Mental Health Screening: New Tool for Child-ControlMental health screening of all children is the goal of legislation introduced into many state legislatures this year. Typical of these highly controversial bills is the Missouri bill that would require every Missouri school district, in collaboration with "the office of comprehensive child mental health," to develop "a policy of incorporating social and emotional development into the district's educational program."
The Missouri bill requires schools to "a... (more)
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Unhappy as a boy, Kim became youngest ever transsexual at 12 A boy of 12 is believed to have become the world's youngest sex change patient after convincing doctors that he wanted to live the rest of his life as a female.
The boy - originally called Tim, but now known as Kim - has started to receive hormone treatment, in preparation for the operation that will eventually complete the sex change.
Tim was diagnosed as a transsexual two years ago, when doctors and psychiatrists concluded that his claims to be "in the wrong body... (more)
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Men with ‘moobs’ swell queues for breast surgeryMEN are turning to cosmetic surgery to tackle the embarrassment of “man breasts”, fuelling a near doubling in the number of people sculpting their bodies through liposuction.
Surgeons have reported a surge in the number of men requesting breast-reduction operations for ‘moobs’. According to one theory, the condition, called gynaecomastia, may be caused by an excess of female hormones in tap water.
The boom in demand for liposuction is reveale... (more)
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Wired to report US unwittingly evolved superpathogen in Iraqi combat hospitals A drug-resistant bacteria that is infecting wounded US soldiers in Iraq -- and has spread to civilian hospitals in parts of Europe -- accidentally evolved in US military hospitals in Iraq, Wired Magazine will report in a massive expose on Monday, RAW STORY has learned.
The full story is now available here.
The several thousand word expose is set to bring uncomfortable new light to the bact... (more)
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Should HPV Vaccine Be Mandatory?(CBS) It may seem premature for Kelley Ellsworth to even think about anything that has to do with sex, when it comes to her kids. Her daughter Kira is only in fifth grade.
But she and her friends may be among the first students required by law to get vaccinated for a sexually transmitted disease, one that can cause cervical cancer. CBS News correspondent Sharyl Atkisson reports.
“It makes sense to get this done. I guess it’s only a question of what th... (more) Whenever a government tells you to inject something into the body of your child "for their protection", chances are it's not for your own good.
Related: Vaccination:
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Many old truths about abortion deserve to be heard againThe 34th anniversary of Roe v. Wade is coming up Monday, and after writing about abortion for years, it's a bit of a challenge to say something original about it this year.
So let's say a few old things that, because they are so well- established, seldom get mentioned. Here is what isn't news about abortion, as culled from www.secondlookproject.org, a Web site of the Pro-Life Secretariat of the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops:
Most Americans tell pollsters - an... (more)
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The woman who was locked up because of her depression One sweltering hot morning in May, Anna McHugh visited her doctor's surgery. Having undergone an intensive cycle of IVF in Australia, where her husband's family is from, she was anxious and depressed. The night before she'd had a heated argument with her husband.
"We'd been trying to have a baby," said the 27-year-old, who lives in Hampstead, London. "When I came back [from Australia] I was pregnant but I didn't know it. That was one of the problems - I had tested too early and t... (more)
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Super Soldiers: Tomorrow's 'Army of One' Technology Within three years, soldiers could begin testing futuristic devices that make them each "an army of one" by granting them unprecedented capabilities, such as the ability to see through walls thanks to advanced radar scopes and super-protection and super-strength conferred by high-tech armor.
Although some of the technologies could take years to reach actual battlefields, novel devices developed by the U.S. Army's Future Force Warrior initiative such as advanced sound equipment and... (more)
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Cloning opens door to 'farmyard freaks'Moves to clone and genetically modify farm livestock have opened the door to the creation of "Farmyard Freaks", experts have warned.
News that the daughter of a US clone cow has been born on a British farm has moved the issue from science fiction to consumer reality.
A former government adviser has painted a nightmarish picture of "zombie" and fast-growing supersize animals.
