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At Least 205 OHSU Mice Were Euthanized at Start of Pandemic, Costing Over $1 Million PETA sent letters to public officials calling for OHSU to reimburse the state of Oregon for the tax dollars spent on the research. Oregon Health and Science University. (Wesley Lapointe) Updated February 20 As the COVID-19 pandemic hit last spring, Oregon Health & Science University researchers euthanized at least 205 lab mice they deemed no longer essential to their National Institutes of Health-funded research activities, documents show.
A business friend asked me to attend a meeting where he was pitching a life saving device to an elder care facility’s management. This was a system designed to help prevent grandma from hurting herself accidentally. So there we were with the campus administrator and a couple other people, one of whom was the staff federal government insurance expert.
As my friend glided through slide after slide of how this innovation was going to save lives, save money, and avoid lawsuits, with every new feature the head administrator looked at the insurance expert and asked one question: “Is this reimbursable under Medicare?”
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Scientists at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health developed a method using a DNA biomarker to easily screen pregnant women for harmful prenatal environmental contaminants like air pollution linked to childhood illness and developmental disorders. This approach has the potential to prevent childhood developmental disorders and chronic illness through the early identification of children at risk.
While environmental factors including air pollutants have previously been associated with DNA markers, no studies to date have used DNA markers to flag environmental exposures in children. Study results are published online in the journal
Epigenetics.
There is ample scientific evidence that links prenatal environmental exposures to poor outcomes in children, yet so far there is no early warning system to predict which children are at highest risk of adverse health outcomes. The researchers took a major step toward overcoming this barrier by identifying an accessib
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