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Parasitic Gut Worms May Protect Against Allergies

There is a link between having parasitic worms in your stomach and being protected from allergies, shows a new study conducted in Vietnam. The study looked for a link between hookworm and other types of parasitic worms and the rates of allergies in humans. The researchers...

How to destroy America from within, for Dummies!

If primitive war tactic is to destroy the children of your enemy, then Americans will be attacked from within when 75 million students return to school in September, –on time for the next 9/11 anniversary.With this dramatic opening comment, I'm hoping that a case of...

Sci-fi Author Richard Phillips:To Be A Guest July 14 2009 10pm

We are pleased to announce the confirmation of author Richard Phillips: The Second Ship www.thesecondship.com  as our esteemed guest on July 14th 2009 at 10:00 pm EDT.   Author Richard...

Obama administration supports Saudi immunity in 9/11 lawsuit

" The Obama administration has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to protect Saudi Arabia and four of its princes from being held accountable for their alleged role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the...

LIC subway rape victim files suit against MTA

A Queens judge has thrown out a suit against the MTA and two of its employees filed by a woman who was raped on the platform of the G train's 21st Street stop and accused onlooking transit workers of not doing...

Online networking 'harms health' ?

Has the rise in the use of social networking had a negative or positive effect on our lives? " Dr Aric Sigman says websites such as Facebook set out to enrich social lives, but end up keeping people apart. Dr...

Dirt....it's what's for dinner?

As a boy I climbed trees, explored the local forest and played in the dirt and mud.  Although my mother always gave me grief about "bringing those dirty clothes in the house" maybe being a dirty little kid...

Cats and dogs reduce risk of cancer

Pets are very important to many people with cats and dogs often talked about as members of the familly.This research shows that people that own pets such as cats and dogs are less likely to develop the cancer...

OPINION... Stem Cell Research NOW

I was a Funeral Director and embalmer in California in the 1980's when a meeting was held by the firm I worked for.  Employees from five firms were represented.  We were told about a new contagious...

AIDS Patient Is Reported Cured

Bone Marrow Transplant Cured AIDS Patient BERLIN — A man suffering from AIDS, not knowing that he had been infected with the AIDS virus for more than 10 years appears to have been cured of the disease after...

Are Diabetes and Tuberculosis Linked?

Researchers at University of Texas School of Public Health have found evidence that patients with Type 2 diabetes may be at increased risk of contracting tuberculosis. The cause is compromised immune systems, leading to difficult to treat lung infections.

Cause of 'Treeman's' barklike growths revealed

"(CNN) -- For 20 years, the warts studding Dede Kosawa's hands and feet multiplied and sprouted like gnarled roots. ...

Ballmer Sees Global Crisis Hitting Microsoft

" Ballmer Sees Global Crisis Hitting Microsoft Topics:Technology | Information Technology Sectors:Software and Computer Services | Software | Technology Microsoft [MSFT  26.14    1.13  (+4.52%)   ] Chief Executive Steve...

Breast cancer vaccine hope raised

As the UK launches it nationwide free vaccination programme against HPV the virus associated with cervical cancer we get news of a possible vaccine against breast cancer. Early days yet but if the results in mice...

Listeria Cause & Effect 'Highly likely' Bacteria in Slicers to blame"

Opinion Barry Artiste The CEO of Maple Leaf Foods states they are the leaders in sanitation, going above and beyond Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points HACCP, perhaps needs to go further when industry...

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