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E Cigarettes Recognized as Quit Smoking Therapy In UK

It’s official the UK recognize BAT E Cigs as a way to stop smoking

UK regulators licence BAT e-cigarette as quit-smoking medicine LONDON Electronic cigarettes are displayed in a shop in London, Britain August 19, 2015. Reuters/Neil Hall

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I’m going to periodically write little things on new stories in biology and medicine. 

The first one i’m going to write about is an experimental treatment for brain cancer by re-engineering the polio virus. 

A treatment, which so far has shown a very strong, positive response in a small clinical trial, could be used for other centralized tumor cancers.

So keep an eye out for that coming up.

Its going to be my first article like thing (remember i’m a science major, not a writer) so I can’t promise how good it will be. But it’s a start, and hopefully i’ll get better over time. 

Panoramic Time

The instant I saw the tumor, time stopped.  In the office of my neurosurgeon, Dr. Linda Sternau, I looked at my first MRI and saw a white mass the size of a golf ball in the center of my brain.  As I shifted my focus from the deathly image of the tumor to the beautiful Miami skyline visible through the office windows, I began to feel a deep sense of calm growing inside me.  This soothing energy gathered in my lower abdomen and traveled up my spine to the top of my head, where it spread and enveloped my entire body.  Gone were the headache and double vision I had been experiencing, and with eyes wide open I slipped into a very deep meditative state.  Within my mind, a clear and intuitive voice spoke to me, stating: "You will be fine.  You are in for a very hard journey, but you will be fine."

At this moment, the constant flow of time that I had felt my entire life ceased to exist.  In its place I found a vision of the past, present, and future so clear that my fears subsided instantaneously.  In my recent past I saw the miracle of my current existence; the hydrocephalus caused by my tumor blocking the drainage of spinal fluid from my brain should have already killed me.  An unobstructed view of my present let me realize that I was in the hands of one of the best and most caring neurosurgeons in the entire world.  Looking at my future, I saw that despite the dark days that awaited me, I was meant to survive cancer.  The clarity of these three simultaneous images supplied me with all the intuition, courage, and peace that I needed in order to endure my ensuing cancer treatment, which included two brain surgeries in five days, an intense chemotherapy regimen, and full brain and spine radiation therapy.