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Viewpoints: Obama overlooking legal constraints on employer mandate delay; Bush's 'unnecessary' heart procedure; discrimination against people with mental illnesses

In his Friday remarks, Mr. Obama also claimed that he had the "executive authority" for the mandate delay. But if he really believes that, then why did he say he would normally ask for a legislative "tweak." Either the fix requires legislation or it doesn't. His comments are certainly revealing about his attitudes on Presidential power and the constraints of the U.S. Constitution. Article II, Section 3 instructs him to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, not merely what he thinks is "the essence" of laws (8/10).

13 Aug 2013

State health insurance marketplaces progress with fits and starts

The Washington Post reports on tools that will be available to residents in D.C., Maryland and Virginia to help them get up to speed on the health law, and The Associated Press details how some insurers are opening retail stores to help educate potential consumers about the health law. Other news outlets report on the latest developments in Georgia, Oregon, California, Idaho, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Minnesota.

13 Aug 2013

Flexible hubs coordinate brain’s responses to novel cognitive challenges

One thing that sets humans apart from other animals is our ability to intelligently and rapidly adapt to a wide variety of new challenges - using skills learned in much different contexts to inform and guide the handling of any new task at hand.

13 Aug 2013

Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy now available on ScienceDirect

New open access title: Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy (VJGIEN) now available on ScienceDirect. Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, is pleased to announce the launch of Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy (VJGIEN) - an open access video journal providing scientists and clinicians with state-of-the-art visual information of gastrointestinal (GI) pathologies and step-by-step demonstrations and the first of its kind in the field of gastrointestinal endoscopy.

12 Aug 2013

Stillbirth research: an interview with Dr Lucy Higgins, University of Manchester

Stillbirth, the birth of a baby who shows no sign of life after 24 completed weeks of pregnancy, occurs in 1 in every 200 pregnancies in the United Kingdom. That’s roughly 10 bereaved families a day.

From The University of Manchester 12 Aug 2013

Children born by Caesarean section more vulnerable to allergies

Children who came into the world by Caesarean section are more often affected by allergies than those born in the natural way. The reason for this may be that they have a less diverse gut microbiota, according to a study by universities in Sweden and Scotland.

9 Aug 2013

Journey Forward creates tool to help cancer survivors initiate care planning with health care providers

Journey Forward, a leader in Survivorship Care Planning, is moving forward patient-centered care by enhancing its suite of free, award-winning survivorship care planning tools with My Care Plan.

9 Aug 2013

Investigational malaria vaccine offers protection against malaria infection in healthy adults

An investigational malaria vaccine has been found to be safe, to generate an immune system response, and to offer protection against malaria infection in healthy adults, according to the results of an early-stage clinical trial published Aug. 8 in the journal Science.

9 Aug 2013

Study: 3 enzymes required for building sugar superstructure involved in muscular dystrophies

For many inherited diseases, such as cystic fibrosis or Huntington disease, the disease-causing genetic mutation damages or removes a protein that has an essential role in the body. This protein defect is the root cause of the disease symptoms.

9 Aug 2013

Wiring diagram of retinal neurons: The first step toward mapping the human brain

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, connected to each other in networks that allow us to interpret the world around us, plan for the future, and control our actions and movements. MIT neuroscientist Sebastian Seung wants to map those networks, creating a wiring diagram of the brain that could help scientists learn how we each become our unique selves.

8 Aug 2013

Study: Mental health services should be included into disaster response plans

Mental health services should be integrated into disaster response as part of emergency services planning, according to a new study by UT Southwestern Medical Center psychiatrists who completed an exhaustive review of articles on the aftereffects of disasters on mental health.

8 Aug 2013

BMC, BUSM and JIPMER to jointly research on tuberculosis

Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine are partnering with the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research to study tuberculosis. This research is supported by a five-year, $2.5 million grant from the Indo-U.S. Vaccine Action Program.

2 Aug 2013

ATS releases clinical practice guidelines on management of childhood ILD in infants

The American Thoracic Society has released new clinical practice guidelines on the classification, evaluation and management of childhood interstitial lung disease in infants.

1 Aug 2013

Community Health Systems, Health Management Associates enter into definitive merger agreement

Community Health Systems, Inc. and Health Management Associates, Inc. announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which CHS will acquire HMA for approximately $7.6 billion, including the assumption of approximately $3.7 billion of indebtedness.

30 Jul 2013

Elsevier announces winner of first Netter Atlas Medical Illustration Contest

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the winner of the first Netter Atlas Medical Illustration Contest.

26 Jul 2013

Non-invasive optical techniques use LED, laser to view beneath skin

Impressive examples of new non-invasive optical techniques using lasers, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), and spectroscopic methods to probe and render images from beneath the surface of the skin are featured in a newly completed special section in the Journal of Biomedical Optics published by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

26 Jul 2013

Researchers find how brain cells communicate with each other in different voice tones

Brain cells talk to each other in a variety of tones. Sometimes they speak loudly but other times struggle to be heard. For many years scientists have asked why and how brain cells change tones so frequently. Today National Institutes of Health researchers showed that brief bursts of chemical energy coming from rapidly moving power plants, called mitochondria, may tune brain cell communication.

26 Jul 2013

Secretary of State for BIS designates LSTM as higher education institution

The Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has, by an Order in Parliament under section 129 of the Education Reform Act 1988, designated the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) as a higher education institution (HEI) eligible to receive funding direct from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

25 Jul 2013

NIH awards $2.35M grant to BUSM researcher to study the development of gonococcal vaccine

Lee Wetzler, MD, an attending physician in the department of infectious diseases at Boston Medical Center and associate program director for research in the section of infectious diseases at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM), was awarded a four-year, $2.35 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the development of a gonococcal vaccine.

24 Jul 2013

Researchers receive $10M March of Dimes grant to study causes of premature birth

Researchers from Dartmouth's Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (iQBS), the Center for Integrative Biomedical Sciences, and the Center for Genomic Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine are studying the unknown causes of premature birth, as part of a $10 million March of Dimes grant awarded to a research collaborative of seven U.S. universities and medical centers.

19 Jul 2013

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Viewpoints: Obama overlooking legal constraints on employer mandate delay; Bush's 'unnecessary' heart procedure; discrimination against people with mental illnesses

State health insurance marketplaces progress with fits and starts

Flexible hubs coordinate brain’s responses to novel cognitive challenges

Video Journal and Encyclopedia of GI Endoscopy now available on ScienceDirect

Stillbirth research: an interview with Dr Lucy Higgins, University of Manchester

Children born by Caesarean section more vulnerable to allergies

Journey Forward creates tool to help cancer survivors initiate care planning with health care providers

Investigational malaria vaccine offers protection against malaria infection in healthy adults

Study: 3 enzymes required for building sugar superstructure involved in muscular dystrophies

Wiring diagram of retinal neurons: The first step toward mapping the human brain

Study: Mental health services should be included into disaster response plans

BMC, BUSM and JIPMER to jointly research on tuberculosis

ATS releases clinical practice guidelines on management of childhood ILD in infants

Community Health Systems, Health Management Associates enter into definitive merger agreement

Elsevier announces winner of first Netter Atlas Medical Illustration Contest

Non-invasive optical techniques use LED, laser to view beneath skin

Researchers find how brain cells communicate with each other in different voice tones

Secretary of State for BIS designates LSTM as higher education institution

NIH awards $2.35M grant to BUSM researcher to study the development of gonococcal vaccine

Researchers receive $10M March of Dimes grant to study causes of premature birth

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