Having Medicaid increases emergency room visits Adults who are covered by Medicaid use emergency rooms 40 percent more than those in similar circumstances who do not have health insurance, according to a unique new study,
Americans, to certain uninsured adults. The research examines emergency room records for roughly 25 000 people over 18 months. hen you cover the uninsured,
State officials, recognizing that they had Medicaid funds for about 10,000 additional low-income adults, developed a lottery to fill those slots, for which about 90,000 Oregonians applied.
In Oregon, uninsured adults are eligible for the lottery-based Medicaid program when their annual income falls below the federal poverty level established by the U s. Department of health and human services,
which in 2013 is roughly $11, 490 for a single person or $23, 550 for a family of four.
Evidence from Oregon Health insurance Experiment, were lead author Sarah Taubman of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Heidi Allen of Columbia University School of Social work,
and gesture-recognition devices used in interactive gaming. The camera is based on ime of Flighttechnology like that used in Microsoft recently launched second-generation Kinect device, in
says Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor of media arts and sciences and leader of the Camera Culture group within the Media Lab,
Another family of commonly used recognition molecules are DNA aptamers, which are short pieces of DNA that interact with specific targets,
Usually p53 is the main driver of cell death and if cells lose this pathway they become very resistant to different treatments that cause cell death Morandell says.
Several years ago researchers in Yaffe s lab discovered that in cancer cells with mutated p53 the MK2 gene helps counteract the effects of chemotherapy.
and they would end up committing suicide Yaffe says. In the new study the researchers wanted to see
when cisplatin was delivered to cellular structures called mitochondria DNA in this organelle was damaged leading to cancer cell death.
If enough of these blockages form the cell undergoes a type of programmed cell suicide called apoptosis
whether they could induce cell death by targeting MITOCHONDRIAL DNA particularly in cells that are already resistant to regular cisplatin.
The researchers also showed that the cells were dying through apoptosis and not some less-controlled form of cell death.
With forms of nonprogrammed cell death cellular toxins can spread leading to inflammation and other deleterious consequences Radford says.
These replays occur in association with very high frequency brainwave oscillations known as ripple events. In mice lacking calcineurin the researchers found that brain activity was normal as the mice ran the course
Bhatia is working on a urine dipstick test similar to a pregnancy test that doctors could give patients
and other microbes to its surface, causing infections and thrombosis (blood clotting) that lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths annually.
This grain boundary migration is the key to healing the crack, Demkowicz says. The very idea that crystal grain boundaries could migrate within a solid metal has been studied extensively within the last decade,
in conjunction with stress-driven grain boundary migration, could actually heal cracks. This is indeed provocative
Morocco still maintains a high illiteracy rate of more than 35 percent, primarily among the socioeconomic demographic that comprises many local craftsmen.
Patients now have an average life expectancy of 45 to 50 years in the United states, up from only 14 years as recently as 1973.
But solving this problem is complicated more than solving drug addiction, because it requires reducing the drive to eat unhealthy foods without affecting the desire to eat healthy foods when hungry.
Drug addiction is defined as compulsive drug-seeking despite adverse consequences at school work, or home. Addictive drugs ijackthe brain the natural reward-processing center, the ventral tegmental area (VTA.
and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development p
#Products of progress Back in 2009, alumna Jodie Wu 9 launched Global Cycle Solutions (GCS) in Tanzania to bring small-scale farmers an innovative product she designed in MIT D-Lab:
Knowing that about 82 percent of Tanzanians more than 35 million households live off-grid, GCS began going to the villages and selling solar-powered lamps, which also charge cellphones.
So far, GCS has sold more than 35,000 solar lamps 15,000 in the past year alone and 5, 000 other products to families across 500 villages.
the $6 in margin they earn from selling a single lamp during non-harvest months is feed enough to their family for a few days. t really about creating a win-win-win situation,
which households leak the most energy and, among those, which owners are most likely to make fixes,
says Essess cofounder Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor in Mechanical engineering,
Based on data from across the United states, for example, a household with three children is about 8 percent more likely to seal up leaks than a household with two children,
This science festival was unpredicted an benefit of an association that had begun with a brainstorming session in Phnom penh on ways to improve the training of people who work with unexploded mines and other remnants of conflict in Cambodia and around the world.
and a little bit more comprehensive than some of the other designs that might be reported in the literature.
thicker electrodes, the system reduces the conventional battery architecture number of distinct layers, as well as the amount of nonfunctional material in the structure, by 80 percent.
