NASA Announces the Discovery of the Most Interesting Planetary System Outside Our Own

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The Kepler Space Telescope has been in orbit looking for planets around other stars since 2009, and it's started to find some startlingly interesting solar systems out there.

Today, the Kepler team announced the discovery of star system Kepler 62, a group of five planets circling a red star,twoof which may be capable of supporting life. That doubles the number of Earth-like planets in the habitable zone that Kepler has confirmed in the cosmos. And they're the smallest, and therefore closest to Earth size, that astronomers have detected. The system is 1,200 light years away.

This is remarkably exciting. Not only do we know about two more Earth-like planets out there, but they're in the same solar system! That sent at least one scientist into the kind of reverie that I've been having since I heard the news.

"Imagine looking through a telescope to see another world with life just a few million miles from your own, or having the capability to travel between them on regular basis," Kepler team member Dimitar Sasselov of Harvard told New Scientist. "I can't think of a more powerful motivation to become a space-faring society."

While scientists have found that our galaxy is teeming with planets, it takes longer to detect planets that take a long time to orbit their suns. That's because Kepler detects planets when they pass in front of their stars. If a planet takes a couple hundred Earth-days to go around its sun, the scientists need several years to gather several transits, as they're known.

NASA's Bill Borucki, the mission's principal scientific investigator and a tireless proponent of this misson for years, was understandably excited about the discoveries.

"The detection and confirmation of planets is an enormously collaborative effort of talent and resources, and requires expertise from across the scientific community to produce these tremendous results," Borucki said in a NASA release. "Kepler has brought a resurgence of astronomical discoveries and we are making excellent progress toward determining if planets like ours are the exception or the rule."

The search for planets like our own is one of the science's most exciting frontiers, and after years of waiting for the discovery of Earth-like planets, we're finally getting them. This one was published in the journal Science. It's also worth noting that Borucki's team announced another planetary system surrounding a star like our own that harbors one Earth-like planet. It was a big day for those awaiting news of other planets capable of supporting life.

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NASA Just Found Some Very Earth-Like Planets

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Since being launched into space in March 2009, NASA's Kepler spacecraft has been searching the Milky Way for planets that might sustain liquid water. Named after the German astronomer who discovered planetary motion, the craft has turned up nearly 3,000 such candidates, each of them positioned in the habitable zone of the Sun-like stars they orbit. But few of them have been so excitedly announced as two planets Kepler recently turned up, nicknamed Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f, and Kepler-69c, all of which are significantly larger than Earth and orbit stars a bit smaller than the Sun. During a press conference held at a NASA observatory in northern California on Thursday afternoon, the agency said that astronomers believe each planet may contain liquid water. (One of them, Kepler-62e,may in fact be completely covered in water.)

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The astronomers came across the planets using a sophisticated telescope attached to the Kepler spacecraft, which records planets as they pass in between the spacecraft and a star. The telescope records the amount of light blocked by the planet, a measurement astronomers use to determine the planet's size. Later, after comparing data collected by telescopes positioned on the Earth's surface, astronomers can pinpoint the movement and location of those planets, relative to nearby stars. Using this technique,NASA has confirmed more that more than 120 planets in the Milky Way occupy a habitable zone.

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We're still far off from knowing what any of these planets actually contain, though. "Scientists do not know whether life could exist on the newfound planets, but their discovery signals we are another step closer to finding a world similar to Earth around a star like our sun," a NASA statement indicated.

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NASA's Kepler Finds 3 New Planets in 'Habitable Zone'

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NASA today revealed that its Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three planets that might be what the space agency considers "habitable."

That term should be used loosely, however. What it really means is that the planets appear to have a surface temperature that might be suitable for liquid water, which is necessary to sustain life. Still, it's another step toward the discovery of a planet like Earth.

"The Kepler spacecraft has certainly turned out to be a rock star of science," John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, said in a statement. "The discovery of these rocky planets in the habitable zone brings us a bit closer to finding a place like home. It is only a matter of time before we know if the galaxy is home to a multitude of planets like Earth, or if we are a rarity."

