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POPSHeadlines from 2020 - Part V
• The Amish are relocated en masse to unelectrified penal colonies in Alaska because they refuse to pledge allegiance to anyone but God; they fail to accept that Obama is God. Unlike other deportations, this one saves the People's State money because the Amish are pacifists. Their formerly productive farmland is redistributed to ACORN staff and people George Soros likes (until he quits liking them; people do not think about what happens after that). Results similar to those in Zimbabwe fail to be reported in the state media. • The Amish are joined by those Rastas too stoned to fight back, although some Rastas merely remain under state suspicion after conceding that, as per Bob Marley, "the Almighty God is a living man" refers not to Haile Selassie but Barry Obama. • The Red Cross becomes the Red Circle (aka the Red 'O') and blood donations become mandatory. Those without recent donations are denied bread rations. . Mandated "volunteer" camps teach youth educational value of
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POPSGene Therapy Might Cure AIDS While cautioning that the Berlin case could be a fluke, David Baltimore, who won a Nobel prize for his research on tumor viruses, deemed it "a very good sign" and a virtual "proof of principle" for gene-therapy approaches. Dr. Baltimore and his colleague, University of California at Los Angeles researcher Irvin Chen, have developed a gene therapy strategy against HIV that works in a similar way to the Berlin case. Drs. Baltimore and Chen have formed a private company to develop the therapy.
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POPS'Full' artificial heart implant The same old story; some people die laughing, some die waiting. I'm happily alive thanks to the progress that has been tested (except for milk thistle)
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POPSGustav Forces 'Substantial' Changes to RNC Making lemonade from meteorological lemons. Bush and Cheney were both big problems for the RNC this year, being about as popular as athlete's foot. People will be glad to see them elsewhere. The telethon idea reminds me of the blood donor bit from Primary Colors . Still, Gustav demonstrates how sadly unprepared we still are -- there are still people living in FEMA trailers . Let's hope everything goes well for the Gulf States.
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POPSMcCain's Elitist Response to Military Donor Story But aside from the fact that the McCain campaign lied is confused, does anyone catch a whiff of elitism here? Is support from within the ranks somehow more credible if it comes in the form of a general officer or an admiral? If so, that would be strange. . .since flag officers aren't the ones fighting the insurgencies in Iraq or Afghanistan. This comes as no surprise--and it reinforces the message: It's clear that McCain values the opinions of flashier, high-ranking, inside-the-wire types over the views of the grunts, the medics, and the lieutenants who wade waist-deep through the muck and blood and shrapnel of insurgency, day in and day out. And while he may easily dismiss the actual combatants of these wars in a moment of political self-defense, those same troops will not so easily forget his bellicosity, his foreign policy ignorance, and his general lack of respect for them when it comes time to vote in November.
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POPSWithout your help they have no hope. 75% of all bone marrow donations do NOT require a general anaesthetic. So says 26 year old Adrian Sudbury in his Baldy's Blog. His leukaemia has just returned. If you are aged between 18 and 49 you can help. There's a video on the site showing how easy it is. If you can give blood you can sign up and help save lives.
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POPSOscars Tainted with Conflict Diamonds by Zionist Mogul. "Oxfam stated publicly that Leviev had never been an Oxfam donor, nor would they accept donations from any individual who constructs settlements in occupied territory in contravention of international humanitarian law. Twenty days after Adalah-NY raised the issue, an article which claimed that Leviev donated to Oxfam was finally removed from the news site belonging to an organization of which Leviev is the president."
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POPS'Miracle Girl' switches blood type Michael Stormon, a paediatric hepatologist who treated Brennan says it's possible that the infection she suffered may have given the stem cells from her donor's liver the chance to proliferate in her bone marrow, where blood cells develop.
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POPSAustralian girl's 'miracle' immune switch
Her blood type changed from O negative to O positive - the blood group of the Liver donor. Doctors describe it as a "one-in-six-Billion" miracle. The odds seem irrelevant. Now there'll be a determination to discover how and why it happened. If it happened once, there should be a way of getting it to happen again. It means she will no longer expect to spend the rest of her life taking anti-rejection drugs. She had the transplant when she was 9 years old, and is now 15. Perhaps as her body was still developing, and would continue to develop through puberty, her immune system had the plasticity to adapt to the change - stem cells in her marrow being reformatted by the 'invasive' liver cells and processes, with associated biofeedback - the liver and marrow coming up with a compromise. Only seven in 10 transplant operations in Australia have been successful over a five year period due to rejection complications, and similar ratios would be expected elsewhere.
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POPSGrowing New Hearts Approximately 50,000 people die annually waiting for a heart donor. That doesn't include those who die waiting for other organ transplants, like lung, liver, or kidney.
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POPSScientists create beating hearts in lab "The hope would be we could generate an organ that matched your body," said Doris Taylor of the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair "This is an ingenious step towards solving a massive problem," Dr. Tim Chico of Britain's University of Sheffield said in a statement. "This study is very preliminary, but it does show that stem cells can regrow in the 'skeleton' of a donor heart."
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POPSDelegates discuss combating TB,AIDS, combination Unlike the threat of 'bird flu,' this is here Now. 1/3 of the worlds 40 million AIDS patients have Tuberculosis. Aids is transferred through transfer of body fluids. TB causes Blood to be ejected with tissue from the lungs. TB tests often do not detect the disease in AIDS patients. The TB vaccine was developed 85 years ago, and testing methods were developed 120 years ago. The U.S. and other donor countries have been accused of backsliding on commitments made last year to step up the fight against TB. Most of the cases are in Africa-At the moment. Funding will no doubt increase when the combination crosses the U.S. Border.
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POPSRebooting the Immune System of Diabetics "We kill the immune system and rebuild it with stem cells from the patient," says Julio Voltarelli, a physician and researcher at the University of Sao Paulo, who led the research. "We can see after transplant that the immune system is now healthy." This type of treatment would only be effective in newly diagnosed diabetics, who still have some beta-cell function left to preserve. For patients with more-advanced forms of the disease, scientists are working on cell transplants to replace lost islet cells, using cells from donor organs and, eventually, from embryonic stem cells.
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POPSStem Cells Repair Blood Vessels Lanza has high hopes for the stem cells and has numerous collaborations in the works. He's exploring the cells' potential to prevent the progression of atherosclerosis, to treat stroke, and to be used as a starter ingredient to create "universal donor" blood cells for blood transfusions.
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