Sunday, January 30, 2011

Science News you can use

worms protect against ecsema?
uh, worms induce high eosinophil counts, and can contribute to ecsema, not to mention asthma, malnutrition, anemia etc. but then I never saw a case of ecsema in Africa either.
and of course the question is: which worms?

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how a few patients cost one quarter of the health care bill.
yeah, they won't take their pills and end up sick. It's social problems and isolation....not discussed: Family breakdown, lack of education, and drugs that are behind the family breakdown.
a lot of the preventive medicine things they mention was what we did in the IHS, with local people trained as tribal health workers to check in on the patients...

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Mammograms do save lives.

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Marriage is good for you.

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destroying the "eat breakfast if you are dieting" myth


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The emphasis on women as men (i.e. that they have to work outside the home): another undiscussed reason that the elderly don't get care. NYTimes discusses "strain" from the modern world on Hispanic caregivers.

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cancer drug taxol might help cut spinal cords to regenerate.

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and the science headline of the week:

Bovine bellies yield biofuel clues

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