Brain Mapping of Language ImpairmentsResearchers mapped different language impairments to specific brain regions to reveal the basic organization of our language system.
Category: HEALTHCARE/MEDICAL
Drugs Lessen Multiple Sclerosis Damage in Mice
Drugs Lessen Multiple Sclerosis Damage in MiceIn a mouse study, 2 drugs already on the market activated stem cells and repaired the type of brain damage seen in multiple sclerosis. The finding might lead to novel therapies.
National study to test unborn babies for type 1 diabetes
A University of Adelaide-led study will become the first in the world to test unborn babies for type 1 diabetes after receiving an $8 million funding injection.
Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace Power Player of the Week
Dr. Collins is Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace’s Power Player of the week, discussing NIH’s vital role in moving biomedical research and discovery forward.
Laser beam compressed into thin filament
Scientists have been researching the process of laser pulse filamentation — the effect produced when a laser beam propagating in air focuses into a filament. The researchers discovered how this process influences the preliminary transition of a beam passing through quartz glass, which has applications in the field of nonlinear optics.
Band-Aid Focuses On Brand Equity In New #CoveringIsCaring Effort
Adhesive brands for wounds and abrasions are about product attributes. But Band-Aid, like Kleenex or even Xerox, has so much brand equity that for most people it pretty much has become the name for the category, which is kind of a curse.
Congressional Republicans Remain Split Over Plans For King V. Burwell Decision Fallout
SOURCE: Kaiser Health News » Insurance – Read entire story here.
Hospital drill involves simulated medical helicopter crash
Southern New Hampshire Medical Center is conducting an emergency drill involving a simulated medical helicopter crash atop the hospital’s parking garage. The Telegraph of Nashua reports the test including teams from the city of Nashua and the hospital on Friday morning involves a scenario in which a Boston Med Flight copter has engine trouble during a hospital transfer, and crashes on the helipad.
Students reveal gratitude to those who donate bodies to science
It was during an anatomy class as student Rachel Tymianski dissected a dead body that she discovered a gift no would-be surgeon should be without – steady hands.
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Enters Into Research Collaboration to…
Peregrine Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical company focused on advancing bavituximab, a novel immuno-oncology agent in Phase III development for the treatment of lung cancer, today announced that the company has entered into a sponsored research agreement with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center to explore the potential of Peregrine’s proprietary phosphatidylserine -targeting antibody platform. The goal of the research is to identify effective treatment combinations based on Peregrine’s PS-targeting agents, including Peregrine’s lead clinical agent bavituximab, with other checkpoint inhibitors or immune stimulating agents that will further guide the bavituximab clinical development program.
CCIIO lets insurers exclude some producer comp from MLR calculations
An official also talks about whether premium tax credit users can get MLR rebates.