Mental & Emotional Health

Research offers hope for severely brain damaged - A 38-year-old man unable to communicate or feed himself for six years has been reawakened from a coma-like state by tiny electrodes implanted deep in his brain.

The man, incapacitated after an assault left him in a “minimally conscious state,� is now interacting with family and friends and gradually regaining more control of his mind and body.

US: Flexibility urged in rules for acne drug use - US health advisers are urging slightly more flexibility in rules designed to prevent pregnancies among women taking an acne drug that has caused birth defects - even though women taking the drug still are getting pregnant.

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration decided Wednesday that minor changes would ease access to Accutane and its generic competitors without further increasing those troubling pregnancies. - I put this up because I “blame” Accutane on advancing my depression & anxiety and believe that everyone should read about this insane drug!

237 Reasons We Have Sex - After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found that young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivations.

College-aged men and women agree on their top reasons for having sex — they were attracted to the person, they wanted to experience physical pleasure and “it feels good,” according to a peer-reviewed study in the August edition of Archives of Sexual Behavior. Twenty of the top 25 reasons given for having sex were the same for men and women.

Hey, Moms: No More Baby Formula in the Hospital Gift Bag - World Breastfeeding Week begins on Wednesday, and in an important change in its policies, New York City’s public hospital system announced this morning that it is no longer supplying free baby-formula samples in the gift bags it provides to new mothers.

Instead, the new mothers will each be given a breast-milk bottle cooler, disposable nursing pads, breastfeeding tips and a baby T-shirt with the slogan “I Eat at Mom’s� emblazoned on the front. Breastfeeding coaches will accompany the mothers at bedside “to help initiate breastfeeding within one hour of delivery.� The hospital agency will also give out free breast pumps and make available hospital-grade electric breast pumps to mothers whose newborns have to remain in the hospital.

Exercise, caffeine may stop skin cancer - A study on mice at Rutgers University in New Jersey showed that a combination of exercise and some caffeine — equivalent to one or two cups of coffee a day — protected against the effects of the sun’s ultraviolet-B radiation, which can lead to cancer.

The caffeine and exercise seemingly conspire to kill off precancerous cells whose DNA has been damaged by UVB-rays, the authors say.

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