Korean Convenience Store Buffet ACHTUNG!!! -US Food-borne Illnesses Cost $152B!

So; hrm, next time you're deciding whether or not to microwave that affordable steam-tray roadkill
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Posted by Will on 03/ 7/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Cheeky Monkey UPDATE!: Reader Zach Crunches Some Research For Us On Stomach Flu

Fellow mV-ers, Check this out:

Now that cold+flu season is in full swing, I thought it would be a plus to the site for one of our commenters to have his say come up in a post.

Our pal Zach had a very detailed read of one of the full studies cited in the Cheeky Monkey Stomach Flu post awhile back.

He was nice enough to cook down some of the conclusions into his comment which

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Posted by Will on 02/12/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

How Science Reporting Works

Funny, but

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Posted by Will on 01/13/10 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Hey, Let's All Play Along! -It's Cellphone Football!!!

Hey look Junior, it's the ocean! -Go Swim!

Insomnia! Confusion? Headaches! -Oh My!

2008-India To Join CP Study Mosh Pit; -you know, 'cause all the cool kids are doing it, Mom!

2008-STUK,Finland: May Alter Proteins in Skin

2007-Cleveland: Damaged Sperm

2007-MTHR,UK: Could Be As Dangerous As Cigarettes

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Posted by Will on 08/ 6/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Clay-Eating Cheeky Monkeys And The Elusive Stomach Flu / Viral Gastroenteritis Remedy

Like many brilliant men before me, such as Eddie Izzard, I believe that most problems and their solutions come down to Monkeys. -And The French.

Okay, I've had this more than once this year and it's been excruciating.
It's also No Fun to hear of your friends and relatives writing writhing in agony when waiting seems to be the only strategy & Advil + Pepto doesn't work that well.

So, with their bandmate Eddie, (he'd probably play bass) I'd like return to the Monkeys.

Animal Planet Moment: It turns out there are some

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Posted by Will on 07/25/08 | Comments (2) | Email to a friend |

Stephen Colbert Makes Dean Kamen Remove Doritos From Water

I could go on about how Perpetual Hairstyle Makeover Candidate Dean Kamen saves the third world with a machine they can't afford, that will be taken right off the UNICEF trucks by warlords and sold to Idi Amin's grandchildren so they can run hexavalent chromium-removal experiments in Ye Olde Backyard Minefield, and how anything that evaporates at or near water's evap point may collect also (like hydrocarbons), if not allowed to escape in a very sneaky way. -AND how distilled water will literally pull the minerals right out of your bones and teeth if you don't add it back into the water for the lucky 3rd-worlders who Do see one of Dean's boxes, but Screwit! -Here's a funny vid after teh jump!:...[read more >>]

Posted by Will on 05/15/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Compound Reverses Alzheimer's In Minutes

(just Like Gardasil, another) Shot Heard 'Round The World, mortals!1!

Neuroscientists from UCLA and USC inject an Alzheimer's patient with an anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) agent called etanercept (brand name Enbrel) and the patient shows Marked cognitive improvement within minutes.

The published papers focus on only 1 of the patients, though many

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Posted by Will on 01/15/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Soda With High Fructose Corn Syrup Further Linked to Health Problems

EN GARDE, Soda Drinkers!!! :( No, this is not an entry on how to make a sub-nuclear pipe bomb out of a 2-Liter Splenda-fied bottle of Diet Coke, 2oz. Ammonia, #0000 Steel Wool, and a pack of Mentos. (try BoingBoing for that)

Researcher Extraordinarie, Dr. Chi Tang Ho and his associates at Rutgers Food Science Department have tested several carbonated sodas containing that longtime mV "Agent Smith"

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Posted by Will on 08/31/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Generic Drugs Apparently More Profitable Than Meth, Crack, etc. -Almost ~1000% Markup

Yet another in the series of "Too Good to Wait", it's: Forget zee Whyyte Laydee! Drop Dat Blunt! -Look out, Pablo!

=^CVS!;... -In- -Da- -HOUSE-!!!!^=

-Apparently Generic Prescription Drugs are a more lucrative market than the rockings of the crack. -And Walgreen's is one of the chief dealers (of marked-up generics; not crack, silly rabbit ;) ).

In one study by the Freakonomics Blog,

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Posted by Will on 03/16/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Nanotech Ultra Mega Mesothelioma Asbestosis w/a Half-Gainer off the High-Dive

Once upon a time, "back in the day"(s) when afro hairdos were huge and Bruce Lee had just officially become a God, a few enterprising caffeineheads decided to make a better mousetrap coffee cup; styrofoam, that is.

They were sick and tired of their coffee

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Posted by Will on 02/25/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Fat Loss & BioChem Mashup: Diet Can Mitigate Epilepsy

At the intersection of fat loss fads and a problemmatic disease, comes the use of a fairly old diet that helps reduce seizures where incidents are frequent and anti-convulsants stumble.

The various Keto Diet study results thus far seem to reflect the greatest benefit for children instead of adults. It was unclear why. -Were the adults drinking on the side? Was there increased neuroplasticity in children?

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Posted by Will on 12/19/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Does the Weather / Jetstream Affect MS Rates in Scotland?

Recently, I was reading that the small country of Scotland has the highest Per Capita Rate of Multiple Sclerosis in the world. It got me thinking about some potential causes.

