on a patient’s bedside without touching samples, is comparable to a standard laboratory test,” said study director Professor Graham Cooke of the Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology at the University of London.

The Lancet described a new test that requires a swab from a single nostril to be “sensitive, specific and rapid in detecting the presence of new coronavirus without laboratory manipulation or pre-processing of samples.”

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock told LBC that the tests would be distributed to hospitals across the country. “The key thing in terms of usefulness is that the device doesn’t have to be in a lab – it’s about the size of a shoebox, so you can put one, say, on standby and they can see if the people who come there have a coronavirus. or not, “Hancock explained. According to the minister, the placement of these test facilities in schools is also possible.

However, according to the spokesperson of the company that manufactures the tests, their results are evaluated individually. The device can process about 16 samples per day.

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People forcibly remove a body suspected of covid-19 from Legal Medicine in Cali

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September 18, 2020 – 07:48 pm
By:

Newsroom of El País

A group of people entered the Legal Medicine facilities and removed the body of a young man suspected of covid-19. The event was recorded in the evening hours of this Friday.

The body that was removed from Medicinal Legal was identified as Jhonatan Alexis Cifuentes González, 18 years old, who worked as a hairdresser.

This case was made known through the media and social networks. Apparently, these people would have removed the body of this young man because, according to them, the patient did not have covid-19.

Cifuentes González was the victim of a stray bullet in the Comuneros I sector, east of Cali.

The young man entered the Nuestra Clinic due to a gunshot wound to the head last Tuesday and died the next day in the morning.

Can read: Cali exceeded 1,500 deaths from covid-19 this Friday

Later it was indicated that Cifuentes could be an organ donor, but this was not the case, since, according to the doctors, the patient would have covid-19. However, Jhonatan’s relatives affirm that this is not the case.

According to a relative of the 18-year-old, minutes after the conversation with the doctor, they were informed that their relative could no longer be a donor because he was a suspect for covid-19.

“If it is true that he had covid, why were the alarms activated? Why weren’t they tested us and they didn’t isolate us? No one has come forward with what is supposed to be done with a covid-19 patient. No one He wants to clarify what is happening, “he said.

According to this person, the family took the body out of the morgue, opened it and verified that it was the murdered young man.

After removing him, these people took him to the Comuneros neighborhood, where the young man lived and there he was watched over by friends and family.

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Medical graduates and students add to the health system

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The governor of Neuquén Omar Gutiérrez announced the call to incorporate the system of Health from the province to 25 doctors who will receive their degrees next month and 55 students who are studying their last year at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Comahue (UNCo), in order to add more human resources to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

“We are also negotiating with the national authorities to speed up the procedures that allow us to make a similar call to add 40 students from the Nursing career who are studying in the same faculty,” said the provincial president.

“There are 80 doctors that we are summoning and we are going to see how many accept to strengthen the Health system,” he indicated and specified that in the afternoon a meeting will be held by videoconference in which national authorities will participate, the rector of the UNCo, Gustavo Crisafulli , and the provincial Minister of Health, Andrea Peve, to finalize the details.

Gutiérrez stressed that “it is a device that is established for the first time and has the endorsement of all authorities” and explained that the health system will have the way in which the newly received will be incorporated to help “staff who are saturated after six months of emergency ”.

In addition, in radio statements, he recalled that in the province there are 170 respirators in operation with an occupancy level of 96 percent. “We have another 60 respirators that we have been acquiring, the health authorities will reorganize the personnel to put them into operation if necessary,” he said.

The governor indicated in this regard that “unfortunately in the world between 60 and 70 percent of the people who come to a respirator, die” and that “in our province the same thing happens with almost two out of three people who come to that instance . What you have to avoid is reaching the respirator ”.

He pointed out that “we must continue to insist that individual precautionary measures must be taken, that is, maintain a distance of two meters, use tobacco and frequent hand washing.”

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Bladder cancer: symptoms to know

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Little known to the general public, bladder cancer is curable when diagnosed on time. Knowing how to spot symptoms is therefore essential.

Although it is the seventh most common cancer, with around 12,000 new cases per year in France (2012 figures – Institut Gustave-Roussy), and it is the most common urological cancer after that of the prostate, bladder cancer is little known. If 68% of French people have already heard of it, only 28% of them say they know the pathology, according to an Opinion Way survey conducted for the Merck-Pfizer Alliance and the association Bladder Cancer France revealed Tuesday, September 15 by the newspaper 20 Minutes.

