PARENTS’ NEED LESSONS ABOUT ADHD

Jo Moss told the BBC that there needs to be more public awareness and support for ADHD.
Parents need lessons in how to cope with their children’s unruly behaviour, new guidelines on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) say.
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) says drugs such as Ritalin should be avoided – and [...]

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Diet and Physical Activity: What’s the Cancer Connection?

(Source: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_3_1x_Link_Between_Lifestyle_and_CancerMarch03.asp)
How much do daily habits like diet and exercise affect our risk for cancer? Much more than you might think. Increasingly, Researchers agree that poor diets and sedentary lifestyles are among the most important contributors to cancer risk.
Fortunately, these are things we can control.
Except for quitting smoking, the best way to cut your risk [...]

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Hypnosis Cuts Hot Flashes for Breast Cancer Survivors

(Source:  http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20080926/hl_hsn/hypnosiscutshotflashesforbreastcancersurvivors)
Breast cancer survivors who suffer from hot flashes can reduce these attacks significantly with hypnosis, a new study finds.
Hot flashes are a problem for many women who survive breast cancer. Not only do they cause discomfort, but they interrupt sleep, cause anxiety and affect a woman’s quality of life.
“This is a very encouraging study [...]

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KU Research Adds To Evidence That Exercise Can Help Damaged Brains

(Souce: http://www.kansascity.com/105/v-print/story/786597.html )
The Researchers at the University of Kansas School of Medicine really put Paul Hilpman through his paces.
After a series of dexterity tests, they harnessed the 76-year-old man to wires and a breathing tube and put him on a treadmill.
“Then the sadistic doctor cranks up the slope until they think I’ll collapse,” Hilpman quipped.
All [...]

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Cholesterol Drug Cancer Warning

(source:  http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/health/7595409.stm)
Patients have been urged to keep taking a cholesterol-lowering treatment despite a study linking it to higher cancer risk.
A New England Journal of Medicine study linked inegy, a combination of two drugs, to a 50% rise in cancer cases.
However, other experts said the results were likely to be an “anomaly”.
There have been 300,000 prescriptions [...]

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Study Shows: DVRs Save Relationships

(Source:  By Andrew Wallenstein, Reuters, September 3, 20080
Digital video Recorders don’t just save TV shows, according to a new survey; they save relationships.
Some 79 percent of 1,000 DVR owners reported that the technology has improved their relationship, according to the NDS DVR Report.
The statistic was just one of many presented by NDS, a manufacturer of [...]

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7 Ways To Learn More Without More Study

(Source:  US  News & World Report, September 2, 2008)
The abundance of new research on how teenage brains work, aside from being cool for its own sake–teen brains are developing madly, pruning synapses and insulating neurons to build a lean computing machine–is fuelling a new movement to help kids make the most of the brain they’ve [...]

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SMOKING RISKIER TO WOMEN’S HEARTS THAN MEN’s

Women typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke, Researchers said Tuesday.
In fact, women who smoke have heart attacks nearly 14 years earlier than women who don’t smoke, Norwegian Doctors reported in a study presented to the European Society of Cardiology. For men, the gap is not so dramatic; male [...]

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LIVE A LIFE THAT MATTERS

Ready or not, someday it will come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten,will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, [...]

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Cancer Issues : Location, Location, Location – Important for Genes, Too

(source: www.HealthNewsDigest.com)
Cells become cancerous mainly because they lose control of their growth. To better understand how this happens, a new study at Ohio State University’s Comprehensive Cancer Centre looks at four genes that help regulate cell growth in embryos and that contribute to cancer in adults.
The genes – E2f1, E2f2, and E2f3a and E2f3b – [...]

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