Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
RE: Bird Flu
Wow, this thing is 20% fatal …
From: Trout, Larry
‘H7N9 Bird Flu Cases In China Rise To 104; Deaths At 21’
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Fwd: Bird Flu
'Another person died from a new strain of bird flu in China on Thursday, state media said, bringing to 10 the number of deaths from the H7N9 virus, as a U.N. body said it was concerned the virus could spread across borders in poultry.
The latest victim was in the commercial hub of Shanghai, the official Xinhua news agency reported, where several of the 38 cases to date have been found. All of the cases so far have been found in eastern China.'
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/11/health-birthflu-china-idUSL3N0CYBMG20130411
'A Chinese military official has blamed the US government for the new strain of bird flu affecting China, calling it a secret biological attack.
People's Liberation Army Senior Colonel Dai Xu said America released the H7N0 bird flu virus into China, in an act of biological warfare, in a blog on Saturday.
Writing on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging site similar to Twitter, Dai alleged the new bird flu strain had been designed as a weapon, similar to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), that affected the country in 2003 and which he claims was also developed as a US bio-weapon.'
Monday, April 8, 2013
Re: New York
And to think that I eat out all the time ...
John Coffey
<larry.r.trout wrote:
'Chef found out she has hepatitis, may have exposed 3,000 NYC diners
You can get anything in New York restaurants: Peruvian, Nepalese … hepatitis. High-end Greenwich Village eatery Alta is frantically calling recent diners to warn them about exposure to hepatitis A through their pastry chef. She apparently picked up the infection by eating something contaminated with human feces on a recent trip to Mexico. (Honestly, these daredevil gourmets are the worst.) The restaurant is now dialing its way through the reservation book to warn everyone who ate dessert since the chef's return that they missed their meal's final course: a vaccination shot'
http://now.msn.com/hepatitis-scare-at-new-york-restaurant-alta
'New York Department Of Health Expands Meningitis Vaccine Recommendations
The New York State Department of Health (DOH) is expanding a recommendation issued earlier this month by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYCDOHMH) regarding meningococcal vaccinations…
Meningococcal disease is a severe bacterial infection of the bloodstream. Common symptoms include high fever, headache, vomiting, stiff neck, and a rash. Symptoms may occur two to 10 days after exposure, but usually within five days.'
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Thursday, February 21, 2013
flu vaccine was effective in only 56 percent of people who got the shot
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/21/us-usa-flu-vaccine-idUSBRE91K16D20130221
Friday, February 8, 2013
Traditional Southern diet, stroke may be linked, researcher says
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-southern-diet-stroke-20130207,0,901477.story
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
is-diphenhydramine-addictive?
http://cold.emedtv.com/diphenhydramine/is-diphenhydramine-addictive.html
Scientists discover DNA with a quadruple helix in cancer cells
http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/scientists-discover-dna-with-a-quadruple-helix-in-cancer
Thursday, January 17, 2013
Flu outbreak: 33 died in Minn. last week
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/01/17/health/more-deaths-in-minnesota-flu-outbreak
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Slow Caffeine withdrawal
According to what I saw on the internet, here are the caffeine amounts for certain teas …
English Breakfast: 50mg
Black Tea: 40mg
Green Tea: 20 Mg
I suspect that these numbers could be inaccurate, because I sometimes have seen numbers that were higher.
Regardless, I think that it is still valid to use these numbers as a guide. It is easy to see how I could use this to slowly decrease my caffeine intake …
Day 1: I ingested 120 mg caffeine.
Day 2: I ingested 100 mg caffeine.
Day 3: I ingested 90 mg caffeine.
My plan is to continue going down in increments of 10 where possible. When I get down to 40 I might stay there a few days before going down to 20.
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Friday, January 11, 2013
Flu reaches epidemic proportions in US | Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2013/01/11/flu-reaches-epidemic-proportions-in-us/
Needless to say, I think that flu shots save lives.
