From CBCNEWS: 
Don’t poo-poo technique: Fecal transplant can cure superbug, doctors say
A controversial new treatment, which involves the transplantation of human waste, can treat cases of C. difficile infection. But only a handful of physicians in Canada undertake the messy procedure.
Clostridium difficile is a superbug that commonly spreads in hospital settings and has been linked to […]

By Restless
For awhile there in 2006, I thought it was prudent to drink diet soda. Sure it tastes funny, kind of metallic, but diet soda had less carbs than sugared sodas. Aspartame is the sweetener in most diet sodas. Surprisingly, it’s also in over 5,000 foods, drugs and medicine.
My diet soda jag wasn’t going well. […]

From TheGlobeAndMail.COM: 
Man with no pulse considered a medical breakthrough
MONTREAL — A 65-year-old Quebec man who received a new long-term mechanical heart last month is being described as the only living Canadian without a pulse.
Dr. Renzo Cecere implanted the “Heartmate II” mechanical heart into Gerard Langevin in an three-hour operation Nov. 23.
Officials at the McGill University […]

From YahooNews:
Doctors: Face transplant was successful
PARIS - A year after a Frenchwoman received the world’s first partial face transplant, doctors say the operation was a success and she is gaining more and more sensitivity and facial mobility.
As British and American doctors work on plans for a first full-face transplant, the medical team at the hospital […]

From CNN.COM: 
Okla. vets use maggot therapy on horse
STILLWATER, Okla. - Veterinarians at Oklahoma State University Veterinary Hospital successfully used maggots to clear away dead flesh from a horse that had been bitten by a rattlesnake.
“I’d heard of it being used on people,” said admitting veterinarian Peggy Brosnahan, who had never tried maggot therapy. “When you […]

From MSNBC.COM: 
New dressings feature bug juice to heal wounds
Treatment mimics benefits of maggots minus the ‘yuck’ factor, study says
Scientists in England are developing new dressings for wounds designed to mimic maggots to clean away dead tissue and promote healing.
The ancient use of living maggots in non-healing wounds — to eat away only the dead tissue […]

From The Australian News: 
Penis on again, off again
LONDON: Chinese surgeons who performed the world’s first penis transplant had to remove the new organ after the recipient developed severe psychological problems.
Doctors say the operation was a surgical success but psychological issues suffered by the man and his wife meant the donated organ had to be removed […]

 
By Restless
Health care in the US is a mess. Americans spend $5,267 per capita on health care while the industrialized world’s median is $2,193, yet we go to the doctor and get admitted to the hospital less than people in other Western countries. We spend more than $1,000 per capita per year just on administration […]

 
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From MSNBC.COM:
Hot dogs may cause genetic mutations
DNA-mutating compounds could boost cancer risk
Everyone knows hot dogs aren’t exactly healthy for you, but in a new study chemists find they may contain DNA-mutating compounds that might boost one’s risk for cancer.
Scientists note there is an up to 240-fold variation in levels […]

From YahooNews: 
You know anybody who needs an “anti-stupid” pill?
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German scientist has been testing an “anti-stupidity” pill with encouraging results on mice and fruit flies, Bild newspaper reported Saturday.
It said Hans-Hilger Ropers, director at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, has tested a pill thwarting hyperactivity in certain brain nerve cells, helping […]

From MSNBC.COM:
Bush issues first veto, nixes stem cell bill
Says measure ‘crosses a moral boundary’ society needs to respect
WASHINGTON - President Bush cast the first veto of his 5-1/2-year presidency Wednesday, rejecting legislation to ease limits on federal funding for research on stem cells obtained from embryos.
“This bill would support the taking of innocent human life […]

From YahooNews: 
Company seeks approval to sell ‘bionic’ eye
WASHINGTON - In the 1970s TV show “The Six Million Dollar Man,” the strapping young astronaut got a bionic eye. Next year, it might be your grandmother.
VisionCare Ophthalmic Technologies Inc. is seeking federal approval to sell a tiny telescope that could be implanted in the eyes of some […]

Have you ever had the experience of meeting someone you thought was 25 and they turned out to be 35?   or someone you thought was 50, and they turned out to be 35?
You can affect your age by your habits.
Everything from what you eat, how much you exercise, drink, smoke or even floss.
I came across […]

From The Sun Online: 
Oldest UK mum has a boy
BRITAIN’S oldest mum told last night of her joy at giving birth to a “perfect small person” — just weeks before her 63rd birthday.
Dr Patricia Rashbrook’s little boy — who has been nicknamed JJ — came into the world at 9.53am on Wednesday weighing 6lb 10½oz.
Experts had feared […]