Drug Slims Down Obese Monkeys by Killing Fat Cells
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In a study that provides provocative support for a new approach to treating obesity, a drug that kills a particular type of fat cell by choking off its blood supply was shown to cause significant weight loss in obese monkeys.
After four weeks of treatment at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center …
What Hollowing Out of U.S. Manufacturing?
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Who says we don’t make anything anymore?
What’s most impressive is that the U.S. produced almost as much manufacturing output as the manufacturing sectors of Germany (#4), Italy (#5), France (#6), Russia (#7), U.K. (#8), Brazil (#9) and Canada (#10) combined ($2.44 trillion).
Georgians Can Buy Insurance Across State Lines
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Georgia Governor Nathan Deal recently signed a bill that removed state regulations that prevented small business owners from buying out of state insurance. Giving business owners more choices will do a lot to provide healthcare competition and help to bring down prices. More states should pass legislation like this and Georgia should open this up …
A Cure for Aids?
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Brown was living in Berlin, Germany back in 2007, dealing with HIV and leukemia, when scientists there gave him a bone marrow stem cell transplant that had astounding results.
‘Production line’ heart surgery
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Division of labor, specialization, and mass production. The result: complex heart surgeries for $1,800 and the head doctor wants to bring the price down to just $800. Now that’s healthcare reform.
The Internet is My Memory (or How a Blog Helped Me Find a Long Lost Book)
I love the internet. Love, love, love it. I find so much there.
For example, I read a book many years ago. I was visiting my grandparents as a young teenager and checked out a bunch of books from the Cuyahoga County Library. I really enjoyed one of them and it’s stuck in my mind for …
An example of private property helping the poor
I finished listening to an old EconTalk podcast, during my commute this morning. Russ Roberts was talking to Karol Boudreaux about her fieldwork on property rights and economic reforms in Rwanda and South Africa. They spent the first half of the conversation talking about Rwandan reforms and the second half talking about South African reforms. …
Peak Oil Myths
Michael Lynch, the former director for Asian energy and security at the Center for International Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, debunks some of the claims surrounding peak oil, in an op-ed at the New York Times. Here’s a few of the highlights:
On the claim that oil companies are extracting increasing amounts of water …
Know Coffee, No Alzheimer's
Coffee Linked to Lower Dementia Risk
A 21-year study finds that moderate coffee drinkers are much less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
Well, no hope for me then. I can’t stand the taste of coffee.
What's Behind Alzheimer's disease?
Is Alzheimer’s disease caused by cold sores? Possibly.
The virus behind cold sores is a major cause of the insoluble protein plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer’s disease sufferers, University of Manchester researchers have revealed.
They believe the herpes simplex virus is a significant factor in developing the debilitating disease …