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The tourism cruises being conducted by China is a good strategy to strengthen its claim over the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, a security analyst said.
Rommel Banlaoi, chairman of Philippine Institute for Peace, Violence and Terrorism Research, said involving civilians will prove that China is really utilizing the island.
Hindi lang military approach ang ginagawa ng China ngayon kundi ini-involve na rin ang civilian para magkaroon ng social ownership sa China na ang mga teritoryo na ito ay bahagi talaga ng China, he said in an interview on GMA News' "Balitanghali".
May patriotic dimension yung pagpunta sa mga isla na yun dahil [para] sa kanila integral part ng Chinese territory yun, Banlaoi added.
Since the cruises started last year, at least 3,000 Chinese tourists have visited Southern Paracel Islands as part of a five-day tour of disputed islands in the South China Sea.
Vietnam and Taiwan also claim ownership of Paracel Island.
Chinese tourists pay from $1,200 to $2,000 to snorkel, dive, and swim off the white sand beachs of the small islands.
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The Armed Forces said the country can also turn the islands occupied by the Philippines into cruise ship destinations.
But Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin has recently said that President Benigno Aquino III has ordered them to maintain status quo in the highly-contested Spratly Islands in consideration of the arbitration case that the Philippines has filed before an international tribunal.
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Icelanders love keeping track of how they're related, which has made them "the world champions of human genetics.
A commercial for an Icelandic phone company from a few years ago depicted a couple waking up after a one-night stand. They both pick up their smart phones. They both log into a family-tree website, Islendingabok. And thats where things get awkward.
There are only 320,000 people who live in Iceland, and most are descended from a small clan of Celtic and Viking settlers. Thus, many Icelanders are distant (or close) relatives. Sometimes too close.
The desire to avoid unwitting incestuous pairings at one point even spawned an app, created by a group of engineering students at the University of Iceland, that allows its users to bump their phones together to determine whether they share a common ancestor. (Tag line: Bump in the app before you bump in bed.")
Concerns about wading into the shallow end of the gene pool are just a small part of the Icelandic obsession with genealogy. As Iva Skoch explained in Global Post, when two Icelanders meet, the first question is usually, "Hverra manna ert bu?" (Who are your people?) Bookstores are stocked with thick volumes on the histories of Icelandic families.
For nearly a millennium, careful genealogical records had been kept in the Islendingabok, or Book of Icelanders. In 1997, Icelandic neurologist Kri Stefnsson created a web-based version of Islendingabok in order to offer his countrymen 24/7 access to their family trees. Along with developer Fridrik Skulason, he scoured census data, church records, and family archives in order to encompass what he claims is 95 percent of Icelanders who have lived within the past three centuries. It has since become one of the most popular sites in the country.
If you take the old Icelandic sagas, they all begin with page after page of genealogy, Stefnsson told me. It assures that the common man won't be forgotten.
For Stefnsson, the national preoccupation with heredity has yielded an unexpected professional benefit: Having the genealogy of the entire nation is one of the things that has turned us into the world champions of human genetics.
Because Icelanders do such a good job of tracing their family histories, Stefnsson and his colleagues at Decode, the genetics firm he founded, have a rich trove of data for experiments. So far, hes discovered how specific genetic mutations affect a person's chances of having everything from Alzheimers to blond hair. Hes identified a certain cancer-causing mutation thats much more common in Iceland than in America, and he's uncovered a genetic component to longevity. Most recently, he and many co-authors found that a certain mutation introduced in Iceland in the 15th century is the primary driver of Icelanders risk of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a disease in which the heart muscles thicken.
Having the genealogy gives us an opportunity to figure out how everyone is related to everyone else, he said. If you are tracing genes to figure out disease, it is important to figure out, how does this mutation travel from one generation to the next?
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The worlds largest study into the genetics behind human height has discovered the traits vast complexity.
Researchers at The University of Queensland took a leading role in the analysis of more than a quarter of a million samples, finding hundreds of new genes that play a role in determining height.
Co-senior investigator Professor Peter Visscher, from UQs Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), said the discovery would help provide a model for genetic studies of other human traits and of diseases such as psychiatric disorders and dementia.
Just as neuroscientists use experimental organisms as a model to study brain function, geneticists use human height as a model trait to study genetic variation, he said.
The study involved more than 300 organisations across the world and found 697 DNA variants which influence height.
Joint-lead author and QBI researcher Dr Jian Yang said the findings were significant because they proved exactly how complicated human height is.
The DNA variant with the largest effect on height only has an impact of about five millimetres, and most of the other variants have a much smaller effect, Dr Yang said.
Taken together, all DNA variants we discovered account for height differences spanning approximately 11 centimetres.
This shows that the genetic basis for height isnt controlled by a single gene or small group of genes there are thousands of genes involved.