Professor Ben Mepham, of Nottingham University, said the i... (more)
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Hitler-style 'designer' babies coming under fire in TexasA Texas fertility clinic now promoting its plan to "design" babies for customers is moving society another step down the road toward full-blown eugenics in the United States, where there would be certain categories of lives that simply would be valueless, according to a spokesman for an organization of physicians.
"I hope we have the gumption to have laws passed that will prohibit this," Dr. Gene Rudd, the associate executive director ... (more)
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'Precocious Puberty' Is on the RiseHormone-mimicking chemicals found in food, water, and many consumer goods may well be the cause of why children as young as eight are showing signs of sexual development.
Kids these days are growing up too fast -- in more ways than one. American girls are reaching puberty up to a year earlier than in previous generations, with some children showing signs of sexual development as young as age 3. In extreme cases, girls are budding breasts before they’ve even learned to read.<... (more)
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Parents defend giving disabled girl hormones, surgery to keep her 'childlike'Her name is Ashley X, and she is the little girl who will never grow up.
Until New Year’s Day, not even her first name was known. Ashley was a faceless case study, cited in a paper by two doctors at Seattle Children’s Hospital as they outlined a treatment so radical that it brought with it allegations of “eugenics”, of creating a 21st-century Frankenstein’s monster, of maiming a child for the sake of convenience.
The reason for the cont... (more) INFORMATION ON STATIC ENCEPAHLOPATHY: "The leading cause of developmental disabilities characterized by Static Encephalopathy is consumption of alcohol during pregnancy." |
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Single Gene Could Lead to Long Life, Better Mental FunctionIf you live to 100, as roughly one in every 10,000 people do, you will likely want both your mind and body intact. Researchers have now discovered a gene that accomplishes just that, apparently protecting the brain as well as prolonging life.
The Longevity Genes Project, initiated by Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, investigates people who live exceptionally long lives.
"There's a strong family histor... (more)
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The shocking truth about the baby factoriesThis is the first picture of the British woman with the Romanian baby she stole. And as this investigation reveals, countless other children are being bred to order in Mafia-run baby farms:
The Baby Factory is run with brutal efficiency. As soon as an order has been placed, a woman is chosen to produce a baby. Only the beautiful girls are selected to join the production line.
The customers will, the owners of the factory know all too well, pay a higher price for an ... (more)
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Pentagon restarting mass vaccinations despite health fearsWASHINGTON - En route home from the Persian Gulf on a military supply ship in 2003, merchant seaman James Francis and his mates got an ultimatum: Take anthrax and smallpox vaccinations or lose your jobs.
Francis' Seattle attorney, Russell Williams, described the shipboard scene the next day off the isle of Crete as: "Wham, bam. 'Get in line. Take your shots.'"
Within days of taking the two shots, Francis' feet began to tingle and burn. When he... (more)
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We'll all be cyborgs someday, scientist saysA scientist at the University of Reading is in the vanguard of futurists who look forward to the day when most humans are implanted with computer microchips -- and he's using himself as his own guinea pig.
In Casino Royale, the latest James Bond movie, Bond is implanted with a microchip that allows headquarters to track his whereabouts and monitor his vital signs.
If a British cybernetics expert is right, the day will come when most people are implanted with chips -... (more)
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Slouching Toward ChimerasWhat happens when you cross a human and a mouse? Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke but, in fact, it's a serious high tech experiment recently carried out by a research team headed by a distinguished molecular biologist, Irving Weissman, at Stanford University's Institute of Cancer/Stem Cell Biology and Medicine. Scientists injected human brain cells into mouse fetuses, creating a strain of mice that were approximately 1 percent human. Dr. Weissman is actively considering a follow-up experi... (more)
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Juicing the BrainPhysicians have long tinkered with ways to "improve" the human brain, but as our understanding of that organ's inner workings quickly grows, artificial enhancement is becoming more feasible. Military research is at the forefront of this work, much of it focused on drugs. The goal is to produce a better soldier, but the emerging techniques could just as easily be applied to any individual.
