Growing Threat of Medical Fraud

Growing Threat of Medical Fraud. Watch the latest news video at video.foxnews.com

Brain Science gets squishy

New clue to how telomeres work

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 [...]

Costs Controls for Health Reform

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

“Epigenetics” drives phenotype?

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 [...]

‘La ciencia médica en Colombia está atrasada 20 años’, dice Emilio Yunis

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 [...]

Dr. Juan Carlos Celedón receives the 2009-2010 A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award

El Dr. Juan Carlos Celedón, Colombiano; es el Primer “Faculty member” en la historia de Harvard Medical School en recibir el Young Mentor Award (que comenzo en el 2005) y el Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award La Ceremonia tendrá lugar el Martes 1˚de Junio de 2010 a las 4:00pm en el Carl Walter Amphitheater, [...]

US House passes key healthcare reform

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Supermodels? Emerging model organisms

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 [...]

Heart Disease and Stroke

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 [...]

Windpipe transplant success in UK child

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 [...]

Where does health care reform stand?

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 [...]

Fox News Exclusive: President Obama

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

Study: Erectile dysfunction may indicate heart disease, death risk

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 [...]

Crean técnica que permite ‘leer’ pensamientos

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 [...]

Stem cell regs to become law?

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 [...]

Sweet relief

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, [...]

Congreso Médico “Bicentenario de la Independencia de Colombia”

Via email uscma@uscma.org Imprima aquí toda la información: Formatos de Inscripción – Detalles del Hotel – Programa Científico y  Social del XXX Congreso Inscripción al Congreso USCMA – Formato PDF Programa Científico Congreso USCMA 2010 Formato PDF – Horario y Programa Programa Social y Eventos Detalles Hoteles y Tiquetes Aereos Reservas Aereas con la Empresa [...]

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