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Posted on: 2010-02-27
March 6 to March 14th
CHICAGO FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW
Navy Pier 600 E. Grand Ave
March 14 )
ST. PADDY'S DAY 5K RUN/WALK/ LEPRECHAUN LEAP
10am Diversey Harbor
April 10 th
WRIGLEY START EARLY RUN
9 AM Grant Park
upper Hutchinson Field@Columbus and/Balbo
April 24th
RACE TO WRIGLEY 5 K RUN
8 AM Wrigley Field (Addison & Clark)
May 2nd
C4 MILES: MAKING STRIDES FOR MENTAL HEALTH
8 AM Montrose Harbor (4400 L.S.D.)
May 22nd
ARTHRITIS WALK CHICAGO
10 AM Cannon Drive south of Fullerton
May 29 and 30th
BELMONT-SHEFFIELD MUSIC FESTIVAL
12-10Saturday,12-9 Sunday
Sheffield - Belmont to School
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JOBS?
Posted on: 2009-07-24
Unemployed?
You're Not Alone. Check out these job sites:
www.MyJobExplorer.com,
www.workjobs.net;
www.jobs.com
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CHRONIC PAIN MANAGEMENT
Posted on: 2009-05-13
HEALTH
Israeli scientists spice up chronic pain management
By ISRAEL21c staff May 12, 2009
Ask people what they fear most about any medical procedure and they'll tell you it's not the operation itself but the pain that goes with it. Anaesthesia also has its drawbacks with side effects like loss of consciousness, wooziness and numbness.
'The holy grail of any local anaesthetic treatment is to stop pain without causing any other effects,' says Dr. Alexander Binshtok of Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine. That noble goal may now be within reach with a new approach based on the common chili pepper.
Chili is credited with a variety of healing properties, such as easing the digestive system and clearing congestion. But by joining capsaicin, the substance that makes chili hot, with QX-314, a chemical derivative of the common local anaesthetic lidocaine, Binshtok and his colleagues are able to target selective pain fibers and effectively block the pain.
'We have demonstrated that this method blocks painful stimuli without any side effects,' says Binshtok.
An end to epidurals
The new approach has the potential to change multiple applications of local anaesthesia, from the dental office to the delivery room. Epidurals are one example of a pain management technique that will be revolutionized by this red-hot medication.
Epidural anaesthesia compromises body function to the point where a woman cannot walk and her ability to 'push' during labor is limited. With the new pain drug, she will be able to do both painlessly, says Binshtok, thus eliminating the need for an epidural.
Then there is the problem of the pain suffered by millions of Americans with chronic inflammatory diseases, neurogenic diseases, or cancer. 'Many people suffer from chronic pain but we don't understand why,' says Binshtok. 'Nobody knows what turns normal or protective pain to chronic or non-protective pain, and we don't yet understand the agents or molecules that turn normal into chronic pain.'
Binshtok explains that some lucky people carry a specific genetic variance that makes them more resistant not only to pain but to the development of chronic pain after surgery. Understanding this mechanism could be the key to solving pain problems.
Researching pain
As a post-graduate student, Binshtok was part of the research team from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) that succeeded in selectively blocking pain-sensing neurons in rats without interfering with other types of neurons, giving hope that someday there will be an anaesthetic that blocks pain but doesn't paralyze or numb the patient.
This fall, Binshtok will be directing his own pain management lab at Tel Aviv University. His work will study what happens on the periphery when painful stimuli attack the skin, and will attempt to understand 'how the process is analysed by pain fibers, and then how it is processed by the neurons in the spinal cord' which modify pain signals.
And while he warns there is still more testing and research to be done before a 'magic bullet' miracle drug is produced, he is confident that it will come.
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MORE JOBS
Posted on: 2009-04-14
Check out the AFL/CIO available jobs in WORKING AMERICA. See web site below
Website: www.unemploymentlifeline.org
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LIFE '101' COURSE
Posted on: 2006-08-10
Do you
ever wonder why things happen to us the way they do? What is it that that creates the way our lives go? How can we learn to recognize and change ? Learn how to understanding how we really effect our lives and what we can do to accomplish change. Come Sunday 10 AM March 21, 2010 at the 'Center' 1434 N. Western Chicago. Rear side entrance.
Come early, have coffee!
Hear Ananda Abinou help guide us to inner peace.
For additional information call Carol 312-543-5436
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WHO ARE YOU?
Posted on: 2004-06-27
font size=+1>Ever wonder what the purpose of your life is? How can we become more comfortable with ourselves and our surroundings? With little or no reference points to live by or figures in authority with solid answers, more and more people have come to the critical point of choosing to investigate the essential inner process taking place beneath the appearance of things. What is my true nature? How do I fulfill my life's purpose? How do I come to authentic power?
Learn more, hear Ananda Abinou, author of ''I'm Not Coming Back'
Everyone is welcome! Sunday
March 21, 2010, 10am at the 'Center' Rear side entrance 1434 N. Western , Chicago
for additional information call
Carol 312-543-5436
Email: omniself@sbcglobal.net
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