It's a breakthrough that could help thousands of American soldiers returning from dangerous deployments. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe they may have discovered a way to create a vaccine that could prevent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

"What it's going to do is that they'll still have perfectly strong memories of the event. They just won't have the bad health consequences," said Ki Goosens, an assistant professor of neuroscience with the McGovern Institute for Brain Research.

Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle have made a "new" (and completely unsurprising) discovery: chemotherapy, used to treat cancer patients, can actually cause cancer. "Our results indicate that damage responses in benign cells... may directly contribute to enhanced tumor growth kinetics," the team wrote. This is an important blow to dangerous, ineffective cancer treatments and a good step forward for alternative medicine.

Since 1952, the American Psychiatric Association has published the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or the DSM, as a guideline for the classification and diagnoses of mental health issues. The DSM, according to the APA itself, "is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the United States and contains a listing of diagnostic criteria for every psychiatric disorder recognized by the U.S. healthcare system."

Earlier this year, the APA published the DSM-5, the fifth major revision of the manual.

Commonly referred to as the psychiatric diagnostic "bible," the guide has always generated controversy. How are disorders diagnosed? What criteria are used to establish disorders in the first place? Are the categories subjective? Do they reflect cultural biases?

These questions are not unique to the DSM. They have plagued psychiatry since its earliest days. But the DSM, as the base guideline for the use of clinical psychiatrists across America for the past half century, is the place where these philosophical issues are decided in concrete terms.

Some of the DSM's most strident critics dispute the very name of the guide itself, pointing out that it is not statistical and that the term "diagnosis" is itself misleading.

This question of terminology is not mere quibbling over semantics. If the label of "medical diagnosis" is extended to the field of psychiatry, even in the absence of any objective or external criteria for producing that diagnosis, then the medical prognosis of prescription medicine seems justified, perhaps even inevitable. Again, far from an academic debate, the question of when and how to justify pharmaceutical treatment for mental health issues is one with real world implications. Implications that impact the bottom line of the trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry.

Darryl is in jail for life, after being found 'guilty' for killing his partner's daughter, Amy. But there is a lot more than meets the eye to this story.

Parents and Carers worldwide are being falsely accused of harming and killing children shortly after vaccination. An alarming number of adverse reactions to vaccinations are automatically assumed by medical and law enforcement professionals to occur because caregivers have shaken their babies so hard that they have caused them to suffer from 'Shaken Baby Syndrome', defined by a triad of serious brain injuries:

• Retinal haemorrhages (bleeding into the linings of the eyes);
• Subdural haemorrhages (bleeding beneath the dural membrane which covers the brain);
• Encephalopathy (inflammation and swelling of the brain).

Strangely, the medical professionals dismiss adverse reactions to recently administered vaccinations, while parents and carers are automatically assumed to be guilty of horrendous abuse, including the murder of young children. However, if these children have been shaken so violently that it has caused them to suffer extensive brain injuries, then why is it that so many of these children suffer no external injuries as a result of their assault?

We need to ask ourselves, whether just shaking alone can cause these injuries, or are there alternative explanations as to why these injuries occur?

School food is notorious for being low in quality and difficult to look at, but few are doing anything to change the processed and low-nutrient meals being served to the youth.

It is popular belief that cost is the factor inhibiting healthier options, but the group Fed Up disagrees. "There is no major cost difference between nutritious and not nutritious food at schools." In addition, the folks behind the movement report that 71% of kids are unsatisfied with the lunches they're served at school. For these reasons, there are no longer any excuses for not implementing healthier options.

With the growing childhood obesity epidemic in the US, what's being dished up in the lunch line deserves more attention than ever. Fed Up is literally done accepting the poor food-like products being served to adolescents, therefore they encouraged over 25k kids to participate in their "true state of school lunch". This project resulted in over 7,025 photos being sent in to document school lunches from around the country.

