14 Jan, 2012
Reason Reason Need
As someone who conducts research and clinical work focusing on the interface between psychological science and religious/spiritual engagement, I’m often frustrated and saddened by the faith and reason debates and conflicts. In my view, they often miss the point.
Usually the argument goes something like how can anyone that respects science believe so many of the supernatural statements in the Bible including a virgin birth, Jesus and others being raised from the dead, the parting of the Red Sea, Moses getting the 10 commandment tablets from G-d, the earth being created in 7 days, miraculous healings, and so forth.
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13 Jan, 2012
Gentamicin Supplemented Tissue Tissue Integration
Background
A beneficial effect of gentamicin supplemented mesh material on tissue integration is known. To further elucidate the interaction of collagen and MMP-2 in chronic foreign body reaction and to determine the significance of the MMP-2-specific regulatory element (RE-1) that is known to mediate 80% of the MMP-2 promoter activity, the spatial and temporal transcriptional regulation of the MMP-2 gene was analyzed at the cellular level.
Methods
A PVDF mesh material was surface modified by plasma-induced graft polymerization of acrylic acid (PVDF+PAAc). Three different gentamicin concentrations were bound to the provided active sites of the grafted mesh surfaces (2, 5 and 8 ug/mg).
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9 Jan, 2012
Cancer Cancer Spike
Between 1988 and 2004, head, neck and throat cancers that tested positive for the human papilloma virus rose an astounding 225 percent, according to a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Within the next decade, the study authors argue, the incidence of such cancers — which are almost always contracted as a result of oral sex — will surpass that of cervical cancer, and the majority of those cases are going to be in men.
That’s a point often missed in public talk about HPV infection — and the vaccine that can prevent it.
In the recent controversy over comments made by presidential candidate Michele Bachmann about the HPV vaccine, the focus was squarely on young women and cervical cancer. But HPV
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5 Jan, 2012
New Year Year
We are all so excited about the New Year, especially our 2012 Collection, that we just had to give you an inside look at what’s to come. This month, through our authorized retailers, well be launching our newest collection for baby. So what’s in store for 2012?
On the Go with Peg Perego First, we have a little confession. We have been swooning, yes swooning, over the 2012 color swatch book. We
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4 Jan, 2012
Babies Start Babies Start Giggling Giggling Start Giggling
Do you ever wonder when babies start giggling? Do you have a little one and maybe, he or she hasn’t laughed or giggled yet? Well, you’ll be glad to know that babies start giggling at different ages. I remember my little sister started to giggle at a few days old but my mom said it wasn’t giggling; it was gas, so there you go!
I requested of my family stories of when their babies started to giggle. It su
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