Growing Threat of Medical Fraud. Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com
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Brain Science gets squishy
Posted on March 30, 2010 by uscma
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New clue to how telomeres work
Posted on March 26, 2010 by uscma
One protein appears to play an integral role in protecting telomeres, and possibly preventing cancerous growth, according to a study published this week in Science. Chromosomes with fluorescently tagged telomeres in cells that lack Rap1 and Ku. The arrows point to examples of telomere-sister chromatid exchanges. Image: Titia de Lange laboratory The protein in question [...]
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Costs Controls for Health Reform
Posted on March 25, 2010 by uscma
Many wonder how the government can insure an extra 32 million people and save money. As Sharyl Attkisson reports, some states say it will come at huge cost to their residents. more about “Costs Controls for Health Reform“, posted with vodpod
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“Epigenetics” drives phenotype?
Posted on March 22, 2010 by uscma
Researchers have identified a possible mechanism by which DNA regions that don’t encode proteins can still determine phenotypic traits such as a person’s height or susceptibility to a particular disease, researchers report online in Science today. The scientists found that certain chromatin modifications often considered to be epigenetic — meaning, regulated by factors other than [...]
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‘La ciencia médica en Colombia está atrasada 20 años’, dice Emilio Yunis
Posted on March 22, 2010 by uscma
Foto: Claudia Rubio / EL TIEMPO El reconocido genetista colombiano Emilio Yunis señala que el sistema de salud en Colombia está hecho para atender lo básico. ‘No se sabe manejar lo complejo’, advierte. El reconocido genetista critica la Emergencia Social. Yunis también se muestra preocupado por la mediocridad de los médicos y afirma que la [...]
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US House passes key healthcare reform
Posted on March 22, 2010 by uscma
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Supermodels? Emerging model organisms
Posted on March 21, 2010 by uscma
What do a yam, a wasp, and a wallaby all have in common? Well, not much, actually, but they’re all being touted as the next big experimental model, according to a new laboratory manual due out in April. The second volume of Emerging Model Organisms, from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, examines a range [...]
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Heart Disease and Stroke
Posted on March 20, 2010 by uscma
The UK has one of the highest rates of death from heart disease in the world – one British adult dies from the disease every three minutes – and stroke is the country’s third biggest killer, claiming 70,000 lives each year. Heart attacks occur when blood flow is blocked, often by a blood clot, while [...]
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Windpipe transplant success in UK child
Posted on March 19, 2010 by uscma
Claudia Castillo became the first person to have a tissue-engineered organ transplant A 10-year-old British boy has become the first child to undergo a windpipe transplant with an organ crafted from his own stem cells. It is hoped that using the boy’s own tissue in the nine-hour operation at Great Ormond Street Hospital will cut [...]
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Where does health care reform stand?
Posted on March 18, 2010 by uscma
Washington (CNN) — The House is expected to vote this week on the health care bill passed by the Senate in December. The Senate bill is unpopular among some House Democrats because it doesn’t include a public health care coverage option favored by liberals, while some moderate House Democrats object to what they say are [...]
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Fox News Exclusive: President Obama
Posted on March 17, 2010 by uscma
Fox News Exclusive: President Obama. March 17, 2010 Part 1: The president sits down with FNC’s Bret Baier to discuss the health care reform bill
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Study: Erectile dysfunction may indicate heart disease, death risk
Posted on March 15, 2010 by uscma
Men with ED were 1.6 times more likely to suffer from a serious cardiovascular problem, a study found. (CNN) — Erectile dysfunction is a strong predictor of death in men with cardiovascular disease, according to new research out this week. German researchers said in the current issue of Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association [...]
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Crean técnica que permite ‘leer’ pensamientos
Posted on March 14, 2010 by uscma
Gracias a un escaner se podrán ‘leer’ los pensamientos. La escena de la película Batman Forever en la que Edward Nygma, el acertijo (personaje interpretado por Jim Carrey), logra leerle los pensamientos a Bruce Wayne (Val Kilmer) pasará de la ficción a la realidad. Científicos británicos afirman que lograron “leer” los pensamientos de voluntarios sanos utilizando un escáner cerebral. Los [...]
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Stem cell regs to become law?
Posted on March 13, 2010 by uscma
US President Barack Obama’s 2009 executive order to allow the federal funding of research using new human embryonic stem cell (hESC) lines may become law. Human embryonic stem cells Image: Wikimedia commons, Nissim Benvenisty Yesterday (March 9), on the one-year anniversary of Obama’s announcement, members of Congress Diana DeGette of Colorado and Mike Castle of [...]
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Sweet relief
Posted on March 10, 2010 by uscma
In the fall of 2009, a group of New Zealand scientists were putting the finishing touches on a new therapeutic to help cancer patients recover from chemotherapy, in preparation for a clinical trial. All they had left to do was choose a flavor. “It was no easy task,” says Arie Geursen, general manager of LactoPharma, [...]
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