New York Times:
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh pledged to spend more on health care and education and make it easier for foreign investors to participate in India’s $1.2 trillion economy. (Read More)
New York Times:
President Obama, seeking to build momentum on Capitol Hill, urged the Senate to “take the baton and bring this effort to the finish line.”
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Huffington Post:
The health care debate of 2009 has had so many moving parts that it has sometimes seemed impossible to follow. The crisis behind the debate, though, is about one thing above all: the scattershot nature of American medicine. T (Read More)
Health News from Medical News Today:
The Royal College of GPs is the first medical organisation to produce an information leaflet for patients about the new system of revalidation for doctors in the UK. From 2011, all doctors will need to undergo revalidati (Read More)
Genetics News From Medical News Today:
At a meeting on Sudden Cardiac Death (SCD) at the Royal Society of Medicine, sponsored by Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), doctors have called for coroners to routinely request consent from relatives to allow small amounts of (Read More)
GretaWire:
What role - in your opinion - does obesity play with health care? Are obese people discriminated against? Are obese people irresponsible? Is obesity a problem that we should adress or not? Why are people obese ? (genetics, fa (Read More)
BioMed Central - Latest articles:
Background:Widespread adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) is a key strategy to meet the challenges facing health systems internationally of increasing demands, rising costs, limited resources and work (Read More)
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(AP) -- The Democratic-controlled House has narrowly passed landmark health care reform legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard won victory on his signature domestic priority. (Read More)
New York Times:
Mr. Morris was a British epidemiologist whose heart-attack research laid the scientific groundwork for the modern aerobics movement.
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Huffington Post:
CHICAGO — Candidates for Illinois governor are split over a national health care plan with all but one Republican saying the state should opt out if it can, a position rejected by Democrats Pat Quinn and Dan Hynes.Democrats i (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Adam Mars-Jones finds much to relish in Blake Bailey's life of John Cheever – a writer who had an immense capacity for joy but none for happinessBlake Bailey seems to specialise in writing the lives of self-destructive Americ (Read More)
The Guardian:
by Anushka AsthanaStudents studying subjects such as languages, history and philosophy have access to less than nine hours a week "contact time" with lecturers or tutors, research reveals today.The study by the National Union (Read More)
New York Times:
“We convert cellphones into devices that diagnose diseases,” says Aydogan Ozcan, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at U.C.L.A.
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New York Times:
How proposed health care bills could accelerate a move toward paying doctors by salary, not by how many procedures they perform.
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NYT > Nutrition:
Mr. Morris was a British epidemiologist whose heart-attack research laid the scientific groundwork for the modern aerobics movement.
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Health News from Medical News Today:
A compound already used to treat pneumonia could become a new therapy for an inherited muscular wasting disease, according to researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dent (Read More)
Clinical Trials / Drug Trials News From Medical News Today:
CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE Amex: CVM), a developer of vaccines and therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases and a late-stage oncology company, announced today that an Institutional Review Board of T (Read More)
Cancer / Oncology News From Medical News Today:
Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns Hopki (Read More)
India Times:
The European Union (EU) is not opposed to exports of generic medicine by Indian companies through its ports, European Commissioner for Trade Catherine Ashton said here Friday. (Read More)
Scott H Young:
One of the most delightfully frustrating experiences I get is receiving book review requests. Normally, I don’t mind receiving these requests. If your book is brilliant, I’m more than happy to promote it without any compensat (Read More)