Morning After The Morning's Trash In my last post , I focused on flaws in the medical device approval process. The Union of Concerned Scientists FDA at a Crossroads meeting also covered problems with drug approval
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After all the tears and sweat you've poured into making yourself successful, you'd let these little oversights wreck your financial security? The worst mistakes you may be making with your money aren't the ones you think you're making
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After all the tears and sweat you've poured into making yourself successful, you'd let these little oversights wreck your financial security?
Read More »More with Maryn: McKenna on Antibiotic Resistance
Journalist and author Maryn McKenna talks about antibiotic resistance in agriculture and human health, MRSA, and a brief return to the subject of fecal transplants.
Read More »More with Maryn: McKenna on Antibiotic Resistance
Journalist and author Maryn McKenna talks about antibiotic resistance in agriculture and human health, MRSA, and a brief return to the subject of fecal transplants. [More]
Read More »Virtual Reality Contact Lenses Could Be Available by 2014
Contact lenses that help enhance normal vision with megapixel 3D panoramic images are being designed by scientists using military funding.
Read More »Virtual Reality Contact Lenses Could Be Available by 2014
Contact lenses that help enhance normal vision with megapixel 3D panoramic images are being designed by scientists using military funding. [More]
Read More »Could an Infection Cause Tourette’s-Like Symptoms in Teenage Girls?
Over the weekend Erin Brockovich made the news yet again as she and her nonprofit team descended on the village of Le Roy, N.Y., determined to test for environmental toxins that might be giving the town's teenagers symptoms of Tourette's syndrome. She has reportedly been stonewalled thus far by local officials, who have already ruled out toxins as the cause of last October's sudden outbreak of tics and involuntary movements in 12 girls who attend Le Roy Junior–Senior High School. An environmental testing company surveyed the air and water and found nothing amiss, and a local neurologist concluded upon examining the girls that they had "conversion disorder," a catchall moniker for physical symptoms that originate in the mind because of stress, trauma or even mass hysteria
Read More »Could an Infection Cause Tourette’s-Like Symptoms in Teenage Girls?
Over the weekend Erin Brockovich made the news yet again as she and her nonprofit team descended on the village of Le Roy, N.Y., determined to test for environmental toxins that might be giving the town's teenagers symptoms of Tourette's syndrome. She has reportedly been stonewalled thus far by local officials, who have already ruled out toxins as the cause of last October's sudden outbreak of tics and involuntary movements in 12 girls who attend Le Roy Junior–Senior High School. An environmental testing company surveyed the air and water and found nothing amiss, and a local neurologist concluded upon examining the girls that they had "conversion disorder," a catchall moniker for physical symptoms that originate in the mind because of stress, trauma or even mass hysteria.
Read More »Facebook’s Timeline Movie Maker, Starring Your Jacked Ego
The visualization tool brings home the point that your Timeline is supposed to be a survey of your young life so far. And it makes you want to upload more and better pictures
Read More »Temperatures–Not Acid–Could Cook Coral to Death
One of the biggest natural tragedies of recent years is the deterioration of Australia's Great Barrier Reef , a vast structure of coral off the continent's east coast that supports a profusion of wildlife. In addition to overfishing and nutrient pollution, the world's largest natural structure has suffered from rising ocean temperatures. But, perhaps less well known, Australia's west coast has some massive reefs of its own, offshore in the southeastern Indian Ocean.
Read More »Signs Boost Stair Climbing
There’s an easy way to encourage people to take the stairs instead of an elevator: put up a sign reminding them to. [More]
Read More »Signs Boost Stair Climbing
There’s an easy way to encourage people to take the stairs instead of an elevator: put up a sign reminding them to. [More]
Read More »Quantum Cryptography Comes to Smart Phones
A smart phone can do pretty much anything a PC can. But, aside from password protection, phones have very little security--a real problem with more and more people using phones for online banking and shopping
Read More »For Military Researchers, the Butterfly is the Ultimate Drone [Video]
Butterflies are not merely beautiful. They use a complex pattern of rapid wing flapping and body deformation to execute impressive aerial acrobatics. This ability has not escaped the U.S
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