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Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada found a cheap and easy to produce drug that kills almost all cancers. The drug is dichloroacetate, and since it is already used to treat metabolic disorders, we know it should be no problem to use it for other purposes.

comments: If you are dying of cancer right now, the Canadian Cancer Society is urging you to die rather than risk taking this medicine. If you take it and don’t die, that would be a catastrophe for the pharmaceutical industry and you wouldn’t want that on your head. Finding the connection between the Canadian Cancer Society and large pharmaceutical industry concerns is left as an exercise to the reader. Expect dichloroacetate to be utterly demonized and soon banned across the western world.

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Another find on digg. Very good.

“If you are a night owl, and that works for you, I think that’s great. There’s no reason to change, especially if you’re happy with it. But for me, switching from being a night owl to an early riser (and yes, it is possible) has been a godsend. It has helped me in so many ways that I’d never go back. Here are just a few.”

Chosen comment:
for the people saying it doesnt matter when you go to sleep, you still get the same hours in the day, that doesnt work for me at least. say if i go to bed at 2am and get up at 9. thats 7 hours of sleep but i still feel tired and not rejuvenated. if i go to bed at 11 and get up at 6 its the same hours but i feel rejuvenated and function a lot better, saving time.

i will never be a night owl when im by myself at least. i work 3x as slow and get distracted very easily. when people tell me that they stayed up until 5am finishing a project, im like i got up at 3am to finish my project lol.

when i do things, even unimportant things in the morning it feels so much better. for example, make a good breakfast and watch a short movie before you start your day. its amazing to think that you have already watched a movie before your day even started.

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Found it on digg, quite interesting.

Dr Indrani Sarkar has has every reason to be excited. Her PhD thesis, which started in 2002 at the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, Germany, has thrown open the doors for developing enzymes that can destroy the dreaded Human Immuno-deficiency Virus or HIV within infected cells permanently.

Chosen comment:
Another exciting part of this development is that it could possibly be re-used to other viruses, especially those that have grown resistance. That’s the issue with HIV, but just imagine the possibilities if we can identify gene sequences like this instead of more blindly attack. We’d perhaps be able to develop specialized vaccines by detection of genes. If a resistant virus is detected that way, it could be applied a specialized treatment instead of more general, “blinder” treatments with possibly more side effects too.

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Found this news from digg.com that might be useful.

During the early 1900’s, Dr. William Coley re-discovered a cancer treatment that was surprisingly effective. By infecting tumors with common bacteria, Coley learned the body could be triggered to kill off cancerous tumors. Conventional modern medicine rarely employs Coley’s technique today for 1 reason: they still don’t understand how it works.

Chosen comments: The thing I remember regarding this subject from college biology classes is that the immune system naturally finds and kills cancerous cells all of the time since they are designed to give signals that there is something wrong with them. It is when they don’t give these signals that they are left to continue growing and eventually kill us. So, it makes sense then to this layman that if you could prompt an immune response though other means, such as infecting those cells with a virus that our systems can identify and fight, you could deal with the cancerous cells by fighting the other infection.

Of course, you would have to figure out a way to ensure that all the cells in question become infected in order for them all to be targeted by this immune response. And different types of pathogens would be needed depending on the body cells you are wishing to kill.

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