What the National Influenza Immunization Program (NIIP) did not and could not survive was finding cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) among persons receiving swine flu immunizations. As of 1976, >50 “antecedent events” had been identified in temporal relationship to GBS, events that were considered as possible factors in its cause. The list included viral infections, injections, and “being struck by lightning.” Whether or not any of the antecedents had a causal relationship to GBS was, and remains, unclear. When cases of GBS were identified among recipients of the swine flu vaccines, they were, of course, well covered by the press. Because GBS cases are always present in the population, the necessary public health questions concerning the cases among vaccine recipients were “Is the number of cases of GBS among vaccine recipients higher than would be expected? And if so, are the increased cases the result of increased surveillance or a true increase?” Leading epidemiologists debated these points, but the consensus, based on the intensified surveillance for GBS (and other conditions) in recipients of the vaccines, was that the number of cases of GBS appeared to be an excess.

L’Alliance des organisations de consommateurs va se saisir de nouveaux dossiers en 2013, comme la publicité qui contribue au surpoids chez les enfants.
Les organisations de consommateurs vont demander aux entreprises concernées de signer le Swiss Pledge, un engagement volontaire visant à limiter la publicité auprès des enfants.

Little more than a century ago, life was a minefield of illness and injury. Women died giving birth, children succumbed to contagious diseases, and a compound fracture—a break in the skin as well as the bone—could prove fatal. You were lucky if you survived to age 40. Now we are living twice as long. We can prevent and cure diseases, and repair and replace many body parts.
How was this radical makeover achieved? The history of medicine is usually described as the slow accretion of knowledge over hundreds of years, punctuated in the late 20th century by the sudden convergence of engineering and biology. The only problem with that narrative is that it misses the two factors most responsible for the development of clinically effective medicine: an epochal invention and a scientific rebellion.
Ironically, that invention was nearly overlooked. While it would enable not only modern medicine but all of the life sciences, it languished in the shadow of a related invention.

Bed bugs are thigmotactic and prefer to hide in cracks and crevices, and along edges and folds. Also, textured surfaces (e.g. wood, fabric) are preferred to smooth metal, plastic or tiled surfaces. Replacing wooden bed frames with plastic or metal frames, encasing mattresses and box springs, sealing holes and cracks on walls and the floor, removing items from around beds and sofas, replacing carpets with solid flooring and removing skirting are useful measures for reducing the number of harbourages. Specially designed encasements are available that are bite proof, escape proof and entry proof. Encasing mattresses and box springs with bed bug-proof encasements will trap existing bed bugs inside where they will starve and die. In addition, encasements prevent additional bed bugs from getting inside mattresses and box springs. Also, the smooth exterior of the encasement makes bed bug inspection much easier. In the event that infested beds are discarded, encasements can be used to protect replacement beds from becoming infested by bed bugs still present in other parts of the dwelling.

女性は、妊娠と出産という大切な役割を持っているため、男性よりも多くの体脂肪を蓄えているのです。これは、お腹の赤ちゃんを守り、大切な臓器を保護するため、骨盤のまわりの皮下脂肪をクッションのように厚くしているためです。逆に男性は、皮下脂肪はつきにくく、内臓脂肪がつきやすい傾向にあります。
もともと人間は、飢餓状態になっても生き延びられるよう、非常時のエネルギーを体脂肪として蓄える機能を身に付けています。と同時に、人間の生命活動は、各種のホルモンなどの働きによって円滑に行われるようになっています。体脂肪はエネルギーの備蓄機能ばかりでなく、このようなホルモンの働きなどを助成するような重要な役割も担っています。このため、無謀な減量で体重や体脂肪が減りすぎると、疾病やホルモンバランスの異常などを誘発することになります。

The standard worker dose limit for Japanese workers is 50 mSv/year and 100 mSv over 5 years. Before the accident, the emergency dose limit was set at 100 mSv/year but was raised to 250 mSv/year to allow workers to respond to this serious accident.
It should be noted that acute health effects are not expected at these doses to workers, although all are being closely monitored. For chronic health effects above 0.1 Sv (100 mSv), the cancer risk can be approximated as increasing by 10%/Sv.

