Powerful World Alliance Of Health Researchers Announces Landmark Pact On Priorities In Fight Against Humanity's Most Fatal Diseases
An alliance of institutions collectively managing an estimated 80 percent of all public health research funding worldwide announced their first targets for concerted action in the fight against “chronic non-communicable diseases” (CNCDs). Source:Powerful World Alliance Of Health Researchers Announces Landmark Pact On Priorities In Fight Against Humanity's Most Fatal Diseases
Burns Patients Awaiting Skin Grafts: Human Embryonic Stem-Cells Could Be Used To Generate Temporary Skin
A study in this week’s edition of The Lancet reports that the use of human embryonic stem-cells (hESCs) is a promising alternative for producing temporary skin substitutes for patients awaiting skin grafts after, for example, serious burn injuries. The article is the work of Dr Christine Baldeschi, INSERM and Institute for Stem Cell Therapy and [...]
10 Ways To Reduce Cancer Risk
The risk of cancer can be dramatically reduced through everyday choices about diet, exercise and tobacco use, according to a Special Report on Cancer Prevention in the November issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource. Evidence suggests that one-third of the more than 560,000 cancer deaths that occur in the United States annually are related to [...]
Recent Developments At Burnham Institute For Medical Research, November 2009
New antibiotics for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other pesky bacteria. Andrei Osterman and collaborators have used comparisons of bacterial genomes to identify new targets for antibiotics and produced first-generation chemical inhibitors of a class of bacterial enzymes, called NadDs (nicotinate mononucleotide adenylyltransferases). Described in a recent article in Chemistry & Biology (Cell Press), the [...]
News From The Annals Of Family Medicine November/December 2009
Pay for Performance Reporting Costly for Primary Care Practices Responding to payer requests for quality and performance data can be costly for primary care practices, with estimated costs of implementation ranging from less than $1,000 to $11,100 per practitioner, and maintenance from less than $100 to $4,300 per year. Source:News From The Annals Of Family [...]
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