Bourn Hall sets up new support group for IVF patients. Gangaji: Listen to the Stories You Tell Yourself. One of our most impressive powers as human beings is our power of language. We use language as we speak externally to others and as we speak internally to ourselves. Part and parcel of that power are the stories we tell.
Story telling is an essential and awesome aspect of our human experience. It is one of the ways we communicate how we make sense of the world -- our interpretation of reality. When we learn from stories and are expanded in our discovery of what it means to be a true human being, we benefit immeasurably. The appearance of a story (physical story, mental story, emotional story or circumstantial story) needn't be an obstacle to recognizing the peace that underlies all stories. People who live their lives unaware that they are telling themselves a story consider their thoughts to be descriptions of reality.
This form of immaturity is seen in many ways in the community of humanity. The initial loss of balance is not the problem. This inquiry has to do with your daily life. A Hearing Aid That Cuts Out All the Clatter. Then, in June, he went to the Kennedy Center in Washington, where his “Voices of Light” oratorio had once been performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, for a performance of the musical “Wicked.” There were no special headphones. This time, the words and music were transmitted to a wireless receiver in Mr. Einhorn’s hearing aid using a technology that is just starting to make its way into public places in America: a hearing loop. “There I was at ‘Wicked’ weeping uncontrollably — and I don’t even like musicals,” he said.
“For the first time since I lost most of my hearing, live music was perfectly clear, perfectly clean and incredibly rich.” His reaction is a common one. The technology, which has been widely adopted in Northern Europe, has the potential to transform the lives of tens of millions of Americans, according to national advocacy groups. “It’s the equivalent of a wheelchair ramp for people who used to be socially isolated because of their hearing loss,” said David G.
Are Men Funnier Than Women?: Scientific American Podcast. 1974 - Ella Fitzgerald - It Don't Mean a thing. CAA Where You Live | Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act. The Clean Air Act is one of the most successful public health programs in American history and, with a return of more than $30 in benefits for every dollar invested in pollution reductions, one of the best investments Americans have made. In 2010 alone, reductions in fine particle and ozone pollution under the Clean Air Act prevented an estimated: 160,000 cases of premature mortality 130,000 heart attacks 86,000 hospital visits 13 million lost work days 1.7 million asthma attacks This Administration has taken a series of reasonable, common-sense steps under the Clean Air Act many of which are decades over due and issued in response to court orders to reduce emissions of mercury, acid gas, particulate matter, arsenic and other harmful chemicals from some of the biggest polluters in the nation.
The Cross-State Air Pollution Rule ensures that hundreds of millions of Americans from the midwest to the East Coast are not forced to breathe air pollution from other states. State Fact Sheets. Physicians who cash in on a woman’s desire to be beautiful. Linda Burke-Galloway, MD | Physician | October 24, 2011 Three young mothers under the age of 40 are dead because they wanted to be beautiful. Kellee Lee-Howard wanted a slimmer body. Ditto Maria Shortall and Rohie Kah-Orukatan. Shortall worked as a housekeeper; Lee-Howard was the mother of six kids and Kah-Orukotan died at the same place where she received manicures. I knew this day was coming. Jayne O’Donnell recently published an expose about these doctors in USA Today entitled Lack of Training in Cosmetic Surgery Can Be Deadly. All three women died from complications of anesthesia. Linda Burke-Galloway is an obstetrician-gynecologist and author of The Smart Mother’s Guide to a Better Pregnancy.
Submit a guest post and be heard on social media’s leading physician voice. Tagged as: Malpractice, Patients, Surgery. Who Owns Your Identity on the Social Web? When I go to a bar, the bouncer usually stops me and asks for an ID. I show him my state-issued driver’s license and walk on by. This may be unusual, as I’m 36 (thanks, mom, for the good genes), but we’re all pretty accustomed to presenting our official identification when needed. We need IDs to vote in an election, and when we get pulled over for speeding. If identification is so commonplace in the physical world, why is it still such a hazy area on the Internet? In the old days of web publishing, almost every site required its users to register in order to access certain functionalities, like commenting.
