General Healthcare News
Personal health information in 2019 When our drugs, medical devices and wellness tools become smart, and when the resulting personal health information is linked to mobile and internet-based systems, who or what is going to control all...
Perhaps my DNA could be included in the biggest "biobank" in the country... ROCHESTER, Minn. - Mayo Clinic researchers are planning to create a human DNA bank using samples from 20,000 area residents, and they say it could become the...
As a philatelist, I am aware of the fact that few physicians worldwide end up on postage stamps when history reviews their life's work in their respective countries. Several of the stamps issued portraying physicians for their...
The New York Times (1/13, D3, Markoff) reports, "For the first time, researchers at an IBM laboratory have captured a three-dimensional image of" a "tobacco mosaic virus." The "technique used by the" scientists...
Patients with prostate cancer all know their "Gleason grade" or "Gleason score". The scoring system was developed by Dr. Donald Gleason in the 1960s while he was at the Minneapolis VA. ...
Recently came across Health Sciences Online (www.hso.info) which claims "to be the first website to deliver authoritative, comprehensive, free, and ad-free health sciences knowledge." One can search and browse any health...
