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Tree man 'who grew roots' may be cured - Telegraph
This is so fucked up, I don't even know what to say about.
science  news  health  wtf  medical 
november 2007 by bradbarrish
Scientists 'step closer to Alzheimer's cure' | News | This is London
Scientists have moved a step closer to finding a cure for Alzheimer's, it has been revealed.
medical  science  news 
july 2007 by bradbarrish
TV programme reveals the REAL Frankensteins | the Daily Mail
Hidden deep in a Russian forest, and guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot intruders on sight, the medical research laboratories on the outskirts of Moscow were one of the Soviet Union's best-kept secrets.
history  medical  neuroscience  news  technology  tv 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
Pancreatic cancer survival better for patients over 65 - The Cancer Blog
A new study sheds new hopeful light on pancreatic cancer survival -- for patients 65 and older.
news  cancer  medical  pancreatic  research  science 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
Tasty Curry Might Have a Fringe Benefit
Can scientists prove curry wards off such diseases as Alzheimer's or cancer? Not yet, says Bharat Aggarwal at the University of Texas-Houston. But he says the growing file on curry includes compelling evidence gleaned from animal and human studies.
cancer  food  health  medical  research  news 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
Cancer cure patented | Press Esc
A group of researchers claim that they are patenting a possible cure for cancer involving nothing more than sugar and short-chain fatty acid combination.
cancer  health  medical  science  news 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
Dry skin care treatment shielding lotion | Skin MD Natural
A Shielding Lotion is far more effective as a dry skin care treatment than mere moisturizing lotions or protective creams. If you suffer from dry skin, you know that just using a moisturizing lotion doesn't solve the problem.
medical  science  wishlist 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
The Vaccine to Prevent Every Strain of Flu - Medgadget - www.medgadget.com
British scientists believe they have found flu vaccines that may transfer long-lasting, wide-spread immunity, the 'holy grail' of the business.
medical  health  science  news 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
Cancer's unrecognized toll: Time - Yahoo! News
The hours spent sitting in doctors' waiting rooms, in line for the CT scan, watching chemotherapy drip into veins: Battling cancer steals a lot of time — at least $2.3 billion worth in the first year of treatment alone. So says the first study to try to
money  cancer  medical  news 
january 2007 by bradbarrish
"The Family That Couldn't Sleep"
Read more about D.T. Max's investigation of killer insomnia in the following interview and excerpt.
books  reviews  medical  science 
december 2006 by bradbarrish
Pancreatic Cancer UK :: Pancreatic Cancer Chemotherapy Drugs
This page attempts to bring together sources of information on chemotherapy drugs which are being used in the UK for pancreatic cancer either as standard treatment or within trials (see the trials page for further information)
cancer  pancreatic  research  uk  medical 
december 2006 by bradbarrish
Pancreatic Cancer, Pancreas and Cancer Treatment - The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research
Teri Brentnall, MD, of the University of Washington, today announced the breakthrough discovery of a gene which, when mutated, causes pancreatic cancer in families.
cancer  research  medical  pressrelease  science 
december 2006 by bradbarrish
Get ready for 24-hour living - health - 18 February 2006 - New Scientist
Modafinil is just the first of a wave of new lifestyle drugs that promise to do for sleep what the contraceptive pill did for sex - unshackle it from nature.
science  health  drugs  medical  sleep  news 
december 2006 by bradbarrish
Scientific American: Juicing the Brain
The military wants to juice up personnel's brains because the human being is the weakest instrument of warfare.
science  health  war  medical 
december 2006 by bradbarrish
ScienceDaily: Does Natural Selection Drive The Evolution Of Cancer?
The dynamics of evolution are fully in play within the environment of a tumor, just as they are in forests and meadows, oceans and streams. This is the view of researchers in an emerging cross-disciplinary field that brings the thinking of ecologists and
medical  health  cancer  evolution  science  research 
november 2006 by bradbarrish
7 Pains You Should Never Ignore
These common aches could very well be nothing. Or something far, far worse
health  medical  lists 
november 2006 by bradbarrish
Yahoo! News - Can Americans trust their medicine?
