Last week, I posted about my breast cancer diagnosis on Facebook. Since then, my Facebook feed has featured ads for “alternative cancer care.” The ads, which were new to my timeline, promote everything from cumin seeds to colloidal silver as cancer treatments. Some ads promise luxury clinics — or even “nontoxic cancer therapies” on a beach in Mexico. There’s a reason I’ll never fall for these ads:
Tantalizing headlines emerged after the release of Clear Labs’ Hot Dog Report.Credit...Spencer Platt/Getty Images The eye-catching headlines on the new findings started coming in waves. “Report: Human DNA Found in Hot Dogs” said USA Today, in a typical example. This bizarre information came from a single document released on Oct. 17 by the consumer marketing arm of a company called Clear Labs, whi
Volkswagen admitted that 11 million of its vehicles were equipped with software that was used to cheat on emissions tests. This is how the technology works and what it now means for vehicle owners. Related Article The software sensed when the car was being tested and then activated equipment that reduced emissions, United States officials said. But the software turned the equipment down during reg
WATERLOO, Sierra Leone — At first, the chief said nobody was sick in his community. Then he said that if anybody was sick it was because of witchcraft. Then he acknowledged that health workers were removing several suspected Ebola patients every day. In fact 15 corpses had been taken in less than a week from the community, but the chief did not admit that. Persistent denial has been harmful to the
A woman in Monrovia, Liberia, passed a man believed to be infected with Ebola. Researchers say it could take 12 to 18 months to bring the epidemic under control.Credit...Abbas Dulleh/Associated Press The deadly Ebola outbreak sweeping across three countries in West Africa is likely to last 12 to 18 months more, much longer than anticipated, and could infect hundreds of thousands of people before i
Although few medical experts realize it, part of the population in West Africa is immune to the Ebola virus, according to virologists who specialize in the disease. Assuming they are correct, and if those people can be identified, they could be a great help in fighting the outbreak. Immune persons could safely tend the sick and bury the dead just as smallpox survivors did in the centuries before s
Nancy Writebol with children in Liberia. Mrs. Writebol contracted the Ebola virus there.Credit...Jeremy Writebol, via Associated Press ATLANTA — Nancy Writebol wanted barbecued chicken and fried okra instead of hospital food for dinner on Friday, so her sons went out and got it, and had it passed to her isolation room in the special containment unit at Emory University Hospital. Mrs. Writebol, 59,
Using a Tactic Unseen in a Century, Countries Cordon Off Ebola-Racked Areas A soldier stood guard at a roadblock outside the Kenema district last week after Sierra Leone deployed troops to enforce an Ebola quarantine in the eastern part of the country.Credit...Tommy Trenchard for The New York Times The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is so out of control that governments there have revived a disease
Bill Banyai used his digital expertise in designing a factory that lowered the cost of mapping the human genome.Credit...Ramin Rahimian for The New York Times MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In Silicon Valley, the line between computing and biology has begun to blur in a way that could have enormous consequences for human longevity. Bill Banyai, an optical physicist at Complete Genomics, has helped make t
HUNTER Edward M. Marcotte and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin have found hundreds of genes involved in human disorders.Credit...Ben Sklar for The New York Times Edward M. Marcotte is looking for drugs that can kill tumors by stopping blood vessel growth, and he and his colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin recently found some good targets — five human genes that are essen
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