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		<title>Breakthrough Reveals Blood Vessel Cells Are Key to Growing Unlimited Amounts of Adult Stem Cells</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Source:  Weill Cornell Medical College
Promises Broad Clinical Benefits, From Bone Marrow Transplantation to Therapies for Heart, Brain, Skin and Lungs
NEW YORK (March 4, 2010) — In a leap toward making stem cell therapy widely available, researchers at the Ansary Stem Cell Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered that endothelial cells, the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://diane-michel.com/blog/2010/03/07/breakthrough-reveals-blood-vessel-cells-are-key-to-growing-unlimited-amounts-of-adult-stem-cells/</link>
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		<title>Obama Healthcare Reform</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source:  Washington Post 
President Obama on Saturday repeated his call for Congress to give an &#8220;up-or-down vote&#8221; on his plan to revamp the nation&#8217;s health-care system, saying that doing so would yield immediate benefits for the uninsured and small businesses, while prohibiting the most unpopular actions of health insurance companies.
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		<link>http://diane-michel.com/blog/2010/03/07/obama-healthcare-reform/</link>
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		<title>President Obama&#8217;s Proposal for Healthcare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source:  WhiteHouse.gov 
February 23, 2010 
The following proposal President Barack Obama will bring to his Thursday health &#8217;summit&#8217; with Congressional leaders contains many of the ideas from the bills already passed by the Democratic House and Senate, including a mandate that individuals buy insurance and a promise to &#8216;end discrimination&#8217; from pre-existing conditions.&#8221;
Over the past year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://diane-michel.com/blog/2010/02/24/president-obamas-proposal-for-healthcare/</link>
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		<title>Guidance for Developers of Health Research Reporting Guidelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Resource:  PLoS Medicine
 
David Moher1,2*, Kenneth F. Schulz3, Iveta Simera4, Douglas G. Altman4
1 Ottawa Methods Centre, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2 Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 3 Family Health International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, United States of America, 4 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://diane-michel.com/blog/2010/02/17/guidance-for-developers-of-health-research-reporting-guidelines/</link>
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		<title>TED 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TED 2010 is now going on.  Don&#8217;t miss out on learning from some of the most brilliant minds on the planet.  Here is a spreadsheet of all the speakers and their topics:   http://tinyurl.com/rc7llb
Topics of interest include:

15 ways to avert a climate crisis
Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you&#8217;ve ever seen
Do schools kill creativity?
Greening the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://diane-michel.com/blog/2010/02/15/ted-2010/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source:  National Institutes of Health

Wide Variety of Bacteria Mapped Across the Human Body
By analyzing bacterial communities in and on several people, scientists have begun to create an atlas of bacterial diversity that documents the different types of microbes that thrive in distinct regions of the human body. This research sets the stage for determining how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://diane-michel.com/blog/2009/11/17/575/</link>
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		<title>Well-done meat intake, heterocyclic amine exposure, and cancer risk.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Zheng W, Lee SA.
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37203-1738, USA. wei.zheng@vanderbilt.edu

High intake of meat, particularly red and processed meat, has been associated with an increased risk of a number of common cancers such as breast, colorectum, and prostate in many epidemiological studies. Heterocyclic amines (HCAs) are a group of mutagenic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://diane-michel.com/blog/2009/11/17/well-done-meat-intake-heterocyclic-amine-exposure-and-cancer-risk/</link>
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		<title>Secondhand Smoke: Questions and Answers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Resource:  National Cancer Institute
 




Key Points 

Secondhand smoke (also called environmental tobacco smoke) is the combination of smoke given off by the burning end of a tobacco product and the smoke exhaled by the smoker (see Question 1).
Of the chemicals identified in secondhand smoke, more than 50 have been found to cause cancer (see Question 3).
Secondhand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://diane-michel.com/blog/2009/11/02/secondhand-smoke-questions-and-answers/</link>
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		<title>Confirmed – Secondhand Smoke Causes Heart Attacks</title>
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Resource:  American Lung AssociationA new Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects: Making Sense of the Evidence, has confirmed that exposure to secondhand smoke is a significant cause of heart attacks among nonsmokers.  This report underscores the urgency of the American Lung Association’s Smokefree Air Challenge, a nationwide campaign to eliminate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://diane-michel.com/blog/2009/11/02/confirmed-%e2%80%93-secondhand-smoke-causes-heart-attacks/</link>
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		<title>AMA continues push to make health reform a reality</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Resource: American Medical Association 
For immediate release
Oct. 26, 2009
CHICAGO -  As the nation continues to debate health reform, the American Medical Association (AMA) continues to advocate for reforms that will make the health care system work better for America’s patients and physicians. A new full-page advertisement under the headline, “A Healthier Tomorrow Depends on What We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://diane-michel.com/blog/2009/10/27/ama-continues-push-to-make-health-reform-a-reality/</link>
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