Archive for January, 2009
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Monday, January 5th, 2009Many dream researchers think that understanding your dreams can lead to significant improvements in your waking life.
Surgeons who leave equipment inside patients cost NHS £9m
Monday, January 5th, 2009Patients who leave operating theatres with surgical equipment accidentally left inside them are being awarded millions of pounds in compensation.
Have Americans Gone Nuts Over Nut Allergies?
Monday, January 5th, 2009Is evacuating a school bus full of children because of a lone peanut on the floor a smart precaution, or overkill?
Bacon bits RECALLED :-(
Monday, January 5th, 2009Truly a sad day. Patrick Cudahy, a Cudahy, Wisc., firm, is recalling approximately 3,590 pounds of bacon bit products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
A New Cigarette Hazard – ‘Third-Hand Smoke’
Sunday, January 4th, 2009Third-hand smoke is what one smells when a smoker gets in an elevator after going outside for a cigarette, he said, or in a hotel room where people were smoking. “Your nose isn’t lying,” he said. “The stuff is so toxic that your brain is telling you: ’Get away.’”
The Family Sleep Cure
Sunday, January 4th, 2009If your family is like most, everyone is seriously sleep deprived. A study from the CDC found that only 1 out of 3 Americans gets enough sleep all month long. And 16 percent of adults get less than six hours per night, says the National Sleep Foundation. That’s well short of the seven to eight hours needed to ward off obesity, high blood pressure,
More bedbugs are biting in Cincinnati
Sunday, January 4th, 2009Reporting from Cincinnati — In this Ohio city, it seems, it really is tough to stop the bedbugs from biting. When complaints about the bloodsucking insects first trickled in to Cincinnati’s public health department three years ago, officials assumed it was an anomaly — or perhaps the overactive imagination of a bug-phobic public.
What Killed Jett Travolta? Carpet Cleaners or Scientology?
Sunday, January 4th, 2009Searching for answers in the death of John Travolta and Kelly Preston’s 16 year old son, who was said to suffer from Kawasaki disease.
Resolutions : Why is change so hard?
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009Professionals who help people make changes in their lives suggest that the anatomy of change is determined not by one’s surroundings, but one’s mindset. Beginning with small goals or steps usually leads to a bigger payoff later, they say. And trying to make a change is easier with support from a cheery group of friends, family, or co-workers
Food additive tied to lung cancer
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009A study, published in the January issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, was performed in laboratory mice but, according to the authors, should serve as a warning to people with a high risk of lung cancer or who have the disease to avoid the additive — inorganic phosphates — as much as possible.