In lean times, biotech grains are less taboo
By Andrew Pollack
Published: April 21, 2008
Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.
In Japan and South Korea, some manufacturers for the first time have begun buying genetically engineered corn for […]

World Health Organisation Confirms Bird Flu Virus Now Spreading From Human To Human
Is this how the pandemic begins? With a small story that barely grabs headlines finally confirming that the H5N1 virus has ‘learned’ how to spread from one human to another?
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Source: THE BIRD FLU BLOG
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Soviet secret finds its way west
Brian Vastag
Zakir Ramazanov first encountered Rhodiola rosea in 1979 as a Soviet soldier in Afghanistan. A comrade often received boxes full of the yellow-flowered mountain herb from his home in Siberia and would prepare and share a sweet-smelling tea from the root. Ramazanov found that the drink seemed to quicken […]

US researchers have been given the go-ahead to give patients transfusions of “super strength” cancer-killing cells from donors.
Dr Zheng Cui, of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, has shown in laboratory experiments that immune cells from some people can be almost 50 times more effective in fighting cancer than in others.
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Source: Telegraph
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Have you ever rubbed your forehead while trying to remember something? Or experienced tenderness or tightness in the back of your neck when a co-worker exploded on you?
These are examples of cellular memory areas, the map of our body that directs specific cellular healing. Cellular memory, unlike the memory of your brain, stores experiences not […]

A special report on the american diet. 66% of Americans are overweight. Watch Peter Jenning’s report!
Obesity is a condition in which the natural energy reserve, stored in the fatty tissue of humans and other mammals, is increased to a point where it is associated with certain health conditions or increased mortality.
Although obesity is […]

Today I’m bringing you something extra special: Health news from an alternate universe! In this alternate universe, logic is reversed, good is bad, and trees grow with their branches stuck in the dirt and their roots stretched high into the air. In this alternate universe — which we’ll call “Allopathia” — there’s lots of health […]

Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital has made a strong effort to incorporate wireless technologies like Wi-Fi into its operations
By Matt Hines
InfoWorld
For years, wireless technologies have only shown up in many U.S. hospitals in the form of rolling computers with Wi-Fi network access, but as evidenced at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital, times are changing.
Like many other medical […]

Daily Mail
By TOM UTLEY
My late father always attributed his dazzling double-first degree in History to the fact that he was the only undergraduate in his year at Cambridge who was allowed to smoke during his exams.
This was because he was blind, and he sat his papers in a separate room from all the other candidates […]

The Medicare Prescription Drug plan is putting a huge strain on the U.S. governments finances. The U.S. Government’s top accountant says that sustaining this program is virtually impossible and is fiscally irresponsible. Maintaining such a program could actually bankrupt the U.S. government if drastic measures are not taken. Canadian Pharmacy, Universal Drugstore, explains that buying […]

by Jillian
The issues surrounding food production in Australia are so overwhelmingly large and urgent that it’s hard to pause for a moment and think carefully, weighing the risks and rewards of actions that overlap between complex fields of study and competing interests. There are lists now of which Australian cities are likely to run out […]

The New York Times
By ALEX BERENSON
The patients’ stories sound nearly impossible.
After an hourlong infusion, Linda Stephens, 58, has been cancer-free for seven years. Dan Wheeler, three years. Betsy de Parry, five years. Before treatment, all three had late-stage non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system, and a grim prognosis.
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