“A new study suggests that people with depression are significantly more likely to develop dementia later in life.”
Depression may be associated with an increased risk for dementia, although results from population-based samples have been inconsistent. We examined the association between depressive symptoms and incident dementia over a 17-year follow-up period. (…)
http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/abstract/75/1/35
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/health/research/20risk.html
(Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is offering parents a cure for children who don’t want to go to sleep. Have them watch his televised speeches. (…)
ALBANY — For the second time in a year, New York legislators are considering changing the name of one of the only state agencies in the country with “retardation” still in its title. (…)
This 8 month old baby was born deaf, watch the moment as his cochlear implant is activated and he hears sound for the first time, and his mother’s voice.
As seen on pogpog.com
Just the time to discover that he will hear a lot of bullshit on tv and radio for the rest of his life, but this moment when he’s hearing his mother’s voice for the first time is so sweet, in that actual messed up world, it is just a one minute break to remember how life is wonderful and how lucky we are to feeling good in shape. I wish the best to this smart boy and his family.
France has removed transsexualism from an official list of mental illnesses, according to an order issued by the French Ministry of Health reported Friday by French news media. The order issued Wednesday removed “gender identity disorders” from an article of the social security code related to “long-term psychiatric diseases.” According to media reports, France is the first country in the world to do so…[nytimes.com]
L’hebdomadaire haïtien, publié à New York avec l’aide de correspondants sur place, a réussi à boucler une édition spéciale consacrée au séisme du 12 janvier. “L’horreur et l’étendue de la destruction sismique sont insupportables, révoltantes même. Le peuple haïtien, qui a tant souffert ces six dernières années de l’inconscience et de la cupidité de ses dirigeants, ne méritait pas un tel cataclysme. Il nous faudra énormément de courage et de volonté pour surmonter cette cruelle adversité (…). Nous n’avons que nos mains nues et notre dignité de peuple pour reconstruire un pays physiquement détruit”, écrit-il en éditorial. A Port-au-Prince, les secours peinent toujours à s’organiser…[courrierinternational.com]
In recent years, American ideas about psychiatric disorders have spread around the globe. Is that really good for the world’s mental health? [nytimes.com]
© Alex Trochut
Doctors at the Royal St James Hospital in Swindon have admitted they were disappointed after an impromptu gig by pop star James Blunt failed to awaken 8-year old Kylie Taylor from a five day coma. Instead consultants believe that for two days afterwards she was even less responsive to stimuli and may have slipped deeper into unconsciousness… [newsbiscuit.com]
What is beautiful in life.
Today.
Rain.
Then.
12 months.
After that.
Supposed to be free.
What to do and not to do.
Feel better.
Day after day.
But.
Today.
Rain.
This is over.
It is all finished.
It still there something.
Forever.
Something.
Strong.
Real.
Intensive.
Ignition.
Aborted.
This is V.G. Therapy.
I loved it.
People with bipolar disorder are at risk for an array of fatal illnesses, according to a review of 17 studies involving more than 331,000 patients.
[nytimes.com]
A must read: “It should be possible to design drugs that block alcohol’s undesirable effects”
by Alison Motluk, 15 July 2006 [newscientist.com]
Benzodiazepines are a class of drugs that have the pharmacologicall actions of anxiolitics, sedatives, hipnotics, muscle relaxants and anticonvulsivants. Their clinical indication cannot be generalized but specified by each agent. >>>
By The Royal College of Psychiatrists…let’s do the test…
Bonnes nouvelles de l’OMS…vue par le Monde Diplomatique
Ce constat sans nuances n’émane pas d’une organisation marxiste orthodoxe, mais d’une étude détaillée sur les déterminants sociaux de la santé dans le monde. Rendu public par l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) le 28 août 2008, le rapport, intitulé « Combler le fossé en une génération » (1), synthétise les résultats de trois années de recherches. Lire la suite >
Une Commission de l’OMS constate que les inégalités «tuent à grande échelle»
Commission on Social Determinants of Health – Final Report
Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on the social determinants of health
Download the full report [pdf 7.28Mb]
Version Française [pdf 4.73Mb]
We also tried to keep our pills as close to pure acetaminophen as we could, We haven’t included the coatings and dyes that many companies are so fond of using. Coatings and dyes can make a pill look prettier but they don’t really help you with your headache, and that’s what we are trying to do. If you enjoy coatings and dyes, you will have to eat them separately.
you should try that boring link too: http://www.helpineedhelp.com/bored/
Remembering the 2FOR2 in LES…and the “McDo Mont-Blanc”…
- Mac daddies and Surrounded by McDonald’s by Maegan Carberry.
- McDonalds Will Pay Rappers To Say ‘Big Mac’ on Soul Shine Magazine
- McDonalds Hungry For Hip-Hop
Campaign For A Commercial-Free Childhood Press Releases Children’s Coalition Raps McDonald’s Supersized Hypocrisy Hip-Hop Songs to Feature Big Macs
Related links :
- Morgan Spurlock blog
- Super Size Me
- Globesidad: una epidemia en apogeo
- …the majority of Russians regard McDonalds as a free public toilet with an eatery annex…
The Pope continues a “slow and progressive convalescence…” and brings hope to Terri (unfortunately daughter of a really stupid white man, another one talking in the name of God)
- Federal Judge Condemns Intervention in Schiavo Case
- Pope’s Feeding Tube Brings End-of-Life Questions Closer
Update in Italian:
- Per Papa Wojtyla una sofferenza in più ma necessaria
- L’ultima verità di Ali Agca “Avevo dei complici in Vaticano”
- No Coke in the Rome III University automatic food&drink distributors.
- Sports drinks even worse for your teeth than pop, study finds
Links:
- altromercato – commercio equo e solidale on-line
- Associazione Botteghe Del Mondo
- Equoland – commercio positivo dal mondo reale
It sounds good
- Putumayo World Music
- Pharm Aid
Genetically altered corn, banned for health reasons, pops up in U.S. aid shipments to Guatemala
StarLink, a type of genetically altered corn that generates its very own built-in pesticide was found in parcels of the world food Program (WFP) of the United Nations bound for Guatemala.
- Chronic Arsenic Poisoning:
History, Study and Remediation
New solutions for the water poisoned with arsenic. Simple and cheap technologies could -now- solve the problem.
Water & Sanitation at the MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering
Susan Murcott, Lecturer
Arsenic Biosand Water Filter for Rural Nepal
Household water treatment
- Winning the wine war
Could DNA help the fight to keep bottle labels honest?
- Things grow better with Coke
Coca-Cola can draw 5 lakh litres of water daily
Coke vs People: The Heat is On in Plachimada
Does Coca-Cola really make a good pesticide?
- DOSSIER : MAIN BASSE SUR L’EAU DES VILLES
- Oubliez l’OPEP, voici les exportateurs d’eau potable
Seen this Monday on ecoblog.it, an Italian blog about ecology and everything for who – really – cares about planet hearth, two post that pre-occupied myself a little.
The article about PM10 that links to La Repubblica (a major Italian daily newspaper) told about 310.000 Europeans died every years because of bad air quality and high pollution level…
The other one posted last Friday is about this serious study “Scripps Researchers Find Clear Evidence of Human-Produced Warming in World’s Oceans”…
Anyway, I hate Mondays…
