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The Flu, Your Health and the Importance of Vaccination
2007-11-01 16:57:00 The flu season runs from November to April, with most cases occurring between late December and early March. About 10% to 20% of people get the flu every winter [1]. In children, the odds are even worse, with up to 40% of children becoming clinically ill due to the influenza virus. The best way to prevent ... More About: Health , Heal
Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting Launches Official Icons
2007-10-29 14:44:00 Bloggers for Peer -Reviewed Research Reporting (BPR3) announced today the launch of its’ official icons. BPR3 was created because several academic bloggers in different fields recognized the need to distinguish serious writing on peer-reviewed research from blog posts discussing more informal topics. According the the BRP3 website: Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting strives to identify serious academic ... More About: Icons , Bloggers , Official
Smoking Duration vs. Intensity and the Impact on Lung Cancer Risk
2007-10-24 07:03:00 We’ve discussed smoking and health a number of times recently: Smoking Cessation Timeline: What Happens When You Quit Irreversible Gene Expression Changes From Smoking Ian Gibson asked a question I’m sure many have us have wondered about at one time or another: Which is worse for the development of lung cancer — smoking heavily over a short period of ... More About: Cancer , Lung Cancer , Risk
HEALTH Highlights - October 23rd, 2007
2007-10-23 15:45:00 New Pew Study Shows Patients Turn to Internet for Heal th Information; Now Can We Get Docs to Do The Same? » The Health Wisdom Blog The internet is changing the way patients not only get information but the way they interact with doctors and their families. Unity Stoakes discusses one of the major healthcare challenges today ... More About: Highlights , October
Individual Genetics, Coffee Consumption, BRCA1 and Breast Cancer
2007-10-20 05:58:00 We’ve talked previously about the health benefits of coffee and the antioxidant compounds responsible for it’s bitterness. To add to the “perks” of coffee consumption, a recent report in the Journal of Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention suggests that caffeine protects against breast cancer in women that have a BRCA1 gene mutation. What is BRCA1? The ... More About: Coffee , Breast Cancer , Breast , Individual
Biodegradable Polymers for Drug and Gene Delivery
2007-10-15 16:38:00 In participation with Blog Action Day, an event where bloggers from around the world unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment - today’s article discusses recent advances in the use of biodegradable materials for drug and gene delivery. Drug delivery Last month, we discussed how green chemistry was recently used by ... More About: Biodegradable , Gene , Liver , Poly
Medicine 2.0 #10 - Medicine and the Second Generation of Internet-based Ser
2007-10-14 08:56:00 I’m hosting this weeks edition of Medicine 2.0, the bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to web 2.0 and medicine. I’ve published Medicine 2.0 #10 - Medicine and the Second Generation of Internet -based Services over at the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory. I’m working a project there involving web 2.0 and health, medicine and fitness, ...
Medicine 2.0 #10 Call for Submissions
2007-10-10 07:18:00 Highlight HEALTH will be hosting the next edition of Medicine 2.0, edition 10, on Sunday, October 14th. As host, I invite you to send your submissions. What is Medicine 2.0? Medicine 2.0 is a bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to web 2.0 and medicine. Web 2.0, the new generation of web services, is ... More About: Call , Missi
Of Mice, Men and the Nobel Prize for Medicine
2007-10-08 17:35:00 The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced this morning. The prize was awarded to three men for a series of discoveries regarding embryonic stem cells and DNA recombination in mammals that led to the creation of a technique for manipulating mouse genes called gene targeting. Today, the technology is being applied to ... More About: Mice , Nobel Prize
Overweight Kids and TV: An Advertising Epidemic
2007-10-04 06:14:00 On Saturday afternoon, September 29th, 2007, the cable television channel Nickelodeon showed nothing for three hours to celebrate “Worldwide Day of Play”, encouraging children to get off the couch and be active. The “Worldwide Day of Play” is part of Nickelodeon’s “Let’s Just Play” campaign, in partner with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, to ... More About: Kids , Advertising , Overweight , Demi , Epidemic
Personalized Patient-driven Drug Safety Monitoring Program
2007-10-01 16:34:00 iGuard is one of the first web-based services that allows you to get free personalized safety alerts and updates about your medications. The company claims that [1]: … patients can feel safer because they will be sent the drug safety information they need, when they need it. After enrollment, patients who regularly take medications can choose to ... More About: Safety , Program , Drug , Monitoring , Patient
