Monday, July 20, 2009

Eat Your Heart Out, Britain

Take you about three bites....

"Girl’s heart heals with aid of transplant; Doctors say organ has regenerative capabilities" by Maria Cheng, Associated Press | July 14, 2009

LONDON - She also had a price to pay: the drugs Clark took to prevent her body from rejecting the donated heart led to malignant cancer that required chemotherapy.

The powerful drugs Clark was taking to prevent her from rejecting the donor heart then caused cancer, which led to chemotherapy. Even when doctors lowered the doses of drugs to suppress Clark’s immune system, the cancer spread, and Clark’s body eventually rejected the donor heart. Luckily, by that time, Clark’s own heart seemed to have fully recovered.

Still, transplants like Clark’s won’t be widely available to others due to a shortage of donor hearts and because the necessary surgeries are very complicated....

Just let me expire, will ya?

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"Annual Protestant parade goes on after riot in Belfast; Orange Order event slowed by nationalists" by Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press | July 14, 2009

BELFAST - No group claimed responsibility but police and politicians blamed Irish Republican Army dissidents who are trying to keep alive the IRA’s abandoned campaign to force Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom. The dissidents also were blamed for planting a fake van bomb Friday night in the province’s second-largest city, Londonderry, leading to the shutting down of a major bridge for more than 24 hours.

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See: Un-Real in Ireland

LONDON - Every government department will be assigned a carbon budget alongside its financial accounts.... measures to fight global warming.

I say shove the meters up the politician's asses: London Loot is Falling Down

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I personally have had it with the global-warming fart-misters.

See my Environment posts for more.