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While I once made a forum topic here under "Postive Predictions" for Alzheimer's discoveries and breakthroughs, we are missing a sub-heading for any and all advances, discoveries or breakthroughs in other  medical diseases, problems or health issues.

So, here's a place for any and all of those that have not only jumpstarted by new science and medical research but by recombinant ideas on drug uses and protocols.

Today it's  a wonderful discovery for curing at least one major form of Tuberculosis. TB  impacts so many in our third world populations and this particular variation of the disease will have such potential life changing and 90% chance of life saving benefits.

Read about the new use of these three combined drugs--only one approved of the three so far-- but they are working on  the approval for the other two.

Scientists Discover New Cure for the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis - The New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/health/tuberculosis-xdr-tb-cure.html

 


   
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A nationwide team of researchers has found an antibody that protects mice against a wide range of potentially lethal influenza viruses, advancing efforts to design of a universal vaccine that could either treat or protect people against all strains of the virus.-- ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/10/191025094024.htm


   
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Michele-b,

Wow!!!!! Was just rereading 2 posts of yours from last year. One from August 2019 and the other from    October 2019. How prescient you were in posting these items in regard to medical research and potential breakthroughs. The August post was about a potential cure for one type of TB and more startling was your post of October about a discovery through research w/ mice in antibodies/proteins etc. and it's potential for treating several strains of influenza!!! I've no doubt that the research cont'd on  and sincerely hope that they had/have the funding to proceed further. Michele-b, have u heard anymore  about this particular research lab? Thank you for posting this and again your gifts are amazing and I'm sure all of us appreciate your sharing them w/ us.

Blessings to you bright spirit. You are reading between the lines and the words that many here have have yet to see or to sense.

There is such great power in the prescience of the gut and when combined with the heart and the lessons and learnings from the combination of all that resonates so deeply with signs and symbols from our own lives and history from a place of putting many puzzle pieces together lays the very groundwork of a the energies of the living science within the spiraling intuitions.

Mine are so intense now that it is visceral and just rereading posts from the past when combined with all that has happened in the past four years has taught me to listen to all that jumps out at me seemingly from nowhere that yelled at me from places of truth. 

I sense this as a gift you are developing now. It is a challenging one as I have experienced over many decades.

How amazing to see and experience this now in a simple but deeply connecting spiritually intense whisper from my inner knowing now. So bless you my new friend for your many new comments now. They reached me in ways I can not yet verbalized.

We have a long hard road ahead with so many new discoveries that science as we know it will be turned upside down, "shaken not stirred" and so many, many diseases coming out of nowhere with medical discoveries and new recombinant drugs and theories similar to but far greater than these two simple but complex examples.

I love it when that happens! 

Namaste my friend in all of the colors and languages of the heart when combined with the science of the mind.

 

 


   
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Age-related impairments reversed in animal model -- ScienceDaily

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200706140905.htm


   
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Scientists have discovered that the not only 'surviving but thriving' Chernobyl mold may solve the problem of protecting International Space Station astronauts from the intense radiation they receive while in the International Space Station. 

https://www.cnet.com/news/self-replicating-chernobyl-mold-could-protect-the-iss-from-space-radiation/

 


   
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Groundbreaking blood test can detect cancer years before symptoms appear in five different cancers--stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, bowel cancer, lung cancer and liver cancer.

The Jerusalem Post- https://www.jpost.com/health-science/groundbreaking-blood-test-can-detect-cancer-years-before-symptoms-appear-636443


   
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Exciting news from research in the U.S. and Sweden.

A blood test that could spot Alzheimer's disease at the earliest stage and years before symptoms appear.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53567486


   
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CRISPR technology can be used to edit genes and revolutionised the scientific world when it was first introduced. CRISPR-Cas9 is likely the most known CRISPR-system and popularly known as the gene scissor.

"We have solved the largest and most complicated CRISPR-Cas complex seen so far. We now understand how this system works on a molecular level," says co-author Guillermo Montoya, who is Professor at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research (NNF CPR), UCPH."

It is too big and complex. But in the future, it may still be key to understand the immune response of bacteria and it could have some use in the fight against antibiotic resistance.

 


   
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To improve students' mental health, study finds, teach them to breathe.

"Researchers at the Yale Child Study Center and the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence (YCEI) conducted the study, which tested three skill-building training programs on 135 undergraduate subjects for eight weeks (30 hours total), and measured results against those of a non-intervention control group.

They found that a training program called SKY Campus Happiness, developed by the Art of Living Foundation, which relies on a breathing technique called SKY Breath Meditation, yoga postures, social connection, and service activities, was most beneficial.

Following the SKY sessions, students reported improvements in six areas of wellbeing: depression, stress, mental health, mindfulness, positive affect, and social connectedness."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200731135555.htm


   
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When you're smiling, the whole world really does smile with you -- ScienceDaily

"Groundbreaking research from the University of South Australia confirms that the act of smiling can trick your mind into being more positive, simply by moving your facial muscles.
With the world in crisis amid COVID-19, and alarming rises of anxiety and depression in Australia and around the world, the findings could not be more timely.

The study, published in Experimental Psychology, evaluated the impact of a covert smile on perception of face and body expressions. In both scenarios, a smile was induced by participants holding a pen between their teeth, forcing their facial muscles to replicate the movement of a smile.

