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In short, I review clinical research on an almost daily basis. What I post tends to be articles that are relevant to the readers in addition to some curiosities that have intriguing potential.
As a hobby, I truly enjoy the puzzle-solving play that statistics and programming as in the python language bring to the table. I just do not enjoy problem-solving, I love problem-solving and the childlike inspiration and exploration of that innocent exhilaration of discovering something new.
Enjoy ;-)
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Man who set fire in U.S. nuclear sub gets 17-year sentence: “caused as much as $500 million in damages “
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:41 GMT Reuters By Sarah Mahoney PORTLAND, Maine, March 15 (Reuters) – A civilian painter who twice set fires on a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine last year so that he could get out of work early… Read More ›
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No FEMA Money for Storm Victims
By CAMERON LANGFORD HOUSTON (CN) – Owners of some hurricane-damaged homes in Galveston are not entitled to FEMA buyouts, as they have no constitutionally protected right to the money, a federal judge ruled. After Hurricane… Read More ›
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Egypt’s Islamists warn giving women some rights could destroy society
Fri, 15 Mar 2013 01:59 GMT Reuters * U.N. racing to agree women’s rights declaration by Friday * Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood urges rejection of document * States failed to agree a 2012 women’s rights declaration (Corrects second paragraph to show… Read More ›
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More HIV ‘cured’: first a baby, now 14 adults
21:00 14 March 2013 by Andy Coghlan For similar stories, visit the HIV and AIDS Topic Guide A drug-free life beckons for some people with HIV (Image: Bruce Forster/Getty) Two weeks after the revelation that a baby has been… Read More ›
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Study Shows How Vitamin E Can Help Prevent Cancer : gamma tocopherol
3/14/13 COLUMBUS, Ohio – Researchers have identified an elusive anti-cancer property of vitamin E that has long been presumed to exist, but difficult to find. Many animal studies have suggested that vitamin E could prevent cancer, but human clinical trials… Read More ›
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Olive oil makes you feel full
How oils and fats regulate feeling of satiety Aroma compounds in olive oil regulate feeling of satiety. (Photo: iStockphoto.com) 14.03.2013, Research news Reduced-fat food products are gaining in popularity. More and more people are choosing “light” products in an attempt… Read More ›
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Study: Probiotics reduce stress-induced intestinal flare-ups
Contact: Shantell M. Kirkendoll smkirk@umich.edu 734-764-2220 University of Michigan Health System University of Michigan study helps explain benefits of probiotics for patients with stress-associated gastrointestinal disorders ANN ARBOR, Mich. – For those with irritable bowel syndrome who wonder if stress… Read More ›
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Drug treatment corrects autism symptoms in mouse model : suramin
Contact: Debra Kain ddkain@ucsd.edu 619-543-6163 University of California – San Diego An old drug gives hope for new treatment in autism Autism results from abnormal cell communication. Testing a new theory, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School… Read More ›
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Bitter melon juice prevents pancreatic cancer in mouse models
By Garth Sundem in In the Lab · March 12, 2013 · Rajesh Agarwal, PhD, shows that bitter melon restricts energy to and eventually kills pancreatic cancer cells. Image: Flickr/JohnLoo A University of Colorado Cancer study published this week in… Read More ›
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Contaminated water used to dilute pesticides could be responsible for viruses entering the food chain, warn scientists
Contact: Sacha Boucherie S.Boucherie@elsevier.com 31-204-853-564 Elsevier Pesticide application as potential source of noroviruses in fresh food supply chains Human norovirus (hNoV), also known as the winter vomiting bug, is one of the most common stomach bugs in the world. The… Read More ›
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Friend or foe: Babies choose sides early
Contact: Basil Waugh basil.waugh@ubc.ca 604-822-2048 University of British Columbia Babies have a dark side under their cute exteriors, according to University of British Columbia-led study that finds infants as young as nine months embrace those who pick on individuals who… Read More ›
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Prenatal exposure to pesticide DDT linked to adult high blood pressure
Contact: Michele La Merrill mlamerrill@ucdavis.edu 347-791-1053 University of California – Davis Infant girls exposed to high levels of the pesticide DDT while still inside the womb are three times more likely to develop hypertension when they become adults, according to… Read More ›
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Creating indestructible self-healing circuits
Contact: Brian Bell bbell2@caltech.edu 626-395-5832 California Institute of Technology Caltech engineers build electronic chips that repair themselves PASADENA, Calif.—Imagine that the chips in your smart phone or computer could repair and defend themselves on the fly, recovering in microseconds from… Read More ›
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Cloud-computing platform for robots launched
Contact: Markus Waibel mwaibel@ethz.ch 41-446-323-192 ETH Zurich An Internet for robots Researchers of five European universities have developed a cloud-computing platform for robots. The platform allows robots connected to the Internet to directly access the powerful computational, storage, and communications… Read More ›
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Denied the chance to cheat or steal, people turn to violent video games
EEV: Oh, Really? Contact: Brad Bushman Bushman.20@osu.edu 614-688-8779 Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study suggests that people get frustrated when they are offered the opportunity to cheat or steal and that chance is then taken away… Read More ›
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Folic acid lowers risk of autism
Women who take a vitamin B9 supplement (folic acid) during the beginning weeks of their pregnancy can cut the risk of having a child with autism in half. But the supplement has no effect if it is started more than… Read More ›
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N. Korea ‘likely’ to launch attack on South this year
14 Mar 2013 LONDON (AFP) North Korea is likely to launch a provocative attack on South Korea this year, a top analyst said Thursday at the launch of his think tank’s annual report on the world’s military capabilities. The International Institute for… Read More ›
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UK phone hacking scandal: arrests spread beyond Murdoch papers / Britain’s political elite by revealing close relations between ruling politicians and newspaper editors and owners.
