News Round-Up: Food, Foodborne Illness, And Antibiotic Resistance In Food
• Maryn McKenna via WIRED.comOK, still catching up. Today: food, foodborne illness, and antibiotic use and resistance in food — lots of news in a multi-item rundown.
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What Makes Ebola So Deadly?
• Francie Diep via PopSci.comEbola viruses prevent the body from mounting an immune response against them, but a new study finds that mutating just one gene makes the virus unable to suppress the immune system.
Analysis Identifies Shocking Problems with Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Corn (by Dr. Mercola)
•I’ve warned you of the potential dangers of genetically engineered (GE) foods for many years now, pointing out that such crops might have wholly unforeseen consequences. In recent years, such suspicions have increasingly proven correct.
Postal temps to gain health insurance under ObamaCare
• Josh Hicks via Washington PostThe Postal Service next year will offer healthcare coverage to its temporary employees to comply with the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.
Amazing Video of Garlic Preventing Chemically Induced Cancer
• tv.greenmedinfo.comGarlic and flavonoid phytonutrients found in fruits, vegetables, greens, and grains appear to protect against DNA damage induced by mutagenic chemicals found in cooked meat.
Breast-Milk Protein May Help Defeat Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
• Ryder Diaz via LiveScience.comThe fight against antibiotic resistance has gained an ally in breast milk. An ingredient found in human milk may make surface infections by the resistant bacteria MRSA more sensitive to attack by antibiotics
NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Spacecraft Faces Serious Health Problems
• Mike Wall via Space.comHealth issues are jeopardizing the planet-hunting work of NASA's prolific Kepler space telescope, which has identified more than 2,700 potential alien worlds to date.
Eating Boogers Could Be Good For You
• popsci.comCanadian biochemistry professor proposes a deep investigation.
Cancer Drugs Should Cost Less, Say Doctors
• Susan Young via TechnologyReview.comDoctors argue that some drug companies are charging too much for their cancer drugs, to the detriment of patients.
Why Your Brain Craves Music
• Joseph Mercola via LewRockwell.comIf you’re a music lover, you already know that turning on the tunes can help calm your nerves, make stress disappear, pump up your energy level during a workout
11 Health Foods That Can Kill You
• Kris Gunnars/ Authority NutritionNote to self: stop pigging out on orange juice.
The Scientific Reason You Won't Throw Your Stuff Away
• Shaunacy Ferro via PopSci.comEmerging research on hoarding classifies it as its own distinctive disorder, separate from OCD.
Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk
• ted.comNilofer Merchant suggests a small idea that just might have a big impact on your life and health: Next time you have a one-on-one meeting, make it into a "walking meeting" -- and let ideas flow while you walk and talk.
It's Time To Worry About the New Chinese Bird Flu: Op-Ed
• Jeff Nesbit via LiveScienceIt's time for the world's public health officials to pay very close attention to the new bird flu outbreak in China first detected in March.
Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sport
• TEDWhen Eric Dishman was in college, doctors told him he had 2 to 3 years to live. That was a long time ago.
Gilead-Bristol Hepatitis C Drug Combo Cures All in Study
• Simeon Bennett via Bloomberg.comA hepatitis C drug combination from Gilead Sciences Inc. (GILD) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. (BMY) cured all patients in a trial, demonstrating the success of a cocktail that may never be approved.
Food Allergies: All Too Common, All Too Under-Diagnosed
• Dr. David Brownstein via LewRockwell.comAn article in Family Practice News was titled, “Food, Milk Allergies May Increase Growth-Impairment Risk.” (2.27.13)
Largest Current Study Of AIDS Vaccine Shut Down Because It Doesn't Work
• Dan Nosowitz via PopSci.comIn fact, patients injected with the vaccine actually developed HIV more often than those who were given a placebo. Eep.
Train Like an Ancient Hindu Warrior: The Steel Mace Workout
• artofmanliness.com, by Brett & Kate McKayLooking for a new workout? How about one that was used by Hindu warriors over 2,000 years ago and still used by Pehlwani wrestlers today?
Radioactive Microbes Nuke Tumor Cells
• Elizabeth Norton via WIRED.comDespite the advances made against many types of cancer, pancreatic cancer remains grimly resistant to treatment. Only about 4% of patients survive for 5 years, mainly because of the disease’s vicious ability to metastasize.
Prenatal DNA Sequencing
• Antonio Regalado via TechnologyReview.comReading the DNA of fetuses is the next frontier of the genome revolution. Do you really want to know the genetic destiny of your unborn child?
Radioactive Gases Detected From North Korea's Recent Nuclear Bomb Test
• Francie Diep via PopSci.comThe gases help confirm it really was a nuclear test.
Hacking HIV
• Anne Trafton via TechnologyReview.comThirty-four million people in the world are infected with HIV. Only eight million have access to life-saving drugs, and there’s no effective vaccine. Researchers at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard won’t rest until they find one.
Beating Cancer at Its Own Game
• Anne Trafton via TechnologyReview.comSome cancer cell mutations can slow or halt tumor growth
For God's Sake, Stay Inside During A Gun Fight
• Kelsey D. Atherton via PopSci.comBullets work way differently in real life than they do in movies.
Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might turn them off
• TEDDeep brain stimulation is becoming very precise. This technique allows surgeons to place electrodes in almost any area of the brain, and turn them up or down -- like a radio dial or thermostat -- to correct dysfunction.
America: #1 In Fear, Stress, Anger, Divorce, Obesity, Anti-Depressants, Etc.
• Michael via The Economic CollapseThe United States is a deeply unhappy place. We are a nation that is absolutely consumed by fear, stress, anger and depression.
Multifunctional Drugs May Offer Better-Than-Additive Effects
• Susan Young via TechnolgyReview.comA startup called Catabasis is developing drugs that hit diseases at multiple targets.
Nanoparticle Disguised as a Blood Cell Fights Bacterial Infection
• Mike Orcutt via TechnologyReview.comBiomimetic nanoparticles could be an effective treatment against antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
Tribulus Terrestris: Herbal Aphrodisiac?
• http://wakeup-world.com, By Dr. Edward F. GroupIn Ayurvedic medicine, plants and extracts are used as herbal remedies for a multitude of health problems, including sexual disorders.
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