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Its a real thing.

Skydiving is not a risky thing to do. You should be comparing it to actual risky things people do for a thrill, like extreme motocross or Nascar. Hell the odds of dying just from riding a motorcycle are roughly 1 in 800. http://www.medhelp.org/general...

Perhaps you think you're being clever by asking this question over and over, but really, I can assure you that you're not.

If you feel disconnected from people who haven't raised teenagers, why don't you go to a forum where the people have raised teenagers? A quick google search reveals: http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Parenting-Teens-12-17/show/183

An exorcist should be called when "the moral certainty has been reached that the person is possessed", said Father Nanni, a member of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints. That could be indicated by radical and disturbing changes in the person's behaviour and voice, or an ability to garble in foreign languages or nonsensical gibberish. Father Gabriele Amorth said people who are possessed by Satan vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron, scream, dribble and slobber, utter blasphemies and have to be physically restrained

Dear Vatican,
 
My child has autism. She puts stuff in his mouth - anything. Most of the time she just speaks gibberish but she also does the echolalia thing to the point some people think she speaks fluent Japanese! One day, after ingesting some shards of glass and pieces of iron, she threw them up and started dribbling and slobbering. I suppose she was in pain or perhaps just upset because she was screaming and uttering blasphemies too. This all happened at school and as she was uncontrollable, she was deemed to need to be physically restrained.

Should I call an excorcist?

Love,
H.

It's like a whole 'nother country.

Texas WAS another, independent country at one time... I wonder if they'd ever like to take that back. Also, interesting to note that 4 of the last 11 POTUS have called themselves Texans. No I'm not a Texan or a wannbe, just saying there's more in the background than the scenery.

Apparently it has its own interweb as well; http://www.webmd.com/ ? http://www.medhelp.org/ ? http://various.others.etc/ ?

Where do I get a ".etc" domain? I'm interested in several .etc names but can't find a place to buy them. Also, who manages the other oddball TLD's like .aero, .cat, and .coop? I really want to know why nothing is at www.chicken.coop!
Did fox.com get to them already? And for god's sakes why is there no page at www.my.cat? You'd think that address would be spewing cuteness so hard it would wash up on the shores of porn sites...

Gotta love Wikipedia...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains
Apparently gotta pay too...http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Appeal2/en

Well, I am sure BMS also paid about taxes which probably comes to around 20% off their sales profit. As an added bonus, they helped countless cancer patients many of whom are Americans.

A round of chemotherapy with Taxol[pdf] costs thousands of dollars while BMS has been able to produce a dose of Taxol for less than a dollar. And what taxes BMS pays the US only comes from US sales, they don't pay US taxes on their worldwide sales. Not that they should but if you limit earning to only the US for US taxes you're cutting how much tax they do pay. The US could have gotten a better deal by requiring BMS to pay a royalty say of 50% then not taxing the income from the sale of Taxol. Many more American would have been saved if the data needed had been open sourced, or allowed anyone who agreed to pay a royalty to use the data. Then you would of had more than one company fighting for market share by lowering costs.

Where did you get the ridiculous idea that urine is sterile?

is human urine sterile????

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Dear Clint,

Yes, urine is considered sterile in the sense that it normally should not contain bacteria. Bacteriuria is the presence of bacteria in the urine, that is not attributed to contamination from the skin, foreskin, or vagina. Although urine produced freshly by the kidneys is sterile (unless the individual has a kidney infection), it can become infected with bacteria or yeast in the presence of a urinary tract infection. Sometimes an individual may have bacteria in the urine in the absence of symptoms of a urinary tract infection (asymptomatic bacteriuria). I hope this answers your question regarding the sterility of urine. Wish you the best.

This information is provided for general medical education purposes only. Please consult your physician for diagnostic and treatment options pertaining to your specific medical condition. More individualized care is available at the Henry Ford Hospital and its satellites (1 800 653 6568).

