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Nicholas Buscemi, MSOM, LAc, Acupuncturist, Chinese Medicine Practitioner Joins National Integrated Health Associates
Nicholas Buscemi MSOM, LAc , Acupuncturist and Practitioner of Classical Chinese Medicine has joined National Integrated Health Associates, NIHA, an integrative medicine and dental center serving the Washington D.C. metropolitan area Continue reading
Posted in Medicine
Tagged a-most-sought, a-the-placement, chinese, classical, health, health-associates, national, national-health, street
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Health Highlights: Feb. 20, 2012
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: Inhalable Caffeine Product to be Reviewed by FDA The safety of an inhalable caffeine product called AeroShot will be reviewed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Continue reading
Posted in Medical News
Tagged a-false-sense, associated, charles-schumer, health, laboratory, national, science, scientist, university
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Kitware Launches Visomics, an Open-Source Bioinformatics Application
The open-source, omics-specific tool aims to accelerate the pace of research through definition of relationships between biological analytes and biomarkers. CLIFTON PARK, N.Y Continue reading
Posted in BioInformatics
Tagged a-analysis-and, bioinformatics, data, data-analysis, health, insight, kitware, national, north, north-carolina, park, statistical, tracking, university, visomics
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Workshop 5: Genetics of Complex Disease – Joan Esnayra – Video
08-02-2012 12:15 Joan shares her family story of bipolar disorder and her journey as a mental health advocate. This workshop is part of a genomics curriculum for practicing healthcare providers developed by the Genomic Medicine Institute at El Camino Hospital, Genetic Alliance, and the National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics. This workshop, the fifth in a 10-part series, covered understanding genetic contribution to schizophrenia, major depression, hypertension, and diabetes; risk assessment for complex conditions; establishing diagnosis; pharmacogenomics; gene-environment interaction; and management. Continue reading
Posted in Genetics
Tagged and-diabetes-, and-management, family, family-story, for-complex, for-practicing, genetics-, genomic, health, national, shares-her
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Renato Dulbecco, 1975 Nobel medicine prize winner, dies at 97
ROME – Renato Dulbecco, who shared the 1975 Nobel Prize in medicine for his seminal research on the interaction between tumors and cells, has died in California. He was 97. Dulbecco, an early proponent of sequencing genomes that led to the Human Genome Project, died in La Jolla, California overnight, Italy's National Research Council — where Dulbecco worked on the genome project in the 1990s — said Monday Continue reading
New Mouse Reference Library Should Speed Gene Discoveries
Newswise — Genetic information provided by a large group of specially-designed mice could pave the way to faster human health discoveries and transform the ways people battle and prevent disease. In 15 papers published Feb. 16 in the Genetics Society of America journals Genetics and G3:Genes/Genomes/Genetics, researchers from North Carolina State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Jackson Laboratory and other universities and labs across the globe highlight a new genetic resource that could aid development of more effective treatments for any number of human diseases. Continue reading
Posted in Human Genetics
Tagged america, australian, chapel-hill, collaborative, council, health, national, north, power, project, research, state, threadgill
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University of Michigan Stem Cell Line Gets Federal Backing
The University of Michigan Health System announced its first human embryonic stem cell line has been accepted by the National Institutes of Health register, making the cells available for federal research dollars. UM4-6 is the first stem cell line the University of Michigan has had accepted, says Gary Smith Continue reading
Posted in Muscular Dystrophy Stem Cells
Tagged according, alfred-taubman, detroit-free, disease, health, home-, marilisa-kinney, michigan-health, national, press, register-on-feb, research, taubman, university
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Federal Agencies Poised to Help Improve Health Literacy in the United States [Medical News & Perspectives]
Improving the health literacy of individuals in the United States appears to reduce preventable hospitalizations, lessen overuse of emergency care, and foster a healthier life. Recent federal policy initiatives may provide the tools and incentives for accelerating such improvement in health literacy, said health policy experts in an article appearing online January 18 in Health Affairs. The authors, who are or were affiliated with various federal health agencies, suggest that 3 initiatives in 2010 brought health literacy concerns to a tipping point and will allow the issue to move from the margins of the health care delivery system into its mainstream (Koh HK et al. Continue reading
Posted in Medical News
Tagged a-tipping-point, emergency-care, health-affairs, health-literacy, human-services, improve-health, its-mainstream, national, plain-writing, united, united-states
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Few Studies Reporting Results at US Government Clinical Trials Site [Medical News & Perspectives]
Fewer than one-quarter of the clinical trials registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (http://clinicaltrials.gov), a federal database set up to provide public information about clinical trials, have had their results posted in the database within a year of publication, 2 recent analyses have found. The findings may suggest the need to boost awareness among researchers about the requirement to report and the value of reporting results in the database, or may require enforcement efforts by regulators or others with authority over clinical trial investigators Continue reading
