Scientists have found evidence suggesting that blueberries may help improve memory in older adults because of its antioxidative phytochemicals, according to a new study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Previous animal studies have suggested that eating blueberries may boost memory in older people, according to Robert Krikorian, author of the current study; he and colleagues from the University of Cincinnati worked in conjunction with several other organizations on the research.
Average birth weights have dropped slightly from 1990 to 2005. Researchers are unclear why.
Birth weights in the United States are on the decline, a study has found. The report, released Thursday, found a small but significant decrease in average birth weights from 1990 to 2005, for reasons that scientists say are unclear.
The numbers, published in the February issue of the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, mark a shift from earlier reports that noted a rise in birth weights in the latter part of the 20th century.
They also seem to go against conventional wisdom, experts said. In recent years, women have gotten larger, are smoking less and are older when they have children, all factors that contribute to higher birth weight in offspring.
Melinda Pillsbury-Foster
OpEdNewsSat, 23 Jan 2010 15:45 UTC
He constantly asks for sympathy, takes risks, lies to you and when caught shows no remorse. It is unsettling, frightening. Somehow it is your own fault. But why would anyone do these things? There is an answer.
The terms, "psychopathy", "sociopath" and others refer to individuals who look human but, in elemental ways, are not. They harbor a condition which cuts them off from us. Their automatic emotional reactions, foundational to limiting wrong behavior, do not exist. These individuals emulate compassion, concern, affection, kindness and love only to further their purposes. They feel no compunction about stealing, lying, or committing crimes to achieve their goals. They consistently demand sympathy, knowing perfectly well they deserve none.
They do not want or need sympathy. But they do need you to feel sorry for them, to want to help them. It is all manipulation, emotions emulated to get what they want. They know we feel sorry for them and project the existence of emotions they never feel, just another lie.
Comment: SOTT hopes that Ms. Pillsbury-Foster will spend a few more years digging into this subject as we have. What IS important to note is that many more people are becoming aware that psychopaths are like a cancer in society.
© UnknownDisabled: Samantha Millard had an allergic reaction to Tamiflu which left her blistered and battling blindness
A teenage girl left disabled by the swine flu treatment Tamiflu did not even have the virus, it was revealed today.
Samantha Millard, 19, became critically ill after suffering a severe allergic reaction to the tablets,
which she took on the advice of the controversial NHS helpline.Within 72 hours of taking three pills, doctors put her on life support.
Samantha spent a month in hospital after developing the life-threatening Stevens Johnson syndrome, which causes the skin to peel off, and later developed toxic epidermal necrolysis syndrome, which has damaged her sight.
Copper pipes could cause people over 50 to contract Alzheimer's and place them at risk of heart disease, a new study has found.
Scientists have warned people to remove old copper pipes from their homes because the metal has been shown to build up in their bodies and cause serious health problems.
The found that tiny traces of copper from pipes mix with tap water and are then consumed by people.
Over a long period of time this leads to a build up of copper in the body which then led to Alzheimer's disease, heart disease and diabetes because the body cannot process the metal.
"My doctor doesn't believe in vitamins." Since when is medicine based on belief?
The medical literature has virtually ignored 75 years of physician reports and laboratory and clinical studies on successful high-dose vitamin C therapy.
Effective doses are high doses, often 1,000 times more than the US Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) or Daily Reference Intake (DRI). It is a cornerstone of medical science that dose affects treatment outcome. This premise is accepted with pharmaceutical drug therapy, but not with vitamin therapy. Most unsuccessful vitamin C research has used inadequate, low doses. Low doses do not get clinical results.
New York - Pregnant women who take certain drugs for depression or anxiety may have heightened risks of preterm delivery or other birth complications, according to a new study.
Researchers found that among nearly 3,000 women who gave birth in Washington State, those who started taking antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) in the second or third trimester had a higher risk of preterm birth.
Thirteen-pound babies may make headlines, but they aren't the norm. In fact, U.S. infants are getting smaller, according to researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute's Department of Population Medicine, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. Their findings, published in the February 2010 issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, suggest that birth weights in this country have declined during the past 15 years.
The study analyzed data on birth weight, maternal and neonatal characteristics, obstetric care and other trends from the National Center for Health Statistics Natality Data Sets, looking at 36,827,828 U.S. babies born at full-term between 1990 and 2005. Birth weight - a combination of fetal growth and length of gestation - was recorded in grams. The investigators teased out certain factors, including the mothers' age, race or ethnicity, education level, marital status and tobacco use, as well as the amount of weight the women gained during pregnancy and how early in pregnancy they received prenatal care. They also considered the women's risk of conditions like hypertension and use of obstetric procedures such as induction of labor and cesarean delivery.
Their findings came as a surprise. "Previous studies have shown that birth weights have increased steadily during the past half-century," says Emily Oken, Harvard Medical School assistant professor of population medicine. "We expected to see a continuation of those increases." Higher birth weights have been attributed in part to women's increasing age and weight and decreased smoking.
Many American women are prescribed estrogen to combat the negative effects of menopause, such as bone loss and mood swings. Now, new evidence from a Tel Aviv University study suggests that hormone replacement therapy might also protect them - and younger women - from schizophrenia as well.
Prof. Ina Weiner of Tel Aviv University's Department of Psychology and her doctoral student Michal Arad have reported findings suggesting that restoring normal levels of estrogen may work as a protective agent in menopausal women vulnerable to schizophrenia. Their work, based on an animal model of menopausal psychosis, was recently reported in the journal Psychopharmacology.
"We've known for some time that when the level of estrogen is low, vulnerability to psychotic symptoms increases and anti-psychotic drugs are less likely to work. Now, our pre-clinical findings show why this might be happening," says Prof. Weiner.
Intelligent behavior requires strategic processing of numbers and abstract quantity information in accordance with internally maintained goals. For instance, we typically adopt a "less than" strategy when shopping for a product to pay the smallest amount of money. When searching for a job, on the other hand, our plan of action is "greater than", and we strive to earn the largest sum of money. In such pragmatic situations, our decisions on quantities are guided by mathematical rules applied to them.
They constitute the foundation of mathematical operations and are thus taught to first-graders. Neurobiologists in the laboratory of Andreas Nieder at the University of Tübingen now showed for the first time how brain cells process simple mathematical rules. The study is published online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) (January 18.-24. 2010).
Humans are unrivalled in their understanding of numbers and rules, but the foundations of such high-level skills can already be found in the animal kingdom.
Comment: SOTT hopes that Ms. Pillsbury-Foster will spend a few more years digging into this subject as we have. What IS important to note is that many more people are becoming aware that psychopaths are like a cancer in society.