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Though some people are having trouble applying for Obamacare on Healthcare.gov, those who already have had the chance to enroll are "thrilled with the result," and people can apply in ways other than the website -- including though a call center and in person at certain locations across the country, President Barack Obama said Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/21/politics/obamacare-problems/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
Boston Scientific Corp. and its subsidiaries, Guidant LLC, Guidant Sales LLC and Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (Guidant), have agreed to pay $30 million to settle allegations that, between 2002 and 2005, Guidant knowingly sold defective heart devices to health care facilities that in turn implanted the devices into Medicare patients.
A scientific study conducted by the University of Michigan Medical School has shown that the brain uses a similar reaction to ease the pain of social rejection as it does to deal with pain caused by physical injury.
http://www.uofmhealth.org/news/archive/201310/opioid-social?tidrss=research
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In a study designed to shed light on the potential addictiveness of high-fat/ high-sugar foods, Professor Joseph Schroeder and his students found rats formed an equally strong association between the pleasurable effects of eating Oreos and a specific environment as they did between cocaine or morphine and a specific environment.
Life Technologies' new cell culturing product. The company says it can grow brain stem cells in a week, far faster than the mostly widely used methods.
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/oct/10/neural-stem-cells-life-technologies/
After practicing a few times with a model of jello and a grape -- the grape standing in for the heart, the jello standing in for the surrounding body -- the doctors performed the procedure on Sept. 25. Mom had local anesthesia and was sedated.
At just 16 years of age, Eric Chen began working in a UC San Diego biology laboratory on a more effective way of developing drugs to treat the flu virus. Now, his name and his study have gone viral.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/aspiring_scientist_takes_google_science_fair_grand_prize
Surgeons at UC San Diego Health System have performed the region’s first robotic gastrectomy, a potentially lifesaving procedure to remove a section of the stomach after a diagnosis of gastric cancer.
http://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2013-10-02-robotic-approach-for-gastric-cancer.aspx
Two scientists have won the Nobel prize in physics for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson.
