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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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FDA redactions policy violates Freedom of Information Act / Conceals Drug and Medical device dangers form the public
Open gov’t groups: FDA redactions rules skirt law Transparency groups: Long-standing FDA redactions policy violates Freedom of Information Act By Matthew Perrone, AP Health Writer | Associated Press – 22 hrs ago WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal policy that allows the… Read More ›
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Unknown class of bacteria found under ice crust of Antarctic lake
Update: https://engineeringevil.com/2013/03/10/russia-admits-no-new-life-form-found-in-antarctic-lake/ Mar 7, 2013 16:17 Moscow Time © Photo: ru.wikipedia.org Tests of water samples from Antarctica’s Lake Vostok have yielded a completely new class of bacteria, a Russian scientist has told reporters. The frozen samples were brought up from… Read More ›
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School Confiscates Cupcakes Decorated with Toy Soldiers
Mar 7, 2013 By Todd Starnes A Michigan elementary school is defending its decision to confiscate a third-graders batch of homemade cupcakes because the birthday treats were decorated with plastic green Army soldiers. Casey Fountain told Fox News that the… Read More ›
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MEPs to vote on EU ‘ban on all forms of pornography’
MEPs will next week vote on a “ban on all forms of pornography” including censorship of the internet in a bid to “eliminate gender stereotypes” that demean women. MEPs will next week vote on a “ban on all forms of… Read More ›
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N Korea cuts hotline with Seoul
N Korea scraps peace pacts, cuts hotline with Seoul Mar. 08, 2013 – 01:27PM JST ( 17 ) North Korean soldiers attend a rally in Pyongyang, on March 7, 2013AFP SEOUL — North Korea responded to new U.N. sanctions on… Read More ›
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‘Annihilate the enemy’: Kim Jong-un instructed his troops to ‘make the first gunfire’
‘Annihilate the enemy’: Kim Jong-un tells North Koreans to prepare for ‘all-out war’ with South as China warns against escalation Kim Jong-un addressed troops facing Yeonpyeong island, which North Korean artillery shelled in 2010, killing four people and injuring 19… Read More ›
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150th Health Research Report 8 MAR 2013 – Topic Review
In this Issue: Prenatal DHA reduces early preterm birth, low birth weight Study finds higher levels of several toxic metals in children with autism Women’s iron intake may help to protect against PMS Lipid researcher, 98, reports on the dietary… Read More ›
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Kraft under pressure over ‘cancer-causing’ yellow food coloring in Macaroni & Cheese after 41,000 sign petition to ban additive
Mothers Lisa Leake and Vani Hari have generated 41,482 signatures on a Change.org petition demanding that Kraft remove two food dyes from its Macaroni & Cheese The two dyes – yellow 5 and yellow 6 – are used only in… Read More ›
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Cancer: “epidemic” among anti-US Latin American leaders?
EEV: Interesting to see how it is seen from the other side. John Robles Mar 8, 2013 01:26 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Before his death during many public speeches Hugo Chavez called cases of cancer among presidents throughout Latin America… Read More ›
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Wal-Mart’s Nude Child Photo Policy Hits 9th : Lost Custody of daughters over photos developed at Wal Mart
By TIM HULL (CN) – A couple who briefly lost custody of their children after developing bath-time photos told the 9th Circuit that Wal-Mart should have disclosed its “unsuitable print policy.” Lisa and A.J. Demaree say they photographed their daughters,… Read More ›
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N. Korea voids non-aggression pacts with South
08 Mar 2013 SEOUL (AFP) North Korea announced Friday it was voiding non-aggression pacts with South Korea and severing a hotline with Seoul, hours after the UN Security Council adopted tough new sanctions on Pyongyang. North Korea “abrogates all agreements… Read More ›
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Child marriages: 39,000 every day
Contact: Marshall Hoffman marshall@hoffmanpr.com 703-801-8602 Hoffman & Hoffman Worldwide More than 140 million girls will marry between 2011 and 2020 NEW YORK, 7 March 2013 – Between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides, according… Read More ›
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N. Korea threatens ‘pre-emptive’ nuclear strike against US
Published time: March 07, 2013 09:32 Edited time: March 07, 2013 10:19 AFP Photo / Pedro Ugarte A spokesman for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry says his country may deliver a pre-emptive nuclear strike against its enemies in case an… Read More ›
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Finland: Keep Romania and Bulgaria out of Schengen
Wednesday, 06 March 2013 Finland says it will block Romanian and Bulgarian bids to join the passport-free Schengen travel zone ahead of a meeting of EU Interior ministers on the matter Thursday, Finnish television YLE reports. Both government and… Read More ›
