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Regular Aerobic Exercise Improves Vascular Reactivity for Patients at Risk of Developing Diabetes
Pre-diabetic patients who engage in regular aerobic exercise improve their vascular reactivity to nearly normal levels, even if no weight loss is achieved, according to research presented today at the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) 21st Annual Meeting & Clinica
Young Inspiring Scientists and Symptom Surveillance
The technology giant Intel recently awarded several youngsters with awards for their innovative work in healthcare. The youngest, 15 year old Jack Andraka, has developed a pancreatic cancer diagnostic test based on the principles of diabetic blood tests. Other winners included Nicholas Schiefer, 17 years old, who researched the new phenomenon of “microsearch”. Read more here. &lsquo.....
MDxHealth: Annual and Extraordinary General Shareholders’ Meeting
Regulatory News: MDxHealth SA (NYSE Euronext: MDXH), a leading molecular diagnostic company that develops and commercializes epigenetic tests to support cancer treatment, held its Annual and Extraordinary General Meeting of shareholders in Zaventem today. The shareholders approved all agenda items of the Annual General Meeting, including th...
Bristol-Myers Squibb to Take Part in Sanford Bernstein’s 28th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) will take part in Sanford Bernstein’s 28th Annual Strategic Decisions Conference on Thursday, May 31, 2012, in New York. Lamberto Andreotti, chief executive officer, will answer questions about the company at 9 a.m. EST. Investors and the genera
As Medical Tattoos Gain Popularity, Guidelines Should Establish Standards and Consistency
Medical tattoos, a permanent bodily mark used to indicate the illnesses or allergies an individual has, are gaining momentum and popularity. However, a review of medical literature indicates a lack of established guidelines in the medical community on how medical tattoos should be administered and effectively used, according to an expert today at the American...
Publish Green Releases Chrisso Diet: A Diet/Lifestyle Book That Has Already Generated Buzz
HOLLYWOOD, Calif., May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Chrisso Diet is a diet program that will help people lose weight fast and it will also help them remain slender for the rest of their lives. Chrisso says that this Diet/Lifestyle book is like no other. Chrisso earned a degree in Nutrition, Diet, and Health from Ashwoth College. He knows all the right and proper secrets to weight loss. He is a diet e...
COPD Foundation and New York Mets Host COPD Awareness Night at Citi Field
The COPD Foundation (COPDF) and the New York Mets will host Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Awareness Night at Citi Field in Flushing, N.Y., Saturday, June 15, 2012, at 7:15 p.m. The event honors longtime Mets executive Bob Mandt, who passed away from COPD, and raises awareness abou
Life-long learning - for the public?
Public health awareness programs are seemingly constant. It was only a few days ago that the Department of Health in the UK launched a campaign for lung cancer – warning people with just a cough to get it checked out. A recent PubMed article looks at the impact of an awareness program in Germany for stroke (read it here). This area of public health is particularly interesting with the ne.....
Are You Happy with Your Sex Life? Exclusive Survey from Yahoo! Shine & FITNESS Magazine Explores Sexual Health and Habits
Adults are looking to spend more time between the sheets, according to a new survey from FITNESS Magazine and Yahoo! Shine. The exclusive survey asked 1,000 women and men to reveal the details of their sex lives including what turns them on. The survey revealed 64% of adults are having sex one to three times a week and 50% of women (and 60% of men)...
Bristol-Myers Squibb and Tsinghua University Enter Strategic Partnership
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) and Tsinghua University of Beijing, China, today announced the formation of a multi-year strategic partnership. Under the agreement, Bristol-Myers Squibb will fund research efforts at Tsinghua University’s School of Life Sciences to identify and validate novel targets in oncology and immunoscience. The col...
Fake Twitter accounts officially lame; they’re targeting investors
The well-documented phenomenon of fake Twitter accounts have been used to skewer the rich and famous from politics to business to sports to Hollywood. But you know the fake Twitter trend has jumped the shark when it's happening to little-known busine...