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

Белорусы потратили на алкоголь больше, чем на топливо: В первом полугодии 2012 года через розничную торговлю продано алкогольных напитков и пива на 7,2 триллиона рублей, сообщает Белстат. Для сравнения, на моторное топливо в стране потрачено меньше – 6 триллионов рублей.

Can the mass professionalization of journalism be applied to medicine or health? Can access to a broadband connection outfit a citizen to think and act like a physician?
There are pieces of what physicians do that can be replicated, and other pieces that can’t. The technical things that doctors do can’t be replaced. Removing an appendix or replacing a heart valve, for example. Tough to pull off on CureTogether.
But what about the thinking? After all, patients have access to the same information, references, and literature as physicians.
Unfettered access to information can create an illusion. It can give us a false sense of control. In his provocative book, You Are Not a Gadget, Jaron Lanier tells us that “information is alienated experience.” And experience is the only process that can dealienate information. Or in the case of the infirm, it’s clinical judgment and experience that makes that myriad of medical literature applicable to an individual’s case.

The scientific concept of illness refers to a bodily lesion, that is, to a material — structural or functional — abnormality of the body, as a machine. This is the classic, Victorian, pathological definition of disease and it is still the definition of disease used by pathologists and physicians as scientific healers.
The brain is an organ — like the bones, liver, kidney, and so on — and of course can be diseased. That’s the domain of neurology. Since a mind is not a bodily organ, it cannot be diseased, except in a metaphorical sense — in the sense in which we also say that a joke is sick or the economy is sick. Those are metaphorical ways of saying that some behavior or condition is bad, disapproved, causing unhappiness, etc. In other words, talking about “sick minds” is analogous to talking about “sick jokes” or “sick economies.” In the case of mental illness, we are dealing with a metaphorical way of expressing the view that the speaker thinks there is something wrong about the behavior of the person to whom he attributes the “illness.”

Autism is the most common condition in a group of developmental disorders known as the autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Autistic children have difficulties with social interaction and verbal and nonverbal communication, and exhibit repetitive behaviors or narrow, obsessive interests. Autism varies widely in its severity, with symptoms ranging from mild to severe. In some cases the disorder may go unrecognized. Scientists aren’t certain what causes autism, but it’s likely that both genetics and environment play a role.

There is no single known cause of autism. Contributing causes may include:

• Genetics: There is convincing evidence that autism is a heritable disorder. The identity and number of genes involved remain unknown.
• Environmental: Epidemiologic studies indicate that environmental factors such as toxic exposures, teratogens, perinatal insults, and prenatal infections such as rubella and cytomegalovirus account for few cases.
• Toxic exposure: Studies done to date fail to find evidence that immunizations with the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine are responsible for the surge in autism. There has been considerable controversy about a possible toxic or heavy metal (especially mercury) component to autism.

凡男子作过太多，精气耗尽、脱死于妇人身上者，真伪不可不察。真则阳不衰，伪者则痿。

In order to study the cause of ALS outside of the motoneuron and the nervous system in ALS, we have launched a new study on genetic environmental epidemiology. We believe that interactions between genetic predisposition and environmental/behavioral factors and exposures may lead to oxidative stress in patients who develop ALS. In collaboration with Drs. Ottman and Factor Litvak, we have already developed the interview tools for genetic, behavioral and environmental factors. Now, we are conducting a small center-based study in preparation for a future larger population-based study. For genetic factors, we also have been working with Dr. Kottmann, who is investigating motor neuron specific gene expression, and we are also a part of the ALS DNA repository.

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Mariel Booth
The Model Student
Calories: 2400, Country: USA
Her 2,400 calories could rise or fall depending on whether she’s indulging in comfort food
with her boyfriend or slimming down for a modeling job.

