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Study shows dementia patients recognize ‘elderspeak’: They may not be as sharp as they once were. Their memory may be failing. But people with Alzheimer’s can still sense when someone is talking down to them.
(Via McClatchy.)
When I was a teenager, I worked at a nursing home with an Alzheimer’s care wing. Quit a lot [...]

newsobserver.com | HIV strikes fast, study finds: “HIV infects and attacks the body within days — much faster than previously thought — drastically narrowing the window of time when intervention is possible, Duke University researchers have found.”
Not good news, especially given this:
“We can narrow that window down, but we’re never going to be able to [...]

Crossing the line on Steve Jobs’ health | One More Thing – CNET News.com: “One clear sign that this is an unseemly exercise: if those who keep pushing the issue feel they have to repeatedly apologize for seeming insensitive, they’re probably being insensitive. Yes, Jobs is the CEO of a $135 billion company that has [...]

Seeded at Newsvine:
Obese women who carry most of their extra weight around the stomach are 70 percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer, an international team of researchers reported.

Seeded at Newsvine:
These worms, or helminths, have a paradoxical effect on the host. Rather than induce inflammation, which is the body’s typical response to invasion, the intruders calm the host immune system.

Study Finds The Air Rich With Bacteria: “Want biodiversity? Look no further than the air around you. It could be teeming with more than 1,800 types of bacteria, according to a first-of-its-kind census of airborne microbes recently conducted by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy%u2019s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
The team used an [...]

Stem Cells Without Embryo Loss – New York Times: Nevertheless, religious conservatives have already denounced the technique, and the President’s Council on Bioethics, in a white paper evaluating alternative ways to produce stem cells, declared this approach “ethically unacceptable.”
The technique would seem to sidestep the council’s main objection, that it is unethical to put the [...]

Every once in a while you run across something online that makes you come up short. I’m sure someone else has made this insight somewhere else in the past, but it was the first time I had seen it:
God hates squid: From the comments, here’s something bizarre: creationists (at least the ones at Answers [...]

Crocodile blood shows anti-HIV activity: SCIENTISTS in Australia’s tropical north are collecting blood from crocodiles in the hope of developing a powerful antibiotic for humans, after tests showed that the reptile’s immune system kills the HIV virus.
(Via mongabay.com.)
And from the same site:
Frogs may help in fight against HIV: A new weapon in the battle against [...]

What’s this? Could there truly be a worldwide shift in the attitudes of clergy? Are we seeing the beginnings of a return the ethics of social gospel? Another story:
Kenya church in Aids apology: Kenya’s Anglican Church issues a public apology for previously shunning those with HIV/Aids.
(Via BBC News Front Page.)
Again, this is [...]

Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood:: “The Supreme Court handed down its opinion in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood this morning. The unanimous decision by Justice O’Connor rests on a narrow procedural point about remedies: the Court vacated the First Circuit’s injunction blocking the use of New Hampshires’s parental notification law, and instructed lower courts to try [...]

Men enjoy others’ misfortune more than women -study: “LONDON (Reuters) – Germans have a word for it — schadenfreude — and when it comes to getting pleasure from someone else’s misfortune, men seem to enjoy it more than women.”
(Via Reuters: Science.)
Nope. Not me . . . really! *Whistles*

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