National Children's Dental Health Month - Dentists Use Twitter To Give Tips
On February 28, dentists from the American Dental Association (ADA) are tweeting tips regarding children's oral health during a live Twitter chat in celebration of National Children's Dental Health Month. The live Twitter chat will take place today...
Twitter unveils self-service advertising system
Buying ads on Twitter is about to get easier for small businesses. That's because the online messaging service is adding a key piece to its moneymaking model.Twitter is making it more convenient by unveiling a long-awaited automated system that will...
Is Twitter reinforcing negative perceptions of epilepsy?
(Elsevier) A revealing study published in Epilepsy & Behavior provides evidence that the perception of epilepsy is not faring well in social media. Kate McNeil and colleagues from Dalhousie University in Canada analyzed data collected from Twitter to...
How Twitter broke its biggest story, #WeGotBinLaden
Nearly a year after U.S. Special Forces killed Osama bin Laden, the events of May 1, 2011 remain one of the busiest traffic periods in Twitter history. More than 5,000 tweets were sent per second when Twitter became the first source with news of bin...
Twitter offers new button for attracting followers
Twitter is trying to make it quicker and easier to track the world's most interesting people on its short-messaging service.The new short cut is being provided by a Twitter "follow" button that can be placed on websites to highlight celebrities, ath...
Twitter may censor tweets in individual countries
Twitter has refined its technology so it can censor messages on a country-by-country basis.The additional flexibility announced Thursday is likely to raise fears that Twitter's commitment to free speech may be weakening as the short-messaging compan...
Activists and bloggers fear Twitter censorship
Bloggers and activists from China, the Middle East and Latin America said Friday they were afraid that new Twitter policies could allow governments to censor messages, stifling free expression.Thursday's announcement that Twitter had refined its tec...
@medtronicCEO not enough? Try some of healthcare’s best twitter accounts
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) CEO Omar Ishrak launched a Twitter account a month ago, but hasn’t tweeted much. So who are the loquacious healthcare social media types that people may turn to for 140-character long pithy wisdom? Here’s a short, sub...
How Twitter Has Reshaped Emergency Responses
When the twin towers fell on 9/11, social media such as Twitter were just emerging. Medscape Med Students
Digital Pharma: Bayer UK's Twitter slip-up
There seems to be some confusion at Bayer UK over what communications can be sent over Twitter. The company is using its @BayerUKIreland Twitter account to communicate updates from across its diverse business, including a tweet about a newly-launched...
Poll: Do You Use Twitter?
Twitter's popularity continues to grow, and hundreds of physicians are turning to the 140-character platform to connect and share information. Do you tweet?
The Use Of Twitter For Public Health Surveillance Of Dental Pain
The microblogging service Twitter is a new means for the public to communicate health concerns and could afford health care professionals new ways to communicate with patients. With the growing ubiquity of user-generated online content via social net...
Negative Perceptions Of Epilepsy Via Twitter
A revealing study published in Epilepsy & Behavior provides evidence that the perception of epilepsy is not faring well in social media. Kate McNeil and colleagues from Dalhousie University in Canada analyzed data collected from Twitter to provide a...
Twitter Reveals People's Mood Changes As The Day Progresses
Most of us throughout the world tend to have better moods at weekends and during the first couple of hours of the morning - mood gradually deteriorates as the day develops, researchers from Cornell University reported in the journal Science. They ga...
#fakedrugs: Scammers using Twitter to peddle fake medicines
Scammers are exploiting Twitter to entrap people into buying fake medicines, according to a new report. The report, published by the department of computer science at the University of Alkron in Ohio, says that the set up of Twitter is creatin...
To tweet or not to tweet
Rob Walton evaluates the effectiveness of Twitter as a component of the marketing mix. The Twitter CEO, Dick Costello, announced in September that his social networking site had signed up a whopping 100 million active...
NASA Invites Twitter and Facebook Fans to a Tweetup at Wallops Flight Facility
[STK][IN] ARO SMD[SU] EXE-- WITH PHOTO -- TO NATIONAL, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY EDITORS:NASA Invites Twitter and Facebook Fans to a Tweetup at Wallops FlightFacilityWASHINGTON, Sept. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Do you followNASA on Twitter or...
