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• Children on an antidepressant were 11 times more likely to harm themselves over a placebo. The criminal cover up of Study 329

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 17, 2015

  Public Release: 16-Sep-2015 University of Adelaide A University of Adelaide led study has found that a psychiatric drug claimed to be a safe and effective treatment for depression in adolescents is actually ineffective and associated with serious side effects. Professor… Read More ›

• Cohort study explores association between SSRI use and violent crime

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 15, 2015

  Public Release: 15-Sep-2015 PLOS Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) use is modestly associated with violent crime, according to a study published this week in PLOS Medicine. The cohort study, by Seena Fazel from the University of Oxford, and colleagues, showed… Read More ›

• Analysis of 21 studies shows exposure to pesticides is associated with 61% increased risk of developing diabetes

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 15, 2015

  Public Release: 15-Sep-2015 Analysis of 21 studies shows exposure to pesticides is associated with increased risk of developing diabetes Diabetologia A meta-analysis of 21 studies presented at this year’s annual meeting the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD)… Read More ›

• Virus in cattle linked to human breast cancer

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 15, 2015

  Public Release: 15-Sep-2015 University of California – Berkeley BERKELEY — A new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers establishes for the first time a link between infection with the bovine leukemia virus and human breast cancer. In the study,… Read More ›

• Globalization is not saving developing countries from inequality, it is making it worse

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 14, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 14-Sep-2015 National Research University Higher School of Economics The processes of globalization should have contributed to reduced inequality in the world. In reality, however, the situation looks differently, with income inequality in the populations of developing economies growing…. Read More ›

• You’re not irrational, you’re just quantum probabilistic

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 14, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 14-Sep-2015 Researchers explain human decision-making with physics theory Ohio State University COLUMBUS, Ohio–The next time someone accuses you of making an irrational decision, just explain that you’re obeying the laws of quantum physics. A new trend taking shape… Read More ›

• 1/3 of Americans Support Military Overthrow of their Government

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 13, 2015

  Could a coup really happen in the United States? 43% of Republicans could imagine supporting a military coup in the United States A law professor at West Point was forced to hastily resign after it emerged that he had authored… Read More ›

• Germany to reinstate border controls

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 13, 2015

    English.news.cn   2015-09-13 23:59:07 BERLIN, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) — Germany will reinstate controls at its southern border with Germany and Austria, German media reported on Sunday. As the German newspaper Bild reported, the Bavarian state government has asked for mobilisation… Read More ›

• Migrant Smuggling, Taxation Could Earn ISIL $1 Billion by Year’s End

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 12, 2015 • ( 1 )

    MIDDLE EAST 21:55 12.09.2015(updated 04:52 13.09.2015) Commenting on the issue of ISIL profiting from the human trafficking schemes contributing to Europe’s refugee crisis, Norwegian Center for Global Analyses Christian Nellemann told Radio Sputnik that along with other forms of… Read More ›

• Saudis Refusing Syrian Refugees, Offer to Build Mosques in Germany Instead

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 10, 2015 • ( 1 )

    02:02 11.09.2015(updated 06:08 11.09.2015) As Europe struggles to deal with an influx of refugees, the magnitude of which has not been seen since World War II, many are questioning the inaction of Gulf leaders in the crisis and their… Read More ›

• Scientists waking up 30,000-year-old ‘giant’ virus

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 10, 2015

    Thursday, 10 September 2015 Bringing a 30,000-year-old virus back to life sounds like the plot of a real-life horror movie. So if you were scared by the incurable virus in the movie “28 Days Later,” you might want to… Read More ›

• New species emerges from the dark zone that may alter the known history of humankind

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 10, 2015

  Public Release: 10-Sep-2015   New species emerges from the dark zone James Cook University James Cook University scientists have played a role in a discovery that may alter the known history of humankind. JCU’s Professor Paul Dirks and Dr Eric… Read More ›

• Why the people defend the Status Quo ? It may be because of delusion and, or fear.

