" A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed. Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already simulated elements of a rat...
Is It A Crime To Give A Child Marijuana To Control Violent Outbursts?Debbie Jeffries shows Correspondent Harold Dow the bag of marijuana she keeps in her freezer. (CBS) .hideit {display:none} (CBS) Debbie Jeffries of Rocklin, Calif., and her mother,...
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Just in time for flu season, Google has launched Google Flu Trends a Web site that uses flu-related searches to track influenza outbreaks.Health officials say the chief benefit of Google's Web site is the speed of...
Contrary to popular belief, taking vitamin C every day does not prevent the common cold, nor does taking vitamin C promote recovery if the symptoms of a cold have already manifested. The beneficial...
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In marking the passing of its founder, Paul Newman, the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps has issued the following statement:
While greatly saddened by Paul's passing, the family of Hole in the Wall Camps...
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A headmaster with thousands of indecent pictures of children on his computer has been aquited after a judge ruled that the drugs he was taking to combat Parkinson's disease turned him into a paedophile."A former headmaster who amassed thousands of indecent images of children...
More cases of Salmonella outbreaks, this time in Oregon and Washington states. The culprit this time around: Alfalfa Sprouts. It is believed that the infected sprouts were contaminated by farm animals grazing the...
Government health investigators had initially focused on some types of fresh tomatoes, which have been removed from menus across the country, but are turning toward jalapenos as sicknesses continue. "Recently,...
"NEW YORK - When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated. So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier...
" IT’S what every patient wants – a private nurse to care for them at home instead of in hospital. Now that dream could become reality, sort of, for thousands of people suffering with long-term illnesses. They...
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So far the federal government hasn't acknowledged a second, smaller safe injection site in Vancouver, but I'm sure a write-up in the Globe and Mail will up their profile.Meanwhile, East Vancouver's Insite is...
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Almost two dozen Americans have become sick due to salmonella contamination in packaged cereals."Cereal sold in the U.S. and found to be tainted with salmonella is suspected to have sickened at least 23 people,...
A new study suggests the negative effects of stress may be, in effect, contagious. Depressed and anxious parents have an effect on the health of their kids, according to the research.Seems to make intuitive...
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"A congressional subcommittee voted Tuesday to subpoena former and current Food and Drug Administration investigators to testify about fraudulent clinical data that supported approval of the antibiotic drug Ketek. Ketek was approved in 2004. It is manufactured by Sanofi...
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