Research Highlights – As reviewed by Ralph Turchiano Artificial water fluoridation prevalence was significantly positively associated with ADHD prevalence, while natural water fluoridation prevalence was either negatively or not significantly associated with it. Silicofluorides appear to react synergistically with lead,… Read More ›
05:36 14.03.2015(updated 05:38 14.03.2015) About three quarters of Chinese believe that their military could best both that of Japan and the United States, according to a recent opinion poll. When asked whether the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) could wrest… Read More ›
By ADAM KLASFELD MANHATTAN (CN) – Commerzbank must pay $1.45 billion to five state and federal regulators for facilitating Iran and the Sudan’s laundering of money, as well as helping the Japanese optics manufacturer Olympus pull off a… Read More ›
Requested Repost from Nov.2014 “The emails talk of smiting Republicans “mafia-style” and punishing voters. Also detailed, and perhaps to no ones surprise, is the elitist tone of these possible contenders.” JOE SCHOFFSTALL • NOVEMBER 14, 2014 Robby Mook, a top… Read More ›
“Instead, a rushed and confused approval process, conducted with lackadaisical regard for an important public health policy, contributed to an error that took the FDA more than six years to discover. Such a consistent failure of policies and procedures is… Read More ›
Public Release: 12-Mar-2015 Study finds Affordable Care Act’s requirement that health insurers spend at least 80-85 percent of premiums on actual medical care had no impact in the law’s first 3 years Physicians for a National Health Program Despite claims… Read More ›
“Culture change is measured in big chunks of time. It’s not going to get done in six months. These things will happen in 10 years, 20 years,” he said. “It’s really about getting the right vision and the right set… Read More ›
01:38 12.03.2015(updated 03:21 12.03.2015) Two Secret Service agents – including one who works on the president’s personal detail – are under investigation for allegedly driving a government vehicle into White House barricades after a night of drinking. The March 4… Read More ›
Public Release: 11-Mar-2015 Swine flu outbreak in India raises concern Massachusetts Institute of Technology CAMBRIDGE, MA — Since December, an outbreak of swine flu in India has killed more than 1,200 people, and a new MIT study suggests that the… Read More ›
Gut Chaos caused by 2 Gluten Free Food Additives * Please pass on to those with digestion concerns – Widely used food additive promotes colitis, obesity and metabolic syndrome, research shows The team fed mice two very commonly used emulsifiers,… Read More ›
Public Release: 10-Mar-2015 “they noted that the sugar industry’s current position remains that public health should focus on fluoride toothpaste, dental sealants and other ways to reduce the harm of sugar, rather than reducing consumption. “ University of California –… Read More ›
Public Release: 10-Mar-2015 University of Edinburgh Genes linked with a greater risk of developing autism may also be associated with higher intelligence, a study suggests. Researchers have found new evidence linking genetic factors associated with autism to better cognitive ability… Read More ›
Public Release: 10-Mar-2015 Durham University Voices in people’s heads are far more varied and complex than previously thought, according to new research by Durham and Stanford universities, published in The Lancet Psychiatry today. One of the largest and most detailed… Read More ›
“100 percent of animals injected with PolySTAT survived a typically-lethal injury to the femoral artery” Public Release: 10-Mar-2015 IMAGE: A 3-D rendering of fibrin forming a blood clot, with PolySTAT (in blue) binding strands together. Credit: William Walker, University of… Read More ›
“The rising cost of health care is unsustainable” Public Release: 10-Mar-2015 Find 400 percent difference between least, most expensive treatments University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences How much does health care really cost? UCLA researchers have for the… Read More ›
18:52 07.03.2015(updated 19:02 07.03.2015) Lord Rothschild characterized the geopolitical situation in the world as the most dangerous since the end of WWII, warning investors about a forthcoming crisis. Lord Rothschild has warned about the dark cloud on the horizon… Read More ›
– Requested Repost from 2 September 2014 As reported to ECDC by Belgian authorities, on 2 September 2014, following a human error, 45 litres of concentrated live polio virus solution were released into the environment by the pharmaceutical company, GlaxoSmithKline… Read More ›
