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Ready to Measure Your Brain Fitness?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 07.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Otraumatic Brain Injury, Cognitive Screening, Neuroplasticity, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Nih, Brain, Military Brain, Cognitive Assessment, Health, Health Insurance, Brain Resource, Brain Fitness, Brain Age, Optumhealth, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

Brain scientists don't recognize one overall "brain age" or "intelligence". We can view our brain functions or cognitive abilities as a variety of skills; there's no "brain age" that can be measured.

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FoxNews' Morton Kondracke Outs McCain: "Not White House Material"

Paul Abrams | Posted 06.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Parkinson's Disease, Foxnews, John McCain, Nih, Morton Kondracke, Politics News
Paul Abrams

FoxNews commentator Morton Kondracke was initially a John McCain enthusiast. Writing in the book about his wife's Parkinson's disease, Saving Milly*,...

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Dr. Bernadine Healy: Don't Dismiss Vaccine Link

David Kirby | Posted 05.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Nih, Vaccine Court, Hannah Poling, Autism, Thimerosal, Bernadine Healy, Vaccines, Mitochondria, Living News
David Kirby

As someone who refuses to concede that there is no link between vaccines and autism, I now have a semi tongue-in-cheek response to my once and future critics: "Go tell it to Dr. Healy."

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An American Center for Cures?

Katie Hood | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pharmaceutical Industry, Nih, Basic Research, Science, Healthcare Reform, 2008 Election, Disease Cures, Parkinson's Disease, Translational Research, Biomedical Research, Health Care, Politics News
Katie Hood

Finding cures is in and of itself an valuable, people-focused kind of health care reform -- because it can not only improve quality of life but save the costs that are burdening our system.

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The Next Vaccine-Autism Newsmaker: Not Isolated, Not Unusual

David Kirby | Posted 04.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Vaccine Court, Cdc, Thimerosal, Autism, Nih, Hannah Poling, Vaccines, Living News
David Kirby

A new, additional theory of causation is about to be introduced in Vaccine Court: Vaccines can trigger a chain of events in children with mitochondrial dysfunction that causes autism.

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Senate Inhofe vs. Public Access to Government Funded Research

James Love | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics

Read More: Natinal Institute of Health, Senator James Inholfe, Published Health Information, Knowledge Ecology International, Nih, Public Access to Health Documents, National Library of Medicine, Kei, Politics News
James Love

Americans pay about $100 per capita to support the NIH (National Institute of Health), and deserve policies that promote access.

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Big Tobacco & An NIH-Funded Cancer Screening Study

Merrill Goozner | Posted 10.08.2007 | Politics

Read More: Lung Cancer, CT Scan, National Institutes of Health, Gooznews, Nih, Health Care Costs, Tobacco, Screening, Health Care, Politics News
Merrill Goozner

The NIH insists the trial is well-designed. But when it comes to conflicts of interest, appearances matter. The expenditure of $200 million in taxpayer money should have resulted in a definitive answer.

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