Now, Fed Up is allowing visitors to view all the pictures and vote whether to "Eat It" or "Toss It". Here are some examples of what kids are being fed in the US.

• One in twenty women surveyed sleep with the devices next to them in bed

• Some even bought waterproof cases to use phones in the shower

• Half could not go 15 minutes without checking their handset

Nearly half of all women would rather go a month with no sex than be without their phones for the same amount of time.

Some 48 per cent said their iPhone or Android was more important to them than intimacy with another person.

A survey found that one in 20 women adore the devices so much that they sleep in bed with them nestled up to their bodies.

A court in Marseille, France, sentenced the founder of a French company on Tuesday to four years in prison for selling hundreds of thousands of defective breast implants in more than 65 countries.

Jean-Claude Mas, 74, the founder of Poly Implant Prothèse, and four of his former employees were found guilty last spring of aggravated fraud after their company used a less expensive, industrial-grade silicone to fill implants for a decade. The implants ruptured at a much higher rate than the industry norm, leaking silicone into body tissues.

Watch the following 5 minute video on how mercury can cause nerve damage. This is a real eye opener.


Mercury toxicity is the great mimicker of a host of health challenges. Here is a sample of what one should know about mercury toxicity.

1: Mercury is known to denervate nerve fibers, similar to the pathology of multiple sclerosis. In other words it makes it so the nerves do not work.

2: Mercury can leak into the blood-brain barrier and reduce nerve conduction velocity and visual evoked responses, diagnostic tests used for multiple sclerosis.

3: Mercury can inhibit the action (binding) of happy hormones, like serotonin, at the synapse (nerve to nerve connection) leading to depression.

Just seven months ago National Eye Institute researchers claimed fish oil "doesn't seem to help macular degeneration," (1) a sight-robbing eye disease that plagues adults in their senior years.

So how could another newly published study produce exactly opposite results? In fact, fish oil didn't just slow down the insidious progression of this eye disease, it restored vision to every patient placed on high-dose fish oil. It was therapeutic and curative, not just preventive.

The study I'm referring to is likely to be dismissed. The study group was small - only 25 patients. There was no inactive placebo pill given to another group of patients for comparison, a requirement for scientific validity. And it's also possible (but not plausible) that all the patients in the study were abjectly deficient in omega-3 fish oils, producing an atypical effect. But the study group was based in the Mediterranean where fish consumption is high. And it's not likely any placebo effect was involved.

The study is so convincing, especially when combined with all of the positive fish oil studies conducted over the last decade (see chart below), eye physicians would now be derelict in their duty not to recommend every long-living senior adult to consume more fish, or better yet - take concentrated fish oil capsules, if they want to maintain their sight throughout their retirement years.

It has been a year since I started the Paleo diet. I'm amazed by all the wonderful changes that have taken place. The first two weeks were the hardest. I went through some withdrawal symptoms. My regular headaches got pretty extreme, and felt like I was coming down with the flu. I had made a commitment to give it 30 days and I stuck with it, saying that I could give it all up if I didn't start to feel better.

I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia about 5 years ago after trying to figure out what was wrong with me for about five years. I remember the first pain so clearly. My thighs would feel like they were burning. Squatting was no longer possible for more than a few seconds. That can make for some awkward moments when you are doing photography of plants on the ground, or picking things up off the floor. When I took the dogs for a ½ mile or less walk, I would be exhausted. I remember making a promise to my Border Collie puppy that I would never give up taking her out. She got bigger, but the walks didn't get longer.

I gained weight; 60 pounds at the worst of it. I was just turning 40 and I felt like I was 70. Being a librarian, I did research, and then I tried everything. I had my fillings replaced to get the lead out of my body, and I tried so many types of supplements that did nothing but make companies richer. I was addicted to Advil to help me get through a day, and relieve the pain to a point where I was just getting by. I was exhausted all the time, and my body hurt to be touched. My husband would put his hand on my hip, and I would cry out in pain.