HEALTH Highlights - September 30th, 2007
2007-10-01 05:49:00 What is alternative medicine, anyway? Rumble in the Jungle » WhiteCoat Underground In Part I, PalMD tried to define alternative medicine. Part II was an attempt to clarify Part I. With Part III, it’s personal. Simply a must read. Doctor Anonymous Live on BlogTalkRadio Dr. Anonymous streams live every Thursday night at 10 PM EST. Call in or ... More About: Health , Highlights , September , Heal
Consortium to Identify Genetic Markers that Predict Drug-related Serious Ad
2007-09-27 17:47:00 The International Serious Adverse Events Consortium (SAEC) officially announced its formation this morning. The new global, non-profit partnership between leading pharmaceutical companies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and academic institutions plans to identify and validate genetic markers that may help predict which individuals are at risk for serious adverse drug events. The goal ... More About: Related , Predict , Marker
Treating Cancer with Personalized Medicine
2007-09-24 16:23:00 A Michigan oncologist recently devised a simple experiment to help treat seven patients with advanced, incurable cancer. The experiment used DNA microarray technology to analyze each patient’s tumors for the expression of genes associated with positive response to anti-cancer drugs. The oncologist, Dr. Eric Lester, M.D., then based his drug treatment plans on the results. ... More About: Medicine , Cancer , Sona
Bill in Senate to Expand Public Access to Taxpayer-funded Research
2007-09-19 07:10:00 The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the world’s largest source of funding for biomedical research. Taxpayers provide more than $28 billion annually for the NIH (1), yet only about a third of the research studies are made publicly available in various repositories after a 12-month delay (2). Lawmakers are trying to change this and ... More About: Research , Public , Senate , Access , Bill
10 Reasons to List Your Site in the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory
2007-09-17 05:37:00 The Highlight HEALTH Web Directory is my endeavor to catalog and make available health-related websites I find to be informative and useful. The response thus far has been fantastic. Presently, there are 250 listings in over 40 categories. My thanks to everyone who submitted their blog or website. For those of you who haven’t listed ... More About: Health , Site , List , Reasons
Novel Gene Suppresses Tumor Growth in Multiple Cancers
2007-09-14 22:45:00 A novel gene was discovered recently that suppresses the growth of human tumors in a number of different cancers. The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, found that the gene HACE1, an acronym for HECT domain and ankyrin repeat containing, E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1, is able to help cells deal with various forms ... More About: Growth , Tumor , Gene , Grow
HEALTH Highlights - September 10th, 2007
2007-09-11 04:58:00 The Business of Bottled Water » Think Bigg Because bottle water is considered a food, it’s regulated by the FDA. In contrast, tap water is regulated by the EPA. A Natural Resources Defense Council study found that bottled water sold in the U.S. isn’t necessarily cleaner or safer than most tap water. Tabetha at Think Bigg ... More About: Health , Highlights , September , Heal
Green Chemistry Mimics the Cellular Process of Drug Synthesis
2007-09-07 21:26:00 Two studies were published in the September 2007 issue of Nature Chemical Biology demonstrating for the first time that it’s possible to take a complex chain of enzymatic reactions and reconstruct them in vitro (meaning in a test tube) to synthesize a natural product that has therapeutic potential. Many natural products have prospective use as ... More About: Green , Cellular , Chemistry , Drug , Process
Irreversible Gene Expression Changes From Smoking
2007-09-04 20:57:00 Recent research published in the online open journal BMC Genomics shows that smoking leads to changes in gene expression, some of which are reversible and some of which are permanent. Gene s that are irreversibly changed may help to explain why former smokers, even after 10 years of not smoking, are still more susceptible to lung ... More About: Smoking , Reversi , Expression , Chang
Smoking Cessation Timeline: What Happens When You Quit
2007-08-30 16:05:00 In the U.S., one-quarter of adults 18 years of age and older smoke cigarettes (1). Smoking is truly a deadly habit. With about 4000 known chemicals in tobacco smoke, more than 50 of them are known to cause cancer. According to the World Health Organization, every six seconds someone in the world dies from tobacco ... More About: Timeline , Quit
Healthy Fast Food Not So Healthy
2007-08-27 17:01:00 Have you ever wondered if those healthy fast food meals are really any better for you? McDonald’s has the Fruit ‘n Yogurt Parfait, Wendy’s offers Garden Sensations salads and at Burger King you can even get a veggie burger. Yogurt, salad, veggie burger … these are all healthy foods. However, new research suggests that healthy fast food ... More About: Food , Fast Food , Fast , Healthy , Heal
Bitter Coffee, Better Health?
