Archive for July 2020

brain mapping Psychedelic

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brain mapping Psychedelic - Drugs such as psilocybin, the active ingredient in magic mushrooms, play all kinds of tricks on the mind. They distort the perception of time, space, and self, and even untether way. Some researchers thought that these strange effects may result from drugs excite the brain....

FDA on course, but requires companies to Kick In Fresher

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FDA on course, but requires companies to Kick In Fresher - Like many organizations, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will have a relatively flat budget if President Barack Obama has his way, with one notable exception. Although the amount provided to the FDA by the government will not change...

Iceman was a medical mess

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Iceman was a medical mess - Few of our ancestors were so poked and prodded like Neolithic Tyrolean iceman "Ötzi," cast out on an Alpine glacier in 1991. Researchers probed his stomach and bowels for traces of its last meal and analyzed his teeth for cavities. Now, an international team has sequenced...

Live Chat: too dangerous to publish

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Live Chat: too dangerous to publish - See below for the chat box. Join us every Thursday at 15 pm EDT for a live conversation with scientists and experts worldwide. Today Topic Thursday, a US Senate committee held a hearing to examine how the government should regulate the...

Prostate Cancer Test Gets a failing grade

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Prostate Cancer Test Gets a failing grade - In a decision that has already provoked a reaction, an American expert group ransacked today a popular blood test for risk prostate cancer, saying its use is doing more harm than good. the healthy men need not be examined by measuring the levels of prostate...

Panel Senate approves $ 100 million Boost for NIH in 2013

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Panel Senate approves $ 100 million Boost for NIH in 2013 - The Senate Finance Committee yesterday approved a modest increase of $ 100 million for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fiscal 2013, which begins October 1. The 0.3% bump for a total of $ 30.723 billion is slightly better than...

Replies ScienceLive Don Catlin

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Replies ScienceLive Don Catlin - Watchdog. Don Catlin of the University of California, Los Angeles, is an authority on doping in sport. Damian Dovarganes / AP photo last Thursday, we organized a science Live Chat on "Science Olympics" in which we asked...

NIH Grant to Psychiatrist defends Sanctioned

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NIH Grant to Psychiatrist defends Sanctioned - The National Institutes of Health (NIH) defends his decision three months ago to award a research grant from Charles Nemeroff, the former psychiatrist at Emory University who got into trouble if not his university around at least $ 1.2 million in consulting...

Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs Go Wild

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Antibiotic-Resistant Bugs Go Wild - One of the most famous and difficult to treat in humans bacteria was found in wildlife, according to a new study in the Journal of Wildlife diseases . The researchers isolated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in both rabbits and shore birds....

Revved-Up Fights Aging Protein

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Revved-Up Fights Aging Protein - An unlikely decadelong journey that began with the discovery of a rapidly aging mice has led scientists to a protein that appears to protect animals against cancer and other scourges of old age without apparent disadvantages. There are still many mysteries about the...

Polio Virus Spreads From Pakistan to Egypt

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Polio Virus Spreads From Pakistan to Egypt - On the move. poliovirus from Pakistan, where the disease is still endemic, was found in wastewater in Egypt, which has been polio-free since 04. Here is a girl in Pakistan receives polio vaccine drops. Global Initiative...

Early treatment can cure infection with HIV baby

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Early treatment can cure infection with HIV baby - Good riddance. Deborah Persaud during a press conference described the child cured of HIV infection. Jon Cohen ATLANTA -A baby in rural Mississippi seems to have been cured of HIV infection, probably because...
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