President Bush has “never paid much attention to public opinion. Or legal opinion. Or expert opinion. Or scientific opinion,” a Eugene Register-Guard editorial says. It therefore is “no surprise” that Bush is “plowing full speed ahead” with a proposed HHS conscience
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First study to examine determinants of general health among IDPs published in JECH There are over 1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Uganda due to the 20-year conflict waged between a rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, and the central government.
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A Palestinian student who studied the long term effects of war and occupation on Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip graduated on Friday (21 November). Dr Mohamed Altawil was awarded the Doctor of Philosophy for his research into The Effects of Chronic Traumatic Experience on Palestinian […]
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Scientists who have developed a new technique that can test for up to 5,000 different allergens from just one drop of blood have scooped a prestigious national award which encourages innovation in healthcare technologies. The new basophil-microarray based allergy assay is the brainchild of researchers in The University of Nottingham’s Schools of […]
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Critical Diagnostics announced today the publication of a key research paper identifying the clinical value of the cardiac biomarker soluble ST2 (sST2) as a tool to monitor patients hospitalized for heart failure. The research paper, “Serial Sampling of ST2 Predicts 90-day Mortality Following Destabilized Heart Failure” was published in the current issue of […]
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The Disability Rights Legal Center (DRLC), which for four decades has advocated for the civil rights of people with disabilities, has recognized Ossur, a trusted and leading global innovator and provider of non-invasive orthopaedic products and services, with the Charles D. Siegal President’s Award.
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An egg a day raises risk of Type 2 diabetes. Research published recently in the US claims that eating one egg every day can substantially raise the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Scientists from Boston, Massachusetts reached the conclusions after tracking almost 57,000 men and women over a period of up to 20 years. […]
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No one needs to tell Disney, which brought the likes of Herbie the Love Bug and Lightning McQueen to the big screen, that cars have personality. Now a study co-authored by a Florida State University researcher has confirmed through a complex statistical analysis that many people see human facial features in the […]
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In related news, Shannon Brownlee, an author and visiting scholar at the NIH Clinical Center, and author and oncologist Ezekiel Emanuel on Sunday in the Washington Post examined five myths about the U.S. health care system. Summaries appear below.
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A Mayo Clinic study shows a majority of stroke patients don’t think they’re having a stroke — and as a result — delay seeking treatment until their condition worsens. The findings appear in the current issue of Emergency Medicine Journal at http://emj.bmj.com.
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