Health

It reads like something directly out of Aldous Huxley’s classic novel Brave New World: Scientists take people who are struggling to lose weight and implant in them a belief that strawberry ice cream made them sick when they were children. The scientists’ conditioning efforts are successful, turning a total fabrication into that which is [...]

Summertime means hot weather, long nights and plenty of teen health hit pieces. Big today: How the media forces kids to meet unattainable standards of looks. Boys need to be big and strong. Girls need to be rail thin yet toned. Here is a piece from USNews.com: Sculpted arms without breaking a sweat? [...]

Researchers may be on the verge of developing a vaccine that will help smokers kick their nasty habit. Nicotine — perhaps the most addictive substance on the planet — was neutralized by a special virus in the Swiss study. The scientific name for the vaccine is Finano Licensia, Latin for “A License to [...]

A run on shares of Genentech, Inc. has driven the company’s market price up after it announced that its drug, Herceptin, helps women who have early-stage breast cancer. SitePunch.com reports: Trial data over a period of five years that included more than 5000 study subjects showed that the drug in combination extended the life expectancy [...]

Angolan officials believe they finally have the Marburg outbreak under control. Marburg, which is similar to Ebola and causes death by massive bleeding, has killed more than 200 people in the recent outbreak. International health workers in the region have been blamed by some natives for spreading the disease. Reuters reports: Deputy Health [...]

Taken in large doses, aspirin can be as effective as warfarin in preventing certain types of strokes, according to a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers at Emory University made the finding after conducting a study on 569 patients with blockages in their brain arteries. Aspirin has won [...]