Petition Tag - early detection

Do you know someone who has died or is dying from cancer? Many, too many… one every 5 seconds, dies prematurely from cancer in the world (six million per year), more than any war or disease.

Did you know that cancer costs have now reached $741 billion per year in the 38 most industrialized countries in the world, or about $750 per year per person? And yet, even with the 100 times cost increase over the past 50 years, there has been no significant reduction in the cancer death rate (a mere 5% for cancer, while for heart disease the reduction is 64%).

Worst of all researchers and decision makers are not being held accountable by providing the public with at least an estimate of the projected reduction of the cancer death rate from their project before they are assigned money from tax payers or charitable contributions.

The need for change in the direction of cancer research is evident from the fact that countries that do not make such huge investments have similar death rates. This demonstrates that most of your money is being thrown out the window.

Let’s do our part to let them know that we are very concerned about this lack of progress.

If you would like cancer research to lead to a quicker solution, sign this petition asking that researchers simply estimate results and compare them to those of other proposed solutions in an open, peer-reviewed process.

Thank you.

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Every baby needs an echocardiogram soon after they are born (within 24 hours) this is to save babies lives to prevent babies who have been born with

Congenital Heart Defects getting extremely ill before it's detected.

Congenital Heart Defects are the most common birth defect.

Congenital Heart Defects are the number 1 cause of DEATH from a birth defect, killing twice as many children as cancer every year.

Congenital Heart Defects affects 8 out of 1000 live births, this does not count all the children lost in pregnancy to Congenital Heart Defect's.

Congenital Heart Defects are life threatening and sadly not enough is being done to detect them early.

Early detection is vital to help babies survive.

Many babies with congenital heart defects can appear healthy at birth yet it can take only a few days or even weeks later when things can dramatically change, the lucky one's are the ones who make it back to hospital in time but sadly many babies still pass away.

For the babies that make it back in time to hospital, their body has been trying extremely hard to survive and has become extremely weak this decreases the odds of them surviving open heart surgery.

Open heart surgery is vital if the baby is to survive. Sadly this can be too much for many babies whos bodies are now extremely weak.

Early detection is vital to the survival of babies born with congenital heart defects.

All babies should be checked more for congenital heart defects.

An echocardiogram is an non-invasive test. An echocardiogram is a pulse of high frequency, inaudible sound is transmitted through the skin by placing a recorder or probe on the chest wall.

The probe picks up the echoes reflected from various parts of the heart and displays them as an echocardiogram - a picture on a screen.

The recorded waves show the shape, texture and movement of the valves and the size and function of the heart muscle and chambers.

The test can take up to an hour and is painless.

It provides information about disease of the heart muscle for those who have suffered a heart attack or heart failure and to assess people with disease of the heart valves and congenital heart defects.

Taken from http://congenital-heart-defects.co.uk/noninvasivetests.aspx

Copy and paste these links into your URL to find out more information on this type of testing.

Every Baby Need an Echocardiogram group on Facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=44397325696

Other Relevant Links:
http://www.myspace.com/everybabyneedstests_4_chd

http://www.congenital-heart-defects.co.uk

http://www.escardio.org/communities/EAE/3d-echo-box/3d-echo-atlas/congenital-heart-disease/Pages/atrial-septal-defects.aspx

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