Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: National Suicide Week September 5, to 11

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: National Suicide Week September 5, to 11: Facts you should know:          This information is a little late but I had a training this week so the information is new to me and frank...

National Suicide Week September 5, to 11

Facts you should know:         

This information is a little late but I had a training this week so the information is new to me and frankly it can never be too late to save a life.

 Suicide

• Suicide was the tenth leading cause of death of all ages in 2013.
• There were 41, 149 suicides in 2013 in the United States-a rate of 12.6 per 100,000 is equal to 113 suicides each day or one every 13 minutes.  
• Based on data about suicides in 16 National Violent Death Reporting System states in 2010, 33.4% of suicide decedents tested positive for alcohol, 23.8% for antidepressants, and 20.0% for opiates, including heroin and prescription pain killers.  
• Suicide results in an estimated $51 billion in combined medical and work loss costs.
• Among students in grades 9-12 in the U.S. during 2013:4 • 17.0% of students seriously considered attempting suicide in the previous 12 months (22.4% of females and 11.6% of males).                          
•  13.6% of students made a plan about how they would attempt suicide in the previous 12 months (16.9% of females and 10.3% of males). 
•  8.0% of students attempted suicide one or more times in the previous 12 months (10.6% of females and 5.4% of males).  
• 2.7 students made a suicide attempt that resulted in an injury, poisoning, or an overdose that required m
• Medical attention (3.6% of females and 1.8% of males).

Nonfatal  Suicidal Thoughts and Behavior

• Among adults aged ≥18 years in the United States during 2013.
• An estimated 9.3 million adults (3.9% of the adult U.S. population) reported having suicidal thoughts in the past year.  
• The percentage of adults having serious thoughts abou• Firearms are the most commonly used method of suicide among males (56.9%). suicide was highest among adults aged 18 to 25 (7.4%), followed by Males take their own lives at nearly four times the rate of females and represent 77.9% of all suicides.adults aged 26 to 49 (4.0%), then by adults aged 50 or older (2.7%).
• An estimated 2.7 million people (1.1% ) made a plan about how they would attempt suicide in the past year. • The percentage of adults who made a suicide plan in the past year was higher among adults aged 18 to 25 (2.5%) than among adults aged 26 to 49 (1.35%) and those aged 50 or older (0.6%).   
• An estimated 1.3 million adults aged 18 or older (0.6%) attempted suicide in the past year. Among these adults who attempted suicide, 1.1 million also reported making suicide plans (0.2 million did not make suicide plans).                                                                                             

Gender Disparities

• Males take their own lives at nearly four times the rate of females and represent 77.9% of all suicides.
• Females are more likely than males to have suicidal thoughts.
• Suicide is the seventh leading cause of death for males and the fourteenth leading cause for females.
• Firearms are the most commonly used method of suicide among males (56.9%).
• Poisoning is the most common method of suicide for females (34.8%).

Reference:

http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/suicide-datasheet-a.PDF

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: First Responders 9/11 The Aftermath

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: First Responders 9/11 The Aftermath: Reference http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/11/911-photos_n_5803296.html

First Responders 9/11 The Aftermath

Reference
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/11/911-photos_n_5803296.html

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Dr. Hadiyah -Nicole Green Making Strides In Cancer...

Muriel Lights' Candle Designs: Dr. Hadiyah -Nicole Green Making Strides In Cancer...: Strides are currently being made in cancer research thanks to the contributions of Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green, one of less than 100 black w...

Dr. Hadiyah -Nicole Green Making Strides In Cancer Research

Strides are currently being made in cancer research thanks to the contributions of Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green, one of less than 100 black women physicists in the U.S. An assistant professor at Tuskegee University, Dr. Green was recently awarded a $1.1 million grant to develop a cancer treatment involving lasers and nanoparticles.

In an interview with AL.com Green spoke of her recent achievement, stating, “It looks like I’m special, but I’m not. I’m no different from anybody else,” she said. “When opportunity found me, I was prepared.”

What’s special about Dr. Green is that she has a personal connection to the cancer research she’s conducting. She lost both her mother and father to the disease and later her uncle was diagnosed. After watching her uncle go through chemotherapy and radiation, Dr. Green was inspired to innovate. She came up with the treatment-altering idea of using lasers to treat cancer to avoid the same side effects that are associated with chemotherapy and radiation.

According to AL.com, the way the technology works is that an FDA-approved drug containing nanoparticles is injected into a cancer patient and causes the patient’s tumor to fluoresce (glow) under imaging equipment. The goal is for a laser to activate the nanoparticles by heating them.

“I’m really hoping this can change the way we treat cancer in America,” says Green. “There are so many people who only get a three-month or six-month survival benefit from the drugs they take. Then three or six months later, they’re sent home with no hope, nothing else we can do. Those are the patients I want to try to save, the ones where regular medicine isn’t effective for them.”

Though Dr. Green is not the first to propose the use of lasers and nanoparticles to treat cancers, she has been able to work out the kinks in parts of the technology that have been problematic like nanoparticle delivery and seeing success in living animals.

“As a physicist I’ve created a physical treatment that is not specific to the biology of the cancer,” says Dr. Green. “It’s a platform technology. It’s not cancer type–specific, though it can treat the cancer specifically. That’s a concept my friends who are biologists struggle with.”

Surely, this is only the beginning of the strides Dr. Green will make in her field and we’re already eagerly watching for what’s next.

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CANCER AWARENESS FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER

There are different cancer related campaigns that occur throughout the year not all are associated with Cancer Society ....

Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Gynecologic Cancer Awareness Month

Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month

National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month

National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

Take a Loved One to the Doctor Day (typically the last week in September)

Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month

For more information:

Reference 
http://www.cancer.org/aboutus/whoweare/cancer-awareness-calender
http://www.cancer.netreseachandavocacy/cancer-awareness