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Current draft of India's Food Security Bill excludes many from public food system

India's National Food Security Bill, "expected to be discussed in Parliament later this year, ... holds out hope of addressing some of the nation's most persistent and pervasive problems," Ashwin Parulkar, a research scholar at the Centre for Equity Studies, writes in the Wall Street Journal's "India Real Time" blog.

19 Oct 2012

Study hopes to improve the outlook for native Americans with kidney disease

Americans have a 1 in 10 chance of suffering from kidney disease, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For Native Americans, the risk doubles.

19 Oct 2012

Viewpoints: NYT's Kristof on the death of his friend; Obama, Romney fight for women

I wrote in my last column about my uninsured college roommate, Scott Androes, and his battle with Stage 4 prostate cancer - and a dysfunctional American health care system. I was taken aback by how many readers were savagely unsympathetic. "Your friend made a foolish choice, and actions have consequences," one reader said in a Twitter message.

19 Oct 2012

Study identifies new risk factors for bladder cancer

Low depressive symptoms and a longer telomere length are compelling factors that contribute to a prolonged life for bladder cancer patients according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

19 Oct 2012

Lack of 'fiscal cliff' talk offers proof that the urgent issue is frozen until after election

The fact that House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and President Barack Obama have not discussed looming automatic spending cuts leads this roundup of Capitol Hill news.

19 Oct 2012

Study explains link between infertility and hyperprolactinaemia

One of the most frequent is the existence of tumours that induce an over-secretion of this hormone. These women present with chronic infertility due to anovulation. Thanks to the work of the Inserm researchers from unit 693 "Steroid receptors: endocrinian and metabolic physiopathology", the intimate mechanism of the hyperprolactinaemia alterations affecting reproduction in mice has been discovered.

19 Oct 2012

Okla. lawsuit provides first test of legal arguments against health law's insurance exchanges

Some of the lawsuit's backers maintain that last summer's Supreme Court health law decision would not be the "law's last trip" to the high court.

19 Oct 2012

Lupus investigators receive LRI's first $1 million research grants

The Lupus Research Institute (LRI) today announced the first $1 million research grants given to lupus investigators by a private research organization.

19 Oct 2012

Number of new TB infections fall, but drug resistance, lack of funding could slow progress, WHO reports

"New tuberculosis [TB] infections dropped 2.2 percent worldwide last year, but with nearly nine million new infections, the World Health Organization said TB remains a massive problem that could worsen if countries shortchange funding to fight it," Reuters reports.

19 Oct 2012

BioResearch Open Access explores Cell-SELEX technology

SELEX is a rapid, efficient, and iterative high-throughput method for screening large libraries of molecules to identify those with the potential to be developed as drug compounds or research tools. Advances in SELEX technology that have enabled screening in live cells, called Cell-SELEX, are explored in a comprehensive Review article published in BioResearch Open Access, a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.

19 Oct 2012

Roundup: Ore. lawmakers petition for separate dental care; Docs failing to check drug registry in Colo.

The state is inviting public comment on how dentists fit with reforms of the Oregon Health Plan. Last week, two lawmakers and a dental executive submitted a petition to the Oregon Health Authority asking that dental care remain separate until 2017 from the state's new coordinated care organizations (CCOs), provider networks set up to integrate services, manage spending and reward prevention in the care of low-income members of the Medicaid-funded system.

19 Oct 2012

Electronic health record use linked to higher quality care

The use of electronic health records is linked to significantly higher quality care, according to a new study- by Lisa Kern and her team, from the Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative in the US. Their work appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine-, published by Springer.

19 Oct 2012

Health law: Pa. says exchange unlikely to be ready in Jan. 2014; Miss. turning down Medicaid expansion money

In health law implementation news, Pennsylvania's insurance commissioner says a health insurance exchange likely won't be ready to rollout in January 2014, when the law says it should be ready. In Mississippi, leaders there are turning down the law's Medicaid expansion and the dollars that come with it.

19 Oct 2012

Hindus and Muslims less likely than Christians and Jews to have premarital sex

Hindus and Muslims are less likely than Christians and Jews to have premarital sex, and Muslims are the least likely among people of these religious groups to have extramarital sex, according to a new study that analyzed data on premarital and extramarital sexual behaviors in over 30 developing countries around the world.

19 Oct 2012

Longer looks: A Nobel for the economist behind the National Resident Matching Program; Helping Charlie end his life

A noted economist at Harvard, (Al) Roth was responsible for algorithms that matched medical students with their residency programs, children with their schools in Boston, and more recently, compatible kidney donors and transplant patients in paired donations.

19 Oct 2012

New ultrasound technique can rapidly separate selected live cells for use in biomedical research

Researchers from North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have developed a new technique that uses sound waves to rapidly separate selected collections of cells for use in biomedical research.

19 Oct 2012

Novel insight into impact that Huntington's disease has on the brain

A study led by researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) provides novel insight into the impact that Huntington's disease has on the brain.

19 Oct 2012

New book focuses on Wnt signaling

Wnt proteins are signaling molecules that play critical roles during embryonic development and in the regeneration of adult tissues. They bind to Frizzled and LRP family receptors on the cell surface, triggering a series of events that cause beta-catenin to enter the nucleus and activate transcription factors that control cell fate and cell proliferation. Mutations in components of the Wnt pathway lead to developmental defects and are common in cancer.

19 Oct 2012

Study sheds light on how overeating can lead to obesity and diabetes

New research from Mount Sinai School of Medicine sheds light on how overeating can cause a malfunction in brain insulin signaling, and lead to obesity and diabetes. Christoph Buettner, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology, Diabetes and Bone Disease) and his research team found that overeating impairs the ability of brain insulin to suppress the breakdown of fat in adipose tissue.

19 Oct 2012

Federal agents raid drug compounding center

Food and Drug Administration investigators probe the Massachusetts pharmacy linked to a meningitis outbreak that has killed 16.

19 Oct 2012

Medical News

Current draft of India's Food Security Bill excludes many from public food system

Study hopes to improve the outlook for native Americans with kidney disease

Viewpoints: NYT's Kristof on the death of his friend; Obama, Romney fight for women

Study identifies new risk factors for bladder cancer

Lack of 'fiscal cliff' talk offers proof that the urgent issue is frozen until after election

Study explains link between infertility and hyperprolactinaemia

Okla. lawsuit provides first test of legal arguments against health law's insurance exchanges

Lupus investigators receive LRI's first $1 million research grants

Number of new TB infections fall, but drug resistance, lack of funding could slow progress, WHO reports

BioResearch Open Access explores Cell-SELEX technology

Roundup: Ore. lawmakers petition for separate dental care; Docs failing to check drug registry in Colo.

Electronic health record use linked to higher quality care

Health law: Pa. says exchange unlikely to be ready in Jan. 2014; Miss. turning down Medicaid expansion money

Hindus and Muslims less likely than Christians and Jews to have premarital sex

Longer looks: A Nobel for the economist behind the National Resident Matching Program; Helping Charlie end his life

New ultrasound technique can rapidly separate selected live cells for use in biomedical research

Novel insight into impact that Huntington's disease has on the brain

New book focuses on Wnt signaling

Study sheds light on how overeating can lead to obesity and diabetes

Federal agents raid drug compounding center

How industrial hygiene flow calibration supports defensible exposure data

How electrical engineering ensures accurate calibration and patient safety

The importance of ketones from a clinical and medical perspective

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