INQUIRER.net | Philippine News for Filipinos Loneliness link with Alzheimer's People who are lonely are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's disease, a large US study has suggested. The findings come from a study of more than 800 elderly patients, who were followed over a four-year period. Social isolation has already been shown to be linked to dementia but this is the first time researchers have looked at how alone people actually felt. Writing in Archives of General Psychiatry, the researchers said the reason for the link was not yet clear. Study leader Professor Robert Wilson and colleagues assessed participants loneliness by asking people to rate from one to five whether they agreed with certain statements related to loneliness on an annual basis. Questions posed to those being studied included "I experience a general sense of emptiness" and "I often feel abandoned". People in the study were also assessed for signs of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. However there was no association between loneliness and the brain pathology associated with Alzheimer's disease.
Syria shuts off internet access across the country | World news The government has previously cut phone lines and internet access in areas where regime forces are conducting major military operations. Photograph: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images Syrian officials shut down nationwide internet access on Thursday and closed Damascus airport as rebels mounted offensives nearby and tried to advance on the capital from four directions. Phone networks were also crippled in much of the country, causing fear and confusion on both sides and fuelling claims that a new rebel push was gaining momentum. Syria's information minister blamed "terrorists" for the outage, but the communications shutdown was seen as an attempt to stymie rebel moves as militias try to co-ordinate an assault on Damascus. Opposition groups have also been advancing in northern Syria, particularly near the second city, Aleppo, where the downing of two regime aircraft with surface to air missiles this week has given impetus to a rebel campaign that had become a series of attritional battles.
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A mind taut with pain - Health - Times Online Arab spring leads surge in events captured on cameraphones | World news In 2011, cameraphones entered the mainstream of photojournalism due to a combination of the Arab uprisings, the Occupy protests and improved technology. The Guardian, wire agencies and major broadcasters used many more cameraphone and video images. The New York Times said its use has increased a hundredfold. "That's largely because of the Arab spring", said Michele McNally, assistant managing editor for photography at the New York Times. She said citizen media was an "instant document" of an event rather than a replacement for skilled photojournalism. Al-Jazeera's citizen media service Sharek received about 1,000 cameraphone videos during the Egyptian uprising against Hosni Mubarak. Riyaad Minty, its head of social media, said: "Post Egypt, in places like Libya, Yemen and Syria, citizens posting online have been the primary lens through which people have been able to see what is happening on the ground. "Globally our sales figures this year were up 250%.
nuevaecijajournal.com All roads lead to Gapan City in Nueva Ecija on April 26 for a historic religious event – the 50th Canonical Coronation Anniversary of La Virgen Divina Pastora, the object of the biggest Marian pilgrimage in Central Luzon. Coinciding with the Canonical Coronation Golden Jubilee is the 28th anniversary of the declaration of the Three Kings Parish church as the National Shrine of La Virgen Divina Pastora. Rev. Father Antonio Mangahas, Three Kings Parish priest, said five bishops and some 50 priests from the Diocese of Cabanatuan and Diocese of San Jose, will concelebrate the Golden Jubilee Mass to be officiated by Cabanatuan Bishop Sofronio Bancud at 2:00 P.M. in the National Shrine of La Virgen Divina Pastora. The other bishops include Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas, San Jose Bishop Roberto C. Villegas, current president of the Catholic Bishops Conference, will be the guest homilist and will re-enact the coronation rite. Former army soldier killed in Talavera Sr. Chief Insp.
Global suicide toll exceeds war and murder Suicide kills more people each year than road traffic accidents in most European countries, the World Health Organization is warning. And globally, suicide takes more lives than murder and war put together, says the agency in a call for action. The death toll from suicide - at almost one million people per year - accounts for half of all violent deaths worldwide, says the WHO. "Suicide is a tragic global public health problem," says Catherine Le Galès-Camus, WHO's assistant director general for non-communicable diseases and mental health. The WHO is holding a meeting of experts in Geneva, Switzerland, to address suicide prevention ahead of its "World Suicide Prevention Day" on Friday. "It's important to realise that suicide is preventable," points out Lars Mehlum, president of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. Muslim countries The number of suicides in most European countries exceeds the number of annual traffic fatalities, says the WHO. Blister packs More from the web
Pampanga CEBU CITY. Sun.Star website at www.sunstar.com.ph asks citizens on their traditional sacrifices during Holy Week. (Nera Mariz Puyo/Jai Sandoval/Sunnex) CEBU CITY. One of the Filipino traditions during Holy Week is to cook and eat "Binignit" or vegetable soup as a form of abstinence from eating meat or other food. (Nera Mariz Puyo/Jai Sandoval/Sunnex) CAGAYAN DE ORO. CAGAYAN DE ORO. CAGAYAN DE ORO. PAMPANGA. CEBU. PAMPANGA. BAGUIO. DAVAO. Hikikomori The Negros Chronicle - News around Dumaguete City and Negros Oriental, Philippines