Bird flu, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) or other less "popular" diseases have so far raised a great deal of concerns among the world-spread public in the issue of the health. The worries about the life are the most vital ones and mainly this is why the disputes about the illnesses are so spotted by everyone. However, the most deadly pandemic in human history was admittedly The Black Death, or the Black Plague. The "health disaster" probably began in Central Asia and spread to Europe by the late 1340s. Allegedly, no other disease took such an overwhelming number of lives, as the rate of deaths worldwide is estimated at 75 million people. Europe's population was the majority of the victims (50 million deaths) and the situation grew in such a scale that the plague killed 60% of Europe's population. The danger increased mostly because of the diversity of the illness, as there were more than 100 plagues with varying factors. Another fatal century was the 17th one, when the people had almost no chance to escape it. It was too enormous. Furthermore, the issue caused the change in the mentality of humans. As the sociologists claim: "The uncertainty of daily survival created a general mood of morbidity, influencing people to live for the moment. The Black Death was not the only mortal and extremely dangerous disease that hit the humans. Scientists and health specialists have created a scale of "Top 10 Mysterious diseases" that are deemed the most fatal ones as well as the illnesses no one can fully foretell and avoid. The last, but not the less harmful one is Morgellons Disease followed by Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The eight mysterious illness is Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease. Mental disorders, delusions or lack of emotions refer to Schizophrenia. On the sixth spot in the scale there is Autoimmune Disorder, illness that is chronic, always debilitating and doctors can do little except ease their symptoms. Another interesting but very unpleasant disease is Pica accompanied by the urge to eat non-food substances like dirt, paper, glue and clay. Fourth place belongs to Avian Flu. Surprisingly, the Common Cold is deemed the third most mysterious illness as doctors still know very little about the reason of an estimated billion cases of sickness just in the U. S. Alzheimer disease is on the second place and the list begins with the AIDS. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome was first identified 25 years ago and remains the world's number one killer, especially in developing countries. No matter what scientists say about the intensity and number of victims caused by the mentioned diseases, from my point of view, there is just one world-wide problem in the health case. The stress, enormously fast lifestyle, pollution affecting everybody, pesticides in the food and other aspects form the biggest threat to us. Civilization diseases.
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Australian doctors have probably found the first signs of The Holy grail of transplantance surgery: immuno- tolerance. Last Thursday the case of young australian girl and her miraculous recovery came out to public. Now 15-year old Demi-Lee Brennan six years ago suffered with liver failure, when she received the bone marrow transplant. Nine months later doctors discovered, that her blood types had changed and that her immune system had switched over to that of the donor, said AFP. Dr. Michael Stormon, a hepatologist that is treating her said, that he had given several presentations on the case around the world and had not heard of none like this. Stormon explained her case on the fact that Demi-Lee had a bone marrow transplant, so "the majority of her immune system had switched over to that of the donor. " Demi-Lee is now very thankful for giving her the second chance and saving her life. Now the doctorors are interested, if Demi-Lee's case could have application also on other cases in transplant surgery, but Dr. Stormon takes it more practicaly and said, that it appeared Demi-Lee has been only fortunated, because of a "sequence of serendipitous events". Now it will be very difficoult for surgeons to try to replicate this "miracle" in other transplant patients. "The chalenge for us now is to try and figure out how this occured", said Stormon, "to try to replicate that is easier said that done....But she exemplies that this can occur."
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Mortgage crisis in U.S. continues by Ivana Bruderova
The U.S. financial analytics and economist are still dealing with problem which is a reason of sleepless nights for many Americans. They all agree with the fact the answer will not be easy and there is no simple solution. The country was facing an wave of 1.8 million subprime mortgages which rates will still rise over the next two years. The Bush administration now deals with freezing subprime mortgage rates for the next 5 years to allow the housing market to recover. In Monday said it Treasury secretary Henry Paulson. In his speech and after it during question-and-answer session he made clear many of actual questions. "After years of unsustainable price appreciation and lax lending practices a housing correction is inevitable and necessary," he said. "It will take additional time for markets to regain confidence," continued Paulson. Conservative critics have complained about fact, this plan means intrusion the government to the mortgage market. President Bush has not make a decision yet but the administration is much focused on the issue, said Paulson. The mortgage crisis is not a thing of last few months. During the housing boom in U.S. lasting for five years until the 2005, many Americans bought houses with subprime mortgages with an adjustable rate and then about one year later they were not able to pay because the rates were rising enormously. Now is not rare you can see streets with more houses that have been foreclosed than those with residents. For those whose houses were already foreclosed is there no help, unfortunately. There are still many people worried about their houses and waiting for final decision of administration. Moreover, Friday report revealed that unemployment have reach two year high of five percent in December. Administration is continuing work with more than 20 mortgage institutions that are part of the HOPE NOW alliance to ensure quick results.
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Have you ever thought about a chance your child will suffer from autism? I bet almost everyone of us has seen "Rain man" movie. However, I don't think we can imagine what it really means parenting child with autism. For those who already are parents (and are parenting healthy kids) it can seem to be mission impossible. Can yo imagine how much patience and love these children need? The sad part is that sometimes they are able to receive your love, but most of the time they are not able to deliver their feelings as they are incapable of acting socially or even forming friendships. Furthermore, in many cases they are aggressive. Moreover, it's not only about being "unsociable", there are problems in every day life and every day routines. For example, you have to speak explicit, there is no place for idioms or phrases. You cannot say "I'm at the end of my rope" when this child see just you standing there without any rope. It seems like a foreign language to them. Hopefully, you don't have a rope anywhere around. Autistic kids can just find it and hurt themselves trying to get at the end of a rope. Literally. For all those who are parents of autistic child or are caring about them: Please, don't give up. There are some new genetic studies about the development of this disease explaining how it can be treated.
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On May 5th, 2005, Yahoo launched a video search engine, but only in 2006 it launched the improved version that is a mix between a traditional video search engine, which crawls and links off to videos on different web sites, and a Web 2.0 service that offers users the possibility to upload, share, tag, and host their videos on Yahoo!, offering an embedded player experience. The graphic it's appealing, still it has a big disadvantage because it doesn't offers the option full screen. However, it still has some technical problems while loading and Yahoo! Video does not work for users of Linux and recommends Windows XP/Mac OS X and Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari. Yahoo! Video is a free service providing users with a means to search and play videos directly from Yahoo! Video, save them to their 'favorites' page, subscribe to channels for video sources, and embed videos on their web pages and blog posts. I would not choose it in favor of Youtube or Google Video due to the fact that I can't get full screen and people with Linux can't use it even if they would want. For an Internet addicted definitely Yahoo! Video seems a little bit rudimentary and needs some new features at least to get to the level of other social networks if not to overcome them. Don't believe everything you hear, just go ahead and try it, you might find it differently. It doesn't cost anything and who knows it might turn out to be just the thing you were looking for. Surf on!
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