Frankly, it serves us right. We're way too overmedicated
medical 
october 2006 by bradbarrish
Welcome to the U.S. Living Will Registry
I don't want anyone deciding for me, so here I go...
death  health  medical 
october 2006 by bradbarrish
The New Yorker: Fact
Doctors, insurance companies and patients all get screwed
medical  life  government  healthcare 
october 2006 by bradbarrish
5 Strategies to Keep Your Heart Healthy - Uncommon Body
Heart disease may be the leading cause of death for both men and women, but that doesn't mean you have to accept it as your fate.
blog  fitness  health  science  lists  medical 
october 2006 by bradbarrish
Salon.com Books | Divining the brain
Andrew Newberg discusses what happens in our brains during prayer, meditation and mystical visions. Yet understanding the brain, argues the neuroscientist, does not close the book on the nature of religious experience.
medical  science  religion  neuroscience  interview 
september 2006 by bradbarrish
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Reborn
Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking ... a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough.
cool  health  medical  research  science  sleep 
september 2006 by bradbarrish
Yosemite Association - Nature Notes
Ask the average outdoors person about Giardia lamblia or giardiasis, and they have certainly heard about it. Almost always, however, they are considerably misinformed about both the organism’s prevalence in wilderness water, and the seriousness of the d
medical  backpacking  outdoor  water 
september 2006 by bradbarrish
Wired News: Gene Therapy As a Cancer Cure
Genetically altered immune cells wiped out tumors in two men with a deadly form of skin cancer and kept the patients disease-free for at least 18 months, U.S. scientists said on Thursday.
cancer  medical  science  wired 
september 2006 by bradbarrish
Neatorama » Blog Archive » Six Horrifying Parasites.
When it comes to parasites, it’s all about perspective. You may call a lifetime of growing and feeding off another organism lazy, but we call it opportunistic.
medical  health  lists  cool 
august 2006 by bradbarrish
New hope for Alzheimer's cure | Herald Sun
In a world first, Melbourne scientists have developed a once-a-day pill that they claim may cure Alzheimer's disease. Human trials of the drug start next month.
health  medical  science 
july 2006 by bradbarrish
Biomedical Image Awards 2006
The Biomedical Image Awards 2006 is a striking display of shapes and patterns, and illustrates the microscopic structures of living organisms in a spectacular variety of ways.
art  cool  medical  photography  science 
july 2006 by bradbarrish
Telegraph | Health | A life that is beginning to add up
Autistic savant Daniel Tammet's brilliance with numbers is well known. But, he tells Cassandra Jardine, he's now managing to solve other conundrums
books  health  medical  numbers  psychology 
july 2006 by bradbarrish
"Magic" mushrooms blow many minds - Yahoo! News
"Magic mushrooms," used by Native Americans and hippies to alter consciousness, appear to have similar mystical effects on many people, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday
medical  cancer  news 
july 2006 by bradbarrish
Zapper brings hope to migraine sufferers - World - Times Online
A new device uses a magnetic pulse to disrupt and stave off headaches
medical  research  news 
june 2006 by bradbarrish
Patients help fight cancer after death - Yahoo! News
Within about an hour of his death, researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center began collecting the Omaha veteran's organs as part of a unique "rapid autopsy" program
cancer  health  medical  research 
june 2006 by bradbarrish
The Cancer Conspiracy - Does it exist?
The general story is that there is a conspiracy by the established medical industry to keep the cure for cancer hidden
cancer  medical  reference 
june 2006 by bradbarrish
Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/18/2006 | Vitamin C: Cancer cure?
Is mainstream medical science ignoring an inexpensive, painless, readily available cure for cancer?
cancer  research  science  medical 
june 2006 by bradbarrish
Cure for cancer prevent cancer with Amygdalin laetrile vitamin b17 apricot seeds and more
Vitamin B17 was the subject of great controversy over 20 years ago when some of the world's top scientists claimed that when consumed, the components of the seed make it 100% impossible to develop cancer and will kill existing cancer in most cases
health  medical  cancer  science 
june 2006 by bradbarrish
Evidence is strong that green tea lowers the risk for a number of chronic diseases
There is a lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer in Asia where people smoke heavily, which may be accounted for by high consumption of tea, particularly green tea, according to a review article published by a Yale School of Medicine researc
health  medical  research 
june 2006 by bradbarrish

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