Tag Archives: medicine

The long and the short of it

From The long and the short of it: “With cosmetic surgery, we can change almost any aspect of our appearance - except our height. But with new research claiming tall people are wealthier, happier, even, some say, more intelligent, Americans are already demanding growth hormone injections for their children. But does size really matter?”

Woman Has Rare Case of Bubonic Plague - Yahoo! News

It seems someone is a little jealous at all the attention that the bird flu has been getting recently, and has decided to show the world what will happen if they forget about plague (that last line should sound as if Dr. Dre was saying it: “if they forget about plague.” Get it?). Anyway, Yahoo! [...]

AIDS cure?

[Props to Justin on this one.]
There is a chance that researchers at Brigham Young University in Salt Lake City have found a cure for AIDS. Preliminary results of a certain compound show that the compound, Ceragenins (CSAs), “appears to hunt down and kill HIV.” The same compound may also cure influenza, smallpox, and herpes. You [...]

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