Category Archives: Future Medicine

Future doctors talk policy

Students sample suturing, politicsSource:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=future+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Unused medicine a toxic dilemma

A bill to create a disposal program for prescription drugs could help prevent abuse and accidental poisoning.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=future+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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M.D. or no M.D.? — Clinic president trumpets liberal arts [not med school] as the future of medicine

Chris Behling, an Albion native, shed a new light on the old struggle between science and the humanities Tuesday. In his hour-long presentation given before administrators, faculty, staff and students, Behling’s thesis was that a liberal arts education is the silver bullet of modern medical science. Continue reading

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The Pet Corner: Behold! The future of modern medicine is here

Do you remember when we used to think some things were impossible? Modern technology has taught us to never say never or impossible. I think about the 1970s and 1980s growing up without cell phones, computers and many of the electronically advanced gadgets that our kids today take for granted. Continue reading

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Five Colleges of Veterinary Medicine Form Regional Consortium

Inaugural Meeting, Facilitated by Pfizer Animal Health, Offers Collaboration on Advancement of Initiatives Pivotal to Development of the Veterinary Profession Madison, N.J. (PRWEB) February 02, 2012 Five prominent Colleges of Veterinary Medicine located in the Western U.S. recently convened to create the Consortium of Western Regional Colleges of Veterinary Medicine. Continue reading

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Rehabmart.com Joins Forces with DeRoyal to Offer Healthcare Products to Professionals and Patients

DeRoyal has, and continues to influence and shape the future of medicine with their state-of-the-art development of surgical and acute care products, orthopedics and patient care products and wound care products. Continue reading

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NANOYOU PART 5 – The Nano Future – Video


03-02-2010 09:27 “Nano Future” is the fifth part of the NANOYOU film, an introduction to the strange new world of Nanoscience, narrated by Stephen Fry. This film is non-commercial and funded by the EC from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement No: CSA-SA 233433 for the NANOYOU project – www.nanoyou.eu – an education portal about all things nano. This film was produced as a resource for young people, teachers and anyone interested to get a quick introduction to Nanoscience Continue reading

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Prana Comments on Nature Medicine, PNAS and Journal of Alzheimer's Disease Articles That Highlight the Role of Metals …

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA–(Marketwire -02/02/12)- Prana Biotechnology (NASDAQ: PRAN – News) (ASX: PBT.AX – News) today commented on three recent high profile scientific journal articles that the company believes provide support for Prana's therapeutic strategy for treating neurodegenerative disease. Professor Rudy Tanzi, the Joseph P Continue reading

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New study building framework to bring personalized medicine to the clinic

TORONTO, Feb. 2, 2012 /CNW/ – Dr. Tom Hudson, President and Scientific Director of The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR), today announced a new study to develop a framework for the implementation of personalized medicine in cancer care Continue reading

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Roche looks to personal future

Feb 1, 2012 – 21:24 Image Caption: DNA sequencing can reveal if a person is susceptible to certain types of disease (Keystone) by Scott Capper, swissinfo.ch Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche, with over SFr9.5 billion ($10.35 billion) in profits for 2011, is looking to secure its future and betting on personalised medicine in the process. Last week, the Basel-based firm made an offer worth $5.7 billion for Illumina, a San Diego company that makes machines which help decode DNA at lower cost Continue reading

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Study Published In Genetics In Medicine Demonstrates Sequenom CMM MaterniT21 Test Accurately Detects Two Additional …

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM – News), a life sciences company providing innovative genetic analysis solutions, today announced that a new publication of an independent multi-center study on Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine's MaterniT21™ laboratory-developed test (LDT) appears today in the online issue of Genetics in Medicine. The study demonstrated the LDT can detect fetal trisomy 21, 18 and 13 with high accuracy from a maternal blood sample and will be published in the March issue. Continue reading

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MIT Sloan BioInnovations Conference to Spotlight New Trends in Entrepreneurship, Financing, Personalized Medicine and …

What type of healthcare financing and business models nurture entrepreneurship? Which novel approaches are enabling innovation? What does the future hold for personalized medicine? Continue reading

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Store-A-Tooth Dental Stem Cell Banking Featured at Yankee Dental Congress 2012

Store-A-Tooth™, a service of Provia Labs, made its debut at the 2012 Yankee Dental Congress, held January 26-28 in Boston. Store-A-Tooth is partnering with dentists throughout New England to offer the highest quality in dental stem cell banking to their patients, enabling parents to preserve the stem cells from their children’s teeth for future therapies in regenerative medicine and dentistry … Continue reading

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Skin Cells as Stem Cells! Medicine's Next Big Thing

SAN FRANCISCO, CA ( Ivanhoe Newswire) — Stem cells, they could hold the key to the treatment and cure of more than 70 major diseases and conditions. A science  lab is taking stem cell technology another step into the future.From broken hearts … Continue reading

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Statement – Rx&D Applauds Government of Canada for Investing in Personalized Medicine

OTTAWA , Feb. 1, 2012 /CNW/ – The following is a statement by Russell Williams , President of Canada's Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D) on the announcement by the Government of Canada today to ensure that personalized medicine will allow for more effective treatments, thus supporting our Canadian health care system in a more sustainable way. Continue reading

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China Health Resource Announces Professor Liang Li, World Renowned TCM Expert, to Lead Gastrodia Deep Processing …

SHANGHAI, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ — China Health Resource, Inc. (OTCBB: CHRI.OB – News), announced today that world renowned Traditional Chinese Medicine expert, Professor Liang Li, has been engaged to … Continue reading

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Dr. Andrew Weil’s Vision for the Future of Integrative Medicine – Video


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Stem-cell agency faces budget dilemma

Halfway through its initial ten-year mandate, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in San Francisco is confronting a topic familiar to anyone at middle age: its own mortality. The publicly funded institute, one of the world’s largest supporters of stem-cell research, was born from a state referendum in 2004. Continue reading

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Here's what your health care future holds

The first expert you ask for medical advice in 2025 may not be your doctor. Instead, perhaps you'll consult your health avatar, a digital assistant that knows your entire health history and makes Continue reading

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Is ultrasound the future of male contraception?

Using commercially-available ultrasound technology, scientists have successfully reduced sperm count in rats to a level that would cause infertility in men. Continue reading

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