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• Judge OKs Controversial Drug in Animal Feed

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 9, 2015

  “Studies of direct human consumption of ractopamine linked it to tachycardia (fast heartbeat), tremors and raised blood pressure.” By NICHOLAS IOVINO      SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A federal judge dismissed two lawsuits claiming the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unlawfully… Read More ›

• Wealthiest — not sickest — patients may have edge in organ transplants

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 9, 2015

  Public Release: 9-Nov-2015   American Heart Association Meeting Report Abstract 15991 (Poster M 4293 Hall A2) American Heart Association ORLANDO, Florida, Nov. 9, 2015 — Registering with more than one organ transplant center appears to give an edge to wealthy… Read More ›

• Common antibiotics increase risk of cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac death

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 9, 2015

  Public Release: 9-Nov-2015   Meta-analysis examines link between macrolide antibiotics and cardiovascular risk American College of Cardiology WASHINGTON (Nov. 9, 2015) – Macrolides–a group of commonly used antibiotics for bacterial infections like pneumonia, bronchitis, and some sexually transmitted diseases–are associated… Read More ›

• Vanilla yogurt makes us feel happy, suggests research

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 9, 2015

  Public Release: 9-Nov-2015   Foods that are more — or less — delicious than we expect can also cause mood changes Elsevier Amsterdam, November 9, 2015 – We all know what it’s like to take a bite of something expecting… Read More ›

• LAX to Shift Overnight Air Traffic Over Neighboring Cities until November 12.

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 8, 2015

  LAX to Shift Overnight Air Traffic Over Neighboring Cities this Week Posted on Sunday, November 08, 2015 by Christian Mcgee Airplanes sit on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport Friday Nov. 1 2013 Airplanes sit on the tarmac at… Read More ›

• 44 Reasons to Ban or Label GMOs

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 6, 2015

  By Gary Null Progressive Radio Network, November 6, 2015 http://prn.fm/44-reasons-to-ban-or-label-gmos/ For twenty years the federal government, through the USDA and FDA, has stated unequivocally that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) are safe and can help feed the world and save lives. However,… Read More ›

• Textbook view of how blood is made “doesn’t actually even exist”

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 5, 2015

  “when the team isolated a human blood stem cell in its purest form – as a single stem cell capable of regenerating the entire blood system. “ Public Release: 5-Nov-2015 Stem-cell scientists redefine how blood is made Toppling conventional ‘textbook’… Read More ›

• Adults’ happiness on the decline

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 5, 2015

  Public Release: 5-Nov-2015   Researchers found adults over age 30 are not as happy as they used to be, but teens and young adults are happier than ever San Diego State University Are you less happy than your parents were… Read More ›

• Hungarian PM: ‘Treasonous Conspiracy to Marginalize Nation States’

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 5, 2015

  Soros responded to Orban by telling reporters “[Orban’s] plan treats the protection of national borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle,” adding “Our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the… Read More ›

• Every Website You Visit To Be Recorded ( UK )

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 3, 2015

    Under new spying powers, police and security services will be able to see what websites a person has visited without a warrant. 01:57, UK,Wednesday 04 November 2015 By Tom Cheshire, Technology Correspondent The web browsing history of every person… Read More ›

• Cabal of Corruption Alleged at Bagram Air Base

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 3, 2015

    By EMMA GANNON       DENVER (CN) – Five security investigators claim in court they were fired for reporting a “cabal” of co-workers at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, who sold classified information, tampered with government computers, gave advance warning… Read More ›

• Quiet ‘epidemic’ has killed half a million middle-aged white Americans

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 2, 2015

  Public Release: 2-Nov-2015   A long established pattern of mortality decline has reversed, due to drugs, alcohol and suicide “All-cause mortality rose by 22 percent for this least-educated group” Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs Share… Read More ›

• Quarter of Londoners diagnosed with cancer at A&E are dead within two months

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 2, 2015

  Public Release: 2-Nov-2015 Cancer Research UK A quarter of patients diagnosed with cancer after going to London A&E departments will have died within two months, according to research presented at the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI) Cancer Conference in Liverpool… Read More ›

