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Hallucinogens For Existential Angst

January 13, 2016 by Naomi Kritzer 4 Comments

It was the sort of headline that I initially assumed was a prank article: “Active ingredient in magic mushrooms reduces anxiety, depression in cancer patients.”  Even more so when I couldn’t find the study it was referring to over on PubMed. But this is a real study, and a real finding: the researchers presented at…

Filed Under: Featured, SciTech Tagged With: cancer, psilocybin, study

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Yes, You’re Still Unlucky If You Get Cancer

January 5, 2016 by Naomi Kritzer 1 Comment

Last year in January a study came out that was widely reported as, “cancer is totally bad luck and has almost nothing to do with your lifestyle choices!” That wasn’t what it said, as we reported, but they did make the case for a lot of cancer being pure bad luck. A new study1 used…

Filed Under: Featured, SciTech Tagged With: cancer

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Why Aren’t You Listening To Your Fingernails?

June 22, 2015 by Gina Hagler Leave a Comment

Taking care of your fingernails helps to project a professional and polished image, no matter your gender. Turns out paying attention to your fingernails actually confers an additional benefit. Your fingernails can tell if you’re suffering from several different rather-not-go-there illnesses. So as a step in your assessment of your health, take a look at…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: cancer, fingernails

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Google Earth And Street View: Coming Soon To A Cancer Near You

June 10, 2015 by Tara Jenson 1 Comment

Welcome to the future, where cancer patients can deploy Dennis Quaid in a nano-sized Google car to take street views of their cancer cell DNA! Ok no, that’s obviously and forever squarely in the realm of science fiction. In fact Google Maps doesn’t even have anything at all to do with (other than serving as…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: cancer, dennis quaid, google maps, inner space, multiple myeloma, street view

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Obviously It Is Bad Luck To Get Cancer

January 6, 2015 by Naomi Kritzer Leave a Comment

Let me just cut to the tl;dr: yeah, it still totally matters whether or not you smoke. There’s a new study on cancer risk that was published this week in Science. It does not in fact say that the majority of cancer cases are the result of bad luck — though that’s how C|Net reported…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: bad science reporting, cancer, luck

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