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Phthalates And Prostates: Endocrine Disruptors Shortening The Distance Between Male Anus And Penis

Men are becoming more effeminate. That is not news. If you watched the ESA's Rosetta mission arrive at Comet P67 you saw a tattoo-covered fellow talk about engineering and he looked manly, but two days later he was crying during a press conference because his bowling shirt had offended women on Twitter. read...

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VSV-EBOV: The Race For An Ebola Vaccine Heats Up

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...

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Is Everything You Eat A Drug?

Did 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...

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Ayurvedic Remedy Gets Studied: Frankincense For Asthma?

Science 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...

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Viagra – Now For Kids!

A 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...

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Genetic Modification Plus Big Pharm Equals Anti-Science Hippie Meltdown

What'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...

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