Politico: "House Republicans on Wednesday demanded an investigation into whether the health care overhaul plan would increase national health spending, following a recent report from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that showed cost increases, at least in the first decade." The...
CARDIOLOGY: Too much insulin a bad thing for the heart? A team of researchers at Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, has generated data in mice that suggest that using insulin to treat diabetes could be harmful if the patient has chronic high blood pressure. Insulin is a hormone...
financial crash? http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/004027.html
" The FCIC: Passing the Buck
by Ron Paul
Last week the federal government’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission held hearings as part of their continuing investigation into the causes of the acute economic meltdown which occurred...
financial crash? http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/004027.html
" The FCIC: Passing the Buck
by Ron Paul
Last week the federal government’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission held hearings as part of their continuing investigation into the causes of the acute economic meltdown which occurred...
financial crash? http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/004027.html
" The FCIC: Passing the Buck
by Ron Paul
Last week the federal government’s Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission held hearings as part of their continuing investigation into the causes of the acute economic meltdown which occurred...
NEUROBIOLOGY: Common mechanism for more than 50% of cases of hereditary spastic paraplegia Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is the name given to a group of inherited neurological disorders characterized by progressive stiffness or tightness of the muscles (spasticity) in the lower limbs...
NEUROBIOLOGY: Common mechanism for more than 50% of cases of hereditary spastic paraplegia Hereditary spastic paraplegia (HSP) is the name given to a group of inherited neurological disorders characterized by progressive stiffness or tightness of the muscles (spasticity) in the lower limbs...
The New York Times: Harlem's North General hospital may fold. Despite "often successful" efforts by "Harlem's civic, political and religious leaders ... to get more money and more state subsidies to keep it going," the hospital may not survive this period of general "economic malaise." The...
The Seattle Times investigates Washington's practice of relocating some Medicaid patients from nursing homes to adult family homes. "Jeri Ringseth had no business being in an adult family home. Her physical and mental disabilities are so significant that she's spent most of her adult life in...
IMMUNOLOGY: Dampening CD4+ immune cell function via the protein TLR4 The immune system uses a large number of proteins to sense the presence of microbes, including a family of proteins known as TLRs. The function of TLRs on immune cells known as DCs and macrophages has been well characterized...
IMMUNOLOGY: Dampening CD4+ immune cell function via the protein TLR4 The immune system uses a large number of proteins to sense the presence of microbes, including a family of proteins known as TLRs. The function of TLRs on immune cells known as DCs and macrophages has been well characterized...