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Medicine

Non-Invasive Stimulation of the Brain Ended Opioid Addiction, Cigarette Craving (jpost.com) 37

The Jerusalem Post reports that doctors at Haifa's Rambam Health Care Campus "have successfully treated their first Israeli opioid addiction patient using an experimental noninvasive brain technology, easing him through withdrawal in just 20 minutes..." [T]he team of specialists at the Haifa medical center intervened in the electrical activity of an area of the patient's brain called the nucleus accumbens, the core of the brain system responsible for feelings of satisfaction, pleasure, and reward. The treatment, based on technology from the Israeli company Insightec, is similar to the one used to treat symptoms of essential tremor and Parkinsonian tremor, under MRI control. In this case, the treatment was carried out with the help of a new technology that performs noninvasive neuromodulation, without heating or burning tissue, and allows stimulation in the same area of the brain to increase or suppress activity...

"Tests carried out a week later produced negative results for opioids and other substances," [said Dr. Lior Lev-Tov, director of the functional neurosurgery unit in Rambam's neurosurgery division and the one leading the new study at the medical center.] "The patient himself reported a craving score of zero out of 10 for using the drug, and even another side effect, a drastic drop in the desire for cigarettes, from three packs a day to just a few cigarettes, and with no urge to use alcohol. In other words, in a treatment that lasted about 20 minutes net, our patient was completely freed from an extreme dependence that had accompanied him every day for years. This is nothing less than a medical and therapeutic revolution."

Dr. Lev-Tov added that "This experience opens doors for us to treat a wide range of very serious illnesses such as PTSD, OCD, eating disorders, other addictions, severe depression, severe pain disorders, and I hope we will also be able to reach cognitive areas and treat attention deficit disorders, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and more."

Thanks to Slashdot reader Bruce66423 for sharing the article.
Space

Blue Origin Rocket Exploded Thursday Night During Hot-Fire Test (cbsnews.com) 73

Spaceflight Now shared their video of the explosion, which the Orlando Sentinel describes as showing Blue Origin's rocket "become engulfed in flames. The fireball expands out and covers the entire launch pad as the fuselage of the rocket can be seen crumbling into the flames."

Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos said on X.com "It's too early to know the root cause but we're already working to find it. Very rough day, but we'll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It's worth it." (SpaceX founder Elon Musk posted "Sorry to see this, I hope you recover quickly.")

It's unclear how this will impact future launches. "The rocket was destroyed," reports CBS News, "and as the smoke cleared, there was no sign of the erector-gantry used to move the New Glenn from its hangar to the pad and to raise it from horizontal to vertical. Likewise, one of two tall lightning towers was no longer visible." It was the first such on-pad explosion at the Cape since a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blew up on nearby pad 40 on Sept. 1, 2016... Blue Origin only has one New Glenn pad, the one that was damaged in the Thursday test. The New Glenn, which has launched three times, is a heavy lift rocket designed to compete head-to-head with SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. During New Glenn's most recent flight in April, an upper stage malfunction prevented a commercial internet satellite from reaching its planned orbit...

The New Glenn destroyed Thursday was to send 48 Leo internet satellites owned by Amazon into space [which were not on board for the hot-fire test]

Blue Origin posted on X.com that "Debris from our recent hotfire anomaly may wash ashore in the coming days/weeks. If you encounter any debris, do not touch or approach it for your safety."

"Spaceflight is unforgiving, and developing new heavy-lift launch capability is extraordinarily difficult..." NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman posted on X.com. "âWe will provide information on any impacts to the Artemis and Moon Base programs as it becomes available."

Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader symbolset for sharing the news.

Comment Re:Life? (Score 0) 197

life is great when one is healthy, eaating meat and drinking alchol are wrong not only for health reasons but ethicslly speaking as well. the dead flesh industry is unacceptably cruel and alchol fuels more social disorder then any other drug. Not to mention how prohibitions have corrupted and perverted society and law enforcement.

Comment Re:Consequence culture (Score 1) 148

they already turned over the information of course, this is likely yet another false drama engineered to give people the illusion of privacy on reddit so people will spill thier beans on reddit and give themselves away, not to mention how over-moderated the top subreddits are, so i suspect the comments themselves are now invisble, the user's likely shadow banned, and labelled as 'unpleasent' and this must be a minor user moderated subreddit

me, i suspect that the deep state has backdoored reddit and every other platform including this one and that the owners are secretly co-operating anyways, and people are fools if they think we can hide from our upper class owners when they own and control all our instituituons and infrastructure

Comment Re:NV centers (Score 3, Interesting) 262

"Parameters such as size, drift, and environmental interference often constrain classical sensors. Quantum sensors by contrast can measure fields with precision down to one millionth of Earth’s magnetic signal, enabling the detection of magnetic signals over longer ranges and in environments where signals are weak or noisy. Additionally, the stability of quantum reference states enables drift-free measurements, circumventing the need for constant recalibration and ensuring that users can compare data sets with high reliability. And quantum sensors optimize size, weight, and power parameters. Miniaturized designs make them ideal for deployment on small autonomous platforms such as drones, or in restricted spaces such as inside medical equipment or in underground sensors." ~ https://www.photonics.com/Arti...

Comment Re:Self discipline (Score 1) 129

Here's the thing, some folks do the discipline and keep a healthy weight, but they are basically always feeling hunger. Some people don't feel it but some people are having to constantly fight sensation of hunger, with a respite of a little bit after a meal, and almost never feeling 'full'.

If we had something to tame the rather depressive experience of constantly denying one's hunger because you know in your mind that you got the nutrition and caloric intake you need, but your body wants to eat your way to obesity.

We do have something, it's called a healthy diet of real food.

People, you are always feeling hungry because you're eating food without nutrition. That's right, empty calories and your body is deficient and this is expressed as hunger.

People are overweight largely due to two main factors, poor food choices and over-eating, which are both based in self-indulgence. The reality is if one eats whole foods in reasonable amounts, weight gain never becomes and issue and people do not feel hungry all the time.

I'm a senior citizen and I'm a vegitarian and I eat only organic whole foods i prepare from scrtch, as in cooking. I never buy factory products, I buy whole foods from organic local farms. I have the same waistline as I did in my twenties and my doc says I have the metobolic health indicators of a thirty year old. I am not the only one either, my gym has a senior's club and we all have similiar stories.

People you have been programmed by classist corprations to buy crap instead of food so rich people can get meedlessly richer by selling cheap worthless crap to 'consumers'.

GIGO

Comment Re:Disney'sis corrupt (Score 2, Insightful) 37

That isn’t analysis, it’s a right wing rant built on stereotypes, paranoia, and zero evidence. Typially, all you right wing fanatics blame entire groups instead of engaging with reality, you ignore how companies actually operate and you replace facts with insults. Phrases like “go woke go broke” might feel satisfying, but they don’t explain anything and they're wrong, meaningless and stupid. If you want to criticize Disney, there are real issues to point to. This just advertises your bias and demonstrates that you're the fascist.

Indeed, your entire staterment is exactly what real fascist comments looks like, an evil person pretending that they and thier greed and hatred are not the problem. Shame on you for selling us out. Meanwhile the corruption and the classism at Disney continues as the rich people who own us continue to cheat, lie and steal and people like you are letting it happen.

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