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10 Ig Nobel Prizes For 2012: Recognition Of Funny, Obscure Research

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Turkey Tail Mushroom HALTS Prostate Cancer: China & Japan Used It For Centuries

by T Goodman

For centuries, a truly 'magic' mushroom has been used in China and Japan to cure or assist the cure of cancers! This magic mushroom is the Trametes versicolor (or Coriolus versicolor) commonly known as the turkey tail mushroom because of its layered, feathered appearance. Finally, in 2011, traditional western medicine has learned about the extract from this beautiful mushroom and observed it stop the development of prostate cancer in mice.

Will 'Beating The Blues' Reduce The Risk Of Heart Disease?

by T Goodman

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., and depression is a risk factor for heart disease, including heart attacks and strokes. A psychology professor at Indiana University has just won a $110,000 grant from the American Heart Association to see whether early treatment of depression before heart disease is evident will reduce the likelihood of future heart disease. The study will use a British treatment program called Beating The Blues.

Tylenol Appears To Protect Your Prostate, But What About Your Liver?

by T Goodman

For several years now, warnings about the risk of liver disease have been issued on Tylenol and the many other drugs that contain acetaminophen, and yet acetaminophen is still the most widely prescribed and used pain reliever in the world. Though this year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) limited prescription doses of acetaminophen to 325 mg per tablet, the over-the-counter drugs still contain doses between 500 and 700 mg.

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Japan's Power Plan: Solar Panels for All New Buildings

by Steve Levenstein

What's your roof done for you lately? If you're in Japan, it just might be collecting the Sun's most useful renewable resource, solar power. Even better, if a plan due to be announced by Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan at the upcoming G8 summit in Deauville, France, is carried out, by 2030 every new house and building in the country will be fitted with solar panels.

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"Watson" Goes From 'Jeopardy!' To Medical School

by T Goodman

'Watson,' the IBM super computer system that defeated the best Jeopardy! players on TV, now wants to go to medical school and beat the algorithms off the other medical computers already in the field. When asked if being late to the market was a concern, the big guy said 'Are you kidding? Once I digest 6 million medical text books and 70 million journal articles, I'll kick every lit cell in their systems out to algorithm heaven!"

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How Long Will You Live? A New Blood Test Will Tell You... If You Really Want To Know

by T Goodman

Judgment Day believers need not read this, unless May 21, 2011 has come and gone and you're still here. For those that are interested in a more scientific analysis of their life spans, a British company, Life Length, has the technology to predict how long you will live through a small blood sample.

First Ever AIDS Cure Opens Doors Of Hope For Others

by T Goodman

Timothy Ray Brown has become the first person to be cured of AIDS, an event so unlikely to happen that the word "cure" is not even in the vocabularies of scientists in the fields of HIV/AIDS. But this is not a hoax.

Pet Obesity And Diabetes On Rise, Just Like Humans

by Lady Bee

The State of Pet Health 2011 Report has just been released by Banfield Pet Hospitals, compiled from medical data on 2.1 million dogs and 450,000 cats. The report lists the trends in dog and cat health, or more appropriate, disease, observed within the last five years. Should we be surprised that among other trends, obesity and diabetes is rising in our precious pets?

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The Powerful Tomato Lowers Cholesterol As Well As Most Common Medications!

by T Goodman

There have been several recent studies about the health benefits of tomatoes and tomato products. That bright red pigment called lycopene has been found to lower blood pressure and cholesterol. But a comprehensive report by researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia delves deep into 14 of those studies to find clinical evidence of the exact amounts required in our daily diets. (That includes Bloody Mary's, no?)

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Doctors Misdiagnose Half Of Those With Early Alzheimer's Disease

by T Goodman

Researchers at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, Spain have uncovered a sad truth about early onset Alzheimer's disease - that more than half of those who develop it are misdiagnosed because they exhibit symptoms not customarily associated with Alzheimer's.