Can
Noni Help Cancer Patients?
 |
Brian F. Issell |
Brian F. Issell gives the talk Noni—Does
it Help Cancer Patients? on Wed., Aug. 3, 7 p.m. at Manoa’s
Hawai‘i Institute of Geophysics 110. Is noni,
available over the counter in many forms, the new wonder drug? Issell's
medical research has been focused on finding better ways to treat
cancer patients.
Issell decided to study noni, an odiferous tropical fruit, after a
number of his patients claimed they felt better after taking noni. In
2001, he received a grant from the National Institutes of Health to measure
the effectiveness of freeze-dried noni in alleviating the effects of
cancer. While Issell has not concluded his study, he shares some of his
findings to date.
A professor of medicine at the University of Hawai‘i, Issell
is director of the Clinical Trials Unit at the Cancer Research Center
of Hawai‘i and a practicing internist and medical oncologist.
(808) 956-8246
More
Events
This
Week (arranged
by date)
Tourism Conference
Manoa’s School of Travel Industry Management hosts the 2005
Fourth Asia Pacific Forum for Graduate Student Research in Tourism,
Aug. 1–3 at the Sheraton Manoa Surfrider Hotel. The three-day
conference, Winds of Change in Tourism Research: Voyages of Inquiry
and Discovery, provides a research forum among post-graduate students
and faculty interested or engaged in hospitality and tourism issues
in the Asia-Pacific region. (808) 956-4886
Mushroom Expert Speaks at
Hilo
 Photo
courtesy of UH Hilo.
Internationally known mushroom cultivation expert Paul Stamets
speaks on How Mushrooms Can Save the World on Mon., Aug. 1, 7 p.m.
in Hilo’s UCB 100. The lecture includes information on new
and exciting anti-viral compounds isolated from specific mushrooms
and manipulation of the vitamin content of mushrooms by varying
the culture conditions. (808) 974-7383 |
