August 31, 2010, 3:00 am
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked the federal judge who halted federal funding for embryonic stem cell research to lift his injunction while it appeals the ruling.
That ruling roiled researchers around the nation and locally, who had won federal grants for research. They weren’t sure if they could touch experiments in their labs aimed at finding treatments for many kinds of disease.
The Obama administration had allowed many more stem cell lines to be used for research than the Bush administration. But the ruling last week by Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia potentially put all of the lines off limits. He
Read the full article…
August 30, 2010, 2:24 pm
Exercise is fun for the young who are in good health. Physical fitness for them is easy and effortless. Becoming physically fit can be a difficult and punishing task when one is out of shape. The key to physical fitness for the out-of-shape individuals is to approach exercise and work-outs very gradually.
Physical Fitness Requires Time and Patience
To achieve fitness one must compensate with patience what he/she lacks in physical stamina. If one proceeds too quickly or too impatiently, then exercise can become “a cruel and an unusual punishment”. Chances of of failure would then rise. It
Read the full article…
August 28, 2010, 1:34 pm
The government team responsible for all those statistics about Americans’ health and eating habits are in Baltimore for the next several weeks collecting data – but officials say the turnout has been below average so far.
The CDC’s 50-year-old National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey randomly selected the city as one of 15 it will visit this year and sent out notices to hundreds of residents also chosen randomly. Officials want about 370 of them to come for comprehensive testing and surveying in their four-trailer clinic set up Harbor East.
Participants get thousands of dollars worth of tests taken and interpreted by doctors, so people can learn, for example, if they have asthma, diabetes, brittle bones and bad teeth. They a
Read the full article…
August 26, 2010, 7:42 pm
Need an X-ray or stitches?
Online, via text message or flashing on a billboard, some emergency rooms are advertising how long the dreaded wait for care will be, with estimates updated every few minutes. It’s a marketing move aimed at less urgent patients, not the true emergencies that automatically go to the front of the line anyway and shouldn’t waste precious minutes checking the wait.
“If you’re in a car accident, you’re not going to flip open your iPhone and see what the wait times are,” cautions Dr. Sandra Schneider, president-elect of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Advertisement
The Detroit Medical Center is among the few major health systems in Metro Detroit to embrace the approach.
Read the full article…
