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Parsing public opinion about Obamacare -- and GOP repeal efforts

The Washington Post's Fact Checker finds a recent Obamacare poll by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce presented data "in a highly misleading way," while a memo by President Barack Obama's pollster asserts that GOP efforts to repeal the health law have support of only about half of GOP voters.

1 Aug 2013

First Edition: July 31, 2013

Today's headlines include reports that Medicare premiums will remain stable in 2014 and coverage of a new Congressional Budget Office estimate regarding the cost of delaying the health law's employer mandate.

31 Jul 2013

Lawmakers' aides fret over requirement to buy Obamacare coverage

The New York Times explores how congressional staffs are anxious about a health law provision requiring them to buy coverage in online insurance markets because the federal government may no longer pay a share of their premiums.

31 Jul 2013

Research show online psychotherapy and face-to-face therapy are equally effective

Does psychotherapy via the Internet work? For the first time, clinical researchers from the University of Zurich have studied whether online psychotherapy and conventional face-to-face therapy are equally effective in experiments.

31 Jul 2013

Antibiotic prescribing rates can be reduced using internet-based training for clinicians

Antibiotic prescribing rates for acute respiratory tract infections could be significantly lowered using internet-based training for clinicians, new research has shown.

31 Jul 2013

Viewpoints: Rove warns against government shutdown; 'despicable' GOP tactics; Medicare database a tool to control costs

President Obama would love nothing more than Republicans' providing him a bully pulpit and big stick with which he can beat them daily through the 2014 midterm elections. That's what the Republicans would give Mr. Obama if they shut down the government by trying to defund Obamacare in the Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government after October 1. That's because the Continuing Resolution only affects discretionary spending. Virtually all of Obamacare costs are mandatory spending, unaffected by what's in the CR (Karl Rove, 7/26).

30 Jul 2013

Fibromyalgia diagnosis: an interview with Dr. Bruce Gillis, CEO of EpicGenetics

Presently, it is a diagnosis of exclusion. Patients end up spending, according to what’s been published in the medical literature, as many as 3 - 5 years going from doctor to doctor seeking a diagnosis because they tend to have nonspecific symptoms of a subjective nature.

23 Jul 2013

GNC Holdings expands retail presence in China

GNC Holdings, Inc., a leading global retailer of health, wellness and sports nutrition products, today announced that it is expanding its retail presence in China by opening the first stand-alone GNC store in Shanghai.

23 Jul 2013

Cloud computing can aid European healthcare providers improve quality of medical services

Like many other verticals, the intensely competitive and dynamic healthcare industry is looking to cloud computing as a means to improve quality of services while reducing costs.

16 Jul 2013

GADES tool can help pediatricians in early detection of language disorders

The GADES tool was developed as a result of a research conducted by the group Telematic Systems for the Information and Knowledge Society of the Telecommunication School at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.

12 Jul 2013

Pharmaceutical companies race for new cholesterol drugs, Roche abandons diabetes drug development

A discovery of a rare mutation that affects cholesterol has ignited hopes of a prescription that can help prevent heart attacks. In the meantime, the announcement by Roche could pose more questions about controversial diabetes medicines. Also a federal report warns Americans of using some Internet pharmacies.

11 Jul 2013

Cell phone use may gauge risk for multitude of health issues related to inactive lifestyle

Today's smartphones allow for increased opportunities for activities traditionally defined as sedentary behaviors, such as surfing the internet, emailing and playing video games. However, researchers Jacob Barkley and Andrew Lepp, faculty members in the College of Education, Health and Human Services at Kent State University, linked high cell phone use to poor fitness in college students.

11 Jul 2013

Study: Popular search engines share search data about medical conditions with third parties

Researchers find that popular websites share search data with advertisers and other third parties. The National Security Agency is tracking your phone calls. And online snoops may be keeping tabs on your Internet health searches, too.

10 Jul 2013

First Edition: July 9, 2013

Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations, including a look at HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' challenges and a delay in implementing insurance penalties on smokers.

9 Jul 2013

UCLA psychologists identify brain regions associated with successful spread of ideas

How do ideas spread? What messages will go viral on social media, and can this be predicted? UCLA psychologists have taken a significant step toward answering these questions, identifying for the first time the brain regions associated with the successful spread of ideas, often called "buzz."

6 Jul 2013

Weekend reading: Taking stock of your body; A designer seeks to improve health care; A researcher's quest to lower suicide rates

Today, I've been on the phone four times, for an average of 24 minutes a call. My last phone call was 22 minutes 23 seconds long, according to the digital time device on my landline. It took me exactly 45 minutes and 10 seconds on the train to reach Brooklyn the other night: I counted the seconds off on my smart phone. My average mile when I ran 5K yesterday was 8 minutes and 45 seconds that showed up on the pedometer. (Nothing to boast about, I know.) ... I am able to hold my plank at the gym for 54 seconds rather than the minute I always thought I could, which I know thanks to my phone's stopwatch. My optimal sleep time is seven hours and 20 minutes and I wake up twice a night: I discovered that from a wristband that measures sleep duration and intensity.

4 Jul 2013

Gerovital H3 may be making a comeback, warns BUSM researcher

Despite it being more than 30 years since the "fountain of youth drug" Gerovital H3 was banned in the United States, it may be making a comeback. In an editorial published in this month's Journal of the American Geriatrics Society BUSM researcher Thomas Perls, MD, points out that a few U.S.-based anti-aging and longevity clinics have begun to advertise Gerovital H3 in pill form and as intravenous infusions despite the fact that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned it in 1982.

4 Jul 2013

Internet News and Research

Parsing public opinion about Obamacare -- and GOP repeal efforts

First Edition: July 31, 2013

Lawmakers' aides fret over requirement to buy Obamacare coverage

Research show online psychotherapy and face-to-face therapy are equally effective

Antibiotic prescribing rates can be reduced using internet-based training for clinicians

Viewpoints: Rove warns against government shutdown; 'despicable' GOP tactics; Medicare database a tool to control costs

Fibromyalgia diagnosis: an interview with Dr. Bruce Gillis, CEO of EpicGenetics

GNC Holdings expands retail presence in China

Cloud computing can aid European healthcare providers improve quality of medical services

GADES tool can help pediatricians in early detection of language disorders

Pharmaceutical companies race for new cholesterol drugs, Roche abandons diabetes drug development

Cell phone use may gauge risk for multitude of health issues related to inactive lifestyle

Study: Popular search engines share search data about medical conditions with third parties

First Edition: July 9, 2013

UCLA psychologists identify brain regions associated with successful spread of ideas

Weekend reading: Taking stock of your body; A designer seeks to improve health care; A researcher's quest to lower suicide rates

Gerovital H3 may be making a comeback, warns BUSM researcher

Salk studies pave way to better computer object recognition and therapies for visual disorders

First Edition: July 2, 2013

Exchanges look to software and sports teams

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