Is Surfing The Internet Altering Your Brain?

IS SURFING THE INTERNET ALTERING YOUR BRAIN?
The Internet is not just changing the way people live but altering the way our brains work with a neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order.
Gary Small, a neuroscientist at UCLA in California who specializes in [...]

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Brain Cells Start To Grow

Brain Cells Start To Grow

A new study suggests that seniors who line dance, play bridge or a musical instrument may be doing more than just having fun: They may be warding off the risk of developing dementia, including Alzheimer’s, a progressive brain disease which afflicts four million Americans.

People who played the hardest gained [...]

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Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Story – Fading Memories

Fading memories
(Source: By Catherine Siow, The Star Newspaper, 17 September 2008)
In conjunction with World Alzheimer’s Day on Sunday, a caregiver shares her roller-coaster ride as her mother enters a more severe stage of the illness often referred to as The Long Goodbye.
DEALING with losses is an everyday affair in my life as sole [...]

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LOST WORLD – The Effects of Alzheimers Disease in the Later Stages are Devastating as the Afflicted Person Slips into Oblivion

Lost world
(Source: By Catherine Siow, The Star Newspaper, 17 September 2008)

The effects of Alzheimer’s disease in the later stages are devastating as the afflicted person slips into oblivion.

INEVITABLE is the progressive deterioration in the health of an Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patient as the years pass by. The emotional and physical toll [...]

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KNOW YOUR BREASTS

KNOW YOUR BREASTS

Find out what breast familiarity entails and review self-examination techniques.

UNLIKE internal organs where cancers strike such as the ovaries, and intestines or even the lungs, breasts are in plain sight. It gives you the best chance of detecting a growth earlier than if the organ was inside you and this in [...]

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Breast Health Message Reaches Out To The Disabled

A SPECIAL MISSION

Breast Health Message Reaches Out To The Disabled.

IT started as a discussion between two friends on the need for people with disabilities to be included in health promotion activities.

Dr Evelyn Ho, a Consultant Clinical Radiologist, and Mary Chen, Editor of Challenges Magazine, felt that these people were often taken for [...]

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CREATING CANCER AWARENESS IS A CONTINUING MISSION

Spreading the message
BY SOO EWE JIN
Creating Cancer Awareness is A Continuing Mission.
OCTOBER, by tradition, is the month when cancer advocacy groups throughout the world go pink to build awareness of breast cancer issues.
The first Breast Cancer Awareness Month programme took place in October 1985 in the US as a week-long event to fill the [...]

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HER MIRACLE – HEALING IN GIVING

HEALING IN GIVING

A breast cancer survivor finds herself healed of fourth-stage cancer after setting out on a mission to help other cancer survivors cope with the disease.

On a beautiful day in August, cancer survivor Shery Lim received the best news of her life – she was healed of fourth stage cancer.

She recounts [...]

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QUOTABLE QUOTES

QUOTABLE QUOTES

(1) “The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.”
- Ralph Nichols –

(2) “A hundred times a day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, [...]

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Poem – 3 Little Words “And Then Some”

“AND THEN SOME…
These three little words are the secret to success.
They are the difference between average people
and top people in most companies.
The top people always do what is expected…
and then some.
They are thoughtful of others,
they are considerate and kind…
and then some.
They meet their responsibilities fairly and squarely…
and then some.
They are good friends and helpful neighbors…
and [...]

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