Daily Archives: May 7, 2015

Scientists Issue Warning Over Chemicals Common In Carpets, Coats, Cookware

In 1961, a DuPont toxicologist warned colleagues that exposure to their company’s increasingly popular Teflon chemicals enlarged the livers of rats and rabbits. Studies over the following decades found no safe level of exposure in animals and determined that humans, too, got sick when exposed to the chemicals — which were also seen to build… Read More »

Could cake and chocolate lead to Alzheimer’s disease? – Telegraph

New research suggests sugary foods such as cake and chocolate may be the cause of Alzheimer’s disease. In the Journal of Clinical Investigation, researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine wrote that high blood sugar levels could have “harm effects on brain function and exacerbate neurological conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease”. • Anyone for… Read More »

Someone elses shit up your ass is an effective treatment for Clostridium difficile infection – The Clinical Advisor

HealthDay News — Fecal transplantation appears to be a safe and effective way to combat Clostridium difficile infection, according to findings published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The risk for a first reoccurrence is 10% to 20%, but the rate increases to 40% to 60% after one recurrence, according to an accompanying editorial written… Read More »

Beautiful Devil; Melinda Raisch, serves only 9 years for murdered her husband David Harmon in 1982, freed after 9 years in prison – CBS News

OLATHE, Kan. – A woman convicted of murdering her husband in their Kansas home walked free Wednesday after serving just 9 years for the crime, reports CBS affiliate KCTV. In 1982, Melinda Raisch’s husband, 25-year-old David Harmon, was bludgeoned to death in their bedroom. At the time, Raisch told police two intruders knocked her out… Read More »