However, each login was only useful to its corresponding website. Users had to remember a myriad of usernames and passwords just to read up on the morning news. With the rise of social networks and search platforms, a few large B2C companies evolved into large-scale consumer identity providers (a.k.a. For instance, we just launched our Mashable Awards 2011 microsite. Atlanta Band Aid Laser Treatments & Cosmetic Injectable Specials. Harley recalling more than 308,000 motorcycles. Fish Mislabeling Found To Be Rampant In 'Boston Globe' DNA Investigation.
Mortgage refinance; Obama; foreclosure; home loans. Reporting from Washington — The Obama administration, worried that the housing crisis is strangling the economic recovery, is stepping up efforts to aid the battered market as another wave of home foreclosures threatens to drive values down further and rattle consumer confidence again. But the administration's piecemeal approach — giving temporary reprieves to the jobless, converting empty homes into rental properties, allowing more people to refinance mortgages — isn't going to help much, said industry leaders and even some lawmakers in the president's own party.
What's needed, they said, is a grand plan, such as an across-the-board reduction of the principal homeowners are carrying on their mortgages. "Abysmally too little is being done to deal with the problem," said Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-Atwater), who recently led a contingent of California lawmakers in denouncing the administration's handling of the crisis. Even today's historically low interest rates aren't helping. The Stats in the Hat - Hubaisms /// G Huba. New app aims to reduce stress with slow breathing. Roya R. Rad, MA, PsyD: The Power of Prayer: Why Does it Work? There is strong scientific evidence indicating that faith and prayer may help us with experiencing greater health physically, mentally and psychologically.
Many studies have been published in both medical and psychological journals supporting the positive effects of prayer and faith. But some of the studies related to prayer have mixed results depending on the type of prayer, the demographic and the methods and means its effects were being measured. So, it is important to follow these studies with a critical mind to be able to see why they came up with their conclusions. But overall most conclusions are supportive of the positive influences of prayer and faith on human health and functioning.
Physician and researcher Larry Dossey, M. D., in his book "Prayer is Good Medicine," discusses how praying for oneself and others can have a scientifically measurable healing effect on illness and trauma. When it comes to the types of prayer, there are different types. 1. 2. 3. Roya R. Letrozole Surpasses Tamoxifen at Reducing Breast Cancer Recurrence. The study is the latest installment in a long-running trial comparing treatment after surgery in postmenopausal women who have breast cancers that are estrogen-receptor positive, or sensitive to estrogen. Those cases account for about 60 percent of all breast cancers. The study involved 8,010 women and looked at two treatments: letrozole (brand name Femara) or tamoxifen taken alone for five years or both drugs taken in sequence, one for two years followed by the other for three years.
The women were followed for more than eight years on average. Women given letrozole for five years after surgery had a 20 percent lower risk of breast cancer recurrence and were 21 percent less likely to die during the study, compared with those who were given only tamoxifen, long the gold standard. Neither combination of drugs significantly lowered the likelihood of recurrence or death compared with taking letrozole alone, researchers found. IRS on track to enforce taxes and penalties from healthcare law. The IRS appears to be meeting the technological challenges sparked by the overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, a new federal audit has found.
The Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration reports that the agency is systematically dealing with the more than 40 changes that the healthcare law, signed in March 2010, makes to the tax code. At least eight of the modifications, which include penalties for those who do not acquire healthcare coverage and incentives for those who do, are forcing the IRS to craft entirely new processes to administer the law.
In all, the overhaul contains $438 billion in new taxes and fees, the audit found. “The new Affordable Care Act provisions represent the largest set of tax law changes in 20 years,” Russell George, the tax administration inspector general, said in a statement. “I commend the IRS for its successful creation of a plan to implement them.” Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.: Just Say No to...Vitamins? "Have you seen that article about older women and vitamins? " a colleague of mine breathlessly asked the other morning. Immediately feeling deficient for missing it, I had to admit, "No. What did it say? " She couldn't remember specifics but said a study came out of Finland that older women who took multivitamins were at greater risk of death.
