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Aspirin May Treat Cancer — But There’s Not Enough Money In It

A Cancer Treatment in Your Medicine Cabinet? By MICHELLE HOLMES and WENDY CHENMAY 19, 2014 WE believe that it might be possible to treat breast cancer — the leading cause of female cancer death — with a drug that can already be found in nearly every medicine cabinet in the world: Aspirin. In 2010, we published an observational study in The Journal of Clinical Oncology… Read More »

Another Windows 8 Start Menu You Might Want to Check Out

Spencer brings an XP-style Start menu to Windows 8 If you’re still missing the Start Menu in Windows 8 — or even the more desktop-friendly 8.1 — then there are plenty of ways to bring it back (Classic Shell is probably our favorite). It’s not immediately obvious why we need yet another Start Menu alternative, then. But Spencer(yes, that really is its… Read More »

FatWallet: Online Coupons and Cash Back Too

FatWallet Gives You Cash Back at Online Stores We’ve talked about FatWallet before, the site that finds coupons for online purchases, but they also give you cash back at many Internet merchants.P FatWallet Adds Coupon Search to Save You Money with Ease Deal-finding web site FatWallet has always had an excellent forum for saving cash, and while that…Read… Read More »

Companies That Hate Net Neutrality Buying Congress?

Companies that hate net neutrality are spending way more than those supporting it It may not come as much of a surprise, but the major US telecom companies have significantly outspent supporters of net neutrality when it comes to lobbying on Capitol Hill. And they seem far more intent on getting their way. Between 2005 and 2013, Verizon, AT&T,… Read More »

FCC to Vote On New Net Neutrality Rules

Amid protests, FCC to vote on new ‘net neutrality’ proposal U.S. telecommunications regulators will vote on Thursday on whether to formally propose new “net neutrality” rules that may let Internet service providers charge content companies for faster and more reliable delivery of their traffic to users. U.S. regulators on Thursday advanced a “net neutrality” proposal that would ban… Read More »