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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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NSA Claims Call Spying Reports Are False
1 November 2013 Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 08:13:57 +0100 Subject: update From: <xxxxx[at]gmail.com> To: Cryptome <cryptome[at]earthlink.net> In a letter to Dutch Parliament of October 31st [0], the Dutch Minister of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (Ronald Plasterk)… Read More ›
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Goldman Sachs rogue trader to be jailed seven years AFTER concealing an unauthorized $8.3 billion trading deal / For a whole 9 months
Matthew Taylor, 35, was sentenced Friday to nine months for wire fraud in 2007 U.S. District Judge William Pauley questioned why it took Goldman and the government so long to bring the misconduct to light Taylor had admitted in a… Read More ›
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New Yellow Sea naval drills seen as warning message
PUBLISHED : Friday, 06 December, 2013, 1:24pm UPDATED : Saturday, 07 December, 2013, 3:33am Minnie Chan minnie.chan@scmp.com A ship gun fires during last month’s exercises. Photo: SCMP The PLA Navy launched eight days… Read More ›
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Russian diplomats accused of $1.5m fraud in US – but immunity prevents arrests
The accused and a number of unnamed co-conspirators gamed the system to the tune of $1.5m, say US law enforcement officials Nikhil Kumar Friday, 6 December 2013 In November 2010, Nailya Babaeva, a Russian citizen in the US, allegedly… Read More ›
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Britain’s poor ‘will die before they retire’ if pension reforms aren’t matched by health improvements
Stark disparity in healthy life expectancy ‘must be tackled’ for pension age to be raised fairly Charlie Cooper Friday, 6 December 2013 Thousands of Britain’s poorest people “will be dead before they can retire” if sweeping pension reforms are not… Read More ›
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Japan agency offers travel for your teddy bear
Travel Dec. 07, 2013 – 06:12AM JST Tour operator Sonoe Azuma holds a stuffed toy during a visit to a station in Tokyo, on October 4, 2013 Tokyo (AFP) — Unable to get to that must-see tourist site but can’t… Read More ›
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China pulls out of UN process over territorial dispute with Philippines
• Move underscores China’s tough geopolitical stance in region • Territorial claims continue to dominate visit by Joe Biden Paul Lewis in Washington theguardian.com, Friday 6 December 2013 13.25 EST Fallout over China’s territorial claims has become the… Read More ›
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Gut bacteria linked to autism-related behavior in mice – Bacteroides fragilis
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H7N9 influenza virus not adapted to efficient human-to-human transmission
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exogenous progesterone could reverse cognitive impairmen in Alzheimer’s disease
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Eating healthy vs. unhealthy diet costs about $1.50 more per day
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Toxigenic C. difficile resides harmlessly in infants, poses risk to adults
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‘Spooky action’ builds a wormhole between ‘entangled’ particles
Vince StricherzNews and Information Posted under: News Releases, Research, Science Quantum entanglement, a perplexing phenomenon of quantum mechanics that Albert Einstein once referred to as “spooky action at a distance,” could be even spookier than Einstein perceived. Alan Stonebraker/American Physical… Read More ›
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Many trial results in ClinicalTrials.gov not published
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Vitamin D Decreases Pain in Women with Type 2 Diabetes and Depression
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‘Designer sperm’ inserts custom genes into offspring
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New UK Study Suggests Low Vitamin D Causes Damage to Brain
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CIA Cleared on Answer to Telepathy FOIA Demand
By HEATHER JOHNSON SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) – The CIA properly handled a man’s demand for records on his 1966 interrogation regarding telepathy and espionage, a federal judge ruled. Phillip Mosier had sued the agency in San Francisco under… Read More ›
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US Agency new logo…. an Evil Octopus
Friday, 06 December 2013 Billions of dollars annually are being used to fund operations conducted by the United States intelligence community, the likes of which allow the government to eavesdrop on emails, listen to world leaders’ phone calls… Read More ›
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The Counter to the Lancet Claims Vitamin D has little Efficay – Well the Lancet is mistaken ( Here, try some Science )
For the very non scientific claims of Vitamin D lacking evidence, as posted in other publications like the Mail onlie: “Vitamin D supplements ‘don’t ward off ill health’: Little evidence pills lower risk of cancer, strokes or other conditions For… Read More ›
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Probiotic therapy alleviates autism-like behaviors in mice
Contact: Deborah Williams-Hedges mr@caltech.edu 626-395-3227 California Institute of Technology Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is diagnosed when individuals exhibit characteristic behaviors that include repetitive actions, decreased social interactions, and impaired communication. Curiously, many individuals with ASD also suffer from gastrointestinal (GI)… Read More ›
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Media Smoke and Mirror game at the expense of a child?
