Archive for the 'Health' Category
Fast Food on Display in Chiropractor’s Office
January 9th, 2015Via: Business Insider: A Michigan chiropractor has been saving a Taco bell chicken taco and McDonald’s cheeseburger with fries for years, and none of the items have appeared to rot. Dr. Jaqueline Vaughn purchased the meals two years ago and put them on display in her office, Vaughn Chiropractic, in Waterford, Michigan. The meals have […]
New Antibiotic Pulled From Dirt
January 8th, 2015Via: Bloomberg: Scientists have discovered an antibiotic capable of fighting infections that kill hundreds of thousands of people each year, a breakthrough that could lead to the field’s first major new drug in more than a quarter-century. The experimental drug, which was isolated from a sample of New England dirt, is called teixobactin. It hasn’t […]
Inflammation and Depression
January 4th, 2015I don’t believe that I read this in a mainstream news source. Via: Guardian: Barely a week goes by without a celebrity “opening up” about their “battle with depression”. This, apparently, is a brave thing to do because, despite all efforts to get rid of the stigma around depression, it is still seen as some […]
Sugar as a Source of Disease
January 2nd, 2015Here’s an excerpt from an email to my sister: As for us being weird by American standards: We’re weird by NZ standards too. For example, we go to almost no birthday parties for other children because people are drinking Pepsi and eating baked atrocities with sprinkles on top. MSG sausages, etc. One of Owen’s friends […]
Nearly Half of Brits on Prescription Drugs
December 31st, 2014Via: Russia Today: Nearly half of all Britons are taking prescription medication on a regular basis according to new figures produced by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) According to the HSCIC, 50 percent of women and 43 percent of men are taking specialised drugs to combat physical and mental illnesses, with cholesterol-lowering […]
Monsanto’s Roundup and Autism
December 30th, 2014Via: The Complete Patient: Correlations are not causation, but when they plot out as clearly as Stephanie Seneff has plotted them out with regard to autism and glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, they are impossible to ignore. Seneff is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who has […]
Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. Tables
December 21st, 2014This Los Angeles Times series looks and reads like distopian sci-fi. High tech green houses stretch across the land to the horizon. Workers exist in abject squalor. Or are they slaves? It depends on the the facility and the arbitrary whims of the crooks in charge. (View the image galleries, if you dare.) And when […]
Persistent Associations Between Maternal Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates on Child IQ at Age 7 Years
December 12th, 2014Via: PLOS One: Child full-scale IQ was inversely associated with prenatal urinary metabolite concentrations of DnBP and DiBP: b = ?2.69 (95% confidence interval [CI] = ?4.33, ?1.05) and b = ?2.69 (95% CI = ?4.22, ?1.16) per log unit increase. Among children of mothers with the highest versus lowest quartile DnBP and DiBP metabolite […]
A Pacific Isle, Radioactive and Forgotten
December 9th, 2014Via: New York Times: THERE is no consistent air service to the coral atoll of Enewetak in the Marshall Islands, where the United States tested 67 nuclear weapons between 1946 and 1958. On my first trip to the capital, Majuro, in 2010, to study the danger posed there by the rising ocean, I managed to […]
Cancer: Long Pepper Fruit
November 28th, 2014Via: The Windsor Star: “One of the major struggles with cancer therapy is whatever we use to kill cancer cells also kills healthy cells, which is a very bad side effect,” Pandey said. The long pepper fruit extract, however, seems to do a remarkable thing: trick cancer cells into cutting off their own energy. It […]
