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Healthier Looking Julian Assange Filmed Briefly Emerging from Solitary Confinement…

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On Monday WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was seen in rare footage captured by news crews scrambling to get a view of him leaving Westminster Magistrates’ Court in a high secure police van. He appeared pale and frail, but according to eyewitnesses present in the court during his brief preliminary extradition hearing he looked much healthier […]

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Announces She Is Cancer Free…

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Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg announced this week that she is cancer-free after her latest treatments for pancreatic cancer. “I’m cancer-free. That’s good,” Ginsburg told CNN’s Joan Biskupic. The 86-year-old Supreme Court justice underwent three weeks of radiation treatment at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in August 2019 after doctors discovered a cancerous […]

Your New Heart Could Be Made in China…

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Recently, a Chinese startup named Qihan Biotech raised $20 million to develop replacement organs for humans. The smallish deal would hardly have rated a headline, except for the fact that the Hangzhou-based gene-editing company is aiming to grow those organs in pigs and other animals. If successful, such transplants could well transform medicine. And, thanks […]

Former Fighter Pilots Developing Aggressive Cancers: Is Radar to Blame?…

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Former fighter pilots are developing especially intrusive forms of cancer, and some suspect it’s from exposure to intense radar systems. “We are dropping like flies in our 50s from aggressive cancers,” retired Air Force Col. Eric Nelson, a former F-15 weapons officer, told McClatchy. Nelson has seen fellow aviators he flew with and commanded diagnosed […]

Scientists Are Closing in on a Blood Test for Alzheimer’s…

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Scientists are closing in on a long-sought goal — a blood test to screen people for possible signs of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. On Monday at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Los Angeles, half a dozen research groups gave new results on various experimental tests. One of them seems 88% accurate. […]

President Trump Announces Executive Order on Healthcare Price Transparency…

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We’re here to announce new groundbreaking actions that we’re taking to dramatically increase quality, affordability, and fairness to our healthcare system. This landmark initiative continues our campaign to put American patients first. This is a truly big action. People have no idea how big it is. Some people say bigger than healthcare itself. This is […]

Purdue Infiltrated WHO, Manipulated Opioid Policies to Boost Sales…

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Infamous OxyContin-maker Purdue Pharma used front organizations and sponsored research to deceive the World Health Organization and corrupt global public health policies with the goal of boosting international opioid sales and profits, according to a Congressional report(PDF) released Thursday, May 22. The investigation identified two WHO guidance documents that appear to parrot some of Purdue’s […]

You’re Not Getting Enough Sleep—and It’s Killing You…

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The whole world is exhausted. And it’s killing us. But particularly me. As I write this, I’m at TED 2019 in Vancouver, which is a weeklong marathon of talks and workshops and coffee meetings and experiences and demos and late-night trivia contests and networking, networking, networking. Meanwhile, I’m sick as a dog with a virus […]

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