New York Times FDA Panel Recommends Approval for Gene-Altering Leukemia TreatmentNew York TimesEmily Whitehead, 12, and her parents, Tom and Kari Whitehead, appeared at an F.D.A. hearing on Tuesday about a treatment for leukemia that had saved Emily’s life. Credit T.J. Kirkpatrick for The New York Times. A Food and Drug Administration panel …Novel cancer treatment … Read more
USA TODAY Trampolines: A safe, fun activity for your kids? Just the opposite, doctors sayUSA TODAYA recent injury suffered by a 3-year-old Florida boy while jumping at a trampoline park has sparked national attention on social media and raised questions about the safety of a common, seemingly harmless children’s activity. On Tuesday, Kaitlin Hill …‘It’s … Read more
WBUR Tufts Medical Center Nurses Go On StrikeWBURNursing strike supporters on Washington Street wave at people inside Tufts Medical Center on Wednesday morning. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR). Hundreds of nurses lined the sidewalks in front of Tufts Medical Center Wednesday in what the union says is the …Nurses strike was irresponsibleThe Boston GlobeNurses at Tufts hit the picket … Read more
CBS News Missouri woman dies after contracting rare tick-borne Bourbon virusCBS NewsTamela Wilson worked at a state park for more than 10 years, so she wasn’t fazed when she spotted ticks on her skin. She simply picked them off without giving it a second thought. The 58-year-old didn’t worry about contracting a tick-borne illness …NY … Read more
NBCNews.com The Feds Are Failing Mentally Ill Inmates, Investigators SayNBCNews.comThe federal Bureau of Prisons is doing a poor job of treating and keeping track of inmates who suffer from mental illness, often placing them in isolation for long periods of time, a practice that can exacerbate their problems, investigators have found.Watchdog says sick federal inmates … Read more
The Verge A new place to share GIFs: the DNA of living bacteriaThe VergeTo the left are a series of frames showing the mare “Anna G.” galloping, which were encoded into nucleotides and captured sequentially over time by the CRISPR adaptation system in living bacteria. To the right are the frames after multiple generations … … Read more
CNN What to know about snortable chocolateCNN(CNN) “Snorting chocolate” has made waves among partygoers in Europe over the past couple of years. Now, it’s arrived in the US in the form of Coco Loko, a new product marketed as a stimulant and stress reducer.Morford: WARNING, do not snort powdered chocolate (unless you want to)SFGateYou Can … Read more
USA TODAY The US is one of the world’s laziest countries — and it’s making us fatUSA TODAYMany Americans are downright lazy. And it’s making us fat. That’s among the findings of a study by Stanford University researchers using step-counters installed in most smartphones to track the walking activity of about 700,000 people in 46 … Read more
(Natural News) Climate change “mad scientists” from Harvard have been given the green light to pursue a geoengineering experiment that will expel aerosols into the atmosphere to block out the sun in a deranged effort to halt so-called “global warming.” The initial experiment is small, but if it is deemed a success, it could be… … Read more
(Natural News) Chemotherapy has long been considered an effective treatment against cancer. However, a recent study has suggested otherwise: according to researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, chemotherapy may actually help spread the disease. For the purposes of their study, the researchers analyzed the effects of chemotherapy on patients who were diagnosed with… … Read more