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Post by Mosha on Jul 20, 2017 10:01:40 GMT 7
One pal of mine looked after his Mum for five years before admitting defeat - five years of life suspended. His mother lived a further four years in a care home. He was there more than necessary, not as much as he would have liked. She died. Well, the doctor issued a death certificate - the reality is, the woman she was died years before. Think about it. Do you want that for yourself? Do you want your kids showing up looking at a breathing corpse? Of course you don't. Every coin to dementia research, and once we can at least slow it down, feel free to go back to heart and cancer research. There may be hope for both. Scientists are looking at a a bioluminescent shark that's found off California. It's hoped the bioluminescence can detect defects in cells that cause cancer and dementia and Alzheimers. |
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Post by AyG on Jul 20, 2017 10:16:59 GMT 7
It's hoped the bioluminescence can detect defects in cells that cause cancer and dementia and Alzheimers. Not quite. The bioluminescent molecule is linked to an antibody. The antibody then attaches itself to its target protein (be it one associated with cancer, dementia, or whatever). The system is then exposed to light of an appropriate frequency and the bioluminescent part of the compound glows to show where the antibody has bound. It's not the bioluminescence that's doing the detection. Incidentally, there has been a fair bit of interest in developing transparent animals so that the scientists can see where such things go on within a living organism. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2017 11:59:19 GMT 7
Pity you were not there to explain to me what was going on when I went through my saga, AyG, because most of the time I didn't understand a word of what the hematologists were telling me. They used to talk to me like they thought I had a medical degree.  |
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Post by rubl on Jul 20, 2017 13:27:35 GMT 7
Pity you were not there to explain to me what was going on when I went through my saga, AyG, because most of the time I didn't understand a word of what the hematologists were telling me. They used to talk to me like they thought I had a medical degree. They probably just talked about you as in the subject under consultation. You should keep quiet and only answer when spoken to. Didn't you get a sheet explaining the rules?  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2017 13:32:52 GMT 7
They used to talk about me like I was a piece of furniture in a repair shop, like I could not hear what they were saying. Was quite funny actually. One day I heard one of them refer to me as "Michael, the paraplegic" and I said "I'm right here you know" so they moved away from my bed and started whispering. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2017 19:17:21 GMT 7
We'll hear repetitive arguments about this while we all know that retirement now is a dramatically different beast than it was thirty/forty years ago. Advances in medical technology have seen an improvement in general health for the elderly. It's no longer the God's Waiting Room of yesteryear. They should now cancel every penny of heart and cancer research and pump every single coin into dementia research. Death is death, dementia is a zombified living death. Don't agree they should cancel every penny on heart/cancer research, but a scale down may be in order. Just a week ago it was reported that in the Netherlands dementia is identified as upcoming decease #1 with numbers of sufferers having doubled in 2050. Number of people who die of this decease might have tripled in 2040. Ministry of Health investigating possible shift needed in 'care' and research. A life expectancy of 86 sounds nice but personally I'd like to add 'when in reasonable health' In my opinion, by the middle of this century, dementia will be a national emergency in almost all Western countries. That is not an overstatement. The amount of skilled medical resources required to deal with millions of demented patients will break the health services. To be fair, the bubble will burst fast as the tail end of the baby boomers die out. However, with life expectancy expected to soar, the second half of this century will see untold more millions entering decreptitude. It's an absurdity to not elevate this already fusing time bomb above cancer and heart research. I may survive to see my prediction come true - God forbid I will join the ranks myself - this is the healthcare tsunami we have long feared - and the water is being sucked out from the shore as we speak. |
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Post by rubl on Jul 20, 2017 23:17:11 GMT 7
My mother at 89 is getting frail, but mentally she's still in good order. Hope I inherited the right genes |
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Post by smokie36 on Jul 21, 2017 2:18:10 GMT 7
My mother at 89 is getting frail, but mentally she's still in good order. Hope I inherited the right genes Tell her not to relocate to the UK until she is 105. Just in case. |
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Post by rubl on Jul 21, 2017 8:22:06 GMT 7
My mother at 89 is getting frail, but mentally she's still in good order. Hope I inherited the right genes Tell her not to relocate to the UK until she is 105. Just in case. That little Isle on Scotland's West coast too windy. Also I fear I'd have to physically move the house as she's been living there the last sixty years |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 19:02:54 GMT 7
My mother at 89 is getting frail, but mentally she's still in good order. Hope I inherited the right genes Some days I know just how she feels !  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2017 20:44:41 GMT 7
We'll hear repetitive arguments about this while we all know that retirement now is a dramatically different beast than it was thirty/forty years ago. Advances in medical technology have seen an improvement in general health for the elderly. It's no longer the God's Waiting Room of yesteryear. They should now cancel every penny of heart and cancer research and pump every single coin into dementia research. Death is death, dementia is a zombified living death. Smoking weed prevents dementia, keep the cancer research going and just make growing weed for personal consumption legal. |
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Post by me on Jul 22, 2017 22:53:58 GMT 7
We'll hear repetitive arguments about this while we all know that retirement now is a dramatically different beast than it was thirty/forty years ago. Advances in medical technology have seen an improvement in general health for the elderly. It's no longer the God's Waiting Room of yesteryear. They should now cancel every penny of heart and cancer research and pump every single coin into dementia research. Death is death, dementia is a zombified living death. Don't agree they should cancel every penny on heart/cancer research, but a scale down may be in order. Just a week ago it was reported that in the Netherlands dementia is identified as upcoming decease #1 with numbers of sufferers having doubled in 2050. Number of people who die of this decease might have tripled in 2040. Ministry of Health investigating possible shift needed in 'care' and research. A life expectancy of 86 sounds nice but personally I'd like to add 'when in reasonable health' But Holland has fixed that with voluntary euthanasia.....with quite a few apparently without consultation and request of the patient |
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Post by rubl on Jul 23, 2017 0:31:31 GMT 7
Don't agree they should cancel every penny on heart/cancer research, but a scale down may be in order. Just a week ago it was reported that in the Netherlands dementia is identified as upcoming decease #1 with numbers of sufferers having doubled in 2050. Number of people who die of this decease might have tripled in 2040. Ministry of Health investigating possible shift needed in 'care' and research. A life expectancy of 86 sounds nice but personally I'd like to add 'when in reasonable health' But Holland has fixed that with voluntary euthanasia.....with quite a few apparently without consultation and request of the patient "with quite a few apparently without consultation and request of the patient" ??? |
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Post by me on Jul 23, 2017 7:11:24 GMT 7
But Holland has fixed that with voluntary euthanasia.....with quite a few apparently without consultation and request of the patient "with quite a few apparently without consultation and request of the patient" ??? Although all cases aare supposed to be done in consultation with and at the request of the patient it seems from several reports that many doctors are acting as they feel best and not taking the patient's instructions. I do not think this is only restricted to the Netherlands but it has been documented there since the laws were changed. |
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Post by AyG on Jul 23, 2017 7:42:28 GMT 7
Funny how the rise in pension age doesn't affect MPs, who can still retire at 65 with a luxury pension.
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