Pine Street Foundation

Programs: Website pine street's website (http://pinestreetfoundation. Org/), designed as an educational tool, provided information about our research programs and gave access to important health essays on topics such as pain management for cancer patients and the importance of maintaining a complete set of one's health records. Access to all content is free.

canine scent detection: research mentorshipwe will leverage our 12 years experience with canine scent detection, to provide educational and mentorship support to other researchers and trainers involved in training dogs to use their sense of smell in evaluating human health. This will expand our reach beyond what has been achieved within our own group. As we move forward with our own research projects, we wish to provide significant mentorship to other teams doing the same type of work: mentorship (helping other teams turn their visions into reality with concrete project design), scientific support (helping other teams write proposals, analyze data, and publish results), training support (helping other dog trainers become better scent detection trainers), and collaborative support (helping other organizations with project management and data auditing support). Our goal is to expand our reach through this mentorship and research, and helping other groups spread the word through publication in scholarly journals and through media exposure.

herbal analysis for pesticide residuesin this new research initiative, the pine street foundation is collaborating with our long-time research partner touradj solouki, phd (professor of chemistry at baylor university), to investigate chinese herbal products purchased here in the us. We are analyzing these herbs using truly state-of-the-art equipment, to rigorously assess the quality by screening for pesticide residues. We are also conducting an extensive systematic review, in which we are devoting hundreds of hours staff time to critically examining the over 130 papers that we have identified, which contain published evidence of contamination of chinese herbal medicines by pesticide residues. We have three primary goals with this initiative: (1) to confirm whether the concerns raised by other research is valid, (2) to expand on these findings by using the latest analytic technologies, and (3) to increase public awareness of this issue and propose new solutions.

research program the pine street foundation continues to conduct meta-analyses and clinical trials in collaboration with researchers from around the world. Meta-analysis is a method of systematically selecting relevant primary research, appraising its quality, and synthesizing the results to arrive at a summary conclusion. In our meta-analysis program, we systematically review past clinical trials to evaluate and substantiate the effectiveness of integrative treatment protocols for a wide range of illnesses.