Category: Health
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Having autism. Having a disability. So? Be indifferent. And you will cure cancer!
"I don’t look like I have a disability, do I?" Jonas Moore asks me. I shake my head. No, I say — he does not. Bundled up in a puffy green coat in a drafty Starbucks, Moore, 35 and sandy-haired, doesn’t stand out in the crowd seeking refuge from the Wisconsin cold. His handshake is…
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Be fat. Stay healthy!
Most of us aren't fond of our flab but perhaps it's time to see it in a new light. Fat cells may be among our first line of defence against pathogens. "Fat has an additional role we didn't suspect", says Jay Kolls of the University of Pittsburgh. Beyond physical barriers such as skin, our main…
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Bacteria. Viruses. Good. Bad...
Normally, you wouldn't want to have anything to do with Clostridium novyi. The rod-shaped bacterium is commonly found in soil, manure or under rotting leaves. When it invades a human body, it releases flesh-eating toxins. The last place you would hope to find it is in a hospital. But researchers used a modified version of…
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HIV spreading. Isolation. Sympathy.
Almost like detectives retracing the steps of a killer in a whodunnit, researchers have pieced together how the virus that later became known as HIV grew from infecting a few hunter-gatherers in Cameroon to affecting 76 million people across the globe. Using historic blood samples to create a viral timeline, the team confirms that Kinshasa,…
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Release from hospitals. The new dark ages of science...
Michael Schumacher discharged from hospital, 'difficult road' still ahead. Or in other words: Michael Schumacher "released from hospital", as the main page of the CNN said on 9/9/2014. (1) Odd, how we use the same term for the release of someone from prison, to his exit from a hospital. Foucault knew something. We are all…
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