EEV: Commentary Rarely do I comment on events; However, when it involves children I do. Recently an article was run titled “ Boy, 7, born with rare cancer loses his insurance because of Obamacare…leaving his parents needing $50,000 to pay… Read More ›
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Results from many large clinical trials are never published
Contact: Tom Hughes tahughes@unch.unc.edu 919-966-6047 University of North Carolina Health Care Non-publication is more common among industry-funded trials, study finds CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – A new analysis of 585 large, randomized clinical trials registered with ClinicalTrials.gov finds that 29 percent… Read More ›
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NSA collects data revealing location of five billion mobile phones every day
The records allow US intelligence agents to establish not just the movements of individuals but to monitor who else they communicate with Lewis Smith Thursday, 5 December 2013 Almost five billion records revealing the location of mobile phones around the… Read More ›
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House subcommittee: Obamacare’s $300 billion Medicare Advantage raid will hurt seniors next year
Posted By Patrick Howley On 10:38 PM 12/04/2013 In | Obamacare “raided” $300 billion for Medicare Advantage and seniors will begin feeling the cuts next year, according to an analysis Tuesday by the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee…. Read More ›
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7 things that surprise Japanese people working in offices overseas
By Rachel Tackett Lifestyle Dec. 05, 2013 – 06:20AM JST ( 24 ) TOKYO — Here’s a collection of seven observations that Japanese people made while doing business in foreign countries. 1. The lack of overtime In Germany and Spain,… Read More ›
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World’s oldest DNA is recovered from a 400,000-year-old thigh bone – and provides a new jigsaw piece in the history of evolution
Scientist reconstructed the mitochondrial genome from two grams of bone They found early humans shared a common ancestor with the Denisovans This was suprising as early humans were thought to share a common ancestor with Neanderthals due to similar skeletal… Read More ›
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‘Your mother loved you very much and wanted to keep you’: Judge’s remarkable message to baby girl of woman who was forced to have caesarean
Judge Roderick Newton, who ruled that the baby born to sedated mother be put up for adoption, tells child her mother wanted to keep her Girl was born to mother, who has bipolar disorder, by court-ordered caesarean 15 months ago… Read More ›
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High Fructose Corn Syrup and interesting ways to create pandemics. Part 1
This is to open up an honest debate into the scientific rationale to why High Fructose Corn Syrup may have been a mistake. This is only part 1 of my collection of publically available unedited studies on the subject. Please… Read More ›
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Food poverty in UK has reached level of ‘public health emergency’, warn experts
The Government may be covering up the extent to which austerity and welfare cuts are adding to the problem Charlie Cooper Wednesday, 4 December 2013 Hunger in Britain has reached the level of a “public health emergency” and the Government… Read More ›
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Truck carrying radioactive material stolen in Mexico
UN’s atomic watchdog says truck was taking cobalt-60 from a hospital to a radioactive waste storage centre when it was stolen Reuters in Vienna theguardian.com, Wednesday 4 December 2013 09.11 EST The IAEA has warned that the radioactive… Read More ›
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Tiny old Britain? It’s only good for study and travel, says China’s state media
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 03 December, 2013, 5:03pm Daniel Ren ren.wei@scmp.com The British prime minister meets Shanghai Mayor Yang Xiong. He is leading a 100-strong business delegation. Photo: AP As British Prime Minister David Cameron launched a charm offensive at Shanghai… Read More ›
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Should the Big Six be nationalised? In 4 years they increased their average profit per household more than ten-fold
It’s an unthinkable idea. It bucks the Thatcherite consensus. The markets would hate it. And yet … Tom Bawden Tuesday, 3 December 2013 When Ofgem head Andrew Wright identified a “deep mistrust of anything the energy companies do or say”… Read More ›
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On the matter of shooting down Amazon delivery drones with shotguns
