Physicians Practice - September 2008 - (Page 23) THIS MONTH’S … Book Club Selections Think your job is tough? OK, it is tough, but Drs. Michael Hodges and Richard Jadick might not be able to muster much sympathy. They are the military physicians and authors, respectively, of “A Doctor Looks at War: My Year in Iraq,” and “On Call in Hell: A Doctor’s Iraq War Story.” The latter was better received but both are worth your time. OF MICE AND MEN Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have some double-good news to report: Impotence drugs may be the key to an effective brain tumor treatment. Rats with brain tumors lived 25 percent longer when given a combination of the chemotherapy drug adriamycin and either Levitra or Viagra. Why? Because such impotence drugs, known as PDE5 inhibitors, increase blood flow in small vessels. Especially promising is the fact that the impotence drugs cross only the tumor’s blood-brain barrier (it has its own) and the not larger blood brain-barrier, which would minimize killing off healthy tissue. Recommended Web Site Neuroscience for Kids, created by the University of Washington’s Eric Chudler, PhD, is a lot of fun, and not just for kids. It’s packed with games and brain teasers that illuminate the strange workings of the human mind: http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html http://www.sagehealth.com/PP http://www.sagehealth.com/PP
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