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Even if you have carefully practiced sun safety all summer, it's important to continue being vigilant about your skin in fall, winter, and beyond. Throughout the year, you should examine your skin head to toe once a month, looking for any suspicious lesions. Self-exams can help you identify potential skin cancers early, when they can almost always be completely cured.

First, for a successful self-exam, you obviously need to know what you're looking for.  As a general rule, to spot either melanomas or non-melanoma skin cancers (such as basal cell carcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma), take note of any new moles or growths, and any existing growths that begin to grow or change significantly in any other way.  Lesions that change, itch, bleed, or don't heal are also alarm signals.

It is so vital to catch melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, early that physicians have developed two specific strategies for early recognition of the disease: the ABCDEs and the Ugly Duckling sign.read more

Elton the tiger gets a visit from the dentist

A dentist who has expertise in treating nature’s giants was called upon to treat Elton the tiger this week. Woburn Safari Park’s Amur tiger needed urgent treatment after breaking one of his canine teeth.

Dr Peter Kertesz, one of the world’s leading zoological dentists, was asked to visit Elton and perform dental surgery to repair the damaged tooth. In the wild, a dental infection could result in severe complications, and even death. Fortunately, the eagle-eyed keepers at the park spotted that something was wrong, and Elton s not recovering after undergoing surgery.

Dr Kertesz was assisted by a team during the procedure, which began once the Amur tiger had been sedated. The procedure, which was captured on film, involved cleaning the tooth, filling the holes in the canine tooth to prevent further infection, and fitting a moulded filling to strengthen the tooth.

Once Dr Kertesz had finished operating on Elton, he was encouraged to come around slowly, and he spent 24 hours in recovery sleeping off the effects of anaesthetic.

After his dental dramas, Elton has now made a full recovery. Dental infections can be incredibly dangerous for tigers, especially in the wild when they rely on hunting to catch and kill their prey. The team is trained to spot even the most minor injuries and swift action helped to save Elton’s troublesome tooth and prevent him from suffering pain and any long-term damage.

Seal hitches a lift.

A kayaker got a shock when a seal hitched a lift on his craft,the seal circled him then partially submerged the craft near forth road bridge .

Gene editing

All inherited diseases and cancers could be cured in the coming decades, according to a leading British expert.

Gene editing techniques that have been developed in recent years could be put to work to effectively end cancer and inherited diseases, according to Dr Edze Westra

Mr Westra believes that the ability to splice DNA into cells precisely – a technology which is on the horizon, but is rejected on moral grounds by many – will become “super important” over the next 20 years.

It could completely transform the human race, he says – so that people are not affected by cancer, failing vision or the diseases of old -read more -age.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome_editing

Playing it dumb.

I know dear reader this is seems to be a strange headline but as i write this post i hope you will understand a bit more.I have noticed when going to tests for benefits or get help if you show any insight or knowledge it is frowned upon.So you can take 2 options -1 lie which is wrong and you will get caught out at some point,2-play dumb just keep replies to yes ,no and show no insight is this ok no not really but its the only thing that works .

Science behind love at first sight.

It is possible that their is science behind the instant connection of love at first sight.Back in 2014 researchers asked students to look at a series of photo,s of attractive strangers while having eye movement,s tracked.Students reported feeling romantic love ,their eye,s tended to fix on strangers face and if sexual desire they felt the eyes strayed over the rest of person,s body.This means eye movements can signal whether its love or lust that we feel.

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1. Marvellous Motion

Series looking at strange animal behaviour reveals nature's quirkiest movers and shakers. From dancing seaslugs to cartwheeling caterpillars this is nature at its most weird and wonderful.

In a series of magical sequences, crocodiles gallop, salamanders transform into wheels and bushbabies bounce like rubber balls. Lizards and frogs stage an extraordinary air show, the Mexican jumping bean reveals its fidgety secrets, lemurs pogo and two-legged lizards hunt like dinosaurs. Using new filming techniques and some extraordinary special FX, this is nature as never seen before.link to series eposodes