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January 4th, 2006 Dear Readers, If you find my Stem Cell Research blog useful, please consider voting for it for the MedGadgets award. This blog is labor of love.

August 25th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Medics are contemplating the use of popular micro-blogging service Twitter as valuable means of healthcare information and medical alerts. The social networking website, which lets a group of recipients receive short messages, or "tweets" simultaneously, has come under the consideration of physician groups, hospitals, and healthcare organizations who were looking at its benefit to communicate timely information both within the medical community and to patients and the public.

February 19th, 2005 Looks like new opportunities for the Java industry. The New York Times > Business > Health Industry Under Pressure to Computerize Across the ideological spectrum, health care experts and politicians agree that the nation's hodgepodge of paper medical files needs to move into the digital era, so that eventually each person has an electronic health record that can travel across networks and be read by doctors, hospitals, insurers and the patients themselves.

August 9th, 2005 Overweight or obese has long been recognized as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The results of a new study are clarifying the nature of the link between weight and diabetes.

April 4th, 2005 NASH, a liver disease that resembles alcoholic liver disease but occurs in patients who drink little or no alcohol. NASH occurs most often in adults over the age of 40 who are overweight or have diabetes, insulin resistance (pre-diabetes), or hyperlipidemia (excess concentrations of fatty materials in the blood).

September 7th, 2005 With technology, it's easy to break the law "As technology marches on, our laws don't always march with it. They're written by men with agendas that are different than ours — men who don't understand (or have the incentive to understand) what they're trying to legislate.

April 29th, 2009 Study suggests doctors could add to Wikipedia NEW YORK — Researchers are suggesting that doctors could be spending more time writing and editing Wikipedia pages on medical topics, despite questions that have been raised about the collaborative online encyclopedia's credibility. Medical professionals should recognize that Wikipedia has become a major online source of health information for consumers, researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.

September 5th, 2007 Today I was reading a very interesting blog by Scott who has detailed analysis of all Dr. House episodes which are very engrossing to read.

April 22nd, 2005 According to recent statistics published in the Nature (cited by Thomas A. Steitz, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Yale University), hospitals in the United States see about two million cases of antibiotic-resistant infections each year; 90,000 patients die annually from such infections.

October 7th, 2009 List of winners of top science and research medalsThe winners of the 2008 National Medal of Science: —Berni Alder, for developing computer methods useful for conceiving and executing experimental shock-wave simulations. —Francis S.

June 10th, 2005 Three Transplant Patiet have died due to rare infection (LCMV virus) from rats, raises concern for all transplant patients. On a different front educated women are less likely to suffer from insomnia. And it appears that milk is destined to make a comeback. It had really a bad press all along.

July 18th, 2005 A Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center team is launching a high-tech study to determine if early screening using a special camera and images transmitted over the Internet can prevent blindness in Medicaid patients with diabetes. "Medicaid patients are rarely screened and are at risk of becoming blind," said Ramon Velez, M.D., M.

July 16th, 2005 A multicenter international study chaired by a Joslin Diabetes Center investigator and reported in the July issue of the American Diabetes Association’s journal Diabetes brings hopeful news to the 18 million people in the United States -- and millions more worldwide -- with type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Initial results of the Phase III clinical trial demonstrated that 32 milligrams per day of ruboxistaurin (RBX) was well tolerated and may reduce the risk of moderate vision loss, especially in patients with diabetic macular edema.

April 13th, 2005 News-Medical-Net reports In an Australian first, UNSW researchers have developed three clones of cells from existing human embryonic stem cells. The breakthrough could lead to new treatments for conditions such as diabetes, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury.

July 6th, 2007 Note: This is for Indians who have to travel abroad on short business trips. Which overseas travel insurance company do you use for short trip? I used New India Assurance before, but I find their policy of payment after the expenses have been paid very inconvenient especially if you are for short periods and do not have the time nor energy to pursue your claim afterwards.