With the exception of opiates (including heroin and prescription versions), individuals who commit suicide by intentionally overdosing show very similar patterns of drug use as people who commit suicide by other means, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Unfortunately, none of the thirteen states used Read more…
As we say good-bye to 2006 and welcome in the New Year, many people turn their attention to the tradition of making resolutions. New Year’s resolutions appear to date back to the Babylonians, who apparently were more likely to resolve to return farm equipment borrowed from others than to worry Read more…
It shouldn’t be too surprising that your mother’s diet might influence your health, but what your grandmother ate can do that, too? That’s the conclusion reached by David Martin of the Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute in California [1]. Using mice, Martin and his colleagues showed that when genetically identical Read more…
University of Florida researchers reported that morbid obesity in toddlers, defined as weighing 150 percent of normal weight, is associated with lower IQs, cognitive delays, and lesions that appear similar to those found in Alzheimer’s disease. The morbidly obese toddlers had IQs of 78, although their normal-weighted siblings had IQs Read more…
As an admitting clerk at the UCLA Emergency Room (my college job), one of the saddest cases I witnessed was the death of a young child with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The young parents had left their baby with the grandparents for the first time to take a weekend off Read more…