NBC Bay Area Man Dies After Swimming With New TattooNBC Bay AreaA 31-year-old Dallas man died after doctors say a flesh-eating bacteria entered the man’s body through a fresh tattoo while swimming in the Gulf of Mexico. (Published 3 hours ago). Doctors say a Dallas man made a deadly mistake before taking a trip to … Read more
Fortune Roche’s pricey new breast-cancer combo barely beats old drugThe Boston GlobeRoche Holding’s new breast cancer combination therapy barely outperformed a current gold-standard drug for the disease — the company’s own decades-old Herceptin — in its latest study. The results, presented Monday in Chicago at the world’s largest …Roche combo of breast cancer drugs shows modest … Read more
NBCNews.com CAR-T Cancer Approach Has Surprising Success in Multiple MyelomaNBCNews.comDoctors are reporting unprecedented success from a new cell and gene therapy for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that’s on the rise. Although it’s early and the study is small — 35 people — every patient responded and all but two were in some level …Gene-Based … Read more
NPR Babies Sleep Better In Their Own Rooms After 4 Months, Study FindsNPRBabies get less sleep at night and sleep for shorter stretches when they sleep in their parents’ room after 4 months old, a new study finds. Parents are also more likely to engage in unsafe sleep practices, such as bringing their child into … Read more
Washington Post Backyard chickens blamed for salmonella outbreaks. Do not snuggle with them, CDC says.Washington PostAmerica’s love affair with backyard chickens is a tad too intimate, and it’s making some of us sick. Just this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, eight separate salmonella outbreaks linked to contact with pet poultry have … Read more
The Daily Dot Texas has the highest pregnancy death rate in the developed worldThe Daily DotThe state legislature ignored the problem, instead focusing on restricting abortion—which may be furthering the crisis. The Texas Legislature has officially closed session until 2019, but legislators failed to address a major problem devastating the … and more » View original … Read more
(Natural News) When you choose to interfere with nature, you should be prepared for results that are far from natural. That’s the message of a new study out of the Columbia University Medical Center, where researchers are warning scientists that the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing technology results in unintended mutations that could go undetected. As a… … Read more
(Natural News) The next time your instincts tell you to avoid someone, it may just be your brain protecting your system from contagious diseases. A new study has found that the human brain can detect diseases in other people even before symptoms manifest, ScienceDaily.com reported. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences… … Read more
(Natural News) The art of climate fear mongering is rooted in the ability to terrorize the population over threats that hardly matter at all while completely ignoring the REAL threats to our global ecosystem. Isn’t it interesting how people who shudder in fear over President Trump pulling out of the Paris climate treaty say nothing… … Read more
(Natural News) The global herbicide market is poised to grow exponentially in 2022, which in turn may further drive up the already high cancer rates around the world. Data from the recent Research and Markets report showed that global herbicide market was valued at $23.97 billion in 2016 and is projected to grow to $34.10 billion by 2022. According to… … Read more