Archive for the 'Health' Category
Minimum of 40 Children Paralyzed After New Meningitis Vaccine
January 9th, 2013Via: Vactruth: On December 20, 2012, a vaccination tragedy hit the small village of Gouro, located in northern Chad, Africa. According to the newspaper La Voix, out of five hundred children who received the new meningitis vaccine MenAfriVac, at least 40 of them between the ages of 7 and 18 have become paralyzed. Those children […]
‘New Weight Loss Gadget Sucks Food Straight Out of the Stomach’
January 7th, 2013Wow. Maybe they can somehow form the slurry into delicious and nutritious chow pellets. Which could… You know… No? Via: Independent: Who would have thought that the future of weight loss might lie in the hands of the inventor of the Segway? Dean Kamen, creator of the two-wheeled wonder, along with a team from Aspire […]
Nuclear Security Helicopters Testing Radiation Levels Above DC Area
January 7th, 2013[???] Via: CBS: Helicopters have been conducting radiation tests above portions of the Washington, D.C. area using remote gamma radiation sensing technology. The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has been flying the radiation missions since Dec. 27, 2012 and they will continue until next Friday, Jan. 11. The flights have been conducted during daylight only, […]
Intraoperative Recall: The Perplexing Phenomenon of People Who ‘Awaken’ Under General Anesthesia
January 6th, 2013Via: The Atlantic: While subduing consciousness is the most urgent aspect of Tononi’s work, he is especially animated when discussing consciousness in its fullest, brightest state. In his office in Madison, he described a hypothetical device called a “qualiascope” that could visualize consciousness the same way telescopes visualize light waves, or thermal goggles visualize heat. […]
America’s Real Criminal Element: Lead
January 5th, 2013Via: Mother Jones: In 1994, Rick Nevin was a consultant working for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development on the costs and benefits of removing lead paint from old houses. This has been a topic of intense study because of the growing body of research linking lead exposure in small children with a […]
Military Must Prep Now for ‘Mutant’ Future
January 3rd, 2013Via: Wired: The U.S. military is already using, or fast developing, a wide range of technologies meant to give troops what California Polytechnic State University researcher Patrick Lin calls “mutant powers.” Greater strength and endurance. Superior cognition. Better teamwork. Fearlessness. But the risk, ethics and policy issues arising out of these so-called “military human enhancements” […]
Safe Green Tea?
December 30th, 2012I spent some time trying to find out if it was possible to buy green tea from Japan that was definitely fallout free. It took a while, but I eventually found o-cha.com. They have a number of teas that have been tested for radiation and they provide the laboratory reports on the website. I have […]
U.S. Sailors Sue Japan Over Fukushima Lies
December 30th, 2012Well, unless we’re expected to assume that a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier isn’t equipped to measure radiation levels (which would be a totally absurd assumption), the plaintiffs should name the U.S. Navy in the lawsuit as well. Hint: Good luck. Via: Courthouse News Service: The Fukushima nuclear disaster exposed Navy rescue workers to dangerous levels […]
An Opportunistic Pathogen Isolated from the Gut of an Obese Human Causes Obesity in Germfree Mice
December 30th, 2012If you’re like me, you’ll go looking for what the WTP diet is, maybe even read the supplementary information to this study. The specifics about what was given to the test subject aren’t included anywhere, I was guessing because it was a sample size of one. I still wanted to know. I emailed Dr. Liping […]
Chinese Neurosurgeons Remove Sections of Brains of Drug and Alcohol Addicts
December 28th, 2012Via: Time: How far should doctors go in attempting to cure addiction? In China, some physicians are taking the most extreme measures. By destroying parts of the brain’s “pleasure centers” in heroin addicts and alcoholics, these neurosurgeons hope to stop drug cravings. But damaging the brain region involved in addictive desires risks permanently ending the […]
