The has to the absolute epitome of chutzpa. Guess which party had the gall to put out a statement against the Democrats plan to reform health care?
[t]he federal government would run a health care system–or a public plan option–with the compassion of the IRS, the efficiency of the post office, and the incompetence of Katrina.
This takes balls. Who are they speaking to? Dems? Independent? Or only their remaining 21% public support?
Now this is very good news for our rapidly aging population (including me).
US scientists say they have successfully reversed the effects of Alzheimer’s with experimental drugs. The drugs target and boost the function of a newly pinpointed gene involved in the brain’s memory formation. In mice, the treatment helped restore long-term memory and improve learning for new tasks, Nature reports.
The same drugs – HDAC inhibitors – are currently being tested to treat Huntington’s disease and are on the market to treat some cancers.
Now this is very good news for our rapidly aging population (including me).
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US scientists say they have successfully reversed the effects of Alzheimer’s with experimental drugs. The drugs target and boost the function of a newly pinpointed gene involved in the brain’s memory formation. In mice, the treatment helped restore long-term memory and improve learning for new tasks, Nature reports.
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The same drugs – HDAC inhibitors – are currently being tested to treat Huntington’s disease and are on the market to treat some cancers.
(h/t BoingBoing)
A bit of levity in the H1N1 worry, from Ken Layne at True/Slant:
I kept a safe distance of six or eight feet behind each shopping party, and when an obese woman began coughing I abandoned my cart and sprinted away. I wanted to yell, Why are you trying to kill me? But then my mouth would be open, and the death germs could fly right in like the Millennium Falcon flew into the Death Star.
He offered this bit of pandemic news earlier.
And he seems to have left his family:
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If you liked Supersize Me, King Corn, Fast Food Nation, Our Daily Bread or any of the other recent food production films, you will probably like Food Inc., coming out in June. If it is recommended by Alice Waters, that’s good enough for me.
The H1N1 virus is still raising hell in Mexico.
Mexico urged its citizens to stay home Thursday, suspending government services and asking businesses to close for five days, amid the World Health Organization’s warning that a global flu pandemic appeared imminent.
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon said in a televised address that only essential businesses such as supermarkets, hospitals and pharmacies should stay open, and only critical government workers such as police and soldiers would be on duty from Friday through Tuesday. School had already been canceled nationwide.
A three judge federal court has ruled that a vaccine did not cause autism. The case refuted three separate theories as to how a vaccine could cause the disease. A victory for science.