Researchers at NYU worry the mice they use to study human disease may have perished in the flooding caused by Superstorm Sandy.
It has been reported that the New York University Hospital has lost thousands of laboratory mice to Hurricane Sandy This will setback research that could take years to correct, according to scientists.
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We have even more reason to understand breast cancer as multiple diseases.
Every year we go though a full month of pink, pink and more pink, all in the name of “breast cancer awareness.” What once was a health-related cause has become the feel-virtuous-and-buy-stuff season wedged between back-to-school and holiday gift giving.
Continue reading… “Cancer comes in more shades than just pink: Studies”
Moving paper death certificates to an online process should be easy.
The EDRS, or the Washington State Electronic Death Registry System is an online system that is moving paper death certificates to an online process. This system should make the process of completing death certificates faster and easier. But, the government designed the system.
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Ikaria
Stamatis Moraitis, a Greek war veteran, came to the United States in 1943 for treatment of a combat-mangled arm. He’d survived a gunshot wound, escaped to Turkey and eventually talked his way onto the Queen Elizabeth, then serving as a troopship, to cross the Atlantic. Moraitis settled in Port Jefferson, N.Y., an enclave of countrymen from his native island, Ikaria. He quickly landed a job doing manual labor. Later, he moved to Boynton Beach, Fla. Along the way, Moraitis married a Greek-American woman, had three children and bought a three-bedroom house and a 1951 Chevrolet.
Continue reading… “Ikaria, the island where people forget to die”
A large majority of patients who receive this news don’t fully comprehend it, or perhaps willfully choose to ignore it.
Often times doctors are called on to deliver bad news to patients. And when they deliver that news it doesn’t get much worse than hearing a diagnosis of an advanced-stage cancer for which there is no cure.
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An investigation a few years ago bu USA Today found that, of the 250,000 fatal cardiac arrests that occur outside of U.S. hospitals every year, up to 76,000 cases were treatable. That is, the patients would have survived if the ambulance had got there in time. A quick zap with a defibrillator was all that was needed, but many cities could not promise a response within six minutes–the standard survival window.
Continue reading… “Could the future of first responders be a network of drones?”
Protected bike paths are safer.
Researchers have found that bike lanes separated by planters, posts or parked cars aren’t just more popular and less stressful than bike lanes or back-road bike routes, an important new study shows. They’re safer – far safer.
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Did you know that every year there are approximately 60,000 trampoline injuries in the United States, and on average, women blink twice as often as men, and smokers lose an average of two teeth every ten years. I didn’t think so.
Continue reading… “43 Fascinating Facts About People”
Sleep helps eliminate fear.
We can reset our brains and calm our emotions by sleeping. Perhaps it can do more, though: if sleepers are exposed to odors they associate with bad memories, it appears they can lose the fear those memories bring.
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Boys are hitting puberty as early as 9 years old.
Research has shown that girls are reaching puberty earlier than they used to, and now the same appears to be true of boys. Boys are entering puberty somewhere between six months and two years earlier than the textbooks think, according to a new study. In the earliest cases, African-American boys reach puberty just after age 9, with whites and Hispanics about a year later.
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The Ben Venue facility in Bedford, Ohio has spent more than $300 million to upgrade the plant.
Quality lapses as big drug companies show that contamination and shoddy practices go well beyond the loosely regulated compounding pharmacies that have attracted attention because of their link to an outbreak of meningitis..
Weevils have been found floating in vials of heparin as well as morphine cartridges that contain up to twice the labeled dose. There are manufacturing plants with rusty tools, mold in production areas and — in one memorable case — a barrel of urine.
Continue reading… “Quality lapses at big drug manufacturing plants lead to shortages and danger”
How do doctors know if a patient is really dead?
This week, Newspapers reported a story about a woman who ‘returned from the dead’. Tasleem Rafiq collapsed at home and was taken to hospital in an ambulance where doctors tried to resuscitate her for about 45 minutes without success.
Continue reading… “How easy is it for doctors to diagnose death?”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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