A double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover trial of sildenafil, brand name Viagra, showed improvement in echocardiogram measures of myocardial performance in children and young adults after Fontan surgery - basically, kids with congenital heart defects were helped by a drug commonly associated with sexual dysfunction in older men.
Fontan surgery, also called the Fontan/Kreutzer procedure, was developed in 1968 and first performed by Francis Fontan, where he connected the right atrium directly to the pulmonary artery, basically meaning he got a defective heart to work without the right ventricle, functioning with three chambers instead of four.
Anti-science hippies who invoke the precautionary principle to extremes (but only about their own causes) are not just an American cult phenomenon; Europe invented anti-science hysteria and the term Frankenfood.
In the Philippines, the problems and hysterical claims are similar but the results have been better for science - though still not without disagreement. We can forgive Philippine judges who don't understand biology and science when they want to act more cautiously but the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) there is not in the voting pocket of progressive activist groups so their language is a little more blunt regarding outsiders using scare tactics to trump science.
Garra rufa - "doctor fish' - are now trendy in some fish pedicure places. The pedicuree dips their feet (see? I don't specify a gender or make any judgments, I am not Manny Pacquiao) into water containing the fish and the little critters exfoliate you by basically eating the dead skin from your toes.
Females like the bad boys when they are young, we all know that colloquially - and even more so when they are ovulating, say a group of social and evolutionary psychologists.
A short while ago we carried a strange claim from a group of ethicists at Oxford. Not only should abortion be okay,
actual children should be aborted even after they are born.
They're ethicists so they can be dismissed rather quickly. Tomorrow they are just as likely to be arguing there should be no abortion at all if you can't abort newborns. Yet there is growing concern that the government doing more things for more people in the best interests of overall society is leading to a resurgence in the social authoritarian rationalizations that gripped the country (and really, the world) the last time progressives held any power.
It's been said that science fiction can sometimes turn into science fact.
In that same vein, it may be that stories from
The Onion (
More U.S. Children Being Diagnosed With Youthful Tendency Disorder) may one day become part of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
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Even With Universal Health Care, Mothers Don't Go To Postnatal Check-Ups
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