Archive for January, 2010

My daughter’s photos from Haiti

Posted on January 16, 2010 by

These were taken by my daughter Haley (c) Haley M. Newman

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Film EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES TRUE GENZYME STORY

Posted on January 16, 2010 by

The new Hollywood film EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES, starring Harrison Ford as a brilliant scientist, opens Friday and is based on a true story taking place at Genzyme Corporation in Cambridge. It is about the treatment developed for Pompe disease, a rare enzyme deficiency. Genzyme created Myozyme using in house research. Boston Globe staffer Geeta Anand wrote […]

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FBI MOST WANTED TERRORIST LIST

Posted on January 16, 2010 by

The alleged terrorists on this list have been indicted by sitting Federal Grand Juries in various jurisdictions in the United States for the crimes reflected on their wanted posters. Evidence was gathered and presented to the Grand Juries, which led to their being charged. The indictments currently listed on the posters allow them to be […]

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EARTH TO GET CLOSE SHAVE FROM NEW ASTEROID

Posted on January 16, 2010 by

An asteroid 30 to 50 feet across will pass by the Earth at just more than one-third the distance between the Earth and the moon on Wednesday. That’s the closest near-Earth object approach currently known between now and the flyby in 2024 of a similar-size object known as 2007 XB23. The new asteroid, called 2010 AL30, […]

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Sergey Brin’s Search For a Parkinson’s Cure

Posted on January 15, 2010 by

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/science-as-sear/ This WIRED article, about Sergey Brin’s use of data-mining and social networking for the advancement of medical science is really worth reading for so many reasons. It explores the interface between data mining and medicine;  the slowness of present medical research under traditional paradigms and connects social networking to medical research and more. Brin, […]

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Google: Glimmer of a Soul?

Posted on January 13, 2010 by

Following on the heels of Google’s announcement that it may pull out of China, Joe Schoendorf, a Partner at Accel Partners, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm told the New York Times “Google has Microsoft on the ropes, and China is arguably the world’s most important market outside of the U.S. You don’t walk away […]

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A Job for Predictive Analytics; increased cost for Prescription Drugs

Posted on January 12, 2010 by

The steady and significant increases in the price of medicines, which has no indication of slowing, cries out for an extrapolation of costs going forward. Statheads come forth. Between October 2008 and September 2009, the brand-named medications most commonly used by Medicare beneficiaries rose an average of 9.3 percent. Interestingly, this was a period when […]

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Why Does Denmark Lead the Way for Digital Healthcare?

Posted on January 12, 2010 by

Denmark has spearheaded the use of electronic healthrecords and use of telemedicine via the internet to assist doctors in treating their patients. There are a number of telemedicine projects allowing monitoring patients in their home saves doctors an average of 50 minutes a day in administrative work. Apparently Denmark’s success may relate to its small […]

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3D TV to change the way we watch TV

Posted on January 10, 2010 by

Avatar, the hit film has created more interest in 3D TV and now Samsung has a 3D TV the width of an iPhone. Its development was aided by blue-ray and it will be internet enabled allowing downloads of internet TV content. Analysts predict a 3D revolution which will maximize the TV watching immersion experience.

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Caffeine consumption reduces liver fibrosis

Posted on January 7, 2010 by

Top researchers have completed a major study which concluded that consumption of caffeine in coffee greater than two cups per day significantly reduces the incidence of certain liver diseases. January 2010 Journal of Hepatology

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