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You aren't making any sense. Joint issues, like cancer are an edge case.

Oh, weedhopper, you are not going to like what is probably in your future. Arthritis as an "edge case"? Your extreme ignorance is showing. Those stinky old people do not move slowly because they are lazy. Is half of people over 65 an edge case? http://arthritis.emedtv.com/os...

Whic of course, makes for an interesting question for people Osteoarthritis - which indeed causes a lot of pain, is caused by wear and tear. It is not a disease. I had it in my mid-40's, and it only gets worse with time.

So as we live to a thousand years are we suddenly going to get thousand year capable skeletons? Calcium phosphate is not a material that will last for a thousand years. Or do we just bionicize ourselves, replacing all the parts as they wear, until we are like George Washington's original axe he used to chop down the cherry tree, two new heads, and five new handles.

Try walking through Italy and see if you can't find someone infested with yersinia pestis.

While the Bubonic Plague is far from dead, we have this:

There is no plague in Europe; the last reported cases occurred after World War II.

So in other words, you're not going to find someone in Italy "infested" with the bacterium that causes Plague, unless they picked it up somewhere else.

Their happy accordance with the state of affairs is a side effect of being next to the province of Cimbalta.

BCG is that vaccine that leaves that lifelong scar on the upper arm... I don't have a scar on my arm so either I didn't get that one, or a new scar free vaccine is used stateside.

The scar on the arm vaccine, at least for the states, was the smallpox vaccine. Oddly enough, I'm one of the considerably less than 1% of those under 40 in the USA to be vaccinated against it. I very much had an immune response(so we know the vaccine took), but due to my reaction the infection spread more along the skin rather than going deep - I have no visible scaring from it. Had minor blistering down to my elbow though. Knew another guy they ended up giving two sets of pokes, only to determine that he's naturally immune.

Reading up on BCG - it's used when babies are exposed to people with TB, it's 80% effective(in infants) for ~15 years, and it's not really used in the USA because it's less effective on adults and the risk analysis people here decided we don't have enough adults with uncontrolled TB running around exposing babies to make the vaccine worth it. Brazil has recommended the vaccine since 1967-68, the USA has depended upon 'detection and treatment of latent tuberculosis'.

I've been vaccinated against a lot of stuff (shot records are now 3 pages long), but not TB. Of course, I get the annual scratch test for TB, which goes in my records... That and the flu shot are probably a page alone...

Working with a doctor is hard because very few people can listen and/or learn from someone they believe to be less knowledgeable. The credibility barrier.

As I understand it, the trick is a combination of a good doctor, a frank honesty that you're a specialist in YOUR condition(s), and building up a good working relationship.

No scientific evidence exists to suggest that mothers or babies are healthier because of the incision rather evidence shows it's unnecessary, but it's performed anyway because that's the way they teach it in med school. Doctors believe it's part of the procedure and that without it birth is hindered/obstructed.

Then your doctors/surgeons are particularly non-scientific; here in the USA they tend to at least pay attention to such studies.

Interesting. I don't know if I ever got the small-pox vaccine. Just out of curiosity, was it your option to be receive the small-pox vaccine? Did you have a specific reason you would share, for having received that vaccine? Does it have something to do with your work?

Anyway, I believe it will prove to be a valuable vaccine to have taken, but that's only because of a conspiracy theory I've heard... Never mind.

Yes the BCG vaccine targets bone tuberculosis. I understand it takes 3 months to take effect when it works.

I used to get the TB scratch test at school every year because my mom has the disease. Her immune system reacted by encapsulating the bacteria with calcium so her chest X-rays have white spots in them... Anyway in the 80's when I was going to school, I had to take those tests as a measure the school board took because of the circumstances... I don't think my mom ever had the TB vaccine but she did receive treatments when it was detected about 40 years ago.

Thanks for the tip regarding building a working relationship with a good doctor.

BCG is that vaccine that leaves that lifelong scar on the upper arm... I don't have a scar on my arm so either I didn't get that one, or a new scar free vaccine is used stateside.

The scar on the arm vaccine, at least for the states, was the smallpox vaccine. Oddly enough, I'm one of the considerably less than 1% of those under 40 in the USA to be vaccinated against it. I very much had an immune response(so we know the vaccine took), but due to my reaction the infection spread more along the skin rather than going deep - I have no visible scaring from it. Had minor blistering down to my elbow though. Knew another guy they ended up giving two sets of pokes, only to determine that he's naturally immune.

