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Organ Transplants Without Life-Long Drugs
A new method allowed kidney transplant recipients to eventually stop taking harsh immune-suppressing medications, even though theyd received mismatched organs. These preliminary findings may one day reduce the need for anti-rejection drugs and lead to more options for patients awaiting organ transplants.
Organ transplants are life-saving, but finding well-matched donor organs can be difficult. Patients must also take immunosuppressive drugs for the rest of their lives to keep the immune system from attacking transplanted organs. But these drugs can make it hard to fight off infections.
How does Medicare Part D Plan Work?
If you have decided to go for Medicare drug coverage or Part D prescription drug coverage plan, it is important that you understand how the program works, what its benefits are and which the loop holes are
Joining part D program is a voluntary decision, but anyone who is part A or part B covered is naturally entitled for part D prescription drug coverage. The plan does not ask for any physical examination to qualify; neither do you have to belong to a particular income group. Anyone who is a US citizen, above the age of 65 is eligible for a part D plan cove. However, if you suffer from life threatening ailments or kidney failure etc, that require treatment, you can be eligible for the plan even if you are not yet 65 years of age. Read full post…
How Emotional Abuse Leads to Guilt and Shame
The reason given for emotional abuse varies: you are bad, stupid, ugly, or unwanted, or you are the wrong sex, the wrong age, or the wrong whatever. No matter what reason is provided, you are to blame for what is happening to you. You are guilty of causing the abuse.
The guilt you are feeling is not true guilt. True guilt is brought on by a realistic understanding of your behavior and its consequences to yourself and others. False guilt is an oppressive burden that is not based on reality but on the warped views, ideas, and attitudes of others. Emotional abuse transfers those warped views on you, and those warped views produce mind-numbing, action-paralyzing shame.
Team of physicists finds new path toward increasing semiconductor functionality
The past decade has seen the emergence of the field of spintronics, aimed at increasing the efficiency of information processing and computer memories. The idea behind spintronics is to harness the magnetic property of the electron, referred to as its spin. This property can then be used, in addition to the electron charge, for increasing the functionality of the semiconductor computer chip, in terms of its capacity to store and process information.
Margaret Dobrowolska, professor of physics at the University of Notre Dame, has led a team of collaborators from Notre Dame, the University of British Columbia and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in an effort that has succeeded in identifying the mechanisms responsible for ferromagnetism in the semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As.
Scientists Find Target for Resveratrol
Resveratrol, a compound found most famously in grapes and red wine, seems to ward off several age-related diseases. However, its mechanism of action has been elusive. Researchers have now found a direct molecular target for the compound. The finding may lead to drugs that can prevent certain age-related health problems.
People can develop a variety of metabolic diseases as they age, including type 2 diabetes and heart disease. In animal studies, severely restricting calories can help prevent these diseases. Over the last decade, scientists have found that resveratrol mimics calorie restriction in some ways.
Is Depression Numbing Your Anxiety?
Years ago depression was considered a weakness, suffered by weak people, some citing a higher rate of depression among women. This chauvinistic, repressive attitude toward depression and its sufferers has been changing, allowing the depression to come out from under the cloak of shame and seek help for their illness.
Depression shows itself through a prolonged period of sadness or anxiety. I have seen firsthand the link between anxiety and depression. The possibility for the chronically anxious person to become depressed is real, and the reasons can be compelling. Earlier I likened the anxious state to being constantly on red alert. The mind and the body are in a heightened condition all the time.