The Kepler space telescope, which launched in March 2009, captures information about 200,000 stars every 30 seconds utilizing something known as the transit method.

"When a planet candidate transits, or passes in front of the star from the spacecraft's vantage point, a percentage of light from the star is blocked," NASA said. "The resulting dip in the brightness of the starlight reveals the transiting planet's size relative to its star."

This process has uncovered 2,740 possible planets; 122 have been confirmed.

The two most recently discovered systems are known as Kepler-62 (above) and Kepler-69 (below). Kepler-62 has five planets, and Kepler-69 has two. Of those seven planets, two of Kepler-62's are considered habitable, while one of Kepler-69's might be able to sustain life. They are known as Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f (above left), and Kepler-69c.

Kepler-62e: This was the first of the new planets to be identified. It's 60 percent larger than Earth and orbits its star every 122 days. That star, NASA said, is smaller and cooler than our Sun.

Kepler-62f: NASA said this planet is 40 percent larger than Earth, and likely has a rather rocky composition, based on previous studies of rocky exoplanets similar in size. It has a 267-day orbit and was found by Eric Agol, associate professor of astronomy at the University of Washington. He co-authored a paper on the discoveries for the journal Science.

Kepler-69c: This planet is 70 percent larger than Earth and orbits in the habitable zone of a star similar to our Sun. Its composition is unknown but its 242-orbit makes scientists think it might be similar to Venus.

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NASA to Reveal New Alien Planet Findings Today: How to Watch Live

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NASA will unveil new discoveries made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope today (April 18).

Scientists will reveal the findings during a news conference at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., at 2 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) Thursday. The announcement will also be streamed live.

You can watch the announcement live on SPACE.com, courtesy of NASA TV.

"Kepler is the first NASA mission capable of finding Earth-size planets in or near the habitable zone, which is the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water," NASA officials said in a statement. "Launched in 2009, theKepler space telescopeis detecting planets and planet candidates with a wide range of sizes and orbital distances to help us better understand our place in the galaxy."

According to NASA's announcement, Thursday's press briefing will include presentations from the following scientists:

Members of the public can ask questions using the Twitter hashtag, #AskNASA.

The $600 million Kepler spacecraft has flagged more than 2,700 potential planets since its launch. Just 115 or so have been confirmed to date by follow-up observations, but mission scientists estimate that more than 90 percent will turn out to be the real deal.

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NASA sees distant planets that seem ideal for life

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WASHINGTON (AP) NASA's planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like ideal places for some sort of life to flourish. And they are just the right size and in just the right place.

One is toasty, the other nippy.

The distant duo are the best candidates for habitable planets that astronomers have found so far, said William Borucki, the chief scientist for NASA's Kepler telescope. And it's got astronomers thinking that similar planets that are just about right for life "Goldilocks planets" might be common in the universe.

The discoveries, published online Thursday in the journal Science, mark a milestone in the search for planets where life could exist. In the four years that Kepler has been trailing Earth's orbit, the telescope has found 122 exoplanets planets outside our solar system.

In the past, those planets haven't fit all the criteria that would make them right for life of any kind from microbes to man.

Many planets aren't in the habitable zone where it's not too hot and not too cold for liquid water. And until now, the few found in that ideal zone, were just too big. Those are likely to be gas balls like Neptune and that's not suitable for life.

Similarly, any Earth-size planets weren't in the right place near their stars, Borucki said.

In the Goldilocks game of looking for other planets like ours, the new discoveries, called Kepler-62-e and Kepler-62-f are just right. And they are fraternal twins. They circle the same star, an orange dwarf, and are next to each other closer together than Earth and its neighbor Mars.

The planets are slightly wider than Earth, but not too big. Kepler-62-e is a bit balmy, like a Hawaiian world and Kepler-62-f is a bit frosty, more Alaskan, Borucki said.