The research found that facial muscular activity not only alters the recognition of facial expressions but also body expressions, with both generating more positive emotions.
Lead researcher and human and artificial cognition expert, UniSA's Dr Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos says the finding has important insights for mental health."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200813123608.htm


   
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Artificial pancreas effectively controls type 1 diabetes in children age 6 and up:

"A clinical trial at four pediatric diabetes centers in the United States has found that a new artificial pancreas system -- which automatically monitors and regulates blood glucose levels -- is safe and effective at managing blood glucose levels in children as young as age six with type 1 diabetes.

The trial was funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), part of the National Institutes of Health. Results from the trial were published August 26 in the New England Journal of Medicine."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200826175653.htm


   
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That is incredible!!

WOW!


   
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@lovendures

It really is! Not all young children can emotionally or physically handle multiple blood sugar checks all day long much less the insulin injections.

It was amazing when the insulin pump was created as it regulated a lot of that but as more and more young children are diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes it's a huge burden on school office staff,  daycare or teachers to have to be responsible for testing abd giving shots to early elementary kids. (We have not had school nurses in Oregon in my grown kids lifetimes) 

So an artificial pancreas will be such a blessing for so many children whose Ives and life spans can seriously suffer from lack of insulin availability and affordability.  Let's hope they all get Healthcare and more and more help through science and technology as well! 


   
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I am still processing the fact that your schools do not have nurses.  When I was a teacher, back in the day, the elementary school I taught at shared a nurse with a sister school.  You had to hope a broken arm happened when she was present.  

That was in California.  Here in AZ, our local district has a nurse present in each school and so did the district for which my daughter previously taught.


   
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This is great news for Type 1 diabetes sufferers everywhere.  They are often ignored in both research and treatment in that more resources are used for Type 2.  I understand why, because Type 1 is only about 7% of all diabetes, while Type 2 makes up the vast majority of cases.

My sister is Type 1 (got it when she was 5, and she is 39 now).  She had to go through life with blood checkers and needles in a world where diabetes (all types) was practically nonexistent in schools.  She had to watch classroom parties with cupcakes and cokes and was often forgotten in that nothing was offered to her as a substitute.  The only ones who cared was the cafeteria cooks, who always gave my sister an extra piece of fruit or something similar in place of whatever sweet dessert they were serving that day.  (God bless them!)

Things have changed, and diabetes is far more prevalent now.  Due to my sister's age and how long it takes for treatments to be available, I doubt she will ever be able to rake advantage of this treatment.  But we are happy that future generations may be saved.


   
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I knew it would. Sorry but so true. We had a small room big enough for one tiny cot and if a kid had a bad accident or was throwing up etc. They put them to rest there with door open to office. 

One of my kids (very petite young 1st or 2nd grader at the time) fell from play area vertical ladder. A reading aid checked her (only teacher aid we had circulated all classes) said she was just shook up/ scared but not crying. They called home I was running errands called neighbor contact just to let her know. She went and brought her to her house as she'd know the moment i was home.

Good thing! I took her to dr. She'd broken her femur and badly plus it turned out way later, her arm. Bedridden, full leg cast for 6 weeks. Eensy tiny walker 3 more months.

Budgeting money for schools/education in a state where 75% of voters are retired. Blood out of a turnip until they legalized Native Americans right to own/operate casinos. They donate to causes like schools. Absurdly sad but very true. 

Someone always has some things in life easier and better. Someone else always has it the opposite.

 


   
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Virus Protection Surface Spray May Work for 7 Days on Planes

"American Airlines is testing a newly approved antimicrobial protective coating that is able to make the coronavirus inactive on aircraft surfaces for up to seven days.

The odorless, transparent protectant, called SurfaceWise2, was developed by the Dallas-based Allied BioScience, which specializes in antimicrobial coatings for use in public spaces.

The company says “the non-toxic coating is applied via an electrostatic spray to provide always-on protection on treated surfaces” and “continuously kill 99.9 percent of viruses.”

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved its use in Texas, where American Airlines is based, under an emergency public health exemption (Texas-based Total Orthopedic Sport & Spine also will be allowed to try the product). But Allied BioScience is seeking approval for SurfaceWise2 to be used throughout the U.S. and in a wide range of settings."

https://www.aarp.org/travel/travel-tips/safety/info-2020/airline-tests-new-antimicrobial-product.html


   
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I can't like that at all, so very sad and not ethical.  Or moral. this needs to change, yesterday.


   
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Indeed!

When we talk about undervalued educational standards it is often compromised by less health focused standards as well.

Oregon does have its own Oregon Health Plan for individuals or gor  families earning below specific wage levels and it has been a Godsend for those battling life threatening diseases.

But our schools inevitably suffer under legislation that does pass and repeatedly fails under those proposed.


   
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Getting back to positive science and health items of interest as well as concern to many a new discovery enables adult skin to regenerate like a newborn's. Imagine the future possibilities for burn victims alone. Certainly hoping and praying this research continues!

"In a study, published in the journal eLife on Sept. 29, the researchers identified a factor that acts like a molecular switch in the skin of baby mice that controls the formation of hair follicles as they develop during the first week of life.

The switch is mostly turned off after skin forms and remains off in adult tissue. When it was activated in specialized cells in adult mice, their skin was able to heal wounds without scarring.

The reformed skin even included fur and could make goose bumps, an ability that is lost in adult human scars.

"We were able to take the innate ability of young, neonatal skin to regenerate and transfer that ability to old skin," said Driskell, an assistant professor in WSU's School of Molecular Biosciences.

"We have shown in principle that this kind of regeneration is possible."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200929123512.htm


   
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