Why a Bird Flu Pandemic Will Overwhelm Our Healthcare System

If you think our healthcare system has problems now, how do you think it will fare in the event of a bird flu pandemic? Avian influenza is currently not spread by person-to-person contact. Since 2003, 165 people worldwide have contacted bird flu and about 88 of those people have died. Those individuals all had close contact with infected birds. Scientists fear that it is only a matter of time before the virus mutates into a form that can be spread by human contact. When that happens it could spread around the world within weeks or months. Governments around the world are scrambling to find solutions to prevent that from happening. Antivirals such as Tamiflu are being stockpiled. Current inventory may only cover about 20% of the population or less. If a pandemic breaks out, those stockpiles would quickly dwindle. New antivirals would take 6 months to get into high volume production and distributed to those who need it.

In the event of an influenza pandemic, our healthcare system will be stretched to the limit. If we examine the numbers we can see the frightening scenario. Based on a “mild” pandemic this is what we are looking at:

Population of the United States: 295,000,000
10-20% of the population becomes ill: 29,500,000-59,000,000
Percentage of people requiring hospitalization 10% 2,950,000
Number of hospital beds nationwide: 955,768
Number of ventilators nationwide: 100,000

Some of those numbers may be conservative. The percentage of the population that becomes ill could be 30-50%. The number of available hospital beds would go unchanged. Now lets factor in the following facts. Hospitals would not be sitting empty just waiting for flu patients, many are already fill to capacity with everyday illnesses, cancer patients, new babies, and heart attack patients. Those would not go away, they would continue. Doctors offices, hospital emergency rooms and urgent care centers would be filled to capacity with people who are worried they have the flu overwhelming the staff and the need for lab results.

Those needing hospitalization would flood local hospitals that would have nowhere to put them. Most hospitals have very limited space for isolating patients that may be required in the case of influenza. Ventilators are in short supply to begin with and only those most likely to live would be given access. At some point hospitals would need to turn away all but the sickest patients. As in the 1918 influenza, public buildings would have to be open up for additional hospital wards to take care of the ill.

Are there even going to be enough healthcare workers to care for the sick? Many healthcare workers and first responders may stay home out of fear patients may infect them. A percentage will be out sick themselves or caring for family members who are ill. Even if they are not ill, they may need to stay home to take care of children because schools are closed.

There is no surge capacity for supplies such as syringes, IV bags, masks and antiviral drugs. Everything is based on just-in-time delivery. Because supplies of vaccines and antiviral drugs will be inadequate, large numbers of deaths will occur.

Hospitals around the nation are not set up to handle the capacity needed for an influenza pandemic and will be overwhelmed. Serious advanced planning is needed now to handle this potential pandemic crisis.

Cure Your Headache – Without Pills and Drugs

Acupressure has many applications in the management of pain and illness. For chronic headache sufferers, this provides a powerful alternative to taking bottles of painkillers which can lead to serious side effects, addiction and decreased effectiveness over time. A drug-free approach to creating better health and wellness, acupressure is definitely something worth considering if you are experiencing any number of chronic pain issues.

Drawing on centuries of Chinese medical knowledge, acupressure is just one form of numerous bodywork approaches that concentrate on the body’s vital energy flow. Pain and illness is viewed in terms of energy blockage, and using acupressure to resolve this results in both alleviating the symptoms present, and promoting good health overall. By simply applying pressure to specific areas, you can stimulate or relax the related organs or muscles, bringing much needed relief.

Thus, acupressure stimulates your body’s self curative abilities, which is opposed to common painkillers. Acupressure is one of the safest and most effective ways known to control and cure headaches. You do not need any previous knowledge about massage, nor be a medical professional in order to utilize acupressure.

Because of the simplicity, safety and effectiveness of the acupressure, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends it for pain relief. You can practice acupressure on yourself, family member or a friend. You can use the pressure points when a problem first becomes evident, and prevent the development of the headache, or reduce its severity.

