Hospital and Medical News

March 12, 2014

Obama takes satirical hit to chin to sell health care
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2014
US President Barack Obama is trying a new strategy in his struggle to sell his stumbling health care law - self parody. Obama ventured onto the spoof online comedy show "Between Two Ferns" in which host and "Hangover" star Zach Galifianakis grills showbiz luminaries with embarrassing questions. "What's it like to be the last black president," Galifianakis asked Obama in the show, which debuted on the "Funny or Die" website on Tuesday. "What's it like for this to be the last time you ever ta ... read more

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H7N9 bird flu comes home to roost in China The handful of poultry dealers lingering at Chengbei Market have had little to do since Chinese authorities shut down their livelihoods after H7N9 bird flu began stalking the country again, killing scores of people this year. ... more		Another Cambodian boy dies of bird flu: hospital An 11-year-old Cambodian boy has died of bird flu, a hospital official said Monday, the impoverished kingdom's third confirmed fatality - all children - from the illness this year. ... more		China bird flu deaths reach 72 this year: government A total of 72 people died from the H7N9 bird flu strain in China in the first two months of this year, government figures showed, far more than in the whole of 2013. ... more
				Birds of all feathers and global flu diversity A group of international scientists have completed the first global inventory of flu strains in birds by reviewing more than 50 published studies and genetic data, providing new insight into the dri ... more		Volume of notifiable disease reporting may double with required electronic lab reporting Public health departments nationwide are already feeling the strain from budget cuts. But their case report volumes are forecasted to double when federal requirements for automated electronic labora ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Weiss and Wagner Research on 3D Scaffolds Sets New Bar in Lung Regeneration In end-stage lung disease, transplantation is sometimes the only viable therapeutic option, but organ availability is limited and rejection presents an additional challenge. Innovative researc ... more		Cambodian boy dies of bird flu in second death for 2014 A three-year-old Cambodian boy has died of bird flu, the health ministry said Friday, in the country's second fatality this year. ... more		Greenland truce or Trump win? Davos "framework" pauses tariffs but not the takeover boasts Greenlanders doubtful over Trump resolution EU says ready to sign defence and security pact with India		Space research institute soliciting First Award Fellowship applications The application period for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute's (NSBRI) First Award Fellowship Program is now open. Two-year fellowships are available to pursue research in any U.S. la ... more
				UNL Microgravity Team develops pill to be used to monitor astronauts' vitals The Microgravity Team at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln is making strides in producing technology to aid in the health of astronauts - and NASA is taking notice. The team, which is a part ... more		Tackling tumors with space station research In space, things don't always behave the way we expect them to. In the case of cancer, researchers have found that this is a good thing: some tumors seem to be much less aggressive in the microgravi ... more

Developing the Next-Generation Military Radar while Maintaining Current Systems; IDGA�s Military Radar Summit - April 2014

International Conference on Protection of Materials and Structures From Space Environment

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Malaria on the move as temps warm: study Malaria is on the march to higher elevations as temperatures warm due to climate change, a trend that could increase the number of people sickened by the disease, researchers said Thursday. ... more		Taking 'scissors' to immune cells shows HIV promise A new gene therapy approach that engineers a person's T cells so that they become resistant to the human immunodeficiency virus has shown early signs of success, researchers said Wednesday. ... more		Trump vows to relaunch Egypt-Ethiopia talks on dam row China's birth rate falls to lowest on record Chile police arrest suspect over deadly wildfires		Planet hunter sharpens eye surgery Physicians in the Netherlands have turned to expertise from a planet-hunting telescope to steady their surgical microscope and save the sight of people threatened by blindness. Doctors at the ... more
				Hong Kong reports sixth H7N9 bird flu case Hong Kong confirmed Tuesday a new human case of the deadly H7N9 avian flu found in an 18-month-old girl, the sixth case to be discovered in the city. ... more		A world free from cancers: Probable, possible, or preposterous? A panel of leading health, economics and policy experts recently discussed the prospects for a future where cancers are rendered manageable or even eradicated and the variables affecting progress to ... more

Iranian people-smuggling link as Malaysia jet search widens

Fukushima: three years on and still a long road ahead

Patience running out among Japan's disaster refugees

Russia plans to launch new Glonass satellite on March 24

McMurdo Announces Global Availability of Maritime Fleet Management Software

Fifth Boeing GPS IIF Spacecraft Sends Initial Signals from Space

Abandoned Spanish villages, given away for free

'Seeing' bodies with sound (no sight required)

Brain circuits multitask to detect, discriminate the outside world

Canada offers tax breaks to promote moose breeding

Elephants can tell difference between human languages

Europe's largest badger study finds rare long-distance movements

	Breakthrough in long-lasting AIDS drugs in monkeys A single shot of antiretroviral drugs protected lab monkeys from the AIDS virus for weeks, according to two US trials released on Tuesday that open the way to tests on humans. ... more		Now in 3-D: Video of virus-sized particle trying to enter cell Tiny and swift, viruses are hard to capture on video. Now researchers at Princeton University have achieved an unprecedented look at a virus-like particle as it tries to break into and infect a cell ... more		Molecular 'cocktail' transforms skin cells into beating heart cells The power of regenerative medicine appears to have turned science fiction into scientific reality-by allowing scientists to transform skin cells into cells that closely resemble beating heart cells. ... more		Microparticles Show Molecules Their Way A team of researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Michigan/USA has produced novel microparticles, whose surface consists of three chemically different segments. ... more

Quantum transport method reads open quantum states

Scientists uncover new quantum state that could power future technologies

Early universe dark matter born red hot before cooling

Bioengineered growth factors lead to better wound healing		Early warning system for epidemics		Tracking Catalytic Reactions in Microreactors		'Avatar doctor' is coming, physician-author says		The parasite that escaped out of Africa
Study on flu evolution may change textbooks, history books		Magnesium may protect against hip fractures		Environment change threatens indigenous know-how		From surgery to laboratory and back again		Flu hits young, middle aged people hard this year

New live-cell printing technology works like ancient Chinese woodblocking

New stem cell method may eliminate need for blood donations to maintain platelet supply

Australian state has higher rate of hypothermia deaths than Sweden

Poland struck by first cases of African swine fever

Medicine goes mobile with smartphone apps, devices

China can prevent 13 million smoking deaths by 2050: study

Social contact, regular exercise key to living longer

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