How to save the worldA global journey into making our lives better…

The availability of organ transplant is a subject of major concern today: every 30 seconds, a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement. In the last decade, the number of patients on the waiting list for a transplant doubled, but there has been no increase in available organs.

And these statistics do not even start to consider people who have an amputated limb. Each year, thousands of children are mutilated by landmines in countries such as Cambodia or Angola, thousands suffer amputation, a majority of which is due to vascular issues but we cannot ignore armed conflicts and road accidents as other causes.

Yet there is hope. Really amazing new technologies are arriving very quickly, as you will see in the video below. We cannot quite reproduce a whole leg overnight yet, but there exist working solutions for most of the essential organs.

Further to my recent post on the power of the brain, I recently finished reading Guided Imagery for Self-healing by Martin L. Rossman, and I found it to be one of the most powerful and enlightening books I’ve ever read.

There are about 300-500 million cases of malaria every year, killing between 1 to 3 million people. It places a major strain on resources and considerably slow the development of countries in which it is endemic. It has been estimated that in some countries the disease decrease purchasing power by a factor 5, takes 2 points of growth, and costs Africa $12 billions USD every year. In some countries it may account for up to 40% of public health expenditure. In young children it can lead to brain damage.

In this context, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical company,

Recent legislations in Europe, USA and Canada prevent people from smoking in public places, which makes it possible for the first time to actually see on a wide scale what the effect of second hand smoke can be on health…

Here is a disturbing video about people using the power of their brain to heal their body.