She concluded with, "I saw it on the evening news too. " I had a vision of people -- not just older women -- frantically flushing stashes of multi-colored multivitamins down the toilet, as if just having them in their cabinets constituted some level of risk. The children's story Chicken Little came to mind, specifically the phrase, "The sky is falling! " That brought me to the image of a pinball machine -- an actual pinball machine, not a graphic representation, because I'm of that age.
Think of all the stories you've seen over the years about coffee. How many people read the vitamin story and reacted without really investigating the information? Children's Risk For Nearsightedness May Be Reduced By Spending More Time Outdoors. How Long Is This Hot Wheels Track? | Wired Science Let me start with this video: Pretty cool, right? The video says the track is 2,000 feet long. So, the questions that come to mind: Is it really 2,000 feet long? It isn’t that I don’t trust people, but you know….How long would that take to set up? Simple questions, you say? So, I still need some info to start, right? How Fast? I can’t find a good sideways shot of the car moving on the track.
But the problem is that I have nothing in the frame that I can scale the video. From this, the speed of the car seems to be around 2 m/s. From this, I get an average speed of 2.29 m/s with a standard deviation of 0.58 m/s. If the above average speed is a good representation of the average speed for the entire track, then I can say: This gives a track length of 412 meters (over 1300 feet). So, is the track 2,000 feet like it is claimed? How Long Would it Take to Set Up? This is just going to be some wild estimations. How many pieces would you have to put together to make this work? How much would it cost? Orangutan Culture Develops Like Human Culture | Wired Science. A team of anthropologists have shown that orangutans may have the ability to learn socially and pass these lessons down through generations — evidence that culture in humans and great apes has the same evolutionary roots.
[partner id="wireduk" align="right"]In humans, certain behavioral innovations tend to be passed down from generation to generation through social learning. Many consider the existence of culture in humans to be one of the key factors that differentiates us from other animals. Around a decade ago, biologists observing great apes noticed geographical variations in behavior that suggested that they were passing certain innovations down through generations, just as humans do. To this day, there is much debate about whether geographical variations in behavior is driven culturally or through genetic and environmental factors. The team analyzed more than 100,000 hours of behavioral data and created genetic profiles of more than 150 wild orangutans. Beijing 'hubs' haven't curbed population pressures - World news - Asia-Pacific - China.
With Much At Stake, Lobbyists Stay Close To Super Committee. Politico reports that the high stakes that involve everything from the health industry to Native American tribes in the deficit panel's deliberations have created a veritable "swarm" of lobbyists. Politico: Lobbyists Swarm Super Committee It's a stunning ratio of lobbyists to lawmakers but makes sense when you consider the high stakes faced by interests ranging from the health care industry to Native American tribes. The groups fear the super committee will find $1.2 trillion in deficit reduction before Thanksgiving by cutting their funding or raising their taxes (Sherman and Palmer, 10/23). The Associated Press: Lawmakers Open To Changes In Military Benefits The government's promise of lifetime health care for the military's men and women is suddenly a little less sacrosanct as Congress looks to slash trillion-dollar-plus deficits.
Meanwhile, also on Capitol Hill, Politico Pro reports on possible complications for the Medicare physician payment fix — Exclusive Sneak Peek: 'Gold Rush' Family Hocks Everything To Strike It Rich, But Is It Worth It? With gold selling for over $1,600 an ounce, Americans are combing their dressers and attics for old jewelry, looking to cash in on the new gold rush. The miners on Discovery Channel’s hit reality show “Gold Rush” have a different kind of gold fever–they left their homes and family in the Lower 48, hoping to strike it rich mining for gold in Alaska. “I’ve had talks with my kids about the state of the economy,” miner Todd “The Boss” Hoffman tells FOX411.com. "I’ve said, ‘Now, listen. We’re in deep trouble, we’ve overspent and in order for you little guys to have a future, daddy has to go out and do something a little crazy.’ " Last season, Hoffman, a former aviation worker, sold almost everything he owned and convinced several of his unemployed buddies to pool their resources and go to America’s Last Frontier to mine for gold.
