We generally like to think that no wrong can come from an awesome workout. But on those rare occasions when the universe seems to be totally against you, an innocent trip to the gym can be torture. Trust us, we feel your pain. Just check out these cringe-worthy gym fails that are pretty much…
The 11 Worst Things That Can Happen At the Gym (in GIFs)
Depression is a serious illness with varying degrees. When it’s mild, it makes some areas of a person’s life challenging, according to Deborah Serani, PsyD, a clinical psychologist who specializes in treating mood disorders.
Mild depression typically doesn’t require professional help. It…
Telltale Signs It’s Time to Treat Your Depression
Welcome to Ask Healthy Living — in which you submit your most burning health questions and we do our best to ask the experts and get back to you. Have a question? Get in touch here and you could appear on Healthy Living!
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Ask Healthy Living: Do Airplanes Make Us Sick?
While almost everyone should really get a flu shot, people in Nevada may have an especially good reason to.
A new Gallup-Healthways report shows that Nevada had the highest flu rate in 2013, with 2.9 percent of adults living in the state reporting being sick with the flu in 2013….
The Flu Rate Is Highest In This State
A small new study sheds some light on how the brains of people with insomnia and good sleepers differ.
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found that there is more activity, adaptability to change (plasticity) and increased “excitability” of…
The Differences Between The Brains Of Insomniacs And Good Sleepers
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion. Whenever you enter into it take with you your all.” — Kahlil Gibran
Do you feel inadequate? Are you primed to think you will never have or be enough? Then you are caught in the trap of wanting more. If only I had more…
5 Lovely Ways to Celebrate the Power of Less
By Elizabeth Jenkins
We’ve all been there: Between looming work deadlines, family obligations and staying on top of bills and housework, sometimes you simply become exhausted. But there are small steps you can take to regain your spark. We asked the busiest women we could find…
11 Secrets To All-Day Energy
SATURDAY March 1, 2014, 2014 — A diet originally designed to lower blood pressure may also be effective for preventing kidney stones, according to a new study.
Researchers say a diet based on the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) eating plan is more practical and less…
Diet to Reduce Blood Pressure May Also Stave Off Kidney Stones
Pacific cod, Gadus macrocephalus.Image: Adam Summers.
After stumbling across Adam Summers’ work a few months ago, I purchased a few of his calendars as holiday gifts. The calendars — which are beautifully photographed and sturdily made — show the fish but lack…
For the love of cod | @GrrlScientist
The purpose was to determine whether a brachytherapy boost improves outcomes in patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated with standard chemo-radiotherapy.
Methods:
Patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma WHO grades I-III and TNM stages III or non-metastatic stage IV were eligible…
Brachytherapy boost in loco-regionally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a prospective randomized trial of the International Atomic Energy Agency
Patient satisfaction is a relevant prognostic factor in young persons with chronic disease and may be both age and disease specific. To assess health care quality from the patient’s view in young persons with inflammatory bowel disease, an easy to use, valid, reliable and informative…
Measuring satisfaction with health care in young persons with inflammatory bowel disease -an instrument development and validation study
Hong Kong (HKSAR) – Regarding the media enquiries today (March 1) about the humanitarian assistance services provided by the International Social Service Hong Kong Branch (ISS-HK) for non-refoulement claimants, a spokesman for the Social Welfare Department (SWD) gave the following…
Social Welfare Department’s response to media enquiries
This girl’s neck is telling her something…
What Is Your Body Telling You About Stress In Your Life?
I had a client who used to feel her stomach get tense when somebody asked her to do something that she didn’t want to do. She ignored this often but brought it up in a session about…
Stress Signals In Your Body You Might Be Missing
A 62-year-old Florida man has died after receiving a bite from a rare and poisonous brown recluse spider, according to the Polk County Health Department.
Ron Reese was renovating an old home in Mulberry, Fla. when the spider bit him – but did not see a doctor because he thought…
Fla. Man Dies From Brown Recluse Spider Bite
The elusive hipster population has not been without their fads — from skinny jeans to plaid — but none have rivaled the importance of facial hair.
