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Dads, Epigenetics and IVF: What Artificial Reproductive Technologies Mean for the Next Generation
Epigenetics is a game changer. What is epigenetics? It is a field of study that looks at how and why genes are turned on and off. Scientists are discovering that our genetics are not simply determined by the sequence of DNA we inherit from our parents. We also can inherit their pattern of gene expression; which of their genes are turned on or off. Gene expression can be influenced by environment: what we eat, our level of stress, whether we exercise, our exposure to toxins. And modern science is telling us that the changes in gene expression that occur because of the way we choose to live our lives, can be inherited not ju...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - September 12, 2012 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Reproductive Technologies Source Type: blogs

What do I do? Submit secondaries? Pretty bad MCAT
by yankeekd25 (Posted Wed Sep 12, 2012 11:04 am)10,6,10 Q first time around. 9,8,9 Q second time around. FL Resident. Bio Major/ Psych Minor 50 shadowing hours including observing many surgerical procedures 50 hours volunteering at Alzheimer's Living Facility General Chemistry Peer Leader Life Science TA Chemistry Tutor Si Leader for Gen Chem 2 (currently) Published poster for Fanconi Anemia Awareness at the Models of Human Disease conference in Toronto, poster appears on F1000. Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society LORs from the Dean of Florida Atlantic University Med School, my Human Morphology/ Genetics professors, a Psych Profes...
Source: Med Student Guide - September 12, 2012 Category: Medical Students Source Type: blogs

The Innovation Myth And A Challenge To Pharma
Last month, the BMJ published a controversial paper that maintained that the “widely touted innovation crisis in pharmaceuticals is a myth.” Rather, the authors contended that the “real innovation crisis” can be traced to R&D that produces “mostly minor variations” on existing drugs and incentives that reward drugmakers for such efforts. Meanwhile, they charged that many of the newer drugs caused an “epidemic” of serious side effects that added to healthcare costs. The analysis actually continued a long-running debate over the pharma pipeline and its price tag, especiall...
Source: Pharmalot - September 12, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized ABPI Association Of British Pharmaceutical Industry Donald Light Drug Development Joel Lexchin Source Type: blogs

Thomas Szasz, R.I.P.
By Trevor BurrusThe Cato Institute is sad to report the death of the trailblazing and iconoclastic critic of psychiatry Thomas Szasz, professor of psychiatry emeritus at the Health Science Center, State University of New York and Cato adjunct scholar. He was 92. Szasz advocated for individual liberty from a substantially different point of view than most libertarian intellectuals. Rather than focusing on economic arguments or political philosophy, Szasz focused on personal responsibility and how the institutions and practices of modern psychiatry fundamentally undermine the rights and responsibilities of individuals. In th...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 12, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Trevor Burrus Tags: General Health Care Political Philosophy Source Type: blogs

K. C. Nicolau, Rice University, Six Million Dollars, And Malevolent Aliens
Well, an alert commenter to this post sent along this link to the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas grant site. And if you search for the phrase "R12KCN", you'll see six million dollars set aside for "Recruitment of Established Faculty", which Nicoloau's name attached. So if this is going to happen, is it a good idea? I'm not asking if it's a good idea for K. C. Nicoloau; he's more than capable of looking after his own career. Is it a good idea for Rice, and for the CPRIT? The answer to that one depends on what everyone is looking for. If Rice is looking to make a big splash, that'll work just fine. But as ano...
Source: In the Pipeline - September 12, 2012 Category: Chemists Tags: Chemical News Source Type: blogs

Pregnancy Safe for Most Heart Disease Patients
http://www.medpagetoday.com/OBGYN/Pregnancy/34726 Pregnancy Safe for Most Heart Disease Patients By Todd Neale, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage TodayPublished: September 12, 2012Reviewed by Zalman S. Agus, MD; Emeritus Professor, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaAction Points Women with heart disease are at greater risk than other women when going through a pregnancy, but most still have positive outcomes, a registry showed.Compared with healthy pregnant women, those with structural or ischemic heart disease had higher rates of preterm birth (15% versus 8%), fetal dea...
Source: Dr Portnay - September 12, 2012 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr Portnay Source Type: blogs

