Aging Massachusetts Work Force, Obesity Could Impact Boston Economy, Report Finds
The combination of an aging work force, the growing obesity epidemic and the high cost of medical care “could result in an epidemic of preventable illness that might cripple [the Boston region’s] economy,” according to a study released Thursday by New England health Care Institute and The Boston Foundation, the Boston Globe reports. [click link for full article]
Bush Praises National Right To Life Committee; Former Sen. Thompson Reaffirms Antiabortion Views At Group’s Annual Meeting
President Bush in a taped message played at the National Right to Life Committee’s annual meeting on Thursday praised the group as “fearless shepherds of the innocent and the unborn,” the AP/MyFox Kansas City reports. [click link for full article]
Pre-Cancerous Blood Diseases Can Be Products Of Their Environment
When blood-forming stem cells misbehave, causing pre-cancerous conditions that can sometimes even progress to leukemia, the problem might not always lie with them. Rather, two studies in the journal Cell, published by Cell Press, reveal that a bad environment might be to blame. [click link for full article]
At Long Term Follow-Up Over OneThird Of Refractory Lupus Patients Remain Stable
36% of patients with refractory systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE or lupus) remain well after undergoing B-cell depletion therapy (BCDT) without needing further standard immunosuppressive agents, according to a study presented at EULAR 2007, the Annual European Congress of Rheumatology in Barcelona, Spain. [click link for full article]
Stress Hits Young Cancer Docs
In a survey of 401 oncology registrars, 102 scored above the threshold for possible psychiatric morbidity and more than one in ten showed clinically important levels of depression. The main reasons cited include being over-stretched, keeping up-to-date with knowledge, fear of making mistakes, talking with distressed relatives, and poor senior support and team relations. [click link for full article]
New Study Demonstrates Significant Economic And Clinical Value Of NT-proBNP Testing For The Management Of Heart Failure
A study published today in Circulation demonstrates the effective use of NT-proBNP, Roche Diagnostics’ breakthrough marker for suspected heart failure (HF), for use in both point of care and laboratory testing. [click link for full article]
New PercSys Accordion(R) Stone Management Device Facilitates Endoscopic Lithotripsy Procedures
Percutaneous Systems, Inc. (PercSys) today announced the launch of its new PercSys Accordion(R) Stone Management Device, an advanced microcatheter that features a proprietary film occlusion to prevent stone migration and facilitate fragment removal during endoscopic lithotripsy procedures. [click link for full article]
Trade May Impact Future Global Climate Policy
Carnegie Mellon University engineering researchers Christopher L. Weber and Scott H. Matthews argue that rising U.S. trade with countries like China has major consequences for the future of global climate policy. In a June 2007 research paper published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology, the Carnegie Mellon researchers describe how the U.S. [click link for full article]
Clocking In And Out Of Gene Expression
A chemical signal acts as time clock in the expression of genes controlled by a master gene called a coactivator, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears in the journal Cell .”We have long known that our bodies live by a daily and monthly and even yearly clock and that cells have clocks as well,” said Dr. [click link for full article]
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