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Bill Gates Makes For A Pretty Decent Cartoon
by Ben Bowlin | July 22, 2011
You’ve probably already heard about the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a gigantic charitable organization that “focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of extreme hunger and poverty.” Take a look at their fact sheet for more information about the foundation’s work. The foundation places an enormous importance [...]
Between 1981 and 2005, AIDS killed more than 28 million people. As of June 5th, it’s been 30 years since the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first identified a group of anomalous infections in LA. Over the decades AIDS spread across the planet, infecting people from all walks of life. Due in large part to a lack [...]
In the United States, the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) keeps a database of transplant candidates waiting for organs. The statistics are daunting: Demand for organs has outstripped the available supply, meaning that patients must wait for months or years before receiving an organ. According to LifeShare (via our article), each passing day brings [...]
A pair of studies recently featured in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) journals are, I think, a bit creepy. First up is a study the findings of which are so intuitive I find it a tad nerve-wracking that the researchers managed to get the funding to conduct it, let alone get it published. [...]
How much dexterity and control does a doctor have when using a surgical robot? You can get a sense of it by watching this video, where the doctor folds a paper airplane using the remote manipulation system of a da Vinci surgical robot: Here is what the da Vinci surgical robot looks like from the [...]
For those of us living in the United States, we know that our health care system is broken. We know it is broken in a thousand different ways. This is a recent and most telling example: Premature labor drug spikes from $10 to $1,500 Whether that price spike is caused by pure, unregulated money-grubbing greed, [...]
There was a popular article that made the rounds yesterday. Entitled “8 Real Photographs That Prove Hell Exists on Earth”, it contains a lot of profanity. But it also contains a fascinating photo on page 1. The photo shows an elderly woman with what appears to be a black horn, similar to the horn of [...]
How Proton Therapy Works – great for brain tumors and prostate cancer
by Marshall Brain | January 21, 2011
There are several traditional ways to treat cancer: Surgery – cut out the cancer Chemotherapy – poison the cancer cells Radiation – kill the cancer cells with radiation (see Cyberknife, but also done with radioactive seeds and other techniques) X-ray therapy And so on… Proton therapy is a new way to treat cancer, and it [...]
Two recent stem cell successes really are amazing. This first video shows a patient with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy who has been treated with stem cells: The problem for someone with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is a lack of dystrophin, a protein that is essential to normal muscular function. Since the heart is a muscle, many MDM [...]
The process of being prepared for the grave is fairly ghastly business: There’s the removal of blood and most of the organs, incisions and sewing with thick thread and lots and lots of make up. In the U.S., after the funeral and procession, it’s off to the graveyard or the crematorium, depending on one’s tastes and religion. Somewhere along the way, if you’ve been the fortunate recipient of a pacemaker, it too is removed — and taken out of circulation, either being thrown away or put into storage.
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