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HIV trial under scrutiny. The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent ... - Jonny Bowden, Jonny Bowden, PH.D., C.N.S., Stephen T. Sinatra. MYOFASCIAL PAIN SYNDROME IN THE HEAD AND NECK REGION - MYOFASCIALPAINSYNDROMEIN.pdf. Myofascial release. Myofascial release is a soft tissue therapy for the treatment of skeletal muscle immobility and pain.

Myofascial release

First described by Andrew Taylor Still and his early students,[1] the therapy relaxes contracted muscles, improves blood and lymphatic circulation, and stimulates the stretch reflex in muscles.[2] Background and terminology[edit] Fascia is the soft tissue component of the connective tissue that provides support and protection for most structures within the human body, including muscle. Osteopathic theory proposes that this soft tissue can become restricted due to psychogenic disease, overuse, trauma, infectious agents, or inactivity, often resulting in pain, muscle tension, and corresponding diminished blood flow.

Although fascia and its corresponding muscle are the main targets of myofascial release, other tissue may be addressed as well, including other connective tissue.[2] The term myofascial was first used in medical literature by Janet G. Direct myofascial release[edit] Nearly all US states see hefty drop in teen births. May. 23, 2013 3:11 PM ET NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report.

Nearly all US states see hefty drop in teen births

F. Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry by Gary Greenberg reviewed by Benjamin Nugent. Illustration by Lisa Hanawalt When I think of psychiatry, my first thoughts are unkind.

Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry by Gary Greenberg reviewed by Benjamin Nugent

I think of mildly sad people on antidepressants. The Colbert Report on 'Marijuana Makes You Skinny' Research. Integrative assessment of multiple pesticides as risk factors for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma among men. + Author Affiliations Correspondence to: Dr A J De Roos, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, MP-474, PO Box 19024, Seattle, WA 98109, USA; aderoos@fhcrc.org Accepted 27 March 2003 Abstract Background: An increased rate of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) has been repeatedly observed among farmers, but identification of specific exposures that explain this observation has proven difficult.

Integrative assessment of multiple pesticides as risk factors for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma among men

Methods: During the 1980s, the National Cancer Institute conducted three case-control studies of NHL in the midwestern United States. Phosphate in food is ‘health risk’ that should be labelled, claim researchers. Food products with high phosphate contents are damaging to the health of the general public, and as such should be labelled, say researchers behind a new study.

Phosphate in food is ‘health risk’ that should be labelled, claim researchers

Bill of Reproductive Rights. Learning requires rhythmical activity of neurons. The hippocampus represents an important brain structure for learning.

Learning requires rhythmical activity of neurons

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich discovered how it filters electrical neuronal signals through an input and output control, thus regulating learning and memory processes. Researchers prove that leukemias arise from changes that accumulate in blood stem cells. Ravi Majeti Imagine that a police bomb squad comes upon a diabolically designed bomb controlled by a tangled mass of different wires, lights and switches, some of which have a real function while others are decoys.

Researchers prove that leukemias arise from changes that accumulate in blood stem cells

The police don’t know how to begin defusing the bomb because they don’t know which parts are important. Then imagine the police discover the bomb-making factory and are able to see hundreds of these bombs at various stages of construction. With this information, they can reconstruct how the bomb was put together, and therefore how to disarm it.

For a team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the bombs they need to defuse are killer leukemias. Brown Rice Recipes. The Woman You Know And Love From ‘House’ Has A Chilling Message About All This GOP Rape Talk. Gender-bending chemicals found in tin cans. By JAMES CHAPMAN, Daily Mail Leading brands of tinned food contain a 'gender-bending' chemical linked to cancer and damaged sexual development, the Government's food watchdog has found.

