Pharmacy Daily | Dispensary Corner 12 Sep 11

TWIST on a favourite. A US pianist and Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS) sufferer, Evan Petrone, has become an online hit, after a YouTube video surfaced of him playing the piano backwards. EDS is characterised by extremely loose ligaments and joints, which meant Petrone was able to bend his arms completely backwards with his body facing away from the piano, to play Coldplay’s popular Clocks song. “I’ve always been able to bend my arms all over the place,” he said. “And I eventually began to wonder if I could play piano backwards,” he added. It took Petrone five hours to master the song, as he had to teach himself to play “in a completely different way”. “I feel bad getting attention for my EDS, because I literally have the fun kind,” he said. “I know people who suffer chronic pain because of their EDS and live very restricted lifestyles,” he added. GO nuts for healthy breasts. A new study published in Nutrition and Cancer has found that the simple walnut can slow the development and growth of breast tumors in mice. The research was led by Prof Elaine Hardman of Marshall University’s Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, who looked at the effects of a modest amount of walnuts included in the lifespan diets of mice (equivalent of two ounces for humans daily). Mice who received walnut nutrition via the mother from conception through weaning and then through eating the food directly, developed breast cancer at less than half the rate of the control group with a corn oil diet. “The walnut-containing diet changed the activity of multiple genes that are relevant to breast cancer in both mice and humans,” said Dr. Hardman.

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