Britains panda suffers miscarriage | AMAZING & INTERESTING - geo.tv

Britains panda suffers miscarriage | AMAZING & INTERESTING - geo.tv



AMAZING & INTERESTING: Britain's panda 'suffers miscarriage'


Pandas being among the rarest possible animals on our planet need very much priority care of humans.

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// LONDON: Britain's only female giant panda is believed to have suffered a miscarriage, Edinburgh Zoo said on Tuesday.

It was a doubly sad day for British zoos, after London Zoo also announced Tuesday that the first tiger cub born there in 17 years had drowned.

Edinburgh said its panda Tian Tian, who is spending a decade in the Scottish capital on loan from China with her male companion Yang Guang, had been displaying all the signs of pregnancy but is now thought to have lost her cub.

"Experts at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland can now confirm that they no longer believe Edinburgh Zoo's female giant panda, Tian Tian, is pregnant," the zoo said in a statement.

"All of her hormonal and behavioural signs now indicate that she had conceived and carried a foetus until late term, but then lost it."

Hopes had been high that Tian Tian was about to give birth to Britain's first ever panda cub after the zoo said in August that she was showing signs of pregnancy, including a lack of appetite, moodiness, and changes in her hormone levels.

"We are all saddened by this turn of events after so many weeks of waiting," said Chris West, CEO of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.

"The panda enclosure will remain closed until the end of the week, in order to give Tian Tian time to get back into her routine and provide her keepers with the chance to recuperate after this long period of waiting."

Tian Tian ("Sweetie") was artificially inseminated in April after repeated attempts to make her mate with Yang Guang ("Sunshine").

Pandas are famously disinterested in sex for most of the year, and when they do couple they must adopt a very precise position in order to mate successfully.

Edinburgh is paying around $1 million (750,000 euros) a year to Chinese authorities for Tian Tian and Yang Guang -- the only pair of giant pandas in Britain -- who arrived in 2011.

Fewer than 1,600 pandas remain in the wild, mainly in China's Sichuan province, with a further 300 in captivity around the world.

At London Zoo, meanwhile, keepers were "distraught" after finding its newborn Sumatran tiger cub dead at the edge of a pool inside its enclosure.

The zoo said the unnamed cub -- which was born just two weeks ago -- had been discovered on Saturday morning. (AFP) //

No known impact from mobile phones on health: France | HEALTH - geo.tv

No known impact from mobile phones on health: France | HEALTH - geo.tv



CREATIVE LIVING AWARENESS WELFARE (CLAW):

Health Awareness: No known impact from mobile phones on health: France

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// PARIS: France's safety watchdog on Tuesday said it was standing by existing recommendations for mobile phones, wifi and relay antennas, saying their emissions had "no demonstrated impact" on health.

The National Agency for Health, Food and Environmental Safety (Anses) said that, in lab tests, electromagnetic emissions had had a "biological" effect on cells.

But it saw no grounds for recommending any changes to existing laws as there was "no demonstrated impact" on health.

It said, though, it would make a recommendation that children and big users of mobile phones limit their exposure to the devices.//

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Care system is failing elderly people: Alison Phillips column - Alison Phillips - Mirror Online

Care system is failing elderly people: Alison Phillips column - Alison Phillips - Mirror Online


CREATIVE LIVING AWARENESS WELFARE (CLAW):

It has been learnt that those old people who are kept in care homes of care companies pay a high charges for governing them properly because most of their family members left back at home cannot give proper care and attendace to their disable elders. 

Hence, most of these old aged people are admitted in privately run care homes with the hope that they would be better cared, nourished, attended and their likewise for which their family people pay high charges to the companies concerned. 

In some countries, their governments also share the expenses of these senior citizens of their respective countries. How great are those nations and their country governments that care for their senior citizens so much!

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Baby P monster Tracey Connelly: I want another child - Mirror Online

Baby P monster Tracey Connelly: I want another child - Mirror Online






LEGAL AWARENESS WELFARE (LAW):

Cruel women as like as Tracey Connelly who totured to death her only such an innocent and acute looking son should never deserve to get pregnant, conceive, deliver a baby again nor the society, the  NGOs, the judiciary, the government lagislation should allow her to do so.

