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• Study finds misperceptions about impact of double mastectomy

  By Ralph Turchiano on June 2, 2015

  Public Release: 2-Jun-2015 Majority of breast cancer patients did not know the aggressive procedure does not improve survival University of Michigan Health System ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A survey of women with breast cancer found that nearly half considered having… Read More ›

• Prescription drugs associated with an increased risk of committing a Homicide

  By Ralph Turchiano on June 1, 2015

  Anti-depressants were associated with a slightly elevated risk (+31%), Benzodiazepines (drugs used to treat anxiety and insomnia) with a significantly elevated risk (+45%). Opiate painkillers (+92%) Anti-inflammatory painkillers (+206%). In persons under 26 years of age, the highest increase in… Read More ›

• Organic agriculture more profitable to farmers

  By Ralph Turchiano on June 1, 2015

  Public Release: 1-Jun-2015 Large profit margins show room for growth Washington State University PULLMAN, Wash.–A comprehensive study finds organic agriculture is more profitable for farmers than conventional agriculture. In spite of lower yields, the global study shows that the profit… Read More ›

• Western diet may increase risk of death after prostate cancer diagnosis by 67%

  By Ralph Turchiano on June 1, 2015

  Public Release: 1-Jun-2015 Harvard School of Public Health Boston, MA — After a prostate cancer diagnosis, eating a diet higher in red and processed meat, high-fat dairy foods, and refined grains–known as a Western diet–may lead to a significantly higher… Read More ›

• Study links exposure to common pesticide with ADHD in boys

  By Ralph Turchiano on June 1, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 1-Jun-2015 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center A new study links a commonly used household pesticide with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children and young teens. The study found an association between pyrethroid pesticide exposure and ADHD, particularly… Read More ›

• High Fructose decreases physical activity and increases body fat signifigantly over glucose

  By Ralph Turchiano on June 1, 2015

  Public Release: 1-Jun-2015 “Fructose decreases physical activity and increases body fat without affecting hippocampal neurogenesis and learning relative to an isocaloric glucose diet,” Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology In the last 40 years, fructose, a simple carbohydrate derived… Read More ›

• Which Cancer drugs cure and which don’t

  By Ralph Turchiano on June 1, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 30-May-2015 ESMO announces scale to stratify magnitude of clinical benefit of anticancer medicines This is the PDF to the full study. Drug Charts are towards the bottom of the study: Cancer Drug Field Study 2015   European Society for… Read More ›

• Study shows hypothermia occurs during surgery in around half of patients

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

  Public Release: 29-May-2015 ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiology) A study presented at this year’s Euroanaesthesia congress in Berlin (30 May-2 June) shows that hypothermia occurs in around half of patients undergoing surgery, despite national guidelines for its prevention. The study… Read More ›

• The White House draws the line against CRISPR/Cas9-designed embryos

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

    “The full implications of such a step could not be known until a number of generations had inherited the genetic changes made–and choices made in one country could affect all of us.” May 27, 2015 | By John Carroll… Read More ›

• US military accidentally shipped live Anthrax to nine labs

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

    27 MAY 2015 US officials accidentally sent Anthrax to labs in nine states The US military accidentally sent live Anthrax samples to as many as nine labs across the country. There were no public threats from the mishap, a… Read More ›

• False breast cancer alarm has negative impact on health long term

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 27, 2015

  Public Release: 27-May-2015 “they are so affected by the first message that they still show signs of stress and depression several years after the false alarm” University of Copenhagen – The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences The psychological strain… Read More ›

• Why Americans can’t buy some of the best sunscreens

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 27, 2015

  Public Release: 27-May-2015 American Chemical Society With summer nearly here, U.S. consumers might think they have an abundance of sunscreen products to choose from. But across the Atlantic, Europeans will be slathering on formulations that manufacturers say provide better protection… Read More ›

• Dartmouth researchers create first smartphone app that predicts GPA

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 26, 2015

    Dartmouth College HANOVER, N.H. – If you’re a college student wondering how your study and party habits will affect your GPA, wonder no longer. Dartmouth researchers and their colleagues have built the first app that automatically predicts college students’… Read More ›

