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Subject: Science X Newsletter Sunday, Jan 11
To: Pascal Alter <pascal.alter@gmail.com>

Dear Pascal Alter,

Here is your customized Phys.org Newsletter for January 11, 2015:

Spotlight Stories Headlines

- Going viral: Targeting brain cancer cells with a wound-healing drug
- The 'human' side of robots at electronics show
- SpaceX launches for NASA, no luck with rocket landing at sea
- Denmark champions wind power, sets record
- GM plans affordable 200-mile electric car in 2017
- China plan for unmanned moon landing, Earth return advances
- Wearable sensors gather lots of data—now to make it useful
- Astronomers seek widest view ever of the universe with new telescope
- How quickly smokers metabolize nicotine may point to most effective way to quit

Astronomy & Space news

	SpaceX launches for NASA, no luck with rocket landing at sea The private SpaceX company sent a supply ship soaring flawlessly toward the International Space Station on Saturday, but the booster rocket ended up in pieces in the Atlantic following a failed attempt to land on a barge.
	China plan for unmanned moon landing, Earth return advances China's bold plan to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon before returning to Earth has moved another step forward with a test craft shifting into lunar orbit to conduct further tests, state media reported Sunday.
	Astronomers seek widest view ever of the universe with new telescope At the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society last week, the booth devoted to a revolutionary new telescope called the LSST got a lot of traffic.

Medicine & Health news

	Going viral: Targeting brain cancer cells with a wound-healing drug At the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, three scientists are planning to create a virus capable of destroying brain cancer.
	How quickly smokers metabolize nicotine may point to most effective way to quit Nearly 70 percent of smokers who try to quit relapse within one week - daunting odds for people trying to kick the habit. Researchers have long theorized that some individuals may be genetically programmed to have an easier time than others, but with few clues about why, experts have been unable to guide smokers looking to quit toward a strategy - the nicotine patch versus prescription pills, for instance - with the best chance of success. Now, in a first-of-its-kind randomized clinical trial, researchers from Penn Medicine and collaborators have shown that the most-suited treatment for each smoker may depend on how quickly they metabolize the nicotine in their body after quitting.
Five years after quake, cholera epidemic haunts Haiti Five years after an earthquake demolished its capital, Haiti's efforts to get back on its feet are still hampered by an epidemic blamed on the UN troops there to help.
Health officials link Calif. apple packer to listeria deaths Strains of listeria found inside a California apple packing facility match listeria bacteria that have sickened 32 people across the country, including at least three deaths, the Food and Drug Administration said.
Brazil works to stem flood of Caesarean deliveries Brazil says it must stem the "epidemic" of Caesarean sections—now more than half of all births, or more than any other country in the world.
	Possible link between E-cigs, risk of infections (HealthDay)—Vapor from electronic cigarettes may increase young people's risk of respiratory infections, regardless of whether or not it contains nicotine, according to a new laboratory study reported in a recent issue of PLOS ONE.
	AMA reports on how docs use their free time (HealthDay)—The American Medical Association recently surveyed physicians to find what activities they pursue when not in the exam room.
	Many with hepatitis C missing out on treatment, study finds (HealthDay)—Many hepatitis C patients get "lost" in the U.S. health care system, a new study suggests.
How do you help a baby learn? Word by word, a Chicago project says On the third-floor hospital maternity ward at the University of Chicago Medical Center, Bionka Burkhalter had just given birth to her first child, a 7-pound, 4-ounce boy named Josiah. There was a knock on the door, and two women asked to give a presentation on how to build her baby's brain. The 21-year-old single mother gave them her attention.
Internists suggest congressional actions to improve American healthcare It is critical that four healthcare issues be considered in the 114th Congress the American College of Physicians (ACP) today told Senators Reid and McConnell, Representatives Boehner and Pelosi, and chairs and ranking members of the Senate Finance Committee, the House Ways and Means Committee, and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The remarks were made in three-page letters to both the Senate and House from David A. Fleming, MD, MA, MACP, President of ACP.
US judge tosses lawsuit vs. UN over Haiti cholera outbreak The United Nations is immune from a lawsuit seeking compensation for victims of a deadly cholera outbreak, a U.S. judge said Friday in dismissing a case that government lawyers said could open the international body to an onslaught of litigation.
Contaminated equipment behind Cambodia village HIV outbreak: WHO A mass HIV outbreak in a Cambodian village was most likely caused by contaminated medical equipment, the World Health Organization and Cambodian health ministry said Saturday.
Sierra Leone now has means to control Ebola epidemic: UN Sierra Leone now has the means to curb the Ebola epidemic, the new head of the UN mission for the fight against the disease and a senior World Health Organization official said Friday.
Medicare pays doctors to coordinate seniors' chronic care Adjusting medications before someone gets sick enough to visit the doctor. Updating outside specialists so one doctor's prescription doesn't interfere with another's.
Thousands more poultry culled as bird flu fears grow in Taiwan Taiwan on Sunday ordered the slaughter of 16,000 geese and ducks to try to curb a bird flu outbreak that has already led to the culling of 120,000 chickens.
Shire to buy specialty drugmaker NPS Pharma for $5.2 billion Irish drugmaker Shire PLC said Sunday it will pay $5.2 billion to acquire NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc., which specializes in drugs for rare conditions.

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