The pair is 1,200 light-years away; a light-year is almost 6 trillion miles.

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Sizing Up Nanotechnology Safety

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A researcher explains why size matters when it comes to nanotechnology safety.

Nanoparticles engineered materials that measure one-billionth of a meter or smaller can be found in hundreds of consumer products, including food, lotions, cosmetics and more. But according to one expert, some of the research conducted to determine the health and environmental safety impact of nanomaterials may have yielded misleading results.

During a lecture at the American Chemical Society (ACS) national meeting earlier this month, Christy Haynes, Ph.D., principal investigator of The Haynes Research Group at the University of Minnesota, explained that more than 800 consumer products based on nanotechnology are on the market. A new field, nanotoxicology, emerged in the last decade to investigate those concerns.

Initial work focused on using the toxicology tests that had been used for years to evaluate bulk materials, Haynes said. Nanoparticles, however, are inherently different. A nanoparticle of material used in food or a cosmetic lotion may contain just a few atoms, or a few thousand atoms. Regular-sized pieces of that same material might contain billions of atoms. That difference makes nanoparticles behave differently than their bulk counterparts.

A 1-ounce nugget of pure gold has the same chemical and physical properties as a 2-ounce nugget or a 27-pound gold bar. But for nanoparticles, size often dictates the physical and chemical properties, and those properties change as the size decreases.

Haynes said that some of the earlier nanotoxicology tests did not fully take those and other factors into account when evaluating the effects of nanoparticles. In some cases, the bottom line in those tests was whether cells growing in laboratory cultures lived or died after exposure to a nanoparticle.

While these results can be useful, there are two important limitations, Haynes explained. A cell can be alive but unable to function properly, and it would not be apparent in those tests. In addition, the nature of nanoparticles theyre more highly reactive can cause false positives in these assays.

Haynes described a new approach used in her teams work in evaluating the toxicity of nanoparticles. It focuses on monitoring how exposure to nanoparticles affects a cells ability to function normally, rather than just its ability to survive the exposure. In addition, they have implemented measures to reduce false-positive test results, which overestimate nanoparticle toxicity

So far, we have found that nanoparticles made of silver or titanium may be the most problematic, though I would say that neither is as bad as some of the alarmist media speculations, especially when they are stabilized appropriately, said Haynes. I think that it will be possible to create safe, stable coatings on nanoparticles that will make them stable and allow them to leave the body appropriately. We need more research, of course, in order to make informed decisions.

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Ivy Tech to offer summer nanotechnology courses

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SOUTH BEND -- Ivy Tech Community College in South Bend will offer a special summer session of nanotechnology courses from May 20 through Aug. 10.

The courses will be taught at Ivy Tech, in collaboration with Penn State University's Center for Nanotochnology Education & Utilization and the University of Notre Dame.

Coursework will be completed through lectures, software-based training, laboratory experience, tool training and processing training. Students will use nanotechnology instruments in Ivy Tech's nanotechnology lab and at Notre Dame's nanofabrication facility.

There will be an open house from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 26 to provide information about the summer program. The open house, which is free and open to the general public, will be in Room 1300 at the Ivy Tech campus, 220 Dean Johnson Blvd. Nanotechnology faculty and admissions staff will be available to answer questions, demonstrate equipment and assist prospective students with enrollment.

Ivy Tech in South Bend is the only Ivy Tech campus in the state that offers an associate's degree program in nanotechnology.

The summer program will consist of six nanotechnology courses presented sequentially in two-week modules. All courses are three credit hours, and will meet from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays, each for a total of two weeks. Each student who completes the program will be awarded a certificate of completion by Penn State's Center for Nanotechnology Education & Utilization.

Housing for students who live outside the area will be available through a partnership with Indiana University South Bend.

To make a reservation for the open house or for more information about the nanotechnology program, contact Sam Agdasi at: aaghdasi@ivytech.edu or by phone at 574-289-7001, ext. 6355.