“I don’t qualify for unemployment,” explains Hoffman. Todd Hoffman learned the art of mining from his father, Jack, during the hardscrabble ‘70s. Bisphenol A exposure in womb affects girls' behavior. Preserving Cabrini-Green's images In the sharp sun of an April afternoon, Nate Lanthrum walks through the remains of Cabrini-Green giving away what he has taken. He looks out of place, a white guy carrying a $1,500 Nikon D700 camera, but the residents are used to him by now and greet... Blackhawks thrilled to have Brent Seabrook back Starting with Game 6 Sunday, Brent Seabrook's timeout will be over and the defenseman will be back on the ice — so long as he promises to play nice. The Blackhawks have done pretty well in Seabrook's absence, winning all three games the NHL... NFL draft preview: Defensive ends As the NFL draft nears — it takes place May 8-10 — we're taking an 11-day, position-by-position look at what's out there and what the Bears need.
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Time – and brain chemistry – heal all wounds | Science Sushi. HPV Is Linked to Heart Disease in Women. Healthcare reform law’s backers hope to reclaim 'ObamaCare' label. Stephanie Armstrong: It's Cool to Skip Lunch. Inspector general report faults oversight of Medicaid drug program. Shunning water linked to high blood sugar. Psychopaths Share Similar Speech Patterns When Detailing Their Crimes, Study Shows. Battling for gay rights, in Allah's name - US news - Life. RGA opposes Obama plan to cut Medicaid spending. Zyprexa: FDA OKs Generic Version Of Schizophrenia And Bipolar Disorder Drug. Insomnia could moderately raise your heart attack risk / American Heart Association. APHA: Not getting enough sleep? Craig Ing: Suppression, Regression, Depression. Million-dollar payments to surgeons raise questions. OVERNIGHT HEALTH: Barbour pitches Medicaid flexibility. Antibody for Hendra and Nipah Viruses Shows Promise.
Tido von Schoen-Angerer: A Vaccine That Works Only Half the Time Is Not the Shot in the Arm Malaria Needs. MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010): Intermittent black screen or loss of video. Red Room: Love, Interrupted. NHS must prepare for the genetic revolution, report says. Bruce A. Barron: What We Know and Don't Know. Coffee linked to reduced risk of common skin cancer - latimes.com. More Ways to Cope With Type 1 Diabetes and Low Blood Sugar. The new American Girl doll: She’s Jewish, she’s poor and her name is Rebecca. Antibody for Hendra and Nipah Viruses Shows Promise.
Why Your Surgeon Should Be a Gamer | Wired Science Floodwaters enter Bangkok's second airport - Weather. Health gap between rich and poor in the spotlight at UN forum in Brazil. Javan rhino 'now extinct in Vietnam' Senators Outraged U.S. Borrowing Big From China While Also Giving It Aid. Gas pump handles top study of filthy surfaces. Blood test could identify smokers at higher risk for heart disease, UT Southwestern researchers find.
Technolog - Tablet users don't want to pay for news on device. NYT on High-Functioning Schizophrenics - Neuroethics. East L.A. speaks from its heart - latimes.com. Premiums, Deductibles And Cost Sharing In Employer Health Plans Keep Rising. Screen Time Higher Than Ever for Children, Study Finds. Sari Eckler Cooper: Does Sexual Dysfunction Lead to Divorce? Drugs to Treat A.D.H.D. Reach the Preschool Set. Novartis, Vectura lung drugs face delay in U.S. Report: Gadhafi buried in undisclosed location - World news - Mideast/N. Africa. Loss Of Independent Living For Seniors Greatly Influenced By Death Of Spouse. MPs condemn poor value from hi-tech equipment. Hurricane Rina becomes Category 2 storm - Weather. New Simulation Education Research Highlighted At CHEST 2011.