Some folks would give up; Some folks would just quit, When they look for three decades, but only find shit. But some can make hay from a whole lot of zero… Like Dr Burzynski, the medical hero. Though his method is lacking empirical proof Looking less like a treatment and more like a spoof That …
Category Archive: medicine
Oct 24 2011
World Polio Day
Lines on the return of Polio A mother, doing what she thinks is right Believes the lies and chooses now to fight; She will not vaccinate. She is too young; How quickly we forgot the iron lung. So today is World Polio Day, and the news is mixed. The good news is, it’s still a …
Oct 17 2011
Prayer ‘Cure’ Kills Three
Throw away your medicines! God alone can cure! Trust in Him, repent your sins Make sure your thoughts are pure! God can cure your HIV With love that never fades Trust in Him, and you will see He’ll cure you of your AIDS God’s healing is omnipotent And infinite in worth It brings an end …
Nov 19 2008
Throat In A Jar?
The same methodology used to produceThe remarkable “heart in a jar”Has created a trachea, almost from scratch,And it looks like it’s working, so far!The organ was made from the stem cells extractedFrom marrow they drew from her hip,And a collagen shell from a donor cadaverWhose windpipe was one they could snip.The trachea, treated with antibioticsAnd …
Mar 23 2008
T. M. I. (too much information)
…No, not the wonderful song by Roy Zimmerman, just letting you know that you might want to stop now, if you don’t like hearing about… well… Oh, by the way, (Yes, this is by way of giving you enough time to change your mind–just don’t blame me, ok?) Roy Zimmerman’s new newsletter just came out; …
Feb 20 2008
Wonderful News! A Potential Cure For Diabetes!
A news release from Novocell todayReports a major step to find a cureFor diabetes. They have found a way,From embryonic stem cells, to make pureAnd uncontaminated strains, in mice,Of insulin-producing pancreas cells.For human diabetics, this is niceOf course, because this news potentially spellsThe end to constant testing and injections,Daily hassles, both the large and small,Relief …
Feb 02 2008
Vaccination Fixation
Oh, pity poor Orac! He’s feeling the love of the anti-vax folks, who apparently think he is a stupid-head. So this one, like it or not, is for you, Orac. It’s obvious that ignorance combined with desperationAnd deliberate distortion mixed with misinterpretationNot to mention giant leaps of overstressed imaginationMay result in opposition to a helpful …
Jan 08 2008
Juxtapositions (I just love that word)
Shelley, at Retrospectacle, once again has captured my attention. Plague week continues, of course, but another post will not be denied attention–how often do you get the chance to watch an egg-sized cyst, full of tapeworm larvae, being removed from a 16-year-old girl’s brain? Yeah, I know, cool! Cool…because the girl lives, and makes a …
Jan 05 2008
Danger! Warning!
When bloggers write, with laptops, seated,Bits of them get overheated—Sitting in their rooms, retreatedTo their hidden cloisters.If I should hear “Well done! Well done!”I hope they mean my writing’s funAnd not some cruel and heartless punAbout my mountain oysters. The writers putting out these blogs,Like robots built with well-oiled cogs,Or samurai, or feral dogs,Eviscerate their …
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Jan 17 2008
Matters Of The Heart (… in a jar)
anatomy, experiment, heart in a jar, Love, medicine, news, Science, social commentary
by Cuttlefish
It’s all over the news–researchers at the University of Minnesota have “created a beating heart in the laboratory“. Basically, they used the protein fiber matrix from one heart, stripped of muscle cells, as a scaffold upon which to grow a new heart, using a solution of cells from another rat. Yeah. I know, all this …
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