• Drug treatments to prevent hip fracture are neither viable, cost effective, yet dangerous

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 26, 2015

  Public Release: 26-May-2015 “Pharmacotherapy can achieve at best a marginal reduction in hip fractures at the cost of unnecessary psychological harms, serious medical adverse events Current strategy is inefficient and associated with considerable harms, say experts Professor Teppo Järvinen and… Read More ›

• No army in Mid East is challenging ISIS. Iran regroups to defend S. Iraqi Shiites, Assad to save Damascus

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

    DEBKAfile Exclusive Analysis May 25, 2015, 5:20 PM (IDT) Hassan Nasrallah Saturday, May 23, called his Lebanese Shiite Hizballah movement to the flag, because “we are faced with an existential crisis” from the rising belligerence of the Islamist State… Read More ›

• Vaccines that Contain Latex ;CDC PINKBOOK Feb 2015 ;Packaging Exposure

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

  

  ” should not be administered unless the benefit of vaccination outweighs the risk for a potential allergic reaction”   Below this line is for search engine access. Latex in Vaccine Packaging “If a person reports a severe (anaphylactic) allergy to latex,… Read More ›

• Chinese troops ask U.S.military jet to leave Nansha Islands: FM

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 22, 2015

    English.news.cn | 2015-05-22 22:31:07 | Editor: huaxia BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua) — Chinese troops asked a U.S. military jet approaching the Nansha Islands to change course by radio, a foreign ministry spokesperson confirmed on Friday. “Chinese troops acted upon… Read More ›

• China Jams US Spy Drones Over Disputed South China Sea Islands

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

      23:00 22.05.2015(updated 04:47 23.05.2015) China tried to electronically jam US drone flights over the disputed South China Sea in order to prevent surveillance on man-made islands Beijing is constructing as a part of an aggressive land reclamation initiative,… Read More ›

• Infections can affect your IQ by over 9 points

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 22, 2015

  Public Release: 21-May-2015 New research shows that infections can impair your cognitive ability measured on an IQ scale; the study is the largest of its kind to date, and it shows a clear correlation between infection levels and impaired cognition… Read More ›

• Endocrine-disrupting chemicals in baby teethers

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 22, 2015

  Public Release: 21-May-2015 Two out of 10 plastic rings release chemicals with hormone-like effect Goethe University Frankfurt FRANKFURT. In laboratory tests, two out of ten teethers, plastic toys used to sooth babies’ teething ache, release endocrine disrupting chemicals. One product… Read More ›

• Field study shows how a GM crop can have diminishing success at fighting off insect pest

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 22, 2015

  Public Release: 21-May-2015   North Carolina State University A new study from North Carolina State University and Clemson University finds the toxin in a widely used genetically modified (GM) crop is having little impact on the crop pest corn earworm… Read More ›

• Obese teens’ brains unusually susceptible to food commercials, Dartmouth study finds

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 22, 2015

  Public Release: 21-May-2015 – TV food commercials activated overweight adolescents’ brain region that controls their mouths Dartmouth College IMAGE: The most surprising finding of a new Dartmouth College study was that TV food commercials activated overweight adolescents’ brain region that… Read More ›

• With one false tweet, computer-based Hack Crash led to real panic

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

  Public Release: 20-May-2015 More attention must be paid to social media’s connection with financial decision making, says UB researcher University at Buffalo BUFFALO, N.Y. – A false tweet from a hacked account owned by the Associated Press (AP) in 2013… Read More ›

• Why Saudi Arabia is poised to behead a dissident cleric and publicly display his corpse

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

  Updated by Zack Beauchamp on May 14, 2015, 11:30 a.m. ET @zackbeauchamp zack@vox.com Yemeni Shias protest the Saudi death sentence for Nimr Baqir al-Nimr, a Shia cleric and protest movement leader.(Mohammed Hamoud/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) DON’T MISS STORIES. FOLLOW VOX! Saudi… Read More ›