Photo: EPA Police arrested four former editors from the Sunday Mirror tabloid on Thursday – the first journalists from a newspaper outside Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp to be detained in a phone hacking scandal that shocked Britain. Shares in Trinity… Read More ›
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US Commander in Afghanistan issues threat advisory after Karzai’s anti-American comments
Mar 14, 2013 21:29 Moscow Time Photo: EPA The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan has been put on heightened alert in connection with bellicose rhetoric by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, local media reported on Thursday. Earlier this week,… Read More ›
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Man Says Kaiser Business Model Includes Death
By PHILIP A. JANQUART LOS ANGELES (CN) – Kaiser Foundation Health Plan refuses to pay for care necessary to save a man’s life, he claims in court. Jalal Afshar, 58, suffers from Castleman’s disease, a rare condition known… Read More ›
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Chinese hackers infiltrate Indian Defence Research Organisation
Posted by: Mohit Kumar onWednesday, March 13, 2013 According to an exclusive report published today by DNA news, the computers of highly sensitive Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have reportedly been hacked by Chinese hackers as biggest security breach in… Read More ›
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US national vulnerability database hacked
Malware infection forces government vuln catalog offline By Jack Clark in San Francisco Posted in Security, 14th March 2013 01:17 GMT The US government’s online catalog of cyber-vulnerabilities has been taken offline – ironically, due to a software vulnerability. The… Read More ›
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Could Germany spark another war? I fear it’s all too possible
EEV Warning: Some Imagery will be found offensive. These articles are becoming more common, and being printed with a greater and greater frequency. By Dominic Sandbrook PUBLISHED: 18:56 EST, 12 March 2013 | UPDATED: 03:53 EST, 13 March 2013 The… Read More ›
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Report: Surge in N. Korea Air Force Sorties
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE SEOUL — North Korean jet fighters have flown an “unprecedented” number of sorties in recent days in apparent response to a joint South Korean-U.S. military exercise, a report said Wednesday. The number of sorties by… Read More ›
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US Govt to further protect Americans, now by having access to their Bank Accounts
Wednesday, 13 March 2013 Wealthy Americans are already moving their bank accounts overseas, the latest from Obama Administration will only speed up this process. The Obama administration is drawing up plans to give all U.S. spy… Read More ›
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Doctors paid millions to shill for Big Pharma
Thousands of physicians are profiting from promotional speaking gigs for drugmakers, but is the practice ethical? By Tracy Weber and Charles Ornstein (Credit: Shutterstock/Alexander Raths) This originally appeared on ProPublica. Update Mar. 11, 2013, 4:55 pm: This post has… Read More ›
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Former SAS sniper Danny Nightingale wins conviction appeal
An SAS sniper today won an appeal against convictions for illegally possessing a pistol and ammunition. By Telegraph reporters 3:50PM GMT 13 Mar 2013 Danny Nightingale, 38, of Crewe, Cheshire, was sentenced to 18 months’ military detention by a judge… Read More ›
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Cost of living soars four times faster than earnings (UK)
Budget 2013: fears rise as cost of living soars four times faster than earnings By Ian Cowie Your Money Last updated: March 13th, 2013 Budget 2013: inflation and taxation are squeezing spending power and many fear worse to come… Read More ›
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‘In fact, Italy’s already out of the euro’ – Grillo
Mar 13, 2013 18:20 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Beppe Grillo, the leader of the “Five Star Movement” which won 25% of the votes cast in the last parliamentary elections was interviewed by the German financial newspaper Handelsblatt. The former comic… Read More ›
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N. Korean defense ministry confirms end of armistice
North Korea’s armed forces ministry confirmed Wednesday that it has canceled a 60-year-old armistice ending the Korean War. “The armistice agreement is no longer valid and [North Korea] is not restrained by the North-South declaration on non-aggression,” AFP quoted a… Read More ›
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Online Records Could Expose Intimate Details and Personality Traits of Millions
Research shows that intimate personal attributes can be predicted with high levels of accuracy from ‘traces’ left by seemingly innocuous digital behaviour, in this case Facebook Likes. Study raises important questions about personalised marketing and online privacy. (Credit: Graphic from… Read More ›
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New Chinese President Xi aims to paint Africa red
Nile Bowie is a political analyst and photographer currently residing in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Published time: March 12, 2013 10:51 China’s Communist Party Chief Xi Jinping (Reuters/Jason Lee) The fact that China’s incoming president, Xi Jinping, is set to… Read More ›
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The Bermuda Triangle of Space: The High-Energy South Atlantic Anomaly Threatens Satellites
<!—-> Mar. 12, 2013 – 06:16PM | By JIM HODGES | Much fanfare accompanied the Sept. 25, 2010, launch of the Air Force’s Space Based Space Surveillance satellite. The $833 million craft was finally going up to do its job:… Read More ›
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Majority of British children will soon be growing up in families struggling ‘below the breadline’, Government warned
Nigel Morris Wednesday, 13 March 2013 The majority of British children will soon be growing up in families which are struggling “below the breadline” because of welfare cuts, tax rises and wage freezes, the Government is warned today. Within… Read More ›
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Japan cracks seabed ‘ice gas’ in dramatic leap for global energy / radically change the world’s energy outlook.
