Thursday, July 2, 2009

Meditative walking is a powerful technique to connect with God – Examiner.com

Examiner.comMeditative walking is a powerful technique to connect with GodExaminer.comMeditative walking is a powerful technique to slow down, to be in the moment and feel the presence of the One Life, God. By slowing down, and being in the …and more…

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Acupuncture: Natural Cure for Infertility – Alternative Health Journal

Alternative Health Journal Acupuncture: Natural Cure for InfertilityAlternative Health JournalMost people these days have heard of acupuncture for its use as a stress-relieving therapy, few have heard of its reputation as a natural cure for …and more »

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For Research On Protective Effects Of Fish Oil In Stroke LSUHSC MD/PHD Student Awarded NIH Grant

Tiffany Niemoller, a 5th year MD/PhD student at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies, has been awarded a grant in the amount of $148,480 over four years by the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. A training grant for individual predoctoral students, the Ruth L.

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Post-Surgery Distress In Children Eased By Hormone Treatment

A scary unknown for many children, the prospect of surgery can cause intense preoperative anxiety. While some amount of stress is normal, what many parents do not know is that extreme anxiety before surgery can contribute to the occurrence of emergence delirium, a distressing incidence of acute behavioral changes experienced when “waking up” from anesthesia.

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Seasonal Hunger Devastating And Under Recognized

Most of the world’s acute hunger and undernutrition occurs not in conflicts and natural disasters but in the annual “hunger season,” according to an article in this week’s open access journal PLoS Medicine. The hunger season is the time of year when the previous year’s harvest stocks have dwindled, food prices are high, and jobs are scarce, and is often under recognized.

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Successful Initial Safety Tests For Genetically-modified Rice That Fights Allergy – Journal Of Agricultural And Food Chemistry

In a first-of-its-kind advance toward the next generation of genetically modified foods – intended to improve consumers’ health – researchers in Japan are reporting that a new transgenic rice designed to fight a common pollen allergy appears safe in animal studies. Their report is in the current issue of ACS’ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a bi-weekly publication.

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