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Medical Breakthrough Can Keep People Alive Even After They've Stopped Breathing

Mike Adams — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:20:33 +0000

Modern medicine has been known to perform the impossible, including resuscitate people on the edge of death. Now doctors will be able to wow us even more since they’ll soon have the ability to keep people alive even if they’ve stopped breathing.

True Story: Legless Man Denied Power Wheelchair

Jim Bell — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:57:11 +0000

There are bureaucrats, there are dumb bureaucrats, and then there are the health ministry bureaucrats in Sweden who've taken mindless bureaucratic stupidity to new heights.

They denied a request for a powered wheelchair from a man who had both legs amputated because of diabetes complications. You won't believe their reason for rejecting him.

New Blood Test Could Predict How Long You Will Live

Andree Valentine — Wed, 18 May 2011 19:17:03 +0000

A blood test that should be available in Europe by the end of the year could give you a pretty good indication of how fast you are aging and how much longer you will live.

The test measures telomeres, structures on the end of each of your chromosomes, which scientists think may hold the key to determining a person's "true age."