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noreply@blogger.com (Asdix) 625 days ago
I just couldn't pass on by not blogging this one. Hehehe.. I don't know if I'd be irritated or just purely annoyed on this freakin' girl singing "Ken Lee" a disastrous remake of Mariah Carey's "Without You" single. Ken Lee Tuli bu dibo Doucho? heheh I cant live anymore!! heheh somebody shot that girl in the head! hehehe Subscribe to Pinoy Nurse by Email or Subscribe to Pinoy Nurse http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
noreply@blogger.com (Asdix) 630 days ago
This article from MSNBC was too good to pass up.. LONDON - Smokers are more likely to kick the habit if they are told how “old” their lungs are, a British study found on Friday. The concept of lung age — measured by comparing a smoker’s lungs to the age of a healthy person whose lungs function the same — has helped patients better understand how smoking damages health, researchers had already found. But that information is also effective in convincing smokers to quit, said Gary Parkes, a family physician in Hertfordshire outside London, who led the study published in the British Medical Journal. “Telling smokers their lung age significantly improves the likelihood of them quitting smoking,” Parkes and his colleagues wrote. Smoking kills about four million people each year, according to the World Health Organization. Tobacco is highly addictive and the leading preventable cause of both cancer and heart disease. The study in five general medical practices outside ...
noreply@blogger.com (Asdix) 633 days ago
I was browsing over my startpage at netvibe and found this very interesting news over at wired.com Technically, this is not a new thing since MRI (magnetic resonance imagery) and other brain imaging techniques have been available for quite awhile now, but I guess it's some sort of breakthrough because now, through this promising technology, doctors can now see how our brains work in real-time. Though, I'm more interested in the dream-capturing capability of this new technology. I need to figure out why teens "wet dream". I was really puzzled before because I was dreaming of people (i guess they were models) whom I don't remember seeing in person or in mags or television. A computer will soon be able to do it, simply by analyzing the activity of your brain. That's the promise of a decoding system unveiled this week in Nature by neuroscientists from the University of California at Berkeley. The scientists used a functional magnetic resonance imaging ...
noreply@blogger.com (Asdix) 639 days ago
What is up with the Philippine's Health Care Delivery System? I know this may sound a bit late, but for all of you out there (abroad) who's worked with the hospital, GTLMH abruptly laid off 200+ casual workers including IWs. What is wrong with this government, prioritizing countrywide "internet-tability" in a country in which the majority of the population only knows how to operate and execute basic MS Word operations and mainly uses their email addresses (majority of Pinoys use yahoomail) only to log on to friendster (with over 5 million Filipino subscribers) rather than on developing efficient means of delivering health services to the people! Read: On a personal observation, roughly less than 50% of the Total literate Filipino Population (hence, including politicians) can be actually classified as "internet savvy" individuals. So... "While Obama and Clinton are debating on which HealthCare policy will do best for the Americans, the ...
noreply@blogger.com (Asdix) 639 days ago
February 27, 2008 — Significant liver injury has been reported in some patients receiving treatment with natalizumab (Tysabri, Biogen Idec, Inc), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today. The monoclonal antibody was first approved by the FDA in November 2004 for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and was later withdrawn by the manufacturer in February 2005 after 3 patients developed progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) during clinical trials. After reviewing the study data to confirm the absence of additional PML cases, the reintroduction of natalizumab into the US market was accompanied by a restricted distribution program (Tysabri Outreach: Unified Commitment to Health, or TOUCH). With the approval of natalizumab for the treatment of Crohn's disease in January 2008, the FDA added warnings to the drug's safety labeling regarding the risk for hepatotoxicity. Signs of injury, including markedly elevated serum hepatic enzymes and elevated ...
