Flesh and Stone - Health and Science News: Some airlines require obese passengers to pay for extra seat. Are fuel surcharges next? ================================================================================ Kathlyn Stone on 19 August, 2008 03:30:00 U.S. airlines haven't yet broached the idea of adding a weight surcharge to obese travelers' tickets. But some international airlines are talking about it. Researchers turn to 3D technology to gauge attractiveness of human body ================================================================================ Kathlyn Stone on 19 August, 2008 12:20:00 Good body symmetry is an unspoken cue of a person's health and potential reproductive status, according to researchers. Scientists working on test to protect food chain from human form of Mad Cow Disease ================================================================================ Kathlyn Stone on 15 August, 2008 07:20:00 A test to instantly detect beef contaminated with tissue from a cow's brain or spinal cord during slaughter is currently under development at Kansas State University. The detection of fluorescent pigment lipofuscin is believed to be a reliable indicator for the presence of suspect tissue in bovine carcasses and meat cuts. Health care practitioners among those caught buying diplomas ================================================================================ Kathlyn Stone on 14 August, 2008 08:35:00 Investigators who worked "Operation Gold Seal" are providing the list to all 50 state attorneys general and other agencies. Weird government science policies ================================================================================ Kathlyn Stone on 10 August, 2008 10:50:00 From HIV to missile defense to wildlife management, the Bush administration’s policies that should be science-based have been called weird, unfeasible, secretive, non-scientific, reckless, arbitrary, capricious and bankrupting. Another species of mouth bacteria identified ================================================================================ Kathlyn Stone on 11 August, 2008 01:15:00 The isolation of the tissue-inhabiting bacteria could lead to better treatments for tooth decay and gum disease, say U.K. researchers "It's like something out of the Third World" ================================================================================ Kathlyn Stone on 06 August, 2008 03:15:00 Thousands of uninsured people lined up at a county fairgrounds in Wise, Virginia, to wait for health care services from volunteer doctors, dentists, nurses, optometrists and medical technicians during a 3-day free health clinic. Numerous citizen groups are crisscrossing the country this summer to demand reform of the U.S. system. Harvard Medical School professor: U.S. health system nearing collapse ================================================================================ Kathlyn Stone on 06 August, 2008 12:05:00 Harvard Medical School professor emeritus Dr. Arnold Relman says current U.S. health system cannot be sustained. CNN’s ‘Black in America’ erroneously portrayed cause of health disparities says expert ================================================================================ Kathlyn Stone on 01 August, 2008 10:20:00 A public health expert criticizes the program for re-introducing the pseudo-scientific 'salt-sensitive theory' dating back to the slave trade Inspiring "Last Lecture" Professor Dies ================================================================================ Meryl Ann Butler on 01 August, 2008 10:10:00 Author thanks Randy Pausch for “raising the consciousness of mankind.”