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Environmental Agents Trigger Autoimmune Thyroid Disease/ Medscape
From the Medscape report from the American Thyroid Association Meeting: Multiple genetic and environmental risk factors can trigger autoimmune thyroid disease in humans, according to experts here at the American Thyroid Association (ATA) Spring 2010 Meeting. Gregory A. Brent, MD, professor of medicine and physiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University…
Anthrax investigation still yielding findings: Chemical composition of spores doesn’t match suspect flask.
Nature article by Roberta Kwok discusses the American Society for Microbiology’s Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland on February 24, 2009. Excerpt: Joseph Michael, a materials scientist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, presented analyses of three letters sent to the New York Post and to the offices of Senators…
The surgeon general calls on Big Tech to turn over Covid-19 misinformation data/ NY Times
This is truly frightening. Misinformation (to be controlled via tech companies) is being treated as a crime, though never defined. A bill has been introduced to give the tech companies cover to censor and turn over private data to government. In other words, Congress may ‘legalize’ censorship and criminalize first amendment rights to freedom of…
FDA attempts to stop OTC sales of N-acetyle cysteine, an adjunctive treatment for Covid-19
Last July, FDA sent out warning letters to supplement companies, informing them that N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) could no longer be marketed as an ingredient in food supplements, using the justification that it was also a licensed drug. FDA has concluded that NAC products are excluded from the dietary supplement definition under section 201(ff)(3)(B)(i) of the…
Five Recent Medical News Stories That Invite Cynicism/ John Mandrola, MD
From Dr. Mandrola at Medscape, a compilation of recent events in medical “science” that make one wonder whether the practice of medicine is going to last much longer, given the amount of corruption now woven into it: Cynic: A person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or…
Swine Flu: One killer virus, three key questions/ Nature
Nature (Brendan Maher & Declan Butler) report from three laboratories scrutinizing the pandemic flu virus.This is an interesting article about basic research on the swine flu virus at CDC Atlanta, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, and INSERM at Lyon. Plenty of background as in a Laurie Garrett story, but no amazing new insights.