Category: Medicine
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ADHD, Sweden, crime behavior & "The Dictatorship of Psychiatry 2"
A Swedish study shows that people with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who are involved in crime are less likely to reoffend when on treatment than not. Researchers from the Karolinska Institute looked at data from over 25,000 people with ADHD in Sweden. Estimates suggest between 7-40% of people in the criminal justice system may have…
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First gene therapy approved... First? Nuh...
World media celebrate the first gene therapy approved by the European Medicines Agency, a decision which will open the way for more personalized treatments adjusted to each patient's needs. [1, 2, 3] However reading below the headlines reveals another truth. This is not the first gene therapy approved after all: the Chinese had approved a…
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Oxfam, expensive charity, useless drugs, truths, lies...
The charity Oxfam has cast doubt on an international scheme that aims to boost the provision of the most effective treatment for malaria. The UK government has contributed £70m to the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria (AMFm). Oxfam says there is no evidence the programme has saved the lives of the most vulnerable people. The…
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Medicine and the "stress" reason - A weird love affair...
How many times have you gone to the doctor with a problem and the doctor provided you with the "stress" explanation? Is it my imagination or is the "stress" an all "universal" wildcard used by doctors to "explain" anything they cannot explain? Stress does indeed affect our body. We can see it every time we…
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Shamanism could be true. Who dares claim it?
American Indian medicine could really heal. Shamanism could really be a collection of methods with which the wizard concentrates on the consciousness of the patient and as a great quantum physics experimenter imposes himself on the observed in such a powerful way that he actually heals. Maybe shamans used to treat people from inside-out (by…
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