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voodoostation's Articles In Health & Medicine
March 9, 2006 by voodoostation
Alright, so the title may be a little misleading, but there may be some merit to it. Obesity has been on the rise since the inception of this country, but only recently (the last twenty years) has it reached pandemic status. Think about that for a moment. More and more jobs have been sent overseas, labor intensive jobs, work that actually made a person break a sweat. We've begun this gradual progression from an industrial, manufacturing entity to wait staff, trading steel toed boots for ...
June 1, 2004 by voodoostation
Judge Phyllis Hamilton declared the ban on partial birth abortions unconstitutional today, according the Associated Press. Now, I'm not against abortion, but this type is particularly troublesome. If you have to wait until the third trimester before deciding to abort, then it seems to me to be like taking off your parachute pack as the chute deploys. I don't know how you define a baby, but if you've ever seen footage and photographs of these "medical procedures", there may be a striking re...
March 24, 2004 by voodoostation
In a study published almost a week ago in the journal Nature, a laboratory in New York, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has uncovered some remarkable findings in cancer killing research. Dr. Hans- Guido Wendel, colleauges Dr. Scott Lowe and Professor Jerry Pelletier found the combination of two chemicals, rapamycin and doxorubicin actually wiped out tumours on laboratory mice. Rapamycin, an antibiotic, is derived from a fungus found thus far only on Easter Island. It hs for some time...