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Health care, financial reform skirt Obama review, the Wall Street journal reports

President Barack Obama's government-wide review of federal regulations will have little effect on two of the president's major regulatory victories: an overhaul of Wall Street and the health care market, according to a White House budget official.

20 Jan 2011

Writing by hand strengthens learning process, while keyboard typing impairs

When writing by hand, our brain receives feedback from our motor actions, together with the sensation of touching a pencil and paper. These kinds of feedback is significantly different from those we receive when touching and typing on a keyboard.

20 Jan 2011

Endothelial cells may play a role in controlling cancer behavior: New study

MIT scientists have discovered that cells lining the blood vessels secrete molecules that suppress tumor growth and keep cancer cells from invading other tissues, a finding that could lead to a new way to treat cancer.

20 Jan 2011

Medicom, Wolters Kluwer enter joint venture to deliver clinical decision support to doctors in China

Wolters Kluwer Health today announced a joint venture with leading China drug information provider Medicom to deliver clinical decision support to doctors in China as the country prepares for significant changes to its healthcare system.

20 Jan 2011

SCAI publishes guiding principles for development of radiation safety programs in cardiac catheterization laboratories

Today the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions published guiding principles and best practices for the development of radiation safety programs in cardiac catheterization laboratories.

20 Jan 2011

WHO Director-General expresses concern over public mistrust of vaccines

During the WHO's executive board meeting Monday, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan expressed concerns over what she called a "'worrisome' public mistrust of vaccines, following signs of a tail-off in flu vaccination," Agence France-Presse reports (1/18).

20 Jan 2011

Prevention launches free content area on diabetes

Today, Prevention—the #1 healthy lifestyle brand in the world—launches Outsmart Diabetes: a personalized, feature-rich, free content area consisting of all Prevention's superior diabetes coverage at http://www.diabetes.prevention.com. Outsmart Diabetes joins Prevention's overall diabetes platform, which includes books, DVD's, special interest publications and bookazines.

20 Jan 2011

Singapore study finds video game addiction exists globally

A new study by an international research team -- including an Iowa State University psychologist -- found further evidence that video game "addiction" exists globally and that greater amounts of gaming, lower social competence and greater impulsivity were risk factors for becoming pathological gamers.

20 Jan 2011

Scarab Genomics, WIST enter research agreement to produce isoprene from paper, pulp mill waste streams

Scarab Genomics, a leader in the development of production E. coli strains based on reduced genome technology and the Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point have entered into a research agreement to produce isoprene from paper and pulp mill waste streams.

20 Jan 2011

Findings could speed use of RNA nanotechnology for treating disease

Scientists are reporting an advance in overcoming a major barrier to the use of the genetic material RNA in nanotechnology - the field that involves building machines thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair and now is dominated by its cousin, DNA. Their findings, which could speed the use of RNA nanotechnology for treating disease, appear in the monthly journal ACS Nano.

20 Jan 2011

Africa's economic expansion not strong enough to reach poverty MDG, U.N. report says

"Africa's economy expanded by 4.7 percent in 2010 and is expected to maintain similar growth over the next two years," according to the U.N.'s World Economic Situation and Prospects 2011 report, which was released Tuesday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Deutsche Presse-Agentur/M&C reports.

20 Jan 2011

Exciton, ULURU sign agreement to develop and market Altrazeal exSALT product

ULURU Inc. announced today that it has signed a Binding Letter of Intent with Exciton Technologies Inc. to develop and market a product that will combine Altrazeal® with Exciton's proprietary exSALT™ Antimicrobial Technology.

20 Jan 2011

Baked goods made from hydrolyzed wheat flour are not toxic to celiac disease patients

Baked goods made from hydrolyzed wheat flour are not toxic to celiac disease patients, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the official journal of the American Gastroenterological Association Institute.

20 Jan 2011

Polls offer mixed views of Americans' views on health law, repeal

Varying polls offer slightly different takes on where the American public stands regarding the health overhaul, its impact on the economy and whether it should be undone. Democrats are stepping up to try to sway these opinions. Meanwhile, a vocal physician organization has stepped into the fray in opposition of the overhaul.

20 Jan 2011

Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network adds 17 sites in Canada and the U.S

Autism Speaks and Autism Speaks Canada who together form North America's largest autism science and advocacy organization, is pleased to announce the expansion of its Autism Treatment Network to include 17 leading children's hospitals and academic medical centers in the Canada and the U.S.

20 Jan 2011

Failure to use research evidence leads to inefficiencies, reduced quality of life, says Dr. Sharon

Health care systems around the world are failing to use evidence obtained through research when making decisions, causing inefficiencies and reduced quantity and quality of life, according to a leading expert in the field of "knowledge translation."

20 Jan 2011

First group of patients 'graduate' from treatment at CDH Proton Center, A Procure Center

Two months after the opening of the CDH Proton Center, A ProCure Center, the first patients have "graduated" from their treatment surrounded by family, friends and staff. The group of graduating patients, whose tumors included prostate, brain and a non-cancerous tumor on the spinal cord, received proton therapy, an alternative to standard X-ray radiation that spares healthy tissue and results in far fewer short- and long-term treatment side effects.

20 Jan 2011

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Health care, financial reform skirt Obama review, the Wall Street journal reports

Writing by hand strengthens learning process, while keyboard typing impairs

Endothelial cells may play a role in controlling cancer behavior: New study

Medicom, Wolters Kluwer enter joint venture to deliver clinical decision support to doctors in China

SCAI publishes guiding principles for development of radiation safety programs in cardiac catheterization laboratories

WHO Director-General expresses concern over public mistrust of vaccines

Prevention launches free content area on diabetes

Singapore study finds video game addiction exists globally

Scarab Genomics, WIST enter research agreement to produce isoprene from paper, pulp mill waste streams

Findings could speed use of RNA nanotechnology for treating disease

Africa's economic expansion not strong enough to reach poverty MDG, U.N. report says

Exciton, ULURU sign agreement to develop and market Altrazeal exSALT product

Baked goods made from hydrolyzed wheat flour are not toxic to celiac disease patients

Polls offer mixed views of Americans' views on health law, repeal

Autism Speaks Autism Treatment Network adds 17 sites in Canada and the U.S

Failure to use research evidence leads to inefficiencies, reduced quality of life, says Dr. Sharon

First group of patients 'graduate' from treatment at CDH Proton Center, A Procure Center

The long-term view: GOP hopes for scaled-back health plan; Dems see health care second-chance

Researchers identify PBRM1 gene mutation in one in three patients with common form of renal cancer

6 states join multi-state legal challenge against health law

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

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