Cancer: Facts & Figures in USA
Avandia is an oral medication used to treat Type II diabetes. It is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline and was approved by the FDA. So far the diabetes drug has been used by over 6 million people worldwide, and could be responsible for thousands of heart attacks and deaths every year.
Pharma, biotech and agriculture markets as well as academic institutions are craving for DNA sequence information as their future is depending on genome data in silico. Scientists understand the business side of the sector, and realize that outsourcing can be a pretty cost efficient way to get the data they need, rather than investing in the resources to perform the sequencing in their labs. In addition, outsourcing gives these institutions the ability to focus their efforts on their core competencies, usually drug discovery and development, instead of acquiring the tools for sequencing.
The Genome Reviews database provides an up-to-date, standardized and comprehensively annotated view of the genomic sequence of organisms with completely deciphered genomes. Currently, Genome Reviews contains the genomes of archaea, bacteria, bacteriophages and selected eukaryota. Genome Reviews is available as a MySQL relational database, or a flat file format derived from that in the EMBL Nucleotide Sequence Database.
MySQL is a convenient platform for open source data transactions. That means genetic data of nearly all available species can be uploaded and retrieved.
It is not as complicated as you think as long as you stick on the recipe.
1. Apply POI (Perturbation Of Interest) to your cells.
This could be a drug treatment, hyper- or hypo- oxia treatment or simply disease cells.
2. Get your normal control, untreated cells ready.
Now we are going to take molecular genetics pictures of your cells.
3. Spin down your cells.
4. Isolate RNA.
5. Get the cDNA copy of the RNA.
The cDNA copy of your cells represents the most recent status of cells of interest. Ready to take the picture.
Amyloid beta (Aβ or Abeta) is a peptide of 39–43 amino acids that appear to be the main constituent of amyloid plaques in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.
The protein fragment, Aβ, that is broken down in a normal brain, begins to accumulate into tiny clusters known as plaques. These plaques exist between nerve cells in the brain and have the effect of destroying nerve tissue. It has been known for some time that the higher the levels of beta amyloid in the brain the greater the level of brain impairment.
In December 2009 the US Senate passed a $636 billion annual budget for defense 88-10 and immediately went back to arguing about spending less than $100 billion a year to see that all Americans get the health care they need.
My grand mother used to say "do not compare apples with oranges" but the spending on apples and the spending on oranges are good indications of their relative worth.
I am wondering about the number of people employed by the military industry and the number of people employed by the health care industry.
Anybody knows that ?
Genetics is a abstract concept. Everybody knows that genetics is about DNA, about genes, diseases and about your children. But the details are obscure to the general public. How genes are associated with diseases ? How a disease is transmitted from your grand parents to your children ? These are important questions.
However, if you try to explain these with scary terminology such as epigenetics, neural pathways, biotechnology, dominant inheritance, gene-methylation you more often scare the average Joe.
The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not have a universal health care system (Source: Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences). Therefore, for the time being, and hopefully until the end of the Obama term United States is the best international model of a wealthy but under-performing health care system. The current USA health care statistics and the predictions for the next decade are of particular importance of showing what can be done in the developing nations on health care with ever growing GPDs.
World Bank triples funds for health care amid crisis
WASHINGTON
Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:52am EDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The World Bank is set to triple health care spending in developing countries to $3.1 billion this year amid signs governments are cutting funding in the midst of a global economic crisis.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
ON THE OTHER HAND
Defense Spending & The Military Budget.
Congress and the White House allocate $522 billion a year to the Defense Budget.
To put the level of U.S. Defense Spending in perspective.
In 2009, about 1,479,350 new cancer cases were expected to be diagnosed in USA and 562,340 Americans were expected to die of cancer. That translates to more than 1,500 people a day. Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the US, second after heart disease. Cancer accounts for nearly 1 of every 4 deaths, in the US.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) estimates overall cost of cancer in 2008 at $228.1 billion; $93.2 billion for direct medical costs (total of all health spendings); $18.8 billion for indirect morbidity costs (cost of lost productivity
