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Love thy neighbor: It could lower your risk of stroke

By Guest PostSeptember 16, 2013Healthchristopher peterson, diabetes, eric kim, heart problems, high blood pressure, love thy neighbor, lower, nansook park, neighborhood, neighborhood social cohesion, people, psychological factors, risk of stroke, social climate, social environment, trustworthy, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR — Here’s some neighborly advice for adults over age 50: Stay friendly with your neighbors.

A new University of Michigan study shows that adults in this age bracket who live in a good neighborhood with trustworthy people lowered their risk of stroke up to 48 percent.

Feeling connected with neighbors builds what researchers describe as “neighborhood social cohesion.” The trust and connection with neighbors was associated with a reduced risk of stroke above and beyond the effects of negative psychological factors—such as depression and anxiety, said Eric Kim, a doctoral student in the U-M Department of Psychology and the study’s lead author. (more…)

How Yale doctors are making CT scans safer for kids

By Guest PostSeptember 15, 2013Healthct scan radiation, pediatric ct scans, pediatric imaging, pediatric radiation, radiation exposure, radiation induced cancer, yale doctors

Greater awareness and careful usage are bringing down the numbers of pediatric CT scans and cutting radiation exposure. Parents should weigh the benefits and risks.

(September 2013) If your child had a CT scan last year—perhaps to assess damage from a hockey injury or rule out appendicitis—he or she added to a huge statistic: more than 4 million pediatric CT scans were performed in the U.S in 2012. (more…)

Ancient secrets which save your sex life

By Guest PostSeptember 13, 2013Culture, Health, Science, Sexancient chinese philosophy, ancient exercises, ancient secrets, blogger, brianne, daoist, energize, energy, energy level, enjoy sex life, gamification, good sex life, healthy lifestyle, hometone, protection, save, sex life, sexual gratification, sexual parts, stimulation, taoist ideas, universe, website development, wordpress, writer, your genitals, your sex life

Man has two basic requirements – food and the sexual gratification. In order to enjoy a healthy lifestyle it is important to suffice these two requirements or else you can see chaos and disaster seen among the people. Food we all know and have been consuming since we were kids, however, this is not the case with sex. The desire to have sexual gratification comes when kids turn adolescent.

So, when it comes to sex life, there are different ways to enjoy it, however, if you look at the core, nothing really has changed since past centuries. Though the lifestyle has changed a lot and would continue changing, however, sex life seems to remain unchanged. You will find various ancients secrets, which can help you in having a good sex life. So how about checking some of the ancient secrets that can really save your sex life in the following paragraphs: (more…)

Effects of Climate Change on West Nile Virus

By Guest PostSeptember 11, 2013Environment, Healthandrew comrie, brain, canada, cdc, changes in climate, climate change, climate change models, climate-driven, cory morin, culex quinquefasciatus, effect, encephalitis, immune response, infectious cycle, inflammation, meningitis, mosquito population model, mosquito populations, North America, precipitation, southern us, species, temperature, united states, university of arizona, virus carrying mosquitoes, west nile vector, west nile virus

A study projects how climate change may affect virus-carrying mosquitoes across the southern U.S. Changes are expected to vary with region, and the southern states should see a trend toward longer seasons of mosquito activity and smaller midsummer mosquito populations

The varied influence of climate change on temperature and precipitation may have an equally wide-ranging effect on the spread of West Nile virus, suggesting that public health efforts to control the virus will need to take a local rather than global perspective, according to a study published this week in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (more…)

UCLA researchers describe new form of irritable bowel syndrome

By Guest PostSeptember 10, 2013Healthbrain gut axis, brennan spiegel, chronic illness, economic burden, hepatology, irritable bowel syndrome, pdv ibs, surgery, ucla researcher

UCLA researchers have described a new form of irritable bowel syndrome that occurs after an acute bout of diverticulitis, a finding that may help lead to better management of symptoms and relief for patients.

The discovery of this new condition, called post-diverticulitis irritable bowel syndrome (PDV–IBS), validates the irritable bowel symptoms that many patients report long after suffering a bout of diverticulitis but that many physicians have waved off as being part of the original condition, said Dr. Brennan Spiegel, an associate professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and senior author of the research. (more…)

Lesbian and gay young people twice as likely to smoke and drink alcohol

By Guest PostSeptember 3, 2013Healthalcohol drinking patterns, bisexual, bmj open, depression, drink alcohol, frequent intoxication, gareth hagger johnson, gay, hazardous alcohol drinking, heterosexism, heterosexual peers, homophobia, lesbian, london metropolitan university, longitudinal study, minority stress, public health england, research, smoke, social change, symptoms of anxiety, ucl, university of cambridge, young people

Young people who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual are twice as likely to have smoked than their heterosexual peers, according to new research published in BMJ Open. Lesbian and gay young people were also more likely to drink alcohol frequently and more hazardously.

The interdisciplinary research team comprised researchers from five UK Universities (UCL, University of Cambridge, London Metropolitan University, De Montfort University Leicester and Brunel University), a doctor working in General Practice and a consultant from Public Health England. (more…)

New Biochip Holds Great Promise for Quickly Triaging People after Radiation Exposure

By Guest PostSeptember 1, 2013Healthbiochemical signatures, biochip, blood assay, ionizing radiation, radiation dose, radiation exposure

Berkeley Lab scientists have helped to develop a tiny chip that has big potential for quickly determining whether someone has been exposed to dangerous levels of ionizing radiation. (more…)

Circadian disruption and cancer

By Guest PostAugust 29, 2013Healthcancer, circadian disruption, environmental health sciences, molecular changes, sleep cycle, yale university, yong zhu

Yong Zhu, associate professor of environmental health sciences at the School of Public Health, investigates how the disruption in sleep cycles causes molecular changes that lead to cancer. *Source: Yale University

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