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All of the Health Freedom Alliance members and associates are fanatical proponents of natural unadulterated supplements. But what happens when our supplementation actually works against us? What if our fatty acids, sodium, hormones, calcium, essential vitamins …

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A potential cancer drug developed from an Australian rainforest plant is set to progress to human trials after fighting off inoperable tumours in pets, the company behind it said Monday.
Queensland firm QBiotics Ltd said its …

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Couples will stop having sex to conceive babies within a decade and use IVF instead, scientists said yesterday.
They say 30-somethings will increasingly rely on artificial methods of fertilisation because natural human reproduction is ‘fairly inefficient’.
It …

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A simple blood test that can detect early signs of breast cancer in women could save the lives of hundreds of patients a year, scientists believe.
The test can spot tumours much earlier than traditional scans …

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Scientists say they have identified a potential treatment for sleeping sickness, a killer disease that infects about 60,000 people in Africa a year.
British and Canadian experts say drugs could attack an enzyme the parasite causing …

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By Scott Hensley
In a decision that shakes the legal foundation for much of the biotech industry, a federal judge has ruled many of a Utah company’s patents on a gene test for breast and ovarian …

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Nicotine may improve the symptoms of depression in people who do not smoke, Duke University Medical Center scientists have discovered.
The finding does not mean that people with depression should smoke or even start using a …

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Mathematical flair, musical ability or a way with words have come to be thought of as innate talents or, biologically speaking, in our genes. But now David Shenk, the American writer on genetics, asks people …

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Forget about crystals and candles, and about sitting and breathing in awkward ways. Meditation research explores how the brain works when we refrain from concentration, rumination and intentional thinking. Electrical brain waves suggest that mental …

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The Inner Harbour on the Cataraqui River in Kingston, Ont., has mercury levels in sediment more than two times the Canadian government’s most severe effect limits, according to a Queen’s University study.
“Mercury levels in this …