Its estimated that about 80 per cent of a normal healthy individuals height is controlled by heritable genetic factors, and weve only discovered around one-fifth of those genes.
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BOSTON -- With the next open enrollment period set for Nov. 15, Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday said the state's troubled health-care exchange website is fixed, at a cost of an additional $26 million to the state, bringing the federal and state total to $254 million in information technology costs.
The $254 million covers calendar years 2011 to 2015, and is $80 million higher than the original $174 million estimate to build the site, according to a Patrick administration spokeswoman. The state's share of the cost is $42 million, up from the original $16 million.
Addressing attendees of a hearing on health-care cost trends at Suffolk University Law School, Patrick said the additional $26 million is "significant," but "not the hundreds of millions or billion dollar figures that some have bandied about."
In a September report, The Pioneer Institute, a think tank critical of the state's efforts, estimated that taxpayers will have spent $600 million to implement a new health exchange, on top of $540 million for a temporary Medicaid program to insure residents who were prevented from signing up for health insurance due to problems with the website.
Patrick administration officials responded dismissively to the report after its release, and Patrick himself issued a statement condemning the report while traveling on a trade mission.
On Monday, Patrick acknowledged the site was a "terrible disappointment" during last year's transition to the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA), but said the state has enrolled more than 400,000 people in both subsidized and unsubsidized coverage programs.
Joshua Archambault, a senior fellow at the Pioneer Institute, called Monday's estimate "far too narrow."
"It is similar to a student mistaking his out-of-pocket expenses as the only expense for attending the local university," he said.
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"All I want is the lab required for my colonoscopy," I said. He replied that he thought I would "want to know" what my other tests showed.
In reality, we both knew that with my good health, the chance that something would show up would be very, very unusual. Why waste the money?
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Unnecessary tests also increase the chance of "false positive" results, meaning something shows up that really isn't a problem. With false positive results, doctors may have to chase down why the lab result is erroneous, adding to costs and anxiety. Basically, lab tests should be used to supplement a history and physical, not replace it.
So, as an empowered patient, how can you help control laboratory costs? Have clients ask this simple question: "How will the result of this test affect my treatment?" If the doctor can't answer that question, the test is probably not needed. The answer "Just so we know" isn't good enough.
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The Youngstown District Board of Health has made Erin Bishop the health departments commissioner.
Bishop had served as acting health commissioner since February 2011. Her annual salary $71,659 remains the same as she was receiving as acting commissioner, said the Rev. Lewis Macklin, health-board president.
He said at Mondays meeting Bishop was promoted because she has been doing the job and she embraces the priorities of the board of working toward reducing infant-mortality rates and health-care disparities in the community, especially among the minority population.
Bishop, with Patricia Sweeney, is co-chairwoman of the Mahoning-Youngstown Birth Outcome Equity Team, which has identified and prioritized areas to improve the overall infant-mortality rate. Bishop also is a member of the Ohio Institute for Equity in Birth Outcomes Leadership Team representing all the Ohio Equity Institute Teams.
Bishop reported to the board the Mahoning County Health Care Coalition will meet in special session Thursday to ensure that the areas health-care organizations are prepared to deal with the Ebola virus should it strike here.
The health coalition consists of the city and county public-health departments, emergency-management agency, emergency medical services and hospitals.
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"All I want is the lab required for my colonoscopy," I said. He replied that he thought I would "want to know" what my other tests showed.
In reality, we both knew that with my good health, the chance that something would show up would be very, very unusual. Why waste the money?
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Unnecessary tests also increase the chance of "false positive" results, meaning something shows up that really isn't a problem. With false positive results, doctors may have to chase down why the lab result is erroneous, adding to costs and anxiety. Basically, lab tests should be used to supplement a history and physical, not replace it.
So, as an empowered patient, how can you help control laboratory costs? Have clients ask this simple question: "How will the result of this test affect my treatment?" If the doctor can't answer that question, the test is probably not needed. The answer "Just so we know" isn't good enough.
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By Andy Metzger
State House News Service
CHELSEA -- Facing criticism from her chief rival in the gubernatorial election for missing annual hearings on health-care cost trends, Martha Coakley said health care and mental health are important issues, and ones her staff can handle.
Monday kicked off the first of two days of testimony before the state Health Policy Commission on health care costs, an issue where Coakley has played a role, seeking to forgo anti-trust litigation with Partners HealthCare System by letting the health giant grow larger in exchange for cost-controls going forward.
Coakley participated in the hearings last year, but does not plan to this year amid a campaign for governor where she is neck and neck with Republican Charlie Baker. A Democrat, Coakley is the attorney general and the state's designated consumer advocate.
