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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “medicine”

 

• Memorys master switch

  
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  Neuroscientists have long wondered how individual connections between brain cells remain diverse and "fit" enough for storing new memories. Reported in the prestigious science journal Neuron, a new study led by Dr. Inna Slutsky of the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University describes what makes some memories ...
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• Healthcare competition saves lives

  
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  English NHS hospitals located in areas where patients have more choice had lower death rates and shorter patient stays than hospitals in less competitive areas.  And hospitals in competitive markets were able to make gains without increasing their operating costs and without shedding staff.
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• Doctor, Doctor!

  
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  Surgery was postponed. The first doctor who read the MRI thought Nora needed surgery. This morning the spine doctor wanted to try treating it with a steroid epidural and very strong pain meds first to give the ruptured disc the opportunity to heal on its own. She had the treatment this morning and is now resting. She ...
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• Scientists pinpoint a cell-of-origin for human prostate cancer

  
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  UCLA scientists have identified for the first time a cell-of-origin for human prostate cancer, a discovery that could result in better predictive and diagnostics tools and the development of new and more effective targeted treatments for the disease.
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• Researchers identify key enzyme in DNA repair pathway

  
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  Researchers have discovered an enzyme crucial to a type of DNA repair that also causes resistance to a class of cancer drugs most commonly used against ovarian cancer.
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• ObamaCares Administrative Bureaucracy Will Suffocate the Nation

  
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  BureaucraticAdministrativeRegulatory supersaturation. Itll suck all the oxygen out of the health care system and well suffocate. (Via The Austrian Economists )
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• Most youth hockey injuries caused by accidents, not checking, study shows

  
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  Hockey fans likely would assume that body-checking -- intentionally slamming an opponent against the boards -- causes the most injuries in youth ice hockey. But they would be wrong.
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• Phytoplankton Population Drops 40 Percent Since 1950

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 153
  The microscopic plants that form the foundation of the oceans food web are declining, reports a study published July 29 in Nature . [More] Food chain - Phytoplankton - Nature - Environment - Ocean
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• Plant compound resveratrol shown to suppresses inflammation, free radicals in humans

  
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  Resveratrol, a popular plant extract shown to prolong life in yeast and lower animals due to its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, appears also to suppress inflammation in humans, based on results from the first prospective human trial of the extract conducted by University at Buffalo endocrinologists.
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• Health Consequences And Ecological Effects Of The Oil Spill

  
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  The health consequences of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be really serious and may include cancer, respiratory diseases, and hormonal disruptions. These health effects and the ecological issues are shown on a new infographic . Click on the image for the full version: *This blog post was ...
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• Next generation sequencing establishes genetic link between two rare diseases

  
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  Scientists have successfully used "next generation sequencing" to identify mutations that may cause a rare and mysterious genetic disorder. The research, published by Cell Press on July 29th in the American Journal of Human Genetics, demonstrates that sequencing an affected individuals entire "exome"; that is, all of ...
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• The Fertile Soul Comes to Asheville August 20-23, 2010.

  
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  We are very excited to announce The Fertile Soul is coming to Asheville! Register online for this special Fertile Soul Workshop August 20-23, 2010. Renewal retreats came about for those who experienced the life altering shifts from the Foundations retreats, and yearned for more. Here we take you into your depths with ...
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• New pathway to Parkinsons and Alzheimers diseases

  
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  Although their genetic underpinnings differ, Alzheimers disease, Parkinsons disease and Huntingtons disease are all characterized by the untimely death of brain cells. What triggers cell death in the brain? According to a new study published by researchers at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute ...
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• Researchers find new translocation; weak spots in DNA lead to genetic disease

  
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  A genetics research team based at The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia continues to discover recurrent translocations -places in which two chromosomes exchange pieces of themselves. As many as 1 in 600 persons carry balanced chromosome translocations, which involve no loss or gain of DNA. Most such people appear ...
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• The evolution of melanoma diagnosis: 25 years beyond the ABCDs

  
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  Twenty-five years after publishing the mnemonic "ABCD" to facilitate the early diagnosis of melanoma, the group who came up with that moniker says early detection remains a key factor in lowering mortality from malignant melanoma. Darrell S. Rigel, M.D. and colleagues from the Ronald O. Perelman Department of ...
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• Physicians Not Good Judges of Patients’ Health Beliefs But they have a better … – ModernMedicine

  
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  ModernMedicine Physicians Not Good Judges of Patients Health Beliefs But they have a better … ModernMedicine Physicians were poorer judges of patients beliefs when patients were African - American (P = 0.013), Hispanic (P = 0.075), or of a difference race (P … and more » ...
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• Linc-ing a noncoding RNA to a central cellular pathway

  
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  The recent discovery of more than a thousand genes known as large intergenic non-coding RNAs (or "lincRNAs") opened up a new approach to understanding the function and organization of the genome. That surprising breakthrough is now made even more compelling with the finding that dozens of these lincRNAs are induced by ...
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• Study finds male modesty a turn off for women (and men)

  
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  "Macho, macho man. Ive got to be, a macho man. Macho, macho man. Ive got to be a macho!" - The Village People
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• Study finds respiratory symptoms more reliable indicator of H1N1, not fever alone

  
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  New research shows that individuals with mild H1N1 infection may go undetected using standard diagnostic criteria, according to a study in the August issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, (APIC). The ...
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• Talking trash during the dog days: A brief history of sanitation in New York City

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 153
  Without modern sanitation , life would be nightmarish--human and animal waste would fester on the streets along with garbage and food scraps, producing a stench so foul that youd want to keep your windows closed even in the sweltering heat of summer (for the moment, envision lacking the luxury of air conditioning). ...
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