Saturday, January 12, 2008

Reversal Of Alzheimer's Symptoms Within Minutes In Human Study

Via ScienceDaily:
"It is unprecedented that we can see cognitive and behavioral improvement in a patient with established dementia within minutes of therapeutic intervention,” said Griffin. “It is imperative that the medical and scientific communities immediately undertake to further investigate and characterize the physiologic mechanisms involved. This gives all of us in Alzheimer’s research a tremendous new clue about new avenues of research, which is so exciting and so needed in the field of Alzheimer’s. Even though this report predominantly discusses a single patient, it is of significant scientific interest because of the potential insight it may give into the processes involved in the brain dysfunction of Alzheimer’s."

Saturday, January 05, 2008

China Limits Video, Audio Podcasts To State Run Sites

Via SearchEngineWatch:
From next month, only state websites will be allowed to carry film or radio programs, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) said
This seems bad anyway I look at it! :|

Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Lend Money to those who need it most

Checkout http://www.kiva.org/!

Using the site you can loan money to people that are trying to get out of poverty!
Which is nice! :)