Medical stuff

A Mango a day keeps Diabetes away.

BBC reports that Vioxx etc. counteracts blood thinning enzyme, so causes heart attacks. As I used to explain to patients, if they had a partial blockage, taking aspirin would keep the platelets from sticking and Vioxx would increase the platelet's tendency to stick together and causing a blockage.

Gee, couldn't they just add Aspirin or something similar to Vioxx and let us move without pain?

And, A libertarian take on the stem cell debate:
"Embryonic stem cell research has yet to produce a usable therapy. For precisely that reason, private funding of embryonic stem cell research is hard to come by. Private researchers want results. The voter initiatives showering taxpayer money on stem cell research have been specifically aimed at fetal stem cells, despite their lack of promise. The abortion agenda has trumped results in directing our taxes toward research."

Finally, that fake stem cell report by that Korean scientist has resulted editorial changes mandating closer analysis of scientific papers.