2007-08-23 17:56:00 I love my coffee. Who doesn’t want (or need for all you coffee addicts out there) a cup of freshly brewed java to start their day? However, the bitterness of coffee is something most of us could do without. Now chemists in Germany and the U.S. say they have identified the chemicals that are largely ... More About: Health , Coffee , Bitter , Heal
HEALTH Highlights - August 21st, 2007
2007-08-21 15:22:00 Yahoo! Heal th in Stealth Mode or Just Plain Off-the-Radar? » The Healthcare Information Systems Blog I’m becomming more and more interested in health-focused social networking. Jeff O’Connor writes about Yahoo! Health and the lack of attention it’s getting from its parent portal. While I’m on the topic of health-focused social networking, earlier this week Mashable reported ... More About: Highlights , August
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Legislation Update
2007-08-16 06:57:00 Back in July, I wrote that spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) legislation was going to soon be introduced in Congress. Prior to the August recess, legislation to enhance federal support for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) research was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Congressmen Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) and Eric Cantor (R-VA). The bill, H.R. 3334, ... More About: Update , Legislation , Legi
Discredited Stem Cells Created by Virgin Birth
2007-08-15 06:12:00 In 2004, Korean investigators lead by Woo Suk Hwang at Seoul National University announced the creation of the world’s first human embryonic stem cell line generated by somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT), which involves the transfer of DNA, usually from a skin cell, into an egg cell that has had its DNA-containing nucleus removed. The ... More About: Virgin , Birth , Stem Cells , Create , Disc
Mitosis and Meiosis
2007-08-14 16:51:00 Mitosis is the biological process involving chromosomal duplication and nuclear division. Mitosis is usually followed by cytokinesis, whereby the watery environment inside a cell, known as the cytoplasm, and cell membrane divide. Two identical cells are generated, each having the same number of chromosomes as the parental cell. Somatic cells (meaning any cell that is ... More About: Mitosis , Mito
SCHIP Funding and Fiscal Irresponsibility
2007-08-11 06:40:00 $60 billion dollars in new deficit spending. That’s the amount the Heritage Foundation, a public policy research institute based in Washington D.C., estimates the Senate bill to reauthorize the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP ) will have added to the U.S. budget deficit over the next decade (1-2). Under the bill, funding will drop sharply in ... More About: Funding , Fiscal , Chip
HEALTH Highlights - August 9th, 2007
2007-08-09 06:52:00 Think Bigg A non-profit blogsite dedicated to bringing information and inspiration to those who care about the people, communities, culture and the world in which we live. Another Chapter of “Bad” Foods (Not) Making Kids Fat » Junkfood Science Sandy Szwarc reviews a study that investigated whether young children adjust how much they eat depending on the calorie content ... More About: Health , Highlights , August , Heal
Websites Advertising and Selling Prescription Drugs Increase by 70%
More articles from this author:2007-08-05 17:59:00 According to The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, over the last three years the number of websites selling controlled prescription drugs such as opioids, depressants and stimulants has increased. The findings were presented in a new White Paper, “You?ve Got Drugs !” IV: Prescription Drug Pushers on the Internet, in ... More About: Selling , Advertising , Websites , Ease 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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