If pressure on the job or at home or in your relationship is starting to give you headache, don’t underestimate it.
You better find a way to relieve the stress building up in your head. Or it could explode big time. This could be what happened to actor Heath Ledger who died last Tuesday of a seeming drug overdose.
A long-running British study released yesterday, Jan. 23, said work, or too much of it, can be a killer. The study provided the strongest evidence yet of how on-the-job stress raises the risk of heart disease by disrupting the body's internal ...
Holy clone! They’ve done it on human embryos
Jan 20 2008
Posted by Jay as Featured Articles, Health Features
They have done it – make an extraordinary “xerox machine” that could virtually produce copies of real humans – with flesh and bones and all internal organs!
First, US scientists were able to make dead hearts beat again (see my previous blog on that). Now, they’ve gone beyond further – take the first step towards making human clones!
In a development that could rock the foundations of morality, ethics, religion and science, scientists in California have announced that they have produced five human embryos that are clones of two men.
Their work was published online Thursday by the journal “Stem Cells.”
If ...
Scientists make dead hearts beat again!
Jan 14 2008
Posted by Jay as Featured Articles, Health Features
Move over, Doctor Frankenstein. Today’s scientists can now bring back to life a dead heart – minus the nasty stitches and the monstrous-like character you made.
Yes, it’s true. In a discovery that could rock the foundations of medicine and religion worldwide, US scientists have announced that they have found a way to make a dead heart pump blood and beat again. In essence, Man has virtually conquered death!
In an Agence France Presse (AFP) story today, Jan. 14, reporter Marlowe Hood said “US scientists have coaxed recycled hearts taken from animal cadavers into beating in the laboratory after reseeding ...
Bursting 7 bubbles on medical myths even doctors believe
Dec 23 2007
Posted by Jay as Featured Articles, Health Features
What to do if you found out that even your doctor appeared to be a bit "scientifically-challenged" or "common sensically-challenged"?
Since it’s Christmas time, you can probably send him a card with a picture of Santa Claus. You can then put a talk box near Santa’s head with the words “Ho-ho-ho! Doc, sorry to burst your bubble, but people don’t use just 10 percent of their brains. They use 100 percent of their brains! Well, except you perhaps. Ho-ho-ho!”
Yes, that’s one of the seven medical myths even doctors believe as published in the British Medical Journal this week and ...
FREE RICE!
Dec 04 2007
Posted by Jen as Announcements, Featured Articles, Health Features, In the News, News Features
These days, it seems like more and more people are getting bitten by the vocabulary bug and it's all for a good cause! In a Web site built by the United Nations, there is a vocabulary challenge waiting for you. In this game, there is no game over and you can keep playing until your fingers tire. And for each word you get right, 20 grains of rice is donated to help end world hunger.
Sounds too easy?
It actually is! You don't have to sign up for anything. You ...
I am not my hair: Breast cancer and other illnesses should not define our femininity!
Oct 29 2007
Posted by Lorie Therese as Health Features
As October draws to a close, I would like to remind you that what passed us by was Breast Cancer awareness month. That is, if you were aware about it in the first place.
To be honest, I never knew that this issue/illness would be this close to my heart as it is now. I had always thought I was invincible. Till this illness struck someone dear to me. It was only then that I confronted myself that yes, it could happen to me.
When I was younger, I used to devour stacks of Ladies’ Home Journal, starting at the age of 10. Yeah, yeah, call me a geek and a little perv, but since the year my grandmom would send us those magazines, I would devour them from cover to cover, from the “Can This Marriage Be Saved” down to the final essay, and even the ads in between. Yes, I’m that big of a bookworm.
But what riveted me most, aside from the “Can This Marriage Be Saved” articles (those are where I got all my marriage/relationship notions, mind you!) were... Breast cancer articles.
As such, when these overworked people find the time to look at themselves in the mirror after waking up in the morning (if they still have time for that), they’re sometimes shocked to see a face that looks 10 years older – with wrinkles and eyebags and all that blues.
This explains why makers of beauty products are making a killing at the market as they cash ...
Okay, here’s the deal: Get enough sleep or sleep without waking up again. It’s your choice.
A British study released on Monday said people who do not get enough sleep are more than twice as likely to die of heart disease.
Although the reasons are unclear, researchers said lack of sleep appeared to be linked to increased blood pressure, which is known to raise the risk of heart attacks and stroke.
A 17-year analysis of 10,000 government workers showed those who cut their sleeping from seven hours a night to five or less faced a 1.7-fold increased risk in mortality from ...
In The News
Re-thinking Hybrid Cars
I’ve come across an interesting article from Yahoo.com’s Yahoo Green section. With the current escalating trend of the price of oil and gasoline (including their bi-products), the cost of owning a hybrid car is slowly making sense. People before think that gas cars are cheaper than hybrid (gas/electric) cars, and that hybrid will not pay [...]-
Business and Money
Who Moved My Cheese: The Cliff’s Notes! (Part 2)
This post is a continuation of my Cliff’s Notes for Who Moved My Cheese, the book by Spencer Johnson, M.D. (also the Author of The One Minute Manager). Hope you enjoy my annotations of the rest of the principles!
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Lifestyle and Leisure
Water me please
This is wise living.
I keep picturing this scene from Music and Lyrics where Hugh Grant (playing an 80’s singer Alex Fletcher) hires Drew Barimore (as Sophie Fisher, who plays as plant caretaker) to water his apartment plants. Obviously, Alex doesn’t care less what time his plants are fed and just keeps it for the “girls” so [...] -
Entertainment
Surf That Channel!
A cousin recently introduced me to www.surfthechannel.com , and I am loving watching The Office season 4 through it. I just love that show, hilarious! I’ve been watching it on TV but it’s on season 3 replay. I really like to know how Ryan the temp is having his revenge on Michael. Don’t get me [...]
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Travel
A Humble City
Hoi An is like setting foot inside one of those old Chinese movies. The elements are all there. From the low-tiled roofs to the narrow streets, Hoi An is a picture perfect replica of what ancient Vietnam used to be. The small city is located in the South Central Coast of Vietnam. In the 16th [...]
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Avoiding Debt Triggers
While summer can be the fun-filled time of the year IT CAN also be a huge debt trap. Every year, Americans splurge on summer expenses like trips, hotels, summer clothing, gears, and gadgets. Oh and all those have-nots that people just “need” to make summer extra perfect.
Every mall will hand out “special deals” to hook [...]From the Editor
Avoiding Debt Triggers
While summer can be the fun-filled time of the year IT CAN also be a huge debt trap. Every year, Americans splurge on summer expenses like trips, hotels, summer clothing, gears, and gadgets. Oh and all those have-nots that people just “need” to make summer extra perfect.
Every mall will hand out “special deals” to hook [...]Blog Resources
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