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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 10 2008 | scanners, brain, science, health
    Brain scanners trying to pinpoint our virtues within - USATODAY.com

    Quoted: Images that purport to show in living color the parts of the brain that generate such virtues as compassion, fairness and wisdom are invading turf that was once reserved for philosophers, theologians and psychologists.
    From morality to math, a revolution in "functional" magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which observes brain blood flow, is being used by researchers to pinpoint the pieces of the brain that people rely on to think and feel.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 07 2008 | science, health
    Do 68 Molecules Hold The Key To Understanding Disease?

    Quoted: Why is it that the origins of many serious diseases remain a mystery? In considering that question, a scientist at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has come up with a unified molecular view of the indivisible unit of life, the cell, which may provide an answer.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 05 2008 | brain, memory, health
    Scientists catch cells in the act of remembering - International Herald Tribune

    Quoted: Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing not only where a remembered experience is registered but how the brain is able to re-create it.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 02 2008 | health, home
    Broken Compact Fluorescent Lights Release Mercury Into the Air: Over 100 Times the EPA Limit

    Quoted: Broken Compact Fluorescent Lights Release Mercury Into the Air: Over 100 Times the EPA Limit

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 02 2008 | health

    CureZone is a site for open education through communication. It is a grass roots movement for sharing experiences and helping others freely. We try to teach people how to address deep underlying causes of their health problems. Some of the main areas of CureZone education are: understanding human health and bodily functions, changing diet, improving lifestyle, correcting attitude, cleansing inner organs, avoiding stress, etc.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 02 2008 | health
    Diet for Kidney Disease

    Quoted: When you have kidney disease, your kidneys are no longer able to filter waste products and fluids from your blood. You can help control a buildup of these substances by avoiding foods that tend to make the problem worse. It is also important to make

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 30 2008 | computer, health
    Research aims to put tongues in control of devices

    Quoted: The tireless tongue already controls taste and speech, helps kiss and swallow and fights germs. Now scientists hope to add one more ability to the mouthy muscle, and turn it into a computer control pad.

    Georgia Tech researchers believe a magnetic, tongue-powered system could transform a disabled person's mouth into a virtual computer, teeth into a keyboard - and tongue into the key that manipulates it all.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 05 2008 | health
    Brain Plays Key Role In Appetite By Regulating Free Radicals

    Quoted: Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have found the brain's appetite center uses fat for fuel by involving oxygen free radicals -- molecules associated with aging and neurodegeneration. The findings suggest that antioxidants could play a role in weight control.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 18 2008 | health
    FDA lifts warning on tomatoes - CNN.com

    Quoted: Tomatoes are again safe to eat, the Food and Drug Administration said Thursday, weeks after the food was blamed as a source of a salmonella outbreak in the United States and Canada.

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    0 starsSigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 17 2008 | genetics, health
    Technology Review: You've Had a Genetic Test. Now What?

    Quoted: Tests that look for genetic variations linked to a number of common diseases are now available over the Internet. But a patient who walks into the doctor's office with a thick file of genetic information will probably find that the doctor has no idea what to do with it. A new project, launched in December by the Coriell Institute for Medical Research, in Camden, NJ, aims to change that.

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