Desktop Wallpaper O’ The Day
| February 5, 2011
Month: February 2011
Caps Lock problem
| February 5, 2011
The history of the Beatles in hair
| February 4, 2011
A History Of The Beatles…, by mozzarellapoppy @ Deviantart
CSI: The Middle Ages
| February 4, 2011
PANTONE CHIP COOKIES!
| February 4, 2011
Any good designer knows the way to a clients heart is through their stomach. So when deciding what kind of cookies to make for client gifts this year I thought, why make the usual chocolate chip cookies when I can make PANTONE CHIP cookies!
New larynx gives woman her voice back
| February 3, 2011
Just 13 days after receiving a pioneering larynx transplant, a Californian woman was able to speak her first words in a decade. Her own larynx was permanently damaged by an operation 11 years ago.
The first combined larynx and thyroid transplant was performed in 1998, but in the latest operation Brenda Charett Jensen of Modesto, California, received a section of trachea too. The feat, which took 18 hours, was performed last October at the Medical Center of the University of California, Davis, but announced only yesterday.
The transplant also works far better than the first because more of the donated organs’ nerves have been plugged into the 52-year-old woman’s own nervous system. This enables her to move muscles that control speaking by moving the vocal cords, and others that will eventually allow her to swallow again, once she relearns how to do it.
“It is a miracle,” says Jensen. “I’m talking, talking, talking, which just amazes my family and friends.” The sound of her voice is her own, rather than that of the donor.
