Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Downfall is the casting of Xzibit...
Monday, February 18, 2008
Beef Recall Follows Animal-Abuse Scandal
The beef recall — the largest in U.S. history — comes after a widening animal-abuse scandal.
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Saturday, February 16, 2008
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
I Don't Mind the Pain
Exciting studies now suggest that injecting DNA-containing vaccines with a tattoo gun (lacking the ink that normally creates the tattoo) is far more effective than the way human vaccines are now delivered.
A German study published this month in Genetic Vaccines and Therapy showed that administering pieces of DNA from the human papillomavirus virus into the skin of mice by three tattoo-gun injections produced a 200-fold greater production of antibodies to the virus than was achieved with the old method of a needle injection into a muscle.
The reason that tattoo injections are so much more effective is thought to be because the repeated puncturing of the skin by the rotating tattoo needle does real damage to the skin — the presence of a bona fide wound causes inflammatory cells to flood into the site, where they speed and enhance the immune response to the vaccine.
This skin damage, however, is also painful, and this fact may limit the application of the tattoo-injection technique for routine vaccinations. But the new technique shows promise for the use of DNA injections to treat, rather than prevent, diseases like cancer or possibly even HIV infection, where potential benefits would outweigh the pain of the injections.
The use of tattoo injections, coupled with the ability to rapidly produce large quantities of a vaccine, might prove extraordinarily valuable in a situation such as a threatened terrorist attack, where a sudden need arises for large amounts of an effective vaccine.
This is....REAL TALK!
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Cheeba Time
Pot vending machines take root in L.A. -Machines distribute the drug to people with cards authorizing use - The Associated Press -updated 4:01 a.m. PT, Wed., Jan. 30, 2008
LOS ANGELES - The city that popularized the fast food drive-thru has a new innovation: 24-hour medical marijuana vending machines. At least three dispensaries in the city have installed vending machines to distribute the drug to people who carry cards authorizing marijuana use.
It took seven months to develop and patent the black, armored box, which he calls the "PVM," or prescription vending machine. The computerized machine requires fingerprint identification and a prepaid card with a magnetic stripe. Once the card and fingerprint are verified, a bright green envelope with the pot drops down a slot.Any user approved for medical marijuana and registered in a computer database at his dispensaries can pre-purchase the drug and then use the machine to pick up.
With the advice of doctors, there is a limit to the amount of marijuana per user to an ounce per week. Each purchase from the machine yields 1/8th or 2/8th of an ounce. By eliminating a vendor behind the counter, he said, the machine offers users lower drug prices. The 1/8th ounce packet would cost about $40 — $20 lower than the average price at other dispensaries.