Proceedings of the Nutrition Society - Abstract - Are vegetarians susceptible to primary cardiovascular disease, due to a lack or absence of dietary animal produce? D. Obersby, D. C. Chappell and A. A. Tsiami (2012). The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food. Lori Marino – Dolphins are not healers. Imagine this. Jay, an eight-year-old autistic boy, whose behaviour has always been agitated and uncooperative, is smiling and splashing in the pool.
A pair of bottlenose dolphins float next to him, supporting him in the water. Jay’s parents stand poolside as a staff member in the water engages him in visual games with colourful shapes. She asks him some questions, and Jay, captivated by his surroundings, begins to respond. He names the shapes, correctly, speaking his first words in months. With all this attention Jay is in high spirits; he appears more aware and alert than ever before. A quick, non-invasive EEG scan of his brain activity shows that it is indeed different from before the session. Jay's parents, who had given up hope, are elated to have finally found a treatment that works for their son. The mythic belief in dolphins as healers has been reiterated down the ages from the first written records of encounters with these animals. Equally sad are the lives of the dolphins. The Economist explains: Why are gene patents controversial?
Treating cancer with radioactive bacteria: Three wrongs make a right. Child Hunger Is Exploding In Greece – And 14 Signs That It Is Starting To Happen In America Too. Submitted by Michael Snyder of The Economic Collapse blog, The world is heading into a horrific economic nightmare, and an inordinate amount of the suffering is going to fall on innocent children.
If you want to get an idea of what America is going to look like in the not too distant future, just check out what is happening in Greece. At this point, Greece is experiencing a full-blown economic depression. As I have written about previously, the unemployment rate in Greece has now risen to 27 percent, which is much higher than the peak unemployment rate that the U.S. economy experienced during the Great Depression of the 1930s. And as you will read about below, child hunger is absolutely exploding in Greece right now. Sadly, the truth is that child hunger is already rising very rapidly in our poverty-stricken cities. Unfortunately, more poor families slip through the cracks with each passing day, and these are supposedly times in which we are experiencing an "economic recovery". Science Under Attack (BBC Horizon Documentary)
Treating cancer with radioactive bacteria: Three wrongs make a right. Is miscarriage murder? States that put fetal rights ahead of a mother's say so | Sadhbh Walshe. Several states have pursued murder charges for women who have miscarried. Photograph: Graham Turner for the Guardian Back in 1872, just after she was arrested for casting an illegal vote, Susan B Anthony gave a rousing speech in which she posed the question of whether women are actually persons. Her point, of course, was that if women were indeed flesh and blood persons, then there could be no legal basis under the constitution to deny them a vote.
It took nearly 50 more years – women finally achieved suffrage in 1920 – to get a definitive answer to what was a rhetorical question. Now, however, less than 100 years after that long-delayed answer, the question of whether women – or at least, pregnant women – are still persons endowed with all the human, civil, and constitutional rights that personhood bestows, is once again in play. These arrests and detentions were made possible by the relentless quest to undo Roe v Wade and restrict access to legal abortions. US doctors cure child born with HIV | Society. Link to video: HIV baby cured by US doctors Doctors in the US have made medical history by effectively curing a child born with HIV, the first time such a case has been documented. The infant, who is now two and a half, needs no medication for HIV, has a normal life expectancy and is highly unlikely to be infectious to others, doctors believe.
Though medical staff and scientists are unclear why the treatment was effective, the surprise success has raised hopes that the therapy might ultimately help doctors eradicate the virus among newborns. Doctors did not release the name or sex of the child to protect the patient's identity, but said the infant was born, and lived, in Mississippi state. Details of the case were unveiled on Sunday at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Atlanta. Dr Hannah Gay, who cared for the child at the University of Mississippi medical centre, told the Guardian the case amounted to the first "functional cure" of an HIV-infected child.