Japan has extracted natural “ice” gas from methane hydrates beneath the sea off its coasts in a technological coup, opening up a super-resource that could meet the country’s gas needs for the next century and radically change the world’s energy… Read More ›
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WHO “ignored” or “glossed” over data on Fukushima radiation : “42% of 100,000 children sustained thyroid abnormalities”
Activists fault WHO report on Fukushima radiation National Mar. 12, 2013 – 07:30PM JST Police officers in radiation protection suits bow their heads to offer prayers in Fukushima prefecture on March 11, 2013AFP NEW YORK — Activist physicians on Monday… Read More ›
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Wave of euroscepticism reaches Germany / “predicted the collapse of the Eurozone”
Natalia Kovalenko, Alexander Shishlo Mar 12, 2013 16:31 Moscow Time © Flickr.com/Luigi Rosa/cc-by-sa 3.0 German opponents to the common European currency have set up a new political party named Alternative for Germany. They urge disbanding the Eurozone, going back to… Read More ›
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California Seizes Guns as Owners Lose Right to Keep Arms
By Michael B. Marois and James Nash – Mar 12, 2013 Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying 40-caliber Glock pistols, nine California Justice Department agents assembled outside a ranch-style house in a suburb east of Los Angeles. They were looking for… Read More ›
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Saudi Arabia may stop public beheadings… due to a shortage of swordsmen
The Gulf kingdom beheaded 69 people in 2012, says Human Rights Watch Rape, murder, armed robbery and drug trafficking all punishable by death By Sarah Johnson PUBLISHED: 04:13 EST, 11 March 2013 | UPDATED: 06:24 EST, 11 March 2013 … Read More ›
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Banks saved, but may have lost an entire generation of young people in the process, the president of the European Parliament said.
Banks saved, but Europe risks “losing a generation” By Luke BakerPosted 2013/03/11 at 3:37 pm EDT BRUSSELS, Mar. 11, 2013 (Reuters) — Europe has spent hundreds of billions of euros rescuing its banks but may have lost an entire generation… Read More ›
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Healthy patients who exercise regularly and avoid fatty foods ‘should be fast-tracked for surgery’
Nigel Morris Tuesday, 12 March 2013 Patients who exercise regularly and avoid fatty foods should go to the front of the queue for NHS operations, a think tank urges today. People should be able to use supermarket bills and… Read More ›
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Hackers release financial records for vice president, attorney general, FBI director and others
https://web.archive.org/web/20130312002048/http://exposed.su/ Hackers have published what are alleged to be the personal financial records for several politicians and celebrities, including US Vice President Joe Biden, Attorney General Eric Holder and musicians Jay-Z and Beyoncé. Gossip website TMZ reported on Monday that… Read More ›
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Bizarre Complaint Against L.A.-Area School
By MATT REYNOLDS SAN BERNARDINO (CN) – A Los Angeles-area school district refused to discipline an elementary teacher who stuck a “long object” up a boy’s rectum while telling him “good boys don’t cry,” the mother… Read More ›
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Athens Mosque will cost Greece 846,000 euros / Even though the an offer from the Turkish government to pay for it was rejected
The government goes ahead with the plans despite economic crisis 11 March, 12:33 Muslims living in Greece perform Eid al-Fitr morning prayers in Athens (ANSAmed) – ATHENS – It will cost the cash-strapped Greek government, which is cutting pay, raising… Read More ›
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Afghan president Hamid Karzai Claims US was effectively colluding with the Taliban in maintaining violence to prolong America’s presence in the country.White House rejected as “categorically false”
White House: claims of US collusion with Taliban ‘categorically false’ Obama spokesman rejects Karzai’s criticism of US as Afghan in police uniform kills seven including two American troops Ewen MacAskill in Washington guardian.co.uk, Monday 11 March 2013 15.51 EDT The… Read More ›
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Anti-euro party created in Germany
Mar 11, 2013 22:22 Moscow Time © Collage: «Voice of Russia» German activists have created a political party to campaign for an exit from the Eurozone. The party’s name is An Alternative for Germany. The members include businessmen, academics, economists… Read More ›
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