2000 avoided infections, 500 lives, $34 million
I am just going to copy this article because it so good. It has been picked up by a number of places. A unique nationwide patient safety project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) reduced the rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in intensive care units by 40 percent, according to the agency's preliminary findings of the largest national effort to combat CLABSIs to date. The project used the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) to achieve its landmark results that include preventing more than 2,000 CLABSIs, saving more than 500 lives and avo...
Source: Running a hospital - September 11, 2012 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs

CSV is my bioinformatic data format of choice
Boning up on bioinformatics the last year, I’ve have had to wade through a jungle of wildly different data formats, generated from a menagerie of bioinformatic programs. The funny thing is, of the common text data formats I’ve come across (XML, JSON, CSV), I find myself increasingly reaching for CSV. I will now argue why for bioinformatic data, CSV is the best. I typically write glue programs that munge data and present it in a more usable form. To represent data, I stick to lists and dictionaries. I can’t remember who said it where, but you can build pretty much any kind of useful data-structure out of...
Source: Trapped in the USA - September 11, 2012 Category: Bioinformaticians Authors: bosco Source Type: blogs

"Could Psychoanalysis Be a Science?"
Recently Posted to SSRN: "Could Psychoanalysis Be a Science?" Fulford, K. W. M. et al (eds) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (Forthcoming) MICHAEL LACEWING, University of London - Heythrop College Could psychoanalysis be a science?...
Source: Neuroethics and Law Blog - September 11, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: NELB Staff Source Type: blogs

Screening for Coronary Disease
The newspaper recently reported on new research meant to help doctors better identify patients at risk for heart attacks. Dr. Eric Topol, the director of California’s Scripps Translational Science Institute, announced the discovery of a clue found in the blood of people who are apparently on the verge of suffering the big one. “On Wednesday, Scripps researchers reported a new lead—by searching people’s blood for deformed cells that appear to flake off the lining of seriously diseased arteries. Topol’s team measured high levels of those cells floating in the blood … Continue reading →
Source: Alegent Health Cardiology Blog - September 11, 2012 Category: Cardiology Source Type: blogs

7 billion people, 70 million chemicals
Humanity reached a developmental waymarker of sorts with the population reaching 7 billion some time in 2012. Now, the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is estimating that it will register the 70 millionth organic or inorganic substance in its database some time in the next few months, possibly this year or early next. I mentioned the 60 millionth entry on Sciencebase back in May 2011, and the 50 millionth substance in September 2009. It was while I was working at the Royal Society of Chemistry back in 1990 that I remember receiving the press release announcing the mere 10 millionth! It had taken 33 years for them to accumu...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - September 11, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs

Edible panties – where lust and gluttony intersect
Jessica Hagy did an enneagram a while back that hooked together pairs of the seven deadly sins. She kindly let me publish a few years back and also answered a few of my questions about it. Check out where lust and gluttony meet (edible undies), greed and sloth (get rich quick schemes), gluttony and pride (fat blokes in Speedos), greed and pride (status symbols) etc… Seven Deadly Sins. Edible panties – where lust and gluttony intersect is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - September 11, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs

Galaxy Zoo: the font of galactic knowledge
Earlier, I mentioned GalaxyZoo, the crowdsourced galaxy categorisation site, what I forgot to mention is the fact that there are galaxies to match every letter of the alphabet, which means there is a truly galactic font out there and the site’s creators have developed an app to let you write your own message in galacticalligraphy: Obviously, first thing I wrote was a rude word, but I deleted that quickly and wrote “sciencebase” instead ;-) Click the graphic and it takes you to my page and then you can write a new message, such as “Hello World” or perhaps more appropriately, “Hello World...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - September 11, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science font galactic galaxy knowledge zoo Source Type: blogs

Psychological Methods - Volume 17, Issue 3
For my quantoid readers A new issue is available for the following APA journal: Psychological Methods Volume 17, Issue 3, (Sep) Bayesian structural equation modeling: A more flexible representation of substantive theory. Page 313-335 Muthén, Bengt; Asparouhov, Tihomir Next steps in Bayesian structural equation models: Comments on, variations of, and extensions to Muthén and Asparouhov (2012). Page 336-339 Rindskopf, David ...
Source: Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) - September 11, 2012 Category: Neurologists Source Type: blogs

