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Cancer Clinical trials Medicine

Dichloroacetate to enter clinical trials in cancer patients

I’ve written a lot about dichloroacetate, a.k.a. DCA (my last post here, along with links to my previous posts), the small molecule drug that burst onto the scene after Evangelos Michelakis of the University of Alberta published a paper in Cancer Cell in January describing strong anti-tumor activity in preclinical models (in this case, a […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Religion

Jesus is growing her a new leg! Or is he?

One of the best retorts to the claims of faith healers is the simple question: If faith healing works such miracles, why has there never been a documented case of faith healing regrowing an amputated limb? Now that would be truly miraculous. That would make even a curmudgeonly old skeptic like me sit up an […]

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Humor

Couples who would do well not to hyphenate their names upon getting married

Some of these are hilarious, and, no, it wouldn’t be a good idea for these couples to do the hyphenated name thing. If you have any more real life examples, post ’em in the comments for the amusement of all! (Via Advice Goddess, who should know that less than two weeks ago I stayed at […]

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Humor Politics

Seen at the local Barnes & Noble Bookstore last night…part 2

Here’s another item I saw at the local Barnes & Noble last night. I almost bought this calendar, so amused was I by it. In retrospect, maybe I should have bought it. I don’t recall ever seeing a calendar like this before. Not for Bill Clinton, and not for Ronald Reagan. It’s a testament to […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Humor Medicine Quackery

Seen at the local Barnes & Noble Bookstore last night…

I think the title says it all. Perfect! Whoever wrote the book sure knows her potential readers!