Archive : Fall 2007
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 October 21: Public comments are due regarding the FDA’s plan to study whether images in direct-to-consumer television advertisements of prescription drugs alter viewers’ perceptions of risk information and affect their opinions of brand-name vs. generic drugs.
December 31: By this date, Massachusetts, which launched the nation’s first statewide mandatory universal health care plan, will require all adult residents to prove that they have enrolled in an insurance plan. Otherwise, they lose the personal income tax deduction for medical insurance on their 2007 state return.
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BODY IMAGE: Scientists at the University of Calgary gave new meaning to the term when they unveiled CAVEman, a computer-generated hologram that can display any combination of 3,000 human body parts (such as teeth or individual layers of skin) in ultrasharp resolution. CAVEman (so named because it lives in a CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment—a virtual reality theater) assumes four dimensions: the usual three for space, plus time, allowing researchers to watch the progression of conditions (such as tumor growth) and track the effects of potential treatments.
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