Month: January 2014

CDC Teen Suicide Rate on the Rise

Well I believe this bad news. I see extraordinarily troubled teens and dysfunctional families.
I became concerned many years ago when I saw young kids on big time psych meds. My pediatrician and psych colleagues say it’s frightening how sick some of these kids are. My teacher friends say it has changed the nature of their work–they are required to devote a lot of time to unsociallized feral children.
This is a pretty decent review of the latest CDC assessment of teen suicides and suicide risk.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/sad_truths_about_teen_suicide.html
One must consider that the suicide rate or thoughts of suicide are symptomatic of a deeper and wider problem–we have a lot of kids who won’t ever be functional adults. A lot of parents who are clueless on how to make a child into an adult, because, they may be of that generation i saw many years ago that didn’t get it, and never grew up themselves.
It is terrible to see. Some families are completely torn up by mental illness, and have multiple members with serious mental problems.
It is no surprise it wipes out families–we are social animals, dependent on the family as a place of safety and succor.
Some families have multiple children with mental health problems at a very young age, already recieving for social security. Imagine your life as a parent if you have a child who has required hospitalization for a mental illness.
The oppositional defiant, ADHD, emotional disorder children have become a big problem that will overwhelm our schools and may create a major problem in our healthcare system.

Driessen on Turney and the Warmer/Enviro Ice Capades Insanity

Paul Driessen, lead man for CFACT, provides an analysis of the Turney debacle and other matters related.
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Hypothermia Therapy for Resuscitation Takes a Hit

In 2002 the American Heart Association came out in favor of hypothermia in cardiac arrest patients resuscitated from a shockable rhythmn based on 2002 research.
Well, like many positive findings in medical research, more research has produced a retreat from that conclusion.
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Anticoagulation for Atrial Fib

Atrial Fibrillation is irrgular heart beat, the most common form, and when the heart fibrillates it tends to generate clots in its chambers that can cause strokes.
So coumadin is routinely used, or other anticoagulants, to reduce the risk of lung clots or strokes.
Although not mentioned in this research, anticoagulation is also recommended for people with enlarged heart/heart failure, who also are prone to clot development in the heart chambers.
Research confirms the benefits. Bleeding is the main complication of anticoagulants as you might imagine, with trauma a serious contributor, like head injuries.
http://www.sciencecodex.com/medicine_protects_against_strokes-125787

An Essay from Kansas

About language and propaganda.
Mr. Babcock, from Lawrence Kansas.
If you like the Midwest the Flint Hills of Kansas are a beautiful place.
Coherent discussion about the propaganda game of climate change.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/its_colder_hotter_blame_climate_change.html

What is This Thing Called a Fetus?

Here we go.
Pregnant woman, gestation about 20 weeks collapses from blood clot to lung that causes cardiac arrest, producing brain damage determined to be brain death.
Texas law and law of 31 other states prohibits terminating mother’s life because fetus has right to live.
Imagine that? Parents of the mother argue that she would want to die. No word in the news reports on the opinion of the husband.
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