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What Separates A Healthy And Unhealthy Diet? Just $1.50 Per Day Maria Godoy, npr.org If you want to eat a more healthful diet, you’re going to have to shell out more cash, right? (After all, Whole Foods didn’t get the nickname “Whole Paycheck” for nothing.) But until recently, that widely held bit of conventional wisdom……
New wave of online peer review and discussion tools frightens some scientists Chris Lee, arstechnica.com Sites like Publons and PubPeer hope to quicken the pace of scientific conversation. PublonsEarlier this year, I wrote a story about a new HIV/Aids detection kit that was under development. Since that time, the same group has published two more…
Chilly temperatures foster cancer growth in mice Ars Staff, arstechnica.com Flickr user Duncan HillAt low temperatures, the human body has a hard time. As the cold sets in, blood vessels constrict to maintain heat, and some body parts—like fingers and toes—begin to suffer. Metabolism ramps up to fight the cold and shiveri… http://flip.it/Trhjf Related articles…
If your pot isn’t organic, you’re probably inhaling pesticides Lisa Hymas, grist.org Bummer news for pot smokers: Up to 70 percent of the pesticides found on a marijuana bud can end up in the smoke you’re inhaling. That’s according to recent research conducted by Jeffrey Raber, who holds a PhD in chemistry from the University…
Why The FDA Can’t Be Flexible With 23andMe, By Law David Kroll, forbes.com “One of the challenges is the world has been evolving and yet we have legislation that reflects a different era.”– Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Almost a year ago, at the inaugural Forbes… http://flip.it/690F3 Related articles Why The FDA…
No DNA Testing For You, Thanks to the FDA By Nick Gillespie, thedailybeast.com Personal genetic tests are safe, innovative, and the future of medicine. So why is the most transparent administration ever shutting down a cheap and popular service? Because it can. In its infinite wisdom, the Food and Drug… http://flip.it/Np3Bq Related articles Nick Gillespie:…
New York City’s (Many) Toxic Sites, Mapped For Your Avoidance Convenience fastcoexist.com An interactive map of every bad pollution situation in the city creates a history of our urban development. Take one look at this interactive map of New York City’s toxic sites, and the city appears to be one giant minefield loaded with… http://flip.it/Tgp5F…
Circle of Life: The Beautiful New Way to Visualize Biological Data Brandon Keim, wired.com When Martin Krzywinski took a systems administrator job at Canada’s Michael Smith Genome Center, he didn’t plan on becoming a pioneer of 21st century biological data visualization. Now his distinctive aesthetic is synonymous with the informational… http://flip.it/eM8Vh Related articles Martin Krzywinski…
What Health Care Needs Is a Real-Time Snapshot of You Daniela Hernandez, wired.com Healthcare can be a very slow-moving beast. Getting something as seemingly easy as a basic metabolic panel or an HIV test done can take days. That’s a problem because while the lab was working its slow magic, your body was … http://flip.it/iJ4KW…
Electric Brain Stimulation Helps Rats With Spinal Cord Injuries Walk | Popular Science popsci.com Lab Rat Janet Stephens via Wikimedia Commons Stimulating a set of neurons deep in the brain has allowed rats with severe spinal cord injuries to walk almost normally again, a group of Swiss researchers reports in Science… http://flip.it/MvMj5 Related articles Drug…
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Unlikely Multiple Sclerosis Pill On Track To Become Blockbuster by Scott Hensley, npr.org There aren’t very many drugs that are also, essentially, industrial chemicals available in railroad-car volumes, pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe noted on his blog, In The Pipeline, this spring. But there are a few. One is lithium… http://flip.it/q4X0F Related articles [WATCH]: Multiple Sclerosis…
Here’s where you’re most likely to die from air pollution John Metcalfe, grist.org Click to embiggen.Where on Earth are you most likely to die early from air pollution? NASA provides the answer with this mortally serious view of the planet, and it is: lots of places.Like tar stains on a healthy lung, the sickly yellow…
This plant could help people withdraw safely from meth Sarah Laskow, grist.org USDOJKratom, a plant that is indigenous to Thailand, relieves pain, improves mood, and is illegal to use. But there’s some research that shows that it could help drug users safely withdraw from methamphetamine. (Or cocaine or heroin, but we’re all… http://flip.it/Rlxek
New Yorkers exposed to more pesticides than rural residents John Upton, grist.org ShutterstockNew Yorkers can eat all the organics that they want — but that won’t be enough to protect them from the Big Apple’s stubborn pesticide problem.Despite living in a dense city with only tiny patches of agriculture (much of it organic,… http://flip.it/inoiQ Related…
Blizzident “toothbrush” is claimed to clean your teeth in 6 seconds Ben Coxworth, gizmag.com When it comes to things that people don’t do as often or as well as they should, tooth-brushing would have to be at the top of the list. While it usually just comes down to laziness, a lot of people claim…
As consumer tech speeds up innovation in health, can traditional med tech keep up? Ki Mae Heussner, gigaom.com Consumer tech and telecom names like Verizon, AT&T and Sony may be relative newcomers to health care, but that doesn’t mean they’re not going to give industry stalwarts a run for their money. According to a Monday…
Numerate Trains Its Drug Design Platform On Huntington’s Disease Bernadette Tansey, xconomy.com Bernadette TanseyThe path toward a breakthrough drug often starts with a new insight about the molecular cause of an illness, but only a few of these discoveries lead to new treatments. Steven Finkbeiner at the Gladstone Institutes in San… http://flip.it/Ivquf Related articles Drug…
The Pharma Bureaucracy Index: Who’s Nimble, and Who’s Sloooowww? xconomy.com (Page 2 of 2) the respondents that their answers would remain anonymous, but that I’d used their scores to put together a composite index of pharma bureaucracy. By the end of business on Thurs … http://flip.it/GlS4k Related articles The Biotech Startup Class of 2013: Don’t…
TellSpec identifies food ingredients and calories using science, magic Zach Honig, engadget.com Some of us can’t eat gluten, while others need to stay away from certain fats. Mealtime can be incredibly stressful for people with dietary restrictions — especially when dining out — since manufacturers aren’t always required to… http://flip.it/j7t0R
FDA to start reining in the Wild West of medical apps by Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, cnet.com The FDA says it is only regulating products that turn smartphones into medical devices it already oversees, such as apps that let your phone act as an electronic stethoscope or give feedback on CPR. The Wild West of mobile…
Tired of long lines at the pharmacy? ZappRx tests ‘mobile boarding pass’ for prescriptions — Tech News and Analysis. Related articles We Like: ZappRX, Kinect the Docs, and Wearable Thermometers (portal.lillycoi.com) ZappRx raises $1M, looks to the future of e-prescriptions (pandodaily.com) ZappRx gets $1M for its e-prescription app (venturebeat.com) ZappRx Lands $1M To Rethink Prescription…
Daniel Lieberman: ‘Dieting is a disaster for everyone’ Interview by Ian Tucker, theguardian.com Harvard’s professor of human evolutionary biology explains why obesity is the major 21st-century problem – and why we are ill-equipped to deal with it Daniel Lieberman is a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard and has published… http://flip.it/F9R8p Related articles Making…
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