Transform health data into mobile apps, online tools or games or other innovative products to solve vexing health problems.
IOM challenges students to develop health apps
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– March 3, 2012
Francesco Guicciardini
“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.”
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– March 3, 2012
Relationship between salivary antioxidant capacity and phases of the menstrual cycle
Conclusion:? This study showed that salivary antioxidant capacity decreased, while bleeding on probing and P. intermedia increased, over the course of the menstrual cycle in women with periodontitis. Antioxidant capacity could be involved in the pathogenesis of periodontitis. (Source: Journal of Periodontal Research)
MedWorm: Dentistry
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– March 3, 2012
Greenwich Dentist Brings Smiles to Chile
Armed with dental experts from the greater New York City area, Jonathan Zamzok boarded a plane to Chile to make people smile.
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– March 3, 2012
‘No tobacco products should be exempted from oversight’
Washington—The Association urged the U.S. Senate to reject legislation that would exempt “traditional large and premium cigars” from Food and Drug Administration regulation.
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– March 2, 2012
Katharine Hepburn
“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.”
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– March 2, 2012
New image analysis of large food particles can discriminate experimentally suppressed mastication
Summary? Objective parameters that could provide a basis for food texture selection for elderly or dysphagic patients have not been established. We, therefore, aimed to develop a precise method of measuring large particles (>2?mm in diameter) in a bolus and an analytical method to provide a scientific rationale for food selection under masticatory dysfunction conditions. We developed a new illumination system to evaluate the ability of twenty female participants (mean age, 23·4?±?4·3?years) to masticate carrots, peanuts and beef with full, half and one quarter of the number of masticatory strokes. We also evaluated mastication under suppressed force, regulated by 20% electromyographic of the masseter muscle. The intercept and inclination of the regression line for the distr…
MedWorm: Dentistry
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– March 2, 2012
ICME: Sink Your Teeth
As I and a cohort wandered through a posh new townhouse block near the beach the other night, my gaze was drawn to a semicircular pink and white object sitting in the dirt amidst the well-manicured plantings.
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– March 2, 2012
Medicare updates website provider resources
Washington—Updates to the Medicare Physician Compare website offer a new menu option, “Provider Resources,” with information on Internet-based PECOS and an improved feedback tool dentists can use to contact website administrators with questions or concerns.
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– March 1, 2012
Christopher Fry
“Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.”
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– March 1, 2012
