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• in Business
  Neurontin Research Was So Flawed It Deserved to Be Called Marketing, Not Science
  A "Seeding Trial" Is Not Medical Research, but Just an Expensive Way to Promote a Drug
  by patmalone51 / on Jul 17, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  Sex, Coffee, Sneezing, and Exercise Can Kill You!
  (Or Can They?)
  by odanu / on May 5, 2011
• in Technorati Women
  Stress During Pregnancy May Imprint Baby’s Genes
  Only female babies carry obesity risk into the next generation
  by themomu / on Apr 18, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “medical research”

 

• New algorithm maps cancer cells like nodes on a social network

  
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  Often times, the best way to to get a sense of your data is to look at it. A bunch of of numbers or words might not mean anything sitting within a table, but they start to make a lot more sense when they’re turned into a chart. In fields like mass cytometry, though, where doctors might want to analyze dozens of ...
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• AIDS expert warns against ‘so what’ attitude 30 years on

  
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  | | Related New coronavirus may be contagious from human to human 13/05/2013 12:05 CET Evidence grows for human to human transmission of… 12/05/2013 16:46 CET Tuberculosis: An injection of hope 18/03/2013 10:51 CET Early HIV treatment can ‘cure’ 10% 15/03/2013 ...
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• Are mental illnesses such as PMS and depression culturally determined? | Corrinne Burns

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A growing number of psychiatrists suspect mental conditions are culture-bound syndromes rather than exclusively biological The latest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders – DSM 5 – was published over the weekend. Produced by the American Psychiatric Association, it describes the ...
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• Epilepsy Week: childrens charity celebrates research investment

  
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  Children’s charity Action Medical Research is marking National Epilepsy Week (19-25 May 2012) by highlighting its funding of epilepsy research. Around half a million people in the UK are estimated to have epilepsy, an estimated 60,000 of whom are children and teenagers under 18.  Existing drugs have side effects ...
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• Vitamin D screening: few pros, many cons

  
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  By Dr. Kenny Lin First Posted at Common Sense Family Doctor on 5/18/2013 The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently announced its intent to review the evidence and issue recommendations about screening for vitamin D deficiency, after finding insufficient evidence to recommend routine supplementation for the ...
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• Webcast: Examining the Scientific Basis Around Exercise and Diet Claims

  
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  Tim Noakes is the Director of UCT/MRC Research Unit for Exercise Science and Sports Medicine , Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Science, University of Cape Town and Professor, Discovery Health Chair of Exercise and Sports Science, University of Cape Town. Tim examines some questions on science and ...
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• Electromicrobiology – One of the rapidly rising scientific fields

  
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  Movement of electrons from microbes (Credit: The Scientist) Introduction: Electromicrobiology is one of the rising subjects in the field of science. It combines the technology with biology. In this subject, initially scientists found the transmission of electrical signals between the microbes. On a further note, ...
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• Government Jobs in India - 44 posts - Faculty posts at RIMSNR; apply by May 21, 2013

  
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  Government Jobs in India UP Rural Institute of Medical Sciences & Research (RIMSNR) Etawah, Uttar Pradesh Professor :  04 posts Associate Professor  : 16 posts Assistant Professor/ Lecturer : 24 posts Apply on or before 21/05/2013 Interviews will be held on 24/05/2013 For ...
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• Does pharmaceutical-funded research produce biased reports in medical journals?

  
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  In 2003, when diabetes drug Avandia was released, The New England Journal of Medicine published an article about how the drug outperformed two leading competitors in a clinical trial. The study was funded by GlaxoSmithKline, the makers of Avandia; four of the authors were GSK employees, and the others had received ...
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• The federales’ open data policy and the Medicare hospital chargemaster data dump … Please don’t inundate us with junk.

  
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  By David Harlow First Posted at HealthBlawg on 5/10/2013 So just about everyone is pretty pumped about the White House announcement of its new open data policy. Todd Park gives us the skinny on the latest in Open Government — The Executive Order and related Open Data Policy – in 60 seconds. (Gotta love that ...
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• Going the Distance for Healthy Pregnancy in the Bronx

  
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  The patients had undergone workups and appointments with hematology experts. Most of them did not have sickle cell disease or other exotic red blood cell problems. What they had was the usual, run-of-the-mill iron deficiency—the kind most pregnant women exhibit in a mild form. But their iron deficiency was so ...
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• The Business of Bones

  
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  Here at 3B Scientific we supplyreplica skeletons to our clients in the medical and educational sectors.However, one of our customers has taken the business of bones to a whole newlevel… When you see skeletons of people and other animals in class or amuseum, they’re replicas, right? Well, yes… sometimes!   ...
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• Chemical Safety Testing On Animals May Not Be Valid For Humans, Recent Study Finds

  
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  A Wistar laboratory rat ( image credit: Janet Stephens, photog .) Since Congress mandated testing of new medicines and chemicals on animals back in 1937, billions of laboratory animals have been subjected to a vast number of chemicals and medicinal compounds — all under the entrenched belief that this “safety ...
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• Is Design Important In Healthcare?

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 145
  By Dr. Joseph Kvedar First Posted at The cHealth Blog on 5/7/2013 I’ve been in the healthcare delivery business now for 30 years and I can confidently say we’ve paid almost no attention to design.  Systems are built around physicians’ desires and workflows, and physicians tend to be quantitative, ...
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• In praise of … antibiotics for back pain | Editorial

  
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  All hail to the Danish researchers who have isolated a bacterial cause of the devil gnawing at their spines De Quincey reckoned a quarter of all human misery was down to toothache ; today he might have chosen back pain instead. As well as the discomfort, there is the loss – the squandered potential of people who ...
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• Dentists warn of risk in cleaning pacifiers with saliva

  
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  Photo by The Adventures of Kristin & Adam via Flickr Dental folks collectively caught their breath when they heard about the study, just published in the journal Pediatrics . The findings: Children whose parents “cleaned” dropped pacifers by sucking on them were less likely to have asthma or eczema at ...
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• Back pain discovery: live webchat

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  A course of antibiotics could cure up to 40% of sufferers of chronic back pain. Join one of the scientists behind the discovery and a consultant spine surgeon in a live webchat from 1pm BST        
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• Back pain breakthrough could eliminate need for major operations

  
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  Discovery could transform treatment of chronic lower back pain and save health services millions of pounds The figures make for grim reading. When all costs are considered, the NHS spends more than £1bn each year on back pain. More than half goes on hospital costs. But £140m covers GP consultations, with even more ...
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• Antibiotics could cure 40% of chronic back pain patients

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Scientists hail medical breakthrough by which half a million UK sufferers could avoid major surgery and take antibiotics instead • Join the scientist behind the discovery in a live webchat Up to 40% of patients with chronic back pain could be cured with a course of antibiotics rather than surgery, in a medical ...
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• Autism: Girls May Need Different Treatment Than Boys

  
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  Most people are aware that autism is more prominent in boys than girls. New research presented at the International Society for Autism Research  conference suggests that: girls may not be diagnosed with autism as frequently as boys because their symptoms may be different treatment for girls with autism may ...
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