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Children who box can suffer long-term damage or death from head injuries, especially concussions, so in a new policy statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics is saying the sport is not appropriate for children or teens. Boxers are actually rewarded for deliberate hits to the head and face. The goal is to try to steer them to sports where the focus is not deliberate hits to the head and face.
Two to five high school football players die each fall as a direct result of on-field brain injuries, but such deaths are rare among college players, according to research by the University of North Carolina National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research. Teenagers are known to be more susceptible to having multiple hits to the head result in brain bleeds and massive swelling, a condition known as second impact syndrome, in large part because the brain tissue has not yet fully developed. There have been some older boxers who die from multiple blows leading to vascular engorgement, but the overwhelming majority of the world’s classic second-impact-syndrome cases are people 18 and younger.
Hockey is another arena where concussions from headshots are threatening the game. Canada’s national sport has long been a thrilling mix of grace and brawn. But brain injuries, and the death of three National Hockey League “enforcers” have many fearing that hits to the head are a growing threat to players, if not hockey itself.
Texas tries to reduce head injuries. Starting in 2012, school football programs statewide — which involve an estimated 160,000 high school players — will be required every two years to re-condition helmets that are 10 years or older. Helmets older than 16 years must be retired.
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Mistakes such as amputating the wrong leg, performing the wrong operation or removing a kidney from the wrong patient can often be prevented by very simple stuff: ensuring that an X-ray isn’t flipped and that the right patient is on the table, for example. Such errors are considered so egregious and avoidable that they are classified as "never events” because they should never happen. Researchers and patient safety experts say the problem of wrong-site surgery has not improved and may be getting worse.
Surgeons sometimes manage to remove perfectly healthy tissue rather than a sample of a tumor and often the procedure was totally unnecessary because clinicians had failed to review a blood test.
Animals Know An Earthquake Before Humans
There has been talk over the years about mysterious electromagnetic fields generated by rupturing faults. There has been speculation about sounds inaudible to humans, and subtle tilting in rock formations, and the release of vapors that people can’t smell. But there also may be less to the mystery than meets the eye in that many wild animals are paying close attention to nature while humans are doing whatever it is that humans do.
Graduate College In 4 Years A Joke?
Education experts and school officials say one of the biggest obstacles to finishing college in four years is money. Increasingly, students are unable to get through college without working part time or even full time, making it difficult to keep up with the course load demanded by a four-year track. Others need to take noncredit remedial courses just to catch up academically. And many accumulate a large chunk of community college credits that don't count for the degrees they're pursuing.
Exercise While Pregnant Might Help The Newborn
Most of the focus of heart health today is on school-age children, but it might pay to intervene long before that. A 2008 pilot study conducted by Kansas City University of Medicine found that pregnant women who exercised at least 30 minutes three times a week had fetuses with lower heart rates -- a sign of heart health -- during the final weeks of development. Now the University has revealed that the fetuses' improved cardiovascular heart control is maintained one month after pregnancy, which indicates that mothers' efforts to stay active have lasting effects.
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Teeth, Jaws and Imagination Can Boost Health
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"Even Frank Sinatra would be hard put to rival Sawicki when it comes to thoughts on lips and all they speak of. What he offers here is a company of quick reflections on lips and smiles and their many moods."-- Kirkus Indie |
Organic Cotton Is Good For You And The Planet
Cotton is considered the world's "dirtiest" crop due to its heavy use of insecticides, the most hazardous pesticide to human and animal health. Cotton covers 2.5% of the world's cultivated land yet uses 16% of the world's insecticides, more than any other single major crop.
Helicopter Moms Affects Kids' Development
Hovering helicopter parents who restrict their kids' unstructured play may actually harm, rather than help, children according to a review of research showing a correlation between the decline of free play in developed nations and the rise of depression, suicide, feelings of helplessness, and narcissism in children, teens, and young adults.
Satisfied Sex Key To "Successful" Aging
Feeling satisfied with your sex life — whatever your levels of sexual activity — is closely related to your perceived quality of life.
How Sports And Science Classify Sex
The International Association of Athletics Federations ( IAAF) doesn't require a sex test which they call gender testing, a misnomer because gender and sex are not interchangeable terms. But, according to the IAAF Policy on Gender Verification, if an athlete's sex is challenged — for example, by another competitor — they must undergo a barrage of tests by a medical team comprised of a "gynecologist, endocrinologist, psychologist, internal medicine specialist and expert on gender/transgender issues.
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Reconnecting severed blood vessels is mostly done the same way today -- with sutures -- as it was 100 years ago, when the French surgeon Alexis Carrel won a Nobel Prize for advancing the technique. Now, a team of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine has developed a sutureless method that appears to be a faster, safer and easier alternative.
Rapid changes in local populations often don't continue, stand the test of time or spread through a species but once evolution really begins it appears to be relentless. Most species change so much that they rarely ever last more than 1-10 million years before going extinct, or developing into a new species.
Patients are being encouraged to ask three simple questions to improve patient knowledge and encourage engagement with health staff to develop more tailored treatment:
- What are my options?
- What are the possible benefits and risks of those options?
- How likely are the benefits and risks of each option to occur?
The ballistic silk underwear, which cost $55 a pair, had been found to be effective in preventing small particles and shrapnel from injuring soldiers. Troops currently wear their own underwear. It's already in use by British soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
Just adopting a happier, more positive and interested attitude can make subtle changes in our appearance that cause people to think we are younger than we actually are. Our minds affect our physical being and if you play music from a time when you were doing interesting things and happy, that revitalizes you. It floods you with feel-good hormones which can make you more flexible with better hearing and memory and feel stronger.
New Hampshire First State To Pass Fluoride Warning For Infants
The scientific literature has been reporting for over a decade that mixing infant formula with fluoridated water is linked to dental fluorosis. And many government, health and dental agencies now advise against mixing fluoridated water and infant formula. But New Hampshire is the first state to require warnings on annual water reports.http://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-hampshire-passes-first-state-wide-fluoride-warning-law-2012-06-20
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