Science Education: The Standards that Matter
Recently Scientific American published an article calling for raising the standards of science education. That made me ask: what are the standards for our science students and how would we measure them? And what are we missing when we emphasize scientific facts over the scientific process?Tags: politics, school and studies
Source: Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life - September 11, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Gordon Shippey Tags: General politics school and studies Source Type: blogs

Superhuman? Maybe just human is weird enough…
Last Friday I visited Wellcome Collection’s current exhibition Superhuman: Exploring Human Enhancement from 600 BCE to 2050. Feeling rather less than superhuman after a sweaty bike ride from Tooting, I entered the delightfully air-conditioned exhibition space and an absorbing – if at times gut-wrenching – mosaic of objects, films, and texts, providing glimpses into the prismatic set of phenomena falling under the umbrella of human enhancement. Arguments abound about how enhancement should be defined and judged – amongst philosophers, doctors, American presidents, and this summer, a murmuring multitude of Paralympic...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 11, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Louise Whiteley Tags: art and biomed body displays/exhibits future medical science and technology medical technology public engagement Source Type: blogs

Free apps for musos
‘Sonic Visualizer’ is a music visualization app, SlowMP3 can slow and transpose MP3s and help identify chords in a song, BPMinus will let you change pitch and tempo and perform BPM analysis, ‘GBK Music’ can help find chords and scales for guitar, bass and keyboards, and finally ‘Pitch Ear Trainer‘ can help you train your ear for perfect pitch recognition. via Five FREE tools for Musicians (and music lovers) — freewaregenius.com. Free apps for musos is a post from: Sciencebase Science Blog
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - September 11, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science Source Type: blogs

Top 100 endangered species we don’t exploit
A new list of the 100 species most likely to become extinct soon is the result of many years work by 8000 scientists. Sadly, the list is filled with flora and fauna that humans apparently have no use for. Will we save them or do we as a species only really care about those organisms that we exploit for our own ends? You can read the “Priceless or Worthless?” report here complete with stunning photographs of many of the seriously endangered species discussed. According to Jonathan Baillie Director of Conservation at the Zoological Society of London, one of those 8000 international collaborating scientists: R...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - September 11, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science 100 endangered exploit species top Source Type: blogs

Billions upon billions, Galaxy Zoo
It’s been a while since I first mentioned the super amateur astronomy project Galaxy Zoo where members of the public get to classify galaxies and so help astronomers build a better view of the universe. September 2009 on SciScoop, in fact. Roughly one hundred billion galaxies are scattered throughout our observable Universe, each a glorious system that might contain billions of stars. Many are remarkably beautiful, and the aim of Galaxy Zoo is to study them, assisting astronomers in attempting to understand how the galaxies we see around us formed, and what their stories can tell us about the past, present and future...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - September 11, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science billions galaxy zoo Source Type: blogs

Q-Bio conference in Hawaii, bring your surfboard & your Y chromosome b/c they don't take a XX
Wow. Just wow. And not in a good way. Just got an email invitation to a meeting. The meeting is "THE FIRST ANNUAL WINTER Q-BIO MEETING: Quantitative Biology on the Hawaiian Islands. February 18-21, 2013." Well, I mean - who wouldn't want to go to Hawaii for a meeting. And a meeting that "brings together scientists and engineers who are interested in all areas of q-bio." Plus "Each year, the meeting will rotate on the Hawaiian Islands with a different thematic focus within q-bio." So I could go to Hawaii each year. Cool. And "The foc...
Source: The Tree of Life - September 11, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs

If Today's Young People Die of Aging, It Will Be By Choice
Here is a point lifted from an essay by Maria Konovalenko of the Science for Life Extension Foundation: If this generation dies, it dies only because of its own stupidity. Because it doesn't care about scientific research in the area of life extension. There is some research going on, but it's pace and the amount of funding is ridiculous compared to the importance of the goal. It is possible that folk in middle age today, myself included, won't be able to take advantage of rejuvenation biotechnologies - if, for example, development continues to be funded poorly, broader public support for the reversal of aging fails to e...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 11, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