"I have done them in the past, but the issues that I care very strongly about that are on today, that my folks have worked on -- they are representing and will put forward the proposals," Coakley told the News Service at a campaign stop in Chelsea on Monday morning when asked why she wasn't attending the hearing.
A Coakley spokesman on Friday said she could not attend the hearing due to a scheduling conflict, which he declined to specify. The Attorney General's Office was scheduled to make a presentation this morning.
In a statement Monday morning, Baker criticized Coakley for missing the discussion of health costs.
"The skyrocketing cost of health care is among the greatest problems facing middle-class families in Massachusetts," Baker said in a statement. "As attorney general, Martha Coakley has done little to offer comfort to those seeking affordable health care, has sat on the sidelines while the Health Connector website has left thousands in health-care limbo at a cost of millions to the taxpayers, and now is skipping an opportunity to advocate on behalf of those struggling to pay for quality health-care services."
The commission has estimated Partners' acquisition of South Shore Hospital and merger with Hallmark Health System would cause costs to rise $49 million per year. In an agreement that is currently before Superior Court Judge Janet Sanders, Coakley would green-light the mergers, while the agreement would cap Hallmark prices for six and a half years and require Partners to fund a compliance monitor. Partners and Coakley say the agreement will help control rising costs and significantly alter Partners' negotiating power for up to 10 years.
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Wal-Mart announced Monday that it will dive deeper into the health-care market, unveiling an initiative to allow customers to compare and enroll in health insurance plans in thousands of its stores.
Wal-Mart is teaming with DirectHealth.com, an online insurance comparison site and independent health insurance agency, to set up counters in its stores where consumers can talk to licensed agents about plan options.
"Our goal is to be the number one health-care provider in the industry," said Labeed Diab, president of health and wellness for Wal-Mart U.S. "And the more we broaden our assortment, the more we broaden our offering, the more we educate the customer Wal-Mart is a great place to create a one-stop shop."
Over the past several years, Wal-Mart has moved to expand its reach beyond retail into the health-care sector, where Americans are spending an increasingly larger share of their dollars. Earlier this year, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based company began opening primary-care centers at several of its locations. Hundreds of its stores include acute-care clinics that offer a basic menu of services, including flu shots and blood-pressure screenings. Wal-Mart made waves about eight years ago when it announced it would offer generic versions of some prescription drugs for just $4.
Some Wal-Mart competitors are by some measures outdoing the big-box retailer with their forays into health care: CVS, for example, has more than 800 retail clinics, according to consulting firm Merchant Medicine. Walgreens has about 400 of them, while Wal-Mart has about 100.
Wal-Mart first began hosting agents from individual insurers in its stores in 2005. The newly announced offering expands on that, with the agents able to guide customers through thousands of plans from hundreds of carriers. DirectHealth.com agents will receive a commission if they enroll an in-store customer in a health plan.
Diab said Wal-Mart hopes this one-on-one service will become a gateway for customers to come to their stores for all of their health-care needs.
"You're educating the consumer on a very, very complex part of the [health-care] space," Diab said. "And when you do that, they want you to take care of their prescription needs, their over-the-counter needs, their optical needs, the clinics."
The program, known as Healthcare Begins Here, kicks off October 10 and will run in stores through December 7, closely tracking with the Medicare open-enrollment period and partially overlapping with the open enrollment period for federal health insurance exchanges. The company said it will monitor the success of the program and potentially bring it back next year.
Wal-Mart will initially offer the program at 2,700 of its 4,311 U.S. stores. Marcus Osborne, Walmart's vice president of health and wellness payer relations, said the company selected locations based on customer interest and demand.
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Imagine being able to take a pill that lets you eat all of the ice cream, cookies, and cakes that you wanted without gaining any weight.
New research from USC suggests that dream may not be impossible. A team of scientists led by Sean Curran of the USC Davis School of Gerontology and the Keck School of Medicine of USC found a new way to suppress the obesity that accompanies a high-sugar diet, pinning it down to a key gene that pharmaceutical companies have already developed drugs to target.
So far, Curran's work has been solely on the worm Caenorhabditis elegans and human cells in a petri dish but the genetic pathway he studied is found in almost all animals from yeast to humans. Next, he plans to test his findings in mice.
Curran's research is outlined in a study that will be published on Oct. 6 by Nature Communications.
Building on previous work with C. elegans, Curran and his colleagues found that certain genetic mutants those with a hyperactive SKN-1 gene could be fed incredibly high-sugar diets without gaining any weight, while regular C. elegans ballooned on the same diet.
"The high-sugar diet that the bacteria ate was the equivalent of a human eating the Western diet," Curran said, referring to the diet favored by the Western world, characterized by high-fat and high-sugar foods, like burgers, fries and soda.
