Written on July 3, 2011 by Jordan Ballard
“I had my eye removed on May 29, which was a Sunday.”
That’s the way Patricia Kearns, 62, of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., began the tale of the 1988 fireworks injury that led to the loss of her right eye.
As she tells it, Kearns and her husband lived in a lovely home along a canal. That evening they were hosting a dinner party for about 100 people, honoring the new president of a local Catholic high school where her husband was on the board.
A string quartet played as people chatted and ate. “It’s not like people were jumping around with lampshades on their heads,” Kearns said.
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Written on July 3, 2011 by Jett Dooley
—Davide Razzoli, Italy
, a lecturer of cognitive science at the University of California, Berkeley, explains: Before going onstage to give a presentation, you notice your breathing becomes heavy, your hands tremble and you feel faint. Though frightening, these symptoms are not life-threatening; rather they are indicative of a panic attack.
We know a fair amount about the physiology of a panic attack, but we have only recently started to understand how it affects our brain chemistry. Panic attacks are episodes of intense fear or apprehension. Sufferers often report thinking that they might be dying, choking or going crazy. They may also feel like they are experiencing a heart attack or about to black out. The
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Written on July 3, 2011 by Jade Haigh
Dietary changes alone can yield the same benefits as changes in both diet and exercise in the first year after a person is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, a new study contends.
English researchers found that patients who were encouraged to lose weight by modifying their diet with the help of a dietician had the same improvements in blood sugar (glycemic) control, weight loss, cholesterol and triglyceride levels as those who changed both their diet and physical activity levels (30 minutes of brisk walking five times a week).
Both groups achieved about a 10 percent improvement in blood sugar control, cholesterol and triglyceride levels compared to patients who received routine care.
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Written on July 2, 2011 by Jordan Ballard
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Le Monde.
(WIDOU, Senegal) The rainy season has started in the rest of the country, but in Widou, in the heart of the Ferlo region in northern Senegal, the first raindrops won’t fall until the end of July. In these tough times between harvests, most of the flocks have migrated to the south in hopes of grazing.
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Written on July 2, 2011 by Jade Haigh
Researchers of a new study, published online June 24 in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, found similar rates of treatment success in people taking abacavir plus lamivudine (Epzicom), compared with people taking tenofovir plus emtricitabine (Truvada). Moreover, they conclude that abacavir should once again be listed as a “preferred” option in HIV treatment guidelines.
Three landmark studies during the past three years resulted in the down-grading of abacavir in U.S. HIV treatment guidelines from a “preferred” antiretroviral (ARV) agent for first-line therapy, notably when used in the combination tablet Epzicom, to an “alternative” agent.
Two of those studies, SMART and D:A:D, suggested that people taking abacavir had a higher rate of heart attacks than people on other nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). A third stu
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