The “continuing reluctance” of some Connecticut hospitals to provide emergency contraception to rape survivors has prompted some women’s advocates to call on the state Legislature to pass legislation (SB 685) that would require all hospitals to provide EC as part of rape examinations, the [click link for full article]
Op-Eds Address Congressional Efforts On Medicare, Stem Cell Research
Two newspapers on Sunday featured opinion pieces on efforts by the 110th Congress related to Medicare and other issues. Summaries appear below.David Brooks, New York Times: “It’s time to render judgments on the substance of all this legislation coursing through the Democratic Congress,” such as legislation that would require the [click link for full article]
Fluid In The Ear Does Not Impair Development In Children, Pittsburgh Ear Study Finds
Early insertion of ear tubes in otherwise healthy infants and young children with persistent fluid in the middle ear does not improve developmental outcomes up to 9 to 11 years of age, according to results of an important study at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC led by otitis media researcher Jack Paradise, MD.These findings strongly suggest that no intervention is necessary for most children with fluid in their ears. [click link for full article]
Ventana Announces FDA Approval Of Antibody To Assess Whether Breast Cancer Patients Should Be Treated With Herceptin
Ventana Medical Systems announced Wednesday it has received FDA approval for an antibody to aid in assessing whether breast cancer patients should be treated with [click link for full article]
Common Causes of a Cough
Do you have a cough that won’t go away? You’re not alone! Cough is the most common symptom for which people see the doctor. Many people will have a cough…
U.S. Supreme Court To Expedite Review Of Ruling Over Wisconsin Antiabortion Group’s Appeal Of Campaign Finance Law
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday announced that it will expedite a review of a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ three-judge panel ruling in favor of a Wisconsin antiabortion group’s constitutional challenge to the McCain-Feingold federal campaign finance law, the [click link for full article]
New Quartz References For Workplace Safety
Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new set of reference materials that could contribute to significant improvements in workplace safety through more accurate measurement of the amount of quartz dust in the air.Crystalline silica or quartz is one of the most common minerals on Earth. When finely powdered silica gets in the air it becomes a significant health hazard. [click link for full article]
Antihypertensive Drugs That Facilitate And/or Prevent Diabetes Identified By Rush Researchers
Patients with high blood pressure are more likely to develop new-onset diabetes than those who don’t have hypertension, but this tendency is often attributed to higher weight, recent weight gain, or stronger family history of diabetes among those with high blood pressure Doctors have known since 1958 that some drugs used to control high blood pressure have the side effect of increasing blood sugar and causing new-onset diabetes. [click link for full article]
Novel Computed Imaging Technique Uses Blurry Images To Enhance View
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel computational image-forming technique for optical microscopy that can produce crisp, three-dimensional images from blurry, out-of-focus data.Called Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Microscopy, ISAM can do for optical microscopy what magnetic resonance imaging did for nuclear magnetic resonance, and what computed tomography did for X-ray imaging, the scientists say. [click link for full article]
