Exams coming up...
Maybe this is why I went and splurged on some groceries consisting of mostly sweets.
Blog is going to be slow until the tuesday after Labor Day. First block exams for anatomy and biochem coming up. YIKES!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Amen.
Except the whole vegetarian part. (This is a PeTA Billboard that has since been removed and changed, in Jacksonville, Florida.)
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Medical News
Usually I post one article at a time, but there is so much recently that I have to use this format to spare me some time...
Primary liver cancers 'soaring' (For Full Article, click HERE)
Cases of primary liver cancer, an often preventable disease, have trebled in the last 30 years, figures suggest. While it is not uncommon for cancer to spread to the liver, Cancer Research UK statistics show incidents where it starts in the organ have risen sharply. Cases of cancer overall have increased over recent decades as people live longer and detection methods improve. But experts say hepatitis C infections, as well as alcohol and obesity, have helped fuel the spike in liver cases.
'Magnetic' stem cells for hearts (For the full article, click HERE)
Heart attacks and other vascular injuries could eventually be treated using regular injections of magnetised stem cells, experts say. In animal trials, the cutting-edge treatment delivered the healing cells to the precise site of damage where their help was needed. Although human tests are needed, a similar magnetic approach has been used to guide cancer therapies. The expert US journal Cardiovascular Interventions reports the findings.
Child leukaemia 'genes' revealed (For the full article, click HERE)
The three variants each raise the risk by between 30% and 60%, said the Institute of Cancer Research team. But they stressed that other things, such as childhood infections, may also play a role. Leukaemia Research said the clues offered by the research, in the journal Nature Genetics, may improve care. Leukaemia is the most common childhood cancer, with approximately 500 new cases each year in the UK, and Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) accounts for roughly 85% of these. Scientists believe that there is likely to be no single reason why a child develops the disease, but a combination of factors, perhaps including an inherited genetic ingredient in some cases.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
This looks good.
Then again I love Peter Jackson's work. Here is a featurette for The Lovely Bones.
Side note: He looks like a completely different man now that he has lost all that weight.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Loving this.
It's rare enough to find a well done cover song, but an epic music video to match...Wow.
Here is The Fray's cover of Kanye's "Heartless". One of the best music videos I've seen in a while.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
This scares me...
World population projected to reach 7 billion in 2011
The world's population is forecast to hit 7 billion in 2011, the vast majority of its growth coming in developing and, in many cases, the poorest nations, a report released Wednesday said.
A staggering 97 percent of global growth over the next 40 years will happen in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the Population Reference Bureau's 2009 World Population Data Sheet.
"The great bulk of today's 1.2 billion youth -- nearly 90 percent -- are in developing countries," said Carl Haub, a co-author of the report. Eight in 10 of those youth live in Africa and Asia.
"During the next few decades, these young people will most likely continue the current trend of moving from rural areas to cities in search of education and training opportunities, gainful employment, and adequate health care," Haub continued, calling it one of the major social questions of the next few decades.
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Epic biotechnology breakthrough!
Here is an excerpt from a BBC article:
A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye.
Ron, 73, had the experimental surgery seven months ago at London's Moorfield's eye hospital.
He says he can now follow white lines on the road, and even sort socks, using the bionic eye, known as Argus II.
It uses a camera and video processor mounted on sunglasses to send captured images wirelessly to a tiny receiver on the outside of the eye. In turn, the receiver passes on the data via a tiny cable to an array of electrodes which sit on the retina - the layer of specialised cells that normally respond to light found at the back of the eye.
When these electrodes are stimulated they send messages along the optic nerve to the brain, which is able to perceive patterns of light and dark spots corresponding to which electrodes have been stimulated. The hope is that patients will learn to interpret the visual patterns produced into meaningful images. The bionic eye has been developed by US company Second Sight. So far 18 patients across the world, including three at Moorfields, have been fitted with the device.
It is designed to help people, like Ron, who have been made blind through retinitis pigmentosa, a group of inherited eye diseases that cause degeneration of the retina. The disease progresses over a number of years, normally after people have been diagnosed when they are children.
It is estimated between 20,000 to 25,000 are affected in the UK.
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