The military wants to juice up personnel's brains because the human being is the weakest inst... (more)
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Welcome to the world of nano foodsWilly Wonka is the father of nano-food. The great chocolate- factory owner, you'll remember, invented a chewing gum that was a full three-course dinner. 'It will be the end of all kitchens and cooking,' he told the children on his tour - and produced a prototype sample of Wonka's Magic Chewing Gum. One strip of this would deliver tomato soup, roast beef with roast potatoes and blueberry pie and ice cream. In the right order. Violet Beauregarde snatched it, swiftly ate it and, at the pudding stag... (more)
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The eugenics crusadeFor many if not most people, the term "eugenics" gives rise to one of two images: Nazi Germany's attempts at "purification" and creating an Aryan master race or the science fiction predictions of such films as Gattaca.
Fewer are aware (and some who are aware would rather forget) that there was a powerful eugenics movement in the United States during the first half of the 20th century.
And though it would be comforting to think the movement was the product of a radic... (more)
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Military objective: less sleep, more fightDriven by the U.S. military's quest for a super soldier who is stronger, faster and can fight for days, researchers across the nation are seeking to challenge the notion of a good night's sleep.
One of those is Lexicon Genetics. The Woodlands-based company recently received a grant from the Department of Defense, which has funded studies looking for ways to allow humans to sleep less and perform better far longer.
Lexicon's scientists have used genetic engineering t... (more)
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Doctors prescribing antidepressants, antipsychotic medications to infants under the age of one, says psychiatristAccording to Dr. Yolande Lucire, a forensic psychicatrist based in New South Wales, Australia, doctors are giving children younger than 1 year of age prescriptions for atypical antipsychotics -- a class of narcotics used to treat schizophrenia, bipolar mania, psychotic agitation and other similar conditions.
In an email to Alliance for Human Research Protection President Vera Hassner Sharav, Lucire, published on the AHRP web site, Lucire says that she is taking kids under her care... (more)
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Antidepressants a Suicide Risk for Young AdultsWidely used antidepressants double the risk of suicidal behavior in young adults, from around three cases per thousand to seven cases per thousand, according to a huge federal analysis of hundreds of clinical trials. It marks the first time regulators have acknowledged that the drugs can trigger suicidal behavior among patients older than 18.
Officials at the Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that the higher risk was found in patients 18 to 25 and that the risk faded amo... (more)
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Suspicious baby deaths 'feed stem-cells market'NEW-BORN babies who died in suspicious circumstances in the Ukraine are being used as a source for stem cells, a campaign group has claimed.
The group has passed on video footage it believes will back up its long-held suspicions to the Strasbourg-based Council of Europe, which is investigating the claims.
The National Ukrainian Federation of Multiple-child Families triggered international attention when it suggested last year that organs and possibly live babies w... (more)
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UK Government Proposals Approve Human/Animal Embryo HybridsLONDON, United Kingdom, December 12, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - British researchers would be permitted to create human/animal embryo hybrids using test tube technology, under sweeping new proposals to be introduced by government health officials this week, the Sunday Telegraph reported yesterday.
Known as "chimeras", the embryos would be produced by combining human and animal genetic material within a laboratory setting--the North East England Stem Cell Institut... (more)
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Senate approves Burr's bioterrorism bill After almost two years of negotiations, the Senate passed a bill last night sponsored by Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., that would create a new federal agency to combat bioterrorism.
The bill to establish the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority has been a priority of Burr's since his first day in the Senate. After the vote last night, Burr said he was "excited" that the bill had finally passed.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., a... (more)
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Students who don't have up-to-date vaccinations will be suspendedThousands of students across Durham Region face suspension if they don't get their immunization records updated.
The Durham Region Health Department has sent out final notices to 5,907 elementary students and 8,621 secondary school students and their parents.
Starting January 16, 2007, elementary students who don't have incomplete immunization records will be suspended from school until the information is recieved by the Health Department.
Exemptions ... (more)
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Pfizer seeking to have Celebrex OKd for children 2 years and olderCelebrex - the only Vioxx-like drug still on drugstore shelves - could soon be sold specifically as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis in children if the Food and Drug Administration approves a Pfizer request to do so.
The FDA has already approved Celebrex (celecoxib) to fight pain and inflammation but not specifically for use in children. Only 20 percent to 30 percent of FDA-approved drugs are specifically labeled for pediatric use.
But now Manhattan-based Pfize... (more)
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