Life In Real Time
Posted by Michelle Moquin on January 9th, 2013
Good morning!
Donna, Chancy, Janet: I too was surprised about Obama’s choice of Hagel, and began questioning. But before we start judging him, have a little faith that he knows what he is doing, has a good reason for doing it, and he won’t let go of the rights already in place for women and LGBT’s in the military.
Mike, TM, et al: Thanks for all of the additional info on lead poisoning. I really had no idea. The affects are certainly disturbing not to mention the little coverage it has gotten in the media. Perhaps now with the recent killings and the write from Harris-Perry and others, this will get more attention and make it onto the front pages. But yes, with repubs leading the house, it’s going to take some dedicated passionate people to make some headway.
Oh, just read that soda drinks are linked to higher depression. Hmm…Lead + Children + Soda = Higher depression and aggression. Not exactly a recipe for love.
By the way, speaking of love…love the Ancient American Indian Proverb. Thanks.
Morris: I side with everyone else – I think you need to get your head examined.
Hey…with all this talk about death & destruction, depression and aggression, I thought I would throw this in today and end with Life – Something beautiful to be seen.
Human birth observed in real-time open magnetic resonance imaging.
OBJECTIVE:
Knowledge about the mechanism of labor is based on assumptions and radiographic studies performed decades ago. The goal of this study was to describe the relationship between the fetus and the pelvis as the fetus travels through the birth canal, using an open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner.
STUDY DESIGN:
The design of the study used a real-time MRI series during delivery of the fetal head.
RESULTS:
Delivery occurred by progressive head extension. However, extension was a very late movement that was observed when the occiput was in close contact with the inferior margin of the symphysis pubis, occurring simultaneously with gliding downward of the fetal head.
CONCLUSION:
This observational study shows, for the first time, that birth can be analyzed with real-time MRI. MRI technology allows assessment of maternal and fetal anatomy during labor and delivery.
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January 9th, 2013 at 11:37 am
What Your Eyes Reveal About Your Health
Early warning signs of high blood pressure, diabetes, even stroke
The eyes may be the windows to the soul, but they also are the windows to the body. Via the eyes, doctors can view internal structures, including nerves and blood vessels. What they learn can provide important clues about your whole body—and your current and future health.
Regular eye exams are obviously important for visual health. But they also can detect conditions that you might not know you have—and that your primary care doctor might have missed. Important clues…
Clue: Damaged blood vessels.
Could mean: Diabetes.
Patients with diabetes have a high risk for diabetic retinopathy, a diabetic eye disease in which blood vessels in the retina are damaged, causing vision loss and blindness.
During an eye exam, your doctor will look for microaneurysms, areas where blood vessels are swollen or leaking, a sign of diabetic retinopathy. Your doctor also might notice the growth of new, abnormal blood vessels, which could indicate advanced diabetes and diabetic retinopathy.
Most diabetics get regular eye exams because they know about the risk for eye damage. But in some cases, patients who don’t know that they have diabetes—or who have it but aren’t controlling their blood sugar—first learn there’s a problem during a routine eye exam.
Clue: Thickened blood vessel walls.
Could mean: High blood pressure.
High blood pressure damages artery walls and causes them to thicken. It also promotes the accumulation of fatty buildups. Artery changes can be detected during an eye exam.
Your doctor also will look for damage to the optic nerve. This often occurs in patients with impaired circulation and poorly controlled hypertension. It can lead to hypertensive retinopathy, damage to the retina that is a common cause of vision loss.
Patients with severe hypertension can develop copper wiring and/or silver wiring, damage to the retinal arteries that gives the arteries a coppery or silvery hue.
Clue: Clots in the retinal blood vessels.
Could mean: Increased stroke risk.
Most strokes are ischemic, caused by blood clots that reduce or stop circulation to parts of the brain. As with other cardiovascular diseases, patients may not suspect that anything is wrong until it’s too late.
Your doctor might detect tiny blood clots in the arteries in the retina.
