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16 hrs ago | MediLexicon

COPD Patients On Bronchodilators Are At Higher Risk Of Cardiovascular Events

Elderly patients suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease who are treated with long-acting bronchodilators I2-agonists and anticholinergics are at an increased risk of cardiovascular events, according to new research published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine .

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Related Topix: Medicine, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Health

20 hrs ago | Newswise

SAMHSA Appoints Elinore F. McCance-Katz, M.D. To the New Position of Chief Medical Officer

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Administrator Pamela S. Hyde is announcing the appointment of Elinore F. McCance-Katz, M.D., Ph.D. as SAMHSA's first chief medical officer.

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Related Topix: Pharmacology, Medicine

Yesterday | NBC Los Angeles

UC Medical Workers Begin Two-Day Walkout

Medical workers across California plan to strike for the next two days in an effort to push forward negotiations for a new contract.

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Related Topix: UC Irvine, UC San Diego, UC Davis

Yesterday | Scientific American

No-Kill, High-Resolution 3-D Movies of Cells Now Possible [Video + Infographic]

Lillian Fritz-Laylin is observing a strain of leukemia cell that zips along at about 10 to 20 microns per minute.

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Yesterday | HON

Newer, Pricier Prostate Cancer Radiation No Better Than Old: Study

The costly form of radiation therapy that has become the norm for prostate cancer in the United States may be no better than the older, cheaper variety -- at least for some men, a new study suggests.

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Related Topix: Prostate Cancer, Health, Erectile Dysfunction, Medicine, Urology, Oncology, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Mon May 20, 2013

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

UC asks court to stem scope of hospital-worker strike

University of California officials have gone to court to stem the extent of a two-day strike set to begin Tuesday for thousands of patient-care technicians at UC Davis Medical Center and four other large University of California hospitals.

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Related Topix: UC Davis, Medicine, Nursing, UC Irvine

MediLexicon

Immune System Boosted By Stem-Cell-Based Strategy In Mouse Model

Raising hopes for cell-based therapies, UC San Francisco researchers have created the first functioning human thymus tissue from embryonic stem cells in the laboratory.

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Related Topix: Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, Medicine, Diabetes, Health, Genetics

Bioscience Technology

Big Data Unveils Exciting Head and Neck Cancer Targets

Genome sequencing of head and neck cancers may quickly-and soon-spur new therapies.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Oncology, Smoking, Lung Cancer

GNIF Brain Blogger

Out-Group Discrimination Fuels Anger, Risk-Taking and Vigilance

Discrimination originates in prejudice. It most often takes the form of social rejection, with racial- and gender-based discrimination being two of the most common types.

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Related Topix: Psychology, Science

Fri May 17, 2013

Knoxville News Sentinel

Study sees benefits to giving formula to breastfed newborns

One of the first warnings new mothers hear is that offering babies formula soon after birth can lead to problems with breast-feeding. Sating infants' hunger with formula can prevent them from nursing vigorously, interfering with milk production; letting them use a bottle and nipple can interfere with their ability to latch properly at the breast.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Nursing, Pediatrics, Sports

EurekAlert!

Individuals who drink heavily and smoke may show 'early aging' of the brain

A first-of-its-kind study looks at the interactive effects of smoking status and age on neurocognition in one-month-abstinent alcohol dependent individuals in treatment.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Alcoholism, Life, Food, Nutrition, Genetics

Chico Enterprise-Record

Oroville Hospital hit with maximum penalty under new Medicare requirement

A new Medicare program that punishes hospitals with high patient readmission rates is forcing administrators to reach out and improve how patients are cared for, even after they're wheeled out the hospital doors.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health, California, Butte County, CA

Thu May 16, 2013

New Hampshire Public Radio -

Why Is Psychiatry's New Manual So Much Like The Old One?

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, is the official list of all the mental disorders doctors can use to diagnose mental illness.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Psychiatry, Columbia University, Genetics, Health, Breast Cancer

EurekAlert!

Stem-cell-based strategy boosts immune system in mice

Raising hopes for cell-based therapies, UC San Francisco researchers have created the first functioning human thymus tissue from embryonic stem cells in the laboratory.

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Related Topix: Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, Medicine, Diabetes, Health, Genetics

FiveThirtyEight

The 6th Floor Blog: Reacting to Angelina Jolie's Breast Cancer News

Here's something I never imagined: that my name would be associated with Angelina Jolie's. But because of a recent cover article I wrote for the magazine, " Our Feel-Good War Against Breast Cancer ," I've been deluged by questions about her decision, which she revealed in an op-ed yesterday, to have a preventive double mastectomy.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Genetics

Reuters

Warning didn't change for-profit dialysis drug use

Despite a strong warning from U.S. regulators in 2007, for-profit dialysis centers still gave their kidney failure patients more of a certain anemia drug than non-profit centers in 2008, says a new study.

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Related Topix: Dialysis, Medicine, Health, Anemia, Food and Drug Administration, Kidney Cancer

Wed May 15, 2013

Circulation

Conversion of Human Fibroblasts to Functional Endothelial Cells by...

From the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry , University of California, San Francisco, CA; Institute of Immunology, Third Military Medical University, PLA, Chongqing, China ; and Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, CA .

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Related Topix: Stanford, CA

Business Journal

Bayer goes on a startup hunt

The global drug giant announced Wednesday that it signed a three-year deal with the University of California institute and seed-stage funding firm Mission Bay Capital LLC to jointly evaluate, fund and work with startup companies.

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Related Topix: Oncology, Medicine

New Scientist

Consciousness: Our silent partner, the unconscious

HUMANS are rather proud of their powers of conscious thought - and rightly so. But there is one aspect of our cognitive prowess that rarely gets the credit it deserves: a silent thinking partner that whirrs away in the background.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

Surgical Products

Medical Devices Fall Short For Children

Only 15 months old, Vivian Andorf underwent her sixth cardiac catheterization. Her cardiologist inserted a flexible tube through a tiny artery in her leg and wended it to her heart in an attempt to treat her narrowed veins and arteries, the result of a congenital condition.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cardiology