Canada, which has roughly 1,500 vials of an ebola vaccine called VSV-EBOV, has offered 1,000 vials to the World Health Organization and said the rest would be used for upcoming clinical trials in 5 locations: two in the United States, and one each in Germany, Switzerland and a non-Western-African country that isn't battling ebola. read...
read moreDid you ever have breast milk or spinach? You might as well start shooting up heroin.If dihydrogen monoxide doesn't scare you enough, food activists have been rehashing an old term - opiates. read...
read moreScience 2.0 fave Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson recently sent a funny thing across his Twitter feed:Q: What do you call Alternative Medicine that survives double-blind laboratory tests? A: Regular Medicine.And that's the crux of the issue, isn't it? There's no Big Pharm conspiracy against homeopathy, for example. What multi-national conglomerate wouldn't love to slosh some magic water in a bottle...
read moreA double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of sildenafil, brand name Viagra, showed improvement in echocardiogram measures of myocardial performance in children and young adults after Fontan surgery - basically, kids with congenital heart defects were helped by a drug commonly associated with sexual dysfunction in older men.Fontan surgery, also called the Fontan/Kreutzer procedure, was...
read moreWhat's the one thing that could make anti-science progressives dislike genetic modifications and medicine even more than they do now? Putting them both together. read...
read moreIt's often the case that when something claims to cure everything, a little skepticism is warranted. We have dozens of articles here on Resveratrol but over time the titles began to reflect growing disbelief it could be that perfect. By the time it received gushing endorsements from Dr. Oz. and the other Four Horsemen of the Alternative (Gupta, etc.) we were crafting titles like...
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