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What Families living with muscle disease in the East of England are joining forces with clinicians and MPs at an inaugural conference for the region, organised by the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. The conference will be an opportunity for families to learn more about fighting for better muscle disease services in their region and to [...]

Congressional Deals: Watching The Sausage Making Politico Legislators need pork to make things happen, especially in an age when chronic obstruction has so weakened the legislative process that policy breakthroughs are almost impossible. This does not excuse all kinds of deal making, nor should we ignore that deals sometimes go too far (Julian E. Zelizer, [...]

Drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) “plans to bolster earnings by selling to more people in middle-income countries after cutting prices in the world’s poorest nations,” Bloomberg/BusinessWeek reports. “Our strategy is to grow our business in middle-income countries by increasing the volume of products we sell,” GSK Chief Executive Andrew Witty said [...]

Nearly 50% Of Food Aid Sent To Somalia Never Makes It To People In Need “As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff members, according to a new Security [...]

In one of the first such studies involving human patients with schizophrenia, researchers at UC Davis have provided evidence that deficits in a brain chemical may be responsible for some of the debilitating cognitive deficits – poor attention, memory and problem-solving abilities – that accompany the delusions and hallucinations that are the hallmarks of the [...]

If you can imagine identical twin sisters at rest, their breath drawing them subtly together and apart, who somehow latch onto ropes that pull them to opposite sides of the bed – you can imagine what happens to a chromosome in the dividing cell. Understanding the forces that drive chromosome segregation – a crucial aspect [...]

A study of seismic activity near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport by researchers from Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin reveals that the operation of a saltwater injection disposal well in the area was a “plausible cause” for the series of small earthquakes that occurred in the area between Oct. 30, 2008, [...]

A study of seismic activity near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport by researchers from Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin reveals that the operation of a saltwater injection disposal well in the area was a “plausible cause” for the series of small earthquakes that occurred in the area between Oct. 30, 2008, [...]

In the “three years since the Supreme Court’s conservative majority abruptly departed from precedent to uphold a federal ban on a particular method of abortion, … foes of reproductive freedom are pressing new attacks on women’s rights and health,” a New York Times editorial states. Utah Gov. Gary Herbert (R) “has signed a bill (HB [...]

The West Virginia House Health and Human Resources Committee on Monday voted 16-9 to approve a bill (HB 4517) that would require physicians to give women the opportunity to view an ultrasound image at least one hour before performing an abortion, the Charleston Gazette reports. According to the Gazette, the rule would only apply to [...]