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POPS Placebo effect photographed

by kelvin273 10-17-2009

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POPS Some coma patients able to learn basic responses

by kelvin273 9-22-2009

The fascinating (but preliminary) findings, presented in Nature Neuroscience, may eventually help doctors evaluate coma patients’ potential for recovery. The authors found a strong correlation between cognitively damaged patients who seemed to exhibit such learning and those who showed some level of improvement months after their injury, as measured by a standard coma recovery scale

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POPS People prone to Alzheimer's struggle to recognize celebrities

by kelvin273 8-27-2009

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POPS Flesh-eating tropical parasite fools immune system

by kelvin273 8-26-2009

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POPS The Phobia of Being Laughed At

by kelvin273 7-21-2009

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POPS Hyped up drug studies

by kelvin273 7-7-2008

If you read the full article, some of the methods they use to make drugs look good are shocking. For example, if a drug doesn't reduce deaths from strokes, but does reduce the incidence of disability in survivors, they add the two numbers together in one column and claim that the drug reduces "death and disability" (meaning "death + disability," but people assume it means that the likelihood of death is reduced, too).

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POPS Outsourced Surrogate Motherhood

by kelvin273 12-31-2007

It's hard to do this article justice with just <1,000 characters and a picture. The full article, including the ethical debate, is fascinating reading.

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POPS Peanuts help in weight lost