Failure to follow prescriptions, the study also found, causes around 125,000 deaths annually and up to 10 percent of all hospitalizations.
a technology known as Bliptrack was used by Denmark Aalborg City Business Association to analyze the impact of large-scale events,
Joel Yang and Shawn Tan at the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering and co-workers used an electron beam to form arrays of approximately 100-nanometer-tall pillars.
They then deposited a thin aluminum layer on top of the pillars and in the gaps between them.
The researchers demonstrated the effectiveness of their extended palette using a Monet painting. They reproduced the image using both a limited and extended palette with a much better color reproduction from the extended palette.
A recent update from the American Heart Association also suggested that fine particles in air pollution leads to elevated risk for cardiovascular diseases.
when exposed to alternating magnetic fields causing cell death (magnetic hyperthermia). The UCD team led by Conway Fellows Professor Gil Lee in the School of Chemistry
and activates the Erbb family of protein receptors. Erbb2 is overexpressed in certain breast cancers and linked with poor prognosis.
and used a novel microfluidic chip to monitor the interaction of individual nanorods with two human breast cancer cell lines that express the Erbb family of receptors at different rates.
When the HRG-nanorods bind to cancer cells expressing Erbb they kick off a cascade of signalling events that lead to cell death.
Using magnetic tweezers to stretch cells we were able to further activate cell signalling pathways to trigger cell death.
This was even more effective in causing cancer cell death than magnetic hyperthermia the other therapeutic approach we assessed explained Dr Devrim Kilinc first author and research fellow in the Lee group.
Mechanochemical Stimulation of MCF7 Cells with Rod-shaped Fe Au Janus Particles Induces Cell Death Through Paradoxical Hyperactivation of ERK.
Malaria is still responsible for more than 600000 deaths annually especially affecting children in Africa (WHO 2012.
These spaces are very important for this architecture said Purdue postdoctoral research associate Vinodkumar Etacheri.
therefore, our theoretical model is able to explain the mechanism behind the microscopic images in this family of techniques,
or country rarely comes without its share of art museums and exhibitions. Unique work of arts are indeed an integral part of
what makes culture and history so fascinating and their trade weighs quite heavily in today's economies.
In 2013 the global art market generated some EUR 47.42 billion according to the European Fine art Foundation.
To give an example let us consider a wall painting or an easel painting: from a physicochemical point of view the painting is layered typically a structure the surface layers usually being painted the part.
Moreover the materials are usually porous or exhibit a complex composition they can be classified as composite materials
We could compare preservation of cultural heritage to medicine where the works of art play the role of the patients:
but must then be complemented by the development of medicines (advanced restoration materials) to cure the patient (restore the work of art).
and vinyl polymers that seriously damage the painting and in many cases have led to the loss of painted surfaces.
gels and microemulsions for the cleaning of wall and easel paintings have been branded as Nanorestore Gel and Nanorestore Cleaning.
and materials for modern and contemporary works of art such as acrylic paintings plastic sculptures and composite works that include metal textiles polymers etc.
In order to address this challenge we have created a unique partnership that groups research institutions and materials science experts together with high-profile museums conservation centres and experienced professionals in the field of modern art preservation.
David Mast associate professor of physics in UC's Mcmicken College of Arts and Sciences; and Giovanni Pauletti associate professor in the James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy.
Inorganic#Organic Hybrid Nanoprobe for NIR-Excited Imaging of Hydrogen sulfide in Cell Cultures and Inflammation in a Mouse Model.
#Research team developing injectable treatment for soldiers wounded in battle Internal bleeding is a leading cause of death on the battlefield,
it can decide life and death, "Gaharwar says.""Our material's combination of injectability, rapid mechanical recovery, physiological stability and the ability to promote coagulation result in a hemostat for treating incompressible wounds in out-of-hospital, emergency situations,
This flexible new material which the group has identified as a conductive polymer nanocomposite is the latest expression of the ongoing research in Drexel's Department of Materials science and engineering on a family of composite two-dimensional materials called MXENES.
thin microtubes could provide a scaffold for neuron cultures to grow so that researchers can study neural networks, their growth and repair,
"This is a powerful three-dimensional platform for neuron culture, "said Xiuling Li, U. of I. professor of electrical and computer engineering who co-led the study
so people grow cultures on platforms so we can see the dynamics under a microscope,
"The biggest challenge facing researchers trying to culture neurons for study is that it's very difficult to recreate the cozy, soft, three-dimensional environment of the brain.
