I hope Michael will forgive me for a little bit of news unrelated to politics, though it is in some ways loosely related. I just feel everyone should know about this amazing program.
I was just looking at some of the latest Digg headlines, when I noticed this article about a web crawling bot that scours the Internet looking for outbreaks of disease around the world.
”In October 2006, Dr. Claudia Henschke of Weill Cornell Medical College jolted the cancer world with a study saying that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented through widespread use of CT scans.” Good news, of course. Lung cancer not as terrible as many thought. The only minor problem? It now seems that the research was - partially - paid for by a cigarette company. (more…)
Good news for people - like my mother - who suffer from ME: “British researchers are close to developing, for the first time, a blood test and potential drug treatments for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), following groundbreaking work on its genetic origins.” (more…)
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