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Laser cutters use lasers to cut shapes into existing material, but Rice University scientists have figured out how to make one build objects instead of cut them. The result is the $2,000 3D printer that you see above, constructing the blood vessel network inside a mouse liver. If we want to maximize the usefulness of 3D printers, we have to maximize the number of materials they can work with, while minimizing the cost. That was the goal of the Rice scientists, when they devised a way to make a 3D printer with a couple of days, a couple of thousand...

Fellow Freepers, Here is the quote from Donald Trump regarding Planned Parenthood tonight. "But millions and millions of women, cervical cancer, breast cancer, are helped by Planned Parenthood. So you can say whatever you want but they have millions of women going through Planned Parenthood that are helped greatly." Questions for discussion: How is this not an endorsement of Planned Parenthood? In your opinion, should we support a candidate who endorses Planned Parenthood in any way, even performing non-abortive services?

...Bottled water seems to be gone for good. Choice is also gone. Deli is getting to a "it is that or nothing level". Now grocery stores are not even trying to hide the empty spaces with junk. On the medical front things are worse, if possible. Today I learned of the arrival of some generics from a medicine for triglycerides that I had to stop taking. I arrived in time at my local "LOCATEL". I tried to get also a small bottle of rubbing alcohol. To my surprise there is none. The lone brand on the market has stopped delivering....

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Two months ago, we posted a story describing how three healthcare-related non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are conspiring to undo hard-fought improvements in work rules, pertaining to surgical resident physicians. The NGOs in question are the American Board of Surgery, the American College of Surgeons, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Leading the pack in this endeavor is ACGME, which just five years earlier did cut the number of allowable hours that these residents could put in. As it happens, the cut in hours was forced on the industry, based on outrageous violations in which the stated hours were...

Although 9-year-old James Isaac from Wellington, New Zealand has trouble speaking and communicating with his family, he holds a strong bond with his buddy Mahe. Mahe, a service dog trained by The Assistance Dogs New Zealand Trust helps James, who is autistic, stay calm, in addition to providing protection for the boy. Recently, during a hospital visit, Mahe was spotted comforting James while preparing for an MRI scan.

Back when Obamacare was just a threat in the form of legislation, it contained a provision called “the public option.” The idea was that anyone seeking health care insurance would be able to opt for a government run, single-payer system similar to what prevails in Canada and Great Britain. The public option never made it into the final product because it was a change too far. Most people believed, correctly, that the option was a ploy to cause private insurance to wither and die. Now Hillary Clinton has revived the public option as part of her reform of the health...

Scientists announced that for the first time ever, they were able to 3-D print an organ, successfully transplant it into an animal and get it to work. Last week, scientists announced that for the first time ever, they were able to 3-D print an organ, successfully transplant it into an animal and get it to work. If you're unsure of whether that's really as crazy as it sounds, it is. For years scientists have succeeded at 3-D printing "living" tissue, but that tissue has been too weak, too unstable and too small to implant into humans or animals. Getting the...

Tulia Jimenez-Vergara was at an orphanage holding a baby found in the garbage when Miguel first ran into her. He was only two years old and full of joy and energy, shouting "Look at me!" as he dashed around the room with ease -- even though he had no legs.Tulia was a young unmarried grad student who had returned to Columbia to visit her dying father. An uncle asked her to help bring food to the sisters of Hogar Luz y Vida, a Catholic orphanage. Run by Sister Valeriana Garcia, they only take the most difficult-to-place children. Tulia wanted...

Kentucky State Representative Mary Lou Marzian (D-Louisville) has introduced legislation (HB396) that would impose tighter restrictions on the availability of Viagra. If passed, the law would limit Viagra availability to married men who have their spouse's written permission. "Right now erectile dysfunction is a woman's first line of defense against rape," Marzian declared. "We should not tear down this barrier willy-nilly by allowing any man who can get a doctor to write him a prescription have this drug. Ideally, we should put something in the water that negates every man's capability to get an erection. This would practically eliminate the...

The New York-based Satanic Temple's suit to overturn a Missouri informed consent law requiring that women seeking abortions in the state must first receive information about the procedure and its consequences 72 hours ahead of undergoing the surgery was dismissed by Cole County Circuit Judge Joe Beteem. The plaintiff, identified only as "Mary Doe," to protect her from the infamy that might attend her public exposure as a Satanist, argued that "the law is an unconstitutional infringement on my right to freely practice my religion. Worship of Satan requires that we periodically offer up human sacrifices. Abortions are the most...

