Posted by: drugsinus on: January 17, 2010
New York University neurologist Souhel Najjar specializes in solving puzzling cases that other doctors have given up on. Last August he took on one of the most challenging cases of his career. He saw a 19-year-old girl who had been an honor student before experiencing a bizarre decline that caused her to drop out of [...]
Posted by: drugsinus on: January 17, 2010
In Pictures: Celebs Who Take On Science When the medical journal Pediatrics released a consensus report early this year concluding that autistic children do not benefit from special diets, ABC News’ Diane Sawyer knew just whom to call. Jenny McCarthy, former MTV game host, nude model and now mother of an autistic son Evan, enthusiastically [...]
Posted by: drugsinus on: July 9, 2009
Georgina Downs faces a bill estimated at more than 100,000 An environmental campaigner’s victory against crop-spraying policies has been overturned by the Court of Appeal. Georgina Downs, from West Sussex, had argued illnesses she suffered were caused by crop-spraying near her home. In backing her case, the High Court told the government to reconsider spraying [...]
Posted by: drugsinus on: July 9, 2009
In an overhaul unrelated to health reform, the Obama administration pledged to improve the country’s food safety system with sweeping changes designed to prevent outbreaks of food-borne illness instead of responding to them after they occur, according to the WSJ. Among the aims of the overhaul: to set up a federal “command system” that would [...]
