Rethink

The Time To Rethink Male Circumcision Is Now, Group Says In Launching www.intactamerica.org

REMOVAL OF HEALTHY FUNCTIONING TISSUE VIOLATES MEDICAL ETHICS, HUMAN RIGHTS OF BABY BOYS WHO CANNOT GIVE INFORMED CONSENT NEW YORK, June 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Parents, pediatricians and health and human rights activists today announced the launch of INTACT AMERICA and its website -- ...

Medical Experts Call on Media to Rethink Coverage of Weight Loss

Modest weight loss yields significant health benefits NEW YORK, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Reality Coalition -- a group of experts on overweight and obesity -- today issued a call to action for the media to reevaluate the way they report on weight loss. This action comes as the resul...

Surgeons Rethink Approach to Minimal Incision Foot and Ankle Surgery

Patients reap multiple benefits, but surgeons rethinking one-size-fits-all approach LONG BEACH, Calif., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Many patients who undergo foot and ankle surgery are recovering faster and with smaller surgical scars, thanks to new minimal incision techniques and t...

Landmark Study Prompts Rethink of Genetic Code

The most detailed probe yet into the workings of the human genome has led scientists to conclude that a cornerstone concept about the chemical code for life is badly flawed. The ground-breaking study, published in more than two dozen papers in journals on both sides of the Atlantic, takes a small ...

Researchers Urge Regulators to Rethink Strategies for Soot Emission

Carnegie Mellon University researchers say government officials need to adopt new ways of measuring and regulating the fine particles of smoke and soot so endemic// to serious health problems and the global warming crisis. In a March 2 article published in the journal Science, professors All...

Health Watchdog Advises a Rethink on NHS Cancer Services

The health watchdog, the King's Fund advises that in view of the recent developments in technology and the ageing population the national strategy for cancer services should// be revised. This change in track was part of the King’s Fund report that was commissioned by charity Cancer Research U...

Healthcare Professionals Might Want To Rethink Their Dress Code

A new study shows nearly half the neckties worn by medical staff carry disease-causing bacteria. Researchers sampled the neckties of physicians, // physician assistants, medical students and security personnel at a teaching hospital. Their data confirmed that nearly 50 percent of the neckties worn ...

Chinese Surname Shortage Sparks Rethink

With more than a billion people now sharing just 100 surnames, Chinese authorities are considering a landmark move to try to end the confusion, state media reported Tuesday . Current Chinese law states that children are only allowed take the surname from either their mother or father, but the lack ...

New Research Suggests Most Are Willing to Make Tradeoffs and Would Embrace Comprehensive Health Care Reform

...ent. Consider the implications of the economic downturn. The economic downturn seems to make people more willing to consider hard choices and rethink expectations. At the same time, the abuses of public trust uncovered by the financial collapse have added to public skepticism and cynicism. The repor...

FDA Approves INVEGA(R) SUSTENNA(TM) for the Acute and Maintenance Treatment of Schizophrenia

...s, somnolence/sedation, dizziness, akathisia and extrapyramidal disorder. "INVEGA SUSTENNA provides healthcare professionals the opportunity to rethink their overall approach to how they treat schizophrenia by using long-acting therapies," said Husseini Manji, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., Global Therapeutic Area...

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Rethink in Medical Technology

Video: FDA Approves INVEGA(R) SUSTENNA(TM) for the Acute and Maintenance Treatment of Schizophrenia

...ence/sedation, dizziness, akathisia and extrapyramidal disorder. "INVEGA(R) SUSTENNA(TM) provides healthcare professionals the opportunity to rethink their overall approach to how they treat schizophrenia by using long-acting therapies," said Husseini Manji, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., Global Therapeutic Area...

From Clinical Cancer Research: Rethinking Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

...mor Immunology and Biology at the National Cancer Institute. “The data suggests that the scientific community and regulatory committees ought to rethink the design of clinical vaccine trials and our current approach to measuring the effectiveness of a cancer vaccine.” According to the resear...

Rethink in Biological News

Reprogramming human cells without inserting genes

...said Tanja Dominko, DVM, PhD, associate professor of biology and biotechnology at WPI and president of CellThera. "Not only does this data force us to rethink what the true markers of pluripotency may be, it suggests there is a natural mechanism at work in these cells regulating the stem cell gene expression...

Wood stoves -- a viable home heat source?

... MADISON, WI -- JULY 14, 2009 -- The stress of rising natural gas prices is leading many consumers to rethink how they heat their homes. For some this means moving towards modern alternative energy options, while others have been turning to a more traditional...

Growing Demand for Rapid Screening and Detection Systems Pushes the European Maritime Security Market, Finds Frost & Sullivan

...stems in the maritime industry. "The spiralling incidence of terrorists entering countries through sea routes has compelled governments to have a rethink on maritime security," notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Mohan Kumar V V. "Government spending on maritime security is poised to rise, creat...

Experts lay to rest long-held misconceptions about high fructose corn syrup at ILSI-USDA workshop

... of Nutrition encourages the scientific community and the general public to stop demonizing high fructose corn syrup as the culprit of obesity and to rethink the myths about high fructose corn syrup's impact on the American diet. "The State of the Science on Dietary Sweeteners Containing Fructose" is th...

