New Dietary Guidelines: Some Tasty, Others Not - The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans have just been published, and there are some positive moves as well as some of the same-old recommendations that have yet to be shown to be effective. Dietary advice always brings a variety of dissent and assents, so we thought we'd add some of our own. Read more
Coloring Cancer to Cut it All Out - Like the use of luminol in crime scene investigations, researchers at Duke University, in collaboration with MIT in Boston, have developed a chemical dye that emits brighter fluorescence in cancer cells than normal tissue. The innovation could lead to better surgical results, by preventing subsequent operations. Read more
Low Chance to Get High at NY’s Medical Marijuana Sites - New York's Compassionate Care Act recently became state law, allowing dispensaries to open with medical marijuana only for those with well-defined diseases and conditions. So if Smoky Sam shows up hoping to just get stoned, he'll be bummed out since the rules make it nearly impossible to get pot just to party. Read more
Progress on Gene Modification Rx for Muscular Dystrophy - Three independently-working groups have developed an effective, albeit temporary, therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy to delete the defective gene and replace it with a functional one. Although these succeeded in mice, human treatment will not be far behind. Read more
The Flu Isn’t Sexy For Media — But It’s Deadly - Anti-vax sentiment gets a lot of media attention, but casual refusal of the flu vaccine doesn't. That said, it should, for no other reason than that many healthy people are putting senior citizens, and babies, and young people with immune issues at greater risk. Read more
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