2nd http://www.cbsnews.com/8601-100_162-4937950.html?assetTypeId=30
3rd http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/15/tech/main4524768.shtml
4th http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/16/politics/main4949245.shtml
5 th http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/15/national/main4946080.shtml
1st comment on CBS news
They compared two groups the older drivers and the early-stage Alzheimer patients but they don´t mention the ages of the Alzheimer patients. It´s important to know it because there are people under fifty with Alzheimer diagnosis.
We conclude that we can´t measure the driving hazard of a person whether with the age or any diagnosis they´d have. This dementia bring down some cognitive abilities such as memory, learning, speaking and spatial vision yet not all of these happen in the same person or in the same time.
That´s why older people or any person with dementia must check-up their neuropsychological skills periodically otherwise, it would be an injustice to take away driving licenses to every aged people or Alzheimer patients.
2nd comment:
Recession is causing diabetic patients drop their medication and filling up ER units. But I think the truth is even before the crush in the economy started people already ignored to care about diabetes. The cost of complicated diabetes consequences in hospital is rising day by day. Diabetes is a serious problem to economy. That´s the reason why, with the intervention of the Public Health, we have come to know that PREVENTION is the key to stop this rising hits the sky.
Economy strategies must follow this objective, prevention; thereby we can avoid the deadly consequences of Diabetes. It isn´t new the issues of diabetics skimp on care since we have long history on fighting vision loss, diabetic foot, and heart and kidney failure. I do practices in a general hospital in Mexico where patients come back over and over as them can´t afford medication. They might begin with simple symptoms such as a terrible thirst, hunger, weakness, drowsiness. After they went through blindness, foot injures systemic infections, lung problems and more. The final and horrible consequences are heart stroke, brain stroke which ends in incapacity, limb amputation, and eternal dialysis for kidney failure. Unfortunately we have seen this process step by step from the very beginning to the last stages due to the insufficiency of the patient´s budget.
Mexico has miss achieved the universal health service, which means, Government supposed to bring health service to all people living in the country, but not only are people dying from treatable illness but also avoidable ones.
Diabetes can be prevented. All human beings must concern about it and start changing lifestyles. Diabetes is the first cause of death in the US and Mexico and each one of us has a vaccine we have only to decide when to use it.
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3rd comment:
Brain Plasticity; It is the ability of brain cells of making function and structure changes in order to get or restore activities. As the article said, we see this every day in the tennis player when he or she learns to swing. There are several studies witch show brain gets the shape regarding the owner´s activities. For example, a taxi driver in London who knows almost all the streets and routes would have an enormous memory area (hippocampus) yet it isn´t big in terms of size, since it has been told no more neurons can grow, but it is big using the surrounding brain cells, cells with different function within other people. What I want to say is that brain doesn´t obey our squared anatomy and physiology descriptions, each brain can adjust to new adversities.
Brain plasticity is slow and sometimes incomplete though; patients with important brain damage, caused during a brain stroke, can reach almost 100% of their ability such as understanding language, read, speak, move and feel in months or they can be condemned to have incapacity forever, nonetheless the last group of patients can improve some paralysis with help of the rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is to stimulate brain plasticity. I thinks this proposal is very interesting and useful because researchers want to increase brain plasticity stimulus many times fold using electronic special devices.
I hope, not too far in future, we can rehabilitate our patients with the classic exercises and electronic devices; both helping the brain to find out new tracts, to hire new neurons and, why not, to create new cells.
4th comment on cbs news:
We can get more united than separated; President Calderon has been fighting cartels in a way we hadn´t seen before. Some of us are scared about the number of human lives this war is taking away; however we know is it the only track to defeat drug trafficking organization. Mexico and the US can do more acting together. It is for our both interest to stop illegal drugs and weapons reach the hands of our people.
I hope Presidents Calderon and Obama make good decisions for the best of the people. There are many other issues both countries have to solve like Mexican immigrants, trades, education and sovereignty yet this is the beginning.
5th comment:
It´s not the obsession of being married and yell it everywhere but it is a step to go forward the complete integration. You may say gay people should be happy now we have some new rights and some acceptation but It won´t be never enough until we all be equals. This issue is far to be current as the whole human history is full of inequalities and injustices in order to maintain power and control among the ones who supposed to know what´s better for society.
I think the big problem lies on our difficulty of understand and then accept what´s different to us. The equality begins when we accept the right of everyone to be different. The benefit same sex marriage right will bring is that it would be easier for people to see homosexuals as normal persons.
Old tradition and old political and religious statements are not useful for nowadays social issues. Everything changes every day; It´s illogical that human leaders try to rule with old laws and morality. Political changes in behalf of minorities are a good prognostic factor to become a better society and better human beings.
