23-02-2012 15:27 CDC Initial AIDS Definition(s) "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome" a Center's for Disease and Control (CDC) fake constructed medical syndrome". The word or acronym "AIDS" is one of the most complex, confusing and mysterious words in science, medicine and in the English language. It's impossible for a medical dictionary to accurately define it. No matter what anyone says, "AIDS" is not clear cut. Its four letters which make up the acronym are centered in a web of complexity, so much so it took 58-minutes, just to scratch the surface. In this clip we look at: 1) CDC: Initial AIDS Definition 2) Clinical AIDS: A New Disease 3) A Growing Family: AIDS Marker Diseases and Indicators [opportunistic Infections?] or "old and familiar " Original Infections? 4) Creating an African AIDS Definition Bangui: AIDS By Numbers 5) Bangui: Peripheral Psychological Damage 6) Bangui Redux: National Variations in AIDS Definitions 7)Through a Glass Darkly: African AIDS Statistics Bangui Westernized 8) Politics and Public Health: A Study in Conflict 9) CD4 T-Cell Count Marker: Medical Application 10) Addition by Subtraction: 1997 CDC Tables 11 and 12 Visit http://www.houseofnumbers.com for more information Go here to see the original: AIDS - a syndrome or clever … Continue reading →

Session 17 at this year’s International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) focused on the diagnostic and therapeutic technologies for health, leveraging the recent advances in sensor and semiconductor technologies.  Topics covered included: •    SoC solution for continuous electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring in epilepsy patients; •    chaos processor utilizing body channel communication interface for mental health monitoring; •    multimodal sensor with adaptive stimulator IC for compact electro-acupuncture (EA) system; •    battery-less energy harvesting system for body area sensor networks (BAN); •    IEEE 801.15.6/Bluetooth-compliant solution for biotelemetry in wireless body area network (WBAN); •    millimeter-scale remote-controlled wireless-powered implantable biomedical device; •    and CMOS impedance Cytometer single cell analysis in three dimensional flow real time analysis. In the article, more details are presented on continuous monitoring of EEGs enabled by a SoC that has an excellent potential for implementation in clinical and nonclinical settings with applications in body area networks. SoC solution for continuous EEG monitoring EEG, which is the recording of electrical activity along the scalp, measures voltage fluctuations resulting from ionic current flows within the neurons of the brain. It is a non-invasive recording of the brain's spontaneous electrical activity over a short period of time (a few tens of minutes) recorded from … Continue reading →

Bar Harbor – Yijun Ruan, Ph.D., an American geneticist who has pioneered new techniques to sequence and map DNA to better understand cancer growth and stem cell properties, will be the first scientist to join the new Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine (JAX Genomic Medicine) in Farmington, Conn. Ruan is currently associate director and senior group leader at the Genome Institute of Singapore and professor of biochemistry at the National University of Singapore. He is also an investigator with the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) project, an international consortium of research groups funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute. Ruan said he was attracted by The Jackson Laboratory’s famously collaborative research environment, and plans to “take a community approach to tackle genomic questions through intensive collaboration.” Through innovating new technologies and studying how the human and mouse genomes are regulated, he said his goal is to translate research findings into personalized medicine. Ruan has also been appointed director of JAX Genomic Sciences, and will be bringing his current research program and team with him to JAX Genomic Medicine. JAX Genomic Medicine will unite doctors, patients, scientists and industry to find new ways to tailor disease diagnosis, prevention and treatment … Continue reading →

Newswise — The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2012 McEwen Award for Innovation, a coveted prize in the field of stem cell research and regenerative medicine. The 2012 recipient is Rudolf Jaenisch, MD, Founding Member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in recognition of his pioneering discoveries in the areas of genetic and epigenetic control of development in mice that directly impact the future potential of embryonic stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells for therapeutic utility. The McEwen Award for Innovation is supported by the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The $100,000 award honors original thinking and groundbreaking research pertaining to stem cells or regenerative medicine that opens new avenues of exploration towards the understanding or treatment of human disease or affliction. “Rudolf Jaenisch has consistently contributed new and groundbreaking discoveries to stem cell biology and regenerative medicines that have changed the way stem cell research is conducted, said Fred H. Gage, PhD, ISSCR President. “Importantly, Rudolf not only has an uncanny sense of the next big question, but also conducts his experiments with … Continue reading →