Who's Messing with Wikipedia?

Seeded on Mon Mar 16, 2009 7:03 AM EDT (Technology Review)

Ed Chi, a senior research scientist for augmented social cognition at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and his colleagues have now created a tool, called WikiDashboard, that aims to reveal much of the normally hidden back-and-forth behind Wikipedia's most controversial pages …

science, wikiepedia

High vitamin C linked to lower BP in young women

Seeded on Fri Jan 23, 2009 8:43 AM EST (Reuters)

A study in young adult women links high blood levels of vitamin C with lower blood pressure.

health, blood-pressure, vitamin-c

Using mouthwash could increase risk of cancer by nine times, claim scientists - Scotsman.com News

Seeded on Thu Jan 15, 2009 1:38 PM EST (Scotsman.com News)

Mouthwashes containing alcohol can cause oral cancer and should be removed from supermarket shelves, a dental health study claims. Scientists say there is now "sufficient evidence" that such mouthwashes contribute to an increased risk of the disease.

health, mouthwash, oral-cancer, etanol

Excess coffee linked to hallucinations

Seeded on Wed Jan 14, 2009 6:34 AM EST (Independent.co.uk)

People who consume coffee and other caffeinated products are more likely to have hallucinations, according to a study published today.

health, coffee, caffeine, hallucinations, tea

Would eating heavy atoms lengthen our lives?

Seeded on Mon Jan 12, 2009 8:30 AM EST (newscientist.com)

The human body produces legions of antioxidants, including vitamins and enzymes, that quench free radicals before they can do any harm. But over a lifetime these defence systems eventually fall victim to oxidative attack too, leading to an inevitable decline.

health, life-extension, free-radicals, antioxidants, heavy-water

Psychologist finds Wikipedians grumpy and closed-minded

Seeded on Tue Jan 6, 2009 5:01 AM EST ()

Disagreeable and closed to new ideas - that's the picture that emerges of contributors to community-curated encyclopaedia Wikipedia from a survey of their psychological attributes.

technology, wikipedia

The year's weirdest animals

Seeded on Tue Jan 6, 2009 4:56 AM EST ()

From a sea-slug that runs on solar power, to a bug that lives in total isolation; from the world's smallest snake to a one-tonne rodent – here are the 10 oddest species from 2008.

odd-news, animals

Antibiotics and Vitamins Work Together

Seeded on Tue Dec 30, 2008 3:41 PM EST ()

The benefits of using vitamin C together with antibiotics are considerable. In a controlled trial with dairy cows with infected udders, high dose vitamin C has been shown to have synergistic effects when used with antibiotics. The cows were divided into two groups.

health, vitamin-c, vitamins, antibiotics

Swedish Officials Investigating Nobel Prize Board

Seeded on Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:46 AM EST (NewsMax)

The Nobel Prize Committee is facing investigation of bribery and corruption after allegedly taking huge payments from a pharmaceutical company that directly benefits from the work of this year's Nobel Prize winner in medicine.

science, nobel-prize, hpv, hiv, astra-zeneca, bribery

EFSA—are you trying to poison us?

Seeded on Mon Dec 22, 2008 10:19 AM EST (anhcampaign.org)

EFSA have released its opinion on the safety of food supplements containing calcium fluoride, adopted on 27 November 2008. "Food supplements containing fluoride?!!!" I hear you say. Yes.

health, flouride, dental-flourosis, efsa

Go nuts to live longer

Seeded on Mon Dec 22, 2008 4:47 AM EST (News24)

Eating a handful of nuts a day for a year - along with a Mediterranean diet rich in fruit, vegetables and fish - may help undo a collection of risk factors for heart disease.

health, nuts, metabolic-syndrome, heart-disease

Study Finds Obese Kids Have Middle-Aged Arteries

Seeded on Wed Dec 17, 2008 3:34 PM EST (Newsweek)

A glimpse inside the neck arteries of obese children and teens reveals cardiovascular systems more like those of 45-year-olds, researchers said Tuesday. Scientists using ultrasound imaging detected fatty deposits more typical in middle-aged adults than in children as young as 10 …

health, arteries, cardiovascular, chd, cholesterol, obesity

Could the diabetes epidemic be down to pollution?

