DNA: the Future of Digital Data Archiving
Researchers from the European Bioinformatics Institute have successfully stored 739 kilobytes of digital data – the most yet – in a short string of DNA. (Source: Highlight HEALTH)
Source: Highlight HEALTH - March 13, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Shula Pollard, Ph.D. Source Type: blogs
Ambitious Project Seeks to Map Brain Activity
A new project to map the active human brain may eventually lead to an understanding of human perception and consciousness, as well as therapies for a many neurological disorders. (Source: Highlight HEALTH)
Source: Highlight HEALTH - March 13, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Shula Pollard, Ph.D. Source Type: blogs
Time to Cleanse | Cleansing and Detoxing Resources
A website dedicated to helping people remove harmful environmental toxins and impurities, and enjoy premium health using safe, natural and effective cleansing programs. Additional resources can be found in the Environmental Health category of the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory. (Source: Highlight HEALTH)
Source: Highlight HEALTH - March 12, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Ayasdi Uses Big Data To Fight Cancer
A new startup called Ayasdi uses a mathematical technique called topological data analysis to find unexpected insights in massive amounts of data for several industries, including pharmaceuticals and healthcare. (Source: Highlight HEALTH)
Source: Highlight HEALTH - March 6, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Walter Jessen, Ph.D. Source Type: blogs
Rare Disease Day 2013: Rare Disorders Without Borders
Today is the sixth annual Rare Disease Day, an international advocacy day held on the last day of February — a rare day for rare people. On this day, millions of patients and their families from more than 60 countries and regions around the world will share their story to promote awareness of the challenges of living with a rare disease and bring widespread recognition of rare diseases as a global health challenge. This year’s slogan is “Rare Disorders without Borders”, which emphasizes the need for international cooperation.
Reaching out across borders
In the United States, a rare disease is any ...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - February 28, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Walter Jessen, Ph.D. Source Type: blogs
Older Brains Get Too Full for New Information
According to new research, learning becomes more difficult as we get older because our brains get too full for new information. This may be due, in part, to finding that with advanced age we get less sleep during the stage in which we don’t dream. Both studies are reported in the prestigious Nature family of journals.
As brains age they undergo many changes at both the structural and molecular levels. It has therefore been difficult to tease apart which normal biological changes are responsible for certain cognitive changes that accompany aging. Two recent studies have examined long-term memory formation, retentio...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - February 26, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Diana Gitig, Ph.D. Source Type: blogs
Trade Group Study: Hundreds of Rare Disease Drugs in Development
According to a new report released last month by the trade group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the biopharmaceutical pipeline is innovative and robust, with a high percentage of potential first-in-class medicines (meaning a new treatment where nothing currently exists) targeting diseases with limited treatment options. In addition to identifying medicines in development for conditions and diseases such as septic shock, ovarian cancer, sickle cell disease, and Lou Gehrig’s disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), which haven’t had any new product approvals in the last ten ye...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - February 21, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Walter Jessen, Ph.D. Source Type: blogs
FDA Approves Second Sight’s “Bionic Eye”
For patients who have lost their vision due to degenerative retinal disease, the dream of seeing again might just be a reality. After a unanimous recommendation for approval by the Ophthalmic Devices Advisory Panel in September 2012, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has now officially approved Second Sight’s Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, aka “the bionic eye” [1].
In a healthy eye, the photoreceptors (rods and cones) in the retina of the eye convert light to electrical signals that then travel via the optic nerve to the visual cortex in the brain. Argus II is indicated for patients with a con...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - February 19, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Shula Pollard, Ph.D. Source Type: blogs
Medical Collection Agency Services
AR Trader is a Collection Agency Marketplace. List your account receivable portfolio in 5 minutes, then evaluate your offers from professional medical collection agencies accross the nation....
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Source: Highlight HEALTH - February 14, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
2012: Banner Year for New Drugs
Fueled by new cancer therapeutics, last year the annual new molecular and biological entity approval count from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) saw its highest year since 1997. One-third of the novel products approved by the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) are used to treat cancers of the blood, breast, colon, prostate, skin and thyroid.
As part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) promotes and protects the health of Americans by assuring that all prescription and over-the-counter drugs are safe and effective. The CDE...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - February 13, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Walter Jessen, Ph.D. Source Type: blogs
Clear Brackets
Damon Clear combines the look and comfort image-conscious patients demand with the strength and functionality discriminating clinicians need.
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Source: Highlight HEALTH - February 1, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
Some Children Lose Symptoms, Diagnosis of Autism
This study cannot provide information on what percentage of children diagnosed with ASD might eventually lose the symptoms. Study investigators have collected a variety of information on the children, including structural and functional brain imaging data, psychiatric outcomes, and information on the therapies that the children received. Analysis of those data, which will be reported in subsequent papers, may shed light on questions such as whether the changes in diagnosis resulted from a normalizing of brain function, or if these children’s brains were able to compensate for autism-related difficulties. The verbal I...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - January 31, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: NIH Newsbot Source Type: blogs
Study Identifies Itch-specific Nerves
Scientists have been looking for itch-specific nerves for decades. New research from investigators at Johns Hopkins University and Yale University in the United States and several universities in China has identified sensory neurons in mice that are dedicated to relaying itchy sensations from the top layers of skin to the spinal cord [1].
In 1835, Johannes Peter Müller proposed the law of specific nerve energies. It stated that everything we feel and experience relies on the stimulation of particular neuronal pathways — and thus that the actual, external stimulus is irrelevant. He wrote:
The same cause, such as e...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - January 29, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Diana Gitig, Ph.D. Source Type: blogs
Mobile Health by the Numbers
Take a look at your smartphone and quickly count how many health-related apps you have. One in five reading this have at least one health app, and that number is growing quickly.
In 2010, the Pew Research Center reported that “the online health-information environment is going mobile” [1]. In 2010, 17% of cell phone users reported using their phones to look up health or medical information and 9% had apps on their phones that helped them track or manage their health. Flash forward to 2012 and those numbers have doubled. In 2012, 31% of cell phone owners reported using their phones to look for health information...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - January 23, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Walter Jessen, Ph.D. Source Type: blogs
CoreCare Back Institute
Complete chiropractic services including manipulation and massage. Serving Danville, Roanoke & Rocky Mount, Virginia. Additional resources can be found in the Hospitals & Medical Centers category of the Highlight HEALTH Web Directory. (Source: Highlight HEALTH)
Source: Highlight HEALTH - January 17, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Source Type: blogs
