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"An accurate and colorful discription of a gout attack was elegantly written in 1683 by Dr. Thomas Sydenham who was himself a sufferer of gout: The victim goes to bed and sleeps in good health. About 2 o'clock in the morning, he is awakened by a severe pain in the great toe; more rarely in the heel, ankle or instep. This pain is like that of a dislocation, and yet the parts feel as if cold water were poured over them. Then follows chills and shiver and a little fever. The pain which at first moderate becomes more intense. With its intensity the chills and shivers increase. After a time this comes to a full height, accommodating itself to the bones and ligaments of the tarsus and metatarsus. Now it is a violent stretching and tearing of the ligaments- now it is a gnawing pain and now a pressure and tightening. So exquisite and lively meanwhile is the feeling of the part affected, that it cannot bear the weight of bedclothes nor the jar of a person walking in the room. "

"So far the treatment, known as faecal transplant, has been tested only on a drug resistant form of the bowel disease caused by the bacterium clostridium difficile. Antibiotics are unreliable against the superbug, but the transplant is 95% successful, saving patients from constant stomach cramps and chronic diarrhoea. "It sounds radical but it makes a lot of sense," said Seppelt on Thursday at a gathering of more than 4,000 Australasian anaesthetists and surgeons. "Usually patients are sufficiently miserable to go ahead, often using a donation from a relative." Healthy humans have about 100 times more bacteria cells in their gut than their own cells."

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny).

Details WhaTech Channel: Materials & Chemicals Research Reports ACCESS REPORT : United States Siliconized Film Industry Report 2015 Published on Wednesday, 15 July 2015 16:32 Submitted by Vivian Dsena WhaTech Agency News from: Wise Guy Reports - Maket Research Development policies and plans are discussed as well as manufacturing processes and Bill of Materials cost structures are also analyzed.

"100,000 skin samples every year (that's 5 square meters of skin or a full cow's-worth annually) at its lab in Lyon. Currently, the company receives bits of donor skin from plastic surgery procedures. Then L'Oreal breaks the samples down into individual cells, re-cultures and grows them into .5 cm testing squares. The whole process takes about a week to complete but could soon be done much faster thanks to Organovo's NovoGen Bioprinting Platform. ... The bioprinter has already partnered with Merk to create liver and kidney tissues"

Coastline Sediment Control provides you the best quality sediment control services in Australia with over 17 years experience. By availing these services, you can easily know about the importance of these services in the case of sedimentation and soil erosion.

"Ich weiß wie schwer es ist, gewohnte Strukturen zu verändern und nachhaltig zu leben. Ich kämpfe selbst täglich mit meinem inneren Schweinehund. Ich möchte die Zukunft meiner Kinder nicht dem allgemeinen Desinteresse opfern. Wir sind an einem Punkt angelangt, an dem wir handeln müssen, und zwar jeder einzelne von uns. Wir sind in der Pflicht, nicht die anderen"

"Britt Marie Hermes Former naturopathic doctor and "natural health expert." Current Master's of Science student in biomedicine. I share the hard truths about naturopathic education and practice to protect patients. Please don't be fooled by natural and alternative medicine. "

From testicle size to our slutty ancestors, a new book explains what human history teaches us about sex and couples

A new interactive database, including a timeline showing how human fetuses develop, displays scientific data about controversial chemicals in a graphic way

The Eastern United States and parts of Europe have just gone through one of the worst winters in history. Was it because of El Nino and what is El Nino.

Exquisite measurements of the radiation left over from the big bang led us to believe that we could work out the curvature of the universe to within a few per cent. In doing so, we have determined how much energy the universe contains and that most of it is in an exotic form called dark energy, which is driving the expansion of space. However, recent discoveries have left me wondering if these claims were premature. As we learn more about dark energy and its effect on the expansion of space and time, we find that dark energy and the shape, or geometry, of the universe are worryingly intertwined.

We got the same measurement no matter which method we used, finding out that 25-30% of the total energy of the Universe is in some type of matter. But, only about 0.5% of the total energy is in stars, which means that nearly all of this matter doesn't give off light! So what is the rest of this matter?

One of the reasons why physicists often wax poetic about the beauty of physics is that so much of the field has based on symmetry, and humans find symmetry beautiful.

The psychology of vengeance explains much about the state of the world and suggests the war on terror can never succeed, says Metin Basoglu

New research looks at the effects of studying a form of meditation on brain connectivity. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, researchers in China and the University of Oregon describe experiments on 45 students, some of whom were taught a meditation technique known as integrative body-mind training (IBMT). The researchers used brain imaging techniques to examine fibers connecting brain regions before and after training. Students trained in the IBMT approach for 11 hours or more appeared to develop new fibers in a part of the brain that helps a person regulate behavior. Control subjects did not form the new fibers. But what does the presence of those fibers actually mean -- and what is the meditation technique doing? We'll talk about it.

Not quite there yet for human teleportation, but at least they are thinking about it.

Astronomers' new observations have spotted the most distant galaxy ever seen. The galaxy's light comes from about 13.1 billion light-years away, making it one of the first galaxies to form after the Big Bang.

Researchers at Fermilab are building a "holometer" so they can disprove everything you thought you knew about the universe. More specifically, they are trying to either prove or disprove the somewhat mind-bending notion that the third dimension doesn't exist at all, and that the 3-D universe we think we live in is nothing more than a hologram. To do so, they are building the most precise clock ever created.

It looks like physics works differently in different places. If so, everything we think we know about the cosmos may be wrong