Archive for June 15th, 2009

House Passes Tobacco Regulation Bill By a ratio of 3 to 1, the House of Representatives yesterday approved the Senate version of a bill that gives the federal government sweeping new powers to regulate tobacco.
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Novel Cell Therapies To Treat Cancer Ortho Biotech Oncology Research & Development, a unit of Centocor Research & Development, Inc., has announced that it has entered into a five-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the National Cancer Institute (NCI), with Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., chief, Surgery Branch, serving as the NCI...
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Yoga Helps Those With Asthma (HealthDay) HealthDay – FRIDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) — Settling into a warrior or tree pose a few times a week seems to improve symptoms and quality of life for people with asthma.
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Marijuana Damages DNA and May Cause Cancer (LiveScience.com) LiveScience.com – A lot of studies have shown marijuana is not good for you. It can fry the brain and contribute to psychosis. The latest one finds ‘convincing evidence’ that marijuana smoke damages the genetic material DNA in ways that could increase the risk of cancer.
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Hearing to air VA mistakes with hospital equipment (AP) AP – A congressional panel is pressing the Department of Veterans Affairs to disclose on Tuesday whether non-sterile equipment that may have exposed 10,000 veterans to HIV and other infections was isolated to three Southeast hospitals or is part of a wider problem.
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Co-op compromise gives White House a health option (AP) AP – With Republicans fighting the idea of a government-run health insurance plan, members of President Barack Obama’s team said Sunday that they are open to a compromise: a cooperative program that would expand coverage with taxpayer money but without direct governmental control.
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Obama urges doctors to back his health care plans (AP) AP – President Barack Obama, continuing to barnstorm for his health care proposals, will urge doctors gathered in Chicago to support wider insurance coverage and targeted federal spending cuts.
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PROMISES, PROMISES: Indian health care’s victims (AP) AP – Ta’Shon Rain Little Light, a happy little girl who loved to dance and dress up in traditional American Indian clothes, had stopped eating and walking. She complained constantly to her mother that her stomach hurt.
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Samsung Omnia Pro B7610 slider gets official reveal Samsung’s being tight-lipped with the details, but at least it did us the solid of making its Omnia Pro B7610 (aka, B7610 Louvre) QWERTY slider official today at CommunicAsia. The phone on the right is the Omnia Pro B7320, which, if we’re not mistaken, is just...
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Intel Celeron, Core i7, and Atom lineup leaked? The sun rises, seasons change, CPUs get faster, and Intel’s plans get leaked. That’s the way it works, so while this report from Digitimes listing out Intel’s chip releases through the beginning of next year should be taken with a grain of salt, feel free to...
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