Reading up on BCG - it's used when babies are exposed to people with TB, it's 80% effective(in infants) for ~15 years, and it's not really used in the USA because it's less effective on adults and the risk analysis people here decided we don't have enough adults with uncontrolled TB running around exposing babies to make the vaccine worth it. Brazil has recommended the vaccine since 1967-68, the USA has depended upon 'detection and treatment of latent tuberculosis'.

I've been vaccinated against a lot of stuff (shot records are now 3 pages long), but not TB. Of course, I get the annual scratch test for TB, which goes in my records... That and the flu shot are probably a page alone...

Working with a doctor is hard because very few people can listen and/or learn from someone they believe to be less knowledgeable. The credibility barrier.

As I understand it, the trick is a combination of a good doctor, a frank honesty that you're a specialist in YOUR condition(s), and building up a good working relationship.

No scientific evidence exists to suggest that mothers or babies are healthier because of the incision rather evidence shows it's unnecessary, but it's performed anyway because that's the way they teach it in med school. Doctors believe it's part of the procedure and that without it birth is hindered/obstructed.

Then your doctors/surgeons are particularly non-scientific; here in the USA they tend to at least pay attention to such studies.

Death rates:
http://chickenpox.emedtv.com/chickenpox/adult-chickenpox-p2.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickenpox

Time limited protection, Search on "Booster":
http://www.chop.edu/service/vaccine-education-center/a-look-at-each-vaccine/varicella-chickenpox-vaccine.html The booster shots are now recommended because the vaccine failed after a half dozen years. Chance of death due to High School Football (for those exposed): 1.21:100000
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC155424/table/T5/
Chance of death due to childhood Chicken Pox (for those exposed):
http://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox/surveillance.html

A small amount of math has to be used on the Chicken pox number. Of the 4 million people a year that catch chicken pox 5% of them are adults so 4 million must be reduced to 3,800,000. 55% of the deaths are in adults, so the 100-150 (lets just go with the worst number of 150) must be reduced to 67.5.

That leaves you with 1.18:100000. Just a bit less than High School Football.

Of course, this doesn't take into account what will happen when the vaccine wears off for the adult population where the chance of death is: 27.5:100000.

Abuse

Yes. We all know that requiring a prescription has prevented the abuse of other drugs such as oxycodone (Oxycontin). When that was made prescription-only, all the drug abusers and recreational users just gave up and admitted defeat.

Abuse

It might have been because Steve Jobs has gone on medical leave again. It's presumed to be related to his Pancreatic Cancer which was diagnosed in 2004. Pancreatic cancer has a very low survival rate averaging between 4.6 percent to 6 percent after 5 years of being diagnosed. Steve Jobs is now on year 7, beating the odds.

Just ask hundreds of thousands of people who died while the drugs that could have saved them were waiting for the FDA approval.

What is your source for these numbers?

I think you'll find that the experimental protocol at best simply extends the life of the terminally ill patient for some few weeks or months. It is not a miracle cure - it is an investment in the future.

39% of lung cancer cases are diagnosed after the cancer has already metastasized (distant stage). The corresponding 5-year relative lung cancer survival rate [is] 2.15% Lung Cancer Survival Rate Based on Stage

Clean kids got polio.
dirty kids didn't.

its not a myth.

http://polio.emedtv.com/polio/polio-history.html

Honestly...if he's already been treated for pancreatic cancer, his chances of living much past this year are grim....

As of 1996-2001:

* 7 percent of pancreas cancer cases are diagnosed while the cancer is still confined to the primary site (localized stage)

* 26 percent of pancreas cancer cases are diagnosed after the cancer has spread to regional lymph nodes or directly beyond the primary site

* 52 percent of pancreatic cancer cases are diagnosed after the cancer has already metastasized (distant stage)

* 14 percent of pancreatic cancer cases had staging information that was unknown.

  The corresponding five-year relative pancreatic cancer survival rates were:

* 16.4 percent for localized
* 7.0 percent for regional
* 1.8 percent for distant
* 4.3 percent for unstaged.

Info is only a few minor percentage points different now, according to the American Cancer Society.

I am sorry to say it folks, but he's either had a re-occurrence or it had already spread to his lymph nodes before he was treated the first time around. Seeing as 2004 was when he got treated, 2009 is the 5-year mark. 5% survival rate at five years isn't too great. The rapid weight loss is very common with this particular form of cancer. Patrick Swayze is going through the same thing.