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Sports Medicine Experts Address Injuries in Throwing and Multisport Athletes

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Newswise Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), the nations top hospital for orthopedics, will host Current Concepts in Sports Medicine, an educational symposium to discuss how to identify, prevent and treat articular cartilage and hip/pelvis injuries, as well as injuries common to the throwing and multisport athlete.

The two-day symposium co-directed by Frank Cordasco, M.D., sports medicine orthopedic surgeon; and John Cavanaugh, P.T., MEd, ATC, SCS, features the expertise of HSSs Sports Medicine and Shoulder Service and Rehabilitation and Performance staff. It is specifically designed for physician assistants, physical therapists, physical therapist assistants, athletic trainers, coaches, nurse practitioners and other healthcare professionals to learn how to properly manage sports-related medical issues and hear about the latest treatments advances from HSS experts.

Physicians and physical therapists from Hospital for Special Surgery have the distinction of being the team physicians for 17 professional and college teams, and the Sports Medicine and Shoulder Service has trained more than 100 of the sports medicine leaders in institutions all over the world.

HSS continues to grow and advance medicine with pioneering surgical treatments techniques, said Dr. Cordasco. Our staff is uniquely positioned to share information with local, regional and national audiences on how were developing and restoring mobility to world-class athletes and returning them to play in top performance shape.

Sports Medicine must include a variety of health and athletic professionals and physical therapists often play a significant role in providing that connectivity, said Cavanaugh. Current Concepts gives HSS the opportunity to share the most up-to-date and current trends in sports medicine, whether its knee ligament repair, shoulder surgery or evaluation diagnostic tools.

CURRENT CONCEPTS IN SPORTS MEDICINE:

DATE: Friday, April 19, 2013, and Saturday, April 20, 2013

TIMES: 8 a.m. 6 p.m. on Friday, April 19 7:20 a.m. 4:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 20

LOCATION: Hospital for Special Surgery Richard L. Menschel Education Center, 2nd Floor 535 East 70th Street New York

DETAILS: The seventh annual conference includes: Live surgery, and presentations and discussions that will recognize the most current approaches for managing and treating anterior shoulder instability; Discuss the principles of treatment progressions for the postsurgical hip arthroscopy population; Review surgical intervention for articular cartilage injuries and the implication for post-operative rehabilitation; Identify common injuries in the long-distance swimmer, runner and cyclist; and describe an evidence-based approach to rehabilitation strategies related to ACL prevention programs, weight training for the adolescent athlete and developing flexibility.

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War medicine being used to help injured Boston bombing victims

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Medical advances made during wars will help doctors treat the injured victims of the Boston bombings.

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The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs.

"The only field or occupation that benefits from war is medicine," said Dr. David Cifu, rehabilitation medicine chief at the Veterans Health Administration.

Nearly 2,000 American troops have lost a leg, arm, foot or hand in Iraq or Afghanistan, and their sacrifices have led to advances in the immediate and long-term care of survivors, as well in the quality of prosthetics that are now so good that surgeons often chose them over trying to save a badly mangled leg.

Tourniquets, shunned during the Vietnam War, made a comeback in Iraq as medical personnel learned to use them properly and studies proved that they saved lives. In Boston, as on the battlefield, they did just that by preventing people from bleeding to death.

Military doctors learned and passed on to their civilian counterparts a surgical strategy of a minimal initial operation to stabilize the patient, followed by more definitive ones days later, an approach that experience showed offered the best chance to preserve tissue from large and complex leg wounds.

At the same time, wartime demand for prosthetics has led to new innovations such as sophisticated computerized knees that work better than a badly damaged leg ever would again.

"This is a clear case where all of the expertise that was gained by prosthetic manufacturers was gained from the wars. It's astonishing how well they function and the things people can do with these prostheses," said Dr. Michael Yaffe, a trauma surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

The hospital has performed amputations on three blast victims so far. A few other patients there may yet need them. Yaffe is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, and many other doctors treating Boston blast victims also have had military training.