By listening to your body’s pain signals, you can take the appropriate action to avoid pain and discomfort. It makes sense to take preventive measures rather than have to deal with the aftermath of a full blown headache, which can disrupt your routine and leave you exhausted.

Just by using one or two acupressure points can be remarkably effective for getting relief from headaches. In addition to that, acupressure is a treatment you can take with you everywhere you go, and it is easy and effortless to apply. For frequent and chronic headache sufferers acupressure may offer a whole new way of life.

The Best Colon Cancer Treatment Options

Among the most spread cancers, colon cancer usually occurs in men and women over the age of 50. The main causes of colon cancer are related to the patient’s diet: very low in fiber and high in fat and calories. By keeping a healthy life style and good eating habits, you can prevent developing cancer of the colon even before this becomes a problem. You might also want to try and check your family history for cases of colon cancer and adopt a healthier diet in order to make sure you will avoid this problem in the future.

Colon cancer treatments are varied and you can choose from a series of traditional and alternative methods of dealing with this condition. Surgery is often the number one choice – the surgeon removes the tumors on the colon, even if the cancer cells are spread beyond the colon itself. This ensures less problems in the future of the patient’s life, reducing chances of bowel problems or internal bleeding. Colon cancer surgery is usually categorized in four main areas: rectum resection, radio frequency ablation, colostomy and colon resection. The surgeon will determine which method is best suited for each individual patient. Detecting cancer at a very early stage is important, as the problem can be corrected in a decisive and final manner. By using a polypectomy, the surgeon will remove suspicious polyps in order to minimize chances of the disease. Local excision may also be used in early stages, in order to remove the cancer cells. After surgery, your hospital should provide you with ongoing support in order to ensure a fast and efficient recovery.

Intra arterial chemotherapy is another treatment worth consideration. This treatment targets tumors by delivering a powerful dose of chemotherapy. Primary systemic chemotherapy is often used before a surgical procedure in order to destroy a large majority of cancer cells. Systemic therapy is usually used with metastatic cancer, while the third method, adjuvant chemotherapy, targets any cancer cells that might have been left over after surgery. All three chemotherapy procedures are delivered through the hepatic artery and are an option if the cancer has spread to the liver.

Another choice comes from chemoembolization treatment. In addition to being delivered intra arterially, this type of treatment blocks the blood flow to the areas affected by cancer. It traps the chemotherapy drugs in the area of the tumor, thus ensuring that they work efficiently and on target.

Lung Cancer - the Truth, the Story

Lung cancer has now become the deadliest of all forms of cancer in many developed countries including the USA where about 170,000 people die from the disease each year. Worldwide this type of cancer kills an estimated 3.5 million people a year; a startling statistic when you consider it's largely preventable.

More than one billion people worldwide are smokers even though nine out of ten lung cancer deaths are caused by smoking. By the year 2020 it's estimated that as many as ten million people a year will die of smoking related diseases unless radical action is taken to curb the advance of the mega-bucks tobacco industry into Third World countries. About three quarters of those ten million deaths will be in developing nations.

Lung Cancer in the developing world

The good news for richer countries is that public health messages seem to be hitting home and lung cancer deaths are starting to decline. The bad news is that if you started smoking 40 years ago (before the dangers were widely known) and you are diagnosed with lung cancer today, you have only a slim chance of surviving more than a year. Lung cancer is rarely detected in its early stages but when it is, the prognosis is good with speedy and appropriate treatment. That is why campaigners are demanding more funding for early detection and research into new and better treatments. But the disease currently receives far less funding in developed countries than other forms of cancer which elicit public sympathy (such as breast and prostate cancer.)

Lung Cancer and passive smoking

There is a certain stigma attached to lung cancer and an attitude that the patient probably brought it on themselves. That is particularly hard for those who started smoking without knowing the health risks and for victims of passive smoking.

Thanks to government regulation and public education the long term picture regarding the reduction of lung cancer deaths in wealthier corners of the world is fairly optimistic. Not so for poorer countries which are the new targets of the tobacco moguls. Tired of being taken to court and hampered by advertising controls in countries like the USA and UK, cigarette manufacturers are now setting their sights on developing nations and governments which are easily lured by the promise of sizeable inward investment.