Froeter devised a way to mount the microtubes on glass slides, the standard for biological cultures.
"Then we can take mature cultures and sever them, then introduce the microtubes and see how they regrow.""
The Lycurgus Cup in The british Museum looks so magical because it's made of glass containing gold nanoparticles.
And more immediately they're already used in medical detectors for example the pregnancy tests you buy over-the-counter work use gold nanoparticles attached to antibodies.
When friends and family came to console Gu's mother she told#them that the baby she was carrying might#one day help to treat cancer.
One particular family of lithium-ion batteries composed of nickel cobalt and aluminum (NCA) offers high enough energy density a measure of the stored electricity in the battery that it works well in large-scale and long-range vehicles including electric cars and commercial aircraft.
These new and fundamental insights may help engineers develop superior battery chemistries or nanoscale architectures that block this degradation.
and architecture of NCA batteries including the surprising atomic asymmetries and suggests new ways to enhance durability including the use of nanoscale coatings that reinforce stable structures.
and developed it into a technique to assemble graphene into porous 3d architectures while preventing stacking between the sheets.
In a single-family house alone there can be tens of electrical machines in various household appliances such as refrigerators washing machines hair dryers and ventilators.
In the most recent issue of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, nanomagnetic logic is given serious consideration among a diverse zoo of"emerging research devices."
has taken a major step in developing long-sought polymer architecture to boost power-conversion efficiency of light to electricity for use in electronic devices.
what the field considers the'Holy grail'architecture for harvesting light and converting it to electricity.
We report here that we have developed at last the ideal architecture composed of organic single-crystal vertical nanopillars.
Briseno says The biggest challenge in producing this architecture was finding the appropriate substrate that would enable the molecules to stack vertically.
and architectures for creating the next generation of nonvolatile memory.""The structure we developed could be used for a range of electronic applications from ultrafast memory devices that can be shrunk down to a few nanometers,
to computer logic architectures that replicate the versatility and response time of a biological neural network.""While more investigation needs to be done,
and has the additional benefits of absorbing sunlight from a wide range of angles and withstanding extremely high temperatures.
Molybdenum disulfide is a member of a family of materials known as transition metal dichalcogenides which are currently the focus of intense research because of the unusual electronic properties they display
which take up residence in the patch and eventually replace it with new muscle. The work appears this month in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano.
Solid-state chemical doping Materials scientists have been studying the family of correlated oxides for years, but the field is still in its infancy,
The key issue for the fabrication of the novel N-ACNT/G architecture is that the high-quality aligned CNTS
leaving a hollow architecture. The applications of this technique are practically limitless, Greer says. Since pretty much any material can be deposited on the scaffolds,
but aware of the extensive literature saying that the oxidizing agent was required, Kovtyukhova balked.""I kept asking her to try it
Martin Edlund, CEO of Malaria No more, a New york-based nonprofit focused on fighting deaths from malaria,
Within the same family of materials it is feasible that researchers could bond other pairs together in the same way.
Researchers demonstrate ultrafast charge transfer in new family of 2-D semiconductors A new argument has just been added to the growing case for graphene being bumped off its pedestal as the next big thing in the high-tech world by the two-dimensional semiconductors
Using new computer technology based on gaming machines, scientists were able to use a combination of molecular dynamics
But Moh El-Naggar assistant professor at the USC Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences says he was always careful to avoid saying that he knew for sure that's what they were.
The overall purification process requires unpurified antibodies to pass through columns packed with the media in multiple cycles that can take up to a week.
pioneering scientists are working on the seamless marriage between electronics and brain signaling with the potential to transform our understanding of how the brain worksnd how to treat its most devastating diseases.
or more of steady doses About one in four older adults suffers from chronic pain.
One of the thinnest and strongest materials known to man, graphene is a 2d sheet of carbon just one atom Thick with a'honeycomb'structure the'wonder material'is 100 times stronger than steel, highly conductive and flexible.
"The researchers developed a novel, metal, pillar-bowtie nanoantenna (p-BNA) array template on 500-nanometer tall glass pillars (or posts.
The team believes that the relatively high aspect ratio (pillar height-to-thickness) of 4. 2 for the p-BNAS,
along with a significant thermal contribution, permit sufficient compliance of the pillars to be actuated by electron-beam-induced gradient forces.