• Death rates, health problems, rise among middle-aged white Americans

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 2, 2015

  Public Release: 2-Nov-2015 Suicide, drug and alcohol poisoning, liver diseases are top causes of death NIH/National Institute on Aging Deaths among white U.S. men and women aged 45-54 rose significantly between 1999 and 2013, according to a new analysis. This… Read More ›

• CU researchers find one in five pediatricians dismiss families for refusing vaccines

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 2, 2015

  Public Release: 2-Nov-2015  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus AURORA, Colo. (Nov. 2, 2015) – One in five pediatricians dismiss families who refuse to vaccinate their children, according to findings published today in the journal Pediatrics and based on research… Read More ›

• Engineered Viruses released into the wild may be the next generation vaccine

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 1, 2015

  Public Release: 1-Nov-2015 Could self-disseminating vaccines cut off emerging infectious diseases at source? University of Plymouth The 2014/2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa shone the spotlight not only on the unpreparedness of local health services and science to deal with… Read More ›

• Lufthansa , Air France and Emirates Airline halt flights over Sinai after Russian flight crash

  By Ralph Turchiano on November 1, 2015

  Emirates Airline halts flights over Sinai after Russian flight crash English.news.cn   2015-11-01 19:09:48 DUBAI, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) — Emirates Airline, the state-owned carrier of the emirate of Dubai, said on Sunday it will halt flights above Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula until… Read More ›

• Hasbro Scoffs at Fox News Anchor’s Image Claims

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 31, 2015 • ( 1 )

  By CHRIS FRY NEWARK, N.J. (CN) – In its motion to dismiss a Fox News anchor’s lawsuit, Hasbro insists that its hamster toy looks nothing like the reporter who shares its name. Harris Faulkner went to court last month over… Read More ›

• USA was seconds away from striking nuclear blow on USSR

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 30, 2015

    29.10.2015 Source: Fotodom/Rex Features The United States has declassified information about the officer, who prevented the start of a nuclear war during the Cuban missile crisis. The information was exposed in an interview with the Bulletin of the Atomic… Read More ›

• Chinese Importers Must Face Fake Coin Claims

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 30, 2015

    By ROSE BOUBOUSHIAN       (CN) – Chinese scrap metal importers must face claims that they sent counterfeit mutilated coins to the United States Mint for over a decade, reaping over $47 million in legitimate currency in return, a federal… Read More ›

• U.S. jets intercept Russian bombers flying near U.S. aircraft carrier: White House

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 29, 2015 • ( 1 )

    English.news.cn   2015-10-30 05:45:36 WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) — The White House confirmed Thursday that U.S. and South Korean fighter jets had intercepted Russian bombers flying near the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan in the Sea of Japan earlier… Read More ›

• Studies raise questions about impact of statins on flu vaccination in seniors

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 29, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 29-Oct-2015 Findings suggest statin use may hinder immune response, vaccine effectiveness Infectious Diseases Society of America A new pair of studies suggests that statins, drugs widely used to reduce cholesterol, may have a detrimental effect on the immune… Read More ›

• Researchers find vulnerabilities in use of certificates for Web security

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 29, 2015

  Public Release: 28-Oct-2015  Study finds website admins not revoking certificates, browsers not checking certificate revocation status University of Maryland Consumers use the Internet for banking, emailing, shopping and much more nowadays. With so much personal and private information being transmitted… Read More ›

• Warships sent, US ambassador called in as China bolsters Navy presence in disputed Spratly islands, after US sail-by rattles Beijing’s sovereignty claims

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 27, 2015

    Vessels sail out to warn American trespasser in disputed waters, but experts say neither side will let incident escalate beyond control PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 27 October, 2015, 9:24am UPDATED : Wednesday, 28 October, 2015, 10:00am Minnie Chan minnie.chan@scmp.com and… Read More ›

• Chinese warships gave warnings to US navy ship

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 27, 2015 • ( 1 )

