Phenylephrine and other related medications, like Sudafed PE, don’t work. A small example of the larger problem. This is nothing new in our privatized, deregulated US medical system. Most drugs don’t work, and most treatments by physicians don’t work. Whether it’s stenting of those with stable heart disease, where 75% of stents are unneeded, or …
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Looking for diseases in all the wrong places – the genome – has led to billions of wasted dollars in research and treatments, and financial toxicity for patients As an example, let’s consider cancer. Cancer is a preventable disease triggered by environmental factors. A dramatic rise in cancer is occurring world-wide, including younger people, and …
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The New Deal in our backyard. The Berkeley Rose Garden was one of the first Civil Works Progress Projects built under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It was conceived in 1933 and completed and dedicated for public use in September 1937. East Bay rose societies and community members donated hundreds of hours of volunteer time. …
Tech workers say they regret moving to the triple-digit city, given its middling tech scene, horid weather and traffic, and “fake” atmosphere. Austin is where ambition goes to die, if the bullets don’t kill it first. People are moving in droves to San Francisco and the city’s buildings are filling again. The much ballyhooed move …
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As I watch Texas oil money purchasing TV stations, and newspapers becoming corporatized, including in California, I see more and more people marching to the tune of oil (and other) plutocrats. I spend time in San Diego and Berkeley, CA and have been watching what’s happening in these two booming cities, as well as our …
Senator Diane Feinstein and Mitch McConnell must go. They have both had long and productive careers in the Senate. Republican and Democratic handlers need to stop abusing these people. Stop. You’re making them look like fools, which neither was until you propped them up for your own power moves. Shame on you.
Professor Doctor Andreas Beyer, Ph.D., at the University of Cologne, Institute for Genetics in Germany, along with his research team has discovered that as we age, a critical process in our cells, called gene transcription, speeds up. This process involves making a copy of a specific DNA strand into the form of RNA. When the …
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With money from QVT, a hedge fund, Vivek’s company purchased a failed drug from GSK, renamed it, and performed a non-scientific post-hoc analysis of the failed drug where they cherry picked data and spun it to pump up the company’s stock. Once the stock price soared after the hysterical mass media, such as CNBC, talked …
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Many biological systems exhibit remarkably high phenotype robustness, despite mutations. Mutations matter not. It’s the environment, stupid. And the environment is increasingly toxic. Diseases, including cancer, result. The headline reads, “Cancer rates in people younger than 50 are rising, new study finds. Doctors don’t yet know why.” In 1977, four scientists, Higginso, Muir, Doll, Peto …
Despite the Right-Wing Media BS, San Francisco is Safe. San Jose, CA is the safest big city, and in my hometown, San Diego, the second largest city in California, the rate was 6.0/100,000. Lower than San Francisco. California is booming, and the state’s tech economy continues to create wealthy people, especially in San Francisco. Nineteen Fortune …
Stem Cells, Health, Technology 