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Ottawa doctors' high-risk MS treatment yields 'impressive' results, Lancet finds 13-year trial 'first treatment to produce this level of disease control, neurological recovery,' journal finds. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ms-treatment-impressive-results-ottawa-lancet-1.3609031 Possibly...

I was reading a sci-fi series about a post apocalyptic world based on nanotechnology used as WMD by Hugh Howey ( free if you are enrolled in Kindle's unlimited plan). Very interesting series but I guess I was unaware of the applications for the use of nanotechnology today so I decided to Google...

Actually he died on the third but I only heard today. Probably most people here, outside the medical types and possibly those who've been pregnant, have never heard of him but his work saved, quite literally, milllions of lives. Back in the '60s Pollack, along with Vincent Freda and John...

I originally posted this on skeptics.stackexchange.com, but it's not a question suited to the site. So I'm trying again here. My wife and I recently found out we're expecting. While looking into a hospital for the delivery, I found that all the hospitals in my area use midwives for the births...

Canadian Frederick G Banting and Scot John JR Maclead won the Noble prize for medicine for discovering insulin and thus helping millions of diabetics around the world. But a claim has been made that a Romanian scientist named Nicolai Paulescu came up with the discovery first only he called it...

From The Lancet. High-performance neuroprosthetic control by an individual with tetraplegia. The results are very interesting: Or, for the test scientifically inclined, the patient was able to intentionally move an arm, turn and bend a wrist, and close a hand for the first time in nine years...

I tend to trust mainstream medicine too much. I have to admit it was mainstream medicine that is going to help me deal with this immune disease, but it also took me not just nodding my head at the doctors office. Anyway, my latest about how being a skeptic lead to an earlier diagnosis than I...

I've been looking for an over-the-counter anxiety relief and a friend recommended Kava. Now maybe it's just because I've spent too much time on JREF but I'm highly suspicious of anything that sounds like "hippie stuff". This medicine isn't available in the average drugstore around here; I have...

Hi fellow skeptics, I just got back from the Bastyr food and herb festival. My parentals took me. :rolleyes: I saw some... interesting things there. There were about 5 herbalist tents, 1 naturopathy tent, 1 tent that was offering herbal foot-baths, 1 team of acupuncturists, 2 vegetarians, 1...

When someone is in a coma, what method is used to supply the patient with nutrition? Do they place a tube directly into the stomach? What kind of food do they use?

Due to recent events and me wanting to eventually touch base w/individuals on the subjects of our new technologies; I finally decided to start my nano technology thread. Nanotechnology covers pretty much every thing you can think of from new raw materials from old raw materials, new computer...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqwoo-O_GwM I think this is a very good thing. I think that problems surrounding overpopulation have solutions that don't involve fascism or mindlessly depleting resources. Sometimes, though, I fear things like this could lead to great oppression if used by the...

I had known for some time that in certain places, maggots are once again being used to consume dead tissue in wounds, but this new info makes it even more interesting/disgusting. Apparently their farts have healing properties too! I'm wondering what other "fart therapy" is out there just...

Hello, Greetings!! As I am coming to your side, I want to understand more & more about stem cells relations to immune defence & uncompromised healing(without scar etc.). Although, I read basic informations about stem cells on internet(wikipedia etc.), still I want to learn more about stem...

Ever since I started running more than 3 miles at a time (up to 13 miles!) I've started to lose weight very quickly. I was never really overweight, but the difference is noticeable. Another thing I noticed is that certain areas with fat deposits were previously hard, and now they are soft. In...

Wow, check this out. This "doctor" can poke people in the head with his fingers and diagnose if they have "unbalanced zones" and then heal them by poking them more and adjusting their spine. I thought that chiropractors were starting to move away from this kind of nonsense...

I'm doing research for a short story and I could use some information from people in the medical field or anyone else knowledgeable on this subject who would care to help out. What I need is information regarding the range of reactions that people might experience if they were injected with a...

I've recently had some very strong debates about acupuncture. First off, I'm not totally convinced it isn't real but that is the way I'm leaning. I find when I take the skeptical position, people get very angry! More so than if I was debating gods existing. Acupuncture seems to be more accepted...

Ugh.

Eating sushi, I've noticed a strange thing about wasabi. If I use too much, my scalp starts hurting, like being jabbed by a lot of tiny needles. Others have described the same sensation as well. I've never had the same thing happen with any other type of spice though. Does anyone know why that...

So I seem to always be irritable in the spring time, I do occasionally have some allergic symptoms mainly in my eyes. Is the mood thing with or with out the eye symptoms possibly the result of an allergic reaction to tree pollen? Would allergy medicine be helpful? And it is not that I am...

So, I recently got into a discussion with a friend who was proselytizing online about the civil right to make medical choices for one's self and one's family. The conversation began becuase of the widely publicized media case regarding Daniel Hauser - the young boy with cancer whose parents...

Not sure if this has been covered yet or not, but it seems Merck has been caught giving itself favorable coverage in its own phony and supposedly peer-reviewed medical journal. http://blog.bioethics.net/2009/05/merck-makes-phony-peerreview-journal/

I'm sorry I couldn't think of a more descriptive title for this post but I have a real problem that can't really be summed up in one sentence. My girlfriend has recently been diagnosed with a very mild case of asthma. This wouldn't be a problem as you can imagine but her family is very...

From over here. I think that this is BS. I understand that a person, by releasing a protocol in the public domain, does render that particular protocol unpatentable. I cannot see, however, how this would prevent a drug company from making money off of the process, if it works. They...

I remember learning in high school biology that every part of the body has a matching area in the brain, with a size roughly corresponding to the number of sensory nerves in that body part - so the scalp is just a tiny patch, the torso is fairly small, the fingertips are huge, etc. But how does...

From the back cover: Atul Gawande examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in this complex and risk-filled profession [medicine]. The author is a general and endocrine surgeon but this is not merely a book of medical anecdotes and case histories...

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE50D7XI20090114

Just a few moments ago an interesting commercial came on while I was watching Mythbusters, of all things, for a product called 'DayQuill with vitamin C. It was perfect. It started out with coworkers talking about one of their own who loved to take vitamin c but (surprise!) she was very sick...