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Items by Josh of Arc

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• Andrew Wakefield found 'irresponsible' by GMC over MMR vaccine scare

  Posted: February 2nd, 2010, 4:13pm CST by Josh of Arc

  Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who claimed to have discovered a link between measles virus, bowel diseases and autism and thereby sparked widespread fear of the combined MMR jab, conducted unnecessary, invasive tests on children, the General Medical Council found today.

• US study says smacking kids helps them

  Posted: January 5th, 2010, 5:26pm CST by Josh of Arc

  Smacking leads to happier kids, according to a new US study. Ironically, it took this long to find enough people who hadn't been smacked to do the study.

• Mumps outbreak in Brooklyn

  Posted: December 21st, 2009, 12:25pm CST by Josh of Arc

  Brooklyn, New York is suffering a large outbreak of mumps right now. There have been 600 cases either confirmed or suspected in the past few months.

• Thinking negatively can boost your memory, study finds

  Posted: November 2nd, 2009, 12:20pm CST by Josh of Arc

  Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad makes people less gullible, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.

• Pass The Butter, Please (must read) | Curious? Read

  Posted: August 11th, 2009, 3:13pm CDT by Josh of Arc

  Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.

• Vegetarian diet 'weakens bones' - Yahoo! News

  Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 12:05pm CDT by Josh of Arc

  People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Thursday.

• Senate passes the most sweeping tobacco-control bill

  Posted: June 12th, 2009, 11:51am CDT by Josh of Arc

  Cigarettes marketed as "light," "low" tar or "mild" will be banned within a year as part of a historic bill the Senate passed 79-17 on Thursday.

• Bitterness as mental illness?

  Posted: June 1st, 2009, 11:19pm CDT by Josh of Arc

  You know them. I know them. And, increasingly, psychiatrists know them. People who feel they have been wronged by someone and are so bitter they can barely function other than to ruminate about their circumstances.

• Mobile Clinic Treats 'Mountain Dew Mouth'

  Posted: March 5th, 2009, 10:41am CST by Josh of Arc

  After ABC News Report, PepsiCo Offers Support to Dentist Working in Appalachia PepsiCo, the makers of Mountain Dew soda, says it has reached out to a dentist working to save children's teeth in eastern Kentucky, after ABC News reports on the problem of tooth decay, or "Mountain D …

• Too much TV linked to higher asthma risk

  Posted: March 5th, 2009, 10:33am CST by Josh of Arc

  Children who watch television for more than two hours a day have twice the risk of developing asthma, British researchers reported Tuesday...

• Ouch! Can You Really Break Your Penis?: Scientific American

  Posted: February 26th, 2009, 11:45am CST by Josh of Arc

  Ever since heartthrob television doctor Mark Sloan had a sexual mishap on... Grey's Anatomy, bloggers around the globe have been buzzing about a bizarre and horrifying condition called "broken penis syndrome".

• Hopkins transplant surgeons remove healthy kidney through donor's vagina

  Posted: February 3rd, 2009, 9:07am CST by Josh of Arc

  Minimally invasive organ removal could increase donations, surgeons sayIn what is believed to be a first-ever procedure, surgeons at Johns Hopkins have successfully removed a healthy donor kidney through a small incision in the back of the donor's vagina.

• Masturbation Linked to Cancer

  Posted: January 27th, 2009, 4:39pm CST by Josh of Arc

  Men who masturbate frequently in their 20s and 30s have a higher risk of developing prostate cancer.

• Obesity Caught Like Common Cold | LiveScience

  Posted: January 27th, 2009, 10:01am CST by Josh of Arc

  Yet another claim that a common and contagious virus is linked to some cases of obesity is in the news today.

• Study: Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks - USATODAY.com

  Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 3:09pm CST by Josh of Arc

  A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations within three years, a sign of just how serious a health threat secondhand smoke is, government researchers said Wednesday.

• EEGs show brain differences between poor and rich kids

  Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 10:06am CST by Josh of Arc

  University of California, Berkeley, researchers have shown for the first time that the brains of low-income children function differently from the brains of high-income kids.

