This Kalorama Information report – Clinical Nutrition – focuses on three primary segments of essential medical nutrition:

Infant Nutrition
Enteral Nutrition
Parenteral Nutrition

For each category, the report provides revenue data and forecasts for the most important segmentations. The report includes incidence of conditions which often require enteral or parenteral feeding, birth rates, over 65 population, and overall global population. Information is presented as a worldwide overview, with special emphasis on the U.S., Europe, and other key markets. The market segments provide an overview, description of products on the market, new developments, market estimates and forecasts, and competitive analysis of leading providers. The report also includes current issues and trends affecting the industry.

Coverage of Issues and Trends in Clinical Nutrition

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When most people think of a pharmaceutical education, they assume that they would then become the person standing behind the counter at the local drugstore who hands over bags of medication day in and day out. It’s a job that might look a little less than exciting. But it’s not the only job available to people with degrees in pharmaceutical sciences.

The pharmacist behind the counter of your local drugstore actually has a doctoral degree, called a PharmD, or doctor of pharmacology. This is the equivalent to the more well known PhD, just in the pharmacy field. But there are other people working behind the counter at a pharmacy, and those people may be either pharmacy technicians or pharmacy aides.

Pharmacy aides or assistants are the lowest-ranked job. These individuals are not allowed to dispense medications and their primary purpose is as support staff for the pharmacy. They deal with customers and computer systems and generally help keep the system working properly. The education to become a pharmacy aide is either on the job only, or a certificate program, usually from a 2-year college. Some 2-year degrees are available as well, but generally it is a certificate program. These programs can help people find jobs, but are not always required.

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The wound-healing action of sangre de grado resin was first related to the taspine alkaloid in 1989. Several later studies also concentrated on the wound-healing and antitumorous properties of taspine. The lignan dimethylcedrusine was isolated by scientists in 1993 and was shown to play a central role in sangre de grado’s effective wound-healing action. This Belgian study revealed that the crude resin stimulated contraction of wounds, helped in the formation of a crust/scab at the wound site, regenerated skin more rapidly, and assisted in the formation of new collagen. This was the study to which Dr. Duke referred in documenting that the crude resin was found to be four times more effective at wound healing and collagen formation than its isolated chemicals (and healed wounds 10-20 times faster than using nothing at all).

The Belgian scientists also determined that taspine was active against herpes virus in this study.

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