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Geneticists said the new research shows it is now possible to sequence the genome of a patient at reasonable cost and with sufficient accuracy to be of practical use to researchers.

Through a controversial practice called vision therapy, some optometrists say they can treat learning disabilities.

The president said he would unleash auditors in a crackdown on Medicare and Medicaid waste and fraud, a move to please both liberals and conservatives.

Travis Blackley, a relief pitcher from Australia who is trying to earn a spot on the Mets’ roster, has attention deficit disorder.

The state legislature approved a measure that bucks any effort by President Barack Obama and Congress to carry out a national health care overhaul in individual states.

The medical experts told an N.I.H. conference that the trend of “once a Caesarean, always a Caesarean” may be safely reversed.

If you are young and healthy but have a family history of cardiovascular disease, are you at high risk of having a heart attack?

Activist investor group urges companies to track their use of energy and resources as closely as it does its hiring and cash flow.

Chipmaker introduces its first desktop chip packing that many processing cores for gaming boxes.

ZymoGenetics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ZGEN), today announced the presentation of safety and immunogenicity data among pediatric burn patients at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Burn Association in Boston, MA. The study marks the first dedicated look at the safety and immunogenicity of any stand-alone thrombin in pediatric surgical patients. The investigators concluded that RECOTHROM did not appear to be associated with any treatment-related adverse events when used as an aid to hemostasis in ped...

Six cores. Twelve threads. A new flagship processor in Intel's stable. Here at GDC in San Francisco, the world's most widely recognized chip maker is dishing out its latest desktop CPU, and to say it's a niche device would be greatly understating things. We spoke to a number of Intel bigwigs at tonight's media event, and everyone confessed that the Core i7-980X Extreme Edition was a low quantity, high performance device aimed specifically at gamers and content editors that simply refuse to li...

Sony unveils their first motion controller for the Playstation 3.

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A patient wants to know about symptoms she may have from a prescription drug she is taking. Consulting the label's "Adverse Reactions" section, she finds a wealth of data. Little does she realize that this information, largely collected during clinical trials, is based almost entirely on clinicians' impressions of patients' symptoms — not on patients' own firsthand reports of their experiences with the drug.via content.nejm.org Posted via web from Jack's posterous

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Bisphosphonates are commonly prescribed to treat osteoporosis and are designed to build bone mass. Drugs in the class include Actonel, marketed by Sanofi Aventis SA and Procter & Gamble Co.; Boniva, marketed by Roche Holding AG and GlaxoSmithKline PLC; and Merck & Co.'s Fosamax.Posted via web from Jack's posterousvia online.wsj.comA bone expert once said to me: "what if these drugs make bones harder, but not necessarily stronger?"Two studies presented Wednesday at the Ameri...

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FORT MYERS, Fla. - Tampa Bay Rays prized left-hander David Price, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2007 draft, left...

Think we'd all be better off if HTML5 could somehow instantly replace Flash overnight? Not necessarily, according to a set of comparisons from Jan Ozer of the Streaming Learning Center website, which found that while HTML5 did come out ahead in many respects, it wasn't exactly a clear winner. The tests weren't completely scientific, but they did find that HTML5 clearly performed better than Flash 10 or 10.1 in Safari on a Mac, although the differences were less clear cut in Google Chrome or F...