On Wikipedia, it said MS has some relation to the vitamins that one normally gets as a result of exposure to solar radiation.

-Could the high latitude be working in concert with Scotland's

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Posted by Will on 10/10/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Dirty = Good? and the 'Hygiene Hypothesis'

Championing the emerging field of being as Drrrty as possible, model citizens like Carmen Electra, Paris Hilton and Christina Aguilera may actually be on to something.

In a recent study by Duke researchers, it was shown that wild rats which are exposed to microbes have much higher levels of two antibodies than lab rats.

The difference in the two groups was as low as +2x and as high as +11.5x.

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Posted by Will on 06/22/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Tykerb Helps Delay Spread of Breast Cancer

The experimental drug Tykerb has been shown to reduce the spread of breast cancer when combined with Xeloda, in a study led by Dr. Charles Geyer, Jr.

The combination of the 2 drugs almost doubled the delay when compared to trials done on Xeloda alone.

Tykerb belongs to a class of drugs that are more specifically-targeted and kill less

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Posted by Will on 06/ 5/06 | Comments (3) | Email to a friend |

Regrow Hair with Saw Palmetto

Our friends over at Hair Loss Buddy report on a Hair-Regrowth Contest held in England over the course of 1 year.

The winner of the contest was someone taking freeze-dried Saw Palmetto Berries.

And as only HLB seems to do, he takes it to the next level with another supplement even more powerful

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Posted by Will on 06/ 2/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

The Dangers of DHMO

Due to the fairly-recent breakthrough research of scientists Eric Lechner, Lars Norpchen, Tom Way, Nathan Zohner and others, it has been shown that another chemical compound is pervasively affecting lives all around the country (and probably the world).

This insidious substance is called DHMO, and is sometimes known as hydric acid or hydroxic acid.

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Posted by Will on 04/ 1/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Crestor Cleans Arteries Like a Vascular Roto-Rooter

(ok, closer to drano, but still...)

In a recently-published study conducted by The Cleveland Clinic, the statin drug Crestor has been shown a “reversal of coronary artery disease”.

There are some caveats, but these results are still a semi-watershed event in the history of cholesterol and atherosclerosis treatment.

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Posted by Will on 03/31/06 | Comments (4) | Email to a friend |

Prevent Disease by Reducing Inflammation

(-not really an answer, but more of an idea to start a discussion; either here, or with your doctor-)

There are an increasing number of diseases and ailments that are linked to types of Inflammation. --Some cancers, diabetes, dementia, Alzheimer's, arthritis and others.

Since many people already take Aspirin on a daily basis

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Posted by Will on 03/ 7/06 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

'Natural' Beef Sales Increase with Mad Cow Concerns

-Although the government spec for it is a bit squishy, the market for 'Natural' beef is increasing at about 20% per year. This is largely due to fears about Mad Cow Disease (BSE). Given the natural/organic market share is presently 1%, that growth rate is still slow.

As the market for 'Natural' is increasing, the overall beef market is down from 25.1 billion pounds in 1995 to 24.6 billion pounds this year.

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Posted by Will on 10/24/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Gardasil Stupendously Effective at Preventing Some Cervical Cancers

A recently concluded study by Merck & Co. on its drug Gardasil showed extraordinary promise at preventing some types of cervical cancer.

The drug which involves technology licensed from CSL Ltd. in Australia, was the center of a study on 12,000+ women aged 16 to 26 in 13 countries all around the world.

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Posted by Will on 10/ 6/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Tea Shows Promise in Alzheimer's Fight

Dr. Ed Okello and his team from Newcastle University, UK have found some encouraging results in preliminary tests on tea in slowing Alzheimer's Disease.

Their findings, published in the Journal 'Phytotherapy Research', show that black and green tea affect the actions of a few enzymes known to have involvement in the disease.

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Posted by Will on 08/31/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Drop That Pipe Granny and Stand Up Straight!

Researchers at the University of Aberdeen have made a breakthrough in osteoporosis research.

They have found that chemicals called endogenous cannabinoids, related chemically to cannabis, can exacerbate osteoporosis. This type of cannabinoids is produced naturally in our bodies.

Blocking them and their attachment to receptors

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Posted by Will on 07/29/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Selenium May Reduce Several Cancer Rates

Chief author Dr. Larry Clark, Bruce W. Turnbull and others at Cornell and the University of Arizona have written a study on Selenium and its effects on cancer. It was funded by the NIH and others.

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Posted by Will on 05/20/05 | Comments (2) | Email to a friend |

Table for 1 ?

As if it weren't bad enough, according to CMU grad student Sarah Pressman, it turns out Loneliness could affect your immune system negatively.

It is disturbing that this study neglected to count the number of inverted keg-stands or fraternity indoctrination rituals in the lives of the subjects. If those don't

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Posted by Will on 05/16/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Encouraging Research on Turmeric

Researchers at the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center, Kumamoto University and the University of Rochester Cancer Center are finding some encouraging results in early tests involving the yellow spice, Turmeric.

Their early results suggest it may help slow multiple myeloma and possibly other types of

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Posted by Will on 05/ 9/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

How Fat Kills

The type of tissue itself seems to work against us when in sufficient quantities, according to this article in Wired.

Link

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Posted by Will on 05/ 4/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |