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Do NOT cut and suck. Cutting into the bite site can damage underlying organs, increase the risk of infection, and sucking on the bite site does not result in venom removal.

Incising (cutting) and suctioning the bite area has not been shown to be beneficial, but a venom extractor (found in commercial snake bite kits) may be helpful if it is applied to the area within five minutes of the bite and left in place for 30 minutes. A 2004 study of mock venom extraction using a suction device, however, questioned the validity of venom extractors and suggested that their use is unlikely to be effective.

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/liver_transplant/article_em.htm ;

"Determining whose need is most critical: The United Network for Organ Sharing uses measurements of clinical and laboratory problems to divide patients into groups that determine who is in most critical need of a liver transplant. In early 2002, UNOS enacted a major modification to the way in which people were assigned the need for a liver transplant. Previously, patients awaiting livers were ranked as status 1, 2A, 2B, and 3, according to the severity of their current disease. Although the status 1 listing has remained, all other patients are now classified using the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) scoring system if they are aged 18 years or older, or the Pediatric End-Stage Liver Disease (PELD) scoring system if they are younger than 18 years. These scoring methods were set up so that donor livers could be distributed to those who need them most urgently [...blah blah blah...]"

No single doctor can determine who gets a transplant and who does not. There's a rigorous process to determine need, there's a council or committee overseeing decisions, the whole process is documented, insurance companies are scrutinizing the whole thing very closely. Just because some elected officials chose to question a specific decision, that does not and shouldn't imply that the system is broken or corrupt. Imagine the lawsuits that would ensue if people had plausible reasons to believe the system was tainted!

And I hardly think having to fly from California and buy a home to convalesce in in Memphis could be fairly described as "convenient".

The need to have at least one FPP a day implying that Steve Jobs is the Anti-Christ is pretty badly coloring the judgements of the editors here, especially now that Steve is dead (or is he?) Get a new obsession, Slashdot!

That strikes me as an overstatement. Either that, or my search parameters meet my needs better than your search parameters, or some such nonsense.

From time to time, I do notice trash crop up in a search. Sometimes, the first 5 or 10 results are pretty obviously noise accompanying the signal. But, ten pages of results? Never. Not even a full page. Crap - I'm going to check something - some stupid term - UTERUS!

http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=uterus&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

I clicks the first ten links:
wikipedia - not good, not bad, it's informational
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/19263.htm - looks alright, educational, I guess and seems to lead to other educational material (didn't check)
www.medicinenet.com/uterine_cancer/article.htm - looks alright again - educational, but there are links to what look like practitioners sites.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/226-hysterectomies-in-6-months-in-rajasthan/149579-3.html - news article, appears to be about forced sterilization, or unethical doctors
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/04/17/2171976/south-florida-activists-pen-the.html - 'nother news article about an activist group
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/prolapsed_uterus/article_em.htm - looks like a mirror of medicinenet above - same adverts, different article
http://www.nuff.org/health_theuterus.htm - you'll note I'm not digging deeply - looks like a nonprofit concerned with women's health?
http://womenshealth.about.com/cs/uterinehealth/a/abouttheuterus.htm - looks like what the name implies - educational
http://www.pathologyoutlines.com/uterus.html - lots of links, looks like it's educational, but again, I'm not digging deep here
http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=5918 - another medicinenet mirror, this happens to be yet another related article

Somewhere, somehow, perhaps my settings tend to show pertinent results? I don't know - maybe you're trying to pull the wool over our eyes?

False. Birth control pills have many side effects, one of the more famous is having a significantly higher risk for developing blood clots.

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Sugar water is not as good as you might think.

Sports drinks such as Gatorade and Powerade are fine for adults if they are diluted with water because at full strength they contain too much sugar, which can worsen diarrhea.

Sugar water is the last thing you want. Citric acid is helpful against bacterial food poisoning. Viral food poisoning....well....your body has to work that one out - the best you can do is stay hydrated.

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/genital_herpes/article_em.htm

That alone states that there are 45 million cases of geneital herpes in the US. There are around 309 million people in the US.

So 1 in 7 people in this country have genital herpes.

The following states that 1 in 5 people in the US have SOME STD:
http://www.agapeprc.org/std.php

So while it's a bit short of 1 in 3, 1 in 5 is still not far off the mark (and MUCH more common than 1 in "hundreds"), and it's obvious that herpes makes up the majority of those cases.

