30 4 / 2013
Any med/nursing students in the house? I need to know if it’s worth the money to see a doctor about my circulation problem. (Basically, my feet fall asleep all the time and it makes sitting very uncomfortable, which is bad cuz I’m a student who sits for 90 min at a time. At home and in bed I elevate my feet with pillows, lest they get swollen overnight.)
They’re probably just gonna tell me to wear compression stockings, right? FML
PS. Yes I exercise regularly dance around all the time to improve blood flow.
23 10 / 2012
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Don’t Inhale: There is a Detectable Amount of Cocaine in Urban Italian Air
Italy’s Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research just published a report that measured psychotropic drugs (including cocaine, nicotine, cannabinoids, and caffeine) in the air in eight major cities: Palermo, Rome, Bologna, Florence, Turin, Milan, Verona, and Naples.
Read more. [Image: AP]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcbbekkkDO1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Don’t Inhale: There is a Detectable Amount of Cocaine in Urban Italian Air
Italy’s Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research just published a report that measured psychotropic drugs (including cocaine, nicotine, cannabinoids, and caffeine) in the air in eight major cities: Palermo, Rome, Bologna, Florence, Turin, Milan, Verona, and Naples.
Read more. [Image: AP]
02 10 / 2012
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The Evolutionary Advantage of Depression
It turns out that depression may not be a mere trade-off for a vigorous immune response. Dr. Miller suggests that depressive symptoms like social withdrawal, lack of energy, and a loss of interest in once enjoyable activities were actually advantageous to our ancestors. For example, a loss of energy might ensure that the body can leverage all of its energy to fight an infection. Also, social withdrawal minimizes the likelihood of being exposed to additional infectious agents. In this way, Drs. Miller and Raison note that “depressive symptoms are inextricably intertwined with — and generated by — physiological responses to infection that, on average, have been selected as a result of reducing infectious mortality across mammalian evolution.”
Read more. [Image: Van Gogh, At Eternity’s Gate (Wikipedia)]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mba25pdhHB1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
The Evolutionary Advantage of Depression
It turns out that depression may not be a mere trade-off for a vigorous immune response. Dr. Miller suggests that depressive symptoms like social withdrawal, lack of energy, and a loss of interest in once enjoyable activities were actually advantageous to our ancestors. For example, a loss of energy might ensure that the body can leverage all of its energy to fight an infection. Also, social withdrawal minimizes the likelihood of being exposed to additional infectious agents. In this way, Drs. Miller and Raison note that “depressive symptoms are inextricably intertwined with — and generated by — physiological responses to infection that, on average, have been selected as a result of reducing infectious mortality across mammalian evolution.”
Read more. [Image: Van Gogh, At Eternity’s Gate (Wikipedia)]
23 8 / 2012
"Older men are more likely than young ones to father a child who develops autism or schizophrenia, because of random mutations that become more numerous with advancing paternal age, scientists reported on Wednesday, in the first study to quantify the effect as it builds each year. The age of mothers had no bearing on the risk for these disorders, the study found."
14 8 / 2012
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14 2 / 2012
Winning the Birth Control Battle: How Obama just pwned The GOP with "one hell of a chess maneuver."
Obama’s plan in a nutshell:
STEP #1: Mandate that all female employees have a right to free birth control through their employer’s insurance company (including females who work for religious organizations).
STEP #2: Sit back for two weeks as religious right-wing conservatives go nuts condemning birth control as evil. Even though 99% of sexually active women (a lot of whom can vote) use birth control.
STEP #3: Watch as the Republican candidates, including front-runner Mitt Romney, are provoked in to attacking the popular birth control rule as “an assault on religious freedom.”
STEP #4:Let the angry politicians go on all the major news networks to talk about your free birth control plan in front of millions of viewers, accidentally making you more popular and ensuring that you get all the credit for giving women greater access to contraception.
STEP #5: Save the tapes from steps 2, 3, and 4!! Those will make wonderful campaign ads a few months from now when you’re running against that party. “I expect to see some ads in the fall showing Romney saying hostile things about contraception and health care reform, with the message that free birth control is going away if he’s elected.”
STEP #6: Offer republicans a “compromise.” In which you exempt religious institutions from the law (as you were planning to all along) and, instead, require that the insurance company gives the free birth control directly to the female (instead of the company she works for). This does two things:
- Increases the likelihood that women will get birth control (because the insurance company must reach out to them, decreasing the chance that women out there will be unaware of the free converge).
- Makes insurance companies happy by saving them money (because providing free birth control is much, much, much cheaper than providing coverage for abortion and childbirth procedures).
It’s a win win for Obama: Either the GOP accepts his “compromise” and agrees to expand birth control access to women (WIN!) or they continue to fight a losing battle in an election year (WIN!)…. Did I mention that female voters outnumber male voters at an average of 7 million per election?
19 9 / 2011
An Alabama pharmaceutical company has issued a “massive” recall of 1.4 million packs of birth control pills. In short, the pills are packaged in the wrong order, which means “the daily regimen for these oral contraceptives may be incorrect and could leave women without adequate contraception, and at risk for unintended pregnancy.”
Click here for a list of affected pills and their lot numbers.
Important
Check this list if you are on the pill. Reblog to signal boost.
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