Clots in these blood vessels could indicate that there is a similar problem elsewhere in the body, including in blood vessels in the head or neck. Your doctor also might see yellow flecks that indicate high cholesterol, an important stroke risk factor.
Important: See your primary care doctor immediately if you notice a sudden change in your visual field—if, for example, the right side of your field of vision is dark or blurry. Changes in the visual field could mean that you’ve already had a stroke.
Regular eye exams are critical if you have any stroke risk factors, including diabetes, hypertension, smoking or a family history of cardiovascular disease. The same strategies that can protect you from heart disease also will reduce your risk of having a stroke.
Clue: Inflammation.
Could mean: Autoimmune diseases.
Patients with an autoimmune disease don’t always know they have one because the symptoms—such as joint pain from rheumatoid arthritis or leg weakness from multiple sclerosis—might not appear until the disease progresses.
Signs of ongoing inflammation could include swollen blood vessels in the retina or blood vessels with an inflammatory coating. Other immune-related eye symptoms include blurring, dryness, itching and red, watery eyes.
A significant percentage of multiple sclerosis patients will have optic neuritis, inflammation of the optic nerve that temporarily can cause eye pain, hazy vision and sometimes blindness in one eye. Optic neuritis is an early symptom of multiple sclerosis.
Clue: Bulging eyes.
Could mean: Graves’ disease.
Having an excess of thyroid hormones, known as Graves’ disease, can cause tissues around the eyes to swell. This makes the eyes bulge outward.
You can distinguish this from naturally prominent eyes by the amount of white that is visible—in patients with high thyroid levels, you will see an unnatural amount of white all around the eyes.
About half of patients with Graves’ disease will develop Graves’ ophthalmopathy. Along with bulging eyes, the symptoms may include eye irritation, immobility of the eye muscles and/or visual changes (such as light sensitivity).
Your doctor may recommend surgery and/or medications to reduce the production of thyroid hormones. You also might be given medications to reduce the effects of thyroid hormones.
Source: Emily Y. Chew, MD, medical officer and deputy director in the division of epidemiology and clinical applications at the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
She is chair of the Age-Related Eye Disease Study 2, which is testing supplements for preventing advanced age-related macular degeneration.
She also chairs the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes Eye Study. She is on the editorial board of Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science and other major journals.
January 9th, 2013 at 4:31 pm
Degana -Yesterday’s Page #14.
Hi, I commented #38 Yesterday’s Page thinking it was today’s.
This comment was directed to you, Israel, and the entire world. Perhaps someone influential polilically will see my comment about denial and the weapons of mass destruction which Iran is rushing to complete.
They want to send a nuclear weapon to Israel and then somewhere with many Americans,such as Iraq, or even continental United States. only then will Iran be satisfied. They want to play ball with the nuclear powers which are not Muslim and start world war three.
It is a very sad situation in the Middle East. Literally anything can happen with crazy, power-hungry dictators grasping for nuclear weapons.
I pray the world powers will wake up and stop these ‘mad’ Persians before it is too late.
HOWIE
January 9th, 2013 at 7:02 pm
Great to have you back Howie. Love the article Michelle. I still remember my pregnancy. This brought back wonderful memories.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:09 pm
Are you tired of the white media putting the face and opinion of that fat slob Chris Christie on every channel. The white boy just love sucking each other’s dicks.
This is the same jerk that dissed women, anyone who would disagree with him, and he still refused to address the ban of assault weapons.
He is on every channel and the white boy is portraying him as a “tough sounding, tough talking” republican. I say like the usual when the white boy puts up one of their own as all that, he isn’t.
Paul
January 9th, 2013 at 7:13 pm
Someone please explain to me why Obama thinks the only person qualified to be Secretary of Defense on the planet is a republican. I thought that when he no longer needed to kiss white ass to get reelected he would show who he was.
If this is it, it appears that he was not hiding from the white boy rather he was hiding from white women and OTWs that he sucks white dick too.