24% of French people do not know the symptoms

However, this ignorance of the disease can be very detrimental to the patient, because 24% of people surveyed do not know what symptoms to watch for to prevent it. In addition, many believe that it is cancer that can be treated. This is indeed the case when it is detected early, but it all depends on the stage of development of the tumor and whether or not there is metastasis. As time passes, the chances of recovery decrease, because it is a cancer which evolves quickly and still today causes nearly 5,000 deaths per year in France.

When to consult?

This is the reason why you should not hesitate to go to your general practitioner as soon as you detect traces of blood in your urine. Called hematuria, the presence of blood in the urine is indeed the first symptom, which is found in about 90% of patients. The bleeding often appears at the end of urination. Slightly pinkish, dark red or burgundy urine, depending on the intensity of the bleeding, should immediately alert and lead to consultation. As with most other cancers, early treatment avoids heavy treatments, or even ablation of the bladder in the most serious cases. Frequent urges to urinate and a burning sensation during urination, which can sometimes be mistaken for a UTI or kidney stones, are also among the signs to look out for.

Tobacco, the main risk factor

It should also be noted that tobacco consumption is the main risk factor since it is the cause of two thirds of cases. Radiotherapy treatments to the lower abdomen, chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, recurrent urinary tract infections and exposure to certain chemicals in the workplace can also be responsible for the development of bladder cancer. . The average age at diagnosis is 70 years, but this cancer which affects four men for a woman can very well occur around 30-40 years.

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SARS-CoV-2: Going to a restaurant as an infection risk

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Atlanta – Distance rules are difficult to enforce in restaurants or bars. It is not possible to cover the mouth and nose when eating food. According to the results of a case-control study, the consequence is in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR 2020; 69: 1258-1264) an increased risk of infection.

Since the end of the lockdown, the number of infections has risen again in many countries. There are different ways for the population to become infected. What is important in practice can be determined with case-control studies that compare infected and non-infected people.

Kiva Fisher von den Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from Atlanta and employees interviewed 314 adults who had come to a test for SARS-CoV-2 with possible symptoms of COVID-19: 154 had positive results, the other 160 people were not infected.

Both groups were asked about wearing a mask and about possible risk contacts, for example whether they had been shopping in the last 14 days, whether they were in smaller or larger groups of people or whether they worked in an office with other people. Other questions related to visits to fitness studios, the use of public transport, visits to churches and staying in restaurants and bars / cafes.

There were only significant differences when visiting restaurants and bars. The infected had visited these locations twice as often as the controls. For dining out, Fisher determined an adjusted odds ratio of 2.4, which was significant with a 95% confidence interval of 1.5 to 3.8.

No significant difference was initially found for visits to bars and cafés. This changed when the analysis was limited to people who otherwise had no contact with SARS-CoV-2 infected people. The adjusted odds ratio then increased to 3.9 (1.5 to 10.1). Fisher determined an adjusted odds ratio of 2.8 (1.9 to 4.3) for the visitors to restaurants who could not remember an encounter with the infected.

The infected persons stated significantly more frequently that no or only a few other guests had worn mouth and nose protection when visiting the restaurants (19.0 versus 2.3%). This was the case even more frequently with bar visits (31.8 versus 25.0%). The differences were significant in both cases.

The study thus shows that visiting restaurants and bars is associated with a potential risk of infection. How big it is depends heavily on the mask discipline of the other guests. © rme / aerzteblatt.de

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A beekeeper uses live bees for alternative medicine

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Karina Kulik, in addition to being a beekeeper, is dedicated to “apicupuncture”, which involves performing treatments with live bees.

Some studies indicate that man began to control and manipulate swarms in the Neolithic and that it was in ancient Egypt when beekeeping was consolidated, a science that has not stopped evolving and that today offers new uses in fields such as medicine or genetic selection.

Research has gone further and tries to show that the use of bee venom can open the way in the field of alternative medicine for different treatments. In addition to doing apitherapy, Kulik has been developing apicupuncture with live bees for more than a decade.

Since the development of apitoxin, royal jelly, propolis and honey, Kulik has made kwas mandalu, a drink made without alcohol by the natural fermentation of water, honey and pollen known as the wine of the Russians or the vodka of the poor.

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