LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Shares of Humana Inc. and Health Net Inc. tumbled Tuesday, a day after the Pentagon decided against renewing lucrative regional military health insurance contracts with both companies.Humana, Health Net shares drop after contract loss (Washington Post)
Bruce Tenenbaum: What’s Right About The House Health Care Plan (The Huffington Post) TO READ ABOUT THE PLAN House leaders have come forth with a health care plan. “Big Business,” Republicans and medical providers will attack.
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Four researchers at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and their colleagues at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine are advocating the use of systems biology as an innovative clinical approach to cancer. This approach could result in the development of improved diagnostic tools and treatment options, as well as potential new drug targets to help combat the many potentially fatal types of the disease. multi health
By lending them a gene normally reserved for other classes of animals, researchers have shown they can rescue flies from their Parkinson’s-like symptoms, including movement defects and excess free radicals produced in power-generating cellular components called mitochondria. multi health
In future, cartilage, tendon and blood vessel tissue will be produced in the laboratory, with cells being grown on a porous frame, such as non-wovens. A new software program helps to characterize and optimize the non-wovens. When someone’s knee hurts with every step it’s a sign that the cartilage has been so badly damaged that the bones rub together when walking. multi health
