Archive for the 'Health' Category
Britain: Government Accused of Dishonesty Over GM Babies
July 27th, 2014Via: Independent: The Government has been accused of misleading the public over the introduction of a new in vitro fertilisation (IVF) technique that some experts believe will result in the birth of “genetically modified babies”. Leading scientists, including Lord Winston, an early pioneer of fertility treatment, have criticised the Department of Health for trying to […]
International Flights Spread Ebola
July 27th, 2014Via: Irish Independent: Nigerian health authorities raced to stop the spread of Ebola after a man sick with one of the world’s deadliest diseases brought it by plane to Lagos. That the traveller from Liberia could board an international flight also raised new fears that other passengers could take the disease beyond Africa due to […]
Michigan Deptment of Agriculture Forces Farmer to Dump 248 Gallons of Organic Milk and Break 1200 Free Range Eggs
July 25th, 2014Via: The Organic Prepper: While Americans in the nearby city of Detroit face life in third world conditions, unable to even afford running water, the state of Michigan decided to direct its resources towards cracking down on a small food co-op in Standish for having the utter audacity to provide milk, butter, cream and eggs […]
China Seals Off Town After Man Dies of Bubonic Plague
July 23rd, 2014Via: AFP: A Chinese town has been sealed off and 151 people placed in quarantine since last week after a man died of bubonic plague, state media said Tuesday. The 30,000 people living in Yumen in the northwestern province of Gansu are not being allowed to leave, and police at roadblocks on its perimeter are […]
Court Strikes Down Federal Obamacare Subsidies
July 22nd, 2014Via: NBC: In a potentially lethal blow to Obamacare, a federal appeals court has ruled that the federal government may not subsidize health insurance plans for people in 36 states that decided not to set up their own marketplaces under the law. The law clearly says that states are to set up the exchanges. But […]
Top AIDS Researchers Killed in Malaysia Airlines Crash
July 18th, 2014Utopia, Series 2 Episode 1, 14 July 2014, Channel4, Britain: “We have to plant a bomb on board the plane and we have to kill all of them.” Utopia is probably the best show I’ve ever seen on TV. The first two episodes from series 2 were recently broadcast in Britain. Most people outside of […]
Feds Struggling to Cope With Medical ‘Breakdown’ at the Border
July 17th, 2014Via: ABC News: The federal government is so overwhelmed by the current tide of migrants crossing the border it can’t provide basic medical screening to all of the children before transporting them – often by air – to longer-term holding facilities across the country, ABC News has learned. The director of refugee health in the […]
A Contraceptive Implant with Remote Control
July 14th, 2014Date check: Nope, it’s not April Fool’s Day. Just make sure the firewall on your birth control chip is up to date… Via: MIT Technology Review: A startup has developed a contraceptive chip that could be deactivated and reactivated using a wireless remote. … Developed by MicroCHIPS of Lexington, Massachusetts, the device will begin pre-clinical […]
From 2004: “Army Test in 1950 May Have Changed Microbial Ecology”
July 14th, 2014Via: San Francisco Chronicle: Serratia is a bacterium that some doctors and residents of the Bay Area have been familiar with for many years. In 1950, government officials believed that serratia did not cause disease. That belief was later used as a justification for a secret post-World War II Army experiment that became a notorious […]
Consciousness On-Off Switch Discovered Deep in Brain
July 6th, 2014Wow, you’ll love this one. Via: New Scientist: ONE moment you’re conscious, the next you’re not. For the first time, researchers have switched off consciousness by electrically stimulating a single brain area. Scientists have been probing individual regions of the brain for over a century, exploring their function by zapping them with electricity and temporarily […]
