Engineering Evil

Public Release: 30-Apr-2015 Johns Hopkins Medicine A new study by Johns Hopkins researchers concludes that most U.S. clinical registries that collect data on patient outcomes are substandard and lack critical features necessary to render the information they collect useful for… Read More ›

California’s 4.8 million low-wage workers now earn less than in 1979

Public Release: 30-Apr-2015 New analysis shows that about one-third of the state’s workforce earned less in inflated-adjusted dollars in 2014 than they did three decades earlier University of California – Berkeley Over the past 35 years, California’s high-wage workers have… Read More ›

Viruses: You’ve heard the bad — here’s the good

Public Release: 30-Apr-2015 American Society for Microbiology “The word, virus, connotes morbidity and mortality, but that bad reputation is not universally deserved,” said Marilyn Roossinck, PhD, Professor of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology and Biology at the Pennsylvania State University,… Read More ›

Pesticides alter bees’ brains, making them unable to live and reproduce adequately

Public Release: 30-Apr-2015 New research in The FASEB Journal suggests that the neonicotinoid class of pesticides do not kill bees but impair their brain function to disturb learning, blunt food gathering skills and harm reproduction Federation of American Societies for… Read More ›

New survey: Percentage of Texans without health insurance drops dramatically 31%

Public Release: 30-Apr-2015 Rice University HOUSTON – (April 30, 2015) – The percentage of Texans without health insurance dropped 31 percent since enrollment began in the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a new report released today… Read More ›

FDA overwhelmingly approves a cancer vaccine that does not work

By Ralph Turchiano on April 30, 2015 • ( 1 )

Amgen wins FDA panel nod for T-Vec in melanoma – Wednesday’s vote came just two days after FDA staff reviewers recommended against accelerated approval for the candidate, citing concerns with the trial method and outcomes, specifically the possibility for investigator… Read More ›

German Army Has No Chance Against Russian Tanks – German Newspaper

16:46 26.04.2015(updated 16:47 26.04.2015) Germany lacks effective ammunition and will not be able to withstand Russian tanks in case of military conflict, the German newspaper “Die Welt” wrote. Despite the fact that Germany possesses the Leopard 2, one of the… Read More ›

Study links quitting smoking with deterioration in diabetes control

Public Release: 29-Apr-2015 Coventry University Sufferers of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) who quit smoking are likely to see a temporary deterioration in their glycaemic control which could last up to three years, according to new research published today in… Read More ›

Humans with genetically long telomeres have an increased risk of dying from cancer – which is the exact opposite of what the researchers expected

Public Release: 29-Apr-2015 Danish discovery may change cancer treatment University of Copenhagen – The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences Danish researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Herlev Hospital have made a discovery that may change the principles for… Read More ›

phone with the ultimate macro feature

Public Release: 29-Apr-2015 A New attachment turns a smartphone into a microscope that can image and size DNA molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair The Optical Society IMAGE: The imaging device and user interface are shown, with a… Read More ›

Organic farming can reverse the agriculture ecosystem from a carbon source to a carbon sink

Public Release: 29-Apr-2015 Science China Press IMAGE: This image shows processes of greenhouse gases emission and sequestration in the studied agro-ecosystem. Credit: ©Science China Press Approximately 35% of global greenhouse gases (GHGs) come from agriculture. Some argues that human can… Read More ›

Vaccines with Aluminum shown to cause unexpected side effects

Vaccines with Aluminum shown to cause unexpected side effects**Aluminum in Vaccines, a Bad Mix from FEB 2015**– A study of whooping cough vaccinations in Gothenburg a few years ago showed that almost one per cent of the children developed pruritic… Read More ›

Polygamy increases risk of heart disease by more than 4-fold

By Ralph Turchiano on April 28, 2015

Public Release: 28-Apr-2015 Risk and severity of heart disease increases with the number of wives European Society of Cardiology APSC 2015 is being held in Abu Dhabi from 29 April to 2 May in conjunction with the XX World Congress… Read More ›

76% of immune thrombocytopenia purpura cases in children aged 12 to 23 months were attributable to measles-mumps-rubella vaccination.

By Ralph Turchiano on April 27, 2015

Pediatrics. 2008 Mar;121(3):e687-92. doi: 10.1542/peds.2007-1578. This vaccine causes 1 case of immune thrombocytopenia purpura per every 40,000 doses. Risk of immune thrombocytopenic purpura after measles-mumps-rubella immunization in children. France EK1, Glanz J, Xu S, Hambidge S, Yamasaki K, Black SB,… Read More ›

Babies as young as 6 months using mobile media

By Ralph Turchiano on April 26, 2015

Public Release: 25-Apr-2015 Survey shows most 2-year-olds using mobile devices, with some spending more than an hour a day on screens American Academy of Pediatrics SAN DIEGO – More than one-third of babies are tapping on smartphones and tablets even… Read More ›

Drug prices to treat multiple sclerosis soar 700% , point to larger problem

By Ralph Turchiano on April 26, 2015

Public Release: 24-Apr-2015 Oregon State University PORTLAND, Ore. – A new study released today found that drugs used to treat multiple sclerosis have soared in price in the past two decades, in some cases more than 700 percent, even though… Read More ›

Diabetes drug metformin found in freshwater is a potential cause of intersex fish

By Ralph Turchiano on April 26, 2015

Public Release: 24-Apr-2015 Fish exposed to metformin were also smaller in size than those not exposed University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee A medication commonly taken for Type II diabetes, which is being found in freshwater systems worldwide, has been shown… Read More ›

Russian FM expressed concern over Goshince incident

By Ralph Turchiano on April 25, 2015

Friday, 24 April 2015 Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry issued a press release on Wednesday to express its deep concern after the border incident in which a group of 40 armed men briefly took over the police station in the Macedonian… Read More ›

Probable Bioweapon: Influenza Type A Virus – A Short Case Report.

