Archive for the 'Health' Category
Health Benefits of Coffee a Recurring Theme in Harvard Research
September 30th, 2015haha I’m in my usual middle-of-the-night slog through the doom and just reading about coffee made me feel high and happy. Who knows or cares if the fancy Harvard people are right about coffee being some sort of health elixir. Mmmm coffee. Via: Harvard: Coffee is everywhere, through history and across the world. And increasingly, […]
More Doctors Against Vaccines
September 28th, 2015Via: Organic Lifestyle Magazine: Bad advice is everywhere, and it can stem from every profession, even the medical profession. History has taught us that there are times the experts are nearly unified in their advice and are still dead wrong. The reasoning has always been the same, that the benefits outweigh the risks. When you’re […]
DARPA: Soldier Brain Implants to Improve Artificial Intelligence [???]
September 28th, 2015Via: Fusion: For decades, DARPA, the secretive research arm of the Department of Defense, has dreamed of turning soldiers into cyborgs. And now it’s finally happening. The agency has funded projects that involve implanting chips into soldiers’ brains that they hope will enhance performance on the battlefield and repair traumatized brains once the fog of […]
Scientists Claim They Have Grown Human Sperm in the Lab
September 19th, 2015Via: Independent: Human sperm cells have been made in the laboratory for the first time by culturing immature cells taken from the testes of infertile men. The breakthrough promises to help young boys made sterile by cancer treatments and adult men who cannot make their own sperm, scientists have claimed. The sperm cells made in […]
Analysis of Antidepressant Paxil Finds Data on Teen Risk Was Held Back
September 18th, 2015Via: Reuters: A medical journal criticised British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline on Thursday for delaying access to key data from a trial of its antidepressant paroxetine (Seroxat, Paxil) that would have shown earlier that it is neither safe or effective in adolescents. The widely used medicine is linked to an increased risk of suicide in young people […]
Low Vitamin D Linked to Mental Decline
September 15th, 2015Via: CBS: Mental function may decline faster in older adults with low levels of vitamin D, a new study suggests. Among more than 380 people the researchers followed for an average of five years, those with dementia had the lowest levels of vitamin D. “It is unclear what vitamin D might be doing,” said study […]
Kids Who Get More Sunlight Less Likely to Need Glasses
September 15th, 2015Via: CBS: Playing outside has a number of well-established health benefits for kids, including increasing their physical activity and decreasing their risk of obesity. But perhaps a lesser-known benefit is that it can help protect their eyesight. Now a new study, published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, further supports that notion. […]
China: Head Transplant Team Selected for 2017 Operation
September 14th, 2015Body from executed prisoner? Via: Independent: The likely date and location for the first-ever human head transplant have been set, after the controversial Italian doctor that will lead the surgery said that he has selected his team of surgeons. Radical Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero has drawn fascination and criticism after he announced plans to cut […]
Germany: Dozens of People at Homeopathy Conference Given Hallucinogenic Drug
September 8th, 2015Via: Independent: An alternative medicine conference has ended in chaos in Germany after dozens of delegates took a LSD-like drug and started suffering from hallucinations. Broadcaster NDR described the 29 men and women “staggering around, rolling in a meadow, talking gibberish and suffering severe cramps”. The group of “Heilpraktikers” was discovered at the hotel where […]
Study Links Air Pollution to Children’s Low Grades
September 8th, 2015Via: University of Texas at El Paso: A University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) study on children’s health has found that fourth and fifth graders who are exposed to toxic air pollutants at home are more likely to have lower GPAs. UTEP researchers analyzed academic performance and sociodemographic data for 1,895 fourth and fifth […]
