Grassley Goes Fishing

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Grassley Goes Fishing - As part of its ongoing investigation into conflicts of interest in the biomedical field, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) now wants to comb emails Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of mental health (NIMH). Grassley emphasized in a letter today Director Francis...

Landmark Pluripotent Stem patent Nerve cell researchers

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Landmark Pluripotent Stem patent Nerve cell researchers - In what could presage a battle of intellectual property, Rudolf Jaenisch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and Konrad Hochedlinger of Massachusetts General Hospital Boston will be the awarding of a patent on a technique...

White House named bioethicists

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White House named bioethicists - President Barack Obama announced the members of its Bioethics Committee, which should be more "policy-oriented and pragmatic" than its predecessor. Most notable on the list is probably Lonnie Ali, wife of the famous boxer, but we'll have later on aspects of this slate....

Society News Spreads drug research, unconventional

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Society News Spreads drug research, unconventional - With a large clinical trial recently completed, the pharmaceutical company Novartis has adopted an unorthodox approach to the publication of results he disclosed or at least a rough summary in an interview with the New York Times . The trial,...

How Acupuncture Pierces chronic pain

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How Acupuncture Pierces chronic pain - a needle daily. inserting needles into certain acupuncture points, represented here in the form of points scored, appears to stimulate the tissues to release a painkiller chemical. Takahiro Takano millions of people...

Altitude doping has its limits

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Altitude doping has its limits - is the legal version of blood doping. Instead of injecting the blood before competition or take drugs to stimulate the production of red blood cells that carry oxygen, many endurance athletes spend time in the thin air of high altitudes. The idea is to get their muscles...

At Last, Vaginal Gel scores victory against HIV

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At Last, Vaginal Gel scores victory against HIV - Goooooal! While South Africa was honored to host the matches of the World Cup, his AIDS researchers have been quietly preparing for the announcement of a milestone in their field: For the first time, a vaginal gel has clearly blocked HIV transmission...

Judge Supports Stem Cell Funding Ban

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Judge Supports Stem Cell Funding Ban - In Washington, DC, the judge said this afternoon that his decision there 2 weeks, the arrest of all funding federal for research on embryonic stem cells, will be held while the case moves forward. Chief Judge Royce Lamberth, in response to a request from the...

Familiar sounds End Breast Cancer in 2020?

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Familiar sounds End Breast Cancer in 2020? - The National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC), a lobbying group to influence the disease, is known for his skeptical approach, scientific struggling against cancer. In the early 190s, the group lobbied to create a research program of the Department of Defense...

Another round of filings in Stem Cell Case Court

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Another round of filings in Stem Cell Case Court - The paperwork continues to accumulate in the lawsuit challenging the legality of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines stem cell, the last payments being two memories attorneys on both sides. A judge of the District Court could rule...

The Curious aging mouse backward

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The Curious aging mouse backward - short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," an old man becomes young with each passing day, a fantastic concept recently brought to life on film by Brad Pitt. In a laboratory in Boston, a research team used genetic engineering to accomplish...

Sperm can take treatment for diabetes

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Sperm can take treatment for diabetes - PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA -Men with type 1 diabetes may someday be able to use stem cells that become sperm to replace their producing cells of the pancreas insulin. These grafts would eliminate the need for frequent daily injections of insulin to control...

Report: Complex rules Thwart UK Medical Research Heaviness'

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Report: Complex rules Thwart UK Medical Research Heaviness' - The United Kingdom has developed an unnecessarily heavy bureaucracy that stifles, or readers overseas, medical research, and the country should create a new agency dedicated to streamlining the approval of biomedical studies, according...

Why the "Prius Driving, Composting 'Set Fears Vaccines

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Why the "Prius Driving, Composting 'Set Fears Vaccines - new book by journalist Seth Mnookin Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear , explores the public health crisis on vaccines and autism. The document 1998 The Lancet by British physician Andrew Wakefield that triggered...

NIH would give President Slight Boost 2.4% in 2012

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NIH would give President Slight Boost 2.4% in 2012 - The president's budget would give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for a modest 2.4% increase in 2012 to 745 $ million compared to the 2010 level, bringing the total to $ 31.8 billion. The application includes an important new program....

Q & A with Australia-Bound Ace Stem Cell

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Q & A with Australia-Bound Ace Stem Cell - Mark Berndt / University of Southern California Martin Pera of the University of Southern California (USC) has announced March 7 that it will return to Australia in June to direct stem cells Australia (SCA), a new...

Hospitals engage in risky use of Coagulation Drug

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Hospitals engage in risky use of Coagulation Drug - An expensive clotting drug approved to treat hemophilia has become extremely popular in hospitals to stem bleeding during cardiac surgery, cerebral hemorrhage, trauma, liver transplants, and prostate removal. Yet another massive analysis of 64 studies...

CIRM Price $ 25 million for Embryonic Stem Cell Trial Geron

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CIRM Price $ 25 million for Embryonic Stem Cell Trial Geron - research organization stem cell California made its first prize for a clinical trial. The recipient of the $ 25 million is Geron Corp., a biotech company in Menlo Park, California, which is already being tested cells derived from human...

New name for Biolab As U.K. Report Revives Debate website

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New name for Biolab As U.K. Report Revives Debate website - Chances are, people will simply call Crick. The leaders of the British Centre for Medical Research and Innovation (UKCMRI), a gigantic biomedical laboratory facility scheduled to open in central London in 2015, apparently heard the complaints...

NIH Program Overwhelmed with undiagnosed Cases

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NIH Program Overwhelmed with undiagnosed Cases - National of his high-profile initiative Institutes (NIH) to diagnose diseases mystery health is a pause to catch his breath. The Undiagnosed Diseases Program was launched in 08 to help desperate people for diagnosis and use the discovery of new diseases...