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Gene Medicine and Health

Posted: January 3, 2014 at 8:43 pm

Gene medicine is making breakthroughs for health questions that have baffled humanity for centuries. Gene therapy is the applicable aspect of the science of gene medicine. Treatments are being developed that can reverse genetic diseases at the molecular level. Health questions that have previously be unanswered are now being solved. Health questions like how to remedy chronic pain are now being clinically tested and the gene therapy is already showing substantial subsiding of pain for the clinical trial patients. As countries put more funding into gene medicine, and more collaboration takes place between those countries, many of the health questions that we have today will be answered in the next decade

Gene medicine is one of the medical disciplines that affect all aspects of human health. From allergies, bone growth and cell development. Gene medicine is also one of the most mysterious to those with health questions as the science is only recognized in the media when discoveries are made. However, research is going on everyday in the field of gene medicine and breakthroughs, while they dont happen everyday, are happening more often. Gene medicine is beginning to look deeper into how dieseases can be blocked, removed and altered using our own human chemistry. Those with health questions and that want to find out more can read any number of medical periodicals that are being released every month. To read the latest news about health and medicine go here

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Loss of Function of a Single Gene Linked to Diabetes in Mice

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Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine have found that dysfunction in a single gene in mice causes fasting hyperglycemia, one of the major symptoms of type 2 diabetes. Their findings were reported online in the journal Diabetes.

If a gene called MADD is not functioning properly, insulin is not released into the bloodstream to regulate blood sugar levels, says Bellur S. Prabhakar, professor and head of microbiology and immunology at UIC and lead author of the paper.

Type 2 diabetes affects roughly 8 percent of Americans and more than 366 million people worldwide. It can cause serious complications, including cardiovascular disease, kidney failure, loss of limbs and blindness.

In a healthy person, beta cells in the pancreas secrete the hormone insulin in response to increases in blood glucose after eating. Insulin allows glucose to enter cells where it can be used as energy, keeping glucose levels in the blood within a narrow range. People with type 2 diabetes dont produce enough insulin or are resistant to its effects. They must closely monitor their blood glucose throughout the day and, when medication fails, inject insulin.

In previous work, Prabhakar isolated several genes from human beta cells, including MADD, which is also involved in certain cancers. Small genetic variations found among thousands of human subjects revealed that a mutation in MADD was strongly associated with type 2 diabetes in Europeans and Han Chinese.

People with this mutation had high blood glucose and problems of insulin secretion the "hallmarks of type 2 diabetes, Prabhakar said. But it was unclear how the mutation was causing the symptoms, or whether it caused them on its own or in concert with other genes associated with type 2 diabetes.

To study the role of MADD in diabetes, Prabhakar and his colleagues developed a mouse model in which the MADD gene was deleted from the insulin-producing beta cells. All such mice had elevated blood glucose levels, which the researchers found was due to insufficient release of insulin.

We didnt see any insulin resistance in their cells, but it was clear that the beta cells were not functioning properly, Prabhakar said. Examination of the beta cells revealed that they were packed with insulin. The cells were producing plenty of insulin, they just werent secreting it, he said.

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2013 in Review: Box Office Hits and Misses Around the World

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12:00 AM PST 1/3/2014 by THR Staff

Russia mined Stalingrad for box office gold, a Swedish biopic about a 1960s jazz singer hit number two on the charts and a politically-incorrect comedy about German school kids got top grades. But a Japanese remake of Unforgiven faced harsh retribution, the French had a rare off year and Australian audiences thought a promising new comedy just wasnt cricket. Here are the most surprising successes and shocking failures from international films this year.

Germany: School Comedy Fack Ju Gohte Does the Sums

For two years running, the director/actor team of helmer Bora Dagtekin and star Elyas MBarek has topped the German charts with politically incorrect comedies. Their follow up to 2012 hit Turkish for Beginners was the schooldays laffer Fack Ju Gohte that opened in November and was closing in on a $50 million gross just as German school kids take off for the Christmas holidays.

China: Finding Mr. Right Taps Mainlands New Rich

Low budget local language comedies continue to rule the Chinese box office and the breakout hit this year was romcom Finding Mr. Right, from director Xue Xiaolu. The $5 million feature pulled in $85.4 at the Chinese tills. Star Tang Wei, best known outside China for her role in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution, plays a city girl who is pure New China, a rich man's mistress obsessed with material wealth, who comes to Seattle to have her lover's baby.

Argentina: GOOOOOL for Campanellas Foosball

After winning the Oscar forThe Secret in Her Eyes, Argentine director Juan Jose Campanella tried something completely different: a 3D animated kids film about soccer. Foosball was a massive hit, scoring $14.2 million at the local box office, making it the countrys number three film, just behind Monsters Universityand Despicable Me 2.

