HEADLINES

CANCER COSTS SOAR PROMPTING MANY TO SIMPLY GIVE UP Washington, D.C. – Disease is a part of life and it always will be. While many diseases are deadly, some horrifying so, there is no ailment that causes as much fear and anxiety as Cancer. In many ways cancer has become less of a disease and more of a modern day monster, a beast that lives inside of us waiting for the right opportunity to strike and when it does it causes us to waste away and eventually kills us. No one is immune from cancer; there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide from the dread disease.  DEMENTIA LOSING FUNDING IN U.K., PATIENTS BARELY NOTICE London, U.K. – Outside our incredible accomplishments over the last 50,000 years or so, there are very few differences between human beings and our primate cousins. True, we have less hair and yes we have opposable thumbs but many of those differences are a result of our uniqueness, not the cause of them. Everyone who has seen a dog open the door to the food cupboard or seen a nature documentary where a monkey cracks a coconut with a rock realizes that much of our cleverness is simply not that unique.

CONJOINED TWINS REUNITED AFTER SURGERY GOES AWRY East Cork, Ireland – There can be no greater joy than the birth of a child. Poets and philosophers have tried to articulate the feeling of parentage but been largely unable to truly capture the feeling. Even with 7 billion people on the planet, all of whom were born at some point, there would seem to be less enthusiasm for the process yet it is still an intimate and catalyzing experience for all parents, whether they are on their first child or their fifth. It’s built into us to love the process. WASHINGTON WOMAN PROVES THAT SMALLPOX NOT JUST FOR ERADICATING NATIVES ANYMORE Seattle, Washington – For many reasons smallpox is a disease unlike any other in human history. For 12,000 years the disease stalked our species, killing untold numbers (at least 300 million in the 20th century alone, a century in which it was eradicated) and shaping the course of history. While we certainly have modern plagues such as HIV and Swine Flu, there has never been a disease like smallpox before or since and for the long term survival of our species that will hopefully remain the status quo.

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