Archives: February, 2008

New Plan to Target Children’s Medical Issues
The District will target some of the worst health problems affecting District youth, from obesity and asthma to infant mortality and teen pregnancy, through a new public-private partnership to be announced today.
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803828.html?nav=rss_health

New Plan to Target Children’s Medical Issues
The District will target some of the worst health problems affecting District youth, from obesity and asthma to infant mortality and teen pregnancy, through a new public-private partnership to be announced today.
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803828.html?nav=rss_health

FDA Cites Problems at Chinese Plant Making Blood Thinner
The Chinese plant at the center of a controversy over the safety of half the nation’s supply of the blood thinning drug heparin had problems involving impurities, the quality and use of its equipment, and overall quality control, a preliminary inspection by the Food and Medicine Administration […]

In a Va. Lab, Forging Links To Speed Cancer Advances
The tiny pieces of tumor, cut from 51 Italian cancer patients, arrived at a suburban Washington laboratory in boxes packed with dry ice.
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022603296.html?nav=rss_health

Inova Follows the Money
Our good friends at Inova Health System are at it again.
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803723.html?nav=rss_health

Inova Follows the Money
Our good friends at Inova Health System are at it again.
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/28/AR2008022803723.html?nav=rss_health

In a Va. Lab, Forging Links To Speed Cancer Advances
The tiny pieces of tumor, cut from 51 Italian cancer patients, arrived at a suburban Washington laboratory in boxes packed with dry ice.
URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022603296.html?nav=rss_health

Now Roll Over and Get Laid
While there’s plenty we can learn about sex from our furry friends (no, not just doggystyle, thank you), we’re not sure this one’s a slam dunk: Male spiders increase their chance of getting down by … playing dead.
Danish scientists set up mate-and-date opportunities for the species Pisaura mirabilis, a spider […]

Mormons Gone WILD! Sort of!
Here’s a shocker: A new study claims that students at Brigham Young University date way more than the young men and women on other campuses.
But hold up: before you ship off to Utah for a second degree and some serious shacking up, there’s more to the study. Though they go on […]

Body By Playstation
We’ve heard murmurs of the Nintendo Wii-as-workout, and thought it mostly hogwash. But a new study from New Zealand shows that kids who play video games with an “eye toy” attachment–a motion-capture add-on that tracks players as they jump around in front of the TV–do as much while they’re gaming as they would […]