I have to admit that I have no interest at all in health care. I don't have any strong opinions about the subject, and I don't really keep up with what is going on in the news when it comes to health. So I'm starting from scratch on these ideas and none of them are likely to be very refined.
1. I'd like to study rabies. I wrote one free write blog post on it, and I think it's fascinating.
2. Childhood obesity has risen to about 19% of white boys under age 18 years. I've read a little bit about the causes and effects of obesity.
3. Folic acid deficiency can cause spina bifida, a horrible-looking disease. Maybe I could talk to pregnant women about taking folate supplements, or I could extend that challenge to all women of child-bearing age to help avoid that problem in children that they may not be expecting.
4. Someone once told me that AIDS is a rich man's disease. He was referring to the fact that malaria is far more serious, but because AIDS is something that exists in the US and UK and other "civilized" countries, we tend to focus more on AIDS than malaria. I read in the National Geographic that experts estimate that almost 50% of the world's total population from prehistoric times until now has died of malaria. That's a huge proportion of humanity. That might be fun to argue, that malaria is a more urgent problem than AIDS.
5. Discovery.com features an article that talks about the study of squid beaks as a way to learn more about creating good artificial limbs for human patients.
6. I heard on NPR one day that there is a group of scientists that has created a prosthetic limb that is connected somehow to the brain of a chimpanzee. Their own arms are tied behind their backs, but with enough concentration, they can control a robotic arm next to them for simple tasks like grabbing and eating small foods. Maybe I could talk about that.
If any of these sound more intriguing than others, please let me know. I'm really in a pickle, and I don't want to have to talk about doctors or insurance or prescriptions, or politics, or government or anything like that.
Also, I don't know if there is any way to use this article in my research. I think it would be fantastic to write 2000 words about bike safety.
Also, is torture a health care issue?
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If you decide to do the AIDS vs. malaria topic, it might interest you to know that some parts of Africa have a high incidence of sickle-cell disease because the deformed red blood cells do not carry malaria. I just think that's an interesting biological development in response to what is really a widespread disease; I think this topic has a lot of potential.
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