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...study, you say you sampled more than 480 servings of fast food. Did you have research assistants at the drive-thru non-stop? These are people that work in my lab, professional scientists and students in cities where they happened to be, driving around to the restaurants, standing in line getting the food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Food's Secret Ingredient: Corn | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...when he started a fellowship at the NIH’s National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease (NIDDK). When Kahn began his research, it was known that insulin regulated blood sugar by binding to a specific receptor on cells. But Kahn’s lab was the first to discover the mechanism of this activation, which involves the addition of a phosphate molecule to the amino acid tyrosine...

Author: By Joseph P. Shivers, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Med School’s Sweetest Professor Wins Award | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...received antivirals for two years and remains virus-free even in the known HIV hiding spots of brain and rectal tissue, according to Huetter's tests. But many researchers remain skeptical about whether these tests have been thorough enough. Dr. Andrew Badley, director of the HIV and immunology research lab at the Mayo Clinic, told the Associated Press, "A lot more scrutiny from a lot of different biological samples would be required to say it's not present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can a Bone-Marrow Transplant Halt HIV? | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...they have sold directly to SPL or have been approached by the company, looking for product. And when FDA inspectors showed up in Hangzhou this year, after reports of a spike in deaths and illness, Ruihua Biomedical stiff-armed the investigators. It refused to let them inspect its processing lab and declined to provide a list of crude-heparin suppliers. Before last summer, SPL's China facility had never been inspected by Beijing's drug-safety agency because, says a spokesman, the agency thought "it was a chemical plant." A source close to the FDA's heparin investigation puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heparin's Deadly Side Effects | 11/13/2008 | See Source »

...rather than illness - which would naturally lower the burden on the health-care system. He adds that physicians can further reduce their dependence on technology - and oil - by better developing their experiential and tactile knowledge, reclaiming a part of medicine's low-tech past. Much of the energy-intensive lab tests and scans doctors routinely prescribe are "redundant, unnecessary," he says. "An important element in care is whether you feel the person caring for you cares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Putting Health Care on an Energy Diet | 11/10/2008 | See Source »

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