Month: March 2014

CHICAGO (AP) — A smartphone app for recovering alcoholics that includes a panic button and sounds an alert when they get too close to taverns helped keep some on the wagon, researchers who developed the tool found.

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A mobile app aimed at keeping people recovering from alcohol abuse sober appears to cut down on the number of days they drink, according to a new study. More recovering alcohol abusers also reported total abstinence from drinking when using the app, which has guided relaxation techniques and alerts users when they’re near bars and other places that may be risky to their recoveries. “The system we have is the product of about 30 years of research,” David Gustafson, the app’s developer, told Reuters Health. Gustafson is also the study’s lead author from the Center for Health Enhancement Systems Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Health officials in Guinea are working to contain the disease.

By Saliou Samb CONAKRY (Reuters) – Guinea said on Wednesday it had stopped an outbreak of deadly Ebola fever from spreading beyond the country’s remote southeast, although the number of deaths from suspected infections rose to at least 63. U.N. agencies and medical charities such as Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have scrambled to help Guinea – one of the world’s poorest countries – to cope with the virus, amid fears it might spill across borders into neighboring West African nations. Liberia, which shares a border with southeastern Guinea, reported five deaths this week from suspected infections in people who had come across the frontier to seek treatment. Sierra Leone has also uncovered two deaths in the border town of Boidu suspected to be linked to Ebola, one of the most lethal infectious diseases known to man.

Boston judge slams parents, rules state to keep custody until age 18.

Katie McMahon wrote about getting liposuction at 18 and regretting the decision.

Boston judge slams parents, rules state to keep custody until age 18.