Joe | November 29, 2009
Don’t you just hate those irritants who go around telling others to smile, cheer up and look on the bright side? Well, you can safely ignore them now – because the latest research shows it’s great to be grumpy and grand to be a grouch. In fact, bad moods make us more attentive, less gullible [...]
Joe | November 25, 2009
For more than 1,000 years, red yeast rice (a yeast product grown on rice) has been used in Chinese medicine to improve blood circulation and aid digestion. But when modern drug companies developed drugs to lower cholesterol, they didn’t want to compete with this inexpensive botanical product. So red yeast rice was demonized. It was [...]
Joe | November 24, 2009
Almost one-third of the cocaine seized in the United States is tainted with the livestock deworming medication levamisole, according to Drug Enforcement Administration documents the Associated Press received. Levamisole, which can give users a more intense high, weakens the immune system, and has killed at least three people and sickened 100 in Canada and the [...]
Joe | November 21, 2009
Posted by Tiffany Sharples O’Callaghan Monday, November 16, 2009 at 2:29 pm © Philippe Lissac / GODONG/Godong/Corbis Prenatal exposure to common chemicals used to soften plastics may impact boys’ play behavior later in life, according to new research published in the International Journal of Andrology. This new study expands on a wealth of previous research [...]
Joe | November 20, 2009
If you got last year’s flu shot, you may be up to twice as likely to get swine flu, according to reports out of Canada. A study that makes this frightening connection is supposedly floating around out there — but don’t go looking for it, because you won’t find it. It hasn’t been published yet, [...]
Joe | November 18, 2009
Snack food is an addictive habit You might be an addict. A new study shows that junk food casts a spell on eaters much in the same way that drugs like heroin create loopy, dependent addicts. Researchers divided rats into three groups. One group ate healthy food. A second group ate healthy food and a [...]
Joe | November 17, 2009
When a honeybee is given a dose of cocaine, it gets overexcited about poor-quality food and performs overenthusiastic dances to communicate with its hivemates, according to an odd new study that got bees hooked on drugs. The research found similarities between honey bees and humans, in that they are both driven by rewards and both [...]
Joe | November 16, 2009
Researchers have found a way to reduce the ill-effects of heroin addiction and to generally keep the addicts out of trouble, but there’s a catch: The solution is to give the addicts injections of a pure form of pharmaceutical heroin twice a day. In a fascinating new study, Canadian researchers found that addicts who received [...]
Joe | November 14, 2009
. A chemical commonly found in plastics that has recently fallen under intense scrutiny by public health officials has now been linked to impotence. During a five year study, scientists followed 634 male Chinese factory workers who were exposed to high levels of the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) on the job and compared their sexual [...]
Joe | November 13, 2009
Just when men are starting to realize that there are real problems with pointless ED pills, these dangerous drugs get a lift from a most unlikely place. The American College of Physicians — a group I’ve had some respect for, until now — is suggesting that docs get more patients on drugs like Viagra, Cialis [...]
A Penis Manologue:
One Man's Response to The Vagina Monologues
Joe DiBuduo is a prolific writer of short and long fiction. A Penis Manologue is his first nonficiton book.