Lewis
January 9th, 2013 at 7:17 pm
Lew has been named to be the Secretary of the Treasury. Oh Yes.
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Calling all Obamites! Calling all Obamites!!
Was this really a surprise?
Let’s look at the checklist:
Attended an Ivy? Check. Harvard.
Worked in a law firm that catered to big business? Check. Van Ness, Feldman and Curtis. Specialized in electrical power generation.
Worked in the banking industry? Check. Citigroup.
Special mention: He participated in the deregulation of Wall Street during the Clinton administration.
Just an all-around winner.
Score for the 1%.
January 9th, 2013 at 7:20 pm
The biggest weakness in Obama’s administration is he choice of appointees. He did great with Warren, then failed to support her. Many of his other choices have simply $ucked.
January 10th, 2013 at 8:00 am
We have to do something about This island folk.
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Guam – The child death mortality rate on Guam is almost twice the national average, according to Terri Convington of the National Center for the Review and Prevention of Child Deaths.
Covington testified at a round-table Wednesday evening called by Health Committee Chair Senator Dennis Rodriguez.
She was brought to Guam by the Guam Early Learning Council whose sub-committee on Child Death Review has been meeting to find ways to ensure that the gaps in the health-care of Guam’s children are addressed.
Covington told the round-table that there were 44 infant deaths on island in 2011.
The goal of the round-table was to help develop legislation to create a child death review board on Guam to prevent future deaths.
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Hafa Adai
January 10th, 2013 at 8:05 am
The Trouble with the New Hip Trend
A few years back, many folks with hurting hips were happy to learn that a newer bone-preserving procedure called hip resurfacing could spare them from the more drastic hip replacement.
But: A huge study has now shown that the newer procedure is more likely to lead to problems than the traditional total hip replacement.
Ashley William Blom, MD, lead author of the new study, weighed in on the results and what they mean for patients contemplating hip surgery.
HIP TALK
In a traditional hip replacement, the femoral head (the bony ball at the top of the thighbone that fits into the hip socket) and femoral neck (the angled piece of bone connecting the head to the main shaft of the thighbone) are completely removed, along with the damaged portion of the hip socket.
They are replaced with a ceramic, metal or plastic ball-and-socket mechanism attached to a long stem that is inserted into the thighbone shaft.
In contrast, with hip resurfacing, only superficial layers of the femoral head are removed. The area is then covered with a metal-on-metal cap-and-bearing assembly.
Since little bone is removed and no long stem goes into the shaft, resurfacing seems relatively noninvasive. However, resurfacing does require a large incision that cuts and stretches a significant amount of muscle tissue.
Resurfacing generally is considered most appropriate for younger, healthier patients who would be expected to recover fairly easily, as some proponents claim it gives better function in more physically demanding patients.
To compare the success rates of these two procedures, Dr. Blom and his colleagues examined data on 434,560 hip operations performed between 2003 and 2011.
They analyzed which surgeries ultimately failed and needed to be redone within seven years of the original procedure. Reasons for such failure included unexplained long-term pain, fracture of the femoral neck and/or a negative reaction of the soft tissue to the metal implant.
AND THE WINNER IS…
Almost across the board, resurfacing procedures were more likely to fail—and to do so more quickly—than total replacements.
Among men, the smaller the femoral head, the higher the chance that the resurfacing implant would fail. Exception: Men with large femoral heads (generally men with large frames) had fairly comparable success rates with resurfacing and with replacement, so Dr. Blom noted that there still may be a place for hip resurfacing among this select group. However, fewer than one-fourth of study participants fell into that category.
Women fared much worse, suffering resurfacing failure rates that were “unacceptably high,” Dr. Blom said—up to five times higher than with replacement.
Since problems were common even among women with relatively large femoral heads, he now recommends against hip resurfacing for women.
Bottom line:
Despite marketing campaigns that use terms like “young and active” to sell the public on the hip-resurfacing trend, it seems as though this is one case in which the old way is better than the new way.