    English.news.cn   2015-10-28 07:49:25 BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhuanet) — Chinese Defense Ministry has also slammed US over its warship patrol near Zhubi Reef. It says two Chinese warships, Lanzhou guided missile destroyer and Taizhou patrol ship, gave warnings to US… Read More ›

• China warns U.S. of "eventualities" in South China Sea

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 27, 2015

  English.news.cn | 2015-10-27 22:22:03 | Editor: huaxia BEIJING, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) — The Chinese navy has warned that further forays by the U.S. naval vessel into the waters claimed by China in the South China Sea may “trigger eventualities.” Chinese… Read More ›

• Class Sues Apple Over Data-Eating IPhone App

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 27, 2015

    By NICHOLAS IOVINO SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Apple didn’t warn that its new Wi-Fi Assist app automatically switches iPhones from wireless to cellular data, causing some users to exceed data limits and pay higher phone bills, customers claim in… Read More ›

• Lower doses of common product ingredient might increase breast cancer risk

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 27, 2015

  Public Release: 27-Oct-2015 Safety tests may be underestimating chemicals’ potency Silent Spring Institute Estrogen-mimicking chemicals called parabens, which are commonly found in an array of personal care products, may be more dangerous at lower doses than previously thought, according to… Read More ›

• Mammoths might have survived except for bad ‘mineral diet’

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 27, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 27-Oct-2015   National Research Tomsk State University IMAGE: This image shows a fragment of the calf scull. Credit: ©TSU At the end of the Pleistocene mammoths of Northern Eurasia used to experience chronic mineral hunger. As a result… Read More ›

• Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 26, 2015

  Russia could snap global net, fears US NYT News Service | Oct 27, 2015, 06.59 AM IST WASHINGTON: Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near the vital undersea cables that carry almost all global Internet communications, raising concerns… Read More ›

• Too much, too late: Doctors should cut back on some medicines in seniors, studies suggest

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 26, 2015

  Public Release: 26-Oct-2015 Overtreatment for blood pressure & blood sugar can be dangerous for some University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Anyone who takes medicine to get their blood sugar or blood pressure down – or both… Read More ›

• York U researchers list products expectant mothers should avoid during first trimester

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 26, 2015

  Public Release: 26-Oct-2015   The list is long and includes cleaning solvents, pesticides, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs York University TORONTO, October 26, 2015 — Expectant mothers in their first trimester should avoid certain cosmetics, cleaning agents and medicines, to protect the… Read More ›

• Study finds medication errors, adverse drug events in 1 out of 2 surgeries studied

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 25, 2015

  Public Release: 25-Oct-2015 “Overall, it was determined that 124 of the 277 observed operations included at least one medication error or adverse drug event” Massachusetts General Hospital The first study to measure the incidence of medication errors and adverse drug… Read More ›

• Birth tourism in the United States delivers complex medical cases in neonatal units

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 25, 2015

  “Although all the babies in the birth tourism group were uninsured upon delivery” Public Release: 23-Oct-2015 Babies born to mothers who traveled to the United States intending to give birth have significant medical, social and financial challenges American Academy of… Read More ›

• Crash Strands Users of Prepaid ‘RushCard’

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 24, 2015

  “plaintiffs say card users who have regained access to their accounts have found discrepancies in their account balances, including some balances being completely wiped out” By JOE HARRIS       MANHATTAN (CN) – A computer glitch with a prepaid Visa card… Read More ›

• Obamacare secretly gave a private entity legislative authority, overriding the constitution

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 22, 2015 • ( 1 )

  States Sue Feds Over Hidden Obamacare Fee By DAVID LEE DALLAS (CN) – Obamacare regulations that force states to pay a health insurance providers fee or risk losing Medicaid funding impose a coercive and unconstitutional tax, three states claim in… Read More ›

• Yakuza cancel Halloween trick-or-treat event for kids

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 22, 2015

    CRIME OCT. 23, 2015 – 06:59AM JST Japan’s largest yakuza crime syndicate has cancelled its annual Halloween trick-or-treat event with a grovelling apology to children hoping to score a fistful of candies. A recent high-profile split of the powerful… Read More ›

