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HEALTH Highlights - October 23rd, 2007

New Pew Study Shows Patients Turn to Internet for Health Information; Now Can We Get Docs to Do The Same? » The Health Wisdom Blog The internet is changing the way patients not only get...

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Tags: health highlights, credibility, directory, e patient, emotion
Individual Genetics, Coffee Consumption, BRCA1 and Breast Cancer

We’ve talked previously about the health benefits of coffee and the antioxidant compounds responsible for it’s bitterness. To add to the “perks” of coffee consumption, a...

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Tags: diseases & conditions, brca1, breast cancer, caffeine, cancer
Biodegradable Polymers for Drug and Gene Delivery

In participation with Blog Action Day, an event where bloggers from around the world unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind - the environment - today’s article discusses...

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Tags: eco-friendly, blog action day, drug coating, drug delivery, gene delivery
Medicine 2.0 #10 - Medicine and the Second Generation of Internet-based Services

I’m hosting this weeks edition of Medicine 2.0, the bi-weekly blog carnival of the best posts pertaining to web 2.0 and medicine. I’ve published Medicine 2.0 #10 - Medicine and the...

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Tags: blog events, blog, blog carnival, health, health 20
Medicine 2.0 #10 Call for Submissions

Highlight HEALTH will be hosting the next edition of Medicine 2.0, edition 10, on Sunday, October 14th. As host, I invite you to send your submissions. What is Medicine 2.0? Medicine 2.0 is a...

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Tags: blog events, blog carnival, medicine, medicine 20, web2.0
Of Mice, Men and the Nobel Prize for Medicine

The 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced this morning. The prize was awarded to three men for a series of discoveries regarding embryonic stem cells and DNA recombination in...

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Tags: health news, gene knockout, gene targeting, medicine, mouse model
Overweight Kids and TV: An Advertising Epidemic

On Saturday afternoon, September 29th, 2007, the cable television channel Nickelodeon showed nothing for three hours to celebrate “Worldwide Day of Play”, encouraging children to get off...

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Tags: food and nutrition, childhood obesity, food ads, food advertising, fruit
Personalized Patient-driven Drug Safety Monitoring Program

iGuard is one of the first web-based services that allows you to get free personalized safety alerts and updates about your medications. The company claims that [1]:… patients can feel...

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Tags: resources, drug safety, e patient, iguard, personalized safety alerts
HEALTH Highlights - September 30th, 2007

What is alternative medicine, anyway? Rumble in the Jungle » WhiteCoat Underground In Part I, PalMD tried to define alternative medicine. Part II was an attempt to clarify Part I. With Part...

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Tags: health highlights, aging, alternative medicine, biomed central, health
Consortium to Identify Genetic Markers that Predict Drug-related Serious Adverse Events

The International Serious Adverse Events Consortium (SAEC) officially announced its formation this morning. The new global, non-profit partnership between leading pharmaceutical companies, the U.S....

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Tags: health news, drug metabolism, drug safety, genetic markers, genetic variation