• Four Cancer Charities Face Fraud Charges of scamming $187 million

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 19, 2015

  By DAN MCCUE      (CN) – The Federal Trade Commission and all 50 states on Tuesday accused four cancer charities of scamming donors out of $187 million that the operators then spent on gym memberships, dating website subscriptions, jet ski… Read More ›

• ISIS preparing total cyber war on critical US systems

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 18, 2015

    DEBKAfile May 18, 2015, 9:39 PM (IDT) Hooded hackers released a video Monday stating that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was preparing to wage all-out “electronic” war on the US and Europe, but the war has not… Read More ›

• Wyoming Criminalizes Citizen Science even if it can save lives

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 18, 2015 • ( 1 )

  The simple act of collecting such data without permission is illegal, and inadmissible in court, even if it reveals environmental hazards. By EMMA GANNON       DENVER (CN) – Wyoming’s criminalization of “citizen science” truckles to polluting agribusiness, scientists and environmentalists… Read More ›

• Beyond the poppy: A new method of opium production

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 18, 2015

  Public Release: 18-May-2015 Discovery by researchers from Concordia and Berkeley could lead to the synthetic manufacturing of painkillers and other drugs Concordia University Moonshiners and home-brewers have long used yeast to convert sugar into alcohol. New research shows that those… Read More ›

• Noted urologist calls attention to implications of flawed prostate specific antigen data in SEER

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 18, 2015 • ( 1 )

  Public Release: 18-May-2015 Editorial in The Journal of Urology® warns of impact on previous research results Elsevier Health Sciences New York, NY, May 18, 2015 — The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently announced that it had removed all prostate specific… Read More ›

• Tetra-GX development

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 18, 2015

  Editors Note; ( Ralph Turchiano) I apologize about posting this here; However, this is the best way to inform some of our older members that Tetra-GX has reached it’s preliminary stage of completion. This is a rare occurrence.. It took us… Read More ›

• Can transgenic rice cause ecological risks through transgene escape?

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 17, 2015

  “ transgene carrying progeny will lead to contamination of the original wild rice populations, and even to the extinction of endangered wild rice populations in local ecosystems “ LU Baorong**, SONG Zhiping and CHEN Jiakuan (Ministry of Education Key Laboratory… Read More ›

• Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez Caught On Camera Making A Racist Gesture!

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 17, 2015

  Published on May 17, 2015 Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif., having just entered the race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Barbara Boxer, put her foot in her mouth on Saturday with a racist gesture. While talking to a… Read More ›

• Croatians and Serbians Mock Soros Owned Media

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 17, 2015 • ( 2 )

  Editors Note: (Ralph Turchiano) Macedonian Press Serbians and Croatians apparently have had it with Soros owned media in both countries. Used the social networks to attack the propaganda placed by Blic, RTB, Tanjug, B92… who became infamous for reporting on… Read More ›

• FBI probe claims hacker controlled flight through plane’s Wi-Fi

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 17, 2015

    Security researcher Chris Roberts has told special agents he has repeatedly managed to access such things as the engine systems from his seat The FBI are investigating claims a prominent computer hacker was able to take control of a… Read More ›

• Egypt court bans soccer fan groups as "terrorists"

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

    English.news.cn   2015-05-16 22:34:06 CAIRO, May 16 (Xinhua) — An Egyptian court banned on Saturday soccer fan groups in the country and designated them as “terrorist groups,” the Egyptian state TV reported. The Court of Urgent Matters accepted the appeal… Read More ›

• Which is most valuable: Gold, cocaine or rhino horn?

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 17, 2015

  Public Release: 14-May-2015 For example, rhinoceros horn is more valuable by weight than gold, diamonds or cocaine According to study co-authored by UCLA ecologist, the answer is devastating news for Earth’s largest animals University of California – Los Angeles Many… Read More ›

• US to Deploy Strategic Bombers to Australia, citing Chinese "threat"

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

    Thursday, 14 May 2015 The United States announced that it will deploy nuclear-capable strategic bombers in Australia as China becomes increasingly concerned about US interference at its borders. The United States will station B-1 strategic bombers in Australia, US… Read More ›

