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Over the past few years researchers have taken advantage of unprecedented advances in biology, electronics and human genetics to develop an impressive new tool kit for protecting and improving human health. Sophisticated medical technology and complex data analysis are now on the verge of breaking free of their traditional confines in the hospital and computer lab and making their way into our daily lives.
Physicians of the future could use these tools to monitor patients and predict how they will respond to particular treatment plans based on their own unique physiology, rather than on the average response rates of large groups of people in clinical trials. Advances in computer chip miniaturization, bioengineering and material sciences are also laying the groundwork for new devices that can take the place of complex organs such as the eye or pancreas—or at least help them to function better.
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI've had the Magic Magee in my life now for 10 years and I cannot see my life without one now.
I must preface this commentary with one critical fact. That this healing field cannot be replicated with any other number of magnets under the sun with the magic number being 8. If anyone understands the implication of numbers as do our Asian worlds then you will take to heart what you about to read. I truly believe that this tool belongs in every house and has a real application for every breathing body.
This is how this clever device came into my life. The inventor of this technology had been on my case and pursuing me with his literature for at least a year before I finally agreed to come meet with him and let him show me the power of this tool. At the time I was producing my own radio show and was being approached by every Tom, Dick and Harry to promote their products on the air. So I was very skeptical. Then an event in my life forced me to slow down big time! I had a freak fall and shattered my left leg. All excuses for being too busy faded in an instant and so when I was well enough I let a friend take me to meet Bruce.
What happened then was such a shocker that if I could have hightailed it out of there on my crutches I would have, No sooner had we said hello Bruce struck up a match and held it to the outside of my right forfinger giving me a third degree burn in an instant.
My flesh was on the match and I was so stunned I almost cried. It really hurt! Bruce then apologized profusely and said to me, "the only way I can truly show you the power of this device is to give you a burn and cure and so I sat with my throbbing hand laying on one of these disks while Bruce covered the hand with a towel and proceeded to show me his experiments with the Magic Magee.
Firstly he had a chicken with huge tufts of hair on his feet who had been trained to use the toilet. I'm not kidding. This chicken was so smart it wasn't even acting like a chicken. It just sat with us and watched everything that went on. This little creature had been sitting on the Magic Magee for years and was well past his due date for the soup pot. Even years later when Bruce would visit he would bring this chicken in my house and it was still thriving. Of course it was in the house because it needed to use my toilet----
http://actioncameron.hubpages.com/hub/MagicMagee
Are you really that stupid? How long did you suffer with that burnt finger fool? Hello Rush, is that you?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisMedical technology operates largely independently of physician's practice. Medical technology will, and already does, certainly help. But we should probably address pharmaceutical medicine, which probably does as much harm as good. We need physicians who think less like pharmacists, and more like physicians. In their personal histories, which they are supposed to take, they need to asses the contribution of diet, stress,and sleep habits to the condition they present to the physician. Most conditions (diseases) suffered by Americans today are diet related. Prescribing pharmaceuticals is not indicated, and, at best, is the fourth or fifth best thing to do. Do physicians understand this?
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Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThe makeup of all matter (including you), is mostly water.
To reason with something one must first know the reason.
One might start by discovering the truth of what we (water) really, really is!
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27. Bruce Voigt 05:50 PM 2/28/12
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-far-far-future-of-stars
---when some one say's your a ball of fire, well you really are!