Killer Gang Member Starts Snoring As He Is Executed In Texas Prison

In the case that sent him to death row, Garza was convicted of two counts of capital murder for the slayings of the four women. Evidence showed the women were living in the U.S. without legal permission just outside Donna, about 15 miles southeast of McAllen. In his statement to investigators, which Garza insisted was coerced, he said he carried out the ‘hit’ with three other gunmen in two vehicles who opened fire on six women in their parked car. The Allan B Polunsky Unit has capacity for 2,900 inmates and contains 23 buildings Garza was killed by lethal injection on a trolley similar to this (stock picture) MACABRE TALES FROM AMERICA’S DEATH ROW Killer Danny Robbie Hembree Jr sparked a public uproar in January last year when he wrote to his local newspaper, the Gaston Gazette, gloating about how cushy his life was at Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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Snoring: A New Tip-Off To Stroke and Heart Disease

And he hopes doctors will now add snoring to the list of risk factors which currently includes high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and family history they use to initiate testing and treatment. Our study adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting that isolated snoring may not be as benign as first suspected, Deeb said in a statement. Patients need to seek treatment in the same way they would if they had sleep apnea, high blood pressure or other risk factors for cardiovascular disease. While obstructive sleep apnea (which often develops from snoring) has long been known as an indicator of cardiovascular disease, theres been little evidence up to now to show the damage starts earlier with snoring. While Deeb and Yaremchuk studied the carotid artery, thickening of one type of artery is considered an indication of atherosclerosis in general. Hence the conclusion that snoring is also a tip-off to coronary artery disease, or CAD.
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Robert Gene Garza Execution: Texas Inmate Snoring During Lethal Injection

A judge recently refused the death row inmates appeal amid Facebook page scalling for the abolition of the Texas death penalty. Garza was convicted of killing four women. HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) A former South Texas street gang member was executed Thursday evening for his involvement in a gang ambush in which four women were gunned down 11 years ago. Robert Gene Garza, 30, became the 12th condemned inmate executed this year in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more than any other state. Garza smiled and blew a kiss to friends and relatives as they entered the death chamber.
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Turtle Eye Muscle Adapts To Deal With Obstructed Vision

Of the six muscles that move each eye, the muscles that move lateral eyes differ from the muscles of animals that move eyes viewing forward. In an earlier study, Ariel and his research team made an unexpected observation that a nerve that moves one of the pond turtle’s eye muscles, the superior oblique muscle, was active when that turtle moved its head from side to side, much like that of animals whose eyes view forward . In the current study, Ariel and the research team tested his theory that the pond turtle had characteristics of a front-eyed animal in three ways: physiologically, looking at the eye movement response to nerve stimulation; anatomically, examining how muscles were attached to the eyes and head; and behaviorally, examining eye positions. And, indeed, the researchers found that a turtle pulls its eyes in different directions when its head is out of its shell compared to when its head is retracted deep within its shell.
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Eye health and vision screening guidelines for adults and children: when should eyes be examined?

Follow up exam frequency will depend on the findings of your initial exam. If your eyes are found to be healthy at the initial exam, follow up exam frequency is typically once a year Pupillary dilation and eye pressure check are important components of yearly exam to evaluate the health of your retina, optic nerve, and to detect early glaucoma. If you dont have any eye symptoms and you had LASIK or PRK to correct nearsightedness, farsightedness, and/or astigmatism, you should continue yearly examinations with your eye doctor. Laser vision correction changes the shape of your cornea. The shape of your eye, however, remains the same. Therefore, you should have a dilated eye exam once a year to continue monitoring the health of your retina and optic nerve. Eye pressure needs to be checked once a year as well to continue monitoring for glaucoma.
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Pregnancy + Booze = A-ok?!

Commenters call out Oster and others who would dare to follow her lead, selfish, morally bankrupt and undeserving of their children and all over a few nibbles of sushi. Additionally, critics malign Oster for doling out advice despite not being a doctor. Yet, not having an MD is precisely why I think we should listen. Most women who get pregnant are not doctors. Most of us don’t have formal medical training and, quite frankly, even the ones that do don’t have all the answers. Two of my doctors during my pregnancy gave me conflicting information on alcohol and caffeine.
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‘Expecting Better’ pregnancy advice

At 35, the probability of a chromosomal problem is about equal to the risk of miscarriage from the amniocentesis. In fact, this decision should be more about the preferences and values of the pregnant woman, and her spouse, than about an age cutoff. Women need to consider their personal assessment of the risks of a miscarriage versus a developmentally delayed child when making this choice. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists agrees . Myth 3: Having sex can jump-start labor FALSE Although there is a chemical reason to think this might work, randomized trial data doesn’t support it . When doctors randomly encouraged couples to have sex late in pregnancy, women didn’t go into labor any faster than couples who weren’t encouraged to do so. On the other hand, nipple stimulation has been shown to bring on labor, but it takes a few hours a day.
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Gestational Diabetes Risk Pointed Out With Pre-Pregnancy Hormone Testing

Hedderson, PhD, principal investigator of the study and research scientist with the Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif. “Adiponectin levels are easy and inexpensive to measure and could potentially be used to identify women who are at risk for gestational diabetes.” The relationship between low adiponectin levels prior to pregnancy and the risk of diabetes was highly significant among the study group, according to the researchers, and it increased among women with higher body mass indexes (BMI), even after the data was adjusted for confounding factors such as family history of diabetes, race, smoking and blood glucose and insulin levels. This study included women who volunteered to participate in Kaiser Permanente’s multiphasic health check up exam, therefore the population may be more health conscious than the general population. However, the study cohort was very diverse in terms of race-ethnicity and education level. Gestational diabetes, or glucose intolerance during pregnancy, is common and can lead to adverse outcomes including larger-than-normal babies and subsequent delivery complications. Women with gestational diabetes are seven times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes later in life, and their children are at greater risk of becoming obese and developing diabetes themselves. “Low adiponectin levels were linked with gestational diabetes even for women without traditional diabetes risk factors such as being overweight, so this could be an important clinical marker for women who may become pregnant.
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