• Plague in humans ‘twice as old’ but didn’t begin as flea-borne, ancient DNA reveals

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 22, 2015

  Public Release: 22-Oct-2015 University of Cambridge New research using ancient DNA has revealed that plague has been endemic in human populations for more than twice as long as previously thought, and that the ancestral plague would have been predominantly spread… Read More ›

• Historic Delft Experiments tests Einstein’s ‘God does not play dice’ using quantum ‘dice’ made in Barcelona

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 22, 2015

  Public Release: 21-Oct-2015 “Delft experiment gives a nearly perfect disproof of Einstein’s world-view, in which “nothing travels faster than light” and “God does not play dice.” At least one of these statements must be wrong. The laws that govern the… Read More ›

• Algae virus can jump to mammalian cells may contribute to cognitive deficits

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 22, 2015

  Public Release: 21-Oct-2015 New study: Algae virus can jump to mammalian cells Verdict still out on whether virus causes slower cognition  University of Nebraska-Lincoln Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 21, 2015 — New research led by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has provided… Read More ›

• Former U.N. President John Ashe Indicted

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 20, 2015

  “Before Ashe’s name came into play, press reports uncovered Ng as the source of hundreds of thousands of dollars illegally funneled to the Democratic National Committee during the Clinton administration.”   By ADAM KLASFELD       MANHATTAN (CN) – Federal prosecutors… Read More ›

• Discrepancies are common between reported medical outcomes and trial registry data

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 20, 2015

  Public Release: 20-Oct-2015 “From 2005 to 2014, we found that only 26 percent of randomized trials published in core headache journals were compliant with trial registration requirements, and that 38 percent of registered trials published results that did not match… Read More ›

• Being rich in the Middle Ages led to an unhealthy life

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 20-Oct-2015   University of Southern Denmark In the Middle Ages only wealthy town people could afford to eat and drink from beautiful, colored glazed cups and plates. But the glazing was made of lead, which found its way… Read More ›

• To infinity and beyond: Light goes infinitely fast with new on-chip material

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 19, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 19-Oct-2015   Harvard University   IMAGE: In this zero-index material — made of silicon pillar arrays embedded in a polymer matrix and clad in gold film — there is no phase advance. Instead zero-index material creates a constant… Read More ›

• Seizures from solving sudoku puzzles

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 19, 2015

  Public Release: 19-Oct-2015   The JAMA Network Journals The JAMA Neurology feature “Images in Neurology” features the case of a 25-year-old right-handed physical education student who was buried by an avalanche during a ski tour and endured 15 minutes of… Read More ›

• Centre for the Study of Existential Risk is delighted to announce four new postdoctoral positions to begin in January 2016–Deadline 12 NOV 2015

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 18, 2015

  Editors Note: ( Ralph Turchiano ) A great Job Posting for those qualified from the CSER Would you like to join the team at CSER? (Or do you know someone that might?) The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk… Read More ›

• Alleged Iraqi Documents from Clinton Servers

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 17, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Editors Note ( Ralph Turchiano ) : Validation of documents although appear authentic needs second source  

• Brit Gets 20 Years for Failed U.S. Terror Camp

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 16, 2015

    By KEVIN LESSMILLER       (CN) – A British man will serve 20 years behind bars for trying to set up a terrorist training camp in the United States, the Justice Department said Friday.     Haroon Aswat, 41, was sentenced Friday… Read More ›

• Widely used Cancer anemia treatment leads to tumor growth

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 16, 2015

  Public Release: 15-Oct-2015 Study reveals why cancer anemia treatment leads to tumor growth EphB4 receptor identified as ‘trigger’ for breast and ovarian tumor stimulation University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Scientists have shown… Read More ›

• Sexual transmission of Ebola possible after more than 179 days of disease onset

  By Ralph Turchiano on October 16, 2015

  Public Release: 15-Oct-2015 Sexual transmission of Ebola virus in Liberia confirmed using genomic analysis US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases A suspected case of sexual transmission of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in Liberia was confirmed using genomic analysis,… Read More ›

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