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 9-Sep-2015 Study: Easy explanations for life’s inequities lead to support for the status quo University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — What if you heard that on planet Teeku, the Blarks were a lot richer than the… Read More ›

• Gang War Fears: The Yakuza Syndicate 1st Split in 30 years confirmed

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 8, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Tuesday, 08 September 2015 A split within the largest Yakuza syndicate in Japan has been confirmed by the offshoot. Thousands of excommunicated members of the Yamaguchi-gumi formed a new crime syndicate over the weekend. Police expect a wave of violence…. Read More ›

• Turkey ground forces invade Iraq in ‘hot pursuit’ of PKK

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 8, 2015

    Tue Sep 8, 2015 11:32AM Two units of Turkish special forces have crossed into northern Iraq in “hot pursuit” of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants after a deadly attack on the army. “Turkish security forces crossed the… Read More ›

• Changing behavior through synaptic engineering

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 8, 2015

  Public Release: 8-Sep-2015 University of Massachusetts Medical School WORCESTER, MA — Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Medical School are the first to show that it’s possible to reverse the behavior of an animal by flipping a switch in neuronal… Read More ›

• Arthritis may be a major driver of poverty

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 8, 2015

  Public Release: 8-Sep-2015 Wiley Developing arthritis increases the risk of falling into poverty, especially for women, new research shows. In a study of more than 4,000 Australian adults, females who developed arthritis were 51% more likely to fall into income… Read More ›

• Political Irony of Do as I say, Not as I do

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 7, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  This is from the Bernie Sanders website , in regards to raising the minimum wage: ( As of 7 SEP 2015 ) http://www.sanders.senate.gov/services/internships#paid

• IS militants capture key oil field in central Syria

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 7, 2015

    English.news.cn   2015-09-07 20:30:39 DAMASCUS, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) — Islamic State (IS) militants have captured a key oil field in central Syria from government troops, a monitor group reported Monday. The fall of the al-Jazal oil field, in the province… Read More ›

• Firing man convicted of Child Porn ruled discrimination

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 6, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Dollar Store Defends Post-Child Porn Firing By MOLLY WILLMS       MILWAUKEE (CN) – Dollar General fired a man convicted of possessing graphic child pornography, only to have Wisconsin officials upbraid it for discrimination, the store claims in court.     The Vonnegutian… Read More ›

• Charter Schools Ruled Unconstitutional in WA

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 6, 2015

    By JUNE WILLIAMS       OLYMPIA, Wash. (CN) – Washington state’s highest court ruled late Friday that publicly funding private charter schools is unconstitutional, overturning a citizens’ initiative authorizing it.     In a 6-3 decision, the court found public funding for… Read More ›

• Common antidepressant may change brain

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 5, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 4-Sep-2015 Structural differences found in depressed, non-depressed people Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Sept. 4, 2015 – A commonly prescribed antidepressant may alter brain structures in depressed and non-depressed individuals in very different ways, according… Read More ›

• Magnetic wormhole connecting 2 regions of space created for the first time

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 3, 2015

  Public Release: 3-Sep-2015 The device could have applications in medicine, opening up ways to make MRIs more comfortable for patients Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Share Print E-Mail Caption (Left) 3-D diagram of the magnetic wormhole shows how the magnetic field… Read More ›

• Growing up on a farm provides protection against asthma and allergies

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 3, 2015

  “It is commonly known that drinking raw cow’s milk can provide protection against allergies” Public Release: 3-Sep-2015 Significant insights for development of vaccine against asthma VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology) Researchers at VIB (a leading life sciences institute in… Read More ›

• Risk of financial crisis higher than previously estimated

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 3, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 2-Sep-2015 International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis The study, published in the journal Financial Stability, introduces a new method that allows researchers to estimate the systemic risk that emerge from multiple layers of connectivity. “Systemic risk is the… Read More ›

• Evidence that Earth’s first mass extinction was caused by critters not catastrophe

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 3, 2015

  Public Release: 2-Sep-2015 A powerful analogy for what is happening today Vanderbilt University NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In the popular mind, mass extinctions are associated with catastrophic events, like giant meteorite impacts and volcanic super-eruptions. But the world’s first known mass… Read More ›