Needless to say, I think that flu shots save lives.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Therapeutic cloning - How it is done; possible benefits
Therapeutic cloning: (a.k.a. Somatic cell nuclear transfer or research cloning): This starts with the same procedure as is used in adult DNA cloning. The resultant embryo would be allowed to grow for perhaps 14 days. It's stem cells would then be extracted and encouraged to grow into a piece of human tissue or a complete human organ for transplant. The end result would not be a human being; it would be a replacement organ, or piece of nerve tissue, or quantity of skin. The first successful therapeutic cloning was accomplished in 2001-NOV by Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech company in Worcester, MA.Is an embryo a human person? Pro-life supporters generally believe that a human person comes into existence at conception. Some believe that somatic cell nuclear transfer is sufficiently similar to normal conception with an egg and spermatozoa that a human person also comes into existence during therapeutic cloning. The process of extracting stem cells involves killing the embryo. To many pro-lifers, this is murder. They feel that murdering one person, the embryo, to cure another person of paralysis, or diabetes, or heart disease, etc. can never be justified. More details. Therapeutic cloning research may well be limited to those countries, like China, the UK, and perhaps Canada, where pro-life supporters are relatively few in number.
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
An excerpt from Dr. Robert Lustig’s “Fat Chance” | MSNBC
Here's the kicker. Being thin is not a safeguard against metabolic
disease or early death. a full 40% of normal-weight individuals harbor
insulin resistance—a sign of chronic metabolic disease—which will
likely shorten their life expectancy. of those, 20% demonstrate liver
fat on MRI of the abdomen (see Chapter 8).7 Liver fat, irrespective of
the rest of body fat, has been shown to be a major risk factor for the
development of diabetes. You think you're safe? You are SO screwed.
And you don't even know it.
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/08/an-excerpt-from-dr-robert-lustigs-fat-chance/
disease or early death. a full 40% of normal-weight individuals harbor
insulin resistance—a sign of chronic metabolic disease—which will
likely shorten their life expectancy. of those, 20% demonstrate liver
fat on MRI of the abdomen (see Chapter 8).7 Liver fat, irrespective of
the rest of body fat, has been shown to be a major risk factor for the
development of diabetes. You think you're safe? You are SO screwed.
And you don't even know it.
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/08/an-excerpt-from-dr-robert-lustigs-fat-chance/
Friday, January 4, 2013
Why you can’t bank on living longer if you’re overweight
People who were overweight or mildly obese -- weighing between 146 and 203 pounds for a 5'4" person -- had a 5 to 6 percent lower risk of dying compared to those who were at a healthy weight, between 108 and 145 pounds. Those who were extremely obese had nearly a 30 percent greater risk of dying...
"What we found suggests that over a broad range of body mass index levels, there's not much variation in mortality,"
... added that the new study had flaws in its methodology.
For example, older folks in the lower end of the healthy weight spectrum may have been more likely to have been former smokers with health problems that kept them slim.
Those researchers found a clear relationship between increasing body mass index and death rates with a 13 percent greater death risk in moderately overweight individuals, which rose to a nearly 90 percent greater risk in those who were obese.
If I can add my 2 cents here, I am not sure that there is a clear cause and effect (causality). It is rare that I hear anyone say why being overweight would increase your chance of death. Instead there seems to be a casual association with other health problems.
It is possible that things that cause people to be overweight might also cause them to have a higher risk of death. This could include lack of exercise, metabolic syndrome, consumption of saturated fat and sugar, or just not eating enough fruits and vegetables. For example, one study showed that doing exercise can offset the danger of being obese. For years I have seen people claim that heavy people who exercise have lower mortality than thin people who don't.
One problem with this theory is that heavy people aren't very motivated to exercise.
John Coffey
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Robert Lustig
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Prepare for a harsh flu season
http://www.wtop.com/1055/3143128/Harsh-flu-season-ahead-How-to-quickly-treat
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
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