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Silk stabilizer may eliminate need to refrigerate vaccines and antibiotics

Silk stabilizer may eliminate need to refrigerate vaccines and antibiotics

August 5, 2012 2:07 pm by | 0 Comments

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health have developed a new silk-based stabilizer that, in the laboratory, kept some vaccines and antibiotics stable up to temperatures of 140 degrees ... Read more
Lose It! wins in fitness category of Surgeon General’s app challenge

Lose It! wins in fitness category of Surgeon General’s app challenge

July 4, 2012 8:36 am by | 2 Comments

The U.S. Surgeon General recently challenged mobile device application developers to come up with apps that would ’provide tailored health information and empower users to engage in and enjoy healthy ... Read more
Childhood obesity under fire in controversial children’s hospital ads

Childhood obesity under fire in controversial children’s hospital ads

January 13, 2012 1:05 pm by | 1 Comments

A new series of billboard and television ads is outraging Georgians, who object to the “Stop Sugarcoating It, Georgia” campaign being run by the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta pediatric hospital. ... Read more
Latest cancer education: Patients asking doctors about personalized medicine

Latest cancer education: Patients asking doctors about personalized medicine

January 1, 2012 9:12 am by | 2 Comments

The Is My Cancer Different? campaign urges patients to ask their doctors a crucial question ’ is my cancer different? ’ and provides powerful information on why, when and how ... Read more
Malaria researchers try open source approach to drug discovery

Malaria researchers try open source approach to drug discovery

December 28, 2011 2:50 pm by | 0 Comments

The term “open source” describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product’s source materials. I’m sure you’ve heard of open source software such as Perl, ... Read more
Scientific breakthroughs from health gaming? It can happen.

Scientific breakthroughs from health gaming? It can happen.

December 19, 2011 1:53 pm by | 0 Comments

While computer gamers have long used gaming to interact with one another, build social connections, and de-stress, it’s now possible to contribute to scientific exploration while gaming. A new computer ... Read more
NLM plus: A new app for better biomedical data search results

NLM plus: A new app for better biomedical data search results

December 14, 2011 9:32 am by | 0 Comments

WebLib, a small international technology startup of experts in information retrieval, natural language processing and medical informatics, recently released NLMplus, a semantic search and knowledge discovery application that utilizes a ... Read more
Qualcomm rolls out subsidiary for wireless health technology, funding

Qualcomm rolls out subsidiary for wireless health technology, funding

December 8, 2011 12:21 pm by | 0 Comments

Mobile technology company Qualcomm announced today the formation of a new subsidiary, Qualcomm Life. The subsidiary will run the company’s former Wireless Health business. Qualcomm Life was unveiled Monday at ... Read more
Autism-vaccine link challenged by new info on brains of autistic children

Autism-vaccine link challenged by new info on brains of autistic children

November 22, 2011 9:38 am by | 0 Comments

While the alleged link between vaccines — particularly the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine — and autism has been thoroughly discredited in more than 20 well-conducted studies of vaccine ... Read more
Calling into question the discrepency model for dyslexia in children

Calling into question the discrepency model for dyslexia in children

November 14, 2011 12:33 pm by | 0 Comments

Regardless of high or low overall scores on an IQ test, children with dyslexia show similar patterns of brain activity, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health. ... Read more
How we’ve fought cancer so far: A brief summary

How we’ve fought cancer so far: A brief summary

November 2, 2011 12:42 pm by | 0 Comments

We’ve been fighting the war on cancer for forty years and although there has been a decrease in U.S. cancer deaths, the global burden of cancer has doubled over the ... Read more
Two differing perspectives on accountable care organizations

Two differing perspectives on accountable care organizations

October 30, 2011 11:00 am by | 0 Comments

Last Thursday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the highly anticipated final regulations for accountable care organizations (ACOs) under Section 3022 of the Patient Protection and Affordable ... Read more
Don’t rag on vitamins just yet. That study has major limitations

Don’t rag on vitamins just yet. That study has major limitations

October 19, 2011 4:20 pm by | 0 Comments

New research published in this month’s Archives of Internal Medicine has caused quite a stir amongst vitamin- and mineral-popping Americans [1]. Researchers report that over the course of a decades-long ... Read more
NIH pledges $143.8M for biomedical innovators and risk-takers

NIH pledges $143.8M for biomedical innovators and risk-takers

October 4, 2011 9:16 am by | 0 Comments

The National Institutes of Health recently announced that it is awarding $143.8 million to challenge the status quo with innovative ideas that have the potential to propel fields forward and ... Read more
Personalized medicine in asthma treatment — is it coming soon?

Personalized medicine in asthma treatment — is it coming soon?

September 26, 2011 4:58 pm by | 0 Comments

Inhaled corticosteroids are used by millions of asthma patients every day. However, as with all treatments to control asthma, there is marked patient-to-patient variability in the response to treatment. New ... Read more