Archive for June 2019

deCODE Genetics from the ashes

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deCODE Genetics from the ashes - deCODE Genetics, the Icelandic genomics company that declared bankruptcy in November, has made a comeback. Today it has reappeared as "the New deCODE," a renamed version of the craft heart of the previous deCODE built on mining the DNA of the Icelandic population...

Michelle Obama's war on childhood obesity starts now

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Michelle Obama's war on childhood obesity starts now - First Lady Michelle Obama launched a major initiative on childhood obesity, one of his signature issues. The carefully orchestrated deployment, Obama was foreshadowing his plan for over a month now, talking to the mayors conference, a local YMCA,...

Latest Buzz: Budgets for caffeine Orszag

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Latest Buzz: Budgets for caffeine Orszag - genetic marker Peter Orszag, the high energy director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, recently shared some good news with political . No, it did not solve the economic problems of the country. But he learned that his genetics will not...

Red tape holding up work on stem cells?

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Red tape holding up work on stem cells? - Stem cell researchers fear that they will have to stop working with some of their favorite cell lines, NPR reported yesterday. Geneticist Julie Baker of Stanford University, said she faced a "huge setback." tough new administrative requirements to get a line...

Cholesterol genetically related eye disease

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Cholesterol genetically related eye disease - Out of sight. people with advanced macular degeneration ( right ) have difficulty seeing objects in the center of their field of vision. National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health Two genetic studies...

NIH begins to flesh out

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NIH begins to flesh out - Drug Development Program Lawmakers today began discussing the details of a newly created drug development program at the National Institutes of Health ( NIH). The NIH Director Francis Collins told a panel of the Senate he is eager to begin, once the program has a budget....

Concussions the tip of an iceberg, NFL adviser said

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Concussions the tip of an iceberg, NFL adviser said - In football, "We need to start monitoring more than the appearance of concussions," said Constantine Lyketsos, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, speaking to the press yesterday after a meeting of head injuries...

Stem Cell decision could have broader

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Stem Cell decision could have broader - Some observers of biomedical feel taken aback by a decision of the federal appeals court last week that toppled rejection a lower court a lawsuit challenging the stem cell of the Obama administration policy. The decision could have implications well beyond...

Will IVF work for you?

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Will IVF work for you? - For couples who have difficulty conceiving, in vitro fertilization (IVF) is often the last resort. The procedure is expensive, emotionally wrenching and often takes several rounds to succeed, if it does at all. Now, researchers say they have developed a way to better estimate...

Federal Judge: Obama Stem Cell Policy Halted

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Federal Judge: Obama Stem Cell Policy Halted - Research on embryonic stem cells funded by the US government must cease immediately ordered for a review by the court, the judge Royce Lamberth of the US district court for the district of Columbia ruled today. Lamberth granted a preliminary injunction...

New model predicts Complications in Preemies

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New model predicts Complications in Preemies - Babies born too early often struggle to survive. But doctors can have a telling of the difficulty that preemies are developing serious health problems such as respiratory failure, and those who are well. Now researchers have developed a model that can...

US Officials Apologize for 1940 'Appalling' Syphilis Study

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US Officials Apologize for 1940 'Appalling' Syphilis Study - Sixty-four years after a US-funded scientist conducted an experiment that infected his patients with syphilis in Guatemala, the US government today issued a formal apology to the Central American nation. The scandal, which had been buried...

Prelude to a Plague

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Prelude to a Plague - In the summer of 1849 a mass epidemic of cholera invades the City of London, leaving more than 13,000 dead. It was not the first or the last to terrorize the city before the disease disappeared in 101; major outbreaks occurred in 1832, 1854 and 1866. Now, new evidence suggests...

Former NIH chief Zerhouni lead the research at Sanofi-Aventis

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Former NIH chief Zerhouni lead the research at Sanofi-Aventis - German National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias Zerhouni finally a full-time job: Head of Research and Development Sanofi-Aventis, the french pharmaceutical giant. Zerhouni is a radiologist and inventor who has spent most...

Off-Shelf blood vessels

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Off-Shelf blood vessels - molded blood vessels that surgeons could take off the shelf and implant in patients may not be as exaggerated as they sound. Researchers report today Science Translational Medicine a new way to use human cells to produce blood vessels that can operate in people without...

The expanded mandate of the FDA in Limbo

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The expanded mandate of the FDA in Limbo - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could get a budget boost this year with President requesting $ 4.3 billion , more than a third of it from regulatory fees paid by companies. This total is more than $ 1 billion more than the amount of the 2010 FDA...

NIH began studying the impact of oil spills on residents

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NIH began studying the impact of oil spills on residents - Today, the US government launched what is billed as the largest ever study how an oil spill to affect human health. Gulf study long-term monitoring will probe Gulf residents who have contributed to cleaner Deepwater Horizon last year's...

French Appeals Court Clears Scientists growth hormone Scandal

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French Appeals Court Clears Scientists growth hormone Scandal - PARIS -After two decades of legal wrangling, a French appeals court aujourd 'hui threw excluding charges of manslaughter and other crimes against two scientists involved in a scandal of growth hormone, which led to the death of 125...

Why smokers are Skinny

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Why smokers are Skinny - Craving a snack in the afternoon? Take a drag on a cigarette, and your hunger will probably disappear. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and other developed countries, which causes lung cancer, heart disease, and chronic bronchitis. But...

A common test is inaccurate TB, WHO warns countries

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A common test is inaccurate TB, WHO warns countries - This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) criticized the use of blood tests not reliable commonly used to diagnose active TB, as well as aggressive marketing used to promote them. The first recommendation "negative" policy, the agency urged...

Former NIH Director Bernadine Healy Dies

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Former NIH Director Bernadine Healy Dies - Bernadine Healy, a cardiologist who was the first woman to head the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1991 to 1993, died Saturday in brain cancer. Appointed by President George H. W. Bush, was a director of Healy franc NIH during a tumultuous period....

Family puts $ 10 million Into Chronic Fatigue Research

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Family puts $ 10 million Into Chronic Fatigue Research - A charity family hopes to restart the search for a cause of the mysterious disease known as chronic fatigue syndrome (SFC) by funding around $ 10 million in studies by high-level research groups. The CFS patients suffer from long-term fatigue...
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