Taking the “Ewww”… out of snail cream
June 17, 2014 – 11:07 pm | One Comment

Great news for all those women (and men) who have wanted to try the beautifying effects of snail slime but could never get past the “ick” factor. 20yrsyounger.com promises to get rid of the Ewww… while still letting women reap the anti-aging and rejuvenating benefits of snail slime cream. The process itself is called lyophilisation […]

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UN agency voices deep concern over continued ethnic violence in South Sudan
January 4, 2012 – 11:17 pm | No Comments
UN agency voices deep concern over continued ethnic violence in South Sudan

UN agency voices deep concern over continued ethnic violence in South Sudan These orphaned children received food from WFP after a humanitarian mission arrived in the town of Pibor in South Sudan’s Jonglei state on 3 January 2012. Photo: WFP/Rehan Zahid The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) expressed deep concern today about the deadly […]

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UN relief chief visits Sudan to discuss food insecurity in two states
January 4, 2012 – 11:07 pm | No Comments
UN relief chief visits Sudan to discuss food insecurity in two states

UN relief chief visits Sudan to discuss food insecurity in two states WFP food assistance being offloaded from a truck at a distribution site in the South Kordofan capital Kadugli. Photo: WFP/Mohamed Abdalla Reports from people fleeing two troubled Sudanese states indicate food insecurity and rising levels of malnutrition, the United Nations humanitarian chief warned […]

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Pakistan: UNICEF hands over 35 new schools in flood-affected Punjab
January 4, 2012 – 10:56 pm | No Comments
Pakistan: UNICEF hands over 35 new schools in flood-affected Punjab

Pakistan: UNICEF hands over 35 new schools in flood-affected Punjab Children cook their daily meal in one of the 5,900 camps that sprung up across Pakistan in 2010 when the country was hit by the worst floods in its history. Thirty-five new schools constructed by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) with donor funding in […]

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Technology Becoming Key to Personalized Patient Care at UCSF
January 4, 2012 – 8:29 pm | No Comments
Technology Becoming Key to Personalized Patient Care at UCSF

Technology Becoming Key to Personalized Patient Care at UCSF Future UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay to Showcase Advances A mock up of an acute pediatrics room at the future UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital at Mission Bay shows a multimedia wall. A man with a rare form of cancer sits in his longtime doctor’s office, […]

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Conwell Named to National Health Care Innovations Program
January 4, 2012 – 8:22 pm | No Comments
Conwell Named to National Health Care Innovations Program

Conwell Named to National Health Care Innovations Program Yeates Conwell, M.D., professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center, has been selected for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Innovation Advisors Program. Yeates Conwell, M.D. The initiative, launched by the CMS Innovation Center in October, will help health professionals enhance skills that […]

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Study Finds Key to Drug Resistance.
January 4, 2012 – 8:18 pm | No Comments
Study Finds Key to Drug Resistance.

Study Finds Key to Drug Resistance Sophisticated “targeted” drug therapies are improving cancer care by selectively shutting down abnormal growth switches in tumor cells while avoiding toxicity to normal tissues. In some cases, though, tumors that are initially sensitive to these drugs first regress but then activate different, “backup” genetic signals that enable them to […]

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Final health IT innovators win funding for cancer treatment apps
January 4, 2012 – 8:03 pm | No Comments
Final health IT innovators win funding for cancer treatment apps

Final health IT innovators win funding for cancer treatment apps Innovative winners of an HHS public data and cancer challenge have created health IT applications that use public data and existing technology to help patients and health care professionals prevent, detect, diagnose and treat cancer. The two winners presented their submissions during a special symposium […]

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New Habits Give Father a Fresh, Healthy Start
January 3, 2012 – 11:00 pm | No Comments
New Habits Give Father a Fresh, Healthy Start

New Habits Give Father a Fresh, Healthy Start Jose Burgos has started the New Year 15 pounds lighter. It’s not the dramatic stuff of daytime talk shows, but the URMC staffer and father of five said shedding those pounds was monumental, jump-starting a health revolution that’s shaken up his daily routine. When he’s not busy feeding […]

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New chief of UN’s food and agriculture agency outlines plans as he starts work
January 3, 2012 – 10:35 pm | No Comments
New chief of UN’s food and agriculture agency outlines plans as he starts work

New chief of UN’s food and agriculture agency outlines plans as he starts work FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva The new head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has begun work, pledging today to increase the agency’s support to poor countries experiencing prolonged food crises. “Ending hunger requires the commitment of […]

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Can Brown Rice Slow the Spread of Type 2 Diabetes?
January 3, 2012 – 9:44 pm | No Comments
Can Brown Rice Slow the Spread of Type 2 Diabetes?

Can Brown Rice Slow the Spread of Type 2 Diabetes? The worldwide spike in type 2 diabetes in recent decades has paralleled a shift in diets away from staple foods rich in whole grains to highly refined carbohydrates, such as white rice and refined flours. Now, a group of researchers at Harvard School of Public […]

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