H202 - Hydrogen Peroxide as "Chemo-therapy" agent is there evidence?
I'm a Chemistry under grad, and got into a spirited debate with a friend. I personally am not a fan the standard treatment of cancer with regard to chemo, but not the point of my question. It seems to me a practical idea of using H202 as a chemotherapy agent, it can oxidize and induce apoptosis of cells it comes into contact with while releasing harmless H20 and O^2- which would be the oxidizing agent. Sounds counter intuitive, because oxidative stress causes the damage which leads to cancer no? Maybe the O forms to O2 from H202? How would that kill a cancer cell then? Most the supporters of H202 seem like parrots repeating what they heard at some seminar citing only testimonials without evidence, and talk about H202 like its simply an oxygen donor and "oxygenates" the body. I think they are misinformed, we obviously don't breath O^2- we breath stable O_2.... Regardless I think they may be on to something. But how could H202 work? Why do many say it does? It seems hard to figure out, but I'm all for alternatives to Chemo. If I had cancer though first thing I'd do is cut out ALL refined sugars and limit carbs as much as reasonable and then carefully choose my protein sources i.e. avoid milk proteins go for lean meats instead. Then combine that with the most prudent option the doc suggests. The most important stuff like "what does the cancer cell need to survive" is not always looked at and I see folk with cancer still eating like the slobs they were before diagnosis.
Is there a really a big difference in the quality of education among US medical schools?
I went to a mid rate school. It currently ranks 37/140. We were the first...absolutely first trauma center in the US. We were the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Systems. MIEMS. We were cutting edge.I learned a lot. Then I went to a no name Charity hospital center in Louisiana. We needed 250 cases to be Board Eligible. I stopped counting at 3000 and was mid point in my fourth year. We operated and operated a lot. It was resident teach resident. We put out better work product than I have ever seen in private practice. We could operate circles around the guys who rotated into Shriner's from two much bigger name programs.There are a few medical schools at the top: Harvard, Hopkins, Stanford. Then there is a big middle pack. Finally a few at the bottom.I got great training at my institutions. I had thousands more cases than the guys from Mayo Clinic that I had done, not just watched or held retractors.
Which would you say is better for biomedical engineering, UT Austin or the University of Minnesota? My research is focused on cancer, immunology, nanomedicine, and targeted drug delivery.
I can’t speak to what is better as I only know UT Austin, but I’d like to think I know it well.I work on the computational science side of an oncology lab at UT. Although my Ph.D won’t be in BME, I’ve got a little bit of experience (I see BME Ph.D students ~8 hours a day). I will say that UT is incredible in its choice of young, inspired, and outgoing faculty members in your research interests. There are 3 labs that work together in computational oncology attacking the problem from every aspect. Some students work on gap junction drug delivery, some on combining treatments, developing mathematical models to uncover key aspects of biology (not just the what happens, but the why and how).The beauty of UT is we work closely with MD Anderson and Dell Med School (which amounts to lots of networking and learning from a variety of academics) and have a top computational science program that works in predicting how cancer proliferates, spreads, and is effected by therapies.UT really does do well in the topics that you’re interested in and research is being done here to prove it. Well, that’s all the time I have, time to get back to the lab!
Can I major in Special ED. and continue to Occupational Therapy?
I'm a senior in high school and I can't decide whther or not I want to be a special education teacher or be an occupational therapist and work with special needs kids, preferably Autism and similar disabilities. So I was wondering if when getting my bachelor's I could major in special ed. and then go and get my masters in occupational therapy? If I decided not to go forward with occupational therapy I would still have my special ed degree, and if I did get my masters of occupational therapy I would have 2 degrees that I love. So is this possible? Thanks!