Month: July 2014

When aspiring to complete a particular project or task, many of us often look to examples of the greats that have come before us for a little guidance. But what do we do when we discover that great minds don’t think so alike after all, and their paths to success vary dramatically? Thanks to the productivity experts at Podio, we can browse the daily routines of some of the most legendary creative people and decide which set of daily habits works best for us. Their recent interactive infographic, “The Daily Routines of Famous Creative People,” showcases when 26 of the

In the practice of meditation we learn that the process of breathing grounds us in the body.

As horrifying as this was, I felt worst about not speaking out from behind my own curtain to let my roommates and the nurses know that this was not acceptable treatment.

Police in California have arrested a woman they described as a high-priced prostitute who is suspected of murdering a man by injecting him with a fatal dose of heroin on board his yacht in a Santa Cruz harbor, authorities said. The Santa Cruz Police Department said security camera footage from the yacht showed Alix Catherine Tichelman, 26, failing to help the 51-year-old victim after he fell unconscious in November 2013. In their initial statement, police did not identify the man, but in a follow-up on Wednesday they named him as Forrest Hayes. The Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper, which first reported the arrest, identified Hayes as a Google executive and said he was survived by a wife and five children.

By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) – (Story has been refiled to correct the extent of FDA e-cigarette research in paragraph 2) One team of researchers assessing the risks of electronic cigarettes is counting the puffs taken by volunteer "vapers." Another will comb Facebook for posts on how people are tinkering with e-cigarettes to make the devices deliver extra nicotine. "They want data and they want it yesterday," said Dr Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin of Yale University, who is leading four projects. To be sure, studies of e-cigarettes not funded by the FDA are also under way, and the agency can factor those results into any action it takes. The e-cigarette industry, which Wells Fargo Securities estimates will make $2 billion in global sales this year, says the FDA must wait for the results of the research before it issues any regulations, or manufacturers risk being driven out of business by unproven fears about their products.

It has been more than 40 years since that moment since fate brought my parents together in that room. I'm sure they rarely think about it — the beginning of their love story, so full of honesty and hope.

By Krystnell Storr NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new case report from France offers a reminder of why people who use medical devices like asthma inhalers should take warnings on the product label seriously. Dr. Stanislas Ledochowski of the Hospitalier Universitaire Lyons Sud, who examined the man, told Reuters Health, “Fortunately, it is to be considered as an exceptional event, and since it was the only described case in the medical literature, we thought describing such an occurrence could be of medical interest.” Inhalers, a portable form of nebulizer, turn liquid medication into a fine mist, which is the fastest way for people with asthma or other lung conditions to dose themselves during an attack. The National Institutes of Health also warns that albuterol should be kept out of the reach of children, stored at room temperature and kept in its foil pouch until needed. Ledochowski and his coauthors describe in the journal Surgery what they found when they went in to remove the foreign object.