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N. Korea shows some signs of preparing for war
Kyodo — Mar 07 Some indications of North Korea preparing for a war were observable in the capital Pyongyang on Wednesday, a day after the North threatened to scrap the cease-fire that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War. Some… Read More ›
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Processed meat linked to premature death
Contact: Hilary Glover hilary.glover@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22370 BioMed Central In a huge study of half a million men and women, research in Biomed Central’s open access journal BMC Medicine demonstrates an association between processed meat and cardiovascular disease and cancer. One of… Read More ›
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Folate and vitamin B12 reduce disabling schizophrenia symptoms in some patients
Contact: Kristen Stanton kstanton3@partners.org 617-643-3907 Massachusetts General Hospital Adding supplements to antipsychotic medication alleviated negative symptoms in patients with specific gene variants Adding the dietary supplements folate and vitamin B12 to treatment with antipsychotic medication improved a core symptom component… Read More ›
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Salt identified as autoimmune trigger
Contact: Bill Hathaway 203-432-1322 Yale University For the past few decades, health officials have been reporting increases in the incidence of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS). Now researchers at Yale School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the… Read More ›
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Human brain treats prosthetic devices as part of the body
Contact: Jyoti Madhusoodanan jmadhusoodanan@plos.org 415-568-4545 Public Library of Science People with spinal cordPeople with spinal cord injuries show strong association of wheelchairs as part of their body, not extension of immobile limbs injuries show strong association of wheelchairs as part… Read More ›
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Green tea extract interferes with the formation of amyloid plaques in Alzheimer’s disease
Contact: Laura J. Williams laurajw@umich.edu 734-615-4862 University of Michigan ANN ARBOR—Researchers at the University of Michigan have found a new potential benefit of a molecule in green tea: preventing the misfolding of specific proteins in the brain. The aggregation of… Read More ›
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Herbal defluoridation of drinking water
Contact: Albert Ang press@inderscience.com Inderscience Publishers Researchers in India have developed a filter system based on a medicinal herb, which they say can quickly and easily remove “fluoride” from drinking water. The technology described in the March issue of the… Read More ›
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New mechanism for relaxing airways using bitter tasting substances
Contact: Bryan Ghosh bghosh@plos.org 44-122-344-2837 Public Library of Science A team of scientists at the University of Massachusetts Medical School have found that substances which give some foods their bitter flavors can also act to reverse the contraction of airway… Read More ›
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Vanderbilt study finds maternal diet important predictor of severity for infant RSV: carbohydrate-rich diets
Contact: Craig Boerner craig.boerner@vanderbilt.edu 615-322-4747 Vanderbilt University Medical Center An important predictor of the severity of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in infants may be what their mothers ate during pregnancy, according to a Vanderbilt study published in the American Journal… Read More ›
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Why your brain tires when exercising : Excess Serotonin shuts down the brain causing fatigue
A marathon runner approaches the finishing line, but suddenly the sweaty athlete collapses to the ground. Everyone probably assumes that this is because he has expended all energy in his muscles. What few people know is that it might… Read More ›
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Cancer vaccines self-sabotage, channel immune attack to injection site
UT MD Anderson scientists find common vaccine ingredient diverts T cells from tumors HOUSTON – Cancer vaccines that attempt to stimulate an immune system assault fail because the killer T cells aimed at tumors instead find the vaccination site… Read More ›
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Italy’s Pier luigi Bersani vowed to break free of the country’s austerity regime
Italy’s Bersani on collision course with Germany and ECB over austerity Italy’s Pier luigi Bersani vowed to break free of the country’s austerity regime as he laid out plans for a centre-Left government, risking a serious clash with Germany and… Read More ›
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$36 Billion of Military Hardware Could Be Destroyed in Afghan Pullout
Newsmax Tuesday, March 5, 2013 11:21 AM By: Todd Beamon The Obama White House is cutting $65 billion in the sequester, but it could easily leave or torch 750,000 pieces of major military hardware — worth $36 billion — in… Read More ›
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Chinese general who threatened US with nuclear strike is Pentagon’s guest of honor
Published time: March 06, 2013 01:39 AFP Photo A Chinese general who once threatened to nuke the US is visiting Washington this week as part of a military exchange program with the Pentagon. The Pentagon’s collaboration with Major Gen…. Read More ›
