President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to pass health care reform “this year,” and not in five or ten years, according to The Wall Street Journal’s live blogging from the President’s recent Town Hall Meeting on health care. The event occurred at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va.. Members of the public also sent [...]
Actress Farrah Fawcett died of cancer this morning at a Santa Monica, CA hospital. She’s famous for her rapid rise to pinup status, spurred by her role in the 1970s TV show Charlie’s Angels. Fawcett was the “blonde one,” sporting a trademark feathered mane that became popular overnight. She later proved herself as a serious [...]
An article in The New York Times today charges that that a “rogue cancer unit” at the veterans hospital in Philadelphia seriously botched 92 out of 116 procedures to treat prostate cancer. Dr. Gary D. Kao performed almost all of the botched procedures, which took place between 2002 and mid-2008, when the “problems” began to [...]
A painless patch that uses tiny micro-needles to monitor diabetic patients’ glucose levels is in development at the Electronic Technology group of the University of Seville in Spain, according to a press release. The needles are just 200 microns wide — about twice the diameter of a human hair — and they draw samples of [...]
Knome has donated it’s whole genome sequencing services to a charity auction on eBay. Bidding starts at $68,000 to get your whole genome analyzed and studied by some leading scientists. For most of us, whole genome sequencing is not yet such a useful service. If we wait long enough it will be available for free.
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