A simpler technique for testing public drinking water samples for the presence of the radioactive element radium can dramatically reduce the amount of time required to conduct the sampling required by federal regulations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved use of the new testing method. [click link for full article]
About 45 million U.S. residents lack health insurance, but the “rest of us with health coverage are also uninsured” because those with coverage face “terrible, albeit more remote, health care risks,” columnist Laurence Kotlikoff writes in a Boston Globe opinion piece. [click link for full article]
Isabel Healthcare, Inc. has announced that University of Virginia Hospital is using the Isabel’s diagnosis decision support and knowledge mobilizing system to improve patient care by attempting to help minimize diagnostic errors. It is the state’s first medical center to provide physicians with access to Isabel, a Web-based system proven to improve the quality of diagnosis at the point of care. [click link for full article]
Presidential candidates Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Tuesday during the second day of a cancer forum in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, discussed issues related to the disease and health care, the Denver Post reports (Denver Post, 8/28). [click link for full article]
1. Mind Bomb 1 and Neuronal MorphogenesisEun-Ah Choe, Lujian Liao, Jian-Ying Zhou, Dongmei Cheng, Duc M. Duong, Peng Jin, Li-Huei Tsai, and Junmin PengIn this week’s Journal, Choe et al. used proteomics to identify molecular regulators of neuronal morphogenesis. They detected a ubiquitin ligase mind bomb 1 (Mib1) in the postsynaptic density. [click link for full article]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and Human Rights Watch in a letter sent on Monday to the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General called on the department to investigate the death of an HIV-positive inmate at a San Pedro, Calif., immigration detention center, the Los Angeles Times reports. [click link for full article]
To orient ourselves, we mainly need two pieces of information: where am I and in which direction am I heading? Experiments in the rat have shown that these types of information are directly accessible and independently coded in the brain. When the rat explores a new territory, so-called place cells and head direction cells form within only a few minutes. [click link for full article]
A growing number of health clinics owned by nurses with advanced training are opening in rural areas of Missouri, the AP/St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. According to the AP/Post-Dispatch, nurse-owned clinics in Missouri are replacing the “country doctor” in rural areas for people seeking treatment of minor health ailments, such as sore throats, ear infections and sprained ankles. [click link for full article]
Mothers who cradle their baby to their right hand side are displaying signs of extreme stress, a new study suggests.Although most mums feel stressed in the early stages of their baby’s life, the study by Durham University researchers suggests their baby cradling habits are a key indicator of whether this stress could become overwhelming and lead to depression. [click link for full article]
While other countries have dedicated “decades to the study of child and adolescent caregivers” resulting “in a network of support services and advocacy groups,” the U.S. has focused more on care for the elderly than on the caregivers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. At least 1. [click link for full article]