Tag: medicine
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Doctor strikes & mortality rates. A strange relation…
When doctors are on strike, the mortality rate stays the same or, many times, falls!!! [1, 2, 3, 4] Sometimes common logic is based on nothing else than common misconceptions... > Updated the relevant section of the Religion and Science Unification article.
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Cannabis, pain, perception
A study from the University of Oxford suggests that cannabis makes pain more bearable rather than actually reducing it. [1] In particular, volunteers had a cream rubbed into the skin of one leg to induce pain. They where also given either a 15mg tablet of THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) - the ingredient that is responsible for the high when…
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Living longer, being sicker, the purpose of life…
The greatest ever study on Disease has shown that humans are progressively living longer, but while being sicker. [1, 2] Medicine has the wrong target because humans have the wrong goal. Our purpose is not to live more. As the Harmonia Philosophica motto at the bottom of the page says, the purpose of life is to be defeated…
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Vaccines, misconceptions, dollars...
The Department of Health in England says that the uptake of the whooping cough vaccine in pregnant mothers has been "extraordinarily good". A month after the scheme was announced, 44% of eligible women in England had had the jab. The director of immunisation in England, Prof David Salisbury, told the BBC: "It really is an extraordinarily good result. "October's…
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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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