I am apparently having cardiac problems that will be diagnosed in near future, as I am having some definite symptoms. My dad, who is 78, suffers from horrible chronic pain from bone spurs in his cervical spine (neck), in which a second surgery has been ruled out, has Parkinson Disease, and has as a result of the bone spurs pinching his auditory nerves has 95% hearing loss. He also has pervasive degenerative osteoarthritis. My mom, who is 77, suffers with repeated bouts of multiple lung infections that have not responded to any type of antibiotic therapy, and her 5 ft...

We were confident Trump would win by 8+. Anything above is a great plus. Cruz couldn't come in a clear second. Very bad since he's centered to win states like SC. Rubio the tag along becomes prominent with a strong showing in SC. We'll move on to the more moderate states were Cruz may fare less and Rubio gain some ground. Jeb! is out. I think he quit weeks ago but his backers kept pushing him. He needed SC to give him some hope and it denied him. Despite his mother and his big brother. This guy would make a...

On the question of medicine and medical care after decades of communism which ended officially with the Revolution of December 1989, Brenciu explained that Romania now produces doctors on a “conveyor belt.” He admits that a good doctor is not made by textbook theory learned in school, but is born after years of residency training, specializing, and real life experience in the ER of a hospital. The tragedy starts, he said, when the young resident is thrown into the midst of the hospital drama and realizes that he himself has become a social case, a victim of starvation on his...

The buzz is that everyone is at risk for contracting the mosquito-borne Zika virus. Why not? Since the successful effort to “democratize” HIV/AIDS in the 1980s as a threat to everyone, everywhere, every major disease outbreak has been presented as a worldwide threat. (Ebola’s gotten that treatment three times now.) But no. Despite admonitions from the public health agencies and headlines like the Washington Post’s “Why The United States Is So Vulnerable to the Alarming Spread of Zika Virus,” and despite President Obama’s request to Congress for $1.8 billion to fight the disease, Zika has little chance of spreading from...

Back when it was first becoming fashionable for transgenderism to be celebrated in the mainstream, critics of the trend would sometimes joke: What’s next? People choosing their race? Their age? Such notions seemed ludicrous. But in the time since, both of those have happened. Rachel Dolezal of Washington maintains that she is a black woman despite her blond hair, green eyes and her two white parents. And a Canadian 52-year-old father of seven decided that he is actually a 6-year-old girl—and he was adopted by a Toronto family that lets him pretend to live as a child of that age....

We all know the Obama mantra about not letting a crisis go to waste I have become extremely sceptical of all that takes places in modern culture and am thus looking at the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with more than a hint of suspicion. How convenient that one of the most conservative members of the Supreme Court, the one that’s been an open sore to the Obama administration throughout its tenure, just lies down and dies, thus creating a vacancy on the court that could have ramifications for America’s future too depressing to contemplate. What’s more,...

he “it’s my body and I can do what I want with it” mantra has been carried out to its logical conclusion by selfish women who are shrugging off warnings about drinking during pregnancy. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recently issued an advisory aimed at combatting Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) a birth defect caused by excessive ingestion of alcohol by women during their pregnancies. FAS can cause learning disabilities, problems with impulse control, low memory ability, short attention span and impaired judgement as well as lower IQ scores and a lifetime of substandard existence. In short FAS is the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8dzkygDKDU http://www.kansas.com/news/local/article45444474.html http://www.kake.com/home/headlines/Derby-store-shooting-321395561.html Julie Dombo - James Michael Phillips http://i.imgur.com/5vCo32L.png Sadly, I believe a seriously emotionally damaged James Michael Phillips is a victim of America's expanding and shameful *National Epidemic of Child Abuse and Neglect,* aka *Poverty*, that for decades has deprived untold numbers of emotionally abused and neglected young developing children from experiencing and enjoying a safe, fairly happy American kid childhood. Depraved acts of violence as well as other 'people and community' harming anti-social behaviors often occur when emotionally or physically abused and neglected developing young children mature into depressed, frustrated, sometimes suicidal *(NY Times May 18, 2015...

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, is famous for his advocacy of a single-payer health care, such as prevails in Canada. However, one feature of such systems is the long wait times that patients have to endure before they get medical care. A case in point exists in the United States, with the Veterans’ Affairs Department health care system, government run, that has featured secret waiting lists upon which veterans have all too often died while in line for vital health care services. Sanders, at first, seemed to think that the story was a partisan plot to undermine the case for government-run...