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- IRIN humanitarian news: Less silence, more science could make anal sex safer
  Posted by okami
  NEW DELHI, 27 February 2008 (PlusNews) - The silence and taboo surrounding anal sex is putting millions of men and women at risk of HIV, delegates attending the fourth international microbicides conference in New Delhi, India, heard this week.
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- Most Influenza Strains Do Not Match Current Vaccine
  Posted by okami from medscape
  As the U.S. flu season soars, the CDC says this year's flu vaccine doesn't match two of the three main types of flu bugs now in circulation.
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- Male Infertility: Changing Conceptions
  Posted by okami from Washington Post
  When doctors at Shady Grove Fertility Centers told a 34-year-old construction supervisor that he had a low sperm count and that was likely why he and his wife had been unable to conceive, the news came as something of a shock.
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- Medication Under a Microscope
  Posted by okami from Washington Post
  A series of surprising findings about some of the most widely accepted assumptions in medicine has renewed debate about how aggressively doctors use drugs to prevent and treat some of the nation's leading health problems.
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- Second Thoughts about Fluoride, reports Scientific American
  Posted by nyscof from Reuters
  Fluoride, long believed to be a safe cavity-fighter, may be neither.
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- Science vs. Pseudoscience: Homeopathy
  Posted by Jeff from Chineseinvancouver.blogspot
  Ars Technica has an interesting look at pseudoscience as it applies to homeopathy. While most discussions about what science is get derailed by the larger controversies surrounding them, Ars chose a relatively uncontroversial pseudo-science to examine so that they could examine the factors which make homeopathy a psuedo-science: ignoring settled issues in science, misapplication of real science, rejection of scientific standards, claims of suppression, large gaps between the conclusion...
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- Rush vs. Fox
  Posted by ptristam from Pierre Tristam
  Why Rush Limbaugh's attack on Michael J. Fox is is a pathetic sideswipe that attempts, and fails, to obscure the real issue: stem-cell research is medicine's next frontier.
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