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The non-placebo group got an imperceptible dose, not a 10-strip. That's in the summary. You tell them they can't drive, to have someone ready to pick them up, you get a medical history and screen for mental illness. The test was conducted by having them reproduce a time period by holding a space bar, not by asking if they knew what time it was or how long had passed. That's in the summary. Psilocybin is the best drug for smoking cessation by a large margin ( https://www.hopkinsmedicine.or... ). LSD may have the same promise. You may find that silly, but that could save tens of thousands of lives in the US every year. 70% of smokers want to quit: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/da... 480,000 people die per year from smoking https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/da... If all 70% that wanted to quit took psilocybin we'd be talking about over 200k lives saved per year. And that's not the only thing psychedelics can be used to treat!

So, this one isn't conclusive nor about colorectal cancer (manic or bipolar behavior instead), but nevertheless interesting and calling for additional study.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.or...

There is a poorly understood symbiotic relationship between humans and the microorganisms that share space within us.

Two people with similar metabolisms and nearly identical diets: One is skinny as a rail, and one spends his life trying to keep the weight off or down, or managed... Fecal transplantation at Johns Hopkins.

Never trust science reporting. Here's a better source, the summary of the paper that was linked to:

In other words, once a mouse has this microbiome signature they are more susceptible to obesity, i.e. it is harder for people who were once obese to remain at normal weight than for someone who was never obese.

We've been edging toward this knowledge more and more recently. The bacterial content of our guts has fascinated people for a long time. Its even used as treatments, as in fecal matter transplants for C. difficile colitis http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org...

Even as far back as the 1940's Theodor Morell, Old Adolph's physician treated him with intestinal bacteria. And despite everyone thinking it was quackery of the highest order, it appeared to work.

Other studies have shown that once people become obese and start dieting their bodies go into a kind of starvation mode, where they need to keep calorie consumption down below normal levels to maintain their weight. In fact for people who were obese (not just overweight) it can be so bad that the number of calories they need to take in can be below the level at which normal western food can supply enough nutrition.

At my adult lightest, I bicycled 20 miles a day, ran 2 miles a day at lunch time, lifted weights before the bicycle trip home, and ate 1 meal which was estimated around 700 calories. And while I was pretty ripped, there was no way I could keep that up, especially after my son was born and the missus wanted me at the house. So the exercise just became the lunchtime work.

With a surprising amount of weight gain.

So if we can find a way to reset that, perhaps by transferring the microbiome from one person to another, we can help people recover and stay at a healthy weight. I imagine it will be more effective than just berating them for being weak minded, at any rate.

A person can diet and lose weight. It can be difficult, but can be done.

A person who feels the need to act all superior because of weight cannot help but be a gaping asshole - a condition for which there is no cure.

The outsourcing is already in progress. Look up the term "nighthawk radiologist".

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org...

That was in 2004. As digitization has spread through healthcare, the practice has only gotten more prevalent.

If you can pipe the data to somewhere else and get someone accredited to sign off on your work so they are the professional of record, you can outsource anything to anyone anywhere. Use a nurse practitioner for in-office visits, outsource case review to a medical professional somewhere else.

Same deal for lawyers. For contracts, research, etc. you can outsource to paralegals. For discovery, have someone else scan, index, and cross correlate everything before you turn it over to the junior partners, but bill at the senior rate.

BTW there are a lot of unemployed/underemployed lawyers...

"Johns Hopkins scientists report that rats exposed to high-energy particles, simulating conditions astronauts would face on a long-term deep space mission, show lapses in attention and slower reaction times, even when the radiation exposure is in extremely low dose ranges. The cognitive impairments — which affected a large subset, but far from all, of the animals — appear to be linked to protein changes in the brain, the scientists say." http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org...

or people who fail to take care of their teeth happen to do something else beneficial.

Here's another possibility beyond what people have already mentioned -- People with bad teeth may have less oral sex. No, I'm serious:
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/kimmel_cancer_center/centers/head_neck/HPV_and_head_and_neck_cancer/hpv.html

Ask female scientists why they got into science and create something that triggers those buttons in girls.

I imagine it's the same kinds of things that attract men to science, combined with a disregard for any prejudice they encounter along the way. I recently came across this rather impressive scientist at a conference, and here's here description of what got her into her field: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/institute_basic_biomedical_sciences/about_us/scientists/caren_meyers.html

When did your interest in chemistry begin?

MEYERS: In high school I enjoyed math and chemistry. So in college, I thought chemical engineering might be an appropriate blend of those disciplines. As a sophomore in college, I took organic chemistry and loved it. I liked synthesis. I enjoyed thinking about how to construct molecules, and I really enjoyed the connection of organic chemistry to medicinal chemistry.

When I was a junior in college, my father was diagnosed with lung cancer. He was taking a lot of very toxic drugs, and although they were considered state-of-the-art medicinesâ"cisplatin and adriamycinâ"they made him very sick.

