Wednesday, 27 May 2015
YESHUA, I LOVE YOU
This a powerful worship song. Hope you enjoy it.
Lyrics
Praise the One who has saved me from death
He is God, He is good, He is Jesus
Praise the One who has saved me from death
He is God, He is good, He is Jesus
Yeshua I love You
You are God, You are good, You are Jesus
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
A Test That Smells Cancer on Your Breath
In many ways, the large scanners used today to screen for
cancer represent many of the problems with advanced technology. They’re
complex, they’re invasive and they’re extremely expensive. An innovative new
cancer test may change that, bringing simplicity, ease of use and affordability
to this delicate medical arena by analyzing a patient’s breath for indicators
of cancer.
First unveiled on June 2 at the annual American Society of
Clinical Oncology in Chicago, this cancer-detecting breathalyzer system, which
is still awaiting clinical trials, is able to conduct prescreening for both
breast cancer and lung cancer. Developed by scientists at the Georgia Institute
of Technology, the cancer breathalyzer could drastically reduce costs for
American patients, while enabling expanded screening in countries with
inadequate infrastructure and taboos against mammograms.
“Most of the directions people are moving in are toward the
more complex, the more expensive. I wanted something that’s rugged, cheap and
easy enough to be done at a routine physical,” said Charlene Bayer, a professor
of chemical engineering at Georgia Tech, and a lead researcher on the project.
The cancer breathalyzer works by first capturing the
patient's breath in a specially designed container. Once in the container, the
breath will stay fresh for up to a month and a half with proper refrigerated
storage. The breath container is then sent off to a lab where a chemical sensor
searches for the organic compounds emitted by a body infected with cancer.
Since all a doctor needs to do is have a patient breathe
into the container and then send it off to a lab, this test radically reduces
the cost, time and patient discomfort associated with CAT scans and mammograms.
This ease could alter the cancer diagnosis landscape in two important ways,
Bayer told Innovation News Daily.
For patients in Western countries, the main problems with
cancer screenings are cost and discomfort. This test could reduce the cost of a
breast cancer test from $800 to less than $100, Bayer said. Additionally, the
test would require none of the invasive physical discomfort associated with
those tests.
For patients in developing nations or countries with strict
gender barriers, this test could open up even more opportunities to prevent
cancer. Not only does it lower the cost of screening to a point of
affordability, but its rugged design means doctors operating in remote
mountains or thick jungles could use the test. Many cultures also forbid the
level of physical intimacy needed to perform tests like mammograms. With the
new breath test, a woman wearing a burqa can get screened for breast cancer
without causing any cultural offense.
This test does not have the same accuracy as the other, more
expensive tests, nor will it totally eliminate their use, Bayer said. Instead,
this test will help determine whether or not a patient needs further testing
using the more expensive and intrusive devices. But for those Americans who can
barely afford their health care as it is, and the hundreds of millions of
people in the developing world who currently have little to no access to any
cancer screening technology, this invention may be enough to save lives.
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