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How bad does it have to get?
on 27/02/2010 (3 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Health, Comments Off
Somebody wrote a column about toxins and autism in this country. In 1943 hardly anyone in this country had ever heard of it. Now it affects almost 1% of our children. There was a small flurry of letters and the topic disappears from our consciousness for another millennia.
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Pandemic has not yet peaked, WHO experts advise
on 24/02/2010 (3 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Health, Comments Off
The pandemic of H1N1 swine flu has not yet peaked, a committee of experts advised the World Health Organization on Tuesday.
Court Documents Reveal Palin’s Grandson Uses Socialized Medicine
on by NW0.eu in Health, Politics, Comments Off
From The Raw Story:
For someone who once generated a national hysteria by claiming socialized medicine would bring about government-run “death panels” that would kill the elderly and children with mental defects, Sarah Palin seems remarkably calm, what with her grandson now facing the very same allegedly tyrannical construct, that is.Yes, that’s right: Sarah Palin, Alaska’s former governor and a millionaire thanks to sales of her book, has a grandson whose health care is paid for by the federal government, according to newly released court documents.
The revelation was made in court documents filed Feb. 16, relating to the child support battle between Bristol Palin and Levi Jonson, available here [PDF link] courtesy of E! Online.
“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome…
Marijuana Use by Seniors Goes Up as Boomers Age
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From Yahoo News:
In her 88 years, Florence Siegel has learned how to relax: A glass of red wine. A crisp copy of The New York Times, if she can wrest it from her husband. Some classical music, preferably Bach. And every night like clockwork, she lifts a pipe to her lips and smokes marijuana.
Long a fixture among young people, use of the country’s most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set, as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and ’70s grows older.
The number of people aged 50 and older reporting marijuana use in the prior year went up from 1.9 percent to 2.9 percent from 2002 to 2008, according to surveys from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
The…
Could Scorpion Venom Make a Safe Alternative to Morphine?
on 23/02/2010 (3 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Health, Comments Off
I’m starting an urban scorpion farm, just to get in on the the action:
by Clay Dillow for popsci.com
Scorpion venom and intense pain generally go hand in hand, but a group of researchers at Tel Aviv University are rethinking that relationship, using a better understanding of the peptide toxins found in scorpions’ pain-inducing payloads to create a breed of non-addictive, side effect-free painkillers.
Pain is communicated to the brain via a certain type of sodium channel embedded in our nervous and muscular systems. Understanding the way these sodium channels convey the sensation of pain from certain parts of the body to the brain is key to manipulating these signals to reduce or eliminate feelings of pain. Figure out how to manipulate those mechanisms, and we could be on the way to a much less painful future.
Luckily for us, scorpions — friendly little critters that they are — have spent the past few million years evolving sophisticated toxins that can really turn up the level of excruciation. By modifying those same molecules, researchers believe they can customize compounds that are highly effective at numbing specific kinds of pain in specific parts of the body. What’s more, because these compounds are natural and tailor-tweaked, they can be engineered to perform without side effects like addiction or the state of lovely but intoxicating loopiness induced by other painkilling compounds like morphine.
Therein lies the benefit, of course; anyone who’s had wisdom teeth pulled or dealt with a serious ligament tear knows that a bottle of conventional pain meds can get the job done, but the side effects can be mentally impairing and even dangerous should one become chemically dependent. With bio-mimicking pain compounds, doctors could treat chronic discomfort without fearing that patients might end up in the streets trying to score that next hit of scorpion.
CHLAMYDIA–THE MOST WIDESPREAD VENEREAL DISEASE
on 22/02/2010 (3 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Health, Comments Off
CENSORED IN 1984: CHLAMYDIA–THE MOST WIDESPREAD VENEREAL DISEASE –LEADS TO STERILITY One hundred thousand women a year are becoming sterile from NGU (nongonococcal urethritis), an inflammation of the urinary tube […]
Man Appears Free of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant
on by NW0.eu in Health, Science and Technology, Comments Off
Jacquelyne Froeber writes on CNN:
A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes AIDS, according to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
“The patient is fine,” said Dr. Gero Hutter of Charite Universitatsmedizin Berlin in Germany. “Today, two years after his transplantation, he is still without any signs of HIV disease and without antiretroviral medication.”
The case was first reported in November, and the new report is the first official publication of the case in a medical journal. Hutter and a team of medical professionals performed the stem cell transplant on the patient, an American living in Germany,…
Cannabis Easier to Buy Than Pizza, Drug Expert Dr Alex Wodak Says
on 21/02/2010 (3 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Health, Comments Off
From News.com.au:
Cannabis is easier to buy than a pizza, says a drug expert, so why not legalise and tax it to benefit everyone? Dr Alex Wodak, the director of the Alcohol and Drug Service at Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital, says cannabis will soon be Australia’s smoke of choice.
