{"id":322,"date":"2008-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2018\/02\/01\/innovation-anthology-136-assistant-professor-pediatrics\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T21:29:54","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T21:29:54","slug":"innovation-anthology-136-assistant-professor-pediatrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/2008\/05\/22\/innovation-anthology-136-assistant-professor-pediatrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation Anthology #136: Assistant Professor, Pediatrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/Innovation Anthology 136.mp3\">Download MP3 Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <strong>Arsenic<\/strong> is a poison and known carcinogen,  but it may also prove beneficial in the treatment of disease. <\/p>\n<p> This novel idea has prompted the <strong>Canadian Cancer Society<\/strong> to fund the research of <strong>Dr. Chris Le,<\/strong> a professor in Public Health and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the  University of Alberta. <\/p>\n<p> Arsenic has many industrial uses, such as in the production of pesticides and wood preservatives.  It&rsquo;s used in the mining of gold.  It has also been used in certain  pharmaceuticals. <\/p>\n<p> According to Dr. Le, arsenic can also be found <strong>naturally in ground water. <\/strong> Over his career, he has participated in several research projects investigating the effects of pollutants like arsenic in our water. <\/p>\n<p> Dr. Le&rsquo;s research for the Canadian Cancer Society will look at the effects on  <strong>humans exposed to low levels<\/strong> of arsenic over time.   <\/p>\n<p> He will also try to determine why arsenic may have certain health benefits.  Some arsenic compounds have proven quite successful in the treatment of cancers such as leukemia. <\/p>\n<p> It is suspected that arsenic trisulfides  induce cancer cells to undergo apoptosis. Essentially the cells program themselves to stop dividing. <\/p>\n<p> <strong> FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY, I&#8217;M CHERYL CROUCHER <\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Guest<\/h2>\n<h3>Shairaz Baksh, PhD, <\/h3>\n<h4>Faculty of Medicine &#038; Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, shairaz.baksh@ualberta.ca<\/h4>\n<h2>Sponsor<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/innovationanthology.com\/uploads\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Program Date:<\/strong>\u00a02008-05-22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Arsenic<\/strong> is a poison and known carcinogen,  but it may also prove beneficial in the treatment of disease.  This novel idea has prompted the Canadian Cancer Society to fund the research of<strong> Dr. Chris Le<\/strong>, a professor in Public Health and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the  University of Alberta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-and-medicine","category-water","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4453,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/4453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innovationanthology.com\/import\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}