By Ralph Turchiano on April 25, 2015

Journal of Bioterrorism & Biodefense Abstract Influenza type A virus (Influenza virus A), an old foe of mankind, is presently the most significant pathogen causing both pandemics and epizootics, worldwide. The proliferative husbandry of poultry and pigs, primarily, constitutes… Read More ›

Drug Firm Accused of hiding deaths connected to a cancer treatment

By Ralph Turchiano on April 24, 2015

Drug Firm Accused of Concealing Deaths By PHILIP A. JANQUART SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Cellular Biomedicine Group paid a promoter to pump its stock and hid deaths connected to a cancer treatment, shareholders claim in a federal class action. Cellular… Read More ›

China Warns N. Korea Nuke Arsenal Expanding

By Ralph Turchiano on April 24, 2015

Agence France-Presse9:10 p.m. EDT April 23, 2015 SEOUL, South Korea — Chinese nuclear experts believe North Korea may already have a nuclear arsenal of 20 warheads and the uranium enrichment capacity to double that figure by next year, the Wall… Read More ›

High radiation levels detected in Tokyo park

By Ralph Turchiano on April 24, 2015

APR. 24, 2015 – 07:30PM JST TOKYO — A high level of radiation has been detected in a park in Tokyo’s Toshima Ward, municipal government officials said Friday. Officials have closed the park, located in a residential area of… Read More ›

Milk Thistle Inhibits Colorectal Cancer Stem Cells ( Video )

By Ralph Turchiano on April 23, 2015

Oral milk thistle extract stops colorectal cancer stem cells from growing tumors “It’s very simple: tumors from mice that were initially fed silibinin had fewer cancer stem cells, were smaller, had lower metabolisms and showed decreased growth of new blood… Read More ›

NEJM perspective: ‘Patient CARE Act’ Medicaid block grant likely unconstitutional

Public Release: 22-Apr-2015 George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health WASHINGTON, DC (April 22, 2015)–The Medicaid block grant proposed as part of the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility and Empowerment Act (“Patient CARE Act”) would radically transform Medicaid without… Read More ›

Alcoholic hepatitis treatments found to be useless

Public Release: 22-Apr-2015 Imperial College London The main drugs used to treat alcoholic hepatitis are not effective at increasing patients’ survival, a major study has found. In a trial of over 1,000 patients, prednisolone and pentoxifylline, treatments recommended in international… Read More ›

Global Hepatitis B epidemic can be treated for $36 (£24) per person per year University of Liverpool

Public Release: 22-Apr-2015 IMAGE: The dose of entecavir for one year is less than a fifth of one gram. Credit: Dr Andrew Hill, University of Liverpool Scientists at the University of Liverpool have demonstrated that a drug for treating hepatitis… Read More ›

Guardsmen’s Army Leak Claims Sent to Alaska

By JEFF D. GORMAN (CN) – Claims over the leak of information on National Guard debauchery to the media belongs in Alaska, a federal judge from Washington, D.C., ruled. The Tuesday decision transfers two cases against the U.S…. Read More ›

Calif. Vaccination bill clears with no public comment and with a hand picked committee

By Ralph Turchiano on April 22, 2015 • ( 2 )

By NICK CAHILL SACRAMENTO (CN) – California lawmakers advanced a hotly contested and controversial vaccination bill Wednesday, accepting changes that give more home-schooling options to unvaccinated children. State Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, was given a second chance to… Read More ›

Link between serotonin and depression is a myth, says top psychiatrist

By Ralph Turchiano on April 21, 2015 • ( 1 )

Public Release: 21-Apr-2015 BMJ The widely held belief that depression is due to low levels of serotonin in the brain – and that effective treatments raise these levels – is a myth, argues a leading psychiatrist in The BMJ this… Read More ›

UK doctors unlikely to be able to repay student loans over a lifetime

Public Release: 20-Apr-2015 Clear gender differences in total amounts needed to service debt BMJ UK doctors are unlikely to be able to repay their student loans over the course of their working lives, amassing debts of more than £80,000 by… Read More ›

Up to 41 percent of 17000 drug samples studied did not meet quality standards

Public Release: 20-Apr-2015 Global pandemic of fake medicines poses urgent risk, scientists say NIH/Fogarty International Center Poor quality medicines are a real and urgent threat that could undermine decades of successful efforts to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, according to… Read More ›

A ‘cingular’ strategy for attack and defense

Public Release: 20-Apr-2015 RIKEN IMAGE: Attack value was associated with the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC), defense value with the rostral anterior cingulate cortex (rACC), and the difference in value with the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Credit: RIKEN We often make… Read More ›

US Government Sued for Refusing to Evacuate 1000s of American Citizens in Yemen