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Family Doctors: An Endangered Breed
"As more medical students shun primary care for higher-paid specialties, experts warn of a severe imbalance that could cripple the nation"s health care system," CNN Money reports. Luis Manriquez, a first-year student at the University of Washington School of Medicine wants to become a family doctor, an increasingly rare ambition. He will "probably make one-fourth the salary of a specialist while trying to pay down $140,000 on average in medical school debt." Manriquez says that "primary care physicians are considered to not do as much as specialists. ò€¦ People have told me that generalists are less respected as doctors."
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U.S. Bill Would Establish Survey To Collect Health Data From Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders
Madeleine Bordallo, the U.S. delegate from Guam, has introduced legislation that would fund a survey to collect health data from Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, the Pacific Daily News reports. The legislation would amend the Public Health Service Act to fund the survey through HHS.Bordallo said, "Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities are eager to move forward with their efforts to improve public health. This scientific survey would establish baseline health information to inform health policy and interventions so that individual and community health can be properly tracked and evaluated." According to the Daily News, while federal agencies should be collecting data on native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders separately from Asian-Americans, most have not done so (Limtiaco, Pacific Daily News, 5/26).
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MicroRNAs Help Control HIV Life Cycle
Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered that specific microRNAs (non-coding RNAs that interfere with gene expression) reduce HIV replication and infectivity in human T-cells. In particular, miR29 plays a key role in controlling the HIV life cycle. The study suggests that HIV may have co-opted this cellular defense mechanism to help the virus hide from the immune system and antiviral drugs. The research was published today in the journal Molecular Cell.
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Stop Seeing Red By Looking Through Blue-Tinted Lenses, UK

As the UK enters a summer of discontent, one company has a vision to make the outlook decidedly brighter - by looking at life through blue-tinted spectacles. Wearing blue lenses has a calming effect, can reduce appetite and even help with dyslexia. Now online optics specialists Ciliary Blue are offering blue views to cheer up a nation blighted by recession, redundancies and bank balances in the red. "People will be amazed at the power of looking at life from a blue perspective," says Chris Tomlinson of Ciliary Blue. "It may sound incredibly simple but choosing the right shade for your shades could change your whole outlook." "Johnny Depp famously wears blue lenses and we think this depressing summer is the perfect time for everyone in the UK to see the world differently." Research shows that wearing blue lenses can reduce appetite, due to the colour naturally being associated with mouldy food. In the corporate world, blue also signifies stability and is reassuring. Wearing blue lenses has also been used to tackle dyslexia, is said to decrease stress and improve willpower. "To find out if blue is for you, you just need to send us an old pair of frames and your prescription," says Tomlinson. "We can fit those with blue lenses at a fraction of the cost of high street opticians and have you looking and feeling better in no time." "For a new you and fresh view, just go blue." Ciliary Blue


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