As the overhaul of the nation's health care system continues on Capitol Hill, some of the debate has the pop of prime-time medical dramas. One …
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First human embryonic stem cell lines approved for funding under new guidelines
President Obama galvanized the research community on March 9 of this year, when he called for a new, much-less restrictive set of guidelines for federal …
Medicine is theme of current Lapham's Quarterly, a scholarly journal of old and new
The fall Lapham's Quarterly is a theme issue on medicine, pulling together all kinds of textual treaures if you're interested in medical history and literature. …
UCSD to begin studying brain of famous amnesiac
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego are beginning today to examine the brain of H.M., an amnesic patient who was studied for decades …
Mobile phone 'alcohol tracker' released in the UK
According to this BBC story, the United Kingdom's National Health Service has released a mobile phone application to help revelers monitor their holiday eggnog consumption: …
Can you catch loneliness?
The New York Times' Well Blog has an interesting post about a 10-year study of 5,100 people showing that negative emotions can spread to others, …
H1N1 has peaked but will it return?
According to numbers just posted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, new infections of the H1N1 virus continue to decrease across the …
Study shows smart phones speed up diagnosis
Need to review a CT scan from remote? There's an app for that. A study performed at the University of Virginia indicates that CT scans …
Some sobering reflections on World AIDS Day
On World AIDS Day, I typically take time to reflect on the people I have met who have been affected by this ongoing crisis. They …
Stanford eye doc weighs in on Lasik
Talk about funny timing: I was just ordering contact lenses (for about the 20th time in my life) when I came across this Boing Boing …
Government control vs. free market
As Congress debates health-care reform legislation, they are trying to strike the right balance between governmental intervention and letting the free market hold sway. Which …
New implant technologies designed to treat cancer
According to Scientific American, two teams of researchers are making progress developing alternatives to surgically removing tumors: One team of researchers has been able to …
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At around 11:30 a.m. this morning our data center experienced problems that resulted in an outage of all School of Medicine web sites. As you …
Childbirth may be beneficial for MS patients
While I was enjoying a lazy holiday and filling up on turkey and pumpkin pie, some interesting news broke about women with multiple sclerosis. Research …
Study on fruit flies offers new insights into ADHD
Evidence of a primitive emotion-like behavior in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has been uncovered by researchers at the California Technical Institute, according to a …
Health-reform bill aims to benefit breastfeeding moms
The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog highlights this morning an interesting detail in the U.S. Senate's health-reform bill. The legislation contains a provision that would …