Senior Power: βHe that hath ears to hear, let him hear.β (Mark iv. 9)Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 2:58PMAbout one-third of people over age 65 report hearing impairment, hypertension, or heart disease. More than one-third of men and one-half of women over 65 report some form of arthritis. Many people have more than one condition.
The Hindu Business Line : Serum Institute launches nasal vaccine for swine fluWednesday, July 14, 2010 @ 3:35PMMr Adar Poonawalla, Executive Director, Serum Institute of India Ltd, with his wife, Natasha, at the launch of H1N1 vaccine Nasovac in Mumbai on Wednesday.
Not everyone hurts the same wayTuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 4:38PMFactors such as age, gender and ethnicity can affect the way a person experiences pain. Pain is private. Unlike blood pressure or temperature or other symptoms easily measured and defined, the physical reaction to unpleasant stimuli is hard to quantify or predict. It varies from person to person, with each individual describing pain β and its intensity β differently.
Headache Cures May Make the Pain WorseFriday, June 25, 2010 @ 1:34PMIt can be easy to slide into damaging self-treatment habits in a desperate effort to stay functional. Got a headache? If so, Consumer Reports dares to ask whether you're accidentally causing yourself more pain by over-treating your symptoms with common pain relievers.
A Liberal dose of bad newsFriday, June 25, 2010 @ 6:26AMTHE text messages from Liberals as Labor's leadership drama unfolded were telling. "Bad news for us," was the most succinct.
Headache healersWednesday, June 23, 2010 @ 2:28AMLike detectives seeking a perpetrator's motive, a group of University of Oklahoma doctors huddled together to identify the source of machinist Robbie D. Baxter's excruciating headaches.
Oh boy, we've got women's troubles: Menopause, breast cancer, osteoporosis - thousands of men suffer from FEMALE ...Monday, June 21, 2010 @ 7:15PMThey've always suffered from these conditions, but either through lack of awareness among doctors or embarrassment in seeking help, they've been suffering in silence.
You Docs: Keep this bully out of your bodyFriday, June 18, 2010 @ 3:01AMChronic inflamation can capture even your good cholesterol, turning it into artery-blocking blobs.
Aspirin and dental floss: Homespun high-energy physicsTuesday, June 15, 2010 @ 4:59AMThink particle physics is all high-tech? New Scientist rummages in the kitchen cupboard to help probe the subatomic secrets of nature