Twitter Reflects World's Changing Moods
THURSDAY, Sept. 29 -- Using Twitter to track people's moods from every corner of the globe, new research suggests that folks seem to awaken in good cheer and get grumpier as the workday progresses, regardless of where they live. The novel study by......
Twitter coverage of US court gets struck down
WASHINGTON, March 27 (Reuters) - A lawyer discovered how far the U.S. Supreme Court will go to close itself off from the public when it hears a case, no matter how many people on Twitter may be interested.
Pharma on twitter: Neither lagging nor leading
Twitter’s explosive growth continues in 2011, reaching 250 million tweets a day and over 100 million active users. This year, twitter has also become the leading social media platform during ...
Twitter is the Social Medium of Choice for Big Pharma And Biotech Companies
Despite the initial pushback against social media by many pharma and biotech companies it appears that Twitter is emerging as the medium of choice for the life sciences industry. The main reasons for this trend are the 140 character world limit and t...
Researchers Trail Twitter To Track World's Mood Swings
Using Twitter to monitor the attitudes of 2.4 million people in 84 countries, Cornell University researchers found that people all over the world awaken in a good mood but globally that cheer soon deteriorates once the workday progresses.* By tracki...
More Biotech Twitter Mailbag: Orexigen, Affymax, YM Bio, Spectrum & More
BOSTON (TheStreet) -- More responses to my special midweek, all-Twitter version of the Biotech Stock Mailbag: Make sure to also check out part 1 of the Twitter Mailbag, with answers to questions about Gilead Sciences, Chelsea Therapeutics, Onyx Phar...
IADR/AADR publish study on use of Twitter for public health surveillance of dental pain
(International & American Associations for Dental Research) Today the IADR/AADR Journal of Dental Research released a study titled "Public Health Surveillance of Dental Pain via Twitter." In it, researchers demonstrated that Twitter users are extensi...
Why pharma engagement on twitter matters!
The fact that thousands of stakeholders chose to follow pharma accounts on twitter deserves our attention. It says that there are people out there genuinely interested in what pharma has ...
Why Twitter Matters Now in Biotech, and Why Executives Can’t Ignore it Anymore
Two years ago, I caved in to the pressure and signed up for a Twitter account. I had been resisting for months. Millions of people were flocking to the 140-character microblogging service, but from what I could see then, it looked like a time-wasting fad. Hardly anybody in the business I write about, biotechnology, was [...]
XEROX HIMSS12 Post-Game Show
Plan on joining us for a TweetJam today moderated by Matthew Holt. Never participated in a TweetJam before? It’s simply a time to gather on twitter around a particular topic and learn from each other. Anyone can ask, or answer, a question. All...
Oncology, pharma and twitter: what you tweet is who you reach!
Beyond its impressive reach, Twitter has furthermore created an unprecedented opportunity to influence highly targeted pockets of conversations. It thus provides pharma with the unique chance to demonstrate that it ...
Twitter: What Is It Good For?
Vincent Racaniello, PhD podcaster extraordinaire and a BioCrowd co-founder, has long contended that Twitter is an ideal medium to conduct scholarly research especially in the life sciences. Unfortunately, many scientists, who have yet to try Twi...
How to make your conference social: part 1 – what’s your hashtag?
Angela Dunn walks us through the correct use of Twitter’s humble hashtag for conferences. The hashtag (# sign and acronym) is now a ubiquitous form of branding. What started as a way to organize conversations by topic on Twitter has...
15 healthcare Twitter hashtags you should follow
The Twitter experience isn't complete without hashtags. Hashtags help facilitate conversations on the popular social media platform, help other users discover what discussion topics are trending and are an extremely useful tool in focusing on inform...
Gloomy on Twitter?
A team of mathematicians from the University of Vermont analyzed 4.6 billion Twitter messages worldwide over 33 months. They assigned happiness grades to more than 10,000 of the most common words, crunched all the numbers and plotted them on a graph...
