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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
Some women living in countries where abortion is restricted are using the Internet to purchase the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol to induce abortion, according to a review published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, BBC News reports (Dreaper, BBC News, 7/11). The drugs are available via the Web ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
It's conventional wisdom that practice makes perfect. But if practicing only consists of watching, rather than doing, does that advance proficiency? Yes, according to a study by Dartmouth researchers.In a study titled "Sensitivity of the Action Observation Network to Physical and Observational Learning" published in the journal Cerebral Cortex, Dartmouth ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
An effort to detect patterns of chemical changes in histones and their impact on gene expressionAlthough every cell of our bodies contains the same genetic instructions, specific genes typically act only in specific cells at particular times. Other genes are "silenced" in a variety of ways. One mode of gene ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
The hand-written prescription is "on its way to becoming a historical curiosity," as physicians and pharmacies increasingly adopt electronic prescribing systems, according to a New England Journal of Medicine article by Richard Steinbrook, a physician and the national correspondent for NEJM, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. According to Steinbrook, as of ...
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Sunday, July 13th, 2008
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) launched an online Substance Use Disorders Curriculum on its Web site, http://www.www.aacap.org. The curriculum is an 11-lecture series, created by the AACAP Task Force on Strategic Planning for Substance Abuse Education and Research that provides the latest knowledge on substance dependence, ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Many Internet sites that advertise or sell controlled medications do not require a prescription, a situation that is contributing to the rise in abuse of prescription drugs, according to a report by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, the New York Times reports. Dispensing controlled ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
The continued decline of the nursing home - once the mainstay care for the frail elderly - and an upsurge in popularity of assisted living will lead to many dramatic changes in long-term care, according to a University of Florida expert and editor of a new book on the subject."The ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Spellex Corporation announces the new release of the 2008 version of their popular veterinary spelling software for Microsoft and other programs. The new release includes more than 52,000 specialty words from the animal healthcare industry and new spelling engine enhancements. Benefits: The Spellex Veterinary spelling dictionary allows users ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) announced that it is investing up to $500,000 in select network hospitals to help with the implementation costs of installing electronic medication history technology. Horizon BCBSNJ is the first insurer in the nation to invest in this innovative safety initiative. ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
TRUMPF Medical Systems, Inc. has introduced the world's first in-light high definition (HD) operating room camera. The TruVidia HD captures and transmits razor sharp, true-to-life images with 1080 lines horizontal resolution and 2 million pixels. The images are more than twice as clear as those available from standard definition (SD) ...
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Thursday, July 10th, 2008
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, today announced that it is the winner of a Microsoft Corporation 2008 Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award in the Discovery and Product Innovation category. The award honors best-in-class companies that have made ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
Using a Blue Gene supercomputer, scientists of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) and the IBM (NYSE: IBM) Zurich Research Laboratory demonstrated the most extensive simulation yet of real human bone structures, providing doctors a "high definition" view of the strength and fragility of bones they never had ...
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
A new report by independent market analyst Datamonitor discusses speech recognition and its use in the medical industry for transcription and dictation. It reveals that healthcare automation is driving growth in speech technology and the leading vendors, Nuance and Philips, are providing specialized solutions. The report, "Automating and Enhancing ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
As the specter of a worldwide outbreak of avian or "bird flu" lingers, health officials recognize that new drugs are desperately needed since some strains of the virus already have developed resistance to the current roster of anti-flu remedies.Now, a team of UC San Diego scientists - with the help ...
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Friday, July 4th, 2008
Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they say, that is similar to what drives hungry college students to a pizza.These behavior-driving calculations, according to ...
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