Gender-bending chemicals found in tin cans

Scientists at the Food Standards Agency (FSA) identified the substance, which mimics the female hormone oestrogen, in more than half of the cans of food on sale in supermarkets. They detected bisphenol A, which has also been linked to early puberty in girls, in everyday products ranging from baked beans to fish. The substance is used to make the plastic coatings on the inside of many tins. Although the levels were within safety limits, there is growing concern about damage the chemical might cause to health in lower concentrations. PREPARING THE GROUND. Article. Journal article By: Nancy Chege Date: July 1993 Source: Chege, Nancy.

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"An African Success Story. " Seed Bombs - Rogue Radishes and Crimson Blessings. The technique for creating seed balls was developed by Japanese natural farming pioneer Masanobu Fukuoka.

Seed Bombs - Rogue Radishes and Crimson Blessings

Seed balls or seed bombs are very easy to make. The secret ingredient is clay, this holds the seeds and fertilizer together and makes it difficult for birds to eat the seeds before they get a chance to get growing. Plants Can See and Smell, Says Researcher. By Cassie RyanEpoch Times Staff Created: July 30, 2012 Last Updated: August 6, 2012 Daniel Chamovitz's new book explains how plants have senses similar to humans. (Tel Aviv University) Israeli plant geneticist Daniel Chamovitz believes that plants are more similar to humans than previously realized and even have similar senses. Chamovitz is Director of Tel Aviv University’s Manna Center for Plant Biosciences, and has written a new book called What a Plant Knows detailing his findings, which may lead us to rethink what we know about biology with implications for research into food security and human diseases.

While investigating how plants respond to light, Chamovitz found a group of genes that allow plants to tell whether they are in the light or the dark. Eugenia Bone. There are lots of misunderstandings about cooking mushrooms. Here are a few tips that may help clarify some of the mysteries. There are two categories of mushrooms out there: wild and cultivated. New cultivars are on the market that you used to only find in the wild, like maitake (hen of the woods) and royal trumpets, as are mushrooms long cultivated in the Far East, like wood ear and enoki, and more wild varieties are showing up in specialty stores, like blewets and black trumpets.

Cholera pandemic has a single global source. 25 August 2011Last updated at 12:13 By Hamish Pritchard Science Reporter How cholera has spread from the Bay of Bengal A major cholera pandemic has spread in at least three waves from a single global source: the Bay of Bengal. A study in Nature reveals cholera's spread over the last 60 years into Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas, continent-hopping on long-haul flights. The research by a team from Cambridge's Sanger Institute showed the infection is evolving, with the newest waves showing antibiotic resistance. Listening to music 'makes surgery less stressful' 27 March 2012Last updated at 21:02 ET By Michelle Roberts Health reporter, BBC News Music appears to have a calming effect on patients Playing music to patients while they go under the knife reduces their anxiety and may even aid healing, surgeons say. Easy listening tracks and chart hits can have a calming effect on patients who are awake for surgery under local anaesthetic, a team at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford found.

Listening to the radio also helped. Their small study, published in Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons, tracked the progress of 96 patients having minor surgery at the hospital. Don Perata Squandered Prop 29 Funds. Genetic toxicology studies comparing the activity ... [Mutat Res. 1990. Chernobyl's radioactive trees and the forest fire risk. 6 July 2012Last updated at 20:30 ET By Patrick Evans Chernobyl, Ukraine. The Role of Glucose in Self-Control. A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity. How Walking Keeps Bones Strong – and Helps Prevent Falls. Bone is living tissue and is continuously breaking down and building back up. Osteoporosis occurs when this balance shifts and bone loss outpaces new bone replacement — leading to weak bones and increasing the risk of fractures and debilitating complications.