As mentioned in the linked article, a big reason behind it being more common than you'd think is that herpes (along with genital warts and several other diseases) is quite often asymptomatic. You can have it and have no ill effects, but still be able to transmit it to others.

The correct name for the procedure referred to as partial birth abortion is dilation and extraction.. The procedure is used to save the life of the mother or if there are serious medical problems with the fetus.

    Thank you. As I tell everyone, there's no reason to send apologies or sympathies, there's nothing anyone could have done.

    As for the 3D TV's, the disorder has to already be there, for it to be triggered. I haven't read the labels, but if it says "may cause seizures", then that's only indicating that it may trigger them, not that it would turn a person without a seizure disorder into one that does.

    It's possible for you to have a seizure disorder, and it's simply never been triggered.

    In the case of my step son, after we knew he was having grand mal seizures (it was pretty obvious from the moment I saw him in the first one), it was apparent that he was having petit mal seizures for quite a while, but no one noticed. What's the difference between a kid "not hearing" you when you tell them to do something, and them not hearing you because they're having a seizure? It all looked the same to us, his teachers, and his doctors. After he had a real visible seizure it jumped out at us all like "how could we have missed this?"

    I felt bad about the times that I said "I just told you to ... didn't you hear me?!" He didn't hear a word I said, which is why he didn't do what I told him to. Or sometimes maybe he just didn't want to clean his room. :) As he got older, he'd talk back to me, so at least I knew he heard me. Then I'd threaten him, we'd chase each other around the house, and mom would say "Stop that!" :)

    I'm not saying every kid that ignores you when you say "clean your room" or "take out the trash" should be delivered straight to a neurologist, but it is a possibility. Here is a writeup on CNN Health about petit mal seizures.

    This page has some numbers on seizure disorders 3% of children have a seizure when they're young. Half of those (1.5%) are caused by fevers. 1% of children have epilepsy. So, if 100,000 3D TV's were sold, assuming an average household size of 4 people, statistically 4,000 people with epilepsy will be viewing them. If (the big if) the trigger is flashing lights, then there could be a good number of cases reported. The only thing I got from the doctors on the flashing light part was it is a trigger "sometimes".

"Periodic limb movement disorder (PLMD) is repetitive cramping or jerking of the legs during sleep. It is the only movement disorder that occurs only during sleep, and it is sometimes called periodic leg (or limb) movements during sleep. "Periodic" refers to the fact that the movements are repetitive and rhythmic, occurring about every 20-40 seconds. PLMD is also considered a sleep disorder, because the movements often disrupt sleep and lead to daytime sleepiness."

Holy cow! Legs jerking at night, daytime sleepiness...that sounds exactly like my symptoms!! Oh wait, this whole "designer disease" was made up by GlaxoSmithKline just to sell more Requip (according to my good friend Causality)...

Many fewer people die or even experience an irritation from vaccinations than would die or be horribly deformed from the things prevented by the vaccinations. You probably still drive a car, don't you? Don't you know kids could die in one of those?

It amazes me how otherwise rational people can be so fucking stupid.

...damned if you don't, seems three cups is never enough for some of us:

Coffee Lowers Gout Risk

Coffee-Swilling Men Get Less Gout, Study Shows

By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News

Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD

May 25, 2007 - The more coffee men drink, the lower their risk of gout. At least four cups a day lower gout risk by 40%, a Canada/U.S. study shows.

Gout starts with a buildup of uric acid in the blood. This results in deposits of uric acid crystals in the joints and surrounding areas, causing swelling and intense pain.

The new study is based on data from nearly 46,000 male medical professionals enrolled in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study. Over 12 years, 757 of these men developed gout, report Hyon K. Choi, MD, DrPH, of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and colleagues.

Because the men filled out detailed diet questionnaires, Choi's team was able to track the men's self-reported use of coffee and tea.

They found that the more coffee the men drank, the less likely they were to have gout.

Drinking one to three cups of coffee a day lowered gout risk by only 8%. But drinking four or five cups a day dropped gout risk by 40%. And true coffee addicts -- those who drank six cups a day or more -- had nearly a 60% lower risk of gout.

Caffeine, whether from coffee, tea, or both, was not related to gout risk. Tea, it turned out, did not decrease gout risk.

But decaffeinated coffee did have an effect, although it wasn't as large as the effect of the high-test brew. Men who drank one to three cups of decaf had a 33% lower risk of gout. Those who drank four cups of decaf a day -- or more -- had only a 27% lower gout risk.

