In my kitchen, I fancy myself Julia Child. OK, not exactly… but the two of us do share a mutual affinity for a common ingredient: …
Month: October 2011
California bans BPA in baby bottles and cups
BPA in baby bottles will be no more! At least not in California, after July 1, 2013. As the Greenspace blog is reporting this afternoon, Governor …
Might kidney-transplant recipients be able to toss their pills?
Up to 30 per day. That's how many pills a typical kidney-transplant recipient can expect to have to ingest every day for the rest of …
Prenatal testing could spare babies from toxoplasmosis complications
Pregnant women in the United States don't receive routine testing for toxoplasmosis infection. That's a potentially serious deficiency in our prenatal care, according to the …
Measuring American leadership in science through Nobel Prizes
A fascinating infographic created by Jon Bruner and posted online today on Forbes depicts the Unites States' commanding lead in scientific research. Illustrated in the …
High-tech mouthpieces used to advance medical understanding of concussions in football
As my colleague mentioned earlier today, the problem of concussions among football players is a very real one. To learn more about the issue, Dan …
Time marches on wearing biomechanical shoes
The day I turned 60, I hiked up to a place in Yosemite called Cloud's Rest. It's nearly 10,000 feet tall, with some very big …
Are lunches brought from home or purchased at school more nutritious?
At schools up and down the west coast, children are sitting down for a mid-day meal and refueling on goodies from their lunchbox or lunch …
New York Stem Cell Foundation researchers create human stem cell lines from SCNT
Happy International Stem Cell Awareness Day! Researchers from the New York Stem Cell Foundation are celebrating by publishing (subscription required) the first reports of human …
Researchers develop new test for diagnosing concussions on the sidelines
Previous research shows that concussions among young athletes, particularly those playing football and hockey, have significantly increased in the past decade. Unfortunately, many of these …
Challenges of bringing whole genome sequencing to the clinic
Brendan Maher has a fantastic story out this morning in Nature News about using whole genome sequencing in the clinic. The article reviews some of …
Rodin: Real art, but not real anatomy
Sculptor Auguste Rodin was one of the great observers of human anatomy, and he did so not to advance scientific knowledge but to better exploit …
Helping kids cope with allergies
Although spring is commonly associated with allergy season, back-to-school time can be just as bad for many suffering from allergies, especially children. NPR’s Tell Me …
Developing payment models to motivate doctors to embrace mobile health technologies
Is the United States' medical reimbursement system deterring doctors from embracing new technologies that could improve patient care? According to some health-care innovators the answer …
Famine: "the real obscenity"
Well, here's a clever way to get people's attention about an important global-health issue. The video above is from ONE, an organization that aims to fight …
Using an iPhone as an imaging device in developing countries
As the prevalence of smartphones grows, so do efforts by researchers and startups to transform the handsets into devices that might one day be used …