Thursday, January 15, 2015

A couple for you

US approves new weight-loss device for obese people
Patients are surgically implanted with electrodes in the abdomen, and an externally-controlled electrical pulse generator sends signals to the abdominal vagus nerve, which helps signal to the brain if the stomach feels empty or full.

"We have come to realize just how vital the neurohormonal system is to the regulation of food intake and body weight, and therapies that alter signaling within this system are almost certainly the wave of the future."
Funny, you haven't realized how food or surgery itself affects the neuroendocrine system.
Mainline the matrix, everyone.

Does screening asymptomatic adults for disease save lives? 
Apparently not- or the headline would say so emphatically, amirite?
Screening tests make money whether people are sick or not, that's the reason this practice is widely promoted in the medical industry.  Period.

Frozen Elsa Brain Surgery Game
Because it's awesome.   Way better than the 900 page book on endotoxin.