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"Hot tea linked with elevated risk of esophageal cancer"
By admin - Published on Tuesday, 18 June 2019 09:35
"Previous studies have revealed a link between hot tea drinking and risk of esophageal cancer, but until now, no study has examined this association using prospectively and objectively measured tea drinking temperature. A new study achieved this by following 50,045 individuals aged 40 to 75 years for a median of 10 years."
Read more: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190320102028.htm
Advancing senior care
By admin - Published on Monday, 04 March 2019 10:49
AdvantAge Ontario is celebrating 100 years of advancing senior care!
Their annual convention is the largest gathering of senior staff from not-for-profit long term care homes, seniors’ housing and community service organizations across Ontario.
AdvantAge Ontario Annual General Meeting and Convention: May 6 – 8, 2019. Sheraton Center Hotel, Toronto. Register here: http://advancingseniorcare.ca/
“Sleep deprivation accelerates Alzheimer's brain damage”
By admin - Published on Monday, 04 March 2019 10:47
“Poor sleep has long been linked with Alzheimer's disease, but researchers have understood little about how sleep disruptions drive the disease.
Now, studying mice and people, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that sleep deprivation increases levels of the key Alzheimer's protein tau. And, in follow-up studies in the mice, the research team has shown that sleeplessness accelerates the spread through the brain of toxic clumps of tau - a harbinger of brain damage and decisive step along the path to dementia.
These findings, published online Jan. 24 in the journal Science, indicate that lack of sleep alone helps drive the disease, and suggests that good sleep habits may help preserve brain health.”
Read more: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190124141536.htm
"Hiker Saved the Life of an Alaskan Timber Wolf—4 Years Later the Wolf Still Remembered Him"
By admin - Published on Monday, 04 March 2019 10:28
For the love of God and humanity - be good to people and animals! All animals and all people!
"One spring morning many years ago, I had been prospecting for gold along Coho Creek on southeastern Alaska’s Kupreanof Island, and as I emerged from a forest of spruce and hemlock, I froze in my tracks. No more than 20 paces away in the bog was a huge Alaskan timber wolf—caught in one of Trapper George’s traps.
Old George had died the previous week of a heart attack, so the wolf was lucky I had happened along. Confused and frightened at my approach, the wolf backed away, straining at the trap chain. Then I noticed something else: It was a female, and her teats were full of milk. Somewhere there was a den of hungry pups waiting for their mother."
Read more: https://www.rd.com/true-stories/inspiring/hiker-saved-alaskan-timber-wolf/
Ten New Inventions
By admin - Published on Monday, 04 March 2019 10:12
“An Arizona State University researcher, working under a grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is trying to develop a military helmet equipped with technology to regulate soldiers' brains. The technology is transcranial pulsed ultrasound, which delivers high-frequency sound waves to specific regions of the brain. Under the influence of these sound waves, neurons send impulses to their targets, exerting control over them. On the battlefield, this has enormous implications. Using a controller, a soldier could release ultrasound pulses to stimulate different areas of the brain…….”
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