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Wonderful people of tumblr, I’m running 10k for Cancer Research on Sunday and it would be amazing if you could donate anything you can, or reblog if you can’t donate. I’m no athlete so this is going to be a real challenge for me - please please dig deep!

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JOINTS IN MOTION

As said by IFL science

Cameron Drake of San Francisco has created a collection of magnificent images showing joints in motion. He was aided by orthopedic physician Dr. Noah Weiss and the finished product is completely amazing. If you’d like to know more about the project, please check out Drake’s blog.

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Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy, ” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it. It is not yet generally accepted that measles can be a dangerous illness. Believe me, it is. In my opinion parents who now refuse to have their children immunised are putting the lives of those children at risk. In America, where measles immunisation is compulsory, measles like smallpox, has been virtually wiped out. Here in Britain, because so many parents refuse, either out of obstinacy or ignorance or fear, to allow their children to be immunised, we still have a hundred thousand cases of measles every year. Out of those, more than 10,000 will suffer side effects of one kind or another. At least 10,000 will develop ear or chest infections. About 20 will die. LET THAT SINK IN. Every year around 20 children will die in Britain from measles. So what about the risks that your children will run from being immunised? They are almost non-existent. Listen to this. In a district of around 300,000 people, there will be only one child every 250 years who will develop serious side effects from measles immunisation! That is about a million to one chance. I should think there would be more chance of your child choking to death on a chocolate bar than of becoming seriously ill from a measles immunisation. So what on earth are you worrying about? It really is almost a crime to allow your child to go unimmunised.

Roald Dahl, 1986

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TEAM VACCINE

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NINETEEN EIGHTY SIX.

roald dahl was calling out the anti-vaccination movement as self indulgent bullshit //thirty god damn years ago//.

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Over 1,000 preventable deaths and 128,000 preventable illnesses since 2007 and counting

And this is only in recent history. I can’t imagine the numbers if we had data all the way back to 1986.

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A scanning electron micrograph of a natural killer cell facing off against a larger cancer cell.

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Whoa! Check out these incredible x-ray gifs!

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94%

The proportion of doctors and lawyers who were white men in 1960.  Racism and sexism kept those professions homogenous, but it turns out less racism and sexism translates into better use of talent, more productivity, and actually creates economic growth. (via theweekmagazine)

And, today, women comprise roughly 48% of medical students. We can give the boomers a hard time for making our economy unsustainable for our future, but we have to say they fought hard for gender equality, and got it, especially in medicine. 

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(via Bartek Elsner’s Cardboard Sculptures | Hi-Fructose Magazine)

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Palliate.

Word of the Day. The origins of the word palliate and its derivatives are from the Latin words palliare and pallium that meant “to cloak” and “cloak,” respectively. In the context of palliative care, the word is used in the context of reducing symptoms, pain, and suffering in the course of the disease. In other words, the intent is to mask or “cloak” symptoms as much as possible.    (via medicalstate)

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*Well, that oughta get the job done.  #soothing #restfulsleep

#”NumberOfOtherIngredients”

#ProbablyAvailableOnSilkRoad

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My dad bought me ‘The Language Instinct’ to add to my growing pile of yet-to-read brain/psychology books! I’ve already started ‘Musicophillia’ and it is like mind-blowingly intersting. Brains are just the most interesting things in the world and these books are all really accessible and like minimally confusing. BRAINS!

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#Anatomy #Neurology #Love #Science TAC Cerebral

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Brain Stem Implant 

Three-year-old Grayson Clamp was born without cochlear nerves in both ears—total deafness. A cochlear implant was unsuccessful. But thanks to breakthrough research at the UNC School of Medicine, Grayson now has an auditory brain stem implant that allows him to hear.

For many people born with hearing loss, the problem lies in the inner ear, or cochlea, a spiral-shaped organ deep in the temporal bone. When this is the case, a cochlear implant can mimic how a normal cochlea functions. UNC is home to one of the largest pediatric cochlear implant programs in the country, and gives the ability to hear to over 100 children each year.

But rather than missing the thousands of microscopic sensory cells in his cochlea, Grayson was missing the nerve that connects the cochlea to the brain. After working with the pediatric cochlear implant team at UNC for two years, Grayson was identified as a good candidate for a clinical trial of an auditory brain stem implant (ABI) at UNC Hospitals.

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I just wanted to share this. I trully adore this man. Best Things About Being Blind [x]