About Me
- Bio
A journalist early in his career, Ernie Shannon began writing about medical research through the unusual lens of the NASA Space Shuttle's Spacelab - the small, trailor-size laboratory flown into low-earth orbit. From his earth-bound vantage point, Ernie wrote about experiments carried out in the unique zero-gravity environment covering a broad range of medical research.
Since then, Ernie has continued to focus on health care, particularly the complex relationship between insurers, physicians, and their patients.
History
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Mayo Clinic team to monitor hearts and lungs of Mt. Everest climbers
Mount Everest’s slopes have siphoned the last drop of strength of many a climber demanding endurance sometimes at super human levels.
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Cancer Patients' Caregivers at Risk
A classic case of husbands focusing on their own stress in the face of their wives’ life-threatening breast cancer? Or evidence of a serious health risk?
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Finding Shows Arsenic Can Cause Cancer
Arsenic has long been known as a human carcinogen. Now, researchers are calling the inorganic material a cancer-causing element.
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New Insulin Drug Should Ease Doctors' Fears
Improvements to insulin are benefiting patients and should ease fears of doctors reluctant to prescribe the drug to diabetes sufferers.
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Diabetes Drug Metformin May Inhibit Liver Cancer
A drug commonly used to treat diabetes, metformin, may be beneficial in preventing liver cancer, according to researchers at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center.
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Supreme Court Votes on Healthcare Today as 1 Vote May Be The Decider
The nine Supreme Court justices, absent clerks, staff, and anyone else, gathers in their chamber today and casts votes in favor of or in opposition to the Affordable Care Act.
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Health Care Reform - To Be or Not To Be? The Justices Will Decide
Months of anticipation ended this week when the U.S. Supreme Court finally heard arguments in support of and opposition to the Affordable Care Act, the nation’s new health care law.
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Conflict Inside, Outside Supreme Court Highlight Day 3 of Health Insurance Hearing
Day three of the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearings regarding the constitutionality of the nation’s new health care law, the Affordable Care Act, kicks off today.
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Drug-Resistant Infections Rise and Antibiotics Decline
Drug-resistant infections are growing worldwide faster than medical laboratories can create new drugs to combat them, according to several organizations dedicated to beating infectious diseases.
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Obamacare goes to Supreme Court: Today's arguments
As historic as the Supreme Court hearing regarding the constitutionality of all or parts of the Affordable Care Act this week might be, there’s a narrow neck the justices must travel that could block
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