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Bitter Coffee, Better Health?

I love my coffee. Who doesn’t want (or need for all you coffee addicts out there) a cup of freshly brewed java to start their day? However, the bitterness of coffee is something most of us...

Started in Highlight HEALTH • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: food and nutrition, antioxidant, bitterness, caffeinated beverage, caffeine
HEALTH Highlights - August 21st, 2007

Yahoo! Health in Stealth Mode or Just Plain Off-the-Radar? » The Healthcare Information Systems Blog I’m becomming more and more interested in health-focused social networking. Jeff...

Started in Highlight HEALTH • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: health highlights, blood clotting, communication, comptroller general, coumadin
Spinal Muscular Atrophy Legislation Update

Just a quick update …Back in July, I wrote that spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) legislation was going to soon be introduced in Congress. Prior to the August recess, legislation to enhance...

Started in Highlight HEALTH • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: health news, sma, spinal muscular atrophy
Discredited Stem Cells Created by Virgin Birth

In 2004, Korean investigators lead by Woo Suk Hwang at Seoul National University announced the creation of the world’s first human embryonic stem cell line generated by somatic cell nuclear...

Started in Highlight HEALTH • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: health news, embryonic stem cells, parthenogenesis, personalized medicine, single nucleotide polymorphism
Mitosis and Meiosis

Mitosis is the biological process involving chromosomal duplication and nuclear division. Mitosis is usually followed by cytokinesis, whereby the watery environment inside a cell, known as the...

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Tags: did you know?, cell, chromosome, dna, meiosis
SCHIP Funding and Fiscal Irresponsibility

$60 billion dollars in new deficit spending. That’s the amount the Heritage Foundation, a public policy research institute based in Washington D.C., estimates the Senate bill to reauthorize...

Started in Highlight HEALTH • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: healthcare, budget deficit, congressional budget office, deficit spending, healthcare program
HEALTH Highlights - August 9th, 2007

Think Bigg A non-profit blogsite dedicated to bringing information and inspiration to those who care about the people, communities, culture and the world in which we live. Another Chapter of...

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Tags: health highlights, activism, blogging, calories, cancer
Websites Advertising and Selling Prescription Drugs Increase by 70%

According to The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, over the last three years the number of websites selling controlled prescription drugs such as...

Started in Highlight HEALTH • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: health news, casa, national center on addiction and substance abuse, online pharmacies, pharmaceuticals
What You Believe Can Kill You

The Washington Post published a story yesterday stating that Personal Health Beliefs are Largely Hit and Myth. The story discusses the results of an American Cancer Society (ACS) study released last...

Started in Highlight HEALTH • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: diseases & conditions, cancer, cancer facts, cancer prevention, health beliefs
Pediatric Grand Rounds 2.8

At midnight just over a week ago, the seventh and final edition of the children’s wildly popular Harry Potter series, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, was officially...

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Tags: blog events, blog carnival, pediatric grand rounds, childrens health, pediatric health issues