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Dr. Steven Teitelbaum, a pathology and immunology professor at
, said scientists there were enthused about the prospect of advancing research with embryonic stem cells but also shared a word of caution about expectations.
“We want to see the promise of this therapy move forward,” he said Friday. “But we have to be careful about expectations. This is not a clinical trial to test whether embryonic stem cells will work therapeutically. Read the rest of this entry »
Business executive Roger Vang wanted to know what federal plans might affect his company’s health insurance plan so he checked President-elect Barack Obama’s website.
“I wanted to see if Obama had any major changes coming,” said Vang, chief financial officer of Diversified Plastics in Brooklyn Park. “They had a button to click for information on health care, so I foolishly did.”
The button led Vang to a discussion guide for a grass-roots forum Read the rest of this entry »
FitDeck Mobile a Great Way to Achieve This Year's Fitness Goals; Available on BlackBerry, Apple iPhone, and Many Other Mobile Devices
Take the Gym with You in the New Year and Leave the Excuses Behind. FitDeck® Mobile is an innovative fitness application that downloads easily on most cell phones and mobile devices. It helps people get in shape and stay fit by giving them a comprehensive, full-body workout with 50 different exercises which Read the rest of this entry »
It’s cheap, you can do it anywhere, and you have a usefully instinctive knowledge of how to do it. Whether you are working off a belly acquired over Christmas or looking for a regular way to improve your health, putting one leg in front of the other is the way forward.
The NHS advises that walking 10,000 steps a day, or five miles, can give you a
healthy heart and reduce your body fat. It’s good for your circulation and
lungs, and can improve Read the rest of this entry »
Ex-Beaumonter, pioneering doctor wants Obama to focus on stem cell research
January, 4, 2009
He was a 35-year-old medical researcher when he had a eureka moment – discovering a vaccine to treat cervical cancer and becoming the subject of a presidential debate.
It’s been 40 years since former Beaumont resident, Dr. Roland Pattillo, discovered the earliest stages of development from the stem cells extracted from the placenta walls.
For his works Read the rest of this entry »
City officials, community activists and the police chief gathered at the shooting scene – Northwest 14th Avenue and Northwest 71st Street – Saturday morning begging for witnesses to help identify the shooter, and to decry the rise in assault-weapons attacks.
“There were a lot of people out there last night, and it’s understandable that some are afraid to come forward, but we will take anonymous tips,” said Miami Police Chief John Timoney.
Timoney Read the rest of this entry »
A local medical group, facing a lawsuit over a car crash into Brockton Hospital that killed two people, is seeking to have the case quashed by a special court-appointed tribunal.
Compass Medical and four of its doctors are accused of failing to warn the elderly driver in the crash, a patient of theirs, against driving while medicated.
In a Plymouth County Superior Court filing Monday, Compass Medical denied all accusations of negligence and fault Read the rest of this entry »
, particularly if you’re a nervous cellist.
On Tuesday, doctors announced that a condition cited in medical journals for 34 years was actually just a hoax.
, called “cello scrotum,” was described as raw and swollen loins of men who play their cellos a tad too long, or too vigorously. The malady has been cited in several papers discussing other musical ailments, such as “fiddler’s neck,” finger dermatitis and permanent muscle twitches.
Only now Read the rest of this entry »
CORNELIUS, N.C. — In the waning days of the Bush administration, the Food and Drug Administration finalized new guidelines to make it easier for drug manufacturers to promote “off-label” prescription drug uses, which can be deadly.
The move came despite criticism from then-President George W. Bush’s Department of Veterans Affairs, which said the change “favors business interests over public safety” and could lead to a “decline in drug Read the rest of this entry »
Re “(Generic) Drug Resistance” (editorial, Dec. 10):
I am a doctor. I have hypertension. I am aware of the evidence that older and cheaper diuretics work as well as newer and more expensive drugs. Therefore I take the newer drugs, not diuretics.
Sound illogical and unscientific? Not so fast. Like many older men with hypertension, I have an enlarged prostate, and diuretics adversely affect my quality of life. Second, the newer drugs Read the rest of this entry »