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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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2013 Forbes Billionaires list: Record number of new entries appear on rich list, but Carlos Slim and Bill Gates still top the charts
An ‘old guard’ remain the richest people on earth John Hall Monday, 4 March 2013 A record number of new entries appear on the 2013 Forbes Billionaires list, but an old guard including Carlos Slim and Bill Gates remain the… Read More ›
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Britain saw worse wage drops than rest of EU – study
Published time: March 04, 2013 12:31 Britain has suffered one of its the biggest drops in median pay over the last two years, recent figures have revealed. Out of the EU’s 27 member-states, only the Netherlands,… Read More ›
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Isles flare-up will be Japan’s fault, China says”Its reporter mentioned reports that the Chinese military is gearing up for WAR over the isles – a point that Lu did not deny.”
Ho Ai Li The Straits Times Publication Date : 03-03-2013 China yesterday said it will hold Japan responsible for any flare-up over the disputed isles at the centre of the worst tensions between the two countries in 40 years. “If… Read More ›
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2 dead, hundreds injured in Egypt clashes
Mar 4, 2013 02:06 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Two police officers died and more than 400 people were injured in Sunday’s clashes in Port Said, Egypt, when hundreds of local residents protested the authorities’ decision to move to another prison… Read More ›
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Anger builds in Italy as old guard plots fresh technocrat take-over : Will risk Revolution
Italy’s president Giorgio Napolitano is exploring the creation of a second technocrat government to break the political log-jam and calm markets after key parties failed to reach an accord, risking a serious popular backlash. Comedian Beppe Grillo repeated his vow… Read More ›
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Fla. high school student reportedly suspended after disarming gunman
Published March 03, 2013 FoxNews.com A 16-year-old Florida high school student says he was suspended for three days for wrestling a loaded gun away from a teen threatening to shoot. Fox4Now.com reports that the student, who attends Cypress Lake High… Read More ›
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Chinese village on lockdown following clashes, reform demands (PHOTOS/VIDEO)
EEV: Leaked video added via AFP – Will Have to Follow AFP link Published time: March 03, 2013 17:49 EEV: Leaked video added via AFP – Will Have to Follow AFP link In this photo taken on March 2, 2013… Read More ›
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Germany won’t let Bulgaria and Romania join Schengen zone
Sunday, 03 March 2013 Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has told Der Spiegel magazine that Germany would not allow Romania or Bulgaria to join the European open-border Schengen zone. Often called the Schengen zone, the area incorporates 22 EU member… Read More ›
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EU economy commissioner warns over Cyprus euro exit
Cyprus’s new President Anastasiades stands next to his predecessor Christofias at the presidential palace in the capital Nicosia. AFP Sunday, Mar 03, 2013 BERLIN – European Economic Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn has warned that debt-riven Cyprus could exit the… Read More ›
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EU Budget deal struck with £16billion sweeteners
The full extent of £16billion in “sweeteners” paid to European Union member states to secure their support for last month’s decision to make a historic cut in the union’s budget can be revealed for the first time. David Cameron won… Read More ›
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Moscow has more Billionaires than any other city
Saturday, 02 March 2013 The Russian capital has more billionaires than any other city in the world, according to a new survey from China. . The study by the Hurun Research Institute says there are over 4000 people who have… Read More ›
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Eurozone breaks record on Jobless level
Friday, 01 March 2013 Italy’s voters gave their verdict on the austerity medicine they’ve been forced to take when they went to the polls earlier this week. By Friday, one of the reasons behind the protest was highlighted when the… Read More ›
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Buying un-American: Bribery Case Spotlights DoD’s Covert Effort To Obtain Foreign Weapons
Mar. 1, 2013 – 03:25PM By ARAM ROSTON Russian air-to-air missiles – an AA-11 Archer and an AA-8 Aphid – are displayed for then-Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Roy at the National Air and Space Intelligence… Read More ›
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Hundreds of thousands march against austerity in Portugal
02 Mar 2013 LISBON (AFP) Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Lisbon and other Portuguese cities Saturday to protest against the government’s austerity measures aimed at rescuing the debt-hit eurozone nation. The rallies were organised by a… Read More ›
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FOIA Dismissed
WASHINGTON – The National Archives and Records Administration should not face a lawsuit over its refusal to give the group Cause of Action records from the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a federal judge ruled. – See more at: Courthouse News
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Italy might leave the Euro “In six months, we will no longer be able to pay pensions and the wages of public employees.”
