A study published by Stanford University in the March 2010 edition of the Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, showed that acupuncture specific to depression helped relieve symptoms in woman who were 12 to 30 weeks pregnant. 150 woman participated in the study.

Researchers from the Dept. of Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis have found that beer is a significant source of dietary silicon - a key ingredient for increasing bone density - and suggest that moderate beer consumption may even help to prevent osteoporosis.

George Whiteside's biography on TED mentions a remarkable list of accomplishments. 950 scientific articles coauthored, he's co-founded a dozen companies and has 50-plus patents with his name on them. This talk focuses on a postage stamp sized device that doesn't require the assistance of a medical technologist or the drawing of blood.

We just received a release from the European Space Agency with the first satellite map of Haiti since being devastated by the earthquake.

"A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 12 January, causing major casualties and damage. The quake was followed by several aftershocks with magnitudes over 5.0.

Researchers from the National University of Ireland in Galway have found that adding increasing amounts of disinfectant to cultures of the bacteria Pseudomonas aeruginosa resulted in the bacteria adapting in ways to survive the disinfectant itself - no real surprise there. However, the researchers also discovered that the disinfectant exposed bacteria had also developed resistance to a commonly used antibiotic known as ciprofloxacin, without

A multi-institutional research team have recently identified a gene - called Microfibril-Associated Glycoprotein 2, or MAGP2 - that offers promise as a personalized treatment target for ovarian cancer. Not previously associated with any type of cancer, MAGP2 was found to be over-expressed in papillary serous ovarian tumors of patients who died more quickly from the disease.

Summary: The World Bank approved a loan for $491 with the goal of vaccinating more than 10 million Mexicans against H1N1. "Since 2005 the WB has been supporting prevention of, and response to, avian and human influenza in 60 countries. With the approval of the Mexico loan announced today, total World Bank financing for these programs amounts to $841 million." That makes this loan 58% of that total effort. The World Health Organization was consulted and recommeded action to prevent a health crisis that could have a global impact.

From the Salk Institute

LA JOLLA, CA-When you eat may be just as vital to your health as what you eat, found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. Their experiments in mice revealed that the daily waxing and waning of thousands of genes in the liver-the body's metabolic clearinghouse-is mostly controlled by food intake and not by the body's circadian clock as conventional wisdom had it.

On November 21, 2009 the sections of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) related to employment will go into effect. GINA was signed into law on May 21, 2008 by former president George Bush.

On November 5th Duke University of North Carolina released an article announcing a new initiative that "Strives to Keep North Carolinians’ Memories Healthy". The article states: