Tag: medicine
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Depression, foolishness, genes...
A massive effort to uncover genes involved in depression has largely failed. By combing through the DNA of 34,549 volunteers, an international team of 86 scientists hoped to uncover genetic influences that affect a person’s vulnerability to depression. But the analysis turned up nothing. [1] Fools. Now they can go easily into depression. And learn…
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Cancer - The chance for a paradigm shift in medicine?
Four different articles. Four different stories. They all show the same thing. Our understanding of cancer has something very very wrong. The very basis of our beliefs must be misplaced. But let us take a closer look... Story 1: Stamatis was diagnosed with lung cancer in the 1960s, given nine months of life. He returned…
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Diet drinks, depression, "concerns"...
Experts are questioning whether diet drinks could raise depression risk, after a large study has found a link. [1] It is quite interesting how other studies for similar "links" are accepted just by the pre-publication (e.g. at PLOS), but when the interests of heavy industry are threatened experts suddenly have "concerns" on whether the results are…
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Fake hand, real self, the Cosmos...
A former pub landlord from West Yorkshire has become the first person in the UK to have a hand transplant. [1] At some day he will feel this hand as his "own". How can this be? What determines what is "ours"? It may sound radical, but we are the ones who formulate the limits of…
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Bionic hands, mind, brain, misunderstandings...
In one of this year’s bionic breakthroughs, a paralyzed woman carried out her own superhuman feat: Using an implanted brain chip, she controlled a robotic arm with her mind. [1] Scientists jumped to the roof out of joy. But what are we to celebrate here? The "with her mind" is the key sentence. Is it…
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