What he and colleagues identified was a previously unknown combination of bowel
disease and autism in 12 children. Bowel symptoms are common in autistic
children but had until then been regarded as simply a manifestation of their
behavioral problems.
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Author: Hakeem Ali-Bocas Alexander
Healthy Living & Self-Defense for Vocational and Avocational Motivation and Self-Improvement through Hypnosis, Yoga, Capoeira and Metaphysical Science.
Research supports toxoplasmosis link to schizophrenia (FierceBiotech)
The parasite infects the brain by forming a cyst within its cells and produces
an enzyme called tyrosine hydroxylase, which is needed to make dopamine.
Dopamine’s role in mood, sociability, attention, motivation and sleep patterns
are well documented and schizophrenia has long been associated with dopamine,
which is the target of all schizophrenia drugs on the market. …
Stimulus gives $1.1B to comparative studies
Obama, one; pharma lobbyists, zero. When the new president signs the $787
billion stimulus bill, he’ll be launching something drugmakers sought to quash:
funding for comparative effectiveness research. …
Mendes on Capoeira Calinda
Recent research by Sergio Luiz de Souza Vieira shows that Maculele is an
indigenous manifestation, a ritual to express homosexuality among the natives,
not a fight. …
Kalinda (Stickfighting) [National Library and Information System Authority of Trinidad and Tobago]
Read about Kalinda here on the website for National Library and Information
System Authority of Trinidad and Tobago …
Calinda (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Though it is more commonly practiced as a dance because of the violent outcome
of stick fighting, its roots are still that of a martial art originating from
Africa, and stick fights still occur in the remoter parts of Trinidad …
TRINIDAD’S KALINDA STICKFIGHTS
The aim of each stick fighter was to deliver a blow that would hit the opponent
on the body – any part above the waist – hard enough to fell him to the ground.
Blows were usually aimed at the head and damage to the skull was a very common
occurrence in stick fighting. …
St. Petersburg Times:Seroquel maker wants to seal info from you, “for” you
The skirmish over document disclosure in Orlando is part of a hornet’s nest of
litigation against AstraZeneca, a British company with U.S. headquarters in
Wilmington, Del. More than 15,000 patients have filed over 9,000 personal injury
lawsuits. About 40 percent of these claims have been consolidated for pretrial
motions in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida. …
!!!Emergency!!!Special Message from Dr. Cannell Presented by Dr. Kennedy (Vitamin D Council Newsletter)
Apparently, Medicare’s reasoning is not understood in England. A week
ago,
researchers at Oxford discovered the long-sort genetic link
vitamin D has
with multiple …
Battling Monsanto in India
an astounding 125,000 Indian famers—all duped into borrowing money to plant
Monsanto’s genetically engineered Bt cotton seeds and associated chemical
sprays—were so desperately in debt when their harvests failed to perform that
they took their own lives. …