The Electroencephalogram Cocktail Party
In 2005, filmmaker Joyce Draganosky made a short entitled The Science of Love, where......the battle between reason and emotion takes center stage. A professor, who believes she has found a way of determining scientifically whether someone is in love, clashes with her department chair, a woman who thinks love and attraction are far too complex to be mapped according to the certainties of science. The clip above highlights a hilarious event designed to determine the neural correlates of love. How does it work?"Well, the goal is to identify the part of the brain that controls lust, and to show that it is different from the p...
Source: The Neurocritic - September 11, 2012 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: The Neurocritic Source Type: blogs

Youth Bodybuilding Pictures
The objective is to create a body that is beautiful to behold, resilient, strong, graceful, flexible, lean and highly functional. Natural bodybuilding uses exercise, dietary supplements to consume. But it is not even, whether anabolic steroids came into the youth bodybuilding pictures a more specialized muscle-based bodybuilding training that creates and preserves form, function and health. Natural bodybuilding precision is gained when you ingest these precious nutrients.You're not alone. I've seen thousands of gym-goers who are dying prematurely or contracting severe disease to illustrate the youth bodybuilding pictures o...
Source: Cosmic Watercooler - September 10, 2012 Category: Nurses Tags: Pictures Bodybuilding Youth Source Type: blogs

DMAA supplement, dimethylamylamine, banned in UK
Back in April, the US Food & Drug Administration ordered supplement manufacturers to stop supplying bodybuilding and weight-loss products with DMAA, 1,3-dimethylamylamine, methylhexanamine, also known as geranium extract. Ingestion of the compound is thought to carry a risk of cardiac arrest or stroke as well having been linked to other problems such as harm to the nervous system and psychiatric disorders. The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) slapped a ban on the sale of DMAA in all sports supplements and other products at the end of August, according to spectroscopynow.com. Earlie...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - September 10, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science banned dimethylamylamine dmaa supplement uk Source Type: blogs

Ronald Hamowy and the Lion’s Dentist
By Walter OlsonAs David Boaz has written, we mourn this weekend’s loss of one of the great libertarian scholars, Ronald Hamowy, a historian of scintillating erudition, acute judgment, and formidable breadth of interests. Bryan Caplan has an appreciation that includes a Liberty Fund link to the entire online run of the Hamowy-edited New Individualist Review (1961-68), by common consent the best libertarian student journal ever, and notes also the friendly intellectual quarrel that eventually arose between Hamowy and one of his own mentors, Friedrich von Hayek. Hayek in his social theorizing didn’t always get eve...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 10, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Walter Olson Tags: General Political Philosophy Source Type: blogs

Favorite examples of the translation of health science to traditional media?
For the second module of the course in Public Health Science Communication we’ll be looking at the Translation of public health science to traditional (and new) media. I have asked the students to find and bring examples of public health sciences communicated in news articles, YouTube videos, blog posts, TEDtalks etc. but I was hoping that I could get even more examples of favorite health communication examples from readers of this blog. It can be any example – a favorite because of its bad communication, fun communication, creative, alternative, good. An example I like of how comparison of scale can be to used...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 10, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication Source Type: blogs

The driver of Curiosity
The Royal Society of Chemistry organised a live chat with Paulo Bellutta the driver of the Mars Curiosity rover. Bellutta is one of the “robot chemist” drivers of Curiosity and joined the RSC live from Pasadena on Friday 7 September for a question-and-answer session broadcast on the RSC YouTube channel. I chipped in with a general question, which Bellutta answers at 17’05″ in the video. “Physics has had its moment for this year with the earthbound search for the Higgs boson at the LHC. Do you think chemists are going to have their Higgs moment on Mars through Curiosity’s unique mix of an...
Source: Sciencebase Science Blog - September 10, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: David Bradley Tags: Science curiosity driver Source Type: blogs

