Archive for September 2017

Live coverage of Rally animal research

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Live coverage of Rally animal research - Today will be a great day at the University of California, Los Angeles, where researchers have long been attacked by extremists animal rights. activists for animal rights have planned for a morning rally against animal research. But the researchers, led by...

Infomercials clothing in medical journals?

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Infomercials clothing in medical journals? - last month, the online journal the Australian reported allegations that pharmaceutical giant Merck had paid scientific megapublisher Elsevier to publish a fake medical journal the Australasian Journal of Bone and...

Swine Flu Maps: The Swarm of data

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Swine Flu Maps: The Swarm of data - A number of cards have arisen drawing the reported cases of swine flu, but they vary in quality. Buyer beware: Most data comes from press reports and has not been confirmed by the national authorities. We love it. See 09 swine flu (H1N1) Map in a larger...

Some seniors immune to swine flu?

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Some seniors immune to swine flu? - One of the most confusing features of the outbreak of swine flu is that unlike the seasonal flu, mostly severe disease does not occur in the elderly . The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) plans to publish a detailed report which said that some...

House Approves $ 8 billion for swine flu pandemic

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House Approves $ 8 billion for swine flu pandemic - The US House of Representatives last night approved $ 7.65 billion in new money to address the swine flu pandemic. The money will be used to purchase vaccines, antiviral drugs, and other medical needs. Congress also noted that funds are available...

Swine Flu Hits Hard Australia

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Swine Flu Hits Hard Australia - During the past week, confirmed cases of swine flu influenza in Australia jumped from 17 to 501. The island nation now has more if all countries outside of the Americas. The outbreak is centered in the state of Victoria, which has 80% of cases and closed several schools....

Study refutes the role of the protein in heart attacks

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Study refutes the role of the protein in heart attacks - the evolution of evidence. In a large study, the C-reactive protein didn Wikipedia A new study may be the last word in a controversy that plagued the search heart disease for years: if a marker of inflammation...

Drug-Resistant Swine Flu, NSF Porn Scandal Redux

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Drug-Resistant Swine Flu, NSF Porn Scandal Redux - Here is an overview of some of the stories that we followed on science from the blog policy ScienceInsider : A third case of swine flu resistant to oseltamivir, announced last week in Hong Kong, has flu experts...

Fast Track to NIH Director Confirmation?

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Fast Track to NIH Director Confirmation? - The appointment of geneticist Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health could soon be done. NIH observers in Washington say that the Senate committee that handles the nomination will not hold a confirmation hearing, the forum where all controversies...

Varmus Gets His Preprint server

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Varmus Gets His Preprint server - The publisher is the Public Library of Science (PLoS) launched a -Is the largest open access in biomedical research site " experimental "for preprints gross display articles on hot topics. PLoS Currents (Beta) debuted today with a series of papers on influenza. Although...

Disturbance research as scientists reeling from Yale Murder

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Disturbance research as scientists reeling from Yale Murder - As the investigation into the murder of 24 horrible years of Yale University graduate pharmacology student Annie Le moved in high speed, the building in which it was found was closed and nobody knows when things will return to normal....

FDA admits on science policy trumped knee device

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FDA admits on science policy trumped knee device - For the first time, the United States Food and Drug Administration has publicly admitted that politics has trumped science. The agency acknowledged yesterday that it approved a device to assist with knee replacement surgeries-a-own scientific agency...

Roundup 10/13: Embracing Diversity Edition

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Roundup 10/13: Embracing Diversity Edition - scientists and policymakers are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa this week as part of the international DIVERSITAS program of biodiversity science. 300 farmers in 60 locations across the Benin signed as part...

Pharmaceutical companies Reported for Biased reports

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Pharmaceutical companies Reported for Biased reports - pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Parke-Davis (now a subsidiary of Pfizer) shaded results of clinical trials in at least 12 studies to make drug gabapentin seems more effective for off-label use, says a report published today in the New England...

NIH Undergoes behavior (research) Amendment

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NIH Undergoes behavior (research) Amendment - Social and Behavioural Research finally gets a portion of the high-level attention it has sought for years to the National Institutes of Health. Yesterday the NIH Director Francis Collins announced that $ 10 million in recovery money will go to support...

UK: Lords nanofoods deserve further examination

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UK: Lords nanofoods deserve further examination - You might think that the cleverest thing a physicist can do with your food is to explain why toast always lands dropped buttered side down (incidentally, they can). But the UK House Committee on Science and Technology Lords today released a report...

German medical director of the Institute will lose jobs

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German medical director of the Institute will lose jobs - Citing a desire to avoid distractions such as the disputed expense accounts, the Board of Directors of the Institute German for the quality and efficiency of health care has decided not to renew the contract embattled director Peter Sawicki....

What does not kill microbes, makes them stronger

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What does not kill microbes, makes them stronger - If you take antibiotics, your doctor will warn you not to skip pills and continue treatment even after you start feel better. Indeed, the failure to kill insects that makes you sick can cause some of them to become resistant to antibiotics. Now,...

Appetite suppressant could be an alternative to insulin

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Appetite suppressant could be an alternative to insulin - In 1922, a teenager with diabetes Toronto became the first person to be rescued by an insulin treatment, and since then, the injections have suffered millions of diabetics who do not do their own hormone. But there are alternatives to a lifetime...

genetic testing for cancer risk No clinically useful

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genetic testing for cancer risk No clinically useful - For women, genetic testing offers hope to better understand the likelihood that they will develop breast cancer. But reality does not match the dream, at least not yet. Scientists at the National Institute of US cancer (NCI) report today that...

Chiropractors Withdraw Suit Against Libel Editor

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Chiropractors Withdraw Suit Against Libel Editor - The British Chiropractic Association (BCA) has dropped its demand for defamation against science writer Simon Singh. The move comes just weeks after an appeals court ruled that Singh's article about chiropractic, which included a disputed use of...

map genetics of autism is developed

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map genetics of autism is developed - A new study of nearly 1,000 people with autism confirmed that the genetic disease are much more idiosyncratic than some had thought . Instead of a few genes that increase the risk of autism in the population, scientists found dozens of genes that drive the disease,...

map genetics of autism is developed

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map genetics of autism is developed - A new study of nearly 1,000 people with autism confirmed that the genetic disease are much more idiosyncratic than some had thought . Instead of a few genes that increase the risk of autism in the population, scientists found dozens of genes that drive the disease,...
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