It won’t be there. But if it was, no, you couldn’t shoot it down By Lewis Page Posted in Bootnotes, 3rd December 2013 13:27 GMT So no, there will not be an electric quadcopter delivery drone delivering your Cyber… Read More ›
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Desperation for money pushes Turks to sell their kidneys
Adverts apparently link to an organ trafficking ring which carries out illegal kidney removals, transplants. Middle East Online Worth up to $73,000 ISTANBUL – Turkish police have launched an investigation into online adverts posted by people allegedly so… Read More ›
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Delta kicked 50 passengers off flight the Sunday after Thanksgiving so it could charter a plane for the Florida Gators basketball team
The full flight from Gainesville, Florida, was canceled, even though passengers could see their plane sitting on the tarmac The Delta plane that the Florida Gators’ chartered to get to Storrs, Connecticut, for a game had been grounded with mechanical… Read More ›
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Syrian opposition fighters seize 12 nuns from Christian village
Mother superior says nuns abducted from convent have been taken with three other women to town held by rebels Associated Press in Damascus theguardian.com, Tuesday 3 December 2013 09.04 EST A Syrian nun lights candles in the church… Read More ›
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Widow Says Death Spurred Employer Profits: Claims Bristol-Myers Squibb had a $6 million life insurance policy on her husband
By LORRAINE BAILEY CHICAGO (CN) – After her husband died, Bristol-Myers Squibb slipped up and accidentally informed his widow that it had taken out a $6 million life insurance policy on the rank-and-file worker, without an insurable interest in… Read More ›
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Over 700,000 people on US watch list: and once you get on, there’s no way off
Published time: December 02, 2013 20:59 A US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent checks the identification and boarding pass of a passenger as she passes through security in the terminal at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia… Read More ›
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‘Memories’ pass between generations
By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News Behaviour can be affected by events in previous generations which have been passed on through a form of genetic memory, animal studies suggest. Experiments showed that a traumatic event could… Read More ›
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How long before YOU are eating frankenfish: It grows at terrifying speed and could wipe out other species. The GM super salmon muscling its way onto your plate
GM salmon which grow twice as fast as wild fish have been developed Eggs given go-ahead in Canada while meat to be approved for sale in US If they escape from farms they could breed and wipe out wild fish… Read More ›
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Scrooged: Wisconsin governor asked parents to make campaign contributions INSTEAD of buying their children gifts on Black Friday
Scott Walker campaign fundraising email said his re-election would be a better gift to children than toys or election gadgets President Obama’s 2012 campaign pioneered the idea of a political donation ‘gift registry’ for birthdays, weddings and anniversaries Conservatives spoofed… Read More ›
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EU guilty of ‘power grab’ against British justice system, says Dominic Grieve
Attorney General sends warning to EU that is must play within the rules Dominic Grieve, the Attorney General Photo: EDDIE MULHOLLAND By Peter Dominiczak, Political Correspondent 6:26PM GMT 02 Dec 2013 The European Union is “subverting” the rules in its attempts… Read More ›
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‘Modern slavery’: Intl delegation decries migrant rights abuses in Qatar
Published time: December 02, 2013 12:16 Workers in Doha, Qatar. (AFP Photo / Goh Chai Hin) Qatar has made no progress in abolishing laws that effectively force foreign workers into slavery, an international delegation has said. A worker’s rights… Read More ›
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Police Devise App to Curb Far-Right Music ( Germany )
German police have developed a Shazam-like smartphone app that allows them to identify far-right rock songs by playing just a brief sample. It could make it harder for neo-Nazis to lure under-18s with music, which is seen as a “gateway drug” into the… Read More ›
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Obamacare website-maker runs failed Army Human Terrain System program
Posted By Patrick Howley On 9:32 PM 12/01/2013 In | The company that earned the no-bid contract to build the failed Obamacare website also runs the Army’s disastrous Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan, which has been accused of… Read More ›
Engineering Evil 