The Life-Changing Magic of Mushrooms and other top stories.

• The Life-Changing Magic of Mushrooms

  

  The doom hung like an anvil over her head. In 2012, a few years after Carol Vincent was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, she was waiting to see whether her cancer would progress enough to require chemotherapy or radiation. The disease had already done a number on her, inflating lymph nodes on her chin, collar bones, and groin. She battled her symptoms while running her own marketing business. To top it all off, she was going through menopause.“Life is just pointless stress, and then you di..

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• Funeral directors anxious over Texas fetal remains rules

  

  With Texas set to implement rules requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains, it's not just health care providers who are anxious about the recently adopted requirements. Funeral directors in the state are joining the chorus of medical professionals and reproductive rights activists who have raised concerns about the rules. Though it hasn't taken a formal position on the requirements, the Texas Funeral Directors Association says it’s concerned about how they’ll affect the families they ..

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• Understanding of Parkinson's 'transformed'

  

  Image copyright Thinkstock Image caption One of the main symptoms of Parkinson's is an uncontrolled tremor Scientists in California say they have transformed understanding of Parkinson's disease. Their animal experiments, published in the journal Cell, suggest the brain disorder may be caused by bacteria living in the gut. The findings could eventually lead to new ways of treating the disease, such as drugs to kill gut bugs or probiotics.Experts said ..

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• Color Me Bad? Scientist Calls Negative Stereotypes a 'Threat' to Black Health

  

  Family practice provider Rodell Cruise uses a stethoscope to examine a patient in an exam room at a Community Clinic Inc. health center in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S., on Wednesday, April 8, 2015. Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty Images The face of the HIV and AIDS crisis is undeniably black. If current diagnosis rates continue, approximately one in 20 black men, one in 48 black women and one in two black gay and bisexual men will be diagnosed with HIV during their lifetimes, a..

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• Doctor Calls Michelle Obama 'Monkey Face,' But Says She's Not Racist

  

  A Colorado doctor has been ordered to stop seeing patients and is being fired from her medical school teaching job after calling first lady Michelle Obama “monkey face” on Facebook and defending herself as “still not racist.”  Dr. Michelle Herren, a white pediatric anesthesiologist at Denver Health Medical Center and a faculty member at University of Colorado School of Medicine, made the comment after another Facebook user called Obama eloquent, The Denver Post reported. Herren responded with an..

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• Man cured of prostate cancer after being given testosterone to shock tumors

  

  A man has been “cured” of prostate cancer using an experimental therapy that shocks tumours to death with the sex hormone testosterone. The disease was at an advanced stage and had failed to respond to previous treatment. Other seriously ill men taking part in the same trial showed responses that astounded scientists. Their tumours were seen to shrink and progress of the disease was halted in several patients. Levels of Prostate Specific Antigen – a blood marker used to monitor prostate cancer ..

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