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Drug researchers have been trying for at least as long as regular Viagra for men to make a version of the same for women.
Sometimes, they’ve even gone as far as testing regular Viagra on women for the same effects.
And of course, results were inconsistent.
Well, just a few days ago, the FDA approved the newest drug-salvo in that pleasure war, Addyi.
But unfortunately, if it’s a victory at all, it’s a Pyrrhic one…
[-at least in early trials]
So, forget the miracle cure-stories of the Georgia doctor and the Texas nurse; for now.
A group of medical aid organizations from the United Kingdom, Norway & France made it all possible,
-Crunching a normally years-long process down to 12 months or less to get Merck’s vaccine out there and save at least 4,000+ people…
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First it was our old friend Vioxx that caused about 140,000 heart attacks in the early 2000s.
As a result, the FDA began warning people about the risk of heart attack and stroke with this class of meds as far back as 2005.
Still further, it seems biotech researchers suspected those risks for as-long-as 15 years; at least in high-dose cases.
Well Now: The FDA is putting its foot down still further and ramping up warnings on even garden variety…
As much as I was dismayed at Google Health shutting down, I am equally excited at Google Calico launching.
-Which is apparently so badass, that the former CEO of Genentech and current Chairman of Apple, yes -that- Apple, is going to run it,
And puts Curing Cancer on the list of its Easy goals; -Hard ones like serious life-extension to follow.
KurzweilAI?, 2045 Project? -You are all toast…
A few adults in Scotland are lacking in the awesomeness department.
-As put on display by their reaction to school-lunch nutrition blogger and awesomeness expert, Martha Payne.
Not only couldn’t they handle the public discussion heat brought on by Martha’s photo-reviews,
The local council tried to silence her with some ne-plus-ultra-idioticratic bullying…
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Similar to the previous groundbreaking operation for a manufactured trachea,
a ten-year-old girl in Sweden was spared the considerable future discomfort from outrageous prices at the BMW Water-Pump Casino normal replacement-harvesting via the somatic-Jesus of a bioengineered part; this time a major blood vessel.
She’d had a blocked vein to her liver and was experiencing…
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So, thanks to the research of Keith Cowing over at SpaceRef, we now know that the claims by Ameriscience that NASA had developed antioxidant softgels for the skin were incorrect.
Keith also goes on to note that the doctor whose alleged quotes were circulated is unpaid, uncontactable, works in the Family Practice & Preventive Medicine departments, and the only thing a person with that name ever published on Astro-Nautery was…
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In a study of 12 1,200 people, Columbia researchers have come up with at least an association between Dementia/Alzheimer’s and Omega 3 intake. -One that’s been hinted at many times before.
It turns out that people who get more were observed to have lower incidence of the “Doddering Granny” varieties of brain disease.
And in a strange-for-medecine interesting turn…
