From tretinoin and retinoids in preventing skin aging to telomeres as the ultimate cause and target of all aging, dermatologist Dr. Gilchrest provides a thoughtful and insightful look into her research at Boston University studying aging in skin cells.
Link: Pieces of the Puzzle: An Interview with Barbara Gilchrest, MD.
Journal of Anti-Aging Medicine. 5:153-159, 2002.
A friend was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Stand up 2 Cancer is a “pop” research funding enterprise (is it cool to be a scientist yet?) – Link: WELCOME TO SUTV | SU2C. Dream team? Sure sounds like they are having fun.
Also noteworthy is the CPRIT, recently approved by the Texas Legislature ($3 billion over the next 10 years). This will be huge for Texas in developing a cure for cancer and expanding our biotech and life sciences industry. The Chief Scientific Officer is former University of Texas Southwestern Medical School dean and nobel laurete (2004) Alfred G. Gilman, MD, PhD.
Check out their site. – Link: http://www.cprit.state.tx.us/
Abstract
President Obama recently called for more scientist involvement in education. Science outreach programs are very welcome, but to be effective, they must include incentives for teachers and better training for scientist volunteers.
Link: Encouraging science outreach : Abstract : Nature Neuroscience.
Nature Neuroscience 12, 665 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nn0609-665
This is one of the best documented cohort-based studies showing that coffee drinking provides protection from dementia in midlife and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) in late life.
Richard Smith surveys contemporary futurology of physicians in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. He finds the new roles of physicians are expanding and will require the management of ideas, patients, and a sense of “citizenship” like never before. One must wonder how changes in public policy and health care managers’ desire to specialize their services will effect an even different physician’s role.
Capacity to change: one of the few things we can know with confidence about healthcare 40 years from now, when many current medical students will still be practising, is that it will be very different from now. Future doctors will probably need more than a capacity for change: they will need an enthusiasm for change;
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