April 4, 2011
Internationally, there has been a growing awareness of the valuable role genetic services can play within health care systems and more recently, of the need to set appropriate standards to ensure that these services are delivered in a manner that … Read More
April 4, 2011
Half of mothers give birth without any trained help in least developed nations. More than a million mothers and newborn babies are dying each year from easily prevented birth complications because of a chronic shortage of midwives across much of … Read More
April 4, 2011
he birth rate for women over 40 in the United States rose between 2007 and 2009. Among every other age group, however, the birth rate fell during the same period, according to a report released by the Centers Disease for … Read More
April 4, 2011
The International Cellular Medicine Society has accomplished a significant milestone through its Stem Cell Patient Treatment Registry. Today the Society announced that the ICMS Treatment Registry has reached over 750 patient cases being tracked. As a nonprofit organization dedicated to … Read More
April 2, 2011
New technologies and mind-sets are required for information delivery in the age of genomics. Science and medical journals are so 20th century. The Internet changes everything, they say. Well, maybe not everything, yet. The number of articles in medical and scientific … Read More
April 1, 2011
India’s early numbers for census 2011 released Thursday put the attention back on the India’s increasing population numbers and put a black mark on India’s growth story—the continued preference for sons over daughters. (The Wall Street Journal)
April 1, 2011
A reevaluation of research goals in government-funded science is needed to achieve better healthcare for US citizens, according to one science policy researcher. It’s a rather perplexing quandary for the United States: Despite spending 16 percent of its gross domestic product … Read More
April 1, 2011
More U.S. teenagers are using birth control pills, according to a new study by Thomson Reuters released on Thursday. Eighteen percent of teenage women ages 13 to 18 filled prescriptions for oral contraception in 2009, a proportion that has steadily … Read More
April 1, 2011
Of all the terrible chronic diseases, only one —end-stage kidney disease — gets special treatment by the federal government. A law passed by Congress 39 years ago provides nearly free care to almost all patients whose kidneys have failed, regardless … Read More
April 1, 2011
uitive Surgical, Inc., a high technology surgical robotics company, will give a talk titled “From Surgeons to Superheroes — How Robots Can Change the Future of Surgery†at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory on Thursday, April 21, … Read More
April 1, 2011
Your favorite coffee shop is crowded with harried people, and you are standing shoulder to shoulder in a slow-moving line. Each jostling shift of the crowd aggravates your severe social anxiety. You start gasping for air; your heart quickens and … Read More
April 1, 2011
Miguel Nicolelis, a world leader in research that may one day allow paraplegics to control computers with their own thoughts, made a de rigueur stop for any new top-line author, visiting Jon Stewart last night on The Daily Show. (Scientific … Read More