• Statin-induced myopathies are the most common side effects of widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs, affecting millions of patients

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 3, 2015

  Public Release: 1-Sep-2015 Statin side effects linked to off-target reaction in muscle mitochondria Cell Press   Statin-induced myopathies are the most common side effects of these widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs, affecting millions of patients. Schirris et al. identified the Qo… Read More ›

• Antipsychotics inappropriately prescribed to most people with intellectual disabilities

  By Ralph Turchiano on September 3, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 1-Sep-2015 Large numbers of people with intellectual disabilities are being inappropriately prescribed antipsychotic drugs, finds a new UCL study University College London Large numbers of people with intellectual disabilities in the UK are being inappropriately prescribed antipsychotic drugs,… Read More ›

• Slave Labor Makes Purina Cat Food, Class Says

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 31, 2015

    By MATT REYNOLDS       LOS ANGELES (CN) – Nestle Purina profits from slave labor to make its Fancy Feast cat food with fish, consumers claim in a federal class action.     The lawsuit cites a July 27 New York Times… Read More ›

• Multiple System Atrophy ( Prion ) may be contagious, resembles Parkinson’s Disease– A danger to Clinicians

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 31, 2015

  Public Release: 31-Aug-2015   New type of prion may cause, transmit neurodegeneration Multiple System Atrophy is described as first new human prion disease identified in 50 years University of California – San Francisco Multiple System Atrophy (MSA), a neurodegenerative disorder… Read More ›

• Plastic in 99 percent of seabirds by 2050

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 31, 2015

  Public Release: 31-Aug-2015 CSIRO Australia IMAGE: This is a red-footed booby on Christmas Island. Credit: CSIRO Researchers from CSIRO and Imperial College London have assessed how widespread the threat of plastic is for the world’s seabirds, including albatrosses, shearwaters and… Read More ›

• With no treatment for low risk prostate cancer, men are 24 times more likely to die of other causes, 20% of those treated suffer from complications

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 31, 2015

  Public Release: 31-Aug-2015   Study: Some with low-risk prostate cancer not likely to succumb to the disease Data on long-term outcomes of 1,298 men point to value of surveillance versus surgery or radiation for some, say Johns Hopkins researchers Johns… Read More ›

• Polio Vaccine caused virus mutation, created long term human spreaders

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

  “ All iVDPV strains had mutations that reversed the attenuating features of the vaccine strain, and over time they also acquired a range of other mutations, many affecting the antigenic structure of the virus. All tested iVDPV samples were able… Read More ›

• Antibiotic use linked to type 2 diabetes diagnosis

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

  Public Release: 27-Aug-2015 Antibiotics may contribute to or serve as early signal of developing condition The Endocrine Society Washington, DC–People who developed Type 2 diabetes tended to take more antibiotics in the years leading up to the diagnosis than people… Read More ›

• HIV particles do not cause AIDS, our own immune cells do

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 29, 2015

  Public Release: 27-Aug-2015 The virus turns host immune cells into suicide machines, using them to spread the virus and cause the progression from HIV to AIDS Gladstone Institutes Researchers from the Gladstone Institutes have revealed that HIV does not cause… Read More ›

• Soaking up carbon dioxide and turning it into valuable products

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 29, 2015

  Public Release: 27-Aug-2015 Berkeley Lab researchers double down on a good thing by incorporating catalysts into crystalline sponges DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory   Caption Conceptual model shows how porphyrin COFs embedded in a cathode could be used to split carbon… Read More ›

• How to better control Sheeple: Ban Cash says FT

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 28, 2015 • ( 1 )

    Friday, 28 August 2015 The Financial Times has published an anonymous article which calls for the abolition of cash in order to give central banks and governments more power .Entitled The case for retiring another ‘barbarous relic’, the article… Read More ›

• Coca-Cola Hires Scientists to Convince Us That Obesity and Diet Aren’t So Related

