What is the magic sleep number?

Bill Clinton (former president). Tracy Morgan (actor). Cindy Lynn Baldwin (vehicle driver). What do these seemingly unrelated individuals in common? The answer is that everyone is sleep deprivation has suffered or been the victim of someone who has been deprived of sleep. There is no doubt that we have all become too little sleep at some point in our lives. For some of us it is an isolated incident precipitated by a specific event such as a death...

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Get vaccinated against the flu, reducing the risk of death

Last year was a bad year for the vaccine against the flu. Hospitalizations for influenza peaked at nine, and prevent the vaccine against influenza in only 23% of all beneficiaries, against 50% and 60% of recipients of previous years. Why vaccine against influenza, but in some winters and other works? The vaccine against influenza prepares the immune system to attack two proteins on the surface of the influenza virus, hemagglutinin (H)...

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Why public schools should require the vaccination against HPV

If you live in Rhode Island, and their children go to public school, to be vaccinated against HPV human papilloma virus, or. This is a new requirement and not everyone likes.   Opponents say the change that can get HPV through sex, contrary to infections such as measles and whooping cough can take if someone in the classroom and coughs on you. Why, they say, they should require the vaccine against HPV for school? Because it could save lives,...

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In addition to understanding how exercise keeps the brain young

Most of us have had first-hand experience with blackouts. We try nervous to remember a name during a conversation. We forget where we parked the car. We can not recall the items in the list of short purchases left at home. Although memory lapses can occur at any age, most often occur as we age. Not that fear are the first signs of Alzheimer's disease or other dementia. But for most, the changes fleeting memory difficulties are normal age-related...

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What use "off-label" of a drug really is, and why you need to know about it

When your doctor prescribes a medication for you, you assume probably - and rightly - which is an FDA approved treatment for your condition. This may or may not be the case.On average, one in five prescriptions are written for "off-label" use of a drug. This means that your doctor thinks that the drug will help you, even if it has not been specifically approved for illness or symptoms. Prescription medications off label is legal and common, and...

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"Stress" cardiomyopathy: Another type of heart attack

Most heart attacks are caused by the coronary arteries are blocked by blood clots that form when the cholesterol plaque rupture. The lack of blood flow through blocked arteries cause death of heart muscle - hence the name "heart attack". But in recent years, doctors have come to recognize and understand other form of heart attack. This rare type of heart attack has no plaques or rupture of blood vessels clogged. He called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy...

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