Fears health premiums set to soar – Irish Examiner Irish ExaminerFears health premiums set to soarIrish ExaminerJust weeks ago around 74,000 additional people took out health insurance to avoid late entry penalties — the number of people with insurance now stands at 2,105,000. Dermot Wells, general manager of the health division of Cornmarket Group Financial ...People must shop around for health care - MinisterRTE.ieShock rise in health insurance premiumsIrish Independentall 7 news articles »...
A patient’s budding cortex — in a dish? Networking neurons thrive in 3-D human ‘organoid’ Scientists have perfected mini cultured 3-D structures that grow and function much like the outer mantle -- the key working tissue, or cortex -- of the brain of the person from whom they were derived. Strikingly, these 'organoids' buzz with neuronal network activity. Cells talk with each other in circuits, much as they do in our brains. ...
Religion and support for birth control health coverage can mix Study explores how religion affects women's attitudes toward reproductive health policies like contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care ActNew research debunks the assumption that a......
Inching Towards Treatments that Manipulate Heat Shock Protein Activity Heat shock proteins such as HSP70 are molecular chaperones involved in cellular housekeeping processes that clear out damaged or misfolded proteins. Their activity increases in response to heat, toxins, and various other forms of cellular stress, and dialing up the activity of heat shock proteins is involved in a number of methods demonstrated to slow aging in laboratory animals. There are a few programs underway in the research community aimed at producing therapies that increase heat shock protein activity, especially for neurodegenerative conditions involving protein aggregates, but nothing that has yet made the leap into later stages of development and...