///////////////////////Specialized White Blood Cells Coordinate First Responders To Viral Infection (April 25, 2008) -- Regulatory T cells are thought to call a halt to immune responses as the fight against infection draws to a close. Researchers have evidence that these cells also help coordinate the early stages of the fight against viral infections. ... >
//////////////////////////More News this Week Peanut Allergy Remission Predicted by IgE Antibodies The results of a longitudinal study of young peanut allergic children indicate that remission of peanut allergy can be predicted by low levels of IgE antibodies to peanut in the first 2 years of life or decreasing levels of IgE sensitization by the age of 3 years.
////////////////////What Your Patients Are Reading: Premature Infants at Risk for Autism Very low-birth-weight premature infants are at risk for signs of early autism, omega-3 fatty acids are no better than placebo at preventing Crohn's relapse, sleep-deprived infants may become overweight toddlers, FDG-PET distinguishes brains with Alzheimer's from both brains with other dementia types and healthy brains, and a genetic variant has been fingered as a risk for lung cancer and possibly nicotine addiction.Medscape Medical News 2008
//////////////////////..........rtd=The Dublin-born author has returned to Ireland for radiation therapy but has decided not to undergo chemotherapy, which may have given her more time."Even if I gained time through the chemotherapy it isn't time I want. Because as soon as I knew I was going to die soon, the goodness went out of life," she said.Journalist Nell McCafferty, said Ms O'Faolain had started an important conversation about living with terminal illness."Nuala faces a ghastly dying. She has started an important national conversation. She has started an invaluable conversation," she said.?We should have the option of an easier death in the face of such terror.?My bottom line is euthanasia...and to be offered that route out for people. Let her die now...she cried out in fear but she is not the only one.?
/////////////////...........The researchers conducted a historical review of regulatory and epidemiology evidence from Belgium - the second country to decriminalize the practice of euthanasia (in 2002). Belgium also places third, after Iceland and the UK, in rankings of the best palliative care systems.Berheim and colleagues point out that in Belgium, euthanasia and palliative care practices have actually helped each other. In one direction, the political and social movement to legalize euthanasia prompted the development of palliative care. In the other direction, the fact that sufficient palliative care was obtainable led to ethical and political acceptance that enabled then legalization of euthanasia.
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////////////////Human Species Nearly Extinct 70,000 Years Ago
The human population at that time was reduced to small isolated groups in Africa, apparently because of drought, according to an analysis by researchers at Stanford University released Thursday. The estimated the number of early humans may have shrunk as low as 2,000 before numbers began to expand again in the early Stone Age. Previous studies using mitochondrial DNA - which is passed down through mothers - have traced modern humans to a single "mitochondrial Eve," who lived in...
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/////////////////////////////MEDTATN=I will never be able to silence the inner dialogue."If you want to make that happen you sure can, though you'll have to be active for it. If you let go, sooner or later you will enter what's known as the samadhi state, the state of pure silence. The first times you come out of it, you may think you have just fallen asleep - though that may happen too, you will recognize the samadhi state as you exit it if you come out of meditation nice and gradually. The 'zen-vibe' that you have gotten yourself now will feel oh so sweet! NC: Silence is inevitable and I look forward to it.
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