March 6, 2015 10:17 PM (CBS) – You get a shot at a doctor’s office or a pharmacy and you end up with a serious injury. CBS 2’s Roseanne Tellez reports on a mistake that’s becoming more common when… Read More ›
Chinese-Made Flooring Protests Gather Steam (CN) – Lumber Liquidators faces a slew of class actions across the country accusing it of falsely advertising Chinese-made flooring that emits illegal levels of carcinogenic formaldehyde. Eleven class actions in March, from California… Read More ›
Public Release: 9-Mar-2015 University of Leicester researchers discover that many modern men have genetic links to ancient figures such as Genghis Khan University of Leicester Study suggests that millions of modern Asian men are descended from 11 ancient leaders, including… Read More ›
Public Release: 9-Mar-2015 Stalled drug trials provide information that needs to be shared Lots of potentially useful medical information is getting lost. McGill researchers discovered this when they looked into the lack of reporting of information from “stalled drug” trials… Read More ›
How healthy is genetically modified soybean oil? Research on mice by UC Riverside scientists shows GM soybean oil is as unhealthy as conventional soybean oil, with one benefit: no resistance to insulin University of California – Riverside RIVERSIDE, Calif. –… Read More ›
* Endocrine Society’s 97th annual meeting in San Diego. 06 MAR 2015 BPA harms dental enamel in young animals, mimicking human tooth defect A tooth enamel abnormality in children, molar incisor hypomineralization (MIH), may result from exposure to the industrial… Read More ›
Public Release: 6-Mar-2015 The Endocrine Society San Diego, CA–Exposure to low doses of hormone-disrupting chemicals early in life can alter gene expression in the liver as well as liver function, increasing the susceptibility to obesity and other metabolic diseases in… Read More ›
Public Release: 6-Mar-2015 The Endocrine Society San Diego, CA — A tooth enamel abnormality in children, molar incisor hypomineralization (MIH), may result from exposure to the industrial chemical bisphenol A (BPA), authors of a new study conclude after finding similar… Read More ›
Friday, 06 March 2015 A series of joint naval drills between the United States and France recently didn’t quite turn out the way the US, no doubt, expected. The practice scenario ended with the French nuclear submarine that was acting… Read More ›
Sunday, 22 February 2015 13:28 Shafaq News / A security source in Diyala said that ISIS terrorists have executed a citizen while trying to videotape an unidentified helicopter landing in one of the northern agricultural villages of Muqdadiyah through ISIS control… Read More ›
PUBLIC RELEASE: 5-MAR-2015 San Diego, CA–Prenatal exposure to low doses of the environmental contaminants polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, change the developing brain in an area involved in metabolism, and some effects are apparent even two generations later, a new study… Read More ›
PUBLIC RELEASE: 5-MAR-2015 THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY San Diego, CA–Exposure during pregnancy to a combination of fire retardant chemicals and phthalate chemicals–both present in the average home–can contribute to autistic-like behaviors in the offspring, according to an animal study to be… Read More ›
PUBLIC RELEASE: 5-MAR-2015 Chemicals contribute to health conditions including lowered IQ, male infertility, diabetes, obesity THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY SAN DIEGO, CA and BRUSSELS, BELGIUM-A new economic analysis found exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals likely costs the European Union €157 billion ($209… Read More ›
Am J Reprod Immunol. 2013 Oct;70(4):309-16. doi: 10.1111/aji.12151. Epub 2013 Jul 31. Human papilloma virus vaccine and primary ovarian failure: another facet of the autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants. Colafrancesco S1, Perricone C, Tomljenovic L, Shoenfeld Y. Abstract PROBLEM: Post-vaccination… Read More ›
Public Release: 4-Mar-2015 Even after adjustment for confounding factors Diabetologia New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that use of statins is associated with a 46% increase in the risk… Read More ›
Court Brew-haha Over a Golden Cauldron By CAMERON LANGFORD HOUSTON (CN) – A Texan who bought an “ancient pre-Christian Celtic cauldron made of gold” for $1.1 million claims in court that the man who allegedly found it at the bottom… Read More ›
