Blog entries tagged medicine

Community Clinics & Health Care Reform

North Bay Report — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:00:00 +0100

The federal health care bill, passed earlier this year, will also boost the fiscal well-begin of community clinics in Sonoma County, as well as the patients they serve.

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Carnivorous Plants

North Bay Report — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:00:00 +0100

Horror movies and popular musicals notwithstanding, carnivorous plants do not eat people, nor do they grow to tower over us. Without that far-fetched scare factor, they are strangely beautiful…and decidedly weird.

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North Bay Report — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Economist Helene Jorgensen thought she had good health insurance, until she got really sick. Having survived both her illness and her direct dealings with hospitals, laboratories and insurance companies, she has written a bluntly critical account of her experiences, both economic and medical, titled Sick and Tired.

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PCBs in Fish Oil

North Bay Report — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Fish oil capsules have long been suspected of including small amounts of toxic PCBs, but a new lawsuit contends some manufacturers of the supplements contain far more of the banned chemicals than others.

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Sutter and Marin General Hospital

North Bay Report — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:00:00 +0100

Marin General Hospital is leaving the corporate umbrella of Sutter Health Care, effective at the end of June. But the separation is proving to be less than amicable.

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North Bay Report — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Poisonings, both accidental and criminal, have been happening for centuries. But the science of investigating those deaths is barely a hundred years old.

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As she began to research the history of forensic medicine in Jazz Age New York, science writer Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook, says she was struRead More...

Music and Memory

North Bay Report — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Even in patients with advanced Alzheimer’s Disease, familiar music from long ago can awaken memories and prompt interactive behaviors. But how does that happen? A U.C. Davis researcher is working to unravel the neural mechanisms within the brain.

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North Bay Report — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:00:00 +0100

Much of the social upheaval of the 1960s can be traced back to four men at Harvard University at the beginning of the decade, contends journalist Don Lattin. His new book, The Harvard Psychedelic Club, does exactly that.

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