Tag: medicine
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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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Nash or "How to cure schizophrenia without medicine"...
John Forbes Nash Jr. is known for his discoveries in economic sciences (although I doubt if such thing as "economic science" exists, but that is another thing). However he SHOULD be known for his medical discoveries! No, Nash was not a doctor! But he managed to cure himself from schizophrenia without drugs and without doing…
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Medicine and Imaging technologies – Not relevant at all!
You have a medical problem and you go to the hospital. You anxiously wait for the doctor to tell you what is wrong with you. You rely on his paramount knowledge, on the so many years of medical progress from other doctors before him, on his many colleagues who have analyzed similar cases and have…
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Autism, electrodes, love and Science off track...
A simple brain trace can identify autism in children as young as two years old, scientists believe. A US team at Boston Children's Hospital say EEG traces, which record electrical brain activity using scalp electrodes, could offer a diagnostic test for this complex condition [source 1="<a" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18577327" 2="target="_blank">BBC" 3="News</a>" language=":"][/source]. If only the early detection…
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