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Relax, it's Italy:
Anti-vaccine Italian Government Sacks Entire Health Expert Board

The vaccine-skeptic Italian government has sacked every member...

If I had to pick a disability to be born with, it would be William's Syndrome.

Enough of the doom and gloom, fuckers.

Let's explore the upsides.

Telecommuting: Companies that would never consider telecommuting in a million...

There's so much political buzz over this topic that I feel like we need some discussion that we try to isolate from the politics. This thread isn't...

Their coughs were fast as lightning

Butter up yer popcorn and put on the 3-D glasses.

Still plenty of good stuff on Tumblr after they got rid of all the pr0n. :mrgreen:

Diet soda is the latest rage. Apparently causes everything. Should I also give up sucralose?

Activating the FEF on the left side of the brain made the animals look to the right target more often, while activating the right-hand FEF had them...

I'm calling bullshit on this one up front. But just so you cock holsters know what I'm on about ...

A St. Louis jury has awarded a Virginia woman a...

A couple of months ago my cardiologist (fired the fucker for various reasons) suggested that I drop a few/many. He recommended periodic fasting ie. a...

As you might not know, I'm quite the home chef. Having an amazingly demanding wife that can't boil water without burning it * AND having raised three...

More or less...

The dire need for information should not mean rush to produce unreliable information quickly, and attempt to shoehorn your...

When You Die of the Coronavirus, You Die Alone

BOSTON — As an I.C.U. doctor I’m used to giving bad news, but I was not prepared for this.

I paused...

I suppose it is getting big enough to warrant its own thread.

Where we stand

I say 'we' in the 'them' sense since it seems to be mostly...

Putting potatoes up your butt won’t cure hemorrhoids, doctors warn
NY Post

Potatoes only belong in one human hole.

Doctors are starting to get...

Vaccines without needles – new shelf-stable film could revolutionize how medicines are distributed worldwide

The race is on to identify an...

I have a love-hate relationship with him in that I think he sometimes takes a hammer to a flea on Shemp 's Mom's crotch a china plate, but he...

Pauling knew ascorbic acid kills cancer cells (but not healthy cells). He used high concentrations by injecting it (eating it doesn't work the same)....

From the wonderful Quackwatch :

Yet another study debunks vaccination-autism link.

New findings from the CHildhood Autism Risks from Genetics and...

Benue: Killer disease a mystery,
it’s not Ebola, Lassa Fever or Coronavirus – Nigerian govt

The Nigerian government has spoken on the strange...

A pretty typical classic case:

The mystery of screaming schoolgirls in Malaysia

It was a quiet Friday morning last July when pandemonium broke...

Immune cell which kills most cancers discovered by accident by British scientists in major breakthrough

A new type of immune cell which kills most...

Coffee Waste Is Now Fetching a 480% Premium Over Coffee Itself

Prices for dried husks are outstripping those for beans.
Details:

Hey Tommy! Get a load of this shinebox!

Smallpox is caused by the variola virus, a DNA virus of the genus Orthopoxvirus. Humans are the only known reservoir for this virus. It is...

Do you already know of him?

He was a Jewish Dr. (Max Jacobson) who came up with a brilliant idea, and carried it out. He would inject patients with...

I'm skeptical about this, but it is in Nature , which is supposed to be reputable. It's all just very early studies too, and what exactly it means is...

Eat up!

The stomachs of competitive eaters accommodate large quantities of food by repeated rapid distension of the gastric wall during eating...

At first I asked if this was from The Onion, because honestly after reading I wasn’t sure.

But no, Dr. Zimmerman is really a naturopath and, well,...

US regulators have approved the first pill that can be digitally tracked through the body.

The Abilify MyCite aripiprazole tablets - for treating...

Epic Systems is a health care services provider with $2.7 billion in annual revenue. Its mathematician chief executive, Judy Faulkner, is a...

'Church' to offer 'miracle cure' despite FDA warnings against drinking bleach

A group calling itself Genesis II Church of Health and Healing plans...

The carotid artery (in the neck) was damaged and blood was squirting all over the place. My instinct would be to grab it and hold on till help got...

This one sounds bizarre. Also, it involves Jordan Peterson.

The Jordan Peterson All-Meat Diet

It's actually even more narrow than that: all beef...

Could this be true?

Are they just repeating a story someone told them? Can we see this woman on video?

Now, predatory publishers are offering to post a video for fees ranging from $1,500 to $4,200, according to reporter Tom Spears of the Ottawa...

Scientists still don’t know all of the targets CBD hits in the human body, nor what effects it may have, if any. With the exception of tests in...

$1.2 billion Medicare scam.

Telemarketers would reach out to seniors offering “free” orthopedic braces, also touted through television and radio...

Today, claims that it put schizophrenia into remission in two patients.

Yeah well if it were only that simple.

Recommend reading the whole Twitter thread.

...might not be as bad as all that.

Last week, a nutritional epidemiological study (from now on nutri epi) published in JAMA 1 posited that egg...

Scientists are working on a pill for loneliness
Teh Gruniad

...

It’s less science fiction than it sounds. A number of clinical trials – led by...

A “deeply disturbing” video showing a Melbourne chiropractor holding a two-week-old baby upside down and performing controversial spinal treatments...

WTF

This has to be one of the strangest stories I’ve heard in a while: Chloe Jennings-White, a 61-year-old chemist from Salt Lake City, Utah, is...

Drug overdoses, suicides cause drop in 2017 US life expectancy; CDC director calls it a 'wakeup call'

Key findings

Data from the National Vital...