For Those Of You Who Follow FDA Doings…
Watching the FDA may seem like so much ‘inside baseball’ to the vast majority of people, but organizational changes can often have a significant impact on how decisions are made, of course. So with this in mind, we thought we would let you know about a few shifts inside the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, which were announced late last week and are in the process of being implemented. Specifically, the Office of Generic Drugs is being elevated to a so-called ‘super office,’ which means the OGD will become an umbrella for other offices and report directly to CDER director Janet W...
Source: Pharmalot - September 10, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized FDA Generics Janet Woodcock Office of Generic Drugs Supply Chain Source Type: blogs

Geron, And The Risk of Cancer Therapies
Geron's telomerase inhibitor compound, imetalstat, showed a lot of interesting results in vitro, and has been in Phase II trials all this year. Until now. The company announced this morning that the interim results of their breast-cancer trial are so unpromising that it's been halted, and that lung cancer data aren't looking good, either. The company's stock has been cratering in premarket trading, and this stock analyst will now have some thinking to do, as will the people who followed his advice last week. I'm sorry to see the first telomerase inhibitor perform so poorly; we need all the mechanisms we can get in oncolog...
Source: In the Pipeline - September 10, 2012 Category: Chemists Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs

Why should we do public health science if we can’t communicate it?
The course Public Health Science Communication went live Wednesday last week! And based on the first experiences it survived the encounter with the students, is still in good shape and looking forward to moving on to module two this coming Wednesday. Since the concept “public health science communication” is still not a household concept and does to my knowledge not (yet) have a Wikipedia entry or a crystal clear definition, I found it useful during the first lesson to ask the students what they, in one sentence, considered public health science communication to be. It gave some interesting responses, of whic...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 10, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Nina Bjerglund Andersen Tags: public health science communication department of public health education graduate course research communication teaching University of Copenhagen Source Type: blogs

Dr David Hamilton pops in
Today I’m delighted to welcome Dr. David Hamilton to the blog. I was honoured when he agreed to write the foreword to ‘Thrive’: I find his work on the mind’s impact on healing fascinating. Also, he’s very smiley, which I like in a person (especially a doctor). Could you start by telling readers a little bit about you and your work? I have a PhD in organic chemistry and used to work as an R&D scientist in the pharmaceutical industry, developing drugs for cardiovascular disease and cancer. During this time I became very interested in the placebo effect and started to study how the mind infl...
Source: Bah! to cancer - September 10, 2012 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Recovery From Breast Cancer Thrive book dr david hamilton Source Type: blogs

The LITFL Review 075
Welcome to the overwhelming 75th edition! The LITFL Review is your regular and reliable source for the highest highlights, sneakiest sneak peaks and loudest shout-outs from the webbed world of emergency medicine and critical care. Each week the LITFL team casts the spotlight on the best and brightest from the blogosphere, the podcast video/audiosphere and the rest of the Web 2.0 social media jungle to find the most fantastic EM/CC FOAM (Free Open Access Meducation) around. The Most Fair Dinkum Ripper Beaut of the Week PHARM This could go down the podcast of the year! Minh is brilliant as usual but this time he t...
Source: Life in the Fast Lane - September 10, 2012 Category: Emergency Medicine Doctors Authors: Kane Guthrie Tags: Education eLearning Emergency Medicine Featured Health Intensive Care Blogs critical care FOAM FOAMed LITFL R/V LITFL review Social Media Source Type: blogs

A High Level Glance at Life Extension Technologies
From Wired: "Over the past decade, the main areas of research - brain emulation, regenerative medicine and cryonics - have gradually been departing the realms of science fiction and making a name for themselves in scientific journals. Back in 2009, when Avatar suggested that people could one day upload their brain to an invincible body-double, it seemed like something only James Cameron could dream up. Then a student in Israel controlled a robot with his mind from 2,000km away. In 2009 Aubrey de Grey announced - to more than a few raised eyebrows - that the first person to live to 1,000 thanks to regenerative medicine was ...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 10, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