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Medical advances made during wars will help doctors treat the injured victims of the Boston bombings.

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The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs.

"The only field or occupation that benefits from war is medicine," said Dr. David Cifu, rehabilitation medicine chief at the Veterans Health Administration.

Nearly 2,000 American troops have lost a leg, arm, foot or hand in Iraq or Afghanistan, and their sacrifices have led to advances in the immediate and long-term care of survivors, as well in the quality of prosthetics that are now so good that surgeons often chose them over trying to save a badly mangled leg.

Tourniquets, shunned during the Vietnam War, made a comeback in Iraq as medical personnel learned to use them properly and studies proved that they saved lives. In Boston, as on the battlefield, they did just that by preventing people from bleeding to death.

Military doctors learned and passed on to their civilian counterparts a surgical strategy of a minimal initial operation to stabilize the patient, followed by more definitive ones days later, an approach that experience showed offered the best chance to preserve tissue from large and complex leg wounds.

At the same time, wartime demand for prosthetics has led to new innovations such as sophisticated computerized knees that work better than a badly damaged leg ever would again.

"This is a clear case where all of the expertise that was gained by prosthetic manufacturers was gained from the wars. It's astonishing how well they function and the things people can do with these prostheses," said Dr. Michael Yaffe, a trauma surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

The hospital has performed amputations on three blast victims so far. A few other patients there may yet need them. Yaffe is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, and many other doctors treating Boston blast victims also have had military training.

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An injured person is helped on the sidewalk near the Boston Marathon finish line following an explosion in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2013.AP Photo/MetroWest Daily News, Ken McGagh

The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs after Monday's attack.

"The only field or occupation that benefits from war is medicine," said Dr. David Cifu, rehabilitation medicine chief at the Veterans Health Administration.

Nearly 2,000 U.S. troops have lost a leg, arm, foot or hand in Iraq or Afghanistan, and their sacrifices have led to advances in the immediate and long-term care of survivors, as well as in the quality of prosthetics that are now so good that surgeons often choose them over trying to save a badly mangled leg.

Military doctors passed on to their civilian counterparts a surgical strategy of a minimal initial operation to stabilize the patient, followed by more definitive ones days later, an approach that offered the best chance to preserve tissue from large and complex leg wounds.

At the same time, wartime demand for prosthetics has led to new innovations such as sophisticated computerized knees that work better than a badly damaged leg ever would again.

"This is a clear case where all of the expertise that was gained by prosthetic manufacturers was gained from the wars. It's astonishing how well they function and the things people can do with these prostheses," said Dr. Michael Yaffe, a trauma surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

The hospital has performed amputations on three blast victims so far. A few other patients there may yet need them. Yaffe is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, and many other doctors treating Boston blast victims also have had military training.

The military partnered with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons to train doctors throughout the United States on advances learned from the wars, said Dr. Kevin Kirk, an Army lieutenant colonel who is chief orthopedic surgeon at San Antonio Military Medical Center.

Help, too, has come from Israel, which for decades has dealt with the aftermath of Palestinian bombs, like the ones in Boston, often laden with nails, ball bearings and other metals.

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The bombs that made Boston look like a combat zone have also brought battlefield medicine to their civilian victims. A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has sharpened skills and scalpels, leading to dramatic advances that are now being used to treat the 13 amputees and nearly a dozen other patients still fighting to keep damaged limbs after Monday's attack.

"The only field or occupation that benefits from war is medicine," said Dr. David Cifu, rehabilitation medicine chief at the Veterans Health Administration.

Nearly 2,000 U.S. troops have lost a leg, arm, foot or hand in Iraq or Afghanistan, and their sacrifices have led to advances in the immediate and long-term care of survivors, as well as in the quality of prosthetics that are now so good that surgeons often choose them over trying to save a badly mangled leg.

