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	<title>The People&#039;s Republic of Moronia &#187; Medicine</title>
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		<title>Extract of Chinese herb kudzu reduces alcohol consumption</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/extract-of-chinese-herb-kudzu-reduces-alcohol-consumption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(McLean Hospital) An extract of the Chinese herb kudzu dramatically reduces drinking and may be useful in the treatment of alcoholism and curbing binge drinking, according to a new study by McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers. &#8220;Our study is further evidence that components found in kudzu root can reduce alcohol consumption and do <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/extract-of-chinese-herb-kudzu-reduces-alcohol-consumption/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>New male birth control procedure said to be 100% effective, completely reversible</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/new-male-birth-control-procedure-said-to-be-100-effective-completely-reversible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 17:12:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dave Smith (International Business Times) A promising new birth control treatment &#8212; for men, not women &#8212; looks to be the future of contraception. It&#8217;s safe, relatively uninvasive, 100 percent effective, and completely reversible. Developed by Prof. Sujoy K. Guha of the Indian Institute of Technology, the procedure called &#8220;Reversible Inhibition of Sperm Under <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/05/new-male-birth-control-procedure-said-to-be-100-effective-completely-reversible/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Even eating small amounts of fast foods is linked to depression</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/even-eating-small-amounts-of-fast-foods-is-linked-to-depression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[1st World Problems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(EurekaNet) According to a recent study headed by scientists from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the University of Granada, eating commercial baked goods (fairy cakes, croissants, doughnuts, etc.) and fast food (hamburgers, hotdogs and pizza) is linked to depression. Published in the Public Health Nutrition journal, the results reveal that consumers <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/even-eating-small-amounts-of-fast-foods-is-linked-to-depression/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Antibody treatment that shrinks human tumors in mice could lead to cancer cure</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/antibody-treatment-that-shrinks-human-tumors-transplanted-into-mice-could-lead-to-cure-for-cancer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Krista Conger (Inside Standford Medicine) Human tumors transplanted into laboratory mice disappeared or shrank when scientists treated the animals with a single antibody, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The antibody works by masking a protein flag on cancer cells that protects them from macrophages and other cells in the immune <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/antibody-treatment-that-shrinks-human-tumors-transplanted-into-mice-could-lead-to-cure-for-cancer/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Confirmed: vitamin pills can cause sudden death, increase mortality 4%</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 12:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sybille Hildebrandt ( ScienceNordic) Antioxidants, dietary supplements, vitamin pills – many people take them every day in the hope that they are good for their health. But a new Danish study of all relevant trials carried out around the world shows that taking antioxidants in the form of vitamin A, E and beta-carotene is a risky <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/confirmed-vitamin-pills-can-cause-sudden-death-increase-mortality-4/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Study: Exercise can lead to female orgasm, sexual pleasure</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/study-exercise-can-lead-to-female-orgasm-sexual-pleasure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Medical Express) Findings from a first-of-its-kind study by Indiana University researchers confirm anecdotal evidence that exercise &#8212; absent sex or fantasies &#8212; can lead to female orgasm. Sex researcher Debby Herbenick. Credit: Indiana University While the findings are new, reports of this phenomenon, sometimes called &#8220;coregasm&#8221; because of its association with exercises for core abdominal <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/study-exercise-can-lead-to-female-orgasm-sexual-pleasure/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia lawmaker compares women to cows and pigs</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/georgia-lawmaker-compares-women-to-cows-and-pigs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 13:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David Edwards (RawStory) Republican Georgia state Rep. Terry England says that his experience with cows, pigs and chickens has proven to him that women should be forced to have their babies after 20 weeks of pregnancy. In a debate over Georgia House Bill 954, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks even if the baby <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/georgia-lawmaker-compares-women-to-cows-and-pigs/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Study of previous research confirms that LSD helps to treat alcoholism</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/study-of-previous-research-confirms-that-lsd-helps-to-treat-alcoholism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Arran Frood (Nature) The powerful hallucinogen LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) has potential as a treatment for alcoholism, according to a retrospective analysis of studies published in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The study1, by neuroscientist Teri Krebs and clinical psychologist Pål-Ørjan Johansen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, is the <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/study-of-previous-research-confirms-that-lsd-helps-to-treat-alcoholism/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Plaintiff in healthcare law challenge went bankrupt – with unpaid medical bills</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/plaintiff-in-healthcare-law-challenge-went-bankrupt-with-unpaid-medical-bills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By David G. Savage (Los Angeles Times) Mary Brown, a 56-year-old Florida woman who owned a small auto repair shop but had no health insurance, became the lead plaintiff challenging President Obama&#8217;s healthcare law because she was passionate about the issue. Brown &#8220;doesn&#8217;t have insurance. She doesn&#8217;t want to pay for it. And she doesn&#8217;t want the <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/plaintiff-in-healthcare-law-challenge-went-bankrupt-with-unpaid-medical-bills/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>States that legalize medical marijuana show decreases in suicides</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/02/states-that-legalize-medical-marijuana-show-decreases-suicides/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Norml) The enactment of statewide laws allowing for the limited use of cannabis therapeutically is associated with reduced instances of suicide, according to a discussion paper published in January by the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, Germany. Researchers at Montana State University, the University of Colorado, and San Diego State University assessed <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/02/states-that-legalize-medical-marijuana-show-decreases-suicides/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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