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Fiona Phillips column: The care system has to change - not the workers who gave my dad a dignified death - Fiona Phillips - Mirror Online

Fiona Phillips column: The care system has to change - not the workers who gave my dad a dignified death - Fiona Phillips - Mirror Online



CREATIVE LIVING AWARENESS WELFARE (CLAW):

Its really shocking to know how poor services are given by care companies to disable old aged people most of whom were once key persons in their work, family and society. 

We must feel for the poor services provided by privately run care companies whose employees as attendents are paid very poor salaries.

For that the governments of the concerning countries should consider a special budget set up to pay to these old aged seriously ill people as 'dignity stipend' who are almost terminally ill people so that their younger people of the nation can feel proud of being useful  to their elders who once brought them up and the victims (old aged disable people) can feel proud of their caring junior genarations who are at present tax-payers, businessmen, legislators, ministers, law-makers, social welfare NGO Workers and their like concerning people so that the elderly people after their sufferings of whatever disease can die and dignity death with peace of mind.

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Bionic man walks, breathes with artificial parts | AMAZING & INTERESTING - geo.tv

Bionic man walks, breathes with artificial parts | AMAZING & INTERESTING - geo.tv



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'Bionic man' walks, breathes with artificial parts
Amazing & Interesting!


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// NEW YORK: Gentlemen, we can rebuild him, after all. We have the technology.


The term "bionic man" was the stuff of science fiction in the 1970s, when a popular TV show called "The Six Million Dollar Man" chronicled the adventures of Steve Austin, a former astronaut whose body was rebuilt using artificial parts after he nearly died.


Now, a team of engineers has assembled a robot using artificial organs, limbs and other body parts that comes tantalizingly close to a true "bionic man." For real, this time.


The artificial "man" is the subject of a Smithsonian Channel documentary that airs Sunday, Oct. 20 at 9 p.m. Called "The Incredible Bionic Man," it chronicles engineers' attempt to assemble a functioning body using artificial parts that range from a working kidney and circulation system to cochlear and retina implants.


The parts hail from 17 manufacturers around the world. This is the first time they've been assembled together, says Richard Walker, managing director of Shadow Robot Co. and the lead roboticist on the project.


"(It's) an attempt to showcase just how far medical science has gotten," he says.


The robot making appearances in the U.S. for the first time this week. Having crossed the Atlantic tucked inside two metal trunks — and after a brief holdup in customs — the bionic man will strut his stuff at the New York Comic Con festival on Friday.


Walker says the robot has about 60 to 70 percent of the function of a human. It stands six-and-a-half feet tall and can step, sit and stand with the help of a Rex walking machine that's used by people who've lost the ability to walk due to a spinal injury. It also has a functioning heart that, using an electronic pump, beats and circulates artificial blood, which carries oxygen just like human blood. An artificial, implantable kidney, meanwhile, replaces the function of a modern-day dialysis unit.


Although the parts used in the robot work, many of them are a long way from being used in humans. The kidney, for example, is only a prototype. And there are some key parts missing: there's no digestive system, liver, or skin. And, of course, no brain.


The bionic man was modeled after Bertolt Meyer, a 36-year-old social psychologist at the University of Zurich who was born without his lower left arm and wears a bionic prosthesis. The man's face was created based on a 3D scan of Meyer's face.


"We wanted to showcase that the technology can provide aesthetic prostheses for people who have lost parts of their faces, for example, their nose, due to an accident or due to, for example, cancer," Meyer says.


Meyer says he initially felt a sense of unease when he saw the robot for the first time.


"I thought it was rather revolting to be honest," he says. "It was quite a shock to see a face that closely resembles what I see in the mirror every morning on this kind of dystopian looking machine."


He has since warmed up to it, especially after the "man" was outfitted with some clothes from the U.K. department store Harrods.


And the cost? As it turns out, this bionic man comes cheaper than his $6-million-dollar sci-fi cousin. While the parts used in the experiment were donated, their value is about $1 million. (AP) //