It's not clear why coffee lowers gout risk. Choi and colleagues note that coffee is a major source of a strong antioxidant, phenol chlorogenic acid, that may affect gout risk.

"Our findings are most directly generalizable to men age 40 years and older (the most gout-prevalent population) with no history of gout," Choi and colleagues suggest.

It's not yet known whether women who drink coffee are at lower risk of gout.

The findings appear in the June 2007 issue of the journal Arthritis & Rheumatism.

SOURCE: Choi, H.K. Arthritis & Rheumatism, June 2007; vol 56: pp 2048-2054.

© 2007 WebMD Inc. All rights reserved.

Shamelessly pilfered from
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=81383&pf=3&page=1

(Sorry couldn't find the original source)

The autism spectrum includes a range of conditions from severe symptoms in which the afflicted is non-functional to high-functioning autism like Aspbergers. The reason it is considered a spectrum is that most of those diagnosed with autism have some combination of traits that are found somewhere on the spectrum. Common traits usually involve sensory processing issues and nonverbal communication deficits.

Jes' sayin'.

Maybe it should be a D&C ?
Read the description, you'll understand.

You are incorrect on every point you've made, and here's why.

1. He is not allowed to spam all he wants, because there's a law in place that says he can't. If he's exploiting a loophole, it demonstrates the inefficiency of his government to make effective law.

2. The Labour Party has a party line that is decided as a group, and all members must adhere to that party line once it's decided. The fact that they were divided does not show dissent, it shows that there was a decent debate over the matter and that they're all capable of independent thought. That is something to strive for in order to create healthy debate about a policy which is going to affect at least 20 odd million people, not something to ridicule.

3. Pancreatitis (if you bothered to google it, or at least read the papers with an unbiased eye) is caused in approx. 80% of cases by gall stones and alcoholism. Approx. 15% of all acute cases are not able to be diagnosed with a cause (http://www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/10597-2.a sp). Your assumption that he is an alcoholic has been rebutted by Latham himself, and I assume you wouldn't be so arrogant as to declare you know more about Latham than he does.

4. There are more than 2 choices, and the increasing swing to the Greens is indicative of this.

5. John Howard's level of bullshit is incredible. He has consistently shown his ability to circumvent the truth, to not own up to his mistakes, and to lie to us. Go read Margo Kingston's book "Not Happy John" to get a rough idea what I'm talking about, or google to find a number of websites that can list just how many times he's lied about policy. His "examples" of leading this country are a disgrace, from his use of political power to further his own family's ends, his inability to be a man and own up to his mistakes and take the blame, to his power-hungry attempts to abolish the Senate and remove the only political limitations he has.

Finally, I have left out any comments on what is obviously your own personal opinion and not something you're trying to put across as fact (e.g. Latham is bullshit). But, you're the reason we're under increasing pressure internationally when we go travelling to explain Australia's actions, and you're the reason people like me want to leave the country permanently (and some have) because it makes us sick to see what's happening here.

Good luck voting in the next election, because I can assure you we'll be on opposite sides of the fence and your "Liberals" will need it.

Tobacco use is by far the most common risk factor for cancers of the mouth and throat. Both smoking and "smokeless" tobacco (snuff and chewing tobacco) increase the risk of developing cancer in the mouth or throat.

Smokers are about 6 times more likely to have cancer of the oropharynx than people who don't smoke. All forms of smoking are linked to these cancers, including cigarettes, cigars, and pipes. Tobacco smoke can cause cancer anywhere in the oropharynx as well as in the lungs, the bladder, and many other organs in the body. Pipe smoking is particularly linked with lesions of the lips, where the pipe comes in contact with the tissue.

Smokeless tobacco is linked with cancers of the cheeks, gums, and inner surface of the lips. The risk of these cancers is as much as 50 times higher in people who use smokeless tobacco than in those who do not. Cancers caused by smokeless tobacco use often begin as leukoplakia or erythroplakia.

Nothing would make me happier than getting all farty and bloated on a frothy latte while blowing my secretary/programmer salary 1:1.

Hell, I could check out all the latest innovations in penis enlargement technology, maybe peruse a little man-on-goat-on-sister incest reading, settle in on a favorite literary magazine... is it worth $10 an hour?

You bet your sweet ass it is, just as long as I can afford another 10-spot to pay my gimp to read it to me.