Cancer rates and life expectancy?
An online acquaintance asked me me to find data about these two and look for a relationship. It stands to reason that if you have a country where people die…
Review: Bad Pharma
https://www.goodreads.com/book/similar/19171192-bad-pharma-how-drug-companies-mislead-doctors-and-harm-patients http://lib.free-college.org/view.php?id=864114 Having already read Peter Gøtzsche's Dødelig medicin og organiseret kriminalitet: Hvordan medicinalindustrien har korrumperet sundhedsvæsenet. Art People, 2013, this book did not bring so much new. However,…
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis, embryo slection
Kuliev, Anver, and Yury Verlinsky. "Preimplantation diagnosis: a realistic option for assisted reproduction and genetic practice." Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology 17.2 (2005): 179-183. Preimplantation diagnosis a realistic option…
Reading material on cognitive epidemiology
I recently got interested in a new field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_epidemiology Cognitive epidemiology is a field of research that examines the associations between intelligence test scores (IQ scores or extracted g-factors) and…
Flouride in drinking water and … IQ?
From somone named <Anonymous> on G+ i saw a link to a blogpost from a doctor about the dangers of fouride. that sounded interesting but potentially nutty (conspiracy nuts like…
Wikipedia on contraception, abortion, and everything in between!
I really just was curious to know how whores in older times avoided getting pregnant... but it turned into a longer read. Here are some excerpts. Enjoy :) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_condoms…
Review of 100+ (Sonia Arrison)
http://www.amazon.com/100-Plus-Longevity-Everything-Relationships/dp/0465019668/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342698160&sr=8-1&keywords=100+plus An okay to good introduction to the science and thinking behind rejuvination research and radically extended life-spans. Fairly cheap. Some of the points are rather questionable tho. I…
Re: Why Would You Remove Half a Brain? The Outcome of 58 Children After Hemispherectomy—The Johns Hopkins Experience: 1968 to 1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemiplegia Paper: Why Would You Remove Half a Brain The Outcome of 58 Children After Hemispherectomy—The Johns Hopkins Experience 1968 to 1996 This is really strange but also interesting!…
Do u want kids with bad eyes?
Seriusly? Perhaps geting kids with myopia is not such a bad idea. Multiple studis show that IQ is korelated with myopia. Thats rather stranj. I red the Wikipedia artikle and…
Multi-vitamins, not good for u after all?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/health/17well.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivitamin#Scientific_assessment The evidens seems to be mixed. This is an unfortunate situation bekus it is a forsed chois: one has to eether take vitamins or not. The kost is…