Sincerely,
HFHS M.D.-JJ

wired_parrot wrote:
A patient suffering from a STD may well withhold embarassing information about his symptoms if forced to translate through a relative.

Absolutely, nobody likes to talk about Chlamydia Psittaci (parrot fever). :)

Gradually, men begin to disappear as old ones die and no new ones are born to replace them, until finally Earth is entirely populated by women.

Actually this could help save humans because as it is now the humans male is headed for extinction anyway... Generally what makes a human a male is the X chromosome. Most, not all (more explained later), humans have two sex chromosomes, either an X and a Y chromosome or two X chromosomes with females having two Xs. The SRY gene on the Y chromosome acts like a switch that controls male sexual differentiation. However the gene is decaying and will disappear.

The exceptions mentioned above are intersexuals commonly called Hermaphrodites. There are different types of intersexuals with different karyotypes. Some have the "normal" XX or XY but other may have XXY, XXXY, or XXXXY. Most intersexuals born with ambiguous genitalia go through Genital Plastic Surgery. However, no matter how they're medically treated and reared as children many don't fit into "normal" society and some may be considered "homosexual", gay or lesbian because they had their gender surgically altered, said ambiguous genitalia may include a larger than average clitoris or a smaller than average penis.

That's nice, except for the people in such a situation. If you, for example, base legal definitions off of chromosomes, you're declaring that women with AIS can only legally marry other women, and men with severe CAH can only marry other men, as just to examples. Then, there is the question - how do you classify XXY, XXXY, XYY, X, X0, etc?

Full sex reversal for XX males is 1 in 5000 births, and partial sex reversal is 1 in 1000. XY females are more common, and the situation is made worse with the fact that several types of partial sex reversal conditions don't set in until puberty (I can only imagine what that would be like...). We're not talking about some sort of uber-rare situation here - we're talking about something that affects hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.

Okay, firstly I'd like to point to an article stating that Japanese are more prone to alcohol poisoning than Westerners because they lack or are deficient in an enzyme required for to break the substance down. Ergo, people from different parts of the world have different reactions when exposed to the same substances.
There's a similar case here.
What got me thinking about this was that a friend of mine often does clinical trials, and he mentioned one 'live-in' trial, in which 50% of the people were British/caucasian, and 50% were of cantonese origin. The trial was for a drug which was already on sale in the US/Europe, but the corp wanted to open the Japanese market, and so it had to be tested all over again.
Apparently there were no side-effects for the western subjects, but their oriental counterparts were in need of diapers fairly soon.
If you are a medical expert, then you might like to read Geographical/interracial differences in polymorphic drug oxidation, and Prostate Cancer Test Works Well for Black Men, in which it is stated that Black males have more of a certain enzyme than white males.
Would it be so easy to find a mixture of 773 asians, orientals, afro-americans, latinos and caucasians in Delhi?

it makes far more sense to simply make sure babies get real, complete breast milk, and anything that might be seen to undermine that (hello, Nestle) is going to garner negative press.

There are cases where breast milk is not an option:

- Some mothers cannot produce milk at all or cannot produce sufficient milk to feed their baby.

- A mother who has to take certain drugs for her own health and well-being may not be able to breastfeed because of the risks those drugs present to the baby.

- Sometimes mom isn't available to breastfeed at all. Women still do occasionally die in childbirth, or more commonly, give their baby up for adoption at birth.

- Newborns can have several different disorders that make all milk products, including those from mom, anywhere from very uncomfortable to severely damaging to them. Phenylketonuria, severe lactose intolerance, etc.

So, for several reasons, it's a good idea to improve infant formula as much as possible. We'll probably never be able to get it as good as breast milk (since mom's body can adapt the formulation to environmental factors, such as passing on antibodies to whatever cold is going around), but it's not necessarily a bad idea.

Interesting that these can also serve as food preservatives, though. You may very well be right about the "true" motivations for this product.

I never understood why they chose that name for a car.