Potential new circumcision recommendations have ‘intactivists’ all hot and bothered.

By , on 20 February, 2011
Pic of circumcised banana.

It's like this. Except with your dick.

To circumcise or not to circumcise, that is the question pondered for thousands of years by new parents of baby boys. For most of that time the decision was usually pretty simple: Are you Jewish or Muslim? If so then you remove the skin-hoodie. If not, God . . . → Read More: Potential new circumcision recommendations have ‘intactivists’ all hot and bothered.

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Stem cells appear to have cured AIDS in a test subject, but there’s a catch.

By , on 13 February, 2009

Doctor’s in Germany appear to have cured a man suffering from AIDS with transplanted stem cells:

A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a gene mutation that confers natural resistance to the virus that causes . . . → Read More: Stem cells appear to have cured AIDS in a test subject, but there’s a catch.

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Palcebos work better in kids than adults.

By , on 14 August, 2008

So says this rather brief article at Wired.com:

It’s a strange finding nestled inside a weird phenomenon:  children are 50 percent more likely than adults to respond favorably to placebos.

So concludes a Public Library of Science Medicine review by French pediatricians of anti-epilepsy drug studies. If replicated in other drugs, researchers may need to . . . → Read More: Palcebos work better in kids than adults.

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U.S. in last place in preventable deaths.

By , on 8 January, 2008

This article pretty much speaks for itself:

U.S. last in preventable death rate – UPI.com

BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 8 (UPI)—The United States ranks last among 19 industrialized nations when it comes to deaths that could have been prevented.

The report by The Commonwealth Fund, published in the journal Health Affairs, said 101,000 deaths per year . . . → Read More: U.S. in last place in preventable deaths.

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Appeals court upholds ruling blasting Q-Ray Bracelet as “fraud.”

By , on 4 January, 2008

Every now and then the makers of quack medical products and other woo-woo snake oil nonsense get a well deserved smack down. The makers of the Q-Ray Ionized Bracelet, which I’ve written about previously here, got one back in September of 2006 when the FTC sued them for fraud and the court ruled in the . . . → Read More: Appeals court upholds ruling blasting Q-Ray Bracelet as “fraud.”

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A good summary of ADHD.

By , on 31 July, 2007

I’ve not written about ADHD in awhile, but I still regularly get emails from folks who stumbled across some of my past entries on the topic via Google searches. Most of these emails are looking for basic information on what ADHD is and I have a handful of different links I send out in reply. . . . → Read More: A good summary of ADHD.

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