With the increase in beard popularity, some men who feel they lack the right amount of stubble have started visiting their local…
Beards and Other Hair-Raising Transplants on the Rise
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A day after Doctors Without Borders announced it was being expelled from Myanmar, the government says negotiations with the organization are ongoing and that the group may be allowed to resume operations everywhere but Rakhine, a state plagued by bloody bouts of…
Gov’t: Doctors Without Borders can stay in Myanmar
HARGEISA, Somalia (AP) — The 30 Somali teenagers — both boys and girls — all agreed: Female genital mutilation is harmful and the practice should be abandoned. But what they really meant, they revealed moments later, is that girls should have their genitalia cut — just not sewn…
Somaliland leaders want female genitals to be cut
Wine is packed with antioxidants. You know this and probably revel in it on the regular (as you should). Here’s one more reason why: A new study in Cancer Cell International shows those antioxidants may block the growth of lung cancer—the most deadly type of cancer. Researchers from…
Source:Another Amazing Perk of Red Wine
Norbert Rosing /National Geographic/Getty This couldn’t be. A 1,200 pound male polar bear (especially when it’s autumn and he hasn’t eaten for four months) doesn’t make play-dates with an animal from another species. He doesn’t arrive every afternoon to…
Source:Polar Bear Flip-Flop: People Hated, Then Loved These Photos. What Changed?
Diabetes mellitus and thyroid diseases frequently coexist. In order to evaluate how thyroid disorders interfere with glycemic control, we analysed insulin-treated type 2 diabetes patients with thyroid disease. Methods: Diabetes patients (n = 1.957) were retrospectively investigated. We focused…
Source:Thyroid disease in insulin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes: a retrospective study
Laboratory-confirmed norovirus illness is reportable in Germany since 2001. Reported case numbers are known to be undercounts, and a valid estimate of the actual incidence in Germany does not exist. An increase of reported norovirus illness was observed simultaneously to a large outbreak of…
Source:Estimating the under-reporting of norovirus illness in Germany utilizing enhanced awareness of diarrhoea during a large outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O104:H4 in 2011
The relationship between physical activity (PA) throughout life and the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer overall and by estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) status, has been reported, but without consistent results. The present study aimed to investigate PA from young age…
Source:Physical activity and the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer
Bifidobacteria are commonly found as part of the microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of a broad range of hosts, where their presence is positively correlated with the host’s health status. In this study, we assessed the genomes of thirteen representatives of Bifidobacterium…
Source:Comparative genomics of the Bifidobacterium breve taxon
The widespread use of insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) leads to the development of vector resistance to insecticide. This resistance can reduce the effectiveness of LLIN-based interventions and perhaps reverse progress in reducing malaria morbidity. To prevent such difficulty, it is important…
Source:Impact of long-lasting, insecticidal nets on anaemia and prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum among children under five years in areas with highly resistant malaria vectors
By Laura Zuckerman (Reuters) – Wild bison from Yellowstone National Park that are deemed free of cattle disease could be safely used to establish new herds elsewhere across the American West without posing a risk to livestock, a U.S. Department of Agriculture study concluded. …
Source:Yellowstone bison could launch new herds without risking cattle, study says
A part of the extension of the Snowtown Wind Farm in South Australia that added 90 new 3 megawatt turbines. In South Australia wind farms contribute 27% of annual electricity, notes University of New South Wales’ Mark Diesendorf. Photo by David Clarke, used via Flickr Creative Commons…
Source:Renewable energy beats ‘clean coal’ on cost in Australia
Posted on March 1, 2014 by Flora Brils Suicide In Organisms Can Benefit Kin New study explains suicide by natural selection and ‘survival of the fittest’. Single-celled organisms regularly kill themselves in reaction to environmental stresses. From an evolutionary point of view, this…
Source:Suicide in organisms can benefit kin
In this journal, Holden, Jenkins-Jones, Poole, Morgan, Coghill and Currie , CAPMH 7:34, 2013, report on the prevalence and financial costs of treating people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the UK over the last ten years. We commend the authors on their thorough cost…
Source:The costs and benefits of diagnosis of ADHD: commentary on Holden et al.
Polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs), which contain two or more double bonds in their backbone, are the focus of intensive global research, because of their nutritional value, medicinal applications, and potential use as biofuel. However, the ability to produce these economically important…
Source:Transgenic expression of delta-6 and delta-15 fatty acid desaturases enhances omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid accumulation in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803
Novel risk factors were associated with the 2009 pandemic A/H1N1 virus (pH1N1). Ethnicity was among these risk factors. Ethnic disparities in hospitalization and death due to pH1N1 were noted. The purpose of this study is to determine whether there are ethnic disparities in acquiring the 2009…
Source:Ethnic disparities in acquiring 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza: a case-control study
Mutations accumulate as a result of DNA damage and imperfect DNA repair machinery. In higher eukaryotes the accumulation and spread of mutations is limited in two primary ways: through p53-mediated programmed cell death and cellular senescence mediated by telomeres. Telomeres shorten at every…
Source:Stress induced telomere shortening: longer life with less mutations?
