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There is no tasteful way to discuss this subject so let’s just get it out of the way what we are referring to here. Poop, feces, poo, etc. are a few terms. Now, with that out of the way a problem that’s increasingly widespread: the Clostridium difficile bug, typically caught by patients in hospitals and [...]

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There have been attempts in the past to use a magnetic pill to have it go where the doctors want it to go. The reason for wanting to do this is that pills tend to dissolve in the wrong part of the intestine sometimes so they don’t exactly give the best help to the patient. [...]

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Home testing isn’t just for catching your kids on drugs, or finding out you are having a baby anymore. Scientists may have developed a genome testing system that could take a fraction of the time it currently does, and be available for consumer distribution in as little as 10 years. Scientists from Imperial College London [...]

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the yo-yo dieting phenomenon has always been well known. Diets lose a lot of weight, but eventually you gain it right back. Dieting has been linked to forms of binge eating. Shaving calories triggers molecular changes in the brain that make mice more susceptible to stress and binge eating long after the diet ends, researchers [...]

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A recent poll taken in Britain shows that nearly 50% of Briton believe in aliens and almost 80 percent say cancer is the disease which most needs a vaccine. Aliens. 50% of people believe in ALIENS. Britain’s Royal Society found that 66 percent of respondents to a survey to mark its 350th anniversary said that [...]

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If you were afraid to get old, have no fear. A new study suggests that you should take more naps when you get older and enjoy a much more active life. Experts at the University of Surrey discovered that many older people felt that they may be branded lazy for taking afternoon naps so they [...]

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If you haven’t learned your lesson that smoking is gonna do something bad to you by middle age, at least you won’t remember that you smoke if you actually get to your Golden Years. Heavy smoking in middle age appears to be associated with more than double the risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms [...]

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If you think about it, this is pretty common sense to assume there is a market for selling bull semen. In fact it is quite lucrative. One “harvest” from a bull, after passing inspection, can produce up to 300 doses which according to this article sell for about $10 a dose. The demand for meat [...]

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Scientists have developed a real, working and breathing human lung on a microchip. Researches from Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston, have created a device, about the size of a rubber eraser, acts much like a lung in a human body and is made using [...]

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While it is somewhat understandable that smoking in public places is going away, sometimes it starts to get a little over the top. Many still aren’t happy they can’t smoke in bars where they are in there to toxify their bodies anyways with alcohol while grinding in their urban clothing on the dance floor in [...]

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