Young Women, Breast Cancer And The New Health Law : Shots - Health News Blog. Young women don’t get breast cancer often — only about 10 percent of the more than 250,000 cases diagnosed each year hit women under 45, and only 5 percent are under 40. Since it's not sensible to screen all young women routinely when their risk is so low, identifying which of them to focus on is critical. A little-noticed part of the health care overhaul may help. New provisions boost research by the National Institutes of Health on breast cancer in young women as well encourage awareness about breast health through educational campaigns.
The law provides $9 million a year for fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Heidi Hannan of Gross Pointe Park, Mich., might have slipped through the diagnostic cracks if it weren’t for an extra cautious ob/gyn. After easily becoming pregnant with her first child, Hannan, then 35, had three miscarriages, and she and her doctor were trying to figure out why. "It blew me away," says Hannan, now 40. Nor should it, experts agree. Sizing Up Consciousness by Its Bits. Talking with God. I met god the other day. I know what you're thinking. How the hell did you know it was god? Well, I'll explain as we go along, but basically he convinced me by having all, and I do mean ALL, the answers. Every question I flung at him he batted back with a plausible and satisfactory answer.
In the end, it was easier to accept that he was god than otherwise. Which is odd, because I'm still an atheist and we even agree on that! It all started on the 8.20 back from Paddington. What did he look like? Well not what you might have expected that's for sure. 'Anyone sitting here? ' 'Help yourself' I replied. Sits down, relaxes, I ignore and back to the correspondence on genetically modified crops entering the food chain...
Train pulls out and a few minutes later he speaks. 'Can I ask you a question? ' 'Why don't you believe in god? ' The Bastard! I love this kind of conversation and can rabbit on for hours about the nonsense of theist beliefs. But then I thought 'Odd! 'And why should I believe that? ' He did. TED: Ideas worth spreading. Beautiful Universe. What If ? | How far will you take your imagination today? Dinosaurs 9 million years older than thought. Published on October 6th, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks New fossils found in Poland show that Dinosaurs were around nine million years earlier than previously thought. The prints are small – measuring a few centimetres in length – which suggests the earliest dinosaur-like animals were about the size of domestic cats. They would have weighed at most a kilogram or two, they walked on four legs and they were very rare animals.
Their footprints comprised only two or three per cent of the total footprints on this site. The footprints date to just two million years after the end-Permian mass extinction – the worst mass extinction in the history of the planet. According to Stephen Brusatte, from the American Museum of Natural History in New York, who led the research: “In geological terms this is just the blink of an eye.” [Full story] Tags: Dinosaurs, Footprints, Fossils, Poland.
A new book about fetal origins. (1) - By Annie Murphy Paul and Amanda Schaffer. I detect a shade of distaste in your most recent posting, a wrinkled-nose dismay at the messiness of this emerging discipline. In an earlier entry you twice referred to fetal origins research as "alluring," as if you were fortifying yourself against its disreputable charms. I'll admit that to me, the wild, wide-open nature of the field of fetal origins is part of its appeal. You ask why I haven't excluded some of the more raffish guests from the party I've thrown in my book, Origins, suggesting it's because I'm too polite to show them the door. Actually, it's just the opposite: I purposely want to provoke a noisy, animated conversation on this subject I find so fascinating and compelling. You ask how I chose which research to write about in my book, puzzling over my inclusion of studies that "might not make women feel so good.
" Of course, it's imperative that this work adheres to rigorous scientific standards. Such attitudes were not without consequence. Science Journalism Parody.
Why We Put Flowers on Graves. 'Healthy' purple potato developed. 6 October 2010Last updated at 11:00 Purple Majesty potatoes contain higher levels of the antioxidant anthocyanins A purple potato that growers claim is healthier than the standard variety is going on sale in UK supermarkets. The Purple Majesty has a distinctive deep colour and contains up to 10 times the level of antioxidant, anthocyanins, compared with white potatoes. It was developed at Colorado State University from a traditional variety. Despite its appearance, the potato now being grown by Perthshire producer Albert Bartlett after two years of trials, is not genetically modified. Potatoes originate from the high reaches of the Andes and come in thousands of varieties, with many having developed deep red and purple colouring.
The trials found that the Purple Majesty could be grown in Scotland. 'Positive effect' An initial crop of 400 tonnes of the variety will go on sale in Sainsbury's stores across Scotland and the south-east of England this week, with a larger yield expected next year.