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Category: lost congo memoir
Acupuncture is the ancient East Asian practice of poking people with needles in specific places and in specific ways in order to produce any one of a very wide range of results that could generally be classified as medicinal or health related. I don't know...
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Category: Denialism and Woo
The British Medical Journal has published an editorial calling for a Parliamentary investigation realted to Andrew Wakefield's dishonesty:...
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Category: vaccine
A study incorporating over 12,000 prior peer reviewed publications, addressing the question of vaccine safety, is due for release by the National Academies of Science. The study attempts to understand adverse effects of vaccines and to assign causality to supposed negative outcomes. The 667 page...
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Category: vaccine
A vaccine that induces T-cells to attack influenza-infected cells, that will work on all or most flu strains, has undergone preliminary testing and looks pretty good.
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Category: Gun Ownership
And most of them are boys with their toys...
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Category: Health
Well, maybe, but probably not. Even though milk allergies in infants and very young toddlers are the most common food allergy, they still occur in only about 2.5 percent of the population in the US and other Western groups. For this reason, I was rather...
Posted by Greg Laden at 8:55 AM • 23 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Genetics
Bedbugs (Insects of the Cimicidae family, commonly Cimex lectularius) are annoying, might carry diseases (though this is unclear, so probably nothing importat1, and are apparently becoming more common in the US. Interestingly, there has been very little study done of their genetics. A new study...
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Category: vaccine
It is very reasonable for a parent to worry about vaccines. For one thing, most of them involve sticking the baby or child with a sharp object, thus making the little one cry, and it would be abnormal to not have an automatic reaction to...
Posted by Greg Laden at 12:49 PM • 51 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Health
According to the FluView report for the week ending January 1, influenza activity has picked up over the last few weeks in the United States. This increase in activity is typical of the start of flu season. The number of states reporting regional or widespread...
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Category: Homeopathy
Homeopathy, often denigrated as "woo woo," can be made to work, if only one or two parameters in the usual approach are adjusted.
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