Archive for the 'Health' Category
Pentagon Zombie-Maker’s New Project: Suffocate, Freeze, Reanimate
June 18th, 2010Via: Wired: The scientist responsible for some of the Pentagon’s wildest research has devised a method that could one day save trauma patients, and even extend the shelf life of transplant organs. Step one: Suffocate the wounded. Step two: Put ‘em on ice. Mark Roth, a biochemist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, has been […]
Southwest Airlines Employee Finds Human Heads on Their Way to Fort Worth
June 18th, 2010The company that shipped the heads had its business license revoked. Is this strange? Via: NBC: A Southwest Airlines employee called police after finding human heads in a package set to be transported to a Fort Worth medical research company, the airline said. “It wasn’t labeled or packaged properly,” said Ashley Rogers, a Southwest spokeswoman. […]
Memphis: Mystery Crop Damage Threatens Hundreds Of Acres
June 16th, 2010Any ideas? Via: WREG: Something is killing crops, trees, even weeds and nobody can explain why. Farmers are scratching their heads and some are worried their crops may be lost to the mysterious plague. It’s happening along a large swath of land near the Shelby and Tipton county border along Herring Hill Road and elsewhere […]
Americans Get the Most Medical Radiation in the World
June 15th, 2010Via: AP: We fret about airport scanners, power lines, cell phones and even microwaves. It’s true that we get too much radiation. But it’s not from those sources — it’s from too many medical tests. Americans get the most medical radiation in the world, even more than folks in other rich countries. The U.S. accounts […]
BP NOW BURNING THE OIL ON THE SURFACE
June 12th, 2010The article below states that BP, “Plans to burn hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil.” They have already started burning the oil. The latest Big Picture includes this image from the U.S. Coast Guard: I found this photo on a KATU.com gallery. This woman has the right idea: Whether or not that mask will […]
Fisherman Exposed to Mustard Gas
June 9th, 2010Via: WBZTV: A doctor treating a commercial fisherman who was sickened after his clamming boat pulled up munitions tainted with chemicals says tests show he was exposed to mustard gas. Dr. Edward Boyer, a toxicologist at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, said blood and urine tests that confirmed mustard gas exposure came back Monday […]
Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price
June 8th, 2010Via: New York Times: When one of the most important e-mail messages of his life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it. Not just for a day or two, but 12 days. He finally saw it while sifting through old messages: a big company wanted to buy his Internet start-up. […]
Autism: Mainstream Medicine Learns About GAPS
June 7th, 2010Incredibly, Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride and her book, Gut and Psychology Syndrome weren’t mentioned in this article. Via: Telegraph: Autism could be turned into a “preventable” disorder after British scientists develop a simple test for the condition. Diagnosis of autism has always been difficult and often the condition remains unrecognised until too late for treatment to […]
The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains
May 29th, 2010The QuickImage plugin for Firefox may be used to very easily turn image loading on and off. Via: Wired: During the winter of 2007, a UCLA professor of psychiatry named Gary Small recruited six volunteers—three experienced Web surfers and three novices—for a study on brain activity. He gave each a pair of goggles onto which […]
Government to Track Your Child’s Body Mass Index
May 27th, 2010U.S. Generals Want Congress to Implement Nutrition Standards for iZombies Because They’re Too Fat to Fight Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Mary Enig Via: American Thinker: I thought this might be one of those bills where someone has misread the language and interpreted what the legislation is supposed to do incorrectly. Nope. Rep. Kind of […]
