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http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/17/ashton-ding-dong-ditch-kutcher-beats-malaria/
Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter feed has surpassed CNN’s breaking-news feed in the race to 1 million followers
Kutcher’s entertaining and bravado-fueled victory over @CNNbrk last night in signing up more than million Twitter “followers” – complete with low-grade, Youtube-distributed camera phone video of Kutcher ranting and goading Larry King while driving (so much for anti-cellphone driving laws) – also gets 11,000 mosquito nets to April 25th’s 2nd annual World Malaria Day. Kutcher promised to send 10k mosquito nets if he won, and 1k if he lost. CNN promised the same.
That means thousands of real people will actually be better protected against a disease that infects and weakens more than 500 million people a year, and kills more than a million people. Despite all our advances in medicine, malaria still threatens 40% of the world’s population, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Apparently oprah made a comment about it and there is an article about it: http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/downloads/Obasogie_LATimes_0507.pdf
More scientific: http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1694537
The slavery hypothesis for hypertension among African Americans: the historical evidence. P D Curtin- Department of History Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. 21218. The slavery hypothesis for hypertension has stated that the high blood pressures sometimes measured in African Americans are caused by one or more of these conditions: first, salt deficiency in the parts of Africa that supplied slaves for the Americas; second, the trauma of the slave trade itself; third, conditions of slavery in the United States.
A review of the historical evidence shows that there was no salt deficiency in those parts of Africa, nor do present-day West Africans have a high incidence of hypertension. Historical evidence does not support the hypothesis that deaths aboard slave ships were caused mainly by conditions that might be conductive to hypertension, such as salt-depleting diseases. F
inally, the hypothesis has depended heavily on evidence from the West Indies, which is not relevant for the United States. There is no evidence that diet or the resulting patterns of disease and demography among slaves in the American South were significantly different from those of other poor southerners.
I first heard about this while at Uppsala last year and thought it was a done deal…apparently not.
Last year Karl Helge Hampus Svensson, a medical student at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, was expelled on a technicality once it came into light that he falsifited his records and was a convicted murder. However Svensson is now enrolled in yet another medical school (Uppsala). I think it’s great that Sweden (and Swedes) firmly believe and practice giving second chances but I personally think this is a bit much. Esp. since someone else could have taken his place at Uppsala (and for that at Karolinska).
http://www.searo.who.int/LinkFiles/Social_Health_Insurance_an3.pdf
Executive Summary
The health status of people in Indonesia has improved very slowly over the last two decades. Many factors are responsible for the low improvement of health status in Indonesia, such as low education, low income, difficult geographical access, cultural problems and health care financing. Lessons learned from the World Health Report 2000, despite criticisms over the rank, clearly suggest that health care financing is the most important element in the achievement of health improvement. The level of health care financing affects the availability of human resources, medical supplies, distribution of health care facilities, quality of health services, and other important processes. The main hypothesis of this study is that health care financing is the key component to sustainable and significant health improvement.
The main research question for this study is how health care financing has progressed in Indonesia in the last two decades. The objectives of this study are: (1) to identify health care financing from various sources in the last two decades; (2) to identify gaps in health care financing in relation to health care needs; (3) to assess philosophy and regulations that may affect health care financing, and (4) to identify various feasible options to improve equity in health care financing.
In order to attain the objectives, the team reviewed various documents related with health care financing, both in Indonesia and other countries. National and international journals were reviewed to study the progress of health improvement and health care financing in Indonesia. In addition, the team also compared basic assumptions and philosophies that may distinguish health care in Indonesia with health care in other countries. The team also collected health expenditure data from the government budget. In addition, the team also discussed with prominent health economists to obtain their views about health care finacing in Indonesia.
Published: February 9, 2009
THE FACTS
Blowing your nose to alleviate stuffiness may be second nature, but some people argue it does no good, reversing the flow of mucus into the sinuses and slowing the drainage.
Counterintuitive, perhaps, but research shows it to be true.
To test the notion, Dr. J. Owen Hendley and other pediatric infectious disease researchers at the University of Virginia conducted CT scans and other measurements as subjects coughed, sneezed and blew their noses. In some cases, the subjects had an opaque dye dripped into their rear nasal cavities.
Coughing and sneezing generated little if any pressure in the nasal cavities. But nose blowing generated enormous pressure — “equivalent to a person’s diastolic blood pressure reading,” Dr. Hendley said — and propelled mucus into the sinuses every time. Dr. Hendley said it was unclear whether this was harmful, but added that during sickness it could shoot viruses or bacteria into the sinuses, and possibly cause further infection.
The proper method is to blow one nostril at a time and to take decongestants, said Dr. Anil Kumar Lalwani, chairman of the department of otolaryngology at the New York University Langone Medical Center. This prevents a buildup of excess pressure.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Blowing your nose can create a buildup of excess pressure in sinus cavities.
Ha it probably makes me look shallow if I put it under “Health” but Drs do patent techniques and last time I checked..still under Health. The go to guy for noses apparently. When they say he is the best guy for it……its actually true.
A well respected and leading plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, Raj Kanodia M.D., is sought out by patients throughout the United States, as well as around the world. Dr. Kanodia has published numerous medical articles and is often a guest lecturer at international medical conferences. After studying under legendary plastic surgeon, Dr. Morey Parkes, he has been practicing his craft for over two decades.
Employing the unique sense of aesthetics in refining the facial features and preserving the natural beauty has earned him notable respect among his colleagues. Over the years he has developed a worldwide client base among entertainers, royalties, models and people alike.
Has done: A. Simpson, Cameron Diaz, Holly Madison, and Jennifer Aniston..to name a few.
Comment: #1 “18k? WOAH….” #2 amazing bridges too subtle tips
