Cited: ABC News
On October 26, opera singer Charity Tillemann-Dick took the stage to open this year’s TEDMED conference in San Diego for an exquisitely sung aria! This conference is one that examines the novel approaches to medicine and health care as well as marking an anniversary for the singer. It was one year ago the [...]
Cited: AP
After a nurse accidentally switched off his ventilator, a quadriplegic Englishman became brain-damaged. In fact, the act was caught on camera the patient had installed because he believed that the quality of his care was not what it should have been. Britons were shocked by video of nurse turning off quadriplegic’s life-support system. The [...]
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Source: TIME
Obesity is no longer just an American problem, it’s spreading across the pond and, over the past two decades, Europe’s waistlines have been widening, according to new reports.
In fact, from 1990 to 2006, obesity levels in Europe tripled on the whole, according to statistics from the World Health Organization. Although they’ve yet to catch [...]
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cited: US News & World Report
New research has found that elderly, overweight people have significantly less brain tissue than their counterparts of a normal weight.
“The brains of obese people looked 16 years older than their healthy counterparts while [those of] overweight people looked 8 years older,” said UCLA neuroscientist Paul Thompson, senior author of a [...]
cited: New York Times
PHILADELPHIA — For the first time, the Army will require each of its 1.1 million soldiers to take intensive emotional training, which is meant to not only improve combat performance but also avoid mental health problems, like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide, that plague about 20% of troops coming home from [...]
cited: Time Magazine
With farms popping up everywhere from White House backyards to Brooklyn truckbeds, it’s easy to write off the upswing of modern-day victory gardens and organic produce aisles as a meaningless trend. Unfortunately, it is becoming rapidly more important to look at how much it’s costing us to save money at the grocery store.
Somewhere [...]