Miyabiyama
The Sumo Wrestler
Calories: 3500, Country: Japan
To achieve his fighting weight, the mountain of a man spent years force-feeding himself many more calories than the listed 3,500. Now it takes fewer calories to maintain his 400-pound bulk. During the week of his interview, he was in training for a tournament—one of six big yearly matches—so he wasn’t drinking alcohol or eating at restaurants with sponsors of his club. His calorie count would have been higher at those times.

>大たい四頭筋（太もも前面の筋肉）のストレッチ

1. 両足を伸ばした状態で座る
2. 片足を曲げ、かかとをお尻に近づける
3. 上体を軽く後ろに倒す
4. ゆっくりと呼吸をしながら３の状態を３０秒間キープする
5. もう片足も同じようにおこなう

大でん筋（お尻の筋肉）のストレッチ

1. 床に座って足を組む
2. ひざをひじで押さえるようにして、上体をひねる
3. ゆっくりと呼吸をしながら、２．の状態を３０秒間キープする
4. 反対側も同じようにしておこなう

腹直筋（おなかの筋肉）のストレッチ

1. うつ伏せになり、腕をゆっくりと伸ばして背中をそらせる
2. ゆっくりと呼吸をしながら、１．の状態を３０秒間キープする

>According to Black, a number of factors have converged to heighten the risk of practicing yoga. The biggest is the demographic shift in those who study it. Indian practitioners of yoga typically squatted and sat cross-legged in daily life, and yoga poses, or asanas, were an outgrowth of these postures. Now urbanites who sit in chairs all day walk into a studio a couple of times a week and strain to twist themselves into ever-more-difficult postures despite their lack of flexibility and other physical problems. Many come to yoga as a gentle alternative to vigorous sports or for rehabilitation for injuries. But yoga’s exploding popularity — the number of Americans doing yoga has risen from about 4 million in 2001 to what some estimate to be as many as 20 million in 2011 — means that there is now an abundance of studios where many teachers lack the deeper training necessary to recognize when students are headed toward injury.
When yoga teachers come to him for bodywork after suffering major traumas, Black tells them, “Don’t do yoga.”

>Yes, exercise is good for you. This we know. Heaps of evidence point to the countless benefits of regular physical activity. Federal health officials recommend at least 30 minutes of moderate exercise, like brisk walking, every day.
Studies show that when you adhere to an exercise regimen, you can improve your cardiovascular health, lower blood pressure and improve metabolism and levels of cholesterol and triglycerides. You can reduce diabetes risk and the risk of certain cancers. And, finally, exercise can help you maintain a healthy weight, which can boost all of these benefits even more.
But now, researchers are beginning to suspect that even if you engage in regular exercise daily, it may not be enough to counteract the effects of too much sitting during the rest of the day.

>If you’re reading this sitting down, then stand up. It could save your life.
Women who sit for more than six hours daily are around 40 per cent more likely to die than those sitting for less than three hours a day, a study said.
The figure was about 20 per cent for men, according to American Cancer Society researchers who looked at 123,000 people’s health over 14 years
Extended periods of sitting down increases risks of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, depression and obesity, the study said.

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Correct timing of water intake:

• Two (2) glasses of water – 30 minutes before meal
  – help proper digestion
• One (1) glass of water – after waking up
  – helps activate internal organs
• One (1) glass of water – before taking bath
  – helps lower blood pressure
• One (1) glass of water – before sleep
  – avoids stroke or heart attack at midnight

 
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Is Drinking Too Much Water Bad For You?
We think of water as essential for living. Water is generally thought of as being good for you, and of course it is!! People generally tell you to drink lots of water for its health benefits, but did you ever know that drinking large quantities of water over a short period of time could potentially kill you? This might be a surprise to some of you and not to others, but it is true that having excess water (as in water-drinking contests) can prove lethal. There is such a thing as water intoxication and it is deadly.