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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS ), also referred to as Lou Gehrig's disease in American English and motor neurone disease in British English , is a form of motor neurone disease caused by the degeneration of upper and lower neurons , located in the ventral horn of the spinal cord and the cortical neurons that provide their efferent input. The condition is often called Lou Gehrig 's disease in North America, after the New York Yankees baseball player who was diagnosed with the disease in 1939. The disorder is characterized by rapidly progressive weakness , muscle atrophy and fasciculations , spasticity , dysarthria , dysphagia , and respiratory compromise. Sensory function generally is spared, as is autonomic and oculomotor activity.
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Social Networking Savvy - April 2011
When we first wrote about social networking and social media in Minnesota Medicine in January 2009, they were still largely associated with students and technology buffs. During past two years, however, use of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook has become mainstream even in health care. Social media connect people and facilitate dialog between individuals and groups, allowing for the sharing of user-generated content. Want to share a picture? Post it.
HMI Events in Virginia, California, and Texas
Want a down-to-earth approach to education? Then come to the source. At HMI, we support the teaching and learning of Holistic Land Management practices. We take it seriously, but we make it fun, interesting and real, so you’re ready to tackle real-world issues.
Fertility from the Sea Learn about the unique advantages of using seaweed, liquid fish and sea minerals as plant nutritional supplements to boost crop health, and select the best option for your fields. Seeing Red Harry and Debbie Burton of Apple Luscious Organic Orchards on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia grow more than 200 apple varieties with a focus on preserving red-fleshed beauties. Livestock consume three diets annually; spring, summer and winter. John King examines the variations in the three diets and explains simple steps farmers can take in the paddock to tweak performance.
Acres U.S.A. -- A Voice for Eco-Agriculture
Acres U.S.A. works with industry leaders and pioneers of sustainable agriculture. Learn from these pros how you can turn your farm into a healthy, profitable enterprise. The annual Acres U.S.A. conference sets the standards for innovation and learning. It is where you find farmers and consultants from every side of eco-farming who come together to share their experience and expertise.
Acres U.S.A. presents the 2011 Polyface Farm Field Day
Canadian scientists have transformed pinches of human skin into petri dishes of human blood — a major medical breakthrough that could yield new sources of blood for transfusions after cancer treatments or surgery. The discovery, by researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont., could one day potentially allow anyone needing blood after multiple rounds of surgery or chemotherapy, or for blood disorders such as anemia, to have a backup supply of blood created from a tiny patch of their own skin — eliminating the risk of their body’s immune system rejecting blood from a donor. Researchers predict the lab-grown blood could be ready for testing in humans within two years.
Canadian scientists transform human skin into blood
Stem cells coaxed into forming partial eyeball - life - 06 April 2011 - New Scientist
Mouse stem cells have been coaxed into forming a partial eyeball, and the method may one day lead to retina transplants. Yoshiki Sasai at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Kobe, Japan, and colleagues encouraged embryonic stem cells to develop into retinal cells, and then grew them alongside a protein matrix to promote the formation of tissue. Over 12 days, the retinal cells formed a vesicle which subsequently transformed into a cup-like structure. Within this "optic cup", six major types of retinal cells were identified. They had spontaneously arranged themselves into six different layers, mimicking those seen in the adult retina.Survivalism / Sustainability
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Factory Farming, what is factory farm? - The Issues - Sustainable Table
In the last few decades, consolidation of food production has concentrated power in the hands of fewer and fewer corporations. Many of today's farms are actually large industrial facilities, not the green pastures and red barns that most Americans imagine. These consolidated operations are able to produce food in high volume but have little to no regard for the environment ,
It is a rare human act that is utterly reprehensible. Some glimmer of grace, some hope for redemption shines through nearly all of our efforts. And then, Jonathan Safran Foer reminds us in his new book, Eating Animals there is factory farming of living creatures. Perhaps you have seen the film Food, Inc .
Dr. Andrew Weil: The Moral Ferocity of Eating Animals
Look Magazine, November 5, 1963 ON MAY 27 1963, President Nathan M. Pusey of Harvard University announced that an assistant professor of clinical psychology and education had been fired.
The Strange Case of the Harvard Drug Scandal
Consciousness Cafe
First let me say we were given a copy of the DVD by two dear friends and I did really enjoy the DVD. I agree with them that the imagery is beautiful. But the more I watched it, the more I felt that there was a very creepy message behind it; something just . . . wrong . I would classify Ashes and Snow as sacred contemporary fiction or fantasy, along with books such as The Celestine Prophecy .Mind and Brain
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Sacred Weeds | Watch Free Documentary Online
Sacred Weeds was a four part television series of 50 minute documentaries investigating the cultural impact of psychoactive plants on a broad array of early civilizations. The series was filmed at Hammerwood Park by the producer, Sarah Marris, and her production company TVF. The Reader in European Pre-History at the University of Oxford, Dr Andrew Sherratt, was the series host. Prior to his resignation from the Uinversity of Oxford, Sherratt was appointed Professor of Archaeology. Each episode began and ended with Sherratt inscribing his diary with his reflections on the series’ scientific and cultural investigations.Neurotransmitter Molecules Neurotransmitters can be broadly split into two groups – the ‘classical’, small molecule neurotransmitters and the relatively larger neuropeptide neurotransmitters. Within the category of small molecule neurotransmitters, the biogenic amines (dopamine, noradrenaline, serotonin and histamine) are often referred to as a discrete group because of their similarity in terms of their chemical properties. Although the CNS contains less than 2% of the total serotonin in the body, serotonin plays a very important role in a range of brain functions. It is synthesised from the amino acid tryptophan. Within the brain, serotonin is localised mainly in nerve pathways emerging from the raphe nuclei, a group of nuclei at the centre of the reticular formation in the
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Science-Based Medicine
EDITOR’S NOTE: Because I am at the annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research in Chicago, between the meetings, working on a policy statement, working on a manuscript, and various other miscellaneous tasks, I alas was unable to produce a post worthy of the quality normally expected by SBM readers. Fortunately, Lorne Trottier, who’s done a great job for us twice before , was able to step in again with this great post about “safe” cell phone cases. Speaking of the manufactroversy over whether cell phone radiation causes brain cancer, there’s a session at the AACR that I’ll have to try to attend entitled Do Cell Phones Cause Brain Cancer?vasas.bela
Welcome | SpiralScouts International
SpiralScouts™ International is a program for girls and boys of all faiths working, growing and learning together. Making its public debut in February of 2001, SpiralScouts™ International has grown into an expanded program available to anyone world wide. We now serve youth throughout the US, as well as in Canada and Europe.We are happy to have this opportunity to share our program with you.Thanks for visiting,The SpiralScouts StaffHealth
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