Improve Balance: Prevent Falls, SS-170-00. Untangling energy metabolism. The nature of floral signals in Arabidopsis. I. Photosynthesis and a far-red photoresponse independently regulate flowering by increasing expression of FLOWERING LOCUS T (FT) Handheld plasma flashlight rids skin of notorious pathogens. Oxygen Bars Not a Breath of Fresh Air. A letter from Jed Koball in Peru, November 2011 — Mission Connections. News : University of Missouri - Kansas City. Man Uses His Schizophrenia to Gather Clues for Daily Living. Metabolic profiles essential for personalising cancer therapy. Cancer is just as deadly as it was 50 years ago. Here's why that's about to change. Fundamental Characteristics of Chinese Medicine. Reversing the Irreversible - discover how 37 people cured diabetes, cancer, eczema, IBS, high blood pressure and more. Short fast sprints 'cut' diabetes. NHS 'to undergo radical overhaul' Low vitamin D levels 'linked to Parkinson's disease'

Pre-diabetes 'timebomb' warning. Mad science News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. Mad science News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. Mad science News, Videos, Reviews and Gossip - io9. "Nicotine Bees" Population Restored With Neonicotinoids Ban. Burnout: Physician, Diagnose Thyself : IMNG Oncology Report.

Oracle Health Sciences Institute, in Partnership With Oracle Labs, Announces First Round of Research Projects. Please title this page. (Page 1) The Heart Truth: A Campaign For Women About Heart Disease, HHS, NIH, NHLBI. Underreporting of neutropenic toxicity associated with current treatment regimens for selected hematologic malignancies : Community Oncology. Glaucoma Research Foundation. America Wants Marijuana Reform, Former LAPD Leader Tells Obama Via YouTube: Will He Respond? Marijuana Laws Would Ban Employers From Firing Medical Users, Loosen Penalties for Growing: Sacramento Lobbyists Block 'Em.

Marijuana Crackdown in California: U.S. Department of Justice Says it's Not President Obama's Fault. Medical Marijuana's Abundance in L.A. Has its Advantages: Synthetic Weed Linked to Heart Attacks in Teens. Marijuana Prosecution Memo From Feds Indicates 999 Plants is Okay, 1,000 is Not. Ourhealth.actwritepoetry.com. 3 of 20 Pain Killers in your Kitchen. BANANAS with dark patches on yellow skin… Florida's Oxycodone Party is Over: Pain Pill Sales Dropped 97 Percent in One Year. Adderall Shortage of 2011: Los Angeles Feels the Pain at Year's End. Conjugate vaccine. Polysaccharide encapsulated bacteria. Spleen. Urea-formaldehyde. Junk Food in Schools Not Linked to Childhood Obesity - Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining - Squid Ink.

Activists Call for Food Safety Czar's Ouster - Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining - Squid Ink. Welcome to the Living Labs Project! Q & A With Beekeeper Brent Edelen: Where Honey Went Wrong, What "Wildflower" Often Really Means + Industry Changes - Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining - Squid Ink. U.S. Still a Dumping Ground for Crappy Honey, Study Finds - Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining - Squid Ink. Details on Our September 8 Call-In Lobbying Day.

Organic Versus Genetically Engineered Crops: Some Rays of Light. NYT Launches Attack on Supplement-Protecting Senator—Just as DSHEA Comes under Renewed Threat. UC Berkeley Press Release. The Bacon Tampon: Doctors Find Salt Pork Stops Nosebleeds - Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining - Squid Ink. Honeybee problem nearing a ‘critical point’

6 ideas for Tweeting your fundraising campaign. Google Gives Back – To The Tune Of $40 Million. Jobs Up, Market Share Down At Nonprofits. Self-Employed Workers Are Happy Workers. Why Don't We Act in Our Own Best Interest? - Tony Schwartz. Facebook Emotions Are Contagious, and You Just Might Be Bringing Your Friends Down. Are We Happy Yet? Final Report on Carcinogens Backgrou... [Rep Carcinog Backgr Doc. 2010. NTP Toxicology and Carcino... [Natl Toxicol Program Tech Rep Ser. 1993. Final Report on Carcinogens Backgrou... [Rep Carcinog Backgr Doc. 2008. Bisphosphonate. Chemo makes your eyeballs swell - cancerdancer.