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Bank whips out palm-recognition kit – and a severed hand won’t work
New payment system to tackle identity fraud By John Leyden Posted in Security, 6th March 2013 09:37 GMT Free whitepaper – A Private Cloud Infrastructure, Simplified Italian banking group UniCredit has developed a commercial biometric payment system based on Fujitsu… Read More ›
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Ikea chocolate cake contaminated by SEWAGE: Officials in China destroy two tonnes of confectionary after disgusting discovery
Chinese authorities found cake contained high levels of coliform bacteria Nearly two tons of the chocolate almond cake was destroyed last year The company was caught up in the horsemeat scandal last week By Steve Nolan PUBLISHED: 09:37 EST, 5 … Read More ›
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Russia conducts largest nuclear drill in 20 years
Russian nuclear forces conducted a major exercise last month that tested the transport of both strategic and tactical nuclear weapons near Europe, according to United States officials..The exercise raised concerns inside the Pentagon and with the U.S. European Command because… Read More ›
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I’m worth more than a measly $20bn, Saudi prince tells Forbes: ” publicly severed ties with Forbes magazine after a spat”
EEV: Two words – Arab Spring Alwaleed bin Talal says he is worth at least $30bn Nikhil Kumar Tuesday, 5 March 2013 The Prince is not pleased. Alwaleed bin Talal, a grandson of Saudi Arabia’s founder, King Abdulaziz bin Saud,… Read More ›
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Lord of War and Peace: How One Man Became The Biggest Private Arms Merchant in Africa
EEV: Posted by request from our friends at Vocativ Video Really recommend you stay with the video till the bizarre last 10 seconds. Sometimes these small unguarded glimpses reveal mountains. Published on Mar 4, 2013 War is big business. The… Read More ›
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How Dare You Be Quiet in Class? “peaceful protests are against district policy,”
By JOE HARRIS (CN) – A Florida student sued her high school, claiming it tried to bully her into abstaining from an anti-bullying Day of Silence, and suspended her for keeping her mouth shut. Amber Hatcher sued the DeSoto County… Read More ›
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Abdullah OKs man’s crucifixion for robbery: ” to be crucified for three days”
Two leading rights groups appealed to Saudi King Abdullah to halt Tuesday’s crucifixion and firing-squad executions of seven young Saudis for armed robbery. At least two of the defendants were child offenders when they allegedly robbed jewelry stores… Read More ›
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N. Korea threatens to scrap armistice accord
AFP Tuesday, Mar 05, 2013 SEOUL – North Korea threatened Tuesday to scrap the armistice which ended the Korean War in 1953, citing US moves to impose sanctions for its nuclear test and tensions over South Korean-US exercises. The threat… Read More ›
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US calls on UN to bar drunken diplomats from budget negotiations
05 Mar 2013 UNITED NATIONS (AFP) The United States called for drunk diplomats to be barred from United Nations’ budget negotiations. Annual talks on how much the global body spends have become increasingly tense as western nations call for spending cuts…. Read More ›
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Beliebers start Twitter hate campaign against English schoolgirl who criticised Justin Bieber
EEV: I am not a fan of Justin Bieber either, come and get me too. Beliebers jealous after retweet from 19-year-old popstar James Legge Monday, 4 March 2013 A 15-year-old girl has become victim of an international Twitter hate mob… Read More ›
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The fake bomb detector that can also spot drugs, bank notes and truffles? The ADE-651 is the symbol of a dysfunctional state
Patrick Cockburn Monday, 4 March 2013 If one object had to serve as a symbol Iraqi corruption and dysfunctionality, it might be the ADE-651 bomb detector. Exposed as a fake long ago, it is still employed by the Iraqi… Read More ›
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Mars has Front-Row Seat for 2014 Comet
Comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1), discovered in January and now inbound from the Oort Cloud, promises to put on a spectacular show in October 2014 — for the spacecraft on and around Mars. . We’re just a couple weeks away… Read More ›
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Mars Could Be Hit By Comet C/2013 A1 With Billion-Megaton Impact / Will show brighter than a full moon
Huffington Post UK | By Michael Rundle Posted: 04/03/2013 09:53 GMT | Updated: 04/03/2013 10:12 GMT Mars could be hit by a comet with the power of a billion megatons in 2014, astronomers have said. The comet C/2013 A1 was discovered earlier… Read More ›
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Mars could be hit by comet next year – ” solar system may be left without Mars / collision is very likely “
– Mar 4, 2013 21:37 Moscow Time Margarita Bogatova, Alexei Lyakhov © Photo: SXC.hu The solar system may be left without Mars as experts predict that comet C/2013 A1 measured at about 50 km in diameter will hit the planet… Read More ›
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