Category Archives: Future Medicine

Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Bowles-Simpson Medicine Show Is Back in Town

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Cracking Your Genetic Code raises bioethics issues

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Syneron to Highlight New Opportunities & Trends in the Dynamic Body Shaping Market at the 2012 Anti-Aging Medicine …

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Get a glimpse into medicine’s future during Yale’s interactive simulcast of TEDMEDLive

Yale School of Medicine will host TEDMEDLive, a simulcast of the three-and-a-half day TEDMED conference in Washington, D.C., in April. A live stream of the event will be shown April 1012 in Harkness Lounge, 367 Cedar St., and April 13 in Harkness Auditorium, 333 Cedar St. This years TEDMED is a grand gathering of 1,300 adventurous thinkers and doers, from 300 medical and nonmedical disciplines, say the organizers Continue reading

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Society of Interventional Radiology Honors Gold Medalists for Advancing Specialty

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Innovation key to future of healthcare

NICK KRAUSE Internet savvy patients, fierce pharmaceutical competition and higher expectations of medical success have changed the face of the healthcare industry, biotech conference delegates heard today. Speaking to the NZBio conference in Auckland, Dr Jeffrey Nye said the industry had to respond with greater innovation. “You need a product which has a very highly innovative technology, so highly innovative that it would be a surprise if it worked.” Nye, global head of external innovation for neuroscience with Janssen Research & Development in the United States, said the internet and the “information explosion” were challenging the industry to adapt. Continue reading

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Cannabis Science Reports Its First Documentary Release Date of April 5, 2012 “CHRONIC FUTURE – KILLING CANCER” A …

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USA Match Day opens doors

Monday, 26 March 2012 20:25 From classrooms to white coats: What the future holds On March 16, 2012, at the Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel in Mobile, senior medical students at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine found out this years Match Day results. Continue reading

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TEDMED 2012 Conference Announces Final Speaker Line Up Featuring Otis Brawley/American Cancer Society; Larry Brilliant …

WASHINGTON, March 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — TEDMED, www.TEDMED.com, the annual multi-disciplinary gathering where leaders of all sectors of society come together to explore the promise of technology and potential of human achievement in health and medicine announced its final speaker roster. The TEDMED 2012 conference speaker roster includes more than 60 preeminent leaders in health, medicine, science, technology, business, government, academia, media and the arts. Continue reading

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Annual meeting shines light on 'Golden Age of Medicine'

The Massachusetts Biotechnology Councils two-day annual meeting this week will attract some top names in life sciences to discuss the fields future in the Bay State. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, which funds several top Massachusetts institutions, will give the opening keynote address today at the Royal Sonesta in Cambridge. Tomorrow, Stephen Spielberg, the Food and Drug Administrations deputy commissioner for medical products and tobacco, will give the closing address Continue reading

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Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine Opens First Integrative Cancer Centre in Eastern Canada

The Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre is a not-for-profit cancer care and research center delivering whole-person cancer care and scientifically grounded, evidence-informed complementary medicine OTTAWA, March 26, 2012 /CNW/ – The Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre (OICC) has opened its doors to provide multi-disciplinary complementary medicine and whole-person care for people with cancer, and to those wanting to prevent cancer or its recurrence. Continue reading

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The present and future of the Affordable Care Act

Public release date: 26-Mar-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Jacquelyn Blaser jblaser@acponline.org 202-261-4572 American College of Physicians Washington The American College of Physicians (ACP), representing 132,000 internal medicine specialists and medical student members, is pleased to report that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has resulted in major improvements in access and coverage for tens of millions of Americans seen by internal medicine physicians. Considering that it is just a little over two years since the ACA was enacted into law, and many of its programs are not yet fully effective, the ACA has had notable success in improving health insurance coverage. Continue reading

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BG Medicine, Inc. Announces Important New Galectin-3 Findings Presented at American College of Cardiology's (ACC) 61st …

WALTHAM, Mass., March 26, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — BG Medicine, Inc. (Nasdaq:BGMD – News), a company focused on the development and commercialization of novel cardiovascular diagnostics, announced today the results of several new studies related to the galectin-3 protein. BG Medicine markets a blood test for galectin-3 called the BGM Galectin-3 test for heart failure, which was cleared by the FDA in 2010 and obtained the CE mark for commercialization in the EU. Continue reading

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Susan Herbst: UConn's Role in Shaping the Future of Medicine

"Personalized medicine" is opening the door to a whole new world of medical care — one that would offer a tailor-made approach to treating and preventing health problems in individual patients.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=future+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Ethics questions posed by 'precision medicine' are weighty, speaker tells HSU forum

The day may come when some diseases are greatly diminished or even eliminated through genetic testing before people are even conceived — that's the good news.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=future+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Page High implements a sports medicine program for future athletic trainers

PAGE — Page High School announced its new sports medicine program just in time for National Athletic Trainer Month. The National Athletic Trainers’ Association designated March, 2012 to recognizing and appreciating athletic trainers.Source:http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/rss?p=future+medicine&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&x=wrt

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Family Medicine Residency at SFGH: Past, Present and Future

Family practice is impossible. Thats what pediatrician Don Fink, MD, heard when he and an intrepid group of UCSF faculty set out to create a new family medicine residency program. Good thing this was not a crew who listened to conventional wisdom the UCSF Family and Community Medicine Residency Program at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (SFGH) celebrates its 40th anniversary in March 2012. Continue reading

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Scientists Make A Discovery That May Change The Future Of Cardiovascular Medicine

Scientists have developed a simple blood test that may be able to predict whether a person is at high risk of suffering from a heart attack two weeks in advance,Medical News Today reports. The test came as a result of a study,publishedin the journalScience Translational Medicine, that measured circulating endothelial cells (CECs) in50 patients who went to emergency rooms with heart attacks and 44 healthy volunteers. Endothelial cells form the lining of the inside of blood vessels Continue reading

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Susan Herbst: UConn's Role in Shaping the Future of Medicine

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Ethics questions posed by 'precision medicine' are weighty, speaker tells HSU forum

What: Honors Forum on Faith and Intellect; topic is bioethics When: Noon to 1 p.m. today Where: Hardin-Simmons University, in the multipurpose room of the Johnson Building. Keynote speaker: Dr Continue reading

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