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XForce report - spam (and Turkey)

Filed under: Games, E-mail, IBMIn our last installment the XForce was busy keeping you safe on the Internet. In this episode it's XForce versus the evil spam. Spam, as we all know, is a pain in the rear. The XForce report covers a lot of ground on spam and phishing. Some of the things the report covers (that I won't): What happened to image-based spam? How much spam is phishing? How much spam is PDF spam? Where are the web pages contained in spam messages hosted? So, here are the interesting spa...

2008-08-01 Spike activity

Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news: Awesome Developing Intelligence post gives a remarkably concise review of cognitive science and discusses what this tells us about the best targets for cognitive enhancement. BookForum looks at two memoirs that recount the psychological and physical intricacies of illness of the body and brain. The mighty Language Log has a great analysis looking at the fallacies of yet another popular piece on sex differences in mind and brain. The Economis...

Bananas vs. Female Viagra

A decade ago, aging men went flying off their rockers to grab a bottle of those little blue Viagra pills. Now, news stories are practically screaming that there's a pill for women—and we're not talking about birth control. We're talking about Viagra—the so-called genie in a bottle for those suffering from sagging sexual energy. This story boasts that Viagra increases sexual satisfaction for women—who often suffer from a decreased libido because of anti-depressant medications. Sorry to bur...

Viagra May Give Women on Antidepressants Better Orgasms

As anyone who's had a partner on antidepressants knows, those little happy pills unfortunately typically wreak havoc on your libido and ability to orgasm. A new small study involving 97 women (average age: 37) apparently indicates that women who are on antidepressants reported having better orgasms than women who took the placebo "dummy" pill. Specifically: The research involving 98 premenopausal women found that Viagra helped with orgasm. But the benefits did not extend to other aspects of sex...

Viagra helps women on the happy pills and other noshins around the skinny-sphere

Here is just another reason for pill companies to get you to swallow more pills. Apparently, if you are on the "happy pills" because you're depressed, you can experience sexual side affects which in my estimation would probably make you...

Viagra® reduces women's antidepressant related sexual dysfunction

Women with sexual dysfunction caused by the use of antidepressants experienced a reduction in adverse sexual effects with use of sildenafil (Viagra®), according to a study in the current issue of JAMA. Treatment-related sexual dysfunction is a frequent adverse effect occurring with medication use and is a major influence for early discontinuation of antidepressant treatment, which can lead to treatment failure. Sexual dysfunction is recognized as being associated with selective and nonselective...

Watermelon is the New Viagra

Watermelon is the New Viagra by Nancy Turns out, watermelon has some of the same properties as Viagra. That's the kind of news I missed while I was vacationing in Michigan last week, far from any newspaper that doesn't exist...

Another bad week for John McCain

I recorded this week's Current video, about John McCain's rough week, before I'd actually watched footage of the worst McCain moment of all: the GOP nominee struggling to answer a question about whether he believes insurance companies should have to cover contraception (for the record, he voted against a bill that would have compelled them to). On CNN Thursday night, Republican Ed Rollins said it might be the most painful political spectacle he'd seen in his 40 years in politics. It really is th...

Yankees team doc talks groin injuries on Sirius' Doctor Radio

Earlier this summer New York Yankees catcher Jose Molina and Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Chris Snyder both suffered groin injuries on the same night. Molina was hit in the groin with a fastball while Snyder caught a foul tip and fractured his left testicle (yeesh). This week on the men's health show on Doctor Radio, hosts Dr. Samir Taneja and Dr. Andrew McCullough welcome Yankees Team Physician Dr. Stuart Hershon to discuss some of the latest nasty testicular sports injuries - including the cas...

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