Twitter subscribers become living sensors
Using millions of Twitter subscribers as living "sensors," engineers from Rice University and Motorola Mobility have found a way to monitor fans’ levels of excitement and to keep track of the action in National Football League (NFL) games, without...
People as ‘sensors’: Twitter messages reveal NFL’s big plays and fans’ excitement
Using millions of Twitter subscribers as living “sensors,” engineers from Rice University and Motorola Mobility have found a way to monitor fans’ levels of excitement and to keep track of...
Follow these Twitter denizens to get good healthcare insights
One thing that bugs me about Twitter is noise, especially those who claim a certain expertise but their tweets are only peripherally or not at all connected to that expertise. I eschew them even though a thousand people are following. So, who am I fo...
Chemistry, The Movie!
For some comic relief, here's a list that was going around on Twitter: Chemistry, The Movie. What titles would you suggest? To give you the idea, some of the ones that have already come up include "Boron Free", "The Wizard of Osmium", and "The Bench...
Tech needed to cut rise of fake drugs on Twitter, research says
Spam filtering and identification is needed to stop Twitter becoming another platform for pushers of fake or substandard drugs, researchers say.
Who Is Biz Stone and What Is Twitter?
By Fred Trotter Yesterday, one of the founders of Twitter, Biz Stone, gave the opening keynote at HIMSS. This is probably going to be the best keynote at HIMSS, followed by a speech from Dr. Farzad Mostashari, which will also be excellent. It goes do...
Using Twitter to predict financial markets
(University of California - Riverside) A University of California, Riverside professor and several other researchers have developed a model that uses data from Twitter to help predict the traded volume and value of a stock the following day.
The best of the tweeting cardiologists (Weekend Rounds)
A review of life science current events reported by MedCity News this week: 10 cardiologists to follow on Twitter. Some notable cardiologists have embraced Twitter — one even wrote a useful guide to help cardiologists get started on it — and cert...
Digital Pharma: Twitter slip-up shouldn't silence pharma
Bayer UK was recently ruled to have breached the ABPI Code of Practice by promoting prescription-only medicines to the general public via Twitter. This was an embarrassing and unfortunate incident for the company, but I don’t believe it needs to sc...
Digital Pharma: Bayer tweets breach ABPI Code of Practice
Bayer’s use of Twitter has caused the first social media breach of the ABPI Code of Practice. Code regulator the PMCPA ruled Bayer’s UK Twitter account did promote prescription-only medicines to the public when it sent two product-related tweets....
Scientists use Twitter to detect global mood changes
A novel study has used Twitter streams from 2.4 million people around the globe to take their emotional temperature found that people start the day in a good mood. But it decreases as work starts, then improves when work ends.
JDR publishes study titled 'Public Health Surveillance of Dental Pain via Twitter'
The microblogging service Twitter is a new means for the public to communicate health concerns and could afford health care professionals new ways to communicate with patients.
Pepsi partners with Twitter for online concerts
PepsiCo Inc. is tweeting to a new generation of music lovers.The No. 2 soda company in the U.S. is partnering with Twitter to provide streaming videos of live concerts to Pepsi's followers on the social networking site. The deal is part of Pepsi's n...
Twitter's new censorship plan rouses global furor
Twitter, a tool of choice for dissidents and activists around the world, found itself the target of global outrage Friday after unveiling plans to allow country-specific censorship of tweets that might break local laws.It was a stunning role reversa...
Twitter alum Michael Abbott joins Kleiner Perkins
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Former Twitter engineering Vice President Michael Abbott is joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers next week as a partner, the firm said, signaling its commitment to social networks, mobile and the cloud.
Obama defends U.S. foreign aid spending during Twitter Town Hall meeting
"President Barack Obama on Wednesday held his first-ever 'Town Hall' meeting using the social media network Twitter, focusing on the U.S. economy and jobs," VOA News reports (Robinson, 6/7).
10 cardiologists to follow on Twitter
The cardiology profession hasn’t exactly embraced Twitter. When the American Heart Association conducted an informal poll of a select group of members, only two of about 75 respondents said they used Twitter. And those two reported using the po...
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