FDA proposes bypassing doctors, selling prescription drugs over the counter

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 1:52 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

The Washington Post reveals that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is considering the availability and sale of commonly prescribed drugs for chronic aliments like High cholesterol (statins), blood pressure, diabetes, and asthma, among others, as over-the-counter (OTC) to …

doctors, politics, healthcare, science, medicine, pharma-industry

'Aphrodisiac' pills made from dead, aborted babies! | LifeSiteNews.com

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 12:37 PM EDT (lifesitenews.com)

Powdered Human Fetal Remains as Health Food!........... Is this the future of Human Race? Have we reached the End of our line? or it this a desperate attempt to revive something that is fast becoming extinct, i.e., Hope!

trade, health, politics, science, ethics, odd-news, medicine, aphrodesiac, aborted-fetuses

Agency OK's Pepsi's Use of Flavor Enhancers derived from Aborted Human Fetuses

Seeded on Tue May 8, 2012 8:09 AM EDT (lifesitenews.com)

Humanity may be a few years away from reaping the rewards of Embryonic Stem Cell Research, however, Pepsi Co has been using Human Embryonic Kidney Cells (reportedly, HEK-293) from aborted fetuses to produce flavor enhancing chemicals for its drinks. How do you feel about gulpi …

religion, bioethics, flavor-enhancer, aborted-human-fetal-cells, pepsi-drinks

How electrical brain stimulation can change the way we think

Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2012 4:14 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Sally Adee explores the benefits of a new technology to banish the blues........... HAVE YOU EVER wanted to take a vacation from your own head? You could do it easily enough with liberal applications of alcohol or hallucinogens, but that's not the kind of vacation I'm talking …

science, brain, depression, amphetamines, cognition, electrical-stimulation

The Molecule That Makes Men Go Bald

Seeded on Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:51 PM EDT (discovermagazine.com)

Although male pattern baldness affects some 80% of Caucasian men by age 70, it’s remained a puzzle to scientists. Researchers have identified a molecule called Prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) that inhibits hair growth in men, which could provide a target for future drugs desig …

health, science, drug-discovery, baldness, hair-transplant, prostaglandins

Find Enlightenment in Your Brain

Seeded on Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:29 AM EDT (Science News, Articles and Information | Scientific American)

We have all experienced this: a seemingly insignificant trigger, a scent, a song, or an old photograph transports us to another time and place. Researcher have shown that it is possible to activate a memory on demand, by stimulating only a few neurons with light, usi …

science, brain, depression, light, neuroscience, chromotherapy, optogenetics

Knowing the mind of God: Seven theories of everything

Seeded on Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:12 AM EDT (New Scientist)

The "theory of everything" is one of the most cherished dreams of science. If it is ever discovered, it will describe the workings of the universe at the most fundamental level and thus encompass our entire understanding of nature. It would also answer such enduring puzzles as …

science, string-theory, theoretical-physics, e8, quantun-ravity, internal-reletivity, quantun-gravity

Why physicists can't avoid a date with a creation event

Seeded on Thu Mar 22, 2012 9:16 AM EDT (New Scientist January 2012)

You could call them the worst birthday presents ever. At the meeting of minds convened last week to honour Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday - loftily titled "State of the Universe" - two bold proposals posed serious threats to our existing understanding of the cosmos. One shows …

science, cosmos, creation, stephen-hawking

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The God issue: We are all born believers

Seeded on Thu Mar 22, 2012 8:56 AM EDT (New Scientist 21 March 2012)

Drawing upon research in developmental psychology, cognitive anthropology and particularly the cognitive science of religion, I argue that religion comes nearly as naturally to us as language. The vast majority of humans are "born believers", naturally inclined to find religi …

science, psychology, theology

Bear Bile, Animal Cruelty and the Traditional Chinese Medicine

Seeded on Sun Feb 26, 2012 7:05 AM EST (All about China)

It is time to stop the unnecessary animal cruelty.......

health, animal-rights, traditional-medcine, drugs-safety

The mathematical equation that caused the banks to crash

Seeded on Sun Feb 26, 2012 2:22 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

It was the holy grail of investors. The Black-Scholes equation, brainchild of economists Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, provided a rational way to price a financial contract when it still had time to run.

business, banks, science, subprime-mortgage, economic-crash, the-black-scholes-equation

'Faster-than-light' particles may have been even speedier

Seeded on Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:41 AM EST (CBC)

To be or not to be.......that is the dilemma!

science, einstein, relativity, subatomic-particles, faster-than-light-ftl

Hold on to your stomach, it's time for a lab-grown burger

Seeded on Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:46 AM EST (Yahoo! News)

Designer Beef! yummy.................

science, burger, biotechnology, food-crisis, invitro, lab-grown

Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science

Seeded on Sat Feb 4, 2012 7:39 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)

Pressure on scientists to publish has led to a situation where any paper, however bad, can now be printed in a journal that claims to be peer-reviewed

science, misconduct, honesty, peer-review, science-publishing, society-health-education-higher

Einstein wrong again! New experiment confirms doubts over his speed of light theory

Seeded on Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:50 AM EST (the Mail online)

Science is Man's efforts to understand God's ways!

science, milky-way-galaxy, special-relativity, earth-spins

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