"If smoking is so bad for you, who still does it?"
by Andrea M. Kane, CNN.com
Smoking is bad, and by now that is a fact that most everyone in America is aware of. A recent discovery is even finding a link between toxins that are left on curtains, clothing, hair, and other things that are around "after the smoke blows itself away". It obviously puts you at higher risks of diseases, such as cancer of the mouth, throat, larynx, esophagus, bladder, pancreas, kidney, cervix and stomach. But if this is so blatently clear to the people of our nation, then why is it that so many people still smoke? It has been noted that about ninety percent of people who smoke started in highschool, and it is also true that the younger you start, the more likely it will be that you continue as a heavy smoker. Many people interviewed who smoke would like to quit, because they feel it is so socially unexceptable, many saying that there friends do not smoke. It is interesting that a couple of the interviewees had said that they started at a young age, at an attempt to "fit in" with a certain crowd. A the story goes, one woman explains how she is no longer in touch with the old group that encouraged her to start, but still remains with the filthy habit.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Current News #7
"Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2008"
by Alice Park, www.time.com
Time News online has made various lists of things that made top 10 lists for 2008, since we will be ringing in a new year within the next month. Many of these discoveries I had not heard of until now. I can see how beneficial they are to today's medical and scientific world, being that when we did not know of these breakthroughs before, we could not help those who had related issues. Here is a list of the top 10:
1. the first neutrons were created from ASL patients..
2. inflammation vs. cholesteral - was discovered that a risk factor for heart disease, leading to a heart attack, is inflammation.
3. scarless surgery - surgeons go through the body's existing openings instead of cutting through skin for "naural orifice" surgeries
4. genomes for the masses...
5. up to 4 new genes discovered for Alzheimer's
6. a five-in-one vaccine
7. gene screens for Breast Cancer
8. blood testing for Down Syndrom
9. seasick patch for cancer patients created
10. Stem-cell trachea transplant...
by Alice Park, www.time.com
Time News online has made various lists of things that made top 10 lists for 2008, since we will be ringing in a new year within the next month. Many of these discoveries I had not heard of until now. I can see how beneficial they are to today's medical and scientific world, being that when we did not know of these breakthroughs before, we could not help those who had related issues. Here is a list of the top 10:
1. the first neutrons were created from ASL patients..
2. inflammation vs. cholesteral - was discovered that a risk factor for heart disease, leading to a heart attack, is inflammation.
3. scarless surgery - surgeons go through the body's existing openings instead of cutting through skin for "naural orifice" surgeries
4. genomes for the masses...
5. up to 4 new genes discovered for Alzheimer's
6. a five-in-one vaccine
7. gene screens for Breast Cancer
8. blood testing for Down Syndrom
9. seasick patch for cancer patients created
10. Stem-cell trachea transplant...
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Current News #6
"Surgery transplanted most of patient's face"
by Madison Park, CNN.com
The first face transplant surgery in the United States was performed recently at the Cleveland Clinic on a woman who had a severely deformed face. To begin with, she had no nose or jaw really and was missing an eye, so her transplant included covering everything on her face but her forhead and chin. This kind of opperation is very new and has only been performed in France and China so far. Doctors say that this type of opperation is strictly for those who have extreme deformations, like the woman in france who had been mauled by her dog, and is not considered "a cosmetic surgery in any sense." The photo of the donar from the face transplant was never shown to the patient or any of the doctors - but this new face will give the patient feeling in her face now and a new nose as well as a jaw. Risks of this surgery include the persons body rejecting the skin grafts, which would be worse case scenario, and the patient must take a pill everyday to make sure the body can handle the new skin. Hopefully this woman will be able to make a full recovery and eventually lead a normal life, unlike the tragic one she had before.
by Madison Park, CNN.com
The first face transplant surgery in the United States was performed recently at the Cleveland Clinic on a woman who had a severely deformed face. To begin with, she had no nose or jaw really and was missing an eye, so her transplant included covering everything on her face but her forhead and chin. This kind of opperation is very new and has only been performed in France and China so far. Doctors say that this type of opperation is strictly for those who have extreme deformations, like the woman in france who had been mauled by her dog, and is not considered "a cosmetic surgery in any sense." The photo of the donar from the face transplant was never shown to the patient or any of the doctors - but this new face will give the patient feeling in her face now and a new nose as well as a jaw. Risks of this surgery include the persons body rejecting the skin grafts, which would be worse case scenario, and the patient must take a pill everyday to make sure the body can handle the new skin. Hopefully this woman will be able to make a full recovery and eventually lead a normal life, unlike the tragic one she had before.
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