Medical stuff below the fold

Fecal transplants hold promise, but face regulatory hurdles

Actually, this is about replacing normal bacteria into folks to stop those terrible C.Difficile infections (c dif takes over when you kill off the normal germs in the intestine). I wrote about the problem here.

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Is there an inflammatory link between Rheumatoid arthritis and heart attacks?

other possible links: Use of NSAIDS increase blood coagulability, if you hurt, you exercize less, and are more depressed and that makes some folks eat more.

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Will nano particles affect our health? some research about Iron absorbtion being affected in chicken experiments suggest maybe.
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Tricking the body into accepting transplants might mean less rejection medicine needs to be taken LINK

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Neurologic puzzles:

The Twitching disease in the USA is supposed to be due to a "conversion reaction", and Nodding disease in Uganda is still a puzzle.

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Probiotics make mice less anxious.

so give Yakult to your mice so they won't be nervous when the cat starts chasing them.
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and the really important scientific breakthrough in the news:

Scientists discover 662 new bacteria: In 95 belly buttons.