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Another doctor visit down

23. August 2010

Another prick. Needle, that is. And even more tests to look forward to, including a scheduled gallbladder scan, during which they’ll inject radioactive dye into a vein in my arm and watch it proceed through my vitals while I lie on a table for a few hours. Sounds like so much fun I might wet [...]

Hallucinogens as medicine

20. August 2010

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LSD for a happy, healthy brain? Two new scientific studies reveal hallucinogens are good for your mental health LSD and ketamine, two powerful hallucinogens, are also potential cures for depression, OCD, and anxiety. Two studies published this week, in Science and Nature, confirm that hallucinogenic drugs stimulate healthy brain activity, even promoting the growth of [...]

Studies in inevitability

20. August 2010

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Researchers have found that stress in middle age could lead to dementia later on in life. As if we all don’t have stress! And the focus group participants were all women. Wonderful! Psychological stress in middle age could lead to the development of dementia later in life, especially Alzheimer’s disease, reveals research from the University [...]

Sticks and Stones

9. August 2010

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Researchers have found that rejection could cause more than emotional pain. STICKS and stones may break your bones, but words might make you more likely to get arthritis. Not as catchy as the original, but it seems social rejection could trigger diseases linked to inflammation. Psychologist George Slavich of the University of California, Los Angeles, [...]

Kagan’s evil agenda

30. June 2010

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Seems Obama’s golden girl Elena Kagan may have falsified documents and manipulated data. Colluding with a ‘select panel’ of American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, she allegedly changed the wording about partial birth abortion from ‘under no circumstances’ to the opposite. The initial draft said that the ACOG panel “could identify no circumstances under which [...]

…but it’s obamacare!

27. May 2010

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AP is reporting that “uncertainty over Medicare pay sets doctors on edge”. The 21.3% pay cut to doctors treating Medicare patients will begin June 1st unless Congress ‘intervenes’. For the third time this year, Congress is scrambling to stave off a hefty pay cut to doctors treating Medicare patients — even as the Obama administration [...]

You were right.

7. May 2010

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Every man likes to hear that phrase once in a while! My husband foretold the future pretty early in the health care debate. He maintained that since the government penalties are far lower for corporations who choose not to provide insurance to their employees than the price of providing the insurance, they’d all end up [...]

Vatican funding adult stem cell research

24. April 2010

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This news may raise a few eyebrows but as The Anchoress says: You would only expect the Catholic Church to be “the last organization” to fund stem cell research if you were getting your news from bigtime-professional-new outfits and Democrat political campaigns. Amen. Vatican, University of Maryland enter stem cell research partnership With the financial [...]

The Nanny state strikes again

22. April 2010

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Salt is next on the tanning bed/fat/cigarette campaign and the government is planning a “comprehensive phase-down of a widely used ingredient”. FDA plans to limit amount of salt allowed in processed foods for health reasons The Food and Drug Administration is planning an unprecedented effort to gradually reduce the salt consumed each day by Americans, [...]

Coffee and tea may lower risk of diabetes

17. December 2009

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We already know that coffee can reduce your risk of Parkinson’s disease, cavities and colon cancer… but now diabetes? This is quite remarkable… A cup (or more) of coffee or tea a day could keep Type 2 diabetes away The study, which appears today in Archives of Internal Medicine, is a meta-analysis of 457,922 people [...]