Cancer Curing Brain Theory Concept

As I continue my theory on curing cancer I wish to further CYA my position. I am not a medical doctor, thank god actually, because the malpractice insurance would drive me nuts. Also since I am not in the medical field at all you cannot sue me for this idea, concept of mine. Now then continuing Part III.

Chemo that is directly induced where needed might work, but we have better technology now and could use specific fluid dynamic beams of energy or radiation pointed at the exact source and area or even non-evasive light. Now then here is some additional information: it is now possible to send thoughts by fax through three-dimensional spatial representation of the brain in hologram video. We have hologram faxing available and Brain Surgeons are using this to show damage in the brain. The guy who thought of it had my friend in Malibu working for his company in LA. Now they can transmit this data by fax, three-dimensional faxing, like sending a cad cam design computer, but you can now fax it with special machinery.

Now we maybe able to use this same idea to send a thought. This relates to my theory of cancer curing so follow along. Wow, eventually the devise would be very small the size of a dime or so to send and receive data or thoughts by way of this devise, this is way in the future, but it could be available to the common man in 20 years or so. Now before this technology gets this small and nano-tech achieves these seemingly impossible feats we can use the basic concept to record a thought for my cancer experiment.

Now just think about this for a second. There have been cancer survivors with very positive thought patterns and attitudes and part of the reason they lived and others died may have been just that. We must mirror these thoughts of strength, character and attitude and place these thought patterns in those who do not have them. We can look into the thought patterns of many cancer survivors and take those and average them and mimic them and place them in the patients. Duplicate them with TMS through fMRI scanning and send those impulses to those areas of the brain of the patient.

Strong patients will be best since those thought patterns can converge. All we have to do is isolate the things I have discussed before in my many articles and in my brain research with regards to the 10,000 chemicals of the brain 2000 interacting at any one time and 200 prevalent. Take the ten strongest components of the 200 and experiment with them. What we are looking for in those miraculous cases, why did they survive, what makes them different, why do some die and others live? We look at the brain areas which light up and release the cancer fighting biological components in each strong willed survivor. We find common ground and record it, then hook a machine up to stimulate those parts of the brain in the other cancer fighting folks.

First we try the first experiment by placing thought of one persons brain into that of another, and yes as strange as this sounds I do believe it is totally possible and as the future marches on, very probable. This experiment to prove my hypothesis takes two people from the same mom, preferably brothers or sisters of the same mom and dad and hopefully born within a short time frame (2-3 years). Grew up and were nurtured by the same parents. Similar birth dates. Twins would also be good for this. To prove my experiment first; You separate the twins by 4000 miles but both at the same altitude preferably sea level. Similar longitude with similar magnetic pulls and similar gravity pull of the Earth; this will make sure that the oxygen level in the brain is similar and it will be a non-artificial environment, not a clean room.

Next; You then hook up a brain scanner that records a thought, a complex one, simple one first time. Then record where in the brain the energy is located in sequence during the thought. This is done all the time. It will take a controlled thought and focused thought at first. Next you send the digital thought sequences to the other coast. You could also fax that three-dimensional model to the East Coast or Pacific side or where you are, and hook up the data and the model to the brother or sister. And recreate the exact impulses where they occurred in the last person on the west coast or East Coast. Provided the diets are similar and the intake is similar, oxygen level, basic genetics are similar, you should have it. The same basic thought. Recorded transferred and sent and then duplicated, Thought transfer.

Now that would be a worthy accomplishment in itself but the possibilities for cancer fighting would be amazing indeed. Now obviously you do not reveal the thought to the other person, let them tell you what the thought is or was. A thought is recorded and therefore timeless. Thoughts can travel through time at least we can travel thoughts to the future. Just like knowledge. Or at least this has been theorized by many including Einstein. Now for my experiment once concept of thought transfer is proven: Now after this is done, you take a cancer survivors abilities of focusing in their own your body, mimic the diet and intake of that person with the patient anywhere in the world.