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HealthTalk - Andrew at Large: Stopping colon cancer in its tracks:
Great post. This makes me think: how many people have died of embarrassment? Is embarrassment one of the leading killers out there by default? How many times has the embarrassment factor prevented people from getting the screening? An incalculable but certainly frightfully high number I'm sure.
Is this for real? How reliable is the Epoch times? Key quote:
the Sujiatun Concentration Camp in China was actually a part of a hospital. The concentration camp has engaged in taking organs from Falun Gong practitioners when they were still alive and selling the organs. Since 2001, the concentration camp has secretly detained approximately 6,000 Falun Gong practitioners, none of whom have been able to leave the camp alive
Man this is horrifying if true. Ran a search at Google news and found a related story on the 28th, but judging from a comment I got below (re-editing this post now) this is by no means the whole story on the issue, which may have many sides.
Why fluwiki is down, and why it's worth the wait. Great site, and looks like a great team, from what I gather. Best of luck, guys, hang in there.
Have a long listen. Founder of fluwiki talks openly about the idea behind fluwiki and how it came to be. Focused on preventing another global flu outbreak. Looks like a lot of thought and passion was put into this. There are so few health-related social software sites compared to other sectors, it's great to see these pioneers getting the online health space caught up on all-things Web 2.0.
Question: is this the same team behind Cancerwiki?
Elderly patient gets bizarre bosom-enhancing side effect of surgery. Yikes, hope she's okay, probably not a side effect she was looking for her at her stage in life... btw, do surgeons ever give discounts to patients who get weird results like this? Wouldn't really make sense though, since no one did anything wrong, just the patients' body reacting. I once had a reaction to novicain in which my heart-rate pretty much doubled for a number of minutes and I thought I was going to die. Never thought to blame the dentist, although it freaked me out considerably.
Arrgg, why did the breakthrough Web 2.0 social media site have
to be MySpace? Bets on whether they’ll trump Yahoo? Anyway, MySpace or not,
this is testimony to the power of social software in general and social
networking in particular, which can be applied successfully to far more
interesting things than the borderline exhibitionism and counterpart voyeurism
that proliferates at MySpace. The bottom line is that the underlying phenomenon
is not a fad-- although MySpace itself may be---we’re transitioning to a social
Web, and the most popular sites and services are the ones that reflect that
transition.
Just read this. You'll not hear a more frightening story anytime soon. What's most alarming to me is that this man seemed to be helpful, productive and trusting to his colleagues. To me this guy is in the same league as an Al Bundy. No one knew what he was up to, and those that did-- his victims-- couldn't speak. Quote:
Wayne Albert Bleyle, a respiratory therapist, is accused of molesting brain-damaged, comatose boys and girls taking cell phone photos of himself in the act and posting them online.
Prosecutor Laura Gunn said "I don't know if we've ever seen a case like it before where the victims were so vulnerable." Gunn said that Bleyle molested many more patients over the past decade, preying on the hospital's weakest of the weak, including youngsters who would never be able to speak.
Dave Winer, who some consider the first blogger, even perhaps the inventor of blogging, is blogging off. In his own words, "blogging doesn't need me anymore." He predicts he'll give up blogging by the end of the year.