What if you already had hip resurfacing? Dr. Blom said to alert your doctor right away if you develop pain in the hip or leg or difficulty walking, which might signal a fracture or other problem at the surgical site.
He also advised seeing your doctor annually—even if you feel fine—so he or she can check for problems that you may not necessarily see or feel.
For example, a doctor can tell you definitively whether you have a fracture or a negative reaction to the metal implant.
Source: Ashley William Blom, MD, PhD, professor of orthopedic surgery, University of Bristol School of Clinical Sciences, Bristol, UK, and lead author of a study published in The Lancet.
January 10th, 2013 at 10:02 am
Someone said that it was Anonz’s goal to shrink the republican party down to a size where he can drown it in a bath tub.
But I know that Anonz needs the republican party for whatever he has in mind. So I don’t expect him to drown it any time soon.
January 10th, 2013 at 10:08 am
The combination will be made in Paraguay. Do it.
January 10th, 2013 at 10:09 am
The problem with the gop is that they were never really the majority. Instead, the gop was just made up of one fringe group after another, and in order to increase their ranks against the general populace time and time again they kept including more extremists.
Well, it seems as if they can no longer draw from that well as it has all dried up, and thus find themselves in the position they do today. A fading group of outliers who are screaming at the top of their lungs before they fade into that good night.
January 10th, 2013 at 10:13 am
The internet is the antithesis of the whole Republican message, which is one of exclusivity and privilege.
In the typical, thick skulled manner for which the GOP has now become legendary, Mitt Muffins got it backwards. Obama didn’t win because of what he promised, but what he didn’t promise.
He didn’t promise Hispanics deportation; or women complete government control of their reproductive systems; or old people diminished benefits, and didn’t top it off with a promise that half the population (ok, to be fair, only 47%) would be ignored under his tenure.
The speaker is entirely, irrefutably, ineluctably correct. If the R’s don’t change their message to one that champions the democratic principle of inclusion and representation, they will simply fail no matter what means of communication they employ.
Here endeth the lesson
January 10th, 2013 at 10:14 am
We talked I missed most of what you said. I’m sorry all I could think about was putting my dick between your legs.
January 10th, 2013 at 10:14 am
The Republican Party needs to get one simple fact: This is not a white Christian nation. We are a very diverse nation of many races and religions. We need to be accepting of all. I believe that’s what this nation was founded for in the first place.
January 10th, 2013 at 10:15 am
No disrespect to Anonz, Mike,TM. But I don’t want the GOP to undergo any “changes”. I want them to go extinct. Like the Dodo.
January 10th, 2013 at 10:18 am
I agree with Anonz. Even though I can’t remember ever voting for a Republican in my life, I want to see the Republican Party to get better, because it will make the Democratic Party better.
Right now, the two parties are like two people getting chased by a bear. The Democrats don’t have to outrun the bear, they just have to outrun the Republicans, and that doesn’t take much effort.
January 10th, 2013 at 10:20 am
The Democrats used a “secret” government document to win the election: It’s called The U. S. Census. Of course, with a little help from Michelle and Madaline and Anonz.
January 10th, 2013 at 10:24 am
I would like to see the GOP recover too. I used to consider myself conservative, but I’m not seeing the part where Obama is “destroying” the country and “taking away our freedoms”
January 10th, 2013 at 10:25 am
Claiming that someone’s elses marriage is against your religion is like being angry at someone for eating a doughnut because you are on a diet.
January 10th, 2013 at 10:31 am
Breaking News from Fox:
The attack on Pearl Harbor,
The Hindenburg Explosion,
The stock market crash of 1929,
The sinking of the Titanic,
The Civil War,
The Black Plague,
The Fall of the Rome Empire,
The crucifixation of Christ,
The Precambrian Extinction.
All Obama’s fault! …and one day, I stubbed my toe…and guess what…Obama did nothing!