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Monday, March 22, 2010

In Matters of Health

In Matters Of Health

5 'miracle' diets that don't actually work

So-called "magic" weight-loss plans, such as the juice-only diet, can backfire. 
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Those socialist doctors did it again
The teabaggers are spot on that socialized health care never produces anything good and is a complete failure. Every good teabagger knows that the US health care system is the best in the world and nothing else is even close. 
Provided you ignore all of the advances, of course. 
When faced with examples of advances, the key is to simply re-state "the US has the greatest health care system in the world" louder or maybe write that on a poster with a picture of Obama as some evil character. Yep, that will win them over every time.
British and Italian doctors have carried out groundbreaking surgery to rebuild the windpipe of a 10-year-old British boy using stem cells developed within his own body, they said.

In an operation Monday lasting nearly nine hours, doctors at London's Great Ormond Street children's hospital implanted the boy with a donor trachea, or windpipe, that had been stripped of its cells and injected with his own.

Over the next month, doctors expect the boy's bone marrow stem cells to begin transforming themselves within his body into tracheal cells -- a process that, if successful, could lead to a revolution in regenerative medicine.

FDA warns against misleading food claims

Be wary of food packages trumpeting immunity-boosting powers or "real fruit" content.  
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