That intensified my interest in medicinal chemistry. A major goal of anti-cancer drug design is to improve the cytotoxic effects of drugs on cancer cells without making patients sick. My personal experience with cancer drove me to specialize in that area of science.

Mythbusters says redheads have a lower pain tolerance, but the linked article says the opposite. Mythbusters also claims that women have a higher pain tolerance than men, which is not true according to a recent Johns Hopkins study. (Probably the same one this redheads article is based on).

Mythbusters is cool for certain things like "is it possible to do X" but not for statistical things. You need thousands of samples and good controlled environments to determine these kinds of things.

I have to make a big subject change because I just heard this Johns Hopkins podcast about Lucentis being used to stop and somewhat regress MD. This may be equally useful knowledge to having aids: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/audio/podcasts/ You have to scroll down to the bottom of the page and look for Lucentis to find it. There's a power point presentation on the subject, too.

True to your comment, Hopkins has shown that making a medical checklist is key to reducing errors in hospitals. Simply creating a list of things to do, then making sure they get followed every time reduces errors dramatically.

A proper submission protol will show whether or not a file was recieved. File format is easy to fix; Require a certain file format, I fail to see a problem on the last one.

Also, all your points on hospitals are void. You give an opinion but studies show otherwise. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2009/01_26_09.html

Last one I agree with but I think you'd be greatly helped out by a good e-ink type tablet with stylus. The tech is there or getting there depending on how fussy you are.

"Mad cow == bird flu == swine flu == HORSESHIT."

You might have expressed it better, but you....are correct.

MRSA has a vastly higher body count than all the above, but since it is often spread by poor hygiene at hospitals it gets low billing.

http://www.protomag.com/assets/a-killer-called-staph

http://www.symptomsmrsa.com/ca-mrsa/ca-mrsa-death-count-surpassing-aids/

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heic/patient/mrsa/

I'd been drinking rather heavily, and got kicked out of my relative's house. After a few days, I ended up calling the police because I was hallucinating rather vividly. I was committed for observation, diagnosed with schizophrenia, and given sedatives. (apparently the only drugs psychiatrists know exist, besides ritalin, are sedatives) The hallucinations went away after about a week or so, when I'd gone through withdrawl and was eating normally. However, no amount of reason would convince anyone involved that I wasn't hearing voices, and much "unpleasentness" occurred with people that supposedly cared for me trying to chemically lombotomize me.

Then, I saw an episode of House, Forever, where heavy alcohol use caused hallucination though vitamin deficiency, pellagra. In pursuit of scientific truth, I got extremely drunk for ~5 days, without eating much of anything. Results: vivid hallucinations. Cure: Vitamin B3, and hallucination go away.

So, remember when that while House is made to be rather riduculous, it's far more accurate in terms of basic medical science than the field of psychiatry ever will be.

(Also, you might be interested in Hopkinds scientists show hallucinogen in mushroom creates universal "mystical" experience.. Johns Hopkins University.)

There are lots of things these scientsts don't know. Lots that they would admit they don't know.
Realistically, they only way they're going to find out, with present levels of knowledge, what these things develop into is to let them grow.
They destroyed them after 6 days.
Not ready yet.
Actually, that's a definition for technology, isn't it? Something that isn't finished?

Toshiba has been running 320 slice CT scans for some time now. See here and here. The 256-slice version of the scanner has been running for atleast 6 months now. See here

Ahhh what the heck, here's what just 2 minutes of actually looking turns up on the health dangers of kids and cigarette butts... I guess you weren't reading "the literature" all that often.

From: http://www.fammed.unc.edu/enter/fact_sheets/Parent sFactSheetl.pdf
"The American Association of Poison Control Centers receives 7,900 reports of potentially toxic exposure to tobacco products among children 6 years old or younger, primarily by young children ingesting cigarettes, cigarette butts, and other tobacco products they find around the house, in ashtrays, and in the garbage." Center for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). Ingestion of cigarettes and cigarette butts by children,Rhode Island, January 1994-July 1996. MMWR. Feb. 1997;46(6):125-128

From: http://www.cfc-efc.ca/docs/cccf/00000056.htm
"Eating even one or two cigarette butts can make a baby seriously ill."

From: http://www.eparentingnetwork.ca/pdf/HomeSafety/Hom e%20Safety%20Fact%20Sheet%202.pdf
"Safely dispose of cigarette butts. If your child swallows just 1 unsmoked cigarette or 2 cigarette butts, they could get very sick"

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/1995/DECEMBER /19953.HTM

http://www.k-state.edu/media/newsreleases/seasonal /listpoisonous102102.html

Here's a link to the paper that contains links to the videos in .avi format.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/2003/June/030 627.htm

Where do I get my crap? Hmmm...

  http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/1997/DECEMBER /199708.htm/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-02-23-aid s-india-cover_x.htm?csp=34
http://qa.aidsmatters.org/answer/13479/
http://indiatogether.org/2005/jun/ksh-blaming.htm
http://www.youandaids.org/Asia%20Pacific%20at%20a% 20Glance/India/index.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3886883.stm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/08/60minute s/main610961.shtml

Maybe they do have a very low per capita incidince of HIV, but it's been shown that the rate of infection is increasing at a rate more than any other country. Combined with the sheer number of people, infected and not, the virus is set to explode. Sorry, I can't find the particular article in which I read this at this moment, but when I do find it, I'll be happy to share. Everywhere I've read, it's extremely taboo for Indians to discuss sex and AIDS.

