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Monday Dec 21 | KLTV Tyler

ETMC Wound Healing Center adds another board-certified physician

Dr. Shawn Pierce has passed his board examination for Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine which gives the ETMC Wound Healing Center, three board-certified physicians.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Emergency Medicine

Tue Dec 15, 2009

Chiropractic Economics

Poll: Americans wary of healthcare reform

Americans are unsure that a healthcare reform bill introduced this week is the solution to problems with the U.S. healthcare system, according to a poll created and commissioned by a public policy expert at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

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Related Topix: Texas Government, Texas, Healthcare Law, Law, Medicare, Health, Advertising, Health Insurance

Wed Dec 09, 2009

Houston Business Journal

Houston buildings part of ASHRAE program

Houston real estate developer Hines has become part of an American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, Air Conditioning Engineers pilot program to better inform building owners and tenants of the energy usage at their buildings.

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Related Topix: Houston Metro

Mon Nov 30, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Patients 'unwired' in new sleep apnea test

Using computer algorithms and infrared imaging, Houston researchers have created a test for sleep apnea that detects the common but potentially serious disorder without a tangle of sensors attached to the patient's body during sleep.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Houston Metro, University of Houston

Tue Nov 24, 2009

Austin American Statesman

Ingredients to a happier holiday season

Do you want to have a happier holiday season? Then don't build your expectations too high, says the chairman of the counseling department at Wake Forest University in Winston Salem, N.C. One reason people get depressed and frustrated at Thanksgiving and other holidays is expectations for happiness so often don't match reality, says Samuel Gladding, ...

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Related Topix: Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, Salem, NC, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving, UC Davis

Tue Nov 17, 2009

Physics Blog

Researchers find inflammation critical in aortic dissection

The aorta, the body's largest artery, stretches from the chest to below the kidneys, expanding and contracting with the pressure of blood driven directly into it by the heart.

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Related Topix: Texas, University of Texas Medical Branch

Mon Nov 16, 2009

EurekAlert!

UTMB researchers find inflammation critical in aortic dissection

The aorta, the body's largest artery, stretches from the chest to below the kidneys, expanding and contracting with the pressure of blood driven directly into it by the heart.

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Related Topix: Texas, University of Texas Medical Branch

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Patients can have it their way with 'personalized medicine'

This is the "have-it-your-way" era, a time when everything from fast food to four-course meals can be customized, personalized and engineered to your specifications.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Cancer, Health, Houston Metro, University of Houston

Nature Publishing Group

Nitrate and nitrite in biology, nutrition and therapeutics

Jon O. Lundberg is in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.

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Related Topix: Biology, Science, Sweden, World News, Pittsburgh Metro, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Houston Business Journal

UTHSC, UTMB join ResearchMatch program

The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston has joined an online program that matches volunteers with clinical research studies.

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Related Topix: Houston Metro

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Nanotechnology latest papers

Shaping nano-/micro-particles for enhanced vascular interaction in laminar flows

Non-spherical nano-/micro-particles can drift laterally in a linear laminar flow under the concurrent effect of hydrodynamic and inertial forces.

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Related Topix: Houston Metro, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, Austin Metro, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Tue Nov 10, 2009

CiteULike

Cryo-EM image alignment based on nonuniform fast Fourier transform.

Abstract In single particle analysis, two-dimensional alignment is a fundamental step intended to put into register various particle projections of biological macromolecules collected at the electron microscope.

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Related Topix: 9, Biology, Science, Houston, TX, Houston Metro

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Newswise

M. D. Anderson Chief Nursing Officer Named AAN Fellow

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center's top nursing executive has been recognized with nursing's highest honor.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Nursing, Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Oncology

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Houston Chronicle

Doctors try to help lure young minorities to medical careers

They wanted to know how long it takes to become a doctor, how hard it is and how much money you can make.

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Related Topix: Education Etc., University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston Metro, Baylor College of Medicine

Tue Nov 03, 2009

About.com

Possible Treatment for Erectile Dysfunction Resulting from Priapism

Much more than a comedic story arc on your favorite hospital drama, priapism is a serious condition that remains a mystery to scientists and a curse for people who experience it.

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Related Topix: Human Sexuality

Mon Nov 02, 2009

NetworkWorld

High-tech camera, algorithms fuse for better sleep apnea test

What do you get when you combine the smarts of a computer scientist and a doctor of sleep medicine? A cool, less invasive way to figure out if patients have sleep apnea , a common problem that causes a snoring a person to momentarily stop breathing while sleeping.

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Related Topix: Science, Computer Science, Computers, University of Houston

MediLexicon

Drug Shows Promise In Treating Dangerous Complication Of Erectile Disorder

Main Category: Erectile Dysfunction / Premature Ejaculation Also Included In: Lymphoma / Leukemia / Myeloma Article Date: 02 Nov 2009 Thousands of men are afflicted with an embarrassing and painful condition that triggers spontaneous, long-lasting erections.

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Related Topix: Erectile Dysfunction, Medicine, Health, Leukemia, Drug Addiction (Substance Abuse), Food and Drug Administration, Biology, Science

Sat Oct 31, 2009

News-Medical.Net

John Simpson who invented a device to treat coronary artery disease...

Back in the 1970s, while watching an angioplasty to widen clogged coronary arteries, John Simpson, Ph.D., M.D., thought there had to be an easier way to perform the procedure.

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Related Topix: Inventions, Science / Technology, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Stanford University, Medicine, Health

Fri Oct 30, 2009

R & D

Drug shows promise in treating dangerous complication of erectile disorder

Thousands of men are afflicted with an embarrassing and painful condition that triggers spontaneous, long-lasting erections.

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Related Topix: Drug Addiction (Substance Abuse), Health, Erectile Dysfunction, Medicine

Thu Oct 29, 2009

KHOU-TV Houston

Medical Center hospitals prepare for worst-case scenario with swine flu

Hospitals at the Texas Medical Center say they are prepared to handle a surge of patients sick from the H1N1 virus.

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Related Topix: Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Houston Metro

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