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Greece: Girl's twin found inside her stomach


Associated Press
Thu, 15 May 2008 15:49 UTC
A nine-year-old girl who went to hospital suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors in central Greece said Thursday.

Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo about six centimeters (more than two inches) long.

"They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn't suspect that this tumor would hide an embryo," hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said.

The girl has made a full recovery, he said.
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New Study Casts Further Doubt on Risk of Death from Higher Salt Intake


Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Fri, 16 May 2008 15:41 UTC
Contrary to long-held assumptions, high-salt diets may not increase the risk of death, according to investigators from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. They reached their conclusion after examining dietary intake among a nationally representative sample of adults in the U.S. The Einstein researchers actually observed a significantly increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD) associated with lower sodium diets. They report their findings in the advance online edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
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Separation from mom, dad linked with learning trouble in kids


University of Rochester Medical Center
Fri, 16 May 2008 15:06 UTC
In the wake of divorce, illness, violence and other problems that can unsettle homes, countless young children are liable to experience temporary separations from one or both parents before packing their knapsack for kindergarten. Published in the May/June issue of Ambulatory Pediatrics, a new, community-wide study from Rochester, New York, warns that such kids are at increased risk for learning difficulties and that these separations are good predictors of which children may require special educational interventions to succeed.

Previous research on parent-child separation has concentrated on children in foster or kinship care, who are known to often experience considerable emotional, behavioral and developmental problems. Yet little is known about the impact of separation more generally, especially in less formalized situations in which one or more parents temporarily leaves.
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Pattern Recognition, Awareness, and Escape From Abuse

Stormchild
GaleWarnings
Fri, 16 May 2008 09:04 UTC
This concept has been on my mind a lot lately.

If you Google 'pattern recognition', by itself, you'll get a lot of hits about computer programming, and one hit for a spy novel - today, anyway.

But pattern recognition is a lot older than computer programming. And it's about a lot more than being able to tell circles from squares and sawtooth waves from sine waves.

Patterns don't just occur in the carpet, or the linoleum, or in sets of numbers, or on maps. Patterns also occur in behavior, and in time.

In fact, much of the stability of our lives depends on patterns.
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Air pollution can trigger blood clots: study


Individual.com / APU Newswire
Tue, 13 May 2008 07:20 UTC
A research in the United States has suggested that smog from traffic and factories can trigger the formation of potentially deadly blood clots.
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Time Capsule: Husbands, rate your wives in the most sexist way possible!

Nick Joyce and David B. Baker, PhD
Monitor Magazine
Mon, 05 May 2008 04:41 UTC
A psychologist's attempt to improve marriages provides an interesting glimpse into the social norms of the 1930s - and into one of the first scientific matchmaking services.

marital chart
©Archives of the History of American Psychology
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The Facts Behind The Medical Mystery Of Morgellons


KTNV News
Thu, 15 May 2008 19:44 UTC
It has been nearly a year since Action News first started investigating a bizarre skin condition known as Morgellons.

The mysterious infection causes open sores with string like fibers poking out of the skin.

The condition has baffled health officials, leaving patients confused and frustrated.

Action News Kimberly Tere has more on the findings of one San Francisco doctor who says the disease is very real, very serious and talks about what might be causing it.
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Distinct Treatment Needed: Tourette's And Obsessive-compulsive Disorder


Science Daily
Thu, 15 May 2008 18:01 UTC
While 30 to 50 percent of people with Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome are also affected with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), both illnesses might have a distinct neurocognitive profile, according to a new study published in the journal Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Brain Psychiatry by researchers from the Université de Montréal and the Fernand-Seguin Research Centre of the Louis-H Lafontaine Hospital.

"In the study of cerebral activity or the relationship with working memory and attention, this was the first study to show a clear dissociation between OCD and Tourette's dimensions. This could have a major impact in the treatment. It is difficult to treat Tourette's symptoms if you don't identify and address symptoms of OCD first," said Université de Montréal associate researcher Dr. Marc Lavoie, who completed the study with students Geneviève Thibault and Mihaela Felezeu, and clinician collaborators Kieron O'Connor, Christo Todorov and Emmanuel Stip.
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So-Called Education Intentionally Dumbs Down Americans

Heidi Stevenson
NaturalNews
Sun, 11 May 2008 16:55 UTC
As Mike Adams' wonderful analysis of the current state of the world shows in "The Biofuels Scam, Food Shortages and the Coming Collapse of the Human Population", something is deeply wrong in America and the world. It's as if the vast majority of people have given up. Given up caring. Given up thinking. Given up common sense. Given up everything but gluttony.
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Study: Healing Clays 'Exterminate' Superbugs

Adam Miller
NaturalNews
Mon, 12 May 2008 16:50 UTC
Arizona State University researchers presented evidence at the most recent annual meeting of the American Chemical Society that several types of clay exhibit powerful action against disease-causing bacteria.

After two years of research, the ASU team found that of 30 types of clay tested, three displayed a surprisingly strong effect against such deadly bacteria as E. coli, Salmonella, and even the anti-biotic resistant superbug MRSA. The clay killed all or most of these strains and others in vitro. Special emphasis was put on the volcanic soil known as bentonite clay.
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