India: Run Milka Run Finishes Strong

The sports biopic genre is only beginning to be tapped in Bollywood. Last year hit Paan Singh Tomar, about a champion athlete turned real-life bandit, was one of the first. But sports drama hit broke new records with Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's Run Milkha Run, the story of Indian sprinter Milkha Singh, aka the Flying Sikh. Star Farhan Akhtar underwent grueling physical training to lend credibility to his performance which won over critics and audiences alike. Run Mikha Run easily crossed the coved film 1 billion rupee ($16.7 million) mark in general release.

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Unnecessary Censorship in League of Legends – Video

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Unnecessary Censorship in League of Legends
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Project Censorship in Amerika, Censored by Mozilla! – Video

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Project Censorship in Amerika, Censored by Mozilla!
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Chocolate Censorship – Video

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The Next HOPE (2010): Tor and Internet Censorship – Video

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The Next HOPE (2010): Tor and Internet Censorship
Friday, July 16, 2010: 6:00 pm (Tesla): The Tor project has seen an increased focus on Internet censorship as many more users adopted Tor to get around block...

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Media Censorship : Why is Censorship Good – Buzzle

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Media censorship has been greatly exercised in our day and age, because of its highly revealing content that can infuriate those it may offend, or influence others by its immoral message. There is always some kind of censorship involved, especially in countries where it is strictly prohibited by the government or concerned agencies, that strive to keep viewing-audiences away from such material. Children and young adults are those that are greatly affected by the media, and censorship is something that needs to be regularized before this audience.

Arguments in Support of Censorship

We'll now get into the reasons of why censorship is good and something all countries must practice even if the system is liberal like in the United States and others like it.

Music When it comes to derogatory music related to religion or other sensitive issues, it is usually banned from being aired on the radio, with only pirated sites being able to view these as downloads. Even profane lyrics are silenced to avoid listeners from hearing abusive content. Usually music artists record two versions of the same song, one in its explicitness and the other in a clean format. Genres are treated differently depending on what the lyrics convey. The more controversial the song, the higher the chances of the band / musician suffering from severe censorship rules.

Books There are certain authors who pen down details of an unstable topic, aggravating readers who find it going against their belief system or culture. Like the infamous Salman Rushdie who's book spurred not just anger and a censorship in India banning the distribution of his books, but a rage against the author to a point of driving him out of his own country. He now takes refuge beyond its borders for fear of being killed by the opposition. Certain books when they cross a fine line between what is acceptable and what is not, are often banned from readers and public circulation.

Television Certain content is withheld from public viewing simply because content shown is of an explicit and obscene nature, that must be monitored before viewing. Some censor boards allow the movie / documentary / television series to be viewed although blurring or cutting out the part in the sequence of events. Children and those who are too young to watch the said graphic material, aren't allowed to dabble in such immoral content. There is a 'Parental Guidance' warning with even age-specific messages for a movie,which is a practice for adults to monitor television time. Even some websites have these before one ventures forward into its content.

Internet / Magazines Certain countries ban the distribution of magazines that feature pornographic content, including those like Penthouse and Playboy for their vulgarity and openness towards the exposed human body through print. The Internet is a behemoth in our present media age, and the content that it provides (some of which is freely viewable) is questionable and extremely uncouth. Child pornography is a major industry that is a red alert area for the government and censorship boards, where usually these sites are either banned or shut down for good. Other kind of content that features sexual material like bedroom "toys", nude advertisements and imagery are all under control in countries that severely go against such content.

Media censorship needs to be exercised to a great extent, given the situation the world is in when it comes to such shady arenas. When keeping the young in mind, one is forced to imply such rules where even otherwise it is abhorrent to put on display.

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Ron Paul’s file | PolitiFact

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Ron Paul is a Texas physician who is in his second stint in Congress. He was in the House from 1977 to 1985, and was the Libertarian Party nominee for president in 1988. He was elected again to Congress in 1996 as a Republican.

Encouraged by readers, we're checking just the facts in Texas:

We welcomed a long-look chance to describe our mission in the Austin American-Statesman.

Ron Paul's "zero" tax claim fueled No. 6 reader favorite fact check of 2012:

Ron Paul's zinger about setting the income-tax rate at zero for everyone touched off the Truth-O-Meter. Our review put him in our readers' favorite articles of 2012 for the third time.

UPDATED: Ron Paul claim about popularity of gold standard No. 7 reader favorite:

Ron Paul's flawed claim about a poll and the gold standard landed him in our top 10 reader favorite fact-checks of 2012 for a second time.

Michael Williams claim about Obama and gas prices No. 8 reader favorite:

A one-time U.S. Senate hopeful who lost his 2012 U.S. House bid before ending up in state office accounts for our readers' No. 8 favorite fact-check of 2012.

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Anarchism and Libertarianism – Video

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