“In a few years time, we’ll have more Australians smoking cannabis than we have smoking tobacco and by default that market is largely taken over by criminals,” Dr Wodak said.
“Having a black market of that size is not good for anybody and inevitably big black markets can only survive if there’s significant police corruption.’
Dr Wodak delivered the keynote address at the Australian Drug Law and a Civil Society symposium at the Lismore campus of Southern Cross University today. He also heads the Australian…
Are mandatory vaccinations acts of violence against children?
on by NW0.eu in Health, Comments Off
At times, these vaccines are enforced at gunpoint or with the presence of vicious guard dogs.
Women Being Conned About Breast Cancer Screening
on 19/02/2010 (4 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Health, Comments Off
Ethan A. Huff for Natural News:
Western medicine relies heavily on convincing people that they need some sort of drug or surgery to remedy their ills and gain health. Studies often contain manipulated facts and skewed statistics that paint a favorable picture of some new procedure or treatment while shrouding the truth about the risks involved. The alleged benefits of breast cancer screenings are no exception as women are continually tricked into believing that mammograms will greatly benefit them when the facts show that they are largely ineffective.
Using an approach called mismatched framing, cancer studies will present side effects in absolute terms while exaggerating benefits in relative terms. When two different metric systems are used to present one set of findings, the results are deceptive albeit technically true.
One statistic says…
80% of Englishmen ‘Too Fat By 2020′
on 17/02/2010 (4 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Health, Comments Off
A shocking report from AFP shows that widespread obesity isn’t just an American problem:
Eight out of 10 men and nearly seven out of 10 women in England will be too fat by 2020, according to new data released Wednesday.
Researchers said that while recent research showed obesity among children levelling off, instances among adults show no sign of doing the same.
Some 41 percent of men aged 20 to 65 will be obese by 2020, with 40 percent overweight, according to the figures from the National Heart Forum, based on data from the Health Survey for England. That makes a total of 81 percent.
Among women, 36 percent will be obese and 32 percent overweight — a total of 68 percent.
By 2050, this will lead to sharp increases in the number of people suffering…
Cigarettes Might Be Infectious
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Janet Raloff writes in Science News:
The tobacco in cigarettes hosts a bacterial bonanza — literally hundreds of different germs, including those responsible for many human illnesses, a new study finds.
“Nearly every paper that you pick up discussing the health effects of cigarettes starts out with something to the effect that smokers and people exposed to secondhand smoke experience high rates of respiratory infections,” notes Amy Sapkota of the University of Maryland, College Park. The presumption has been that smoking renders people vulnerable to disease by impairing lung function or immunity. And it may well do both.
“But nobody talks about cigarettes as a source of those infections,” she says. Her new data now suggest that’s distinctly possible.
If these germs are alive, something she has not yet confirmed, just handling cigarettes or…
Survey Finds Many Veterans Use Marijuana For PTSD
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Steve Elliott writes in Toke of the Town:
Many veterans and others are using cannabis medically to treat the symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), according to preliminary results of a new survey.
Cannabis Science Inc., which describes itself as “an emerging pharmaceutical cannabis company,” is reviewing the interim results of its survey of more than 1,400 people.
“It is clear that many veterans are already using herbal cannabis to self-medicate to relieve the symptoms of PTSD,” said Dr. Robert Melamede, president and CEO of Cannabis Science.
“Consequently, there is a clear need for standardized, FDA approved, oral cannabis products which can, and should be, provided to veterans and others who can benefit from its use,” Melamede said.
FDA Says It’s Unable to Regulate BPA, Considered Hazardous Since the 1930s
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Meg Kissinger reports in the Journal Sentinel:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials say they are powerless to regulate BPA, although they have declared the chemical to be a safety concern for fetuses, babies and young children.
A quirk in the rules allows BPA makers to skirt federal regulation.
“We may have to go after legislation to change it,” Joshua Sharfstein, the FDA’s principal deputy director, told the Journal Sentinel. The newspaper has been investigating the government’s lack of regulation regarding BPA for three years.
FDA officials announced Friday that they had reversed their position that bisphenol A is safe. The chemical, used to line most food and beverage cans, has been found in the urine of 93% of Americans tested.
The agency now considers BPA to be of some concern for effects on the…
Insomnia May Shrink Your Brain
on 16/02/2010 (4 weeks ago) by NW0.eu in Health, Comments Off
Uh-oh! Discovery News reports that chronic lack of sleep could end up costing you more than the price of that extra cup of coffee you need to stay awake: Chronic […]