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 26, 2015

    “There’s no ‘compelling evidence’ that fast food and sugary drinks are related to the poor state of American health, according to the group’s vice president.” The beverage giant has hired scientists to promote a message of exercise over diet,… Read More ›

• Research demonstrates millions of plastic particles exist in cosmetic products

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 26, 2015

  Public Release: 26-Aug-2015 University of Plymouth IMAGE: This image captured by an electron microscope shows polyethylene microbeads widely used in shower gel. Credit: Thompson/Bakir/Plymouth University Everyday cosmetic and cleaning products contain huge quantities of plastic particles, which are released to… Read More ›

• Low-level arsenic exposure before birth associated with early puberty and obesity

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 26, 2015

  Public Release: 26-Aug-2015 NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Caption Mice exposed to low-level arsenic in utero become obese adults. The control mouse, left, was not exposed to arsenic during embryonic development and is a normal weight. In comparison, mice… Read More ›

• ‘Targeted punishments’ against countries could tackle climate change

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 25, 2015 • ( 2 )

  “ if you want to get a group of people to cooperate on something, you might arrange them on an imaginary line and declare that a person is liable to be punished if and only if the person to their… Read More ›

• NIH Study on Omega-3 not being effective for cognitive decline was designed to fail

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 25, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  ( Editors Note: Ralph Turchiano ) Before the media grabs this study as a legitimate study on cognitive decline, they need to look at the dosage used. 1 gram of Omega-3 fat a day ? If the study intervention is… Read More ›

• Ants self-medicate

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 24, 2015

  Public Release: 24-Aug-2015 University of Helsinki We humans have been using self-medication to cure the illnesses since the dawn of our species. There is some evidence that also other animals can exhibit this type of behavior, but the evidence has… Read More ›

• Flu vaccine prevents .002 hospitalizations per 1000 elderly vaccinated on average

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 24, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 24-Aug-2015 Study backs flu vaccinations for elderly Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — A new study of the records of millions of nursing home residents affirms the value of influenza vaccination among the elderly. The Brown University… Read More ›

• Sick children infected with HIV and used as guinea pigs as NHS said chimps ‘too expensive’

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 23, 2015

    SICK children were injected with “extraordinarily hazardous” blood products after officials ruled testing on chimpanzees was too expensive. By CAROLINE WHEELER PUBLISHED: 00:01, Sun, Aug 23, 2015 | UPDATED: 15:33, Sun, Aug 23, 2015 Colin and Jan Smith at… Read More ›

• People with psychopathic traits are less likely to ‘catch’ a yawn than empathetic folks

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 20, 2015

  Public Release: 20-Aug-2015 Baylor University People with psychopathic characteristics are less likely to be affected by “contagious yawning” than those who are empathetic, according to a Baylor University psychology study. Yawning after spotting someone else yawn is associated with empathy… Read More ›

• Research reveals link between age and opinions about video games

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

  Public Release: 19-Aug-2015 Study published in Computers and Human analyzes the opinions of 109 clinicians asking them whether video games are a problem for society Elsevier The older the clinician, the more likely they are to think playing video games… Read More ›

• Counterfeiting improves fashion quality, new INFORMS Marketing Science study finds

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 20, 2015

  Public Release: 19-Aug-2015 Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Credit: University of British Columbia CATONSVILLE, MD, August 19, 2015 – Counterfeit products have the power to stimulate innovation in the fashion industry and benefit consumers, according to a… Read More ›

• Fire Sale: German Company Takes Over 14 Greek Airports

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 18, 2015

    Tuesday, 18 August 2015 A German company, airport operator FRAPORT won the bid to operate and maintain 14 regional airports, considered to be top of the top in Greece. With an offer of 1.23 billion euro, the consortium of… Read More ›

• Healthy mood spreads through social contact, depression doesn’t

  By Ralph Turchiano on August 18, 2015

  Public Release: 18-Aug-2015 University of Manchester But crucially having depressed friends does not make you more likely to become depressed yourself. In other words the results indicate that healthy mood spreads through social networks but depression does not. This is… Read More ›

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