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Vitamin D and Breast Cancer.

Posted on April 13, 2016 by Dr. Gary Pack

“Low levels of vitamin D are the norm rather than the exception in South East Asia.” Estimates of vitamin D deficiency among Pakistani people are from 70 to 97%. In the United States, 50-74% of newly diagnosed premenopausal breast cancer patients are vitamin D deficient. When vitamin D levels are low, angiogenesis (the growth of […]

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Conditions: Angiogenesis, Apoptosis, Breast cancer, Menopause, Premenopausal, Proliferaion, Vitamin D deficiency

Supplements: Vitamin D

Miscellaneous: 25-dihydroxyvitamin D, Asia, BMD (bone mineral density), Body mass index (BMI), Pakistan, Sun exposure

Antimicrobial Resistance.

Posted on May 7, 2015 by Dr. Gary Pack

The most potent antibiotics that we have today are carbapenems. An enzyme called NMDI in bacteria allows these to be resistant to that class of antibiotics, and 1/10th of them are resistant to all antibiotics (pan-resistance). At this time, there is no evidence for development of new antimicrobials. Cases of NMDI resistance have been found […]

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Conditions: Escherichia coli infection, Infectious disease, Kidney toxicity, Multidrug resistance (MDR), Viral infection

Miscellaneous: Antibiotic resistance, Antibiotics, Carbapenems, Conly (Prof. John), Genes, India, NMDI, Pakistan, Panresistance, Superbugs, World Health Day, World Health Organization (WHO)

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