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In a study, skin scars began to behave more like uninjured skin after they were treated with hair follicle transplants. The scarred skin harbored new cells and blood vessels, remodeled collagen to restore healthy patterns, and even expressed genes found in healthy unscarred skin. Scar tissue in the skin lacks hair, sweat glands, blood vessels and nerves, which are vital for regulating body temperature and detecting pain and other sensations. Scarring can also impair movement as well as potentially cause discomfort and emotional distress. Hairy skin heals faster and scars less than non-hairy skin—and hair transplants had previously been shown...

One day two women who lost contact 15 years earlier met on social media. This reunion would forever change the life of a teenage girl. One woman was a missionary, the other a single mother raising a teen daughter. The mother of the teen invited her long lost friend to come and visit. Knowing she had a few weeks before she would embark upon another missionary journey, the woman accepted friend's offer.Indianapolis is a long way from San Diego, but the trip would be good for both women to visit and go over old times. When the missionary arrived, she...

For many brides what to wear on their big day is one of the most important decisions they'll make. Ivory or white? A-line or mermaid? Long or short? Fitted or puffy? But for Princess Eugenie there was an extra factor at play. The Queen's granddaughter had major surgery on her back to treat a curvature of the spine at the age of 12. Sixteen years on, and the princess chose to wear a wedding dress that showed her scar, saying she hoped it would honour those who had helped her and inspire others with the condition of scoliosis. "I had...

“Jesus of the Scars” by Edward Shillito If we have never sought, we seek Thee now;Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars;We must have sight of thorn-pricks on Thy brow,We must have Thee, O Jesus of the Scars. The heavens frighten us; they are too calm;In all the universe we have no place.Our wounds are hurting us; where is the balm?Lord Jesus, by Thy Scars, we claim Thy grace. If, when the doors are shut, Thou drawest near,Only reveal those hands, that side of Thine;We know to-day what wounds are, have no fear,Show us Thy Scars, we know...

Only an hour ago we had been lamenting yet another incredibly bad road. Here in the Ugandan outback, it is as pointless to complain about the roads as it is to complain about politicians in America, but railing against the unchangeable can lighten the mood. But on the way out of a small village in the Bukedea region of Uganda, we didn’t feel the bumps. That was when our team’s defenses failed, and when the gravity of the assault on women—perpetrated by the champions of “women’s health” and “empowerment”—really hit home. It may have been just me, but my guess...

Has anyone had, or knows someone who has had, ablation treatment for Afib?

Depicts the use of "paramedic camouflage" to cover tatoos. Didn't even know they still made the stuff, but I used to use it to cover hideous scars years ago. This young man's plight is a sad one, although he did it to himself and has no-one to blame but himself. He will regret this as he gets older.

Sarah Obama Said Barack Obama Jr. Was An Orphan in Kenya [Note: Go to http://jeffersonsrebels.blogspot.com/2011/04/sarah-obama-said-barack-obama-was.html to view screen shot images of cited articles, and to follow text links.] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sarah Obama said that Barack Obama passed through her hands as an orphan. How could that possibly happen? Below you will find a fairly recent but undated article about Sarah Obama's humanitarian work with orphans and other vulnerable children over the course of her life. In the Catholic Relief Services article, Mama Sarah, as she's affectionately called, opened her simple home to dozens of children "over the last 40 years." In...

This is a beautiful poem written by Edward Shillito, a British veteran of the horrors of World War I JESUS OF THE SCARS If we have never sought, we seek Thee now: Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars; We must have sight of thorn pricks on Thy brow; We must have thee, O Jesus of the scars. The heavens frighten us; they are too calm; In all the universe we have no place; Our wounds are hurting us, where is the balm? Lord Jesus, by Thy scars we claim Thy grace. If when the doors are shut,...

PUT YOUR HAND IN MY SIDE… Meditation on the Scars of Jesus By: Pastor Bill Randles “After eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in their midst, and said, ‘Peace be unto you ’. Then he said to Thomas, ‘Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing’. And Thomas answered, ‘My Lord and My God’. (John 20:26-28) When after his resurrection, Jesus appeared to his badly frightened, and dejected disciples,...

The New York Times has kept itself busy since it endorsed John McCain in the run-up to the February 5th Super Tuesday primaries. Over the last four weeks, they have painted McCain as a skirt-chasing, lobbyist-influenced hothead, all based on absolutely no evidence at all. Now we can add cancerous to that list of unsupported adjectives after yesterday’s analysis by a physician who has never treated McCain. Dr. Lawrence K. Altman provides a scary, er, scarry lead to a non-story: Along with his signature bright white hair, the most striking aspects of Senator John McCain’s physical appearance are his puffy...

So many wrong conclusions have been drawn in the free-speech debate as it relates to Don Imus and the racial hustlers known as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Imus had every right to call the Rutgers women's basketball players "nappy-headed hos," just as the CBS brass had every right to first suspend the crank and then fire him after advertisers started pulling out and public opinion reached a critical mass. Jackson and Sharpton, of course, say all kinds of racially incendiary things and seemingly are granted a free pass. The difference is that Jackson and Sharpton answer to no one...

Ancient citadel shows scars of mass warfare 11:42 16 December 2005 NewScientist.com news service Will Knight The shattered remains of a 5500-year-old citadel that stood on the modern-day border between Syria and Iraq provide some of the oldest evidence for organised and bloody warfare. The Mesopotamian settlement lies in Hamoukar, on the northernmost tip of Syria, 8 kilometres from the Iraqi border. In 3500 BC the 13-hectare development was subjected to a devastating attack, its edifices crumbling beneath a crushing hail of bullet-shaped projectiles. The evidence of the destruction was uncovered in October and November 2005 by an expedition coordinated...

> The author of this letter is well known in the Canon City, Penrose, Pueblo area. He is an author of numerous books and a businessman in Florence, Colorado. He is a retired member of the "A-team" Green Berets. > > AN OPEN LETTER TO SEN. KERRY > > My wife had rotator cuff surgery earlier this year and the recovery is > terribly painful. Then she developed staph-epi infection, and they > had to cut the same scar open and operate on her again. Just thinking > about the pain and anxiety of facing that painful surgery a second...

Has anyone seen John Kerry's scars from his 'Purple Heart' injuries? Maybe we can check some of his pictures where he is wearing short sleeves. Maybe some of the media pundits could ask him about his scars.... (but Maybe Botox makes them less visible)..