Month: December 2013

In short, you want to get on the path to loving yourself. Do things for yourself that feel good. When you feel good, you radiate goodness. Everyone else wants to be around you and you do not lose yourself in relationships.

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Every hour, on average, a child ends up in a U.S. emergency room with an injury associated with a high chair, according to a new study. Each year between 2003 and 2010, an average of about 9,500 infants and toddlers came to U.S. emergency rooms with high-chair-related injuries. “By the end of the study in 2010, there were around 11,000 kids being seen every year,” Dr. Gary Smith, the study’s senior author, told Reuters Health. The most common injuries associated with high chairs were so-called closed-head injuries, such as concussions.

Nancy Girvin first experienced a migraine at the age of 12. JP Summers used to have migraines so painful she would black out. The often-misunderstood condition is "incredibly disabling," Dr. Joshua Cohen, M.D., a headache specialist and neurologist in New York City, said in a recent HuffPost Live segment. And while there isn't a cure for patients like Girvin and Summers who live with chronic migraines, there is usually something doctors can do to at least make the pain bearable, he said. However, sometimes little works. …

In the future, medication to treat eye diseases like glaucoma could be dispensed from a contact lens, new research suggests. A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School Department of Ophthalmology, Boston Children's Hospital, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a contact lens that effectively delivers latanoprost, a glaucoma treatment, in cell and animal models. …

Recently, the FDA issued a ban on all trans fats, deeming them unsafe for human consumption, and it's about time! For more than 20 years, the science has shown these fake FrankenFats to be hazardous to our health. Thankfully, the government has finally caught on.

By Irene Klotz SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Scientists have found evidence of an ancient freshwater lake on Mars well suited to support microbial life, the researchers said Monday. The lake, located inside Gale Crater where the rover landed in August 2012, likely covered an area 31 miles long and 3 miles wide, though its size varied over time. Analysis of sedimentary deposits gathered by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows the lake existed for at least tens of thousands of years, and possibly longer, geologist John Grotzinger, with the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, told reporters at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco. Analysis of clays drilled out from two rock samples in the area known as Yellowknife Bay show the freshwater lake existed at a time when other parts of Mars were dried up or dotted with shallow, acidic, salty pools ill-suited for life.

Vaccinate!” In September, at the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Influenza Press Conference at the National Press Club, I had the pleasure of announcing this season’s annual influenza (flu) vaccination campaign for everyone 6 months of age and older. At this event, I was also pleased to launch a new online mapping tool developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help track flu vaccination at a community level in adults 65 and older.

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