Archive for the 'Health' Category
Austria: Bionic Reconstruction Gives Men First Prosthetic Hands Controlled by Mind
February 26th, 2015Via: Guardian: Three Austrians have had their injured hands replaced with bionic ones that they can control using nerves and muscles transplanted into their arms from their legs. The three men are the first to undergo what doctors refer to as “bionic reconstruction”, which involves a voluntary amputation, the transplantof nerves and muscles and learning […]
Feds Changing Absurd Cholesterol Guidelines
February 20th, 2015How many people were killed or permanently injured by statins because of the decades long cholesterol quackery?!? Via: Los Angeles Times: Go ahead and make that omelet. A new draft of the federal government’s healthy eating guidelines is poised to scramble some long-standing advice on cholesterol-rich foods. Nutrition and public health experts advising the federal […]
Why Animals Eat Psychoactive Plants
February 10th, 2015Via: BoingBoing: What Ronald K. Siegel discovered seems strange at first. He explains in his book Intoxication: After sampling the numbing nectar of certain orchids, bees drop to the ground in a temporary stupor, then weave back for more. Birds gorge themselves on inebriating berries, then fly with reckless abandon. Cats eagerly sniff aromatic “pleasure” […]
Millions of GMO Insects Could be Set Loose in Florida Keys
February 8th, 2015Via: AP: Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in the Florida Keys if British researchers win approval to use the bugs against two extremely painful viral diseases. Never before have insects with modified DNA come so close to being set loose in a residential U.S. neighborhood. “This is essentially using a mosquito as […]
The Trip Treatment
February 6th, 2015Via: The New Yorker: One of the researchers was quoted as saying that, under the influence of the hallucinogen, “individuals transcend their primary identification with their bodies and experience ego-free states . . . and return with a new perspective and profound acceptance.” Research Credit: pookie
Britain: Three-Person Babies
February 4th, 2015Via: BBC: MPs have voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man, in a historic move. The UK is now set to become the first country to introduce laws to allow the creation of babies from three people. In a free vote in the Commons, 382 MPs […]
Probiotic Helps People with Peanut Allergy
January 29th, 2015Via: Guardian: Australian researchers have found a possible key to a cure for people with potentially fatal peanut allergies. A Melbourne-based study has already transformed the lives of many of the children who took part in the clinical trial. Researchers from the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute gave about 30 allergic children a daily dose of […]
Robots Roam Hallways of San Francisco’s Newest Hospital
January 16th, 2015Via: cnet: Meet Eve, a short, refrigerator-wide robot. While it doesn’t have arms, or a head, its portly frame can haul heavy loads, dispense supplies and travel long distances. Eve is one of 25 autonomous robots programmed to help the staff of San Francisco’s newest hospital. When the University of California, San Francisco, Medical Center […]
BPA Free Plastic, “Might Itself be More Harmful than BPA”
January 13th, 2015Via: Washington Post: In a groundbreaking study, researchers have shown why a chemical once thought to be a safe alternative to bisphenol-A, which was abandoned by manufacturers of baby bottles and sippy cups after a public outcry, might itself be more harmful than BPA. University of Calgary scientists say they think their research is the […]
Judge Orders NYPD to Release Records on X-ray Vans
January 11th, 2015Via: ProPublica: The NYPD has a secretive program that uses unmarked vans with X-ray machines designed to detect bombs. ProPublica tried to find out more about it, but the NYPD refused to answer for three years.
