The Guardian has a very thoughtful piece about the unfortunate disconnect that exists in developing nations where it’s easier to get a bottle of Coca-Cola than it is to get life-saving medicines for very treatable diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. While many of the problems associated with dispensing adequate treatment can be attributed to corruption, [...]
Filed under: Business, News on August 20th, 2009 @ 2:45 pm
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After years of hearing about the prudence of self-exam, and the routine screening for almost every type of cancer, including breast, ovarian, prostate, and others, new opinions are coming to light on the subject that brings this thinking into question.
One factor in this debate is the general costs applied to the healthcare systems as a [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on July 17th, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
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UN News & World Report has released its annual ranking of the nation’s best hospitals, categorizing them into sixteen groups with an additional Honor Roll of medical centers with high marks in more than six fields.
Unsurprisingly, Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore is ranked first, with Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN), Ronald Reagan UCLA (Los Angeles), [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News, Technology on July 16th, 2009 @ 5:11 pm
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Personalized medicine has inspired a great deal of controversy since the successful mapping of the human genome in 2003 offered the first glimpse of a future that could include the diagnosis and treatment of individuals based on their genetic makeup. Detractors question whether the current health care system is too entrenched toward a “one [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 3rd, 2009 @ 1:18 am
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‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.