#Chirality-controlled growth of single-walled carbon nanotubes Recently, Professor Li Yan's research team developed a novel strategy to produce single-walled carbon nanotubes with specific chirality by applying a new family of catalysts,
For practical applications these nanocarriers are highly desirable explains Francisco Raymo professor of chemistry in the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences and lead investigator of this project.
The experiments were conducted with cell cultures. It is known not yet if the nanoparticles can actually travel through the bloodstream.
Subramani Swaminathan and Janet Cusido from the UM's Laboratory for Molecular Photonics Department of chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences;
Notably the presence of minor components of Si and P in the original L-BIOX nanometric particles resulted in specific and well-defined electrode architecture.
"It's like a perfect marriage, "said Zhou.""We are excited very about this idea of hybrid integration
and assemble in a variety of three-dimensional architectures. The goal of the present study was to see
#Charging portable electronics in 10 minutes Researchers at the University of California Riverside Bourns College of Engineering have developed a three-dimensional silicon-decorated cone-shaped carbon nanotube cluster architecture for lithium ion battery anodes that could enable charging of portable
carbon nanotube clusters architecture via chemical vapor deposition and inductively coupled plasma treatment. Lithium ion batteries based on this novel architecture demonstrate a high reversible capacity and excellent cycling stability.
The architecture demonstrates excellent electrochemical stability and irreversibility even at high charge and discharge rates nearly 16 times faster than conventionally used graphite based anodes.
The researchers believe the ultrafast rate of charge and discharge can be attributed to two reasons said Wei Wang lead author of the paper.
Two the cone-shaped architecture offers small interpenetrating channels for faster electrolyte access into the electrode
Working in cooperation with the VDI Association of German Engineers, it will be showcasing its latest developments at Stand 301 in the German Area."
But improved performance is just a start for this new quantum dot-based solar cell architecture. The powerful little dots could be mixed into inks
if applied using an inexpensive less-controlled application technique such as painting or spraying the Tio2 onto a semiconductor.
However Pint pointed out that there have not been any reports in the technical literature of tests performed on structural energy storage materials that show how they function under realistic mechanical loads l
which was prescribed to pregnant women in the 1950s and 1960s. One chiral form of Thalidomide worked as an effective treatment for morning sickness in early pregnancy,
while the other form, like an'evil twin',prevented proper growth of the foetus. The drug that was prescribed to patients
This research involved silicalite-1 a synthetic aluminum-free zeolite that has served as a prototype in literature for studying zeolite growth.
thanks to the work of researchers Brigham Young University, there's a way to avoid cell death
This ability to inject DNA into cells without causing cell death leads to"more efficient injections,
"As a next step, Jensen and colleagues are performing injections into cells in a cell culture using an array of lances that can inject hundreds of thousands of cells at once."
"We expect the lance array may enable gene therapy using a culture of a patient's own cells,
and dopes graphene with nitrogen is pumped through a flexible narrow reinforced tube called a capillary column and heated in an oven for six hours.
But the materials are packed tightly in the capillary column and remain so as they're pumped out resulting in the high volumetric energy density.
The process using multiple capillary columns will enable the engineers to make fibers continuously and maintain consistent quality Chen said.
#'3-D Painting'Sprays Metal To Repair Or Rebuild Machines Video#GE is showing off a new machine that sprays high-velocity metal powders at broken machines repairing damage in a few
or 3-D painting#(you know like printing) could also be used to make entirely new parts.
Def next level of gaming. Do not try and bend the spoon. That is impossible. Only try and realize the truth-there is no spoon.
Plus it looks incredible--much more like a real-life human-built room than any other 3-D printed structure albeit one that's half Roman temple half H r. Giger nightmare.
We're doing a live build at a festival in Phoenix on October 4th and an installation at a local art museum soon.
When the engine screams to life columns of steam billow from the vent giving the impression of an industrial smokestack.
and focusing on the future of space transportationâ#Replace those two flags in the picture with the NASA/ESA emblems representing a true international space endeavor.
Man that is awesome. Automation will kill the average tech job and even a control engineers job too!
Pets cars and family members are all scannable Asda wrote in a blog post. Asda sends digital files of the scans to a facility where they're printed then shipped back to the Asda store.
In a randomized controlled trial older adults with type 2 diabetes had better controlled blood sugar after playing Wii Fit Plus for half an hour a day every day for 12 weeks.
when that exposure happened details that weren t available before now Museums have hundreds of earplugs from the baleen whale group
Next the researchers plan to try to answer questions such as how many pregnancies a female has had
Will the child still have mongoloid characteristics but just be smarter? question 2. Is that mouse's name Algernon?
