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'Fringe' recap: In The World To Come, We Will All Be Monsters
Image credit: Michael Courtney/Fox “Can you believe this recap? His theories are total crap! And enough with the comic book references, already! ‘Doc’ Jensen? More like SHLOCK Jensen.Sheesh.” An alternate reality riff on the season 1 episode The Transformation (aka the one where the nerdy Bruce Banner hulked out into an incredibly rubbery human porcupine), Nothing As It Seems was chockablock with strange mutations. Continue reading
Bristol Evening Post published Prominent doctor fails to overturn his ban on contacting former…
A FORMER Bristol Medical School lecturer and renowned researcher has failed to get a restraining order against him lifted. Cardiac physiology specialist Dr Allan Levi is banned from making any contact with his ex-wife Dr Jackie Addison, who practises as a GP in Shirehampton Continue reading
Posted in Medical School
Tagged addison, addison-or-his, bristol, family, heard-the-pair, jackie-addison, north-somerset, relationship, sister-or-legal
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Your child’s milk tooth can save her life
Is your child about to lose her milk tooth? Instead of throwing it away, you can now opt to use it to harvest stem cells in a dental stem cell bank for future use in the face of serious ailments Continue reading
Posted in Stem Cell Therapy
Tagged a-dental-stem, a-little-shaky, a-more-viable, a-source-for, child, dental-stem, from-the-tooth, his-pre-molars, india-, milk, obtaining-stem, shailesh-gadre, stemade-biotech, tooth-, umbilical-cord
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The Kind of Stress That Doesn't Kill You, but Makes You Stronger
Digging into an eight-decade landmark study on longevity, the author finds that stress brought on by hard work can keep you happy and healthy. Phatic-Photography/Shutterstock More than a half century after Dr. Terman collected his data on work and occupational success, we looked into the long-term consequences on health and longevity. Continue reading
Posted in Longevity
Tagged career, classifications, least, live-, norris-bradbury, package, participants, personality, professionally, research, subordinates, terman
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White House Aims to Tap Power of Government Data
The White House announced a plan on Thursday to pour millions of dollars into harnessing the huge amounts of data, from genetic databases to earthquake tracking, collected by government agencies. Continue reading
Posted in Human Genetic Engineering
Tagged dollars-into, earthquake-tracking, from-genetic, harnessing-the-huge, huge, huge-amounts, millions, pour-millions, white
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Levi Garraway on cancer cell genetic profile catalogs | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute – Video
30-03-2012 11:44 Personalized medicine is becoming an increasingly important aspect of cancer treatment. Levi Garraway, MD, PhD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Broad Institute, describes a new database of nearly 1000 cancer cell lines, across numerous tumor types, that will be used to help predict the effectiveness of cancer drugs based on a tumor’s genetic profile. Continue reading
Posted in Genetic Medicine
Tagged a-new-database, across-numerous, and-the, broad-institute, dana-, effectiveness, help-predict, increasingly-important, new-database, personalized, predict-the-effectiveness, the-effectiveness, tumor-types
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Mayo v. Prometheus and Its Impact on Myriad "Gene Patenting" Case—Antoinette Konski – Video
29-03-2012 12:24 More LXBN TV interviews at: While talk this week of course focuses on the oral arguments in the Affordable Care Act case, the Supreme Court last week ruled in a very important and influential intellectual property case. Continue reading
Posted in Gene Medicine
Tagged a-big-impact, affordable, and-influential, background, course-focuses, gene-patenting, impact-on-the, medical, myriad, patent-because, property-case-, supreme, supreme-court, whether-or-not
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Rihanna ‘has chemistry with Kutcher’
Rihanna and Ashton Kutcher’s friends have reportedly claimed it is only a matter of time before the two become an item. Continue reading
Posted in Chemistry
Tagged ashton, ashton-kutcher, before-the-two, friends-have, reportedly-claimed, the-two, time-before
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Your child's milk tooth can save her life
New Delhi, March 30 (IANS) Is your child about to lose her milk tooth? Continue reading
Posted in Stem Cell Therapy
Tagged a-tooth-fairy, cell-bank, child, face, harvest-stem, milk, milk-tooth, story-coming, the-face
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Avita Medical Sponsors Inaugural Skin Regeneration Symposium
Avita Medical Ltd. (ASX:AVH) (OTCQX:AVMXY), the regenerative medicine company, sponsored the inaugural Skin Regeneration Symposium held in Rome, Italy, 23-24 March 2012. Continue reading
Posted in Regenerative Medicine
Tagged a-senior-leadership, a-unique-opportunity, and-experience, for-expert, inaugural, italy, medical, present-their, regeneration-, sponsored-the, the-world, their-peers, world
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Eastday-Neurosurgeon, geneticist take top prizes in science
A brain surgeon and a scientist doing basic research on genes were honored with the city’s top award for science innovation yesterday. Continue reading
Posted in Pharmacogenomics
Tagged a-common-but, drugs-on-genes, focus-on-civil, international, japanese, position-on-the, research, shanghai, toes-or-fingers, university, year
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Q&A: GE Healthcare's Mark Dente on the Challenges of Integrating Genomics Data with EMRs