• Anemia can lead to a false diagnosis of diabetes

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

  Public Release: 13-May-2015 Anemia distorts regular method of diabetes diagnosis and questions its reliability Diabetologia The use of glycated haemoglobin (sugar-bound haemoglobin, or HbA1c) is now in almost universal use to assist doctors in the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes…. Read More ›

• Nation’s beekeepers lost 40 percent of bees in 2014-15

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 14, 2015

  Public Release: 13-May-2015 Summer losses eclipse winter losses for the first time on record University of Maryland   IMAGE: This is the “Annual and Winter Honey Bee Loss by Year ” graph. Credit: Bee Informed Partnership/University of Maryland/Loretta Kuo Beekeepers… Read More ›

• Astrology and celebrity: Seasons really do influence personality

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 14, 2015

  Public Release: 13-May-2015 A statistical analysis of birth month and celebrity finds that individuals born under certain astrological signs are more likely to become famous University of Connecticut People’s personalities tend to vary somewhat depending on the season in which… Read More ›

• Infant antibiotic use linked to adult diseases

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 14, 2015

  Public Release: 13-May-2015 New study may lead to recommendations for antibiotic usage and a clinical test for measuring gut microbe development in children University of Minnesota IMAGE: This framework shows different evidence-supported ways that antibiotics may disrupt the gut microbiota… Read More ›

• Debate: Is the long term use of psychiatric drugs harmful?

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

  Public Release: 12-May-2015 -half a million people aged above 65 years die from the use of psychiatric drugs every year in the Western world The controversial topic will be discussed by leading experts at the Maudsley Debate, King’s College London… Read More ›

• Campaign to reduce the harms of too much medicine comes to the UK

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 12, 2015

  Public Release: 12-May-2015 BMJ Patients should be encouraged to ask if tests are really needed Doctors should discuss potential harms of treatment with patients Experts will develop lists of common practices that should be stopped A US initiative to get… Read More ›

• College readiness declines when school’s focus is improving test scores, study finds

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 12, 2015

  Public Release: 12-May-2015 Accountability sanctions have detrimental impact on learning, student morale University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Education reform policies that penalize struggling schools for poor standardized test scores may hinder — not improve — students’ college… Read More ›

• Turkish Cargo Ship Attacked by Libya Monday,

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 11, 2015

  11 May 2015 A Turkish dry cargo ship has been attacked near the Libyan port city of Tobruk, the Foreign Ministry in Ankara says. A ship officer was killed and several crew members injured. The incident took place Sunday night…. Read More ›

• Environmental exposure to hormones used in animal agriculture greater than expected – 50 percent more biological exposure than anticipated.

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 11, 2015

    Indiana University BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Research by an Indiana University environmental scientist and colleagues at universities in Iowa and Washington finds that potentially harmful growth-promoting hormones used in beef production are expected to persist in the environment at higher… Read More ›

• Bacterial forensics — tracing a suspect from the microbes on their shoes

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 11, 2015

  Public Release: 11-May-2015  The microbial ‘signatures’ found on an individual’s personal items, such as their shoes and cell phone, could be used to trace their movements, according to a small pilot study published in the open-access journal Microbiome BioMed Central… Read More ›

• Robot pets to rise in an overpopulated world

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 11, 2015

  blic Release: 11-May-2015 Future of pet ownership examined University of Melbourne University of Melbourne animal welfare researcher Dr Jean-Loup Rault says the prospect of robopets and virtual pets is not as far-fetched as we may think. His paper in the… Read More ›

• External noise produces volcanic seismicity, akin to a drumbeat

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 11, 2015

  Public Release: 11-May-2015 Relatively small external disturbances play a crucial role in chaotic phenomena like the recent Calbuco volcanic eruption in Chile, leading to drum-beat-like seismicity Springer Volcanoes are considered chaotic systems. They are difficult to model because the geophysical… Read More ›

• The Ultimate Ad for Amphetamine

  By Ralph Turchiano on May 11, 2015

  

  Editors Note: ( Ralph Turchiano ) The American Chemical Society has always produced some of the best educational videos. This one even though technically well put together, may have some unintended interpretations.

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