Hello! I am a person who is training to become an abortion provider. As you can imagine, it is really fucking weird to be one of me, especially lately! I think maybe you have some questions? — via jender13.newsvine.com
People who are born blind may use the part of the brain associated with vision to process language, say US scientists — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Brisbane urologist has described how he and his colleagues used a hacksaw and a utility knife to amputate the legs of a man trapped in the earthquake rubble in Christchurch — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists at the UK’s Institute of Cancer Research have prevented breast cancer spreading to other organs in mice by blocking a chemical.
In their experiments, they showed that blocking the enzyme LOXL2 prevented metastasis — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Learning a second language and speaking it regularly can improve your cognitive skills and delay the onset of dementia, according to researchers who compared bilingual individuals with people who spoke only one archers who compared bilingual individuals with people who spoke only one language.
Their study suggests that bilingual speakers hold Alzheimer’s disease at bay for an extra four years on average compared with monoglots. School-level language skills that you use on holiday may even improve brain function to some extent.
In addition, bilingual children who use their second language regularly are better at prioritising tasks and multitasking compared with monolingual children, said Ellen Bialystok, a psychologist at York University in Toronto — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two pregnancies have left Lucilla Paull in a wheelchair. While she has no regrets at all about having her children, she does want to warn other women about SPD, a relatively common condition that is too often overlooked — via redwolf.newsvine.com
However, it’s worth considering the doctors quoted in this matter. An oncologist contacted by a British paper was circumspect about Jobs’ prognosis — he only reiterated the obvious, that if Jobs is photographed leaving a treatment center it is reasonable to assume he may be receiving treatment (although of course it could be a follow-up visit).
The two physicians quoted in the source story, however, don’t really follow a model of prudent restraint — both deliver stark forecasts for Steve’s outcomes. The Next Web did take the trouble to search for one of these doctors, and it turns out he’s not an oncologist at all; he’s a pulmonologist, which means he specializes in breathing, not in diagnosing cancer patients from telephoto pictures — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We see a woman clad in Mad Men
-era finery, slowly walking from the camera down a long hallway. A voice familiar to fans of House
narrates. Only decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back alley abortions, or they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women’s health, pushing bills to limit women’s access to vital services, we had to ask,
she continues, as the image cuts between the woman opening a closet containing a single wire hanger and the distressed face of actress Lisa Edelstein: Why is the GOP trying to send women back to the back alley?
— via supergerbil424.newsvine.com
Yesterday, my colleague David Whelan asked if AOL’s $315 million purchase of the Huffington Post meant that the internet giant would start believing, as some HuffPo writers have asserted, that vaccination is linked to autism — via redwolf.newsvine.com
New research suggests omega-3 fatty acids can help prevent retinopathy, an eye disease that can lead to blindness in premature babies and people with diabetes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An international team of researchers has found a clue to one of the leading causes of blindness, which they hope could eventually lead to a cure — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There are two irreconcilable versions of how that calm shattered. Rueda says that Noah was crying, and she picked him up, sat on the couch and gave him the bottle to help put him to sleep. While she was feeding him, she felt Noah’s arm go limp, and when she moved to take the bottle out of his mouth, he made a sound that she didn’t recognize. I could tell something was happening,
she says. She stood up and put Noah on her shoulder, patting him on the back. As I did this, his body tensed up in a ball. It was as if he was looking for air, and he couldn’t breathe.
Rueda put Noah on the floor and started CPR, at the same time reaching for her phone to call 911. She put the dispatcher on speakerphone so she could keep tending to Noah. I said, ‘Please, please get someone here’,
she said. I knew it could hurt him if there wasn’t enough oxygen going to his brain.
Erin Whitmer’s account of the moments before Noah lost consciousness is entirely different. Around 2:30 on April 20, 2009, Noah was shaken,
she wrote on her blog Noah’s Road, on the one-year anniversary of the incident. He’d been crying. He needed something that his day care provider wasn’t providing him. Maybe he was tired of lying on the mat where she’d had him. Maybe he needed a hug, a laugh, a kind touch. Instead, she picked him up, her fingers gripping him tightly, feeling the softness of his velour pants and his cotton onesie under her fingers, and she shook him.
Whitmer’s account of what Rueda must have done to Noah was based on evidence presented at Rueda’s trial and information from the doctors who treated him after he was rushed to Inova Fairfax Hospital. The doctors gave Noah a CT scan, which showed subdural haemorrhaging (bleeding in a space between the skull and the brain) and an ophthalmological exam revealed retinal haemorrhaging (bleeding at the back of the eyes). Also, his brain was swelling. For decades, these have been the three telltale signs linked to the kind of child abuse commonly called shaken-baby syndrome — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In Africa, if you play music in an open space, any music, then people will generally come. It is the way to reach people, to bring them together.
So says Sister Fa, a Senegalese urban soul and hip-hop star who has been lending her voice to a remarkable new drive against female circumcision in 12 of the countries worst affected by the practice across the continent.
The first report into a United Nations project that began in 2008 has shown remarkable success rates with more than 6,000 villages and communities in six countries already abandoning the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) – also known as cutting or female circumcision – with the numbers growing every month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Genetically modified crops will be allowed to enter the UK food chain without the need for regulatory clearance for the first time under controversial plans expected to be approved this week — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A groups of scientists in Melbourne are this morning claiming to have unlocked what they think could be the key to curing HIV — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Children with Type 1 diabetes are nearly 10 times as likely to also have a viral infection than healthy children, Australian research suggests — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Health-care facilities in two states have begun exchanging data with each other and public health agencies over the Internet as part of a pilot program that standardizes the way patient information is transmitted. The goal is to speed up data transmission and to track public health trends, the US Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) announced today.
The new electronic data transfer model replaces the sharing of patient information through traditional fax machines and US mail — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We’ve heard about the spray-on skin gun back in 2008 but we didn’t think it’d become this real, this useful, this fast. Though it is still technically in an experimental stage, the skin gun has already successfully treated over a dozen burn victims. The way it works is by using stem cells from the patient’s healthy skin and mixing it with a solution to come up with the spray paint. And combined with that fancy gun, the rest is easy. Doctors say skin cell spraying is like paint spraying
— via w–hawkins.newsvine.com
Scientists believe they are a step nearer to developing a reliable blood test for variant CJD, the human form of BSE and say their prototype is 100,000 times more sensitive than any previous attempt — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Labrador retriever has sniffed out bowel cancer in breath and stool samples during a study in Japan — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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