Beppe Grillo suggests Italy might leave the Euro Post-election power broker also thinks the country will have to renegotiate on debt James Legge Saturday, 2 March 2013 Italy’s comedian-cum-power broker will have raised further eyebrows in Eurocrat circles today with… Read More ›
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New York town bans unrelated roommates from living together after neighbor complains about man shacking up with his fiancee and two friends
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 11:16 EST, 1 March 2013 | UPDATED: 12:11 EST, 1 March 2013 A town in upstate New York has has banned unrelated roommates from living together, in a move that has outraged some residents who… Read More ›
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Incomes suffer biggest drop in TWENTY years, alarming new figures show
Part of decline was after 2.6 percent surge in December as businesses rushed to pay dividends and bonuses before the new year Consumer spending rose 0.2 percent linked to utilities but decline in goods Savings were the smallest since December… Read More ›
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BPA raises risk for childhood asthma
Contact: Timothy S. Paul tp2111@columbia.edu 212-305-2676 Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health Children exposed to the plastics chemical bisphenol A had an elevated risk for asthma Researchers at the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health at the Mailman School… Read More ›
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‘Defective’ virus surprisingly plays major role in spread of disease, UCLA life scientists report
Contact: Stuart Wolpert swolpert@support.ucla.edu 310-206-0511 University of California – Los Angeles Defective viruses, thought for decades to be essentially garbage unrelated to the transmission of normal viruses, now appear able to play an important role in the spread of disease,… Read More ›
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Mutation altering stability of surface molecule in acid enables H5N1 infection of mammals
Contact: Jim Sliwa jsliwa@asmusa.org 202-942-9297 American Society for Microbiology A single mutation in the H5N1 avian influenza virus that affects the pH at which the hemagglutinin surface protein is activated simultaneously reduces its capacity to infect ducks and enhances its… Read More ›
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Eating junk food while pregnant may make your child a junk food addict
Contact: Cody Mooneyhan cmooneyhan@faseb.org 301-634-7104 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology New research in The FASEB Journal shows that eating a junk food diet during pregnancy changes the development of the opioid signaling pathway in the baby’s brain, resulting… Read More ›
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UCLA study could explain why some people get zits and others don’t
Contact: Elaine Schmidt eschmidt@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-2272 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences 2 strains of acne bacteria linked to pimples, another to healthy skin The bacteria that cause acne live on everyone’s skin, yet one in five people is… Read More ›
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Good bacteria may expunge vancomycin-resistant bacteria from your gut
Contact: Jim Sliwa jsliwa@asmusa.org 202-942-9297 American Society for Microbiology Probiotic possibilities loom Too much antibiotic can decimate the normal intestinal microbiota, which may never recover its former diversity. That, in turn, renders the GI tract vulnerable to being colonized by… Read More ›
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First signs of heart disease seen in newborns of overweight/obese mums
Contact: Stephanie Burns sburns@bmjgroup.com 44-020-738-36920 BMJ-British Medical Journal Artery wall thickening already present at birth The walls of the body’s major artery – the aorta – are already thickened in babies born to mums who are overweight or obese, finds… Read More ›
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Lipid researcher, 98, reports on the dietary causes of heart disease ” dietary cholesterol is good for your heart “
Contact: Diana Yates diya@illinois.edu 217-333-5802 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign IMAGE: Fred Kummerow, a 98-year-old emeritus professor of comparative biosciences at the University of Illinois, explains the primary causes of heart disease. His research contradicts commonly held… Read More ›
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Quantity of sugar in food supply linked to diabetes rates, Every 150 Calories = +1% increased risk
Contact: Erin Digitale digitale@stanford.edu 650-724-9175 Stanford University Medical Center STANFORD, Calif. — Does eating too much sugar cause diabetes? For years, scientists have said “not exactly.” Eating too much of any food, including sugar, can cause you to gain weight;… Read More ›
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Face values: Ability to recognize emotions in others impaired by AIDS
Contact: Hilary Glover hilary.glover@biomedcentral.com 44-020-319-22370 BioMed Central People with HIV are less able to recognise facial emotion than non-infected people finds a study published in the launch edition of BioMed Central’s open access journal BMC Psychology. Reduction in their ability… Read More ›
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Women’s iron intake may help to protect against PMS
Contact: Janet Lathrop jlathrop@admin.umass.edu 413-545-0444 University of Massachusetts at Amherst Women who reported eating a diet rich in iron were 30 to 40 percent less likely to develop PMS than women who consumed lower amounts, in a study reported this… Read More ›
