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    JOE THE PLUMBER
    October 16, 2008 - United States

    Mr Wurzelbacher "Joe The Plumber" was seized on by Republican Senator John McCain as a real-life Joe Six-pack, he was mentioned more than a dozen times in the third and final presidential debate between Mr McCain and Mr Obama last night, an ordinary man chasing the American dream, who had challenged Barack Obama's tax plans in a chance encounter.

    FIRST BLOOD TRANSFUSION OF WW I
    October 16, 914 - Biarritz Hospital

    The first direct blood transfusion of World War I was performed by Dr Émile Jeanbrau at Biarritz Hospital. Isidore Colas (a patient recovering from injury) gave his blood from an artery through a short silver tube to a seriously wounded soldier he did not know. He saved Cpl. Henri Legrain of 45th Infantry Corps of the French Army, who had arrived from the front and needed blood during a two-hour surgery. Similar blood transfusions saved a number of soldiers' lives in the campaign hospitals by the end of the year. Some attempts failed because blood type matching was not yet fully understood. The ABO blood types had been discovered by Dr Karl Landsteiner in 1901. Blood transfusion between humans was tried by Dr James Blundell as early as 1818 with an apparatus he invented.

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  • Until a man duplicates a blade of grass
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    "...Until a man duplicates a blade of grass, Nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favorable comparison with the products of Nature, the living cell of a plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life...."
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    by John Adams

    "...The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution...."

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    Besides lung cancer, tobacco use also increases the risk for cancers of the mouth, lips, nasal cavity (nose) and sinuses, larynx (voice box), pharynx (throat), esophagus (swallowing tube), stomach, pancreas, kidney, bladder, uterus, cervix, colon/rectum, ovary (mucinous), and acute myeloid leukemia. Harvard Medical School
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Provides up to date information on lawsuits involving defective medical devices that affect US patients and consumers. Dedicated to bringing consumers all the latest news regarding potentially defective medical devices. At Surgical Watch you will find the most current information on device recalls, FDA safety communications and warnings, and lawsuits against the makers of these products. New medical devices are regularly introduced to the marketplace, many with minimal testing due to a convenient FDA loophole that allows for expedited clearance. Under the rule, products are evaluated based on a standard of substantial equivalence to devices already in wide commercial distribution. Though the process is efficient and often effective, it can also serve to perpetuate the distribution of defective products.

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