Posts Tagged ‘Health’

Computers may cause photofobia

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:33 By NARUTO

People who are exposed to excess light from the computer screen should make a quick break every hour to relax the eye muscles. The practice may be effective against the development of photophobia.
Photophobia is the name given to excessive sensitivity to artificial light and sunlight. This sensitivity occurs when the photosensitive cells from the retina [...]

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Mouth to mouth is out!

Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:14 By NARUTO

Before advocated as an important part of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, mouth to mouth affect the procedure and reduces the chances of survival of patients with heart failure.
Studies show a survival rate three times higher in people subjected only to the continuous chest compressions until help arrives. Therefore, the Ilcor (International Alliance of Committees resuscitation), an organization [...]

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Chocolate and gum are the newest guns against malaria

Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:09 By NARUTO

Microsoft founder Bill Gates decided to contribute in an unusual way to combat malaria: bet on sweets. Through his charitable foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates, the billionaire gave on Tuesday $ 100,000 for unconventional solutions to world problems. Disease, two proposals have drawn attention. One speaks of gum, the other in chocolate.
The first idea, [...]

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Botox may literaly save your ass

Saturday, October 17, 2009 9:07 By NARUTO

In the Urology field, recent studies with Botox are reaching good results for the patients’ treatment with prostatic hyperplasia (benign increase of the organ that can cause difficulty to urinate) that don’t answer well to the medication or that present important side effects.
According to José Carlos Truzzi, urologist from Unifesp (Federal University of São Paulo), [...]

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Put yourself together using a bracelete

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:19 By NARUTO

If you have a difficult relationship with your emotions, you don’t to know them or don’t to control them, firstly know that you are not that alien and that can just be an indicative that you are really human.
Well, in a planet that has six billion humans, and all with dozens kinds of emotions, it [...]

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Internet addiction can be prevented

Monday, October 12, 2009 5:49 By NARUTO

In spite of the researches in the area be quite recent and still little conclusive, the problem of the addiction in internet is old and it worries the doctors more and more, especially in relation to the children and adolescents. Now, researchers of Taiwan identified a group of conditions of mental health that can increase [...]

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Tweet what you eat

Sunday, October 11, 2009 4:16 By NARUTO

Those that are over weight probably already know the basic: to eat less and better and to practice exercises. Those are the presuppositions of every diet, but an option that guarantees better results always appears. Now it is the time of Twitter.
The “Tweet What You Eat” diet combines other two simple ways to lose weight: [...]

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Health versus Fashion: the rise of anorexia

Friday, October 9, 2009 7:36 By NARUTO

Several international blogs are discussing the picture above, of a campaign of Ralphe Lauren. The discussion rotates around the excess of the use of Photoshop in advertising pictures, besides the women’s valorization more and more thin, inciting the anorexia, for instance.
Psychiatrists asked the British government to take some kind of attitude against the crescent sites [...]

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Keep Your Environment dust-Free with Dust Alert Sensor

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 23:17 By Robert

No matter how clean you keep your home or office, small airborne particles do contaminate the air. If this continues and becomes worse, then your health can be severely affected. The dust particles are capable of causing asthma, bronchitis and even lung cancer. In order to help you detect the presence of airborne particles in [...]

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HealthBase: a different search engine

Thursday, September 3, 2009 1:34 By NARUTO

With the exponential growth of the Web, it became difficult to index the information. The HTML language, which popularized the Web and it is used by most of the sites, doesn’t possess resources to allow attributing “meaning” to the information. The HTML tags are very limited in that sense. They just describe as the page [...]

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