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Study Linking Vaccines to Autism Is "Fraudulent"
It's unfortunate but true that sometimes the hard facts of science don't turn out to be so grounded in reality after all. Scientific fraud is certainly not new, but manipulation of medical data is always troubling, and potentially deadly, for the public. READ MORE
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Teens are undeniably influenced by those around them, and by what they see on social media from television to the internet. So what happens when western media infiltrates a remote island society? Read More
NUMBERS3 days ago
3,000
Number of tons of polluted vegetable fat found to be contaminated with the poisonous chemical dioxin at chicken farms in Germany, leading to a withdrawal from the market of millions of eggs. [Via the New York Times]
Sexual health specialists have long focused on circumcision as a potential safeguard against acquiring HIV. In fact, a 2006 clinical trial funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that medical circumcision reduced female-to-male transmission rates by 48% to 60% in two trials in Rakai, Uganda and Kisumu, Kenya. So it was during the course of an additional trial in Rakai — this one to determine if male-to-female transmission rates were also reduced by the procedure — that researchers decided to test the impact of circumcision on other sexually-transmitted infections. Read More
Fluoride in drinking water — credited with dramatically cutting cavities and tooth decay — may now be too much of a good thing. Getting too much of it causes spots on some kids' teeth. Read More
In a contest of reprehensibility, it's hard to call who takes the blue ribbon among John Edwards, Rielle Hunter and the editors of the National Enquirer. In the latest installment, the Enquirer is reporting that Edwards has proposed to Hunter a mere month after Elizabeth's death. Read More
As if you needed another reason to give up smoking for good: Researchers have now determined that successfully quitting is not only linked to greater happiness, but also to elevated moods, contrary to the popular belief that abandoning the habit makes you miserable. Read More
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61%
Percentage by which men lowered their risk of death from prostate cancer by doing vigorous exercise for at least three hours a week, as part of a study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of California-San Francisco [via Washington Post]
When people consider the connections between drugs and violence, what typically comes to mind are illegal drugs like crack cocaine. However, certain medications — most notably, some antidepressants like Prozac — have also been linked to increase risk for violent, even homicidal behavior. Read More
Girls really do care what their moms think, even once they’re all grown up. That’s the message that a new study is conveying after researchers found that college-age women are more likely to report getting the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine if they’d discussed it with their mothers. Read More
It’s unfortunate but true that sometimes the hard facts of science don’t turn out to be so grounded in reality after all. Scientific fraud is certainly not new, but manipulation of medical data is always troubling, and potentially deadly, for the public. Read More
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