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See A Medical View of Homosexuality for the latest research findings. No matter how you look at it, homosexuality--gay or lesbian--is only a way of thinking reinforced by many years of behavioral preferences. There is no one born gay or lesbian. But there are many who have no good role models of health masculinity or feminity. The role models could either be passive masculines and demanding feminines or oppressive masculines and manipulative feminines or other unknown combinations of certain unhealthy sexuality characteristics. In the same way that a suicidal person is not born depressed as she is raised in a home of depressive atmosphere people with depressed or suicidal role models, homosexuals came to be so because of failure in healthy modelling. With that in mind, homosexuality is essentially a mental problem and not an existential condition. Studies and observation furnish us a lot of faulty thoughts that bring a person to develop homosexual behaviors, thus changing its "se

Breakthroughs Today will change its format from a simple blog into a review blog which incorporates the latest in physical and mental sciences for our readers to react with and share their views. Starting October 7, this will be so. Being a reviewer, it will discuss certain issues brought up in the Breakthroughs articles published in Sun.Star Cebu. However, our content will not limit to that printed updates. Thereafter this blog will be reviewing also recent breakthroughs found in the news even if it has not been covered in the regular Breakthroughs column.

One great danger about the renowned prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is its established history of overdiagnosing prostate cancer, a recent study found out. A study conducted by H. Gilbert Welch, professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy, revealed that of the 3.7 million diagnoses of prostate cancer in the US alone from 1986 to 2005, 1.3 million were overdiagnosed. The sad fact is, one million of that 1.3 million have been recommended for radiotherapy or surgery to remove the prostate when that should not have been necessary as the growths it detects are not harmful at all. In fact, according to Welch, the test cannot discriminate the smally minority of cancers that spreads rapidly from the large, slow-growing ones that are not harmful. Click here for details.

We have decided to conclude our worldwide monitoring of the swine flu cases as it has become a matter fact right now that A(H1N1) has already invaded Cebu and certain provinces in the Philippines. It is now up to the Department of Health (DOH) to ensure that no casualty of life would follow our first and apparently only death due to what is now called the "novel H1N1" virus. As of 6 July 2009, a total of 94,512 confirmed cases have been reported with 429 deaths worldwide. Countries largely hit (more than 1,000 confirmed cases) include: Argentina (2,485), Australia (5,298), Canada (7,983), Chile (7,376), China (2,040), Japan (1,790), Mexico (10,262), New Zealand (1,059), Philippines (1,709), Singapore (1,055), Thailand (2,076), United Kingdom (7,447), and the United States of America (33,902). Those with the most casualties (more than 10 deaths) include: Argentina (60), Australia (10), Canada (25), Chile (14), Mexico (119), and the United States of America (170).

Dec 30 Wisdom Does Matter in Old Age (posted 12/29/09) Dec 23 Patience and Folly (posted 12/22/09) [used in--- Philippine News Balita (newslink)] Dec 16 Promiscuous Misery (posted 12/15/09) Dec 9 Cure Beneath the Seas (posted 12/8/09) Dec 2 Blinded By Passion (posted 12/1/09)   Nov 25  A Thirst for Sleep (posted 11/24/09) Nov 18 Teaching Nutrition Effectively (posted 11/17/09) Nov 11 In a Swoosh of Fate (posted 11/10/09) Nov 4 Can Innocence Be Bliss? (ePaper only) Oct 28 Knowing Without Inference Oct 21 A Facet of Suicide (posted 10/20/09) Oct 14 Managing Your Hypertension (posted 10/13/09) Oct 7 A Medical View of Homosexuality (posted 10/6/09) Sep 30 Survivors of Genetic Mess (posted 9/29/09) Sep 23 Sweet, Sweet Breath (posted 9/22/09) Sep 9 A Touch of Soluble Fibers  [used in--- Toilet Junkie ; IBS Help and Support Group ] Sep 2 The Bomb Ticking at Home Aug 26 In the Eyes of Children Aug 19 Downside of online leisures Aug 12 Death on Misprint  [used

Exactly one month (31 days) after the Philippines reported its first H1N1 confirmed case on May 22, one Filipino citizen died from the flu. The Department of Health (DOH) announced on June 22 the death of Philippines' first victim of the worldwide pandemic swine flu virus H1N1. The victim was a 49-year-old female, resident of Sta. Rosa, Laguna, and a worker at the House of Representatives in Quezon City. She attended the seminar of the committee affairs department from June 15 to 16 in an unreported venue, and fell ill the following day. Her companion in the seminar also fell ill. Other attendees of that seminar can be reasonably considered infected too. She has also travelled to Kalinga together with officemates. She died on June 19 due to acute myocardial infarction, which is characterized by sudden chest pain, shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, palpatations, and sweating. She displayed flu-like symptoms on June 17, two days before her death. Considering the incubation of aro

With our first case of swine flu infection in on May 18 in a 10-year-old girl and a report today on a confirmed 30-year-old infected woman who traveled in the Philippines for five days, and DOH unable to detect her infection, this lapse is a cause for serious concern as it raises the question--how many of these people came in and out of the country with their infections remain undetected. Worse, her three accompanying relatives has been confirmed by Taiwan's Center for Disease Control (CDC) as H1N1 virus-infected. Shih Wen-yi , CDC spokesperson, confirmed that the woman felt sick in Manila, and has consulted a doctor when she developed fever. Starting today, Breakthroughs Today will start keeping tabs on H1N1 virus infection in the country for your reference. As of Date Infection Cases Deaths Source 22May2009 1 0 23May2009 1 0 Philstar.com 24May2009 2 0 Associated Press 27May2009 6 o SunStar-Cebu 28May2009 10 0 SunStar-Cebu 29May2009 14 0 SunStar-Cebu 03Jun2009 22