Senior Vice President Kristine Martin Anderson discusses how, as the US reforms its healthcare payment and delivery systems and personalized medicine becomes a reality, increasing consumer engagement in healthcare decisions and redefining the measures of quality of healthcare will become increasingly important.

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Kristine Martin Anderson Discusses Healthcare Reform and Personalized Medicine

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Injuries resulting in paralysis happen in split seconds and turn lives around, not just for those sustaining injuries, but for family and friends as well. Pushing Boundares is the only Puget Sound facility offering intesive therapy for those with paralysis.

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Pushing Boundaries 2009 Video - Spinal Cord Injury

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Shobita Parthasarathy talks about her upcoming book titled, "Building Genetic Medicine Breast Cancer, Technology, and the Comparative Politics of Health Care." April, 2007.

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@fordschool: Shobita Parthasarathy: Comparative Politics of Health Care

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Current treatments with Adipose-, Bone Marrow- and Cord Blood-derived stem cells. Autism, Multiple Sclerosis, Spinal Cord Injury, Heart Failure, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis treatments are outlined

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Clinical Advances in Adult Stem Cell Therapy: Dr. Jorge Paz

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On June 15, 2010, the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) in partnership with CIRM presented a public forum on the responsible path for delivering stem cell therapies to the clinic. The forum was moderated by Rachel Myrow, a host and reporter at KQED radio

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A Dose of Reality on Alternative Stem Cell Treatments: What you don't know can hurt you

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Explorer : How to Build a Beating Heart : MON FEB 7 10p et/pt : channel.nationalgeographic.com A simple idea backed by stem cell research allows victims of severe burns to heal in merely days.

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The Skin Gun

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As if winning $1.5 million wasn't enough, the winners of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry also get an enthusiastic "shout out" from us. As storytellers who rely on images or video to report on scientific discoveries , our jobs have been made a whole lot easier thanks to Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y.

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Growing Nerve Cells

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Dr. Rochelle Long on pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine National Institute of General Medical Sciences http://www.nigms.nih.gov

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Dr. Rochelle Long on pharmacogenomics and personalized medicine

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"Our discovery of the 'pure' human blood stem cell could open up a new era in regenerative medicine," says principal investigator John Dick, who holds a Canada Research Chair in Stem Cell Biology and is a Senior Scientist at the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine and the Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network. Release available here: http://www.uhn.ca

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A New Era in Regenerative Medicine

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A 41-site clinical trial, testing the restorative effect that adult bone marrow stem cells have on damaged or injured myocardium in heart attack patients, is being led at Wake Forest Baptist by Sanjay Gandhi, MD.

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Adult Stem Cells May Target and Repair Heart Attack Damage

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Video sent to the XCell-Center by dementia patient, Guilia Serafini, documenting her improvements following stem cell therapy.

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Stem Cell Therapy For Alzheimer's/Dementia

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More at therealnews.com Biotech companies seek hundreds of patents for genetically modified "climate-ready" seeds

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Gene Giants: Climate saviors or profiteers?

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New Website! qdragon.info Shirts and Stuff http://www.zazzle.com My twitter twitter.com Like Brainstorm on Facebook tinyurl.com Genetics News tinyurl.com Technology News tinyurl.com Astrophysics News tinyurl.com Robotics News tinyurl.com Assistant Producer http://www.youtube.com thanks

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Fixing Genetic Mistakes (Brainstorm Ep13)

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HD Movie made for: bonemarrowdonor.wordpress.com Clip showing both methods of bone marrow [or Hematopoietic Stem Cells - HSC] transplantation.

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Bone marrow transplantation HD, ENG subtitles

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How safe is the so-called "Green Genetic Engineering" really?

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The Genetic Conspiracy (1/3) - about Monsanto

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Stem cells used for medical treatment

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A 41-site clinical trial, testing the restorative effect that adult bone marrow stem cells have on damaged or injured myocardium in heart attack patients, is being led at Wake Forest Baptist by Sanjay Gandhi, MD.

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Adult Stem Cells May Target and Repair Heart Attack Damage

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In August 2009 I donated Bone Marrow Stem Cells via the apheresis procedure.

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Bone Marrow Stem Cell Donation

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Eric talks about different kinds of stem cells and what their potential is for treatment in personalized medicine.

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Personalized Medicine; Stem Cells 1/2

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http://www.cellmedicine.com a description of the publication In vivo and in vitro characterization of insulin-producing cells obtained from murine bone marrow.

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Bone Marrow Producing Insulin

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This dynamic session introduced participants to several very current areas of skin research including skin stem cells, cellular senescence, latest ingredients and technology for skin rejuvenation. esheeesthetic.com

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E'shee HBA Global Expo 2011, NYC. Skin Care Anti-Aging Symposium

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IHTV discusses the fatal side effects of the controversial cancer drug Avastin.

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No Avastin for Breast Cancer

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The Silverstein Lecture series is hosted by Northwestern University's Center for Genetic Medicine twice annually. The spring 2011 lecture series, held on May 11, 2011, featured Cynthia Kenyon, PhD Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics from the University of California, San Francisco.

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Genes from the Fountain of Youth: A Lecture by Cynthia Kenyon, PhD

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This is one of the sessions in the 32nd Annual Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners -- "Privacy: Generations" which was hosted by the the Israeli Law, Information and Technology Authority (ILITA) on October 27-29, 2010 in Jerusalem, Israel. For more information about this session go to: http://www.justice.gov.il The conference website is http://www.privacyconference2010.org

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Emerging trends in medical research: Personalized medicine

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stemcell.md How many times have you seen a patient interview his or her doctor? In this video segment Sam Smith, an artist (sculptor) with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) who experienced a turnaround following a whole bone marrow IV treatment, asks some highly compelling questions of the pioneering physician who treated him, David A. Steenblock

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Bone Marrow Stem Cell Applications

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