Thursday, February 28, 2008

Medical Headlines below the fold

Bill Buckley has died. I rarely agreed with him but he could make a point and reading him expanded your vocabulary.
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WSJ article on how drug laws scare doctors. So our cancer patients should suffer because their daughter/cousin/kid's friend stole their oxycontin, ground it up, injected it and overdosed?

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EAT EGGS! LOSE WEIGHT! Louisiana State University found that by giving two eggs a day for breakfast, overweight and obese women lost more weight than women eating a similar breakfast without eggs. ..(because of ) the satiating quality of eggs..
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Good news: PrimeGen claims they have produced an improved adult stem cell that is less prone to tumor formation.
The bad news: they've exaggerated claims before, and scientists are still awaiting details in this one.

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Was Alqaeda involved in the Anthrax letters? If so, why so little US coverage? I'll have to google about this one...

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The "we're all gonna die" headline of the day:
Automated killer robots 'threat to humanity': expert
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Another threat to mankind: Killer lightbulbs.
(LINK2)

Guess we'll have to go back to candles.
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But this could be a real problem: Yellow Fever outbreak in Paraguay.
There also have been some cases in Brazil...

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