GE Healthcare has taken initial steps to integrate ‘omics data into its Centricity electronic medical record system through an exploratory research project that is developing a genomics data analysis infrastructure. Mark Dente, GE healthcare’s chief medical officer for healthcare information technology, discussed the project last week during a panel discussion at the American Medical Informatics Association’s Translational Bioinformatics conference in San Francisco. The panel discussed several projects that are looking to integrate genomics data into EMRs. Continue reading
Posted in Pharmacogenomics
Tagged a-coupled-with, electronic, genomic, healthcare, medical-school, microsoft, network, technology
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Early Autoimmune Therapy Helps Autoimmune Epilepsy Patients
Editor’s Choice Academic Journal Main Category: Epilepsy Article Date: 30 Mar 2012 – 5:00 PDT email to a friend printer friendly opinions Current Article Ratings: 5 (1 votes) According to the researchers: Seizures are prevalent in autoimmune neurologic disorders, such as limbic encephalitis. Amy M. L Continue reading
Posted in Neurology
Tagged after-the-aeds, assess-clinical, autoimmune, choice-academic, from-the-mayo, journal, journal-main, mayo, participants, team
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ICA Donates to 360 Communities in the Name of HIMSS12 Charity Drawing Winner Rebecca Swain-Eng of the American Academy …
Informatics Corporation of America (ICA, www.icainformatics.com) and 360 Communities (www.360communities.org) announced today that a charitable donation of $2,000 was made in the name of Rebecca Swain-Eng, Senior Manager, Measurement & Implementation, the American Academy of Neurology, to continue 360 Communities’ mission of transforming lives within the greater Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Continue reading
Posted in Neurology
Tagged america, and-360, announced-today, communities, continue-360, greater, lives-within, measurement, minneapolis, name, neurology, rebecca, senior, the-greater
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'Backpacking' bacteria
Public release date: 29-Mar-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 619-525-6268 (March 23-28, San Diego Press Center) 202-872-6042 Michael Woods m_woods@acs.org 619-525-6268 (March 23-28, San Diego Press Center) 202-872-6293 American Chemical Society SAN DIEGO, March 29, 2012 To the ranks of horses, donkeys, camels and other animals that have served humanity as pack animals or beasts of burden, scientists are now enlisting bacteria to ferry nano-medicine cargos throughout the human body. Continue reading
Posted in Nano Medicine
Tagged a-few-years, animals, cargo, diego-press, engineering, human, johns-hopkins, medicine-at-the, michael-woods, san, scientists, university
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'Backpacking' bacteria help ferry nano-medicines inside humans
ScienceDaily (Mar. 29, 2012) To the ranks of horses, donkeys, camels and other animals that have served humanity as pack animals or beasts of burden, scientists are now enlisting bacteria to ferry nano-medicine cargos throughout the human body. They reported on progress in developing these “backpacking” bacteria — so small that a million would fit on the head of a pin — in San Diego on March 29 at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Continue reading
Posted in Nano Medicine
Tagged a-already-live, backpacking, body, cargo, facebook, feasibility, human, medicine-at-the, research, scientists, social, team
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Ex-Temple med school official sentenced in fraud case
Former Temple University physician and medical school assistant dean Joseph J. Kubacki was sentenced in federal court Thursday to more than seven years in prison after being convicted by a jury of defrauding Medicare, private insurers, and patients by filing false medical claims. Kubacki, 63, was convicted in August of 150 counts of health-care fraud, wire fraud, and making false statements in health-care matters Continue reading
Posted in Medical School
Tagged and-health-care, attorney-zane, department, district-judge, former-temple, government, health, judson-aaron, kubacki, medical, medical-school, rely-on-honest, school, university
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Sitting more than four hours a day could raise risk of dying early: Study
By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD According to Australian researchers spending less time sitting could boost longevity. Their study of more than 220,000 NSW residents found the longer you spend sitting down the greater your risk of dying early, even if you otherwise do regular exercise. Continue reading
Posted in Longevity Medicine
Tagged a-from-the, archives, australian, doing-at-least, from-the-baker, from-the-blood, health, into-the-health, modern, professor, risk, said-the-modern, study, sydney
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Estelle Harris talks about longevity of 'Seinfeld' and of senior pets
TORONTO – Comic actress Estelle Harris expected to gain a younger generation of fans with her role as the voice of Mrs. Potato Head in the hit “Toy Story” film franchise. Continue reading
Posted in Longevity
Tagged a-younger-generation, comic, estelle, estelle-harris, fans-with, film-franchise-, her-role, potato-head, role, role-as-the, story, the-hit, the-voice, voice, younger-generation
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Do rich people live longer?
Those looking for a magic elixir to keep them healthy and happy need look no further than their bank account. Continue reading
Posted in Longevity
Tagged a-magic-elixir, boston, chicago, country, earnings, education, future, harvard, harvard-medical, life-expectancy, people--, social-security, vaillant-, wealth, widely-accepted
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Genetic study yields longevity clue
Published: March. Continue reading
Posted in Longevity
Tagged a-major-puzzle, between-species, british, connection-with, for-longevity, helping-explain, longevity, researchers, scientists-say-, the-researchers, with-longevity
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