Seeded on Tue Dec 16, 2008 4:16 AM EST (newscientist.com)

Ask why diabetes is epidemic in the 21st century and most people will point the finger at bad diet, laziness and obesity. According to a small but growing group of scientists, though, the real culprit is a family of toxic chemicals known as persistent organic pollutants, or POPs.

health, diabetes, pollution, pop

Chemotherapy contributes to a quarter of cancer deaths: study

Seeded on Mon Dec 15, 2008 10:30 AM EST (abc.net.au)

A new study has raised serious questions about the use of chemotherapy for late-stage cancer patients. The review of 600 cancer patients in Britain who died within 30 days of treatment has found that one in four of the deaths was either caused or hastened by the chemotherapy.

world-news, cancer, chemotherapy

Global AIDS crisis overblown? Some dare to say so

Seeded on Mon Dec 8, 2008 8:43 AM EST (PhysOrg.com)

Roger England of Health Systems Workshop, a think tank based in the Caribbean island of Grenada, goes further. He argues that UNAIDS, the U.N. agency leading the fight against the disease, has outlived its purpose and should be disbanded.

health, aids, unaids, hiv-industry

How aspartame, sugar enhance onset of cancers

Seeded on Mon Dec 8, 2008 3:43 AM EST (ngrguardiannews.com)

They are extremely sweet. They are used in making almost all processed foods and drinks, even children's medicines. But they may be doing more harm than good. Besides diabetes and obesity, several new studies have linked aspartame and sugar to various cancers.

health, sugar, artificial-sweetener, aspartame, cancer, diabetes, hypoglycemia, dementia

Fluoride Exposure May Contribute to Early Puberty

Seeded on Thu Dec 4, 2008 4:07 AM EST (articles.mercola.com)

Luke found that animals treated with fluoride had lower levels of circulating melatonin, as reflected by reduced levels of melatonin metabolites in the animals' urine.

health, flouride, puberty, endocrine-disruption

Crestor, Jupitor, CRP and Heart Attack by Jeffrey Dach MD

Seeded on Tue Dec 2, 2008 10:31 AM EST (jeffreydach.com)

Over the years, I have convinced most of my friends and family members to avoid statin drugs for primary prevention of heart disease because all-cause mortality benefits are marginal, and statins have severe adverse side effects of muscle pain, cognitive dysfunction, nerve damage …

health, crestor, cholesterol, coq10, statin-drug, heart-disease

Nikolai Kondratiev's "Long Wave": The Mirror of the Global Economic Crisis

Seeded on Sat Nov 29, 2008 9:13 AM EST (globalresearch.ca)

The Long Wave Theory of Nikolai Kondratiev's, first formulated in the 1920s, constitutes an important landmark in economic theory. As to whether it is useful in understanding the current global economic crisis, however, is another matter.

business, long-wave-theory, financial-crisis

Financing Poverty

Seeded on Fri Nov 28, 2008 9:50 AM EST (i-sis.org.uk)

Taxpayer's money is being misused in the global financial crisis to rescuing those that have grown super-rich by draining the real economy, creating poverty, and fuelling the destruction of the earth Time to replace the dominant model with a circular eco-economy that mimics natu …

taxpayer, financial-crisis, wall-street, money, free-market, business

Gut check reveals vast multicultural community of bugs in bowels

Seeded on Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:15 AM EST (PhysOrg.com)

A new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine reveals in greater detail than ever before the full extent of the bacterial community inhabiting the human bowel - 10 times more diverse than previous research had suggested.

science, intestinal-flora, antibiotics, bacteria

What is the Real Cause of Influenza Epidemics?

Seeded on Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:18 AM EST (mercola.com)

A theory gaining weight in the scientific community explains influenza epidemics as a result of a dormant disease, which become active in response to vitamin D deficiency.

health, flu, influenza, vitamin-d

Many doctors plan to quit or cut back: survey

Seeded on Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:04 PM EST (Reuters)

Primary care doctors in the United States feel overworked and nearly half plan to either cut back on how many patients they see or quit medicine entirely, according to a survey released on Tuesday. And 60 percent of 12,000 general practice physicians found they would not recomme …

us-news, doctors, medicine

Europe's secret plan to boost GM crop production

Seeded on Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:25 AM EST (Independent.co.uk)

Gordon Brown and other European leaders are secretly preparing an unprecedented campaign to spread GM crops and foods in Britain and throughout the continent, confidential documents obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveal.

world-news, gmo, eu

Austrian Government Study Confirms Genetically Modified (GM) Crops Threaten Human Fertility and Health Safety

Seeded on Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:45 AM EST (mathaba.net)

A long-term feeding study commissioned by the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety, managed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health, Family and Youth, and carried out by Veterinary University Vienna, confirms genetically modified (GM) corn seriously affects reproductive …

health, gmo

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