If insomnia is derailing your sleep, a prescription sleeping pill may not be the best cure. Here are some options to explore:
Practice good “sleep hygiene.” This does not mean making sure your bedding is clean! It means following good sleep habits, especially ensuring the bedroom environment is conducive to sleep. Among experts’ recommendations: Use the [...]
Filed under: Sleep, Stress on March 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
SODIUM — that’s what worries Greye Dunn. He thinks about calories, too, and whether he’s getting enough vitamins. But it’s the sodium that really scares him.
“Sodium makes your heart beat faster, so it can create something really serious,” said Greye, who is 8 years old and lives in Mays Landing, N.J.
Greye’s mother, Beth Dunn, the [...]
Filed under: Body, Food on March 22nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Most minor discomfort is a sign of … not much. Maybe you had a heavy meal, a stressful day, a hard workout — and by the next day you feel fine again. But a handful of trivial-sounding symptoms can sometimes be red flags for something more serious. Since it’s often hard to distinguish between the [...]
Filed under: Body, Disease on March 14th, 2009 | No Comments »
WHAT if we could rid the world of AIDS? The notion might sound like fantasy: HIV infection has no cure and no vaccine, after all. Yet there is a way to completely wipe it out – at least in theory. What’s more, it would take only existing medical technology to do the job.
Here’s how it [...]
Filed under: Body, Disease, News on March 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
It’s the last set at Wimbledon and Serena Williams needs a little magic to take the match. Her opponent makes an amazing shot, but Williams somehow knows where the ball is going, and she’s there. How could she have read her opponent’s mind?
She didn’t. But she may have been helped by a kind of human [...]
Filed under: Mind on March 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