I don't think the numbers you link to tell the story very well. It's like trying to say that Luxemborg has a larger economy than the US because thier GDP per capita is 60% higher than ours, which is obviously not the case. Compare China and India. They're the only two countries that are close enough to be comparable in popluation and economic status. The CIA world factbook (the source of information that Nationmaster uses) says that 0.9% of Indians are infected, that 0.6% of US citizens are infected, and that 0.1% of Chinese are infected, and that there are about six times the number of Indians infected as there are Chinese, despite China having a third of a million more people (i.e. approximately one United States more people than India).

My point to the poster I replied to was that Indians get it on like nobody's business. I stand by it.

For example, it's well known that Amish, Ashkenazi Jews, and other groups suffer from certain genetic maladies far above the average.

Yes, but it's important to note that they don't suffer from more genetic difficulties than other populations. You won't cut your health care costs by excluding the Mennonite bretheren (i.e. Amish.)These populations are homogenous, not defective. Since intensive study always turns up particular defects, there has been some concern about the political consequences of studying a particular population.

Jewish individuals are in a unique position to assist scientists in the understanding of genetic disorders. Due to a long history of marriage within the faith, which extends back thousands of years, the Jewish community has emerged from a limited number of ancestors and has a similar genetic makeup. This allows researchers to more easily perform genetic studies and locate disease-causing genes.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/epigen/ashkenazim.h tm

What they've found is that there is caffeine withdrawl. This doesn't mean addiction, it means physical dependence. Addiction is more of psychological condition in which you can't stop doing something in the face of negative consequences, e.g. you'll give out blow jobs if that's what you have to do to get your fix. Someone else gave this link to the actual study. It doesn't say addiction.

Here is the original Johns Hopkins Medicine (hopkinsmedicine.org) press release ( +printer friendly version)

Here is the original Johns Hopkins Medicine (hopkinsmedicine.org) press release ( +printer friendly version)

he problem with outsourcing education-intensive jobs to places like Africa and India is that the AIDS plague makes it too hard to maintain an educated workforce, since the high death rate among adults leaves too many orphaned children.

Thus it is in Islamic countries like Ghana and Nigeria, where religious beliefs have kept the spread of AIDS at bay, that we see companies being willing to outsource work. In this day and age, when the "clash of civilizations" threatens to plunge the world into total war, it is ironic that muslim and secular societies have come together through, of all things, job outsourcing.

But the parent post did mention beer. That does kill brain cells. You do it every time you get drunk. That's what drunk is; the poisioning of your brain by alcohol. And death on alcohol? Go and ask an ER doctor. Lots, never published in the news.

Of course, when the majority of anti-drug messages are funded by the booze industry you have to laugh. I quite like the one on DrugFreeAmerica.org, telling how Ecstacy almost killed a girl, until you actually read the article and find that it was GHB. Actually, all the articles on that site are just as bad, and they seem to have been written by the same person, very similar style etc. ALL LIES I TELL YOU!! ;-)

For the official record, my wife is fun, smart, sexy, and:

1. She was pissed about a co-worker sneaking on to her lab computer to read his Hotmail, so she set up a Hosts file that blocks Passport.
2. She bought me an RJ45 crimping kit for my birthday last year, and she has borrowed it from me for her own use more than once.
3. The year before that she got me a Victorinox CyberTool.
4. She has written a LISP parser and a C garbage collector ( CS51, as an elective no less)

Sure, I have to spend a couple hundred bucks a year on Valentines and our Anniversary, but it's way cheaper than a couple nights at a titty bar or whatever you poor schmucks have to do. More importantly, it's a shared bank account and she makes more than I do. Bwa ha ha!

If he died on the toilet it was probably a heart attack - if you have a weak heart, constapation can kill you; stimulant drugs are also a possibility.

Sudden death syndrome maybe, although I don't think they ever diagnose that it anyone unhealthy/obese, if he was, though there is a teat for it.

Until recently (barring drug overdose, genetic or developmental abnormalities) 26 year olds did not have heart attacks. So, looking into my crystal ball, this will be used as ammunition for the argument that videogames reduce your level of physical activity, and are somehow responsible for the recent rise in cardiovascular disease among the very young - I can't find the ref. on google, can anyone else?

If you want to avoid having heart attacks:
1) Get exercise. This is NOT the same as don't game, and I myself utterly reject the notion that videogames are somehow responsible for droping levels of physical activity.
2) Try not to be angry all the time. I know this can be difficult if you are a member of an oppressed minority group or work in tech support. Depression and overuse of simulants = also bad.