Medicine's Future Could Lie in Each Patient's Genome (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)

THURSDAY, March 11 (HealthDay News) -- Two separate scientific teams announced this week that they had successfully sequenced individual genomes to pinpoint precise genetic causes of illness -- breakthroughs that open the door to a future of individualized, genomics-based medicine.


Keynote speakers to focus on translating regenerative medicine science to the clinic (EurekAlert!)

( Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center ) What regenerative medicine therapies are being applied to patients today? What hurdles stand between stem cell therapies and real treatments in the clinic? Keynote speakers at the upcoming inaugural Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum will discuss these topics as well as provide an update on various national and regional stem cell ...


Metro council has dropped resolution for restricting sale of cold medicine. (WHAS TV11 Louisville)

(WHAS11)-The metro council has dropped a resolution asking the general assembly to restrict the sale of cold medicine. Earlier this week a council committee asked the state legislature to pass a bill requiring a prescription for the sale of pseudoephedrine. But the measure failed to gather enough support to move forward in the general assembly. Supporters say the restriction is needed to impede ...


Media Academy to Focus on Science and Business of Regenerative Medicine (Newswise)

In this one-day academy for journalists, world experts will discuss the science and business of regenerative medicine, including what treatments are on the horizon and what challenges must be overcome to make new treatments widely available.


Finding Charcot-Marie-Tooth Gene Ends Quest And Begins Era Of Personalized Genomic Medicine (redOrbit)

Baylor College of Medicine's Dr.


Speakers to Focus on Translating Regenerative Medicine Science (Newswise)

What regenerative medicine therapies are being applied to patients today? What hurdles stand between stem cell therapies and real treatments in the clinic? Keynote speakers at the upcoming inaugural Translational Regenerative Medicine Forum will discuss these topics as well as provide an update on various national and regional stem cell initiatives. The forum, set for April 6-8 in Winston-Salem ...


Penn Medicine News: Penn Orthopaedic Researcher, Louis J. Soslowsky, PhD, Wins the 2010 AAOS Kappa Delta Ann Doner ... (University of Pennsylvania Health System)

PHILADELPHIA – Louis J. Soslowsky, Ph.D. Fairhill professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and professor of Bioengineering, director of the McKay Orthopaedic Research Laboratory and Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine , was named the 2010 winner of the Ann Doner Vaughan Kappa Delta Award by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery.


Blum traces birth of forensic medicine in NY (San Diego Union-Tribune)

"The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York" (Penguin, 336 pages, $25.95), by Deborah Blum: How do I poison thee? Let me count the ways: arsenic, mercury, strychnine, chloroform, wood alcohol and carbon monoxide. These were just a few of the options available to would-be murderers whose crimes less than a century ago were likely to go unpunished ...


Lander, other Genome Project researchers win U.S.'s biggest medicine prize (Mass High Tech: The Journal of New England Technology)

Albany Medical Center Prize has awarded its annual prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, considered “America's Nobel,” to three U.S. scientists — including Dr. Eric Lander, president and director of the Broad Institute — who have played a key role in the Human Genome Project, a mapping of the human genetic blueprint.


'Examined Life' Explores Writing, Medicine April 28-30 (Newswise)

The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine will host a three-day conference April 28-30 on the science of medicine and the art of writing. Presenters and panelists include members of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, as well as scientists and physicians from around the country. Registration deadline is April 23.