Parents May Pass Down More Than Just Genes, Study Suggests

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Parents May Pass Down More Than Just Genes, Study Suggests

FINALLY SOME MEDICAL COMMON SENSE..

FACT: There is no difference between the brain for males or females..

Instead: 

Every individual could have part of both men and women in them..

Losing your head over a head transplant ..
Headline:

Russian man volunteers to undergo controversial 36-hour head transplant procedure

The story is causing concern. Fear. Anger.  

But if you were Valery Spiridinov, wouldn't you want this to work, too?

TERRI SHIAVO TEN YEARS LATER

As wretched a this image is, it’s the artistic representation of what Terri Shiavo looked like as she lived her final moments on earth, deprived of food and water by a judge’s orders 10 years ago.

This is a delicate subject.. and still as divisive today as it was then. My position then and today was that her death was wrong..and that the only person who benefited from it was her ex-husband. I still believe I am right.. I also understand the vast amount of people who think differently than me. But regardless of what anyone thinks, the description (graphic, beware) of her final hours needs to be documented for history books. Lawyers at that time were not completely honest about her “beautiful” death ..

Her brother, Bobby Schindler, wrote:

And yet, Schiavo’s attorney falsely told the public during a press conference, just days before Terri’s death, that she looked “beautiful”. This is what they want you to believe, not the harsh truth about the madness of what we permit in the rooms of hospitals, nursing homes and hospices every single day across this country.
These are the hard facts my family and I will have to live with for the rest of my life: After almost two weeks without food or water, my sister’s lips were horribly cracked, to the point where they were blistering. Her skin became jaundice with areas that turned different shades of blue. Her skin became markedly dehydrated from the lack of water. Terri’s breathing became rapid and uncontrollable, as if she was outside sprinting. Her moaning, at times, was raucous, which indicated to us the insufferable pain she was experiencing. Terri’s face became skeletal, with blood pooling in her deeply sunken eyes and her teeth protruding forward. Even as I write this, I can never properly describe the nightmare of having to watch my sister have to die this way.
What will be forever seared in my memory is the look of utter horror on my sister’s face when my family visited her just after she died.

The full article is here..

I believed in 2005 that this was not a case of a ‘right to die’ patient despite that current thought that it was.... Instead I believed there to be ulterior motives to the man who was requesting her death. It may be unfair to be a judge of character .. and I know this post may find some people who disagree with me. Fair enough.

But fair game: The truth about her final moments on the planet.. During a full moon in Florida, March 31, 2005. 

This, to me, is the most promising therapy I have seen in my career, period

Dr. Henry Friedman, a neuro-oncologist and deputy director of the Brain Tumor Center at Duke University, on a CBS 60 minutes that treating CANCER with POLIO may be working..

Google to collect data to create a full picture of what a healthy human being is

Called Baseline Study, Google’s project will gather anonymous genetic and molecular information to create a full picture of what a healthy human is.

The future is always now.. this was eventual, as anything technological really is at this point.

Google is trying to go deep inside the human body.. it’s going to give guidance on what a ‘healthy’ human is.. 

This:

The study may, for instance, reveal a biomarker that helps some people break down fatty foods efficiently, helping them live a long time without high cholesterol and heart disease. Others may lack this trait and succumb to early heart attacks. Once Baseline has identified the biomarker, researchers could check if other people lack it and help them modify their behavior or develop a new treatment to help them break down fatty foods better, Dr. Conrad said.

Sounds fine, dandy, healthy, and Googly. But what else is there behind that scene..

Imagine a future, where transhumanism is in full supply, and you get the sniffles.. then a sore throat.. then.. Google it! Search your body deep to get an answer.. let a computer scan through your organs, get your vitals, and spit back to what of the 1000s of named diseases you actually have. That would be an amazing future.

But of course with each passage of wonderful technology comes the ability to use it for awful things.

But Google won’t be evil. Right? 

Google to collect data to create a full picture of what a healthy human being is

Let’s be happy we had medical advancements. If not, we’d still be doing this AND MANY OTHER CREEPY THINGS.. 

I also wonder: In the future, will generations laugh at how undeveloped we are in this age ..? Will they chuckle that we didn’t map the brain yet? Will they joke about our futile attempts to use life support..?

Well.. at least we don’t use ‘invalid carts’ anymore..

America's Number One Prescription Sleep Aid Could Trigger 'Zombies,' Murder and Other Disturbing Behavior

Ambien is becoming better known for triggering bizarre behavior than it is for treating insomnia.

Interesting story. 

Sleep well, zombies. Sleep well.

America's Number One Prescription Sleep Aid Could Trigger 'Zombies,' Murder and Other Disturbing Behavior

Truly horrible story as this man, David Kwiatkowski, a former lab technician at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire, may have infected thousands with Hepatitis C..

A man describes waking up during a surgery

He said it was a nightmare. I can only imagine. And hope I never experience it. This is a deep fear in me.. and if you think about it long enough it will be a fear for you too.

A man describes waking up during a surgery

New research shows that yellow eyelid marks are an early sign of heart disease

New research shows that yellow eyelid marks are an early sign of heart disease

Bad medicine: Pfizer says patient died in oral RA drug study

Bad medicine: Pfizer says patient died in oral RA drug study

HEADACHE! Mass recall of Tylenol, Sudafed

HEADACHE! Mass recall of Tylenol, Sudafed

Scientists proclaim: Too much TV damages the heart!

Scientists proclaim: Too much TV damages the heart!