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No Evidence To Suggest That Tailored Herbal Medicine Treatments Work
There is no good evidence to suggest that individually tailored herbal medicine treatment works well, suggests a new study. Studies promoting the effectiveness of herbal medicines have been steadily increasing over the past 20 years, say the authors. But most clinical research has involved standard preparations or single herbal extracts rather than the individually tailored treatments favoured by herbal medicine practitioners. Solving The Mechanism Of Rett Syndrome
Sometime between the age of 6 and 18 months, after a period of seemingly normal development, girls affected withRett Syndrome lose interest in play; they gradually become withdrawn and anxious, develop autistic-like behaviors, and acquire specific symptoms like repetitive teeth-grinding and hand-wringing. This devastating neurological disease affects one in 15,000 female children. Lung Cancer Rates Higher Among Female Nonsmokers Than Previously Thoug
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the Northern California Cancer Center have taken the first steps toward analyzing why people who never smoked get lung cancer. You Can't Trust A Tortured Brain: Neuroscience Discredits Coercive Int
According to a new review of neuroscientific research, coercive interrogation techniques used during the Bush administration to extract information from terrorist suspects are likely to have been unsuccessful and may have had many unintended negative effects on the suspect's memory and brain functions. The Mortgage Market: What Happened?
This April 2007 article provides an overview of how, as "nationwide real-estate boom of recent years goes bust, economists and regulators are questioning the role that mortgage lenders played in helping to create an overheated housing environment."Includes discussions of risky loans and types of adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs), growth in subprime lending (loans to borrowers with poor credit), and unethical practices. From National Public Radio (NPR). The Julie/Julia Project
This blog mostly from 2002-2003 (and later made into a book) chronicles the efforts over one year of an American cook to follow all 536 recipes in the first edition of Julia Child's "Mastering the Art of French Cooking."Notes: Includes some piquant language. For navigation through the latter part of the site, click on "Home"and make your way back. A Salon.com blog. New Light Microscope Sharpens Scientists' Focus
Scientists have developed a light microscope so powerful that it allows researchers to discern the precise intracellular location of nearly each individual protein they are studying. The new technique, called photoactivated localization microscopy (PALM), far surpasses the resolution of conventional optical microscopes, discriminating molecules that are only two to 25 nanometers apart. Saturn's Rings May Be As Old As Solar System
New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago when the solar system was still under construction. The rings may last for billions of years, according to new research. New Approach Could Lower Antibiotic Requirements By 50 Times
Antibiotic doses could be reduced by up to 50 times using a new approach based on bacteriophages. Steven Hagens, previously at the University of Vienna, says that certain bacteriophages, a type of virus that infects bacteria, can boost the effectiveness of antibiotics gentamicin, gramacidin or tetracycline. Adapting Space-industry Technology To Treat Breast Cancer
Researchers are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle can be used to predict tissue damage often experienced by breast cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy. The study is examining the utility of three-dimensional thermal tomography in radiation oncology.
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