Sleep is good for you
Sleep has for a long time been known to help with repairs to the body, but what about the mind. There is a well known saying “I’ll sleep on it” this implies that if you have a decision to make by leaving until the next day you would have had time mull it over.
Recent research [...]
Brain surgery turns man into artist
A few years ago 49 year old Alan Brown had difficulty doing even the most basic style of drawing and after suffering from a stroke and then having to undergo a sixteen hour long brain surgery operation, things were not looking too great.
After spending a long time recovering he began to pass the time by [...]
Humans are optimistic
If an outsider looked at the human race, they would notice that for thousands of years history has been repeating itself. This is because right from the early days of mankind there have been struggles with war, disease, famine and even economic failures.
Yet mankind survives and a study from the university of Kansas and Gallup [...]
Old and senile should do the right thing
The has been a lot of coverage regarding assisted suicide and how this effects the families etc. But it seems as if that was not bad enough there are suggestions that older people who are found to be suffering from dementia should do the right thing and stop wasting the resources of the NHS.
The right [...]
Is the legalisation of pot coming?
Work on marijuana as a medicine has been around for some time, but there has always been a shady line between what is the medical business and that of the recreational user.
The problem for business of science is that they understand the properties that marijuana has. This plant can then go on to be an [...]
Some additives linked to lung cancer
Food additives are blamed for many things, but it seems that one such addictive is being blamed for the spread of lung disease and cancer.
The culprit is inorganic phosphates, these can be found in processed foods such as cheese, meat and bakery products, what they do is increase the products water content and therefore [...]
Could obesity be contagious?
Recent research by Professor David Blanchflower, who sits on the Bank of England’s monetary policy committee, and Professor Andrew Oswald, an expert on the economics of wellbeing say that obesity could in fact be contagious.
Although this research may come from a rather unorthodox source, it seems that their point could be valid. They claim that [...]
How much sleep is needed
Just how much sleep do we need? This is question that has plagued people for years, in fact probably centuries, there are those who feel that some people sleep too long and then there are those who may not sleep enough, it is a real problem though.
The simple fact is that most people probably sleep [...]
What the pharmacy does not say
These days it is sometimes preferable to visit one of the pharmacists in your area instead of taking time out to visit the local GP. This is because these days they do offer their customers a fuller services, which is come cases could save the time and effort of visiting the GP then going to [...]
September 18, 2008Loud music means more drink
For anyone who has ever wondered why pubs and clubs have the music so loud that it is impossible to even hear yourself think, then the answer is very simple. The louder the music the more people are going to drink.
However, this is no medical condition, it is psychological. The idea is that when the [...]
All Americans overweight in forty years
In research funded by the US Government, it has been announced that all Americans will be overweight in forty years.
That may seem a long way off, but that sort of time can quickly come around and the problem is that once it reaches that point then there is a long way back for everyone.
The [...]
What tea is good for?
The use of herbal teas as always been thought of as a far eastern way of treating certain aliments, but recently the choice has become more and more available for many of the UK shoppers. But despite the choice it is still unclear what tea is good for treating the aliments.
Sage
Sage tea eliminates body toxins [...]
The hazards of working in IT
Working within the IT industry is not the sort of place that you would expect to find work based health issues. But unfortunately for the people who do work within this industry there are plenty of health hazards to watch out for.
A slug’s life
SIT happens
So many headaches
The bobblehead syndrome
Hurting hands
Relax harder!
Noxious invaders
Eye strain
Heavy lifting
Something in [...]
How a little shut eye can help
You only have to watch a cat or dog to understand that napping can be important, after all they seem to be doing that all day long, or most of it, which is probably why they the energy to run around all of the time.
So if we could take just a few minutes to have [...]
Men like to have Botox
Men of certain age, which would be around forty to fifty, are becoming more and more interested in cosmetic surgery. This type of medical treatment used to be the domain of wealthy actresses, but these days prices and availability have brought this into virtually everyone’s reach.
However you would have thought that it was women who [...]
Men want alcohol more than women
Recently there has been a lot of bad press regarding how it is women these days who have taken over the yob culture from men, quite simply because they have become victims of cheap drink. But in a study from researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine the findings are quite different.
The results found [...]
More Doctors taking up alternative treatments
When we talk of alternative treatments, many of us think of herbs, flowers and other things that are given to someone who does not want to take a conventional medicine that has been given to you from the pharmacy.
But this alternative treatment is to do with anti aging, and in the states there are many [...]
Every face tells a story
With so much interest in security these days, it seems that our faces are to become our passports as facial recognition systems are being installed at airports. But researchers at the Stephen Porter’s Forensic Psychology Lab at Dalhousie University have been studying the way that our faces can betray our emotions.
The research team believe that [...]
Sleeping at work improves productivity
This may not be what any employer would like to hear, but researchers from the University of Dusseldorf in Germany have been looking into the effects of taking a nap while being at work. They have found that by having a little cat nap during the working can help improve memory and mental performance as [...]
January 15, 2008Research or marketing who gets the big budget
In a study undertaken by researchers at York University, have been looking into the how the annual spend of the major pharmaceutical companies is broken down.
Now a company in the medicine making business has to have a serious set up, with well funded and equipped research facilities and all of the other mechanisms in place [...]