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Rethinking Healthcare
Janet Fang
Janet Fang
Janet Fang has written for Nature, Discover and the Point Reyes Light. She is currently a lab technician at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. She is based in New York.
Janet Fang
Janet does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Audrey Quinn
Audrey Quinn
Audrey Quinn is a multimedia science journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has corresponded for PRI's The World, Radiolab, Deutsche Welle's Living Planet, and a number of NPR affiliate stations. She also produces and hosts a podcast for the Mind Science Foundation. Previously, she performed neuroscience research at the University of Washington Autism Center and the Seattle VA Hospital.
Audrey Quinn
Audrey does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Archive: 03-2012
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UK Biobank: world’s biggest biomedical database opens today
DNA, blood, saliva, urine, lifestyle details… just some of the things donated to medical research by 500,000 middle-aged Brits. The enormous resource promises to tease apart nature from nurture.
March 30, 2012, 1:21 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Reading DNA as it’s pulled through a small hole
Nanopore sequencing allows researchers to read the chemical letters of DNA like an announcer would read a ticker tape. This makes fast, cheap genetic-based diagnostics possible.
March 29, 2012, 10:22 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Tiny sensors provide a quick test for MRSA
An small strip of electronic sensors provides a convenient test for the troublesome staph infection.
March 29, 2012, 9:37 AM PDT | By Audrey Quinn
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Gut-on-a-chip could replace animals in drug testing
The microdevice is lined by living human cells, mimicking the structure, physiology, and mechanical behavior of our 25-foot long intestines. It even supports the growth of live microbes.
March 28, 2012, 9:38 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Bring on the bidet
As the U.S. population ages, the country is seeing a boost in bidet toilet sales. Bidets offer fall-prone older people an easier way to regularly wash their privates.
March 28, 2012, 10:06 AM PDT | By Audrey Quinn
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One drug could cure 7 different cancers
Solid tumor cells carry a “don’t eat me” sign to escape attacks by the immune system. Disrupting this signal in mice with human cancer cells shrank the tumors and slowed their...
March 27, 2012, 10:33 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Why it’s good to expose kids to germs early on
Scientists show how early exposure to microbes has lasting effects on the immune system’s sensitivity to allergies and asthma. Are all these antibiotics and antibacterials making us sicker?
March 27, 2012, 7:57 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Stomach staples may work better than pills when controlling diabetes
Bariatric surgery appears to improve type 2 diabetes better than traditional medical therapies.
March 27, 2012, 10:05 AM PDT | By Audrey Quinn
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Cost of health insurance will surpass income by 2033
Though it could be as late as 2037 with the Affordable Care Act. A new study shows that the average annual increase in insurance premiums was 8.0% while household incomes rose an average of 2.1%.
March 26, 2012, 9:25 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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Printing new skeletons
Video shows how scientists can “print” replacement bones to perfectly fit a patient’s body.
March 26, 2012, 9:11 AM PDT | By Audrey Quinn