General Peter van Uhm is the Chief of the Netherlands Defence Staff. The day after he was promoted to his current position, his son, 1st Lt Dennis van Uhm, was killed in a roadside bombing in Uruzgan, Afghanistan.
General van Uhm obviously has great faith in the power of the gun as an instrument of peace, and just as obviously is a disciple of the Ronald Reagan philosophy of "peace through strength."
William Li "co-founded the Angiogenesis Foundation in 1994. The foundation’s Project ENABLE -- a global system that integrates patients, medical experts and healthcare professionals -- democratizes the spread and implementation of knowledge about angiogenesis-based medicines, diet and lifestyle. Some 40,000 physicians have been educated on new treatments, ranging from cancer care to wound care, by the foundation’s faculty of medical experts, and they are bringing new, lifesaving and disease-preventing techniques to people around the world."
"Imagine that one medical advancement held the promise to conquer cancer, perhaps within your lifetime … the potential to also end more than 70 of life's most threatening conditions, affecting one billion people worldwide. This is the promise of angiogenesis, the first medical revolution of the 21st century."
Those blessed with Multiple Myeloma might have reason to celebrate the discovery of JQ1, a molecule that can make cancer cells forget they're cancer cells, and turn into normal cells. This talk by Dr. Jay Bradner of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston to TED Boston is a must see for anyone inflicted with cancer of any kind. Perhaps the most important thing about this scientific discovery is that it was not kept a secret or patented, which would have tremendously slowed the delivery of this possible life saving molecule.
From The TED website about the above video: "How does cancer know it's cancer? At Jay Bradner's lab, they found a molecule that might hold the answer, JQ1 -- and instead of patenting JQ1, they published their findings and mailed samples to 40 other labs to work on. An inspiring look at the open-source future of medical research."
(Please share this with everyone you know who is blessed with cancer: blessed in the sense that God has given them the chance to prepare for their next life.)