According to the UN that figure will fall to 30 percent by 2050 driven by population growth
Raj also discovered that in genetically identical worms varying levels of gene transcription could mean the difference between a long life and an early death.
Muhammad Zaman and his family always knew which pharmacy to trust when they got sick.
Then their culture of death would bear itself out clearly and more people would reject it.
I appreciate that controversy exists surrounding abortion. I would implore such people to consider the benefits which may arise as a consequence of experiments such as this.
and environment They can not live on their own they are dependant in their immediate physiological functions on very specific stimuli and circumstances.
This is not religion but good morals and values human life without measure. Human life is priceless!
which would otherwise have an extremely severe impact on the lives of affected individuals (not forgetting the distress caused to the families of such individuals).
#Which Drugs Actually Kill Americans Infographic Death reporting in the U s. requires an underlying cause the event or disease that lead to the death.
In addition to the underlying cause a death certificate has space for up to 20 additional causes. That's where cocaine or antidepressants would show up.
And about a quarter of all overdose death certificates don't have the toxicity test results listed at all landing them in the unspecified stripe.
About half of those additional deaths are in the pharmaceuticals category which the CDC has written about before.
Nearly three-quarters of the pharmaceuticals deaths are opioid analgesics prescription painkillers like Oxycontin and Vicodin.
And while cocaine heroin and alcohol are all responsible for enough deaths to warrant their own stripes on the chart many popular illegal drugs including marijuana
if a person had listed multiple drugs on their death certificate they're being counted twice here.
Does it consider deaths due to what people do while under the influence (drunk driving) or just if you take a lethal dose of it?@
We cannot continue to lie to drug users and expect them to take us seriously. They know better than anyone that all drugs are not bad and all pharmaceuticals are not safe either.
and if you read the article it isn't due to death by that substance it should be titled Substances in Body upon Death.
yet it is many factors of scale larger than the deaths with MJ...@killert-Google can find Porn?
But at the end at our death a doctor will often just list one or a few things that nailed our coffin not all
The elderly obese man had drugs in his system as he stepped in front of the bus that squished him running away from his angry wife with that machete.
So what exactly killed the man? Good to see the folks over at Popsci are focusing on Cannabis and the many benefits of this wonder plant.
People are dying young from cirrhosis of the liver traditionally caused from alcoholism; yet they have consumed never alcohol.
Alcohol and opioids like heroin have got to be the drugs causing the most death..The graph is anything but clear.
Drinking Hydrogen peroxide will result in death but water is need something we to live. Elecman one can easily die from an overdose on water even though...
I doubt there would be any statistical significance in comparing deaths across those groups. The only thing this graph really shows me is that pharmaceutical overdoses have increased quite a bit from 1999-2010between 1999 and 2010 the US population increased by 11%to 308 million.
In that same time green pharma related drug deaths increased from 2. 7 to 9. 9 per 100000 per year (1. 8cm by ruler to 6. 6cm where 25%=16. 6cm
Thats 22226 more deaths in just 2010. Were there changes in reporting method? Are these additional deaths treatment related
or do they include suicides or murders? Does anyone remember the article that Popsci wrote about the flaws in the chemistry that goes on in these toxicollogy reports?
can we really trust these numbers? This graph shows several things that people seem to not be getting.
Suicides would fall under intentional self-harm which has grown a negligible amount but almost nothing compared to the unintentional category.
Something like Deaths by Drug Overdose Group by Drug would have been a billion times better. Please be more responsible.
/AR2006052501729 PF. htmlthere have been recorded no deaths due to marijuana use alone either. Obviously smoking it will produce some negative effects
however those effects aren't nearly as serious as people try and make it seem. That being said there are healthier methods of ingestion such as vaporizing tinctures and edibles.
What is represented not effectively conspicuously seemingly by design are drugs that cause zero deaths. One or more of these things is not like the others
1. This chart shows deaths caused by drug overdose. It does not show deaths from chronic health problems caused by drug use nor accidents (car crashes falls) nor suicides while intoxicated.
If all these other deaths were shown the death count for alcohol would be much much greater. 2. Overdose deaths from cannabis LSD magic mushrooms
and mescaline are virtually unknown. It would be more accurate to say that Other includes PCP
which can cause overdose deaths. I agree very much about sugar. People concentrate on illegal drugs when legal drugs kill many times more.
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