BENEDICT CAREY
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NYT
At the end of his career, Dr. Robert L. Spitzer has reached a painful conclusion: “I believe,” he wrote in a letter, “I owe the gay community an apology.”
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L.A. Times
Are raspberry ketones a 'miracle' fat burner? Dr. Oz weighs in.
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Sales took off after the supplement was touted on 'The Dr. Oz Show.' But does it really work? Until recently, very few people had ever heard of raspberry ketones, the aromatic compounds that give the berries their distinctive smell. Today, health food stores have trouble keeping the capsules or drops of the stuff on their shelves. Almost overnight,
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Environmentalists in Los Angeles say they have a new approach to cleaning up some of the most polluted neighborhoods. The new plan calls for special zoning, would limit pollution, and prioritize funding for small industries to purchase cleaner equipment. As Ingrid Lobet reports, the pilot project aligns environmental interests with those of local ...
CAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight major economies raised the pressure on Iran on Saturday, signaling their readiness to tap into emergency oil stockpiles quickly this summer if tougher new sanctions on Tehran threaten to strain supplies.
(Reuters) - Google said on Saturday that Chinese authorities have approved its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings, the last regulatory hurdle to a deal that would allow the world's No. 1 Internet search engine to develop its own line of smart phones.
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - Investing a little time and effort when preparing for your next trip can pay big dividends when it comes to safety and convenience.
(HealthNewsDigest.com) - The Gulf of Mexico may be open for business and eager to attract tourists, but it’s still unclear whether or not marine and coastal ecosystems there are healthy two years after BP’s offshore drilling rig exploded 40 miles off the Louisiana coast, eventually releasing 205.8 million gallons of oil into the water column.
I was recently appointed the Assistant Director of the Yale Cancer Center with the portfolio of Diversity/Disparities. While I’m not sure I’m the most qualified for this, it has gotten me thinking a lot about diversity, disparities, and what it means to achieve health equity. Too often, I think, we are plagued by narrow thinking [...]
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The National Institutes of Health unveiled its new Alzheimer's prevention plan, and an FDA panel endorsed the first-ever entirely at-home HIV test.
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Gene Ostrovsky
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Medgadget
NIH Director Francis Collins on Speeding Up Arrival of New Disease Treatments
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Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, spoke at the last TEDMED about the challenges of converting fundamental research into practical therapeutics. In addition to proposing new approaches like repurposing of drugs and using manufactured human tissue for testing new compounds, he spoke on stage with a 15-year-old boy ...
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Angela Gonzales
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Health Care News
Arizona State University students who receive their health services at ASU’s clinics will now have access to Mayo Clinic expertise. ASU Health Services will join the Mayo Clinic Care Network that allows ASU to tap into Mayo Clinic’s services and tools, including AskMayoExpert, a tool that provides disease management and treatment ...
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Environmentalists battling Canadian oil companies over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline to the Gulf Coast and another link west to Asia are now girding for what they see as industry's Plan C: Move heavy crude to the East.
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Science
Pipeline Flip Turns U.S. Oil World 'Upside Down'
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An oil boom in the American heartland has created an oil glut in the middle of the country. Now, a pipeline that has been pumping crude oil from Texas to the Midwest will reverse its flow, reducing the bottleneck — and potentially creating winners and losers at the pump.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's decision to redefine the "action level" for lead exposure in kids has renewed some parents' concerns about the best ways to protect their children.
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Press Release
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CDC Announces First Ever National Hepatitis Testing Day and Proposes that All Baby Boomers Be Tested Once for Hepatitis C On the eve of the first ever National Hepatitis Testing Day (May 19), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is issuing draft guidelines proposing that all U.S. baby boomers get a one-time test for the hepatitis C virus.
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The size of a baby's head is often related to neurological disorders, such as autism - which affects 1 in 88 children. Now, researchers at Duke University Medical Center have identified genes responsible for head size at birth by inserting human genes into zebrafish. The study is published online in the journal Nature. Nicholas Katsanis, Ph.D., ...
Our brains are not the only places where we can store memories. Each time a new pathogen invades our bodies, our immune cells have an opportunity to recognize it by some feature, usually some distinctive cleft or spike of a protein on its surface. After our bodies defeat the infection, some immune cells are tasked with keeping the memory of that ...
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With NASA's help, SpaceX is trying to send the first commercial spaceship to the International Space Station. The launch was aborted Saturday morning, but there will be another opportunity on Tuesday. Host Scott Simon speaks with NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce.
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As West Virginia political leaders prepare for another round of attacks on the Obama administration's coal policies, state data show the number of mining jobs is at its highest level in nearly 20 years.
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Finestkind Clinic and fish market
Stories below the fold
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Sorry to post stories on weekends, when I usually post humor, but some of these stories are important and seem to be dumped on a weekend so no one will notice it. Most of them seem to have a "religion ghost" to use a phrase from GetReligion blog. ----------------------------- Egypt's election seems to be about religion, but the ordinary folks are ...
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How do you define a “good” doc? I was reading the patient responses to an article here on KevinMD.com and was saddened by how many of the patients were angry with their docs. Anger is an unhealthy emotion! One of the respondents was particularly angry about the “unnecessary” tests her doc performed on her and [...]
Results of a 14-year study conclude that coffee-drinkers live longer than people who don't partake. Jeff Glor and Rebecca Jarvis spoke with author Robert Davis, Ph.D. for more.
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ATHENS: The two main figures in what promises to be Greece's most electric election in living memory are on a collision course, with one predicting ''hell'' if Athens adheres to EU-mandated austerity and the other forecasting a ''nightmare'' if the nation abandons reforms and gives up the euro.
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Two lab-made versions of the lethal H5N1 virus prompt a biosecurity blowup, pitting the benefits of sharing scientific data against the hazards that might come if the information were to fall into the wrong hands.Dan Page
WASHINGTON — A federal proposal to ban the construction of coal-fired power plants that release all of their carbon dioxide into the atmosphere would seem to smooth the way for carbon capture, a budding technology that traps the greenhouse gas for storage or other uses.
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