The aim of this study was to examine the association of non-random X chromosome inactivation (XCI) and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) at Xq25 with breast cancer development. Methods: Seventy-nine breast cancer patients, 39 female lung cancer patients, 30 other cancer patients and 77 healthy…
Source:Androgen receptor CAG repeats, non-random X chromosome inactivation, and loss of heterozygosity at Xq25 in relation to breast cancer risk
Each week HuffPost Gay Voices, in a partnership with bloggers Liz Margolies and Scout, brings you a round up of some of the biggest LGBT wellness stories from the past seven days. For more LGBT Wellness, visit our page dedicated to the topic here. 1 Pool via Getty…
Source:LGBT Health Roundup: February 28, 2014
GAZA (Reuters) – The Israeli military shot and killed a Palestinian woman in the Gaza Strip in an area near the border that Israel has declared a no-go zone for Palestinians, local hospital officials said on Saturday. Gaza residents said it was not clear why 50-year-old Amna…
Source:Israeli military kill Palestinian woman near Gaza border: hospital
Wine is packed with antioxidants. You know this and probably revel in it on the regular (as you should). Here’s one more reason why: A new study in Cancer Cell International shows those antioxidants may block the growth of lung cancer—the most deadly type of cancer.
Researchers from…
Another Amazing Perk of Red Wine
Norbert Rosing /National Geographic/Getty
This couldn’t be.
A 1,200 pound male polar bear (especially when it’s autumn and he hasn’t eaten for four months) doesn’t make play-dates with an animal from another species. He doesn’t arrive every afternoon to…
Polar Bear Flip-Flop: People Hated, Then Loved These Photos. What Changed?
Diabetes mellitus and thyroid diseases frequently coexist. In order to evaluate how thyroid disorders interfere with glycemic control, we analysed insulin-treated type 2 diabetes patients with thyroid disease.
Methods:
Diabetes patients (n = 1.957) were retrospectively investigated.
We focused…
Thyroid disease in insulin-treated patients with type 2 diabetes: a retrospective study
Laboratory-confirmed norovirus illness is reportable in Germany since 2001. Reported case numbers are known to be undercounts, and a valid estimate of the actual incidence in Germany does not exist.
An increase of reported norovirus illness was observed simultaneously to a large outbreak of…
Estimating the under-reporting of norovirus illness in Germany utilizing enhanced awareness of diarrhoea during a large outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O104:H4 in 2011
The relationship between physical activity (PA) throughout life and the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer overall and by estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR) status, has been reported, but without consistent results. The present study aimed to investigate PA from young age…
Physical activity and the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer
Bifidobacteria are commonly found as part of the microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of a broad range of hosts, where their presence is positively correlated with the host’s health status. In this study, we assessed the genomes of thirteen representatives of Bifidobacterium…
Comparative genomics of the Bifidobacterium breve taxon
The widespread use of insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) leads to the development of vector resistance to insecticide. This resistance can reduce the effectiveness of LLIN-based interventions and perhaps reverse progress in reducing malaria morbidity.
To prevent such difficulty, it is important…
Impact of long-lasting, insecticidal nets on anaemia and prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum among children under five years in areas with highly resistant malaria vectors
By Laura Zuckerman
(Reuters) – Wild bison from Yellowstone National Park that are deemed free of cattle disease could be safely used to establish new herds elsewhere across the American West without posing a risk to livestock, a U.S. Department of Agriculture study concluded.
…
Yellowstone bison could launch new herds without risking cattle, study says
Whether it is playing a piano sonata or acing a tennis serve, the brain needs to orchestrate precise, coordinated control over the body’s many muscles. Moreover, there needs to be some kind of feedback from the senses should any of those movements go wrong. Neurons that coordinate those…
Source:Neurons coordinate to fine-tune motor control
For those coping with Crohn’s disease, a new research report published in the Journal of Leukocyte Biology offers hope for the development of new and more effective drugs. In the report, scientists show for the first time, precisely what type of immune cells are involved in driving the…
Source:Scientists discover the specific types of macrophages that affect Crohn’s disease severity
You may be familiar with the frustration of Mercury retrograde, when the world seems to go haywire, because of miscommunications and breakdowns. Now it’s time to pay attention to your “actions” because Mars will be retrograde on March 1st. Once every 2 years the…
Source:MARS Is Retrograde: Be Careful of Your Actions: 5 Dos and 5 Don’ts