© Flickr/ Dmitry Terekhov MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE 15:31 04.03.2015(updated 15:37 04.03.2015) 9080491 Russia’s new Richag-AV radar and sonar jamming system can be mounted on helicopters, ships and other military equipment to jam potential adversaries’ weapons systems from distances of several… Read More ›
© Sputnik/ Jakutyn EUROPE 06:35 04.03.2015(updated 11:09 04.03.2015) 3963250 Services of several commercial aircraft were interrupted by two Russian bombers that flew just off the coast of Ireland, according to the Irish Examiner. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Services of several commercial… Read More ›
Public Release: 3-Mar-2015 Adults over the age of 30 only catch flu about twice a decade, a new study publishing March 3rd in PLOS Biology suggests. Flu-like illness can be caused by many pathogens, making it difficult to assess how… Read More ›
For patients in the lowest risk group, the researchers calculated that doctors would need to treat 57-66 patients for 10 years to prevent one heart attack. In the intermediate risk group, doctors would need to treat 42-47 patients over… Read More ›
Public Release: 3-Mar-2015 People sniff their hands twice as much after a handshake, according to a Weizmann Institute study IMAGE: Analysis of substances on the rubber glove after a handshake revealed that chemicals from human secretions were transmitted through handshake… Read More ›
Public Release: 2-Mar-2015 Dartmouth study finds costly US cancer care may provide less value than previously thought Despite sharp increases in spending on cancer treatment, cancer mortality rates in the United States have decreased only modestly since 1970, Samir Soneji,… Read More ›
Asian herb holds promise as treatment for Ebola virus disease– Researchers announced that a small molecule called Tetrandrine derived from an Asian herb has shown to be a potent small molecule inhibiting infection of human white blood cells in vitro… Read More ›
PUBLIC RELEASE: 27-FEB-2015 Rates for 40-64 year-olds may be increasing due to financial circumstances, according to American Journal of Preventive Medicine ELSEVIER HEALTH SCIENCES Ann Arbor, MI, February 27, 2015 — Suicide rates for adults between 40 and 64 years… Read More ›
PUBLIC RELEASE: 27-FEB-2015 To be presented at the 2015 APS March Meeting in San Antonio, Texas, March 5 AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY A team of Cornell University researchers focusing on a fictional zombie outbreak as an approach to disease modeling suggests… Read More ›
How public water can contribute to obesity and more Water fluoridation linked to higher rates of underactive thyroid – The clear association found in our analyses between fluoride levels in drinking water and variations in hypothyroidism prevalence appears to confirm… Read More ›
By Shane Croucher February 26, 2015 17:27 GMT Greek Prime Minister and leader of Syriza Alexis Tsipras gestures during a parliamentary session in Athens(Reuters) Wealthy Greeks are pulling money out of troubled Greece and sheltering it in London’s prized property… Read More ›
Public Release: 25-Feb-2015 Georgia State University ATLANTA–Emulsifiers, which are added to most processed foods to aid texture and extend shelf life, can alter the gut microbiota composition and localization to induce intestinal inflammation that promotes the development of inflammatory bowel… Read More ›
Public Release: 25-Feb-2015 American Marketing Association Seventy five percent of movies earn a net loss during their run in theaters. A new study in the Journal of Marketing Research finds that brain activity visible through EEG measures may be a… Read More ›
Thursday, 26 February 2015 The Islamic State (IS) group has released a video showing the destruction of statues in Iraq, the BBC reports. The video shows statues being smashed using sledgehammers in what appears to be a museum in… Read More ›
Public Release: 24-Feb-2015 ROCHESTER, Minn. — A decline in smoking rates may mean that many people who could have benefited from early detection of lung cancer are dying because they don’t qualify for low-dose CT scans, according to a group… Read More ›
Public Release: 23-Feb-2015 Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. – In the first U.S. study of urinary arsenic in babies, Dartmouth College researchers found that formula-fed infants had higher arsenic levels than breast-fed infants, and that breast milk itself contained very low… Read More ›
Public Release: 23-Feb-2015 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — When exposed to nitrogen fertilizer over a period of years, nitrogen-fixing bacteria called rhizobia evolve to become less beneficial to legumes – the plants they normally serve, researchers report… Read More ›
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