Posted in Medical News
Tagged authority-over, boost-awareness, charged-with, clinical-trial, creation, database, national, promote-greater, recent-analyses, requirement, scientific
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Atossa Genetics, Inc. Announces Filing of S-1 Registration Statement
SEATTLE, WA–(Marketwire -02/14/12)- Atossa Genetics, Inc., a privately-held health care company focused on the prevention of breast cancer through the commercialization of diagnostic tests that can detect precursors to breast cancer, and through the research, development, and ultimate commercialization of treatments for pre-cancerous lesions, announced today that it has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) relating to a proposed initial public offering of 1,000,000 shares of its common stock. Dawson James Securities, Inc. Continue reading
Posted in Genetics
Tagged atossa-genetics, breast-health, intraductal, national, offering, press, prevention, seattle, securities, solicitation
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Chemistry teachers: Request a free chemistry activity kit from ACS
The following is an e-mail I received from the ACS Kids & Chemistry Program Manager. I’m re-posting it here to spread the word Continue reading
Posted in Chemistry
Tagged a-grant-from, color-change, health, information, international, investigating, national, request-it-and, science, society, spread-the-word, united-states, world
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Nabsys to Present DNA Sequence Data from Solid-State Nanodetectors at the Annual Advances in Genome Biology and …
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Feb. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ – Nabsys, Inc., a life sciences company pioneering development of solid-state single-molecule positional sequencing technology, today announced that data demonstrating the first direct electronic re-sequencing and mapping of DNA will be presented at the annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting, February 15 to 18, on Marco Island, Fla., and the Omics and Personalized Medicine Conference at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), February 16 to 18, in Heidelberg, Germany. Continue reading
Posted in Biology
Tagged a-life-sciences, analysis, first, health, highly-scalable, media, nabsys, national, potential, president, robert-flamm, technology
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National Library of Medicine acquires papers of sickle cell disease expert
Published on February 14, 2012 at 9:08 AM The National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world's largest medical library, announced recently the acquisition of the papers of Charles F. Whitten, M.D., distinguished professor of pediatrics and associate dean of medicine emeritus at Wayne State University Continue reading
Posted in Cell Medicine
Tagged community, disease, education, medicine, national, research, source, wayne-state
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First-of-its-kind stem cell study re-grows healthy heart muscle in heart attack patients
ScienceDaily (Feb. 13, 2012) — Results from a Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute clinical trial show that treating heart attack patients with an infusion of their own heart-derived cells helps damaged hearts re-grow healthy muscle. Patients who underwent the stem cell procedure demonstrated a significant reduction in the size of the scar left on the heart muscle by a heart attack. Continue reading
Posted in Stem Cell Therapy
Tagged article, facebook, faculty, google, health, medical, national, sinai-heart
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Plants use circadian rhythms to prepare for battle with insects
ScienceDaily (Feb. 13, 2012) — In a study of the molecular underpinnings of plants' pest resistance, Rice University biologists have shown that plants both anticipate daytime raids by hungry insects and make sophisticated preparations to fend them off. Continue reading
Posted in Biochemistry
Tagged amelia-min-, biology, bookmarking, circadian, google, information, janet-braam, national, plants, production, science, source, study, university
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North Texas Fertility Honors National Infertility Awareness Week® with IVF Cycle Donation
Donation to be awarded to area couple needing infertility treatment. Desoto, Texas (PRWEB) February 13, 2012 North Texas Fertility (NTF), an infertility program based in the Dallas area, is launching their first annual IVF Cycle Donation in honor of National Infertility Awareness Week (NIAW – April 22-28). Continue reading
Posted in IVF Treatment
Tagged a-subject-often, community, cycle, free, infertility, national, national-infertility, north-texas, phone, reproductive, texas, together, women
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Everist Genomics Celebrates Origins and Future of Personalized Medicine
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Everist Genomics, a rapidly growing personalized medicine company, today announced that world-renowned scientist and genome sequencing pioneer Dr Continue reading
Posted in Cell Medicine
Tagged a-diverse-ambit, a-new-franchise, a-vague-concept, celebration, craig-venter, creativity, everist, field, healthcare, national
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NIH's National Library of Medicine acquires papers of distinguished Wayne State University professor
Public release date: 13-Feb-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Julie O'Connor julie.oconnor@wayne.edu 313-577-8845 Wayne State University – Office of the Vice President for Research DETROIT ? The National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world's largest medical library, announced recently the acquisition of the papers of Charles F. Continue reading
Posted in Cell Medicine
Tagged city, education, education-fund, health, medicine, michigan, national, psychosocial, sickle-cell, university
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