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...study reported that many students might avoid seeking mental care for fear of the stigma attached, an especially serious problem during college years when "serious and potentially disabling psychiatric conditions" are likely to occur...
...Toniolo: Ovarian cancer tends to occur in middle and old age. But risk factors, like menstrual cycles or endometriosis, occur when women are younger. And as far as diagnosis goes, there are some blood tests that look promising but aren't completely proven as a screening tool. An average woman [with no enhanced risk factors, like a family history of ovarian cancer] should talk to her doctor to assess her risk...
...facility in Clinton Township, MI, where your blood is replaced with increasing concentrations of, um, antifreeze. After washing out blood and "perfusing" with "cryoprotectant" the "dead" body is lowered to liquid nitrogen temperature over the course of two weeks to avoid macroscopic and microscopic cracks that occur if patients are cooled too quickly (I would hate to see those early, more crumbly patients). From here it's straight into your cold dark home, a holding tank with up to 15 other like-minded immortalists for the next indeterminate amount of time...
...pharmaceutical corporations insist that scientific innovation cannot occur in the absence of a profit motive. And given the experience of socialism, it's a fair challenge. The collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe was in the final analysis a product of its stagnation. The absence of a market mechanism, Mikhail Gorbachev argued in his book "Perestroika," meant that planned economies were fundamentally lacking an engine for economic innovation, and were therefore doomed to stagnation...
...line makes for an unstable and dangerous ride. It is the internal combustion equivalent of yaba: fast, fun, treacherous. And certain to result, eventually, in a fatal spill. But if you're young and Thai and loaded on mad medicine, you feel immortal and it doesn't occur to you that this night of racing will ever, really, have to end. The hundreds of bikers thronged on the street, the revving engines, the other kids cheering as you make your runs, even the cops coming and setting off concussion grenades and then chasing you through the narrow alleys of Klong...