EMTACL12 coming up in October! Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries
There still is time enough to decide to visit the 2nd Conference on "emerging technologies in academic libraries", but why wait if you can book today! Booking Flights & hotel rooms might become more difficult from now on.... Check the programm (Google doc at http://emtacl.com) to discover there is a really remarkable Keynote List: Herbert Van De Sompel: "Paint-Yourself-In-The-Corner Infrastructure" Karen Coyle: “Think Different” Richard Wallis: “OCLC Worldshare and Linked Data”. Brian Kelly: What Next for Libraries? Making Sense of the Future Rudolf Mumenthaler: Innovation Management in and for Libr...
Source: DigiCMB - September 10, 2012 Category: Medical Librarians Authors: Guus van den Brekel Source Type: blogs

Inevitable
With the coming advent of Accountable Care Organizations and the re-branding of capitation under the banner of "cost containment", the Surgeon realizes his days as an independently practicing general/trauma surgeon are probably limited. He understands that the only way to make the coming paradigm work (where health care spending is capped for specific inpatient admissions) is if all the doctors are employees. The idea is to eliminate the stake for physicians. If you are employed, then it doesn't matter to you if the employer stops getting reimbursed after a set spending limit during a long, complex admiss...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - September 9, 2012 Category: Surgeons Source Type: blogs

Beauty Science News – September 9
Here is some beauty science news to brighten your day… J&J is removing “potentially” dangerous chemicals from its US formulations. But is this good science or just caving in to fear mongering? Still more research points to new sunscreens, this time from herbs! New spray on skin could accelerate healing. Can a wrinkle spray be far behind? Camera technology helps dermatologist detect psoriasis and other skin conditions. I smell a new iPhone app! Can sunbathing kill harmful bacteria? It works for bugs!
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 9, 2012 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: Mid Brain Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, September 10th 2012
This study highlights potential mechanisms by which age related inflammatory responses become counter-productive for muscle regeneration and suggests new strategies for enhancing muscle repair in the old." STEM CELL TRANSPLANT RESTORES FEELING AFTER SPINAL INJURY Tuesday, September 4, 2012 http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/09/stem-cell-transplant-restores-feeling-after-spinal-injury.php Via the New Scientist: "For the first time, people with broken spines have recovered feeling in previously paralysed areas after receiving injections of neural stem cells. Three people with paralysis received injections of 20 million...
Source: Fight Aging! - September 9, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

"Technical Writing vs. Science Writing — By Kristina Bjoran
Source: bookofjoe - September 9, 2012 Category: Anesthetists Authors: bookofjoe Tags: Education Language Science Technology Source Type: blogs

BehindTheMedspeak: Why it's best not to take your doctor's word for anything
Source: bookofjoe - September 9, 2012 Category: Anesthetists Authors: bookofjoe Tags: Health Medicine Science Source Type: blogs

Testosterone and Marketing : a heady mixture!
Testosterone marketing frenzy draws skepticism WASHINGTON — "Are you falling asleep after dinner?" "Do you have a decrease in libido?" "Have you noticed a recent deterioration in your ability to play sports?" "It could be Low-T." Welcome to the latest big marketing push by the nation's drug companies. In this case, it's a web page for Abbott Laboratories' Androgel, a billion-dollar selling testosterone gel used by millions of American men struggling with the symptoms of growing older that are associated with low testosterone, such as poor sex drive, weight gain and fatigue. Androgel is one of a growing number of pr...
Source: PharmaGossip - September 9, 2012 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs

A Message for Xerox: Americans Not 'Resistant to Change'; They Are Resistant to Reckless Change That Endangers Them
A press release from Xerox Healthcare Provider Solutions:Jul 31, 2012Only 26 Percent of Americans Want Electronic Medical Records, Says Xerox SurveyThe subtitle is a rhetorical question: When it comes to healthcare, are Americans resistant to change? This is analogous to the refrain of calling physicians and nurses "Luddites" regarding their not happily and passively accepting today's clinical IT. I addressed that issue at my post on pragmatist clinicians v. health IT hyper-enthusiasts at this link.Jul 31, 2012 ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Americans routinely use electronic files to manage their finances, communicate with fri...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 8, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Xerox Healthcare Provider Solutions Ddulite Chad Harris healthcare IT risks Source Type: blogs