Study reveals potential to amass more carbon in eastern North American forests

...n recovering for so long that people tend to assume their potential as carbon sinks is "maxed out," says Mladenoff. "Our results suggest we need to rethink this," he says. "Rather than there being an intrinsic limit on how much carbon a forest can store, how we use the forest how much we log, how we mana...

New nucleotide could revolutionize epigenetics

...thousands of scientific papers have focused on the role of 5-methylcytosine in development. The discovery of a new nucleotide may make biologists rethink their approaches to investigating DNA methylation. Ironically, the latest addition to the DNA vocabulary was found by chance during investigations of ...

Study reveals potential to amass more carbon in eastern North American forests

...n recovering for so long that people tend to assume their potential as carbon sinks is "maxed out," says Mladenoff. "Our results suggest we need to rethink this," he says. "Rather than there being an intrinsic limit on how much carbon a forest can store, how we use the forest how much we log, how we mana...

Researchers find chink in the armor of viral 'tummy bug'

... Mark von Itzstein said research findings published in the world-leading Chemical Biology journal Nature Chemical Biology this week demanded a total rethink of how these viruses work. "Rotaviruses are thought to infect the bodies by sticking to certain types of sugars called sialic acids on the surface ...

Tips for making a 'green' holiday from the world's largest scientific society

...POSE Those old shopping bags can make colorful and roomy gift bags! Even used newspaper comics can double as unusual wrapping paper. Be creative! rethink Consider buying organic, locally-produced foods as well as locally-made gifts to avoid energy consumption associated with shipping. Instead of mailin...

Discovery of giant roaming deep sea protist provides new perspective on animal evolution

...ibute it to a kind of large, multicellular, bilaterally symmetrical animal," says Matz, an assistant professor of integrative biology. "We now have to rethink the fossil record." The team's discovery was published online today in Current Biology and will appear in a subsequent print issue. Most anim...

Rethink in Biological Technology

New Scientific Worldview 'Biocentrism' Featured in The Huffington Post - #1 Weblog in the World

... hour. It would have blown the hair off our head, right? Once again, puzzles of science -- and a string of new scientific experiments -- are forcing a rethink of the world that goes far beyond anything people think is possible. Biocentrism explains how life is not a mere accident of physics, but rather is es...

Chromosome breakpoints contribute to genetic variation

...s that flank them. "To me, this was completely counterintuitive. I thought we would have these breakpoints in gene deserts," Lewin said. "We had to rethink the whole evolutionary hypothesis about what was going on in breakpoints." In the new study, Denis Larkin, a senior scientist on Lewin's team, comp...

Increasing Economic and Business Risks Will Transform the Global Life Sciences Industry

...development and in some cases, plummeting stock prices, have plagued the industry for the past decade, forcing life sciences companies to dramatically rethink their business models to survive in the next decade," said Robert Go, DTT Life Sciences and Health Care Industry group leader. "To thrive in the long ...

Oil palm plantations are no substitute for tropical rainforests, a new study shows

...pacts of oil palm expansion on biodiversity will be substantial," adds Phalan. This study is released as pressure mounts on UK and EU officials to rethink targets for biofuel sales. The UK's Renewable Fuels Agency revealed that more than 80 per cent of UK biofuels were not meeting even very basic environ...

Symbiotic microbes induce profound genetic changes in their hosts

...several genes typically associated with responses to bacterial infection, such as members of common immune signaling pathways, suggests we may need to rethink our understanding of the main purpose of the immune system, McFall-Ngai says. "We have thousands of bacteria that live with us, and yet there are ...

Principle of Recursive Genome Function Supersedes Dogmas; By Andras Pellionisz, Online Ahead of Print; (Scientific Visionary Vindicated)

...ins issued a mandate a year ago "the scientific community will need to rethink some long-held views". A happy few did not need to rethink either the "central dogma of molecular biology" (Crick, 1956) or ...

Michigan Life Science Network: Virtual Companies Get Global Reception

...ge of the opportunities for new business in Michigan. We originally were thinking of taking the Virtual Companies to market in April. We might want to rethink that now," said Debiak. For more information about the Michigan Life Science Network or the launch of the Virtual Companies, please contact: Michael...

Device Computing: The Wave Is Building

... or not, this transformation from enterprise desktop to individual device computing comes at a time of economic pressure that has forced businesses to rethink and reform their processes and practices. I.T. organizations, especially, have been hard-pressed to drive down cost and complexity while leveraging av...

Are U.S. Tech Jobs in Jeopardy?

...ue at an accelerated pace, but the challenge now is to leverage new developments into new tech jobs for workers here in the United States. We need to rethink Americas value add in the technology equation. We need to identify what investments should be made to build the proper infrastructure to create the en...

Institute Helps Industries Enhance Business Strategies

...g it in," says Raj Veeramani, professor of engineering and business, and director of the consortium and the new institute. "It encourages companies to rethink their business strategies, and it helps them redefine their competitive value to customers." With the aid of the Internet and collaboration tools, ...

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