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Sekerob
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Saw it in 2 news outlets now... homo sapiens sapiens is regressing it's genes, due medical advances ... brrrr.
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Mmm ....
Complex brain imaging is making waves in court Science and the American legal system historically have had a complicated relationship. While good science has driven solid law, junk science like eugenics and phrenology have influenced due process with often terrible consequences. Over the past decade, researchers have made huge advances in neuroscience, developing brain-imaging techniques that show not just the structure of the brain but its inner workings. According to experts in a new field called neurolaw, the effect of these breakthroughs on the legal system could be revolutionary,...... |
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CNN Video
----------------------------------------This 6 minute video about the creation of 'Clown Doctors' and the wonderful things they are doing as part of the medical team in children’s hospitals throughout Israel is really something special. Israel, so often the trailblazer for good, has taken a poignant and unique idea to a powerful new level. Imagine a Bachelor of Arts in ‘Clowning’? They are now working on a ‘Masters Degree’. Clown Doctors ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by bjbdbest at Mar 2, 2010 5:27:11 PM] |
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US court does not like gene patents:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100330/ap_on_he_me/us_cancer_patent_fight Sweet said he invalidated the patents because DNA's existence in an isolated form does not alter the fundamental quality of DNA as it exists in the body nor the information it encodes. |
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Sekerob
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It's been a long standing concern for many... resistance development which makes even the newest antibiotics quickly useless.
----------------------------------------Rising Threat of Infections Unfazed by Antibiotics A minor-league pitcher in his younger days, Richard Armbruster kept playing baseball recreationally into his 70s, until his right hip started bothering him. Last February he went to a St. Louis hospital for what was to be a routine hip replacement. By late March, Mr. Armbruster, then 78, was dead. After a series of postsurgical complications, the final blow was a bloodstream infection that sent him into shock and resisted treatment with antibiotics. “Never in my wildest dreams did I think my dad would walk in for a hip replacement and be dead two months later,” said Amy Fix, one of his daughters. ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/business/27germ.html Remember back when bitten by a suspected lyme carrying tick and fairly quick diagnosis, the doctor gave me broad spectrum antibiotics, just to make sure all bases were covered. It sure did as was found out later.
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Pesticides may cause ADHD in kids
Children exposed to even low concentrations of pesticides known as organophosphates are at a greater risk of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). |
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Alzheimer's advances show need for better drugs
Scientists are reporting advances in detecting and predicting Alzheimer's disease at a conference in Honolulu this week, plus more proof that getting enough exercise and vitamin D may lower your risk. There are better brain scans to spot Alzheimer's disease. More genes that affect risk. Blood and spinal fluid tests that may help tell who will develop the mind-robbing illness and when. But what is needed most - a treatment that does more than just ease symptoms - is not at hand...... |
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