A Message for Xerox: Americans Not Resistant to Change; They Are Resistant to Reckless Change That Endangers Them
A press release from Xerox Healthcare Provider Solutions:Only 26 Percent of Americans Want Electronic Medical Records, Says Xerox SurveyThe subtitle is: When it comes to healthcare, are Americans resistant to change? This is analogous to the refrain of calling physicians and nurses "Luddites" regarding their not happily and passively accepting today's clinical IT. I addressed that issue at my post on pragmatist clinicians v. health IT hyper-enthusiasts at this link.Jul 31, 2012 ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Americans routinely use electronic files to manage their finances, communicate with friends and family and even take coll...
Source: Health Care Renewal - September 8, 2012 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Xerox Healthcare Provider Solutions Ddulite Chad Harris healthcare IT risks Source Type: blogs

ENCODE: Data, Junk and Hype
This week saw the publication of dozens of papers in Nature, Science and Genome Research that report an initial analysis of data from the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project on RNA, transcription initiaion, transcription factor association, chromatin structure and histone modification. The scale of this data is staggering, and it will change how human molecular genetics is done. Imagine how the field of climatology would be changed if they suddenly had hundreds of years of complete weather data from thousands of weather stations. This is comparable.ENCODE data, visualized with the...
Source: On Genetics - September 8, 2012 Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Source Type: blogs

British Bodybuilding Championships
The objective is to take this muscle building pursuit. Instead of conducting legitimate testing to note muscle gain or fat loss or muscle mass easily and are also able to manage such heavy weights as men, so using reps as an Olympic Sport would allow the british bodybuilding championships, allowing people to learn more about bodybuilding, and possibly participate themselves.That is the british bodybuilding championships of individuals, who use steroids and countless other doping substances are highly commercially touted as beneficial weight-loss products to the british bodybuilding championships next time you look at the R...
Source: Cosmic Watercooler - September 8, 2012 Category: Nurses Tags: Championships Bodybuilding British Source Type: blogs

You Need To See This — Pushing the boundaries of scientific visualization
The registration deadline for the upcoming symposium on scientific visualization in Copenhagen, Tuesday 25 September and Wednesday 26 September 2012, is Friday 14 September. You Need To See This — Pushing the boundaries of scientific visualization should be of interest to everyone interested in how science is visualized, especially at the cellular and molecular level, in science, in media and in museums. The symposium is organised by Rikke Kjærgaard Schmidt and some of her colleagues at the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center, Aarhus University, in cooperation with Medical Museion and Bang Wong at The Broad Inst...
Source: Biomedicine on Display - September 8, 2012 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Thomas Söderqvist Tags: aesthetics of biomedicine art and biomed art and science conferences visual studies visualization Source Type: blogs

Mind-Controlled Animatronic Cat Ears
Source: bookofjoe - September 8, 2012 Category: Anesthetists Authors: bookofjoe Tags: Accessories Animals Gadgets Humor Oddities Science Technology Source Type: blogs

Hello Its Me, Notes and Reflections To Readers
It's important to me... By Bob DeMarco Alzheimer's Reading Room I'm back and this entire computer crash story relates nicely to effective Alzheimer's caregiving. I'll write about that later. What a story. Can't anyone answer a simple direction question? After three days, I fixed my computer on my own after receiving some direct answers from a graduate student at Florida Atlanta University. A person I had never met before. I just drove to FAU, found the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, walked down the hall until I saw someone in their office, and asked for help. It didn't go well until I said the ma...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - September 8, 2012 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs

Zero To Sixty In...
An appropriate title. Since my last entry a lot has happened, mostly in the way of the academic semester starting. It has come on with a vengeance and I have a lot on my plate. But so far I am managing. One of the huge things is that this is the last semester I am taking courses that are required for admission into PA school, which I am really happy about. The load I have is still significant; I'm taking two hard science courses (as opposed to "soft" sciences) and a foreign language. And if that isn't enough, I have a bunch of mandatory education I need to complete for my employers. So I have my hands full. As far as the ...
Source: Life in Manch Vegas - September 7, 2012 Category: Ambulance Crew Source Type: blogs