Palin Favors Free-Market Healthcare

In the fall of 2007, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, now Republican candidate for Vice-President of the United States, formed a committee of health care professionals to seek solutions to the controversial Alaskan...

Byetta Diabetes Drug Side Effects linked to Pancreatitis & 2 Deaths

"Updated Aug. 27 - Four more deaths were reported yesterday by people who'd been taking the medication Byetta.The announcement by Eli Lilly and Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc. came a week after the U.S. Food and Drug...

Interesting new drug delivery system.

Below is an article released by Delsite in Irvine TX,  They have a new product for immunization delivery that will revolutionize the health industry.  It is interesting to see a new simple technique coming to fruition that will provide for inexpensive and greater...

Scientists stop ageing in mice

There's been some amazing scientific discoveries reported this week. First, scientists in California have come up with substances that may prove instrumental in developing invisible cloaking technology, and now...

DNA tests to study mummy fetuses in King Tut tomb

"Egyptian scientists are carrying out DNA tests on two mummified fetuses found in the tomb of King Tutankhamun to determine whether they are the young pharaoh's offspring, the antiquities authority said Wednesday. The two tiny female fetuses, between...

Peru: Lima woman kills mother with liquid cocaine

"A teenage woman was arrested early Wednesday morning in the Limean district of Comas after she was held responsible for her mother's death. According to police reports, 18-year-old Julia Anda Reynaldo hid liquid...

Baby's Smile Lights Up Mother's Brain

"A new research claims that the smile of a baby can not only melt a mother's heart but light up her brain as well. Scientists working at the Baylor College of Medicine in Texas observed brain scans of women who...

Focus on the Task, not the fear of the Task

Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of change,fear of loneliness  are all powerful emotions that ultimately we need to embrace as we restyle our lives after a life changing event. the tragedy may be...

Medical Wikipedia in the works

A new project to compile the largest online medical resource is underway. It's based on the same technology used by Wikipedia and is intended to make esoteric medical information widely accessible and easy to...

M.D. quits day job to Blog

"y Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors Sign In to E-Mail or Save This Print Reprints ShareDiggFacebookMixxYahoo! BuzzPermalink By BRIAN STELTER Published: July 21, 2008...

Extreme diving - ice diving in Antarctica by Dr Lesley Thompson

Diving Medicine - Lesley ThomsonMost of my diving has been in cold water. Not just the American definition of cold water, being anything less than 18ºC, but properly cold! UK winter diving of 5-6ºC for example,...

Extreme diving - ice diving in Antarctica by Dr Lesley Thompson

Diving Medicine - Lesley Thomson Most of my diving has been in cold water. Not just the American definition of cold water, being anything less than 18ºC, but properly cold! UK winter diving of 5-6ºC for...

Antibiotics - friend or foe

I have noticed a disturbing possible link between the use / over use of antibiotics and a number af diseases – all where the defence system of the body turns against itself after treatments with antibiotics, diseases like skin cancer, leukemia, failure of kidneys, diabetes....

Life is Change, Growth is Optional, Choose Wisely

Granted, our dreams and hopes can be a bit ridiculous sometimes, however, nothing is more cruel than a life changing event without your permission.  Then starts the journey of self awareness that most have...

Famous heart surgeon DeBakey dies

In the late Sixies and early Seventies, news of heart transplants and artificial hearts was splashed over front pages around the world.  Dr. Michael DeBakey was in the forefront of such research.  He pioneered surgical treatments which are common now, but were...

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