Sleepy and Depressed

The Star.com
Malaysia
Sunday October 23, 2011

CIRCADIAN rhythm disorders driven by changes in the sleep-wake cycle has been identified as one of the major causes of depression, the fourth most disabling disease in Malaysia, affecting up to 10% of the population.

Misdiagnosis and/or sub-optimal treatment of depression and the relatively little attention paid to changes to circadian rhythms that control physical, mental and behavioural patterns that follow roughly a 24-hour cycle is further hampering treatment of this malady.

Zoologger: Female monkeys indulge in synchronised sex

Monkeys

New Scientist
Life

Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals – and occasionally other organisms – from around the world

13:20 20 October 2011 by Michael Marshall
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Species: Macaca assamensis
Habitat: dense forests of south-east Asia, doing what their neighbours do

[Monkeys] Supposedly, if women live together their hormonal cycles start to synchronise, thanks to a pheromone. If that were true it would mean that they all have their period simultaneously. Just think about it.

This “menstrual synchrony” argument was first reported in 1971 by psychologist Martha McClintock, who noticed signs of it in her own college dorm. But it may not really exist. Studies have had mixed results, often reporting no synchrony at all.

New Study: Vaccinated Children Have More Than Twice the Diseases and Disorders Than Unvaccinated Children

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Journal of Natural Food and Health

By Augie
October 9, 2011

Preventable Vaccine-induced Diseases

[vaxunvaxstudy] A German study released in September 2011 of about 8000 UNVACCINATED children, newborn to 19 years, show vaccinated children have more than twice the diseases and disorders than unvaccinated children, and perhaps five times more of certain disorders.

Battling Super Mom Syndrome

Awakened Woman

March 5, 2009

The “Super Mom Syndrome,” as some call it, is a phenomenon that affects millions of women around the country. Some believe it is a product of generational conditioning, some believe it’s the result of biological differences between the genders, and a few secretly cast blame on that pesky June Cleaver, who effortlessly set a precedent for the American mother that few of us will ever be able to impersonate.

ECCO-ESMO: Vaccine Shows Promise in Ovarian Cancer

Med Page Today
By Ed Susman, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
Published: September 26, 2011
STOCKHOLM – In preliminary studies, women diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer who received an autologous dendritic cell vaccine appear to achieve extended survival benefits, researchers reported here.

One-year survival was about 89% in patients who received a vaccine pulsed with lysate of tumor cells; and about 93% in the patients who received the cells pulsed with Bacillus subtilis B-7025 cytotoxic lectins (LTCCL), (P

Those figures compared with about 80% one-year survival in the control group Khranovska said at a poster presentation at the European Multidisciplinary Cancer Conference, formerly known as the Congress of the European Cancer Organization and Congress of the European Society for Medical Oncology.

British Society for Ecological Medicine- The Health Hazards of Disease Prevention

AoA Health Hazards

Age of Autism

October 8, 2011

By John Stone

A version of the March conference of the British Society of Ecological Medicine is now available online HERE.. Tragic to report that Dr David Freed, who presided with such warmth and charm over the first session died suddenly in August. He is here quoted:

‘It seems to me that the ethical background to vaccination – giving potentially harmful medications to healthy individuals in the hope of keeping them that way – has never been clearly addressed… Who gave us the right (a) to invade the bodies of healthy people who never asked us to, and (b) to do it not only without explanation of the possible risks, but in some countries even applying coercive pressures, denying the existence of the risks, and suppressing relevant information?’

Study reveals altered digestive genes in children with autism and gastrointestinal disturbances

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NEWS Medical

Published on September 17, 2011 at 2:22 AM ·

Researchers at the Center for Infection and Immunity (CII) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and at the Harvard Medical School report that children with autism and gastrointestinal disturbances have altered expression of genes involved in digestion. These variations may contribute to changes in the types of bacteria in their intestines.

Full study findings are reported online in the journal PLoS ONE.

The Real Reasons Michele Bachmann is Being Pilloried about Gardasil

True North Pointing Minnesota in the Right Direction Written by Karen Effrem September 23, 2011 After the most recent presidential debate, where she rightly highlighted the very poor decision of Texas Governor Rick Perry to mandate Merck’s Gardasil vaccine for HPV, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann reported the concerns of a distraught mother about the severe side Continue Reading …

Problems with menstruation?

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The Spoof

Wednesday, 14 September 2011
You’ll be the goose who laid the golden egg with Scunthorpe Industrial Chemicals’ duck hormone treatment

Ladies, do you suffer from painful periods? Is your monthly flow a bit of a handful?

Then why not try Scunthorpe Industrial Chemicals’ new duck hormone treatment.

Why Most Men’s Ring Fingers Are So Long

National Geographic Daily News
Finger length linked to aggression, musical ability, sexual orientation.

Christine Dell’Amore

National Geographic News

Published September 7, 2011

Is your ring finger longer or shorter than your index finger? The reason for the difference is in our hormones, a new study in mice shows for the first time.

Before birth, the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone control genes that in turn dictate finger length, the study found. Like us, mice naturally have both hormones in their bodies. (Get a genetics overview.)

As a result, most men have ring fingers that are longer than their index fingers, and the reverse is true in women.

Differences in finger length have been repeatedly linked to a range of human traits, from aggression to musical ability to sexual orientation. There are also connections to health problems such as autism, depression, heart attacks, and cancer.

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