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Prenatal DHA reduces early preterm birth, low birth weight
Mon, 02/25/2013 Contact Karen Henry Life Span Institute 785-864-0756 kahenry@ku.edu LAWRENCE — University of Kansas researchers have found that the infants of mothers who were given 600 milligrams of the omega-3 fatty acid DHA during pregnancy… Read More ›
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Antioxidant improves donated liver survival rate to more than 90 percent
Contact: Dawn Peters sciencenewsroom@wiley.com 781-388-8408 Wiley Researchers from Italy have found that the antioxidant, N-acetylcysteine (NAC), when injected prior to harvesting of the liver, significantly improves graft survival following transplantation. Results published in the February issue of Liver Transplantation, a… Read More ›
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Johns Hopkins study: Risk of pancreatitis doubles for those taking new class of diabetes drugs
Contact: Stephanie Desmon sdesmon1@jhmi.edu 410-955-8665 Johns Hopkins Medicine People who take the newest class of diabetes drugs to control blood sugar are twice as likely as those on other forms of sugar-control medication to be hospitalized with pancreatitis, Johns Hopkins… Read More ›
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BPA may affect the developing brain by disrupting gene regulation
Contact: Rachel Harrison rachel.harrison@duke.edu 919-419-5069 Duke University Medical Center IMAGE: Exposure to BPA may disrupt development of the central nervous system by slowing down the removal of chloride from neurons. As an organism matures and the brain… Read More ›
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Panel Recommends ***Against*** Daily Vitamin D and Calcium Supplementation for the Primary Prevention of Fractures in Postmenopausal Women
EEV: I had to read the title a few times. They claim that 1 kidney stone per 273 woman over seven years is to great a risk. 2.5% Sup group vs. 2.1 Placebo Group. Hmmmm. I recommend that this taskforce… Read More ›
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Unidentifed Object Impacted Russian Meteorite
EEV: Attempting to find a non biased video in regards to the topic.
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Economic Official Sperling Warned Woodward
The meaning of the word “regret.” posted on February 27, 2013 at 9:39pm EST Ben Smith BuzzFeed Staff posted a few minutes ago Economic Official Sperling Warned Woodward Source: whitehouse.gov The White House official who Bob Woodward charged had crossed a line… Read More ›
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A nasty, brutish, imperial presidency
By Nile Gardiner World Last updated: February 28th, 2013 Barack Obama is not amused by growing press criticism Thomas Hobbes wrote that the life of man is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Today’s White House definitely isn’t… Read More ›
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Sarkozy’s Gaddafi campaign scandal: Police search office of French ex-Interior Minister
Published time: March 01, 2013 00:46 Nicolas Sarkozy greets Muammar Gaddafi in the courtyard of the Elysee Palace in Paris as he arrives for a five day official visit December 10, 2007. (Reuters/Jacky Naegelen) French police searched the office… Read More ›
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FedEx delivered 7 lbs. of marijuana to the wrong house, then told the dopers where to go to pick it up, a single mom and her young daughters claim in court
World-Class Screw-up at FedEx, Mom Says By KEVIN KOENINGER PLYMOUTH, Mass. (CN) – FedEx delivered 7 lbs. of marijuana to the wrong house, then told the dopers where to go to pick it up, a single… Read More ›
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Bank of America Alleged Key Word List
Original Article at : http://www.par-anoia.net/releases2013.html#bofa Source from: http://par-anoia.net/assessment/us/bofa/keywords.txt Zerohack Zer0Pwn YourAnonNews Yevgeniy Anikin Yes Men YamaTough Xtreme x-Leader xenu xen0nymous http://www.oem.com.mx http://www.nytimes.com/pages/world/asia/index.html http://www.informador.com.mx http://www.futuregov.asia http://www.cronica.com.mx http://www.asiapacificsecuritymagazine.com Worm Wolfy Withdrawal* WillyFoReal Wikileaks IRC 88.80.16.13/9999 IRC Channel WikiLeaks WiiSpellWhy whitekidney Wells Fargo… Read More ›
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Anonymous group claims Bank of America monitored activists
Feb 28, 2013 13:56 Moscow Time Photo: EPA The famous hacktivist group, Anonymous, has released data that it claims shows how Bank of America employed security firms to monitor hackers and activists. They unveiled some 14 Gigabytes of data, code… Read More ›
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US drug prosecutors switch sides to defend accused Colombian traffickers
After working to take down cartels, former officials say America’s ‘war on drugs’ is misguided and the human cost too high Rory Carroll in Los Angeles The Guardian, Wednesday 27 February 2013 11.46 EST Leo Arreguin, right, was a… Read More ›
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Contaminated Diet Contributes to Exposure to Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals: Phthalates and BPA * 183mg per Kg of bodyweight per Day!!! *
Phthalates and bisphenol A are synthetic endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Previous studies have linked prenatal exposure to phthalates to male reproductive system abnormalities. Fetal exposure to BPA is linked to hyperactivity, anxiety, and depression in girls. People may exposed to these chemicals… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 