Each Time You are Exposed to This Machine, You Boost Your Risk of Cancer
• http://emf.mercola.com/The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) claims that backscatter scans are safe. But how do medical professionals personally feel about it?
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Health and Physical Fitness
FYI: Is It Ever OK To Drink Your Own Urine?
• Ryan Bradley via PopSci.comNot really, but urine has been a faddish health drink for centuries nonetheless. Celts in the Iberian peninsula gargled it to whiten their teeth about 50 years before Christ; amaroli is a Sanskrit word that refers to urine therapy,
To Curb Malaria, Researchers Create Gene That Rapidly Spreads Through Mosquito Populations
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comA collaboration between researchers at Imperial College London and the University of Washington has produced a gene that the team was able to effectively spread from just a few mosquitoes to most of a population in just a dozen generations
A Cheap, Portable Way to Monitor Unborn Babies
• Emily Singer via TechnologyReview.comAn inexpensive portable device could make it easy to monitor fetal health in remote locations, and it might also provide an alternative to more expensive machines currently used in doctors' offices in the developed world.
New Test Spots Infections in Hours, Rather than Days
• Katherine Bourzac via TechnologyReview.comA startup has developed a device that uses magnetic particles to identify pathogens rapidly.
Just How Green Is Natural Gas?
• Tyler Hamilton via TechnologyReview.comNot green at all, reports a study suggesting that the methane released by fracking and drilling makes it worse than coal.
High-Speed Evolution Aids Drug Development
• Jocelyn Rice via TechnologyReview.comA new technique can make tailor-made proteins evolve in days, not years.
Developing Cancer Drugs Based on Genomics
• Emily Singer via TechnologyReview.comA new startup, funded with $40 million from Third Rock Ventures, will develop drugs aimed at molecularly defined cancers.
Cursing makes you feel better when hurt: study
• Kase Wickman via The Raw StoryResearchers at Keele University released findings showing that letting loose a string of expletives actually has the effect of dulling the sensation of pain.
Mystery illnesses plague Louisiana oil spill crews
• The Raw StoryOne year later, the 32-year-old said she still suffers from a range of debilitating health problems, including racing heartbeat, vomiting, dizziness, ear infections, swollen throat, poor sight in one eye and memory loss.
MEAT GLUE? Wow, never knew..
• godlikeproductions.comA Must Watch Video; They glue scraps of meat together to make new "steaks" and prime cuts.
‘Universal’ cancer jab: Vaccine that stops all tumours in their tracks could be here in two years
• prisonplanet.comA ‘universal’ vaccine that could revolutionise the treatment of cancer could be available in just two years.
Fresh From Jeopardy, Artificial Intelligence Fights Infection in the ICU
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comrtemis, a software program built on the back of IBM analytics software similar to that powering Watson, is being tested as a means to provide early warnings when babies in the ICU acquire hospital-borne infections.
World Health Officials Debate Whether To Destroy Last Existing Samples of Smallpox
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comHumanity’s worst scourge, the smallpox virus, may finally wind up on death row in May if health officials decide to destroy the last known samples. The virus was eliminated in human populations more than 30 years ago
Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathy
• Ted.comLocal politics -- schools, zoning, council elections -- hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. He identifies 7 barriers that keep us from taking part in our communities, even when we tr
Egypt’s Mubarak Rushed to Hospital After Heart Attack
• news.antiwar.comState Media Speculates Visit a 'Plot' to Escape Interrogation
USDA Certified Organic Milk NOT Tested for Radiation Contamination
• Farm WarsCows eat contaminated grass, drink contaminated water, and lo and behold, we find radioactive elements in their milk.
New Neurons Help Brains Discriminate
• Courtney Humphries via TechnologyReview.comA study shows that boosting new neurons helps mice differentiate between harmful and safe experiences.
Quantifying Your Sleep
• Emily Singer via TechnologyReview.comLast week, in a converted garage in Somerville, Massachusetts, a group of about 30 eager experimentalists and curious insomniacs gathered to share the results of their latest investigations.
Researchers Isolate Chemical Signal that Causes Stem Cells to Repair Skin
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comBone marrow has long been thought to have a role in repairing damaged skin, and now UK and Japanese researchers think they’ve found the key to summoning stem cells from bone marrow to the site of damaged skin:
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Japan recruiting nuclear workers for up to $5,000 per day
• www.rawstory.comWhat would you do for $2,500 a day? How about $5,000 a day? Do you have "a passport, a family willing to let you go", and a "willingness to to work in a radioactive zone"?
Put Down the Potassium Iodide, Now!
• http://drscoundrels.comIf you’re about to pop or drink potassium iodide to protect yourself from Japan’s Fukushima’s accident, stop! Put it down and listen up.
Plastic Beads Fight Cancer By Cutting Blood Flow
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comPumping a body full of celldestroying chemicals sounds like a bad idea, but that’s what chemotherapy entails. The side effects chemo for liver cancer, the third deadliest cancer in men, usually necessitate a four-day hospital stay with each treatment
Pot cases in Arizona getting dismissed because of Out-of-State Medical-Weed Cards
• New TimesProposition 203 has sparked dismissal of pot-possession charges in Mohave County against at least 10 people who had out-of-state medical-weed cards.
Why 95% of Japanese May Not Suffer from Radioactive Iodine Exposure
• Joseph Mercola via LewRockwell.comVIDEO - Needless to say, the fears are not unfounded. Radioactive exposure is clearly dangerous. However, what the most appropriate remedy might be is a controversial issue.
Making Targeted Cancer Drugs Work Better
• Emily Singer via TechnologyReview.comTargeted cancer drugs—those that selectively kill cancer cells—have been a revelation in cancer treatment, giving years of healthy life to some lucky patients.
Ohio bill that would ban most abortions put on hold
• David Edwards via TheRawStory.comThe House Health Health Committee decided Wednesday to put off voting on the bill that would outlaw abortions after as soon as doctors can detect the first heatbeat of the fetus.
Yes, sex can kill you, U.S. study shows
• ReutersSudden bursts of moderate to intense physical activity -- such as jogging or having sex -- significantly increase the risk of having a heart attack, especially in people who do not get regular exercise, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. Doctors ha
Red Wine 'Can Protect Against Radiation'
• Richard Alleyne via LewRockwell.comImpending nuclear attack? Then scientists may soon recommend that it is best you start drinking heavily and not just because you may be facing oblivion.
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