The SKN-1 gene also exists in humans, where it is called Nrf2, suggesting that the findings might translate, he said. The Nrf2 protein, a "transcription factor" that binds to a specific sequence of DNA to control the ability of cells to detox or repair damage when exposed to chemically reactive oxygen (a common threat to cells' well being), has been well studied in mammals.
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GenapSys has appointed Mark Pratt as vice president of product development. Most recently, Pratt was senior director of accuracy R&D at Personalis. Before that, he served at Illumina, where he was responsible for engineering research, including holding leadership positions in the development of the HiSeq and MiSeq systems.
The Personalized Medicine Coalition announced that Daryl Pritchard will be its new VP of science policy, in charge of promoting the organization's science-related policies and of raising awareness of precision healthcare issues among policymakers, providers, and patients. Before joining PMC, Pritchard was director of policy research at the National Pharmaceutical Council; director of research programs advocacy and personalized medicine at the Biotechnology Industry Organization; and the director of government affairs for the American Association for Dental Research.
Nabsys has appointed Steve Lombardi to president, CEO, and to its board of directors. Previously, he was CEO of Real Time Genomics, and before that he was CEO of Helicos BioSciences. He has also served as senior vice president of Affymetrix and vice president of genetic analysis at Applied Biosystems.
Roche said this week that Arthur Levinson has resigned from its board of directors, effective immediately. The drugmaker said Levinson, who was chairman and CEO at Genentech from 1999 to 2014, made the decision to avoid any conflict with his post as CEO at Calico, a Google-backed startup. Levinson has served on Roche's board since 2010.
Sanford Burnham Medical Research Institute said this week it has named Perry Nisen as its CEO and as holder of the Donald Bren Chief Executive Chair. Nisen joins Sanford Burnham from GlaxoSmithKline, where he was senior VP of science and innovation.
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Contact: Kathryn Ryan kryan@liebertpub.com 914-740-2100 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News @LiebertOnline
New Rochelle, NY, October 6, 2014While poker is a game of chance, there is skill and decision-making involved, and the quality of those decisions depends on both knowledge of the game and the ability to control one's emotions. The results of a new study that evaluates emotionality, experience level, and success among online poker players are presented in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking website until November 6, 2014.
In the article "Experienced Poker Players are Emotionally Stable," Michael Laakasuo, Jussi Palomki, and Mikko Salmela, University of Helsinki, Finland, propose that emotional stability is both a predictive and enabling factor for becoming an experienced and successful poker player. The authors' assessments of emotionality also led to the conclusion that poker players who prefer live play rather than online games are more likely to be extroverted and open to experiences.
"Previous studies have shown that online poker players tend to be introverted individuals and that those who perform better at poker are less neurotic," says Editor-in-Chief Brenda K. Wiederhold, PhD, MBA, BCB, BCN, Interactive Media Institute, San Diego, California. "This study, however, takes research a step further by comparing online and offline players."
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Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published monthly online with Open Access options and in print that explores the psychological and social issues surrounding the Internet and interactive technologies, plus cybertherapy and rehabilitation. Complete tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking website.
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New Rochelle, NY, October 6, 2014Self-management of diabetes, including medication, nutrition, and lifestyle strategies, is essential for optimal glycemic control and minimizing complications of the disease. Education to teach and improve self-management skills is critical for success and, when delivered via the Internet, can lead to better glycemic control and enhanced diabetes knowledge compared to usual care, according to a Review article in Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics (DTT), a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the DTT website at http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/dia.2014.0155 until November 6, 2014.
Katherine Pereira, DNP, Beth Phillips, MSN, Constance Johnson, PhD, and Allison Vorderstrasse DNSc, Duke University School of Nursing (Durham, NC), review various methods of delivering diabetes education via the Internet and compare their effectiveness in improving diabetes-related outcomes. In the article "Internet Delivered Diabetes Self-Management Education: A Review" the authors describe some of the benefits of this method of educating patients, including ease of access and the ability to self-pace through the materials.
"With the increasing prevalence of diabetes globally and a decreasing number of available healthcare providers, alternative approaches and better education in self-management are necessary to improve diabetes outcomes," says DTT Editor-in-Chief Satish Garg, MD, Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Colorado Denver. "This study evaluates the role of Internet-based self-management in diabetes-related outcomes."
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Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics (DTT) is a monthly peer-reviewed journal that covers new technology and new products for the treatment, monitoring, diagnosis, and prevention of diabetes and its complications. Led by Editor-in-Chief Satish Garg, MD, the Journal covers topics that include noninvasive glucose monitoring, implantable continuous glucose sensors, novel routes of insulin administration, genetic engineering, the artificial pancreas, measures of long-term control, computer applications for case management, telemedicine, the Internet, and new medications. Tables of contents and a free sample issue may be viewed on the Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics (DTT) website at http://www.liebertpub.com/DTT. DTT is the official journal of the Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD) Conference.
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