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If you’re looking for the name of a new pill to “ask your doctor about,” as the ads say, the Mayo Clinic Health Information site is not the place for you. If you’re shopping for a newly branded disorder that might account for your general feeling of unease, Mayo is not for you either. But if you want workaday, can-do health information in a nonprofit environment, plug your symptoms into Mayo’s Symptom Checker. What you’ll get is: No hysteria. No drug peddling. Good medicine. Good ideas.
This is very, very rare on the medical Web, which is dominated by an enormous and powerful site whose name — oh, what the hay, it’s WebMD — has become a panicky byword among laysurfers for “hypochondria time suck.” In more whistle-blowing quarters, WebMD is synonymous with Big Pharma Shilling. A February 2010 investigation into WebMD’s relationship with drug maker Eli Lilly by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa confirmed the suspicions of longtime WebMD users. With the site’s (admitted) connections to pharmaceutical and other companies, WebMD has become permeated with pseudomedicine and subtle misinformation.
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Frank Wisner, President Barack Obama’s envoy to Cairo who infuriated the White House this weekend by urging Hosni Mubarak to remain President of Egypt, works for a New York and Washington law firm which works for the dictator’s own Egyptian government.
Mr Wisner’s astonishing remarks – “President Mubarak’s continued leadership is critical: it’s his opportunity to write his own legacy”– shocked the democratic opposition in Egypt and called into question Mr Obama’s judgement, as well as that of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
US envoy’s business link to Egypt
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America’s fleet of 11 big-deck aircraft carriers just got a lot closer to becoming a lot more dangerous. On Friday afternoon, Northrop Grumman’s X-47B, a prototype for the Navy’s first carrier-capable killer drone, flew for the first time from Edwards Air Force Base in California.“Taking off under hazy skies, the X-47B climbed to an altitude of 5,000 feet, flew several racetrack-type patterns, and landed safely at 2:38 PM PST,” Northrop crowed in a press release. “The flight provided test data to verify and validate system software for guidance and navigation, and the aerodynamic control of the tailless design.”
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YOU SAY YOU WANNA REVOLUTION?
On top of a decrepit building at the front line of the continued battle for control of Cairo’s central square, anti-regime protesters in hardhats swapped shifts this morning after another night of peaceful demonstrations against the rule of President Hosni Mubarak. The roof’s high vantage point has turned into a lookout post into “enemy lines.” From here, demonstrators keep watch, spying for the armed thugs that laid siege on the square earlier this week.
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Men Are Now From Venus, Women From Mars
Chalk it up to the difference between romantic comedies and real life: A new survey of American singles finds that men want babies and commitment, while women are more likely to want independence in their relationships.
The survey, commissioned by dating website Match.com and underwritten in part by Binghamton University in New York, queried a nationally representative sample of Americans ages 21 to 65 and up. The results reveal the effects of massive social changes on gender relations, said Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist at Rutgers University and a chief scientific adviser at Match.com.
“We’ve seen since the beginning of the industrial revolution that men and women have growing economic equality,” Fisher told LiveScience. “But now we’re starting to see much more of how men are interested in attachment and commitment and how interested women are in preserving some of their independence.”
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Dietary Changes Could Help Kids with ADHD
There is no known cure for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a childhood disorder characterized by hyperactivity, distractibility, and impulsivity, but a recent study found that following a restricted diet led to significant improvements in the symptoms of some ADHD sufferers. Children with ADHD are often treated with a combination of drugs and behavioral therapy, but in some children, the condition may actually be an allergic or hypersensitivity disorder. Thus, adjusting ADHD sufferers’ diets by eliminating foods that might cause allergic reactions could improve symptoms. More …
The Cleveland Harbour West Pierhead lighthouse is unrecognisable after heavy winds lifted massive waves over the lighthouse on Lake Erie in the state of Ohio. Some of the water froze on impact, eventually encasing the structure in a frosty shell. Matt Grabski from Clevelands’s Great Lakes Science Centre told AOL news that what happened was unique.
Winter Storm Turns Lighthouse Into An Ice Castle
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I Heart Chaos — Flavor of the Day: A study of the underwater dynamics of female breasts in a controlled environment. (NSFW)
Chuang, 26, from Chongqing, south west China, was so potty about computers his family had a headstone carved for him in the shape of a monitor giving his dates of birth and death.
Stonemasons also included a keyboard, mouse and a camera with a picture of tragic Chuang to complete the tombstone tribute.
“His parents kept his email address open and encouraged friends and family to keep sending him emails because, who knows, maybe he can read them on the other side,” said one family friend.
Originally posted 2011-02-07 11:04:01. Republished by Blog Post Promoter