Breastfeeding is as good for children's blood pressure as exercise and dietary salt restrictionMay 30th, 2005 It appears Mother's (by breastfeeding) have as much a role to play in the well being of a child as his own efforts (like regular exercise of salt restrictions) in later stages of life. Nature is again proving that she has provided all the means of care for us, should we care to listen.
Health News Summary: Cervical Cancer Vaccine, Angioplasty Risk, Oral Cancer, Diabetic Women and Birth DefectsOctober 7th, 2005 I have moved the coverage of all Health related news to a separate blog - Consanesco. Here is the summary of important news from this week:
Cervical Cancer Preventable with Vaccination
Repeat Angioplasty Increases Heart Attack Risk
NSAID Lowers Oral Cancer Risk in Smokers; Increases Heart Disease Risk
Why Babies of Diabetic Women with are 2-5 Times more Likely to Develop Birth Defects And How to Prevent it
Myspace drug ring community busted after a mother alerts police May 6th, 2009 Phoenix-area mother helps bust Ecstasy ring
PHOENIX — Police are crediting a Phoenix-area mother's tip for the dismantling of an drug ring that even had a price list posted on MySpace. The woman's call to the Maricopa County Methamphetamine Task Force last week helped authorities find the dealers' MySpace page.
Few new words and phrases to fully express your emotionsApril 16th, 2005 Few worth mentioning:
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE – The fine art of whacking the cr*p out of an electronic device to get it to work again. 404 - Someone who’s clueless.
Google Sports a New Table Based LookMarch 17th, 2006 Google appeared with a new look today for Indians (google.co.in). It sports a three column look with flexible center content column.
Tom Raftery Ages in a DayJune 5th, 2006 Tom Raftery has recently been severely stressed by O' Reilly media's cease-and-desist letter for using the holy word Web 2.0. I knew people ages faster with stress (white specs in my beard bear testament to the fact).
Dark Chocolate Works Like Aspirin To Prevent Heart AttacksNovember 15th, 2006 A few bits of dark chocolate a day can have the same benefit as aspirin in reducing blood clots and preventing heart attacks, researchers from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine concluded in a study of chocolate lovers. "What these chocolate 'offenders' taught us is that the chemical in cocoa beans has a biochemical effect similar to aspirin in reducing platelet clumping which can be fatal if a clot forms and blocks a blood vessel, causing a heart attack," lead researcher Diane Becker from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine told the annual conference of the American Heart Association, in Chicago.
Beta-Blockers as Neuralizers (wiping out memories)August 2nd, 2005 Neuralyzers, a fictional device to wipe memories or re-program them, became popular with Men in Black movie series. Scientists report that beta-blockers (like Atenolol), a popular blood pressure reducing drug, can be effectively used to wipe out bad memories, in other words neuralyzers for common man.
The Biggest Benefit of Economic Crisis in USANovember 25th, 2008 The economic crisis may be doing what pastors, family therapists and matrimonial counselors have long struggled to accomplish and yet mostly failed: keeping troubled marriages together. Marriage counselors and divorce lawyers nationwide say more distressed couples are putting off divorce because the cost of splitting up is prohibitive in a time of stagnant salaries, plummeting home values and rising unemployment.
Comment Guard Pro (WordPress Comment Spam Protection Plugin) Released for Internal TestingNovember 30th, 2007 I like to say that Comment Guard Pro will be the final plugin you will ever need for WordPress comment spam protection. It contains 18 pluglets for protecting you from comment spam, an open API for you to write your own pluglets, detailed live statistics (AJAX updated) and more.
How naive bayesian classifier can be made ineffectiveMarch 18th, 2005 A discussion on a failure vector of naive bayesian classifiers
OpenSTA, Load & Stress Testing Tool, Alternatives on LinuxMarch 3rd, 2007 In our effort to fully switchover to Linux as Desktop and Server environment, one of the biggest challenges is to find an alternative to OpenSTA, a popular and very capable open source distributed software testing tool for regression, load and stress testing. In other words OpenSTA is poor man's alternative to LoadRunner & Silk.
Study concludes fetal pain unlikely before third trimesterAugust 24th, 2005 A human fetus is unlikely to feel pain before the third trimester, when consciousness begins to form, researchers from UCSF said on Tuesday in a report that could fuel debate over proposed U.S. abortion legislation.
AP Executive Morning BriefingApril 24th, 2009 AP Executive Morning BriefingThe top business news from The Associated Press for the morning of Friday, May 8, 2009:
Toyota sees losses growing this year
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. said it sank into a 765.8 billion yen ($7.7 billion) net loss for the January-March quarter, bringing its loss for the full fiscal year to a bigger-than-expected 436.94 billion yen — its worst result ever.
The Lies Of Embryonic Stem Cell Research Objections or One Woman With Two Souls Ridicules Religious ZealotsAugust 18th, 2006 Don’t you just love it when evidence emerges challenging unprovable religious preconceptions espoused by the Pope, the Roman Catholic Church, hardline Islamists, not to mention beloved President George Bush and his own fundamentalist Christian supporters. What they all believe is that at the instant when an embryo is formed by fertilisation of a human egg by a human sperm, a “soul” gets installed in the entity to make it a true human being.
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