W/ #climatechange, more people in NYC will die of heat than will be spared death from cold, starting in 2050s: http://t.co/npFyyGJ2Bo
Most older/sicker men w/prostate cancer die of another cause, finds 14-yr study; think twice b4 aggressive treatment: http://t.co/G5XVDqUuua
Off-hand remark a scientist made to me for my cloning story [http://t.co/U9ieeMGFEj] stirs a furor among investors: http://t.co/qu9QJ3a7GW
Insurance execs & GOP keep saying #Obamacare will fail b/c insurance policies will be too pricey. In 2 states,not so: http://t.co/1ZMKSRKnq0
Two states say 2014 Obamacare insurance costs on low side
By Sharon Begley and Caroline Humer
(Reuters) – In a boost for President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law, two states in the Northwest said on Friday that insurance companies submitted applications to sell policies on the states’ health insurance exchanges at rates well below what some insurance executives had predicted.
The insurance marketplaces are a key element of the reform law, which is due to take full effect in 2014. A core principle of these exchanges is that competition, along with government subsidies and other measures, will keep rates affordable.
In re #DSM-5 [http://t.co/DV4KzsjhTG], kids in France don’t have #ADHD & docs address probs via environ, not brain: http://t.co/EwmfGWsJlM
Psychiatry’s diagnostic manual, DSM-5, officially released tmw. Read all 947 pp of ways to be mentally ill: http://t.co/DV4KzsjhTG
Psychiatrists unveil their long-awaited diagnostic “bible”
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The long-awaited, controversial new edition of the bible of psychiatry can be characterized by many numbers: its 947 pages, its $199 price tag, its more than 300 maladies (from “dependent personality disorder” and “voyeuristic disorder” to “delayed ejaculation,” “kleptomania” and “intermittent explosive disorder”), each limning the potential woes of being human.
But to the psychiatrist who shepherded the tortuous creation of the “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders,” perhaps the single most important number is the “5″ in its title: This is the DSM-5, not the DSM-V.
Flash cards? So 20th century. Zapping brain’s math area with transcranial random noise improves mental math: http://t.co/MmJsZCHDiw
Critics slam new cloning research
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Scientists’ assertion that the advance in therapeutic cloning announced on Wednesday could not and would not pave the way to cloning a baby did little to assuage critics of the research.
The research “will lead inexorably to cloning to produce a live born child,” said bioethicist O. Carter Snead, professor of law at the University of Notre Dame, a Catholic University in Indiana.


