A right mixture of testosterone can make healthy brain changes and a new study sheds light on how testosterone acts in the human brain to regulate speech and could help explain how anabolic steroids affect human behaviours. Singing and courting a female canary is more than just motivation. What's needed is a right mix of testosterone. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University have found that introducing testosterone in select areas of a male canary's ...Wednesday, 1 January 2014
Charm Your Girl With the Right Testosterone Levels
A right mixture of testosterone can make healthy brain changes and a new study sheds light on how testosterone acts in the human brain to regulate speech and could help explain how anabolic steroids affect human behaviours. Singing and courting a female canary is more than just motivation. What's needed is a right mix of testosterone. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University have found that introducing testosterone in select areas of a male canary's ...
A Good Night's Sleep Helps to Promote Brain Health
Swedish scientists on Tuesday said they had found further evidence that good sleep habits help to promote the health of brain cells while lack of sleep may promote neurodegenerative processes. The clues come in two so-called biomarkers -- tell-tales of biological activity -- found in the blood of sleep-deprived young men. A team at Uppsala University recruited 15 healthy volunteers, and deprived them of sleep for a night or let them sleep for eight hours. ...Global New Year 2014 Party Starts in Sydney With Dazzling Fireworks
New Year 2014 begins with a bang as Sydney kicked off New Year celebrations with a dazzling fireworks display, the first in a wave of pyrotechnics to usher in 2014 from Hong Kong to world record-chasing Dubai. Seven tonnes of explosives lit up Australia's biggest city, with fireworks shooting off the Opera House for the first time in more than 10 years as part of the December 31 extravaganza, focused on the Harbour Bridge. "They were absolutely fantastic," ...More Than 2 Million Sign Up for 'Obamacare' Health Insurance
More than 2 million people have signed up for private health insurance under the Affordable Care Act through President Barack Obama's signature reform after a botched rollout, the US government said Tuesday. The Affordable Care Act, widely known as Obamacare, is designed to offer insurance to millions of Americans who have never been able to secure it before -- some because of pre-existing health conditions like heart disease that insurers were unwilling to cover. ...U.S. justice grants exemption in contraception mandate challenge
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roman Catholic Church-affiliated organizations on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to block implementation of a part of the Obamacare healthcare law that requires employers to provide insurance policies that cover contraception. Catholic University of America and nonprofits in Michigan and Tennessee were among those filing three separate applications asking the court to temporarily exempt them from the so-called contraception mandate while litigation continues. The mandate, which is due to take effect for the organizations on January 1, is already in place for many women who have private health insurance. The court did not immediately respond to the applications.
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Teens And Docs Abstain From Sex Talk
In annual physicals, teens and docs failed to talk sex a third of the time and usually too briefly when the subject was addressed. Dina Fine Maron reports. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..
Gay couple to exchange vows on Rose Parade float
By Dana Feldman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A gay Los Angeles couple plans to exchange wedding vows on a flower-covered float trundling through Pasadena during the nationally televised Tournament of Roses Parade on Wednesday, capping a momentous year for same-sex marriage in the United States. The planned nuptials of Danny Leclair, 45, and Aubrey Loots, 42, who have been together for 12 years and own a chain of hair salons, will mark the first same-sex marriage on a Rose Parade float in the 125-year history of the annual event, organizers say. But it won't be the only wedding ever to have been performed on one of the Rose Parade's flower petal-bedecked floats on national television. Leclair and Loots plan to make it official aboard a float shaped like a wedding cake coated in white coconut chips, accented with red kidney beans and festooned with 12,000 roses and other floral decorations, said Ged Kenslea, a spokesman for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. via Health News Headlines - Yahoo News Read More Here..
Former first lady Barbara Bush hospitalized in Houston
(Reuters) - Former first lady Barbara Bush has been hospitalized in Houston for treatment of early signs of a "respiratory-related issue," her husband's office said on Tuesday. Bush, 88, one of only two women to be both the wife and mother of U.S. presidents, was admitted on Monday to Methodist Hospital in Houston's Texas Medical Center, the statement said. "She is in great spirits, has already received visits from her husband and family, and is receiving fantastic care," the office of former President George H.W. Bush said in a written statement. Bush is the wife of George H.W. Bush, the 41st president, and mother of George W. Bush, the 43.
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West Nile virus blamed for death of bald eagles in Utah
An unprecedented wintertime outbreak of West Nile virus has killed more than two dozen bald eagles in Utah and thousands of water birds around the Great Salt Lake, state wildlife officials said on Tuesday. At least 27 bald eagles have died this month in the northern and central parts of Utah from the blood-borne virus, and state biologists reported that five more ailing eagles were responding to treatment at rehabilitation centers. The eagles, whose symptoms included leg paralysis and tremors, are believed to have contracted the disease by preying on sick or dead water birds called eared grebes that were infected by the West Nile virus, said Leslie McFarlane, Utah wildlife disease coordinator. Some 20,000 of the water birds have died in and around the Great Salt Lake since November in an outbreak that may be a record in North America, McFarlane said.
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Schumacher slightly better but fragile: doctors
By Lucien Libert GRENOBLE, France (Reuters) - French doctors treating Michael Schumacher for brain injuries sustained in a ski fall said the seven-times Formula One world champion was in slightly better condition on Tuesday after an overnight operation, but that he remained fragile. Doctors treating him at a hospital in the eastern city of Grenoble said his condition had stabilized enough by late Monday to carry out a new operation to treat the effects of internal bleeding within Schumacher's skull. "We have won some time but we must continue an hour-by-hour surveillance... It is premature to speculate on his condition," he said, adding that Schumacher was still in a critical state and suffering from severe lesions and contusions. He said the operation was designed to reduce, within Schumacher's skull, the pressure on the brain.
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Firm in Virginia governor's supplement scandal gets FDA warning
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The company at the heart of a scandal involving the Virginia governor's promotion of one of its dietary supplement products, has received a warning from the Food and Drug Administration, the agency said on Tuesday.
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Catholic groups ask U.S. Supreme Court to block contraception coverage
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roman Catholic Church-affiliated organizations on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block implementation of a part of the Obamacare healthcare law that requires employers to provide insurance policies that cover contraception. Catholic University of America and non-profits in Michigan and Tennessee were among those filing three separate applications asking the court to exempt them temporarily from the so-called contraception mandate while litigation continues. The mandate, which is due to take effect for the organizations on January 1, is already in place for many women who have private health insurance. The court did not immediately respond to the applications.
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Wal-Mart offers 30 days of prescriptions to backlogged Obamacare enrollees
(Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc said on Tuesday it will provide a month's supply of certain prescriptions at no upfront cost to participants of U.S. President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law who have not yet received a plan identification number. The move by Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, comes a day after Walgreen Co instituted a similar practice. Wal-Mart said it will fill up to a 30-day supply of prescriptions through the end of January for customers who have enrolled in Obamacare, but do not have an ID yet from an insurer. It was not immediately clear if Wal-Mart would seek reimbursement once customers obtain their Obamacare IDs, though Walgreen said it would do so.
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Vitamin E 'beneficial' in dementia
Vitamin E has potential benefits for people with Alzheimer's, according to a study via BBC News - Health Read More Here..
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