Archive for the 'Health and Medicine' Category
Seeing with Your Tongue
Snipped from LiveScience.com.
This is a very simple theory put to test, and it seems it is paying huge benefits. Watch as this blind man rock climbs seeing with his tongue.
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Healthcare Reform, Why Not?
The healthcare debate in the United States has caused much ruckus over the last few weeks, and it only keeps getting louder. President Obama has made this the focal issue of his young presidency, and his success or failure over this singular topic has the potential to define his first term.
The case for universal healthcare seems to be a simple one; everyone has the right to medical treatment regardless of their financial state. However, medical treatment costs money, and this is where the problems lie. Should there be a free-market system where healthcare is the individual responsibility of citizens where they have to ensure they have medical insurance, or is the State under an obligation to guarantee said care? In many parts of the modern world, such as the UK and Canada, it is deemed that this responsibility falls primarily on the government.
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Autism, Schizophrenia: Is Brain Folding Implicated?
Snipped from Boston.com.
Now this is very interesting! Researchers are starting to unveil the reasons for our wrinkled brains.
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The Health Care Debate
As soon as the Media was done covering the GOP infantilizing Sonia Sotomayor during the confirmation hearings, the Media has now turned to the health care debate. We have heard it all, and most is pure BS. Most of the idiotic arguments are coming from the Republican party, and boy, are they bad. Let’s take a look at the Republican Health Care Wall of Shame.
July 9, 2009
Republican Representative Louie Gohmert said the following — “I know enough about Canadian care and I know the bureaucratic socialized piece of crap they have up there. It gives them a generalized standard of care. … 1 in 5 people have to die because they went to socialized medicine.”
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Europeans Bewildered at US’s Attitude Toward Universal Care
Snipped from GlobalPost.com.
As the debate on health care rages on, I have always wondered what it must seem like from an outsider’s perspective.
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Stress, Problems, Guilt? Sleep It Off!
Sleep has been in itself somewhat of a mystery. It’s been researched and philosophically debated about endlessly. Why, even the lack of sleep has fueled major industries from knockout pills to adjustable beds, from a myriad of special mattresses and comfy pillows to drowsy-induced music melodies.
Moreover is the latest: sleep can be a substitute for coffee. A study by Sara C. Mednick, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, surprised many by demonstrating that a brief nap made workers more alert than a cup of coffee.
Notwithstanding, Blog4Brains.com will not wade thru the research mud of sleep philosophy, the nature and need for sleep, the effects from lack of sleep, or anything else along these lines from A to Zzzzzz. What else is there? Melatonin-induced sleep, perhaps.
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