Stanford history Professor Robert Proctor will speak about the tobacco industry February 18 during a symposium — ”The Sociopolitical Manufacturing of Scientific Ignorance” — at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco.
Tomorrow AAAS Fellow, Robert C. von Borstel will talk about how cancer cell mutation and selection are metaphorically similar to the evolution of a new species.Like the first pregnant finch that landed in the Galapagos, the first cancer cell in a body has to undergo many mutations through many generations to establish itself. But once there, like any newly stabilized species in different ecological niches, cancer is tough to get rid of.
At a state Senate hearing today addressing Governor Schwarzenegger’s plan to require all Californians to buy health insurance, administration representatives refused to give a dollar amount for how much health policies would cost under the proposal and rebuffed questions about the need for regulation of insurance premiums to make them affordable for people who would be required to buy coverage.
Dr. David Fleming, Director and Health Officer for Public Health – Seattle & King County, stated about Public Health?s recommendations about influenza, emphasizing its importance for parents of school-aged children:
A seven year old Bellevue child who had experienced flu-like symptoms died this morning from a bacterial infection affecting the lining of the heart.
Infants and preschool-aged children who live in daily circumstances of potential trauma and danger can develop the resilience to cope through treatment that focuses on strengthening parent-child bonds, according to a national expert in child development.
Talented people often choke under pressure because the distraction caused by stress consumes their working memory, a psychologist at the University of Chicago has found.
Merck & Co., Inc. announced that it has begun to file registrations for ATRIPLA? (efavirenz 600 mg/ emtricitabine 200 mg/ tenofovir disoproxil fumarate 300 mg), a once-daily, single tablet regimen for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in adults, with health authorities in those developing countries around the world where many HIV-positive people live.
Obesity is generally discussed in terms of caloric intake (how much a person eats) and energy output (how much a person exercises). However, according to a University of Missouri-Columbia scientist, environmental chemicals found in everyday plastics and pesticides also may influence obesity.
A Salmonella outbreak has sickened nearly 300 people in 39 states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. The source of the bacterium has been linked to Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter.