Women using so much Botox it’s stopped working: Users develop antibodies making treatment less effective

It is the £200-a-time beauty  treatment many women swear by to smooth out their wrinkled foreheads and crow’s feet.

But those relying on Botox to hold back the years could be wasting their money – because they are becoming immune to the injections, warn scientists.

They say the drug, a type of neurotoxin, is failing to freeze the facial muscles of some patients as well as it did before, or for as [...]

Study Boosts Link Between Flu Vaccine, Sleep Disorder

AFP
February 27, 2013

A study in England has strengthened evidence from Scandinavia that a vaccine used to prevent pandemic flu boosted the risk of sleep disorder among teens and children, doctors said on Tuesday.

Using the Pandemrix vaccine increased the risk of narcolepsy among people aged four to 18 by a factor of 14 compared to those who did not get the jab, they said.

The risk in absolute terms was between one [...]

Doctors’ Want Kitchen knives Ban in UK

Doctors’ Want Kitchen knives Ban in UK

Doctors’ kitchen knives ban call

A&E doctors are calling for a ban on long pointed kitchen knives to reduce deaths from stabbing.

A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime is on the increase – and kitchen knives are used in as many as half of all stabbings.

They argued many assaults are committed impulsively, prompted by alcohol and drugs, and a kitchen knife often [...]

Miami cannibal’s frenzied attack eating homeless man’s face now linked to cannabis-induced psychosis after tests found he was NOT high on bath salts

The Miami cannibal was not high on bath salts when he attacked 65-year-old Ronald Poppo and chewed off 75 percent of his face on May 26, the medical examiner found last week.

After marijuana was the only drug in Rudy Eugene’s body experts are investigating what drove him to carry out the horrifying attack with some speculating that it could have been a cannabis-induced psychosis.

The 31-year-old was once diagnosed with schizophrenia [...]

Miami cannibal’s frenzied attack eating homeless man’s face now linked to cannabis-induced psychosis after tests found he was NOT high on bath salts

The Miami cannibal was not high on bath salts when he attacked 65-year-old Ronald Poppo and chewed off 75 percent of his face on May 26, the medical examiner found last week.

After marijuana was the only drug in Rudy Eugene’s body experts are investigating what drove him to carry out the horrifying attack with some speculating that it could have been a cannabis-induced psychosis.

The 31-year-old was once diagnosed with schizophrenia [...]

Want to Live Longer? Move to NYC

While life expectancy in many parts of the United States is dropping, it has increased by 10 years in Manhattan since 1987. Researchers largely attribute that rise — the fastest in the nation — to a crackdown by the New York City health department on unhealthy behaviors.

Manhattanites can now expect to live to the ripe old age of 82, and the average life expectancy across all five New York City [...]

20% ‘Fat Tax’ Needed to Fight Obesity

It’s a proposition some might find hard to swallow: a 20-percent tax on unhealthy food to improve the health of the nation.

Yet such a tax — spread across the food chain from manufacturer to consumer, coupled with changes in food policy to spur production of healthier food — is needed to reverse the pandemic of obesity and chronic diseases, researchers say.

Two articles published online today (May 15) in the British [...]

What Has NATO Ever Done? Chronicling NATO’s global crime spree, and asking: has NATO ever done anything useful to the world?

John LaForge
Counter Punch
May 16, 2012

Wondering why anyone would confront NATO’s summit in Chicago this month? A look at some of its more well-known crimes might spark some indignation.

Desecration of corpses, indiscriminate attacks, bombing of allied troops, torture of prisoners and unaccountable drone war are a few of NATO’s outrages in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere. On March 20, 2012 Pakistani lawmakers demanded an end to all NATO/CIA drone strikes [...]

STUDY: Computer therapy helps young out of depression

AFP

A computer game designed to lift teenagers out of depression is as effective as one-on-one counselling, New Zealand doctors reported on Thursday in the British Medical Journal (BMJ).

Researchers at the University of Auckland tested an interactive 3-D fantasy game called SPARX on a 94 youngsters diagnosed with depression whose average age was 15 and a half.

SPARX invites a user to take on a series of seven challenges over four to [...]

Doctor from MMR controversy wins High Court appeal; next up, Dr. Wakefield

Ethan A. Huff
Natural News
March 15, 2012

(NaturalNews) The U.K. General Medical Council‘s (GMC) rash and unfounded decision to strike Professor John Walker-Smith, who had helped Dr. Andrew Wakefield in treating desperately-ill children with regressive autism symptoms and severe gastrointestinal problems, off the medical register for alleged “professional misconduct” has been exposed as a fraud. During a recent High Court appeal, Mr. Justice Mitting ruled that Prof. Walker-Smith’s striking “cannot stand” because of [...]

White rice link seen with Type 2 diabetes

Health researchers said on Thursday they had found a troubling link between higher consumption of rice and Type 2 diabetes, a disease that in some countries is becoming an epidemic.

Further work is need to probe the apparent association and diets that are notoriously high in sugar and fats should remain on the no-go list, they cautioned.

“What we’ve found is white rice is likely to increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes, especially at high consumption levels such as in [...]

BMJ admits antipsychotic drugs kill far more people than terrorism

Mike Adams
Natural News
March 2, 2012

Based on the facts, U.S. Transportation Security Administration pat-downs and naked body scans belong at drug company factories, doctors’ offices, and drug stores, rather than at American airports.

A new report published in the British Medical Journal has found that dangerous antipsychotic drugs are responsible for killing at least 1,800 dementia patients a year, which means that more people are killed by U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) approved dementia drugs every two [...]