Archive for the 'Health' Category
Association of Statin Exposure With Histologically Confirmed Idiopathic Inflammatory Myositis in an Australian Population
August 3rd, 2018Facebook link to cardiologist Dr. Jack Wolfson discussing this. In other news: Doctor Payments Increased Drug Prescribing by 73%: Drugmakers that pay for doctors’ meals get an outsize return on their investment, or a 73% increase in prescribing of their drug. That was the conclusion of a new paper, which looked at cardiologists who were […]
Periodic Fasting Starves Cisplatin Resistant Cancers to Death
August 3rd, 2018Via: EMBOpress: Treatment of cancers with the cytotoxic agent cisplatin frequently evokes resistance, accompanied by rewiring of metabolic pathways, limiting its clinical use. Recent research by Obrist et al (2018) shows that cisplatin?resistant growth of lung adenocarcinoma is particularly vulnerable to periodic fasting cycles and starvation?induced cell death, due to its dependency on glutamine, required […]
People Who Don’t Drink Any Alcohol More Likely to Develop Dementia [???]
August 1st, 2018Via: Independent: People who are teetotal in middle age are at greater risk of developing dementia than those who drink moderate amounts, with benefits particularly apparent in wine drinkers, a new study has found. Researchers found abstinence was associated with a 45 per cent increase in the chances of getting dementia by early old age, […]
Doctors Give Patients 11 Seconds to Explain Reason for Visit Before Interrupting
July 20th, 2018Via: StudyFinds: Ever feel like your doctor is in a rush to get you out the door when you come in for a visit? You’re not just imagining things. A new study finds physicians give a patient an average of just 11 seconds to describe their issue before cutting them off. Researchers from the University […]
Baking Soda for Inflammation
July 19th, 2018Via: Lew Rockwell: Researchers at the Medical College of Georgia have discovered a nerve center in a cell layer in the spleen that controls the immune response and therefore inflammation throughout the body. Given that virtually all chronic age-related disease involves inflammation (called inflammaging), this discovery is of monumental significance and has widespread application for […]
Potential DNA Damage from CRISPR Has Been ‘Seriously Underestimated’
July 17th, 2018Via: STAT News: From the earliest days of the CRISPR-Cas9 era, scientists have known that the first step in how it edits genomes — snipping DNA — creates an unholy mess: Cellular repairmen frantically try to fix the cuts by throwing random chunks of DNA into the breach and deleting other random bits. Research published […]
Two Children Died in Samoa After Receiving MMR Vaccinations
July 9th, 2018Via: New Zealand Herald: Samoan health authorities have stopped all children’s vaccinations in the island nation after the deaths of two toddlers. A full inquiry into the circumstances of the deaths has also been launched at the request of Prime Minister Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Sailele Malielegaoi. The situation comes after two children, both aged 1, died […]
Senior Scientist at Allergan, Vaccine Researcher Shot to Death as He Slept Beside His Daughters at Remote Campsite
June 25th, 2018Via: Heavy: A 35-year-old California man was killed while camping with his daughters in Malibu Creek State Park and police are investigating the mysterious case as a homicide. No suspects have been identified. Tristan Beaudette was shot in the upper torso early in the morning of June 22, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said […]
Big Pharma Vaccine Billionaire Just Bought the LA Times
June 21st, 2018I remember the operation the LA Times carried out on Gary Webb back in the 1990s, so… Yeah. Via: Natural News: The latest example of Big Pharma taking over the media is the purchase of the Los Angeles Times and the San Diego Tribune for $500 million by Big Pharma billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong. Instead […]
U.S. Releases Report Showing Elevated Health Risks from Nonstick Chemicals
June 21st, 2018Hair on fire lunatic fringe people who have assumed this for decades: Right again. Via: Science Magazine: President Donald Trump’s administration has released a politically charged toxicology report about nonstick chemicals showing they can endanger human health at significantly lower levels than the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has previously called safe. The draft report from […]
