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Abortion Rights Advocates Respond To Obama's Comments Concerning Health Exception
11.07.2008 09:14
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Days after Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama's (Ill.) comment that "mental distress" should not qualify as a justification for "late-term" abortions and his subsequent clarification, some abortion-rights advocates are "satisfied" while others are "far from it or just plain confused," The Politico reports (Budoff Brown, The Politico, 7/10).
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Gynecology
Asthma UK Scotland In Tune With New Scottish Star
11.07.2008 08:11
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Asthma UK Scotland is teaming up with new Scottish singing star Kevin J Maclean to help promote awareness of the condition among his expanding fan base. 20-year-old Maclean, from Dunfermilne, has just signed with Plaque Records and released his first single, 'For You'. He is currently touring some of the country's top music venues, such as the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh and King Tuts in Glasgow, and next year hopes to play Scotland's largest music festival T in the Park.
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Asthma
Can The Law Trust Your Memory?
11.07.2008 08:11
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Witness's memories are vital to the law and justice but memory is much more fallible than we realise. On Friday 11 July, The British Psychological Society will launch a set of guidelines developed to provide people who work in law with the latest scientific evidence to consider issues relating to memory.
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Psychiatry
Access To Medication Improved By Integrated Tube Cap Design
11.07.2008 08:11
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Many vitamin pills and tablets such as pain killers are packaged today in cylindrical tubes with a cork-like cap. This will often incorporate some form of desiccant to protect the contents against moisture, while a simple mechanical spring in the tube stops the contents from rattling around. However, such caps often fall off, are easy to lose and require two hands to manipulate.
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Medical Equipment
GE Healthcare Enhances Service Capabilities To Address Continued Growth Of Compact Ultrasound Systems
11.07.2008 08:11
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GE Healthcare announced that its LOGIQ e compact ultrasound users are embracing a new service that allows them to connect their ultrasound systems, via secure broadband connection, to the technical support and clinical applications experts at GE's LiveAssist Center. This innovative digital connectivity, called InSite ExC, provides customers with "real time" remote resolution of service and applications events.
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Medical Equipment
Renal Failure Patients To Benefit From Automated, Wearable Artificial Kidney
11.07.2008 08:11
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Two researchers from UCLA and the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System have developed a design for an automated, wearable artificial kidney, or AWAK, that avoids the complications patients often suffer with traditional dialysis.
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Medical Equipment
Children's Health Agencies Announce Initiative To Increase Awareness Of ATV-Related Injury, USA
11.07.2008 08:11
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In response to the increasing incidence of life-altering injuries in children from all-terrain vehicle (ATV) crashes, the Alabama Department of Public Health, the Children's Hospital of Alabama, the Injury Free Coalition for Kids, the Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and VOICES for Alabama's Children have launched a statewide educational and awareness campaign.
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Children Diseases
Enzyme Key To 'Sister Act' That Maintains Genome Stability
11.07.2008 08:11
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Keeping the genome stable is a "sister act" of matched chromatids - the pairs of the double helix DNA molecule that exist during the chromosome duplication in the S phase of the cell cycle. Maintaining the chromatids in their sister pairs rests with Eco1, a kind of enzyme known as an acetyltransferase.
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Genetics
Teeth Polished To Perfection
11.07.2008 08:10
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Brush your teeth twice a day! Any child knows these days that regular tooth care is the only way to banish the bacteria that cause caries. Yet sometimes that is not enough. The tooth surface wears down and gets uneven and the problem is that dental plaque adheres particularly well to a rough surface. Dentists therefore offer professional cleaning services, removing plaque and discoloration with abrasive prophylactic pastes.
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Dentistry
RCN Urges Government To Reconsider Cosmetic Laser Industry Deregulation, UK
11.07.2008 08:10
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The Royal College of Nursing has called on the Government to reconsider their plan to remove non-surgical laser treatments from healthcare regulation. The College has said that if the plans go ahead, the Government will fail to protect the health and well-being of patients.
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Plastic Surgery
Sex, Death And Rock & Roll - Teen Movie Makers Help Create Cutting Edge Anti-smoking Films
11.07.2008 08:10
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Three hard hitting films - designed by teenagers for teenagers - were launched after a national competition helped uncover the next generation of British film makers. Cancer Research UK and Channel 4's 4Talent launched a joint initiative - funded by the Department of Health - called BREATHE to produce a selection of short online films to encourage young smokers to quit and deter others from starting.
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Cancer
Mice With Muscular Dystrophy Had Muscle Restored By Purified Stem Cells
11.07.2008 08:10
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By injecting purified stem cells isolated from adult skeletal muscle, researchers have shown they can restore healthy muscle and improve muscle function in mice with a form of muscular dystrophy. Those muscle-building stem cells were derived from a larger pool of so-called satellite cells that normally associate with mature muscle fibers and play a role in muscle growth and repair.
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Biology
Zooming In On Genetic Shuffling
11.07.2008 08:10
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Genetic recombination, the process by which sexually reproducing organisms shuffle their genetic material when producing germ cells, leads to offspring with a new genetic make-up and influences the course of evolution. In the current issue of Nature, researchers at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton, UK, present the most precise map of genetic recombination yet.
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Biology
Researcher Wjho Established A Paradigm Shift In The Regulation Of Neuronal Cell Development Awarded 2008 EMBO Gold Medal
11.07.2008 08:10
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The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announced that James Briscoe of the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research will receive the prestigious EMBO Gold Medal for 2008. Briscoe receives the award in recognition of his discovery that cells integrate time of exposure and concentration of a morphogen to subsequently mount a graded response.
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Biology
HHS Releases Project BioShield Report To Congress On Public Health Emergency Preparedness For Chemical, Biological, Radiological And Nuclear Threats
11.07.2008 08:10
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a report stating its progress in implementing Project BioShield. HHS has used Project BioShield authorities to support, facilitate and expedite the research, development, acquisition and availability of medical countermeasures to respond to the adverse effects of public health emergencies involving chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.
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