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	<title>The People&#039;s Republic of Moronia &#187; Medicine</title>
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		<title>Coming for science: Why I orgasmed in an MRI scanner</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/01/coming-for-science-why-i-orgasmed-in-an-mri-scanner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:38:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An edgy, irreverent book by Kayt Sukel that examines all the ways our neurons can wreak havoc with our hearts. By Kayt Sukel (CNN) As background research for my book, &#8220;Dirty Minds: How our brains influence love, sex and relationships,&#8221; I participated in a study at Rutgers University where scientists measured the activity in my <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/01/coming-for-science-why-i-orgasmed-in-an-mri-scanner/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Woman’s face catches fire during routine surgery &#8211; ABC News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Katie Moisse (ABC News) A Florida woman was rushed by helicopter to an Alabama burn center after her face caught fire during routine surgery. Kim Grice, a 29-year-old mother of three, was having cysts removed from her head at an outpatient surgery center in Crestview, Fla., when the flash fire erupted. The cause of <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/woman%e2%80%99s-face-catches-fire-during-routine-surgery-abc-news/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Report shows fewer traffic fatalities after states pass medical-pot laws</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Ingold (Denver Post) The passage of state medical-marijuana laws is associated with a subsequent drop in the rate of traffic fatalities, according to a newly released study by two university professors. The study — by University of Colorado Denver professor Daniel Rees and Montana State University professor D. Mark Anderson — found that <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/report-shows-fewer-traffic-fatalities-after-states-pass-medical-pot-laws/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Researcher creates a super-virus that could kill half the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(DoctorTipster) A strain of avian influenza H5N1 genetically modified to be extremely contagious has been created by researcher Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands. The work was first presented at a conference dedicated to influenza, that took place in September in Malta. Avian influenza emerged in Asia about 10 years ago. Since <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/researcher-creates-a-super-virus-that-could-kill-half-the-world/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hospital denies liver transplant to medical marijuana user to whom its own doctor prescribed</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AllGov) Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles is refusing to grant a liver transplant to a cancer patient because he used medical marijuana, which not only is legal under California law but also was prescribed by a Cedars doctor. Diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer in 2009, Norman B. Smith, 63, has been treated at Cedars-Sinai <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/hospital-denies-liver-transplant-to-medical-marijuana-user-its-own-doctor-prescribed-it/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Psychiatrist Loren Mosher, advocate of drug-free schizophrenia treatment, dies at 70</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/psychiatrist-loren-mosher-advocate-of-drug-free-schizophreni-treatment-dies-at-70/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Adam Bernstein (Washington Post) Loren R. Mosher, 70, who died of liver cancer July 10 at a clinic in Berlin, was a contrarian psychiatrist and schizophrenia expert who was dismissed from the National Institute of Mental Health for his controversial theories on treatment. While chief of NIMH&#8217;s Center for the Study of Schizophrenia from <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/psychiatrist-loren-mosher-advocate-of-drug-free-schizophreni-treatment-dies-at-70/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ionized plasmas used in neon lights can cheaply sterilize water in developing world</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/using-ionized-plasmas-as-cheap-sterilizers-for-developing-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Robert Sanders (UC California, Berkeley) University of California, Berkeleyscientists have shown that ionized plasmas like those in neon lights and plasma TVs not only can sterilize water, but make it antimicrobial – able to kill bacteria – for as long as a week after treatment. A brief spark in air produces a low-temperature plasma of <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/using-ionized-plasmas-as-cheap-sterilizers-for-developing-world/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Autism diagnosis is found to be more common in those who weighed least at birth &#8211; The Washington Post</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/autism-diagnosis-is-found-to-be-more-common-in-those-who-weighed-least-at-birth-the-washington-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Linda Searing (Washington Post) This study involved 623 children who were born in the mid-1980s weighing 4.4 pounds or less. Their health was assessed periodically, including screening for autism spectrum disorders at age 16 and evaluations to confirm the diagnosis, using standardized measures, at age 21. Overall, 5 percent of the youths had autism spectrum <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/autism-diagnosis-is-found-to-be-more-common-in-those-who-weighed-least-at-birth-the-washington-post/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A die-hard capitalist challenges anyone to show her a regulation that caused a layoff</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/10/a-die-hard-capitalist-challenges-anyone-to-show-her-a-regulation-that-caused-a-layoff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bevi Chagnon I’m a federal contractor who helps US government agencies produce, update, maintain, and publish those regulations you’re talking about. I’ve read tens of thousands of pages of regulations from just about every federal agency here in Washington DC, and I have never found even one regulatory point that I thought was unrealistic <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/10/a-die-hard-capitalist-challenges-anyone-to-show-her-a-regulation-that-caused-a-layoff/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs wasn’t great; he wasn’t even close</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/10/steve-jobs-wasn%e2%80%99t-great-he-wasn%e2%80%99t-even-close/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Neeraj Thakur (DNA) A man becomes truly great for humankind and his passing away deserves mass mourning only if he has done something to better the lives of his fellow beings, overcoming personal greed and lust for power.While all of us take our newborn kids to have ‘Do boond zindagi ki’, to save our <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/10/steve-jobs-wasn%e2%80%99t-great-he-wasn%e2%80%99t-even-close/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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