Tourniquets, shunned during the Vietnam War, made a comeback in Iraq as medical personnel learned to use them properly and studies proved that they saved lives. In Boston, as on the battlefield, they did just that by preventing people from bleeding to death.

Military doctors passed on to their civilian counterparts a surgical strategy of a minimal initial operation to stabilize the patient, followed by more definitive ones days later, an approach that offered the best chance to preserve tissue from large and complex leg wounds.

At the same time, wartime demand for prosthetics has led to new innovations such as sophisticated computerized knees that work better than a badly damaged leg ever would again.

"This is a clear case where all of the expertise that was gained by prosthetic manufacturers was gained from the wars. It's astonishing how well they function and the things people can do with these prostheses," said Dr. Michael Yaffe, a trauma surgeon at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

The hospital has performed amputations on three blast victims so far. A few other patients there may yet need them. Yaffe is a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserves, and many other doctors treating Boston blast victims also have had military training.

The military partnered with the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons to train doctors throughout the United States on advances learned from the wars, said Dr. Kevin Kirk, an Army lieutenant colonel who is chief orthopedic surgeon at San Antonio Military Medical Center.

Help, too, has come from Israel, which for decades has dealt with the aftermath of Palestinian bombs, like the ones in Boston, often laden with nails, ball bearings and other metals.

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Research and Markets: Chinese Patent Medicine Industry Report, 2012-2015

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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Chinese Patent Medicine Industry Report, 2012-2015" report to their offering.

In recent years, China's Chinese patent medicine industry has been running in good condition, with the revenue increasing from RMB 142 billion in 2008 to RMB 360 billion in 2012 at a CAGR of 26.2%. Over the same period, the total profit maintained a CAGR of 26.6%, and the gross margin remained higher than the average level of the overall pharmaceutical industry.

In succession to the Opinions on Promoting the Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine Services and Trade, the Twelfth Five-Year Plan on the Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine and other favorable policies, the new National Essential Drugs List published in March 2013 increased the number of Chinese patent medicine from 102 in 2009 to 203, and the proportion in total quantity from 33% to 39%. As a result, China's Chinese patent medicine market demand is expected to grow rapidly in the next five years.

Chinese patent medicine for the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, tumor diseases, respiratory system diseases, musculoskeletal diseases and digestive system diseases are top five categories of Chinese patent medicine for hospitals in China. The Chinese patent medicine for the treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases occupies the largest market share, which remained at around 37% in 2006-2012.

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1. Overview of Chinese Patent Medicine

1.1 Definition and Features

1.2 Classification

2. Operating Environment for Chinese Patent Medicine Industry

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Marian University preparing for new medical school

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INDIANAPOLIS -

We're less than two weeks away from WTHR's Inaugural Health and Fitness Expo. The title sponsor for this year's event is Marian University.

This fall, Marian will become only the second medical school in Indiana - and the university hopes to re-shape the future of health care in Indiana.

"It's very exciting! When I heard about it a couple of years ago, it was one of my top choices as far as applying to medical schools," said Andrew Schroeder, Marian University student.

The new medical school is the big buzz on campus at Marian University, which is located on the west side of Indianapolis. Andrew Schroeder is one of the 162 students proud to be a part of the inaugural class.

"One, I'm already in Indianapolis. I've been here my whole life and I wanted to stay on campus because I like Marian and the campus as a whole," said Schroeder.

University President Daniel Elsener says there's a shortage of primary care physicians in two-thirds of Indiana counties, and he believes having only one medical school in the state at Indiana University is part of the problem.

"What human dignity can you have if you don't take care of basic health care? That's the question. And if we didn't do it, who would?" said Elsener.

Four years ago, the idea for the Michael A. Evans Center for the Health Sciences was born.

Workers are feverishly trying to pull everything together for the August opening of the Evans Center, which sits at the corner of Cold Spring Road and W. 30th St. This will not only serve as home to the College of Osteopathic Medicine, but also the School of Nursing.

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