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Bill Clinton's Madness: A Consequence of Heart-Bypass?



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Brain Damage from Bypass?

One of the savviest politicians of our generation, known for his wit, charm, and calm under extreme pressure, Bill Clinton appears out of character in the speeches and interviews televised since his bypass surgery September 6, 2004 - and his mental deterioration may be accelerating. Remember, this is the president who withstood public impeachment before the entire world for his relationship with Monica Lewinsky without once losing control. Now, he is easily angered by hecklers, and makes factual mistakes and racial slurs while aggressively defending his wife's campaign for presidency. Everyone sees his mental and emotional decline, yet to date, no medical professionals have spoken out about the cause or offered help.

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Psychologist tells how to keep aging brain at optimum level

"Moment by moment you create your brain."

That was a statement made at the end of an Ideal Aging lecture at Quail Creek on last week by psychologist Joyce Shaffer, Ph.D, who has spent more than 40 years studying brain activity.

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Some 200 Coe-Brown students sick on Friday with flu-like symptoms

NORTHWOOD - Though Coe-Brown Academy shut down Friday after hundreds of students were out sick with flu-like symptoms, the school is expected to be open Monday.

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Flu wave lightens up after prolonged season of severe symptoms

Our long influenza nightmare is almost over.

After an unusually intense attack, this winter's nasty flu is easing its stranglehold on Arizona, finally allowing our frantic ERs to take a deep breath.

But it's leaving behind the highest number of confirmed flu cases in Pima County - at least 782 - since we began counting them.

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Unconscious decisions in the brain

Long before you decided to read this story, your brain may have already said "click that link".

By scanning the brains of test subjects as they pressed one button or another - though not a computer mouse - researchers pinpointed a signal that divulged the decision about seven seconds before people ever realised their choice. The discovery has implications for mind-reading, and the nature of free will.

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Fire crew's cancer mystery

The lone survivor of a cancer cluster at Atherton Fire Station fears the cause will never be uncovered, despite an investigation finding the rate of brain tumours was up to 62 times higher than the state average.

Queensland Health yesterday confirmed a cancer cluster at the Tableland station and announced a statewide probe to examine any link between firefighting and cancer.

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When brain death isn't terminal

How did a man declared brain dead by medical professionals end up back in the land of the living? The emergence of Zack Dunlap's story last month made some people wonder if it's possible to be written off prematurely in the trauma ward.

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Building Baby From the Genes Up

The two British couples no doubt thought that their appeal for medical help in conceiving a child was entirely reasonable. Over several generations, many female members of their families had died of breast cancer. One or both spouses in each couple had probably inherited the genetic mutations for the disease, and they wanted to use in-vitro fertilization and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to select only the healthy embryos for implantation. Their goal was to eradicate breast cancer from their family lines once and for all.

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Speaker says advances in genetics pose new human rights challenges

A torrent of new information on human genetics could pose acute challenges to human rights in the near future, according to an expert in the history of medicine.

Daniel Kevles, a professor at Yale University, warns that dramatic advances in genetic science have "revived some of the old issues" surrounding the eugenics movement that flourished in the United States and Europe during the early part of the 20th century.

Kevles, author of In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity, gave the Second Annual Heinz and Virginia Herrmann Distinguished Lecture on Science and Human Rights at Konover Auditorium April 3.

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Embryo Research May Never Produce Cures: Head of UK Stem Cell Network

Lord Patel of Dunkeld, chairman of the UK National Stem Cell Network and chancellor of Dundee University, told the Scotsman earlier this week that research involving stem cells would likely lead to therapies, but that ultimately such treatments could prove too risky for human use.

He also said it could be five to ten years before viable stem cell treatments were available. But even then, he observed, "We have to be cautious. It may not deliver therapy for anything. We may find that stem therapy is quite a risky business."