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Healthcare Source: Smithsonian
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Thursday, Jun 18, 2015, 10:42am Rating: | Views: 1448 | Comments: 0
Some Insured Patients Still Skipping Care Because Of High Costs Research shows that, even with health insurance, many people put off expensive surgery, medicine and tests because they can't afford the high deductibles or copays. A few states hope to change that.
Health Source: NPR
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Thursday, Jun 11, 2015, 12:39pm Rating: | Views: 1431 | Comments: 0
Science Politics Source: TIME Magazine
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Thursday, Apr 16, 2015, 8:09am Rating: | Views: 1220 | Comments: 0
The Problem and Promise of Precision Medicine Tom Maniatis, director of the Columbia University Precision Medicine Initiative, discusses the future of precision medicine as it relates to treating deadly diseases
Genetics Source: TIME Magazine
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Wednesday, Apr 08, 2015, 10:52am Rating: | Views: 1171 | Comments: 0
GAO Report Urges Fewer Antipsychotic Drugs For Dementia Patients Strong drugs are rarely warranted to control the behavior of dementia patients, specialists say. But antipsychotic medicine is being overprescribed, and not just among residents of nursing homes.
Neuroscience Source: NPR
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Tuesday, Mar 03, 2015, 7:22am Rating: | Views: 1133 | Comments: 0
Programmable pop-up materials can morph on command Sheets of programmable matter can be made to pop into complex 3D shapes 100 times taller than their original thickness when heated, and could find uses in medicine
Materials Science Source: New Scientist
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Friday, Feb 27, 2015, 8:19am Rating: | Views: 1190 | Comments: 0
Genetics Source: Science
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Thursday, Jan 29, 2015, 8:11am Rating: | Views: 1259 | Comments: 0
A Bendable Implant Taps the Nervous System without Damaging It Swiss researchers allow rats to walk again with a rubbery electronic implant.Medicine these days entertains all kinds of ambitious plans for reading off brain signals to control wheelchairs, or using electronics to bypass spinal injuries. But most of these ideas for implants that can interface with the nervous system run up against a basic materials problem: wires are stiff and bodies are soft.
Neuroscience Source: Technology Review
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Friday, Jan 09, 2015, 8:08am Rating: | Views: 1199 | Comments: 0
Stem cells Source: Reuters
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Friday, Dec 19, 2014, 8:07am Rating: | Views: 1789 | Comments: 0
For Ebola Patients in Sierra Leone, Survival Takes More Than Medicine For all the medicine they provide at this center, physicians and staff from Doctors Without Borders spend as much time encouraging the patients to eat, drink, and keep fighting. Every patient gets a standard regimen of antibiotics, paracetemol and other pain medications, vitamins, oral rehydration therapy or intravenous fluids. Drugs can control nausea for those who need them; everyone gets antimalarials.
Epidemiology Source: Wired
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Tuesday, Dec 16, 2014, 1:12pm Rating: | Views: 1624 | Comments: 0
Medicine Source: Smithsonian
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Friday, Dec 12, 2014, 11:28am Rating: | Views: 1604 | Comments: 0
The Case Against Mandatory Ebola Quarantines For Health Workers The New England Journal of Medicine published an editorial against quarantining people who have worked with Ebola patients in Africa. Renee Montagne speaks with Dr. Lindsey Baden, one of the authors.
Health Source: NPR
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Tuesday, Oct 28, 2014, 8:15am Rating: | Views: 1129 | Comments: 0
Neuroscience Source: NPR
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Tuesday, Oct 07, 2014, 8:15am Rating: | Views: 1182 | Comments: 0
EmTech: IBM Tries to Make Watson Smarter IBM’s senior vice president says Watson could find success with commercial apps in wealth management, call centers, and medicine.
Corruption In Ukraine Robs HIV Patients Of Crucial Medicine Corruption is a daily fact of life in Ukraine, and that's killing people infected with HIV, say activists. As funds for medicine stray, there is only enough to treat half of all HIV-infected patients.
Health Source: NPR
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Friday, May 16, 2014, 8:02am Rating: | Views: 1107 | Comments: 0
Medicine Needs More Research On Female Animals, NIH Says A bias toward using male lab animals and tissue samples from males may be limiting the effectiveness of medical research, according to top officials at NIH. They'll roll out new guidelines this fall.
Health Source: NPR
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Friday, May 16, 2014, 8:02am Rating: | Views: 1119 | Comments: 0
Neuroscience Source: New Scientist
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Tuesday, Apr 15, 2014, 7:50am Rating: | Views: 1106 | Comments: 0
Scientists regenerate immune organ in mice British scientists have for the first time used regenerative medicine to fully restore an organ in a living animal, a discovery they say may pave the way for similar techniques to be used in humans in future.
Health Source: TheGuardian
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Friday, Feb 07, 2014, 9:09am Rating: | Views: 1070 | Comments: 0
The history of medicine in 100,000 pictures The Wellcome Library's stunning collection of images reveal centuries of our quest to understand the human body and its illnesses – and they're now free
Healthcare Source: New Scientist
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Tuesday, Jan 21, 2014, 9:22am Rating: | Views: 1134 | Comments: 0
Genetics Source: New Scientist
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Monday, Jan 13, 2014, 9:13am Rating: | Views: 1085 | Comments: 0
Shocking Medical Devices From Another Century Electricity has a strange place in the annals of medicine. Since ancient times, electric cures have been pursued and promoted by earnest scientists and profiteering quacks alike. The devices in this gallery come mostly from the mid-20th century. They ...
Technology Source: Wired
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Tuesday, Nov 19, 2013, 7:35am Rating: | Views: 1184 | Comments: 0