• Beer marinade cuts steak cancer risk

  Posted: December 31st, 2008, 12:26pm CST by Josh of Arc

  IF YOU are frying a steak and mindful of your health, then marinate it in either beer or red wine. So say food scientists who measured amounts of a family of carcinogens found in fried steaks after steeping them in booze.

• The Truman Show Delusion: Real or Imagined?

  Posted: December 21st, 2008, 6:50pm CST by Josh of Arc

  A few delusional people are convinced they are stars of an imaginary reality show, but doctors disagree on whether it's only an act.Two doctor/brothers, Joel and Ian Gold, have identified symptoms of a mental illness unique to our times: the Truman Show delusion, named for the 19 …

• Teens' Latest Self-Injury Fad: Self-Embedding - TIME

  Posted: December 13th, 2008, 8:41pm CST by Josh of Arc

  At a recent medical conference in Chicago, a team of radiologists from Nationwide Children's Hospital presented intriguing X-ray evidence of a psychological phenomenon — what they believed was a new form of self-injury among teens and adolescents.

• Expert Blames American Values for Healthcare Crisis

  Posted: December 6th, 2008, 5:27pm CST by Josh of Arc

  To heal our ailing healthcare system, we need to stop thinking like Americans. That's the consensus of two articles published this week in the American Academy of Neurology journal Neurology by Dr. Marc Nuwer, a leading expert on national healthcare reform.

• How To Steer Clear Of Medical Traps Online, CBS Evening News: As More Patients Turn To The Internet For A Second Opinion, How Do You Know What's Bogus? - CBS News

  Posted: December 4th, 2008, 11:52am CST by Josh of Arc

  ...here are some basic rules for searching medical information.

• Ecstasy successfully used to treat PTSD

  Posted: November 14th, 2008, 10:43am CST by Josh of Arc

  Dr. Michael Mithoefer is at the forefront of a controversial field of study. He is leading a pilot study into using MDMA -- the pure form of the illegal drug ecstasy -- to treat depression and post traumatic stress disorder...

• Paranoia on the rise, experts say

  Posted: November 12th, 2008, 12:30pm CST by Josh of Arc

  If you think they're out to get you, you're not alone. Paranoia, once assumed to afflict only schizophrenics, may be a lot more common than previously thought.

• Caffeine and cancer

  Posted: November 12th, 2008, 11:21am CST by Josh of Arc

  More than a million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed every year, making it the most common form of cancer in the United States.

• AIDS Emerged 100 Years Ago, Study Says

  Posted: October 3rd, 2008, 1:13pm CDT by Josh of Arc

  One can hardly fathom the horror of life in the Congo Free State during the turn of the last century when native Africans suffered genocide at the hand of Belgium's King Leopold II.

• Your Erection: Use it or lose it

  Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:44pm CDT by Josh of Arc

  Having sex once a week halved men's chances of developing erectile dysfunction, compared with a less-than-once-a-week schedule.

• Houston doctors say they may have found a way to destroy HIV

  Posted: July 31st, 2008, 2:37pm CDT by Josh of Arc

  There is real hope that what's happening in a Houston lab might lead to a cure for HIV.

• Will Loneliness Spell Society's Doom?

  Posted: July 31st, 2008, 10:48am CDT by Josh of Arc

  A new book explores the negative effects of being alone: heart disease, cancer, gastrointestinal ailments, etc.

• Women end up less happy than men

  Posted: July 31st, 2008, 9:38am CDT by Josh of Arc

  Less able to achieve their life goals, women end up unhappier than men later in life – even though they start out happier, reveals new research by Anke Plagnol of the University of Cambridge, and University of Southern California economist Richard Easterlin...

• Daily pill that halts Alzheimer's is hailed as 'biggest breakthrough against disease for 100 years'

  Posted: July 30th, 2008, 4:10pm CDT by Josh of Arc

  A new drug halts the devastating progress of Alzheimer's disease, say British scientists. It is said to be more than twice as effective as current treatments.

• Fast Food: Smart Picks on the Go

  Posted: July 20th, 2008, 1:02pm CDT by Josh of Arc

  I've been reading everywhere how awful certain menu items are at fast food restaurants and major restaurant chains. Admittedly, I don't go to McDonalds for healthy food—no matter what their ads say—or to Outback Steakhouse because I believe they are low calorie...