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Depression Speeds Aging

Depression Speeds Aging In The Elderly

Major depression is not only psychologically crippling but can also age a person’s body on a cellular level. That’s the conclusion of a new study that examined blood samples from more than 2,400 people with and without depression. Researchers at ...

Popping so many pills is killing us

What will it take for France to get serious about regulating prescription drugs? asked Sauveur Boukris. We French love to take pills; we are the biggest consumers of medicines in Europe. French doctors “tend to prescribe far more heavily” than ...
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Russia Imprisons Citizens for Posting Anti-Kremlin Memes

For showing a picture of a tube of toothpaste with the words “Squeeze Russia out of yourself” Andrei Bubeyev was arrested and sentenced to over two years in prison.  He showed this to twelve of his friends on social media ...
Calcium Supplements Linked to Dementia

Calcium Supplements Linked to Dementia

Researchers have found that in some women who take calcium supplements and have had a stroke may suffer from dementia as they grow older.  Women who suffer from cerebrovascular disease which is a disorder that effects the blood flow to ...

The 5.1 earthquake that rattled Southern California

La Habra, Calif. Quake fears: The magnitude-5.1 earthquake rattled Southern California, raising fears that the tremors could presage the long-dreaded “Big One”—a catastrophic quake that could devastate the region. The temblor and its more than 100 aftershocks originated in La ...

Dolphins in distress

Dead and dying bottlenose dolphins are washing up along the Mid-Atlantic coast at an alarming rate. Since June, more than 120 dolphins have appeared on beaches from New York to Virginia—seven times the typical number. Early this month, the National ...
Solve the Plastic Crisis

Plastic Crisis Resolution

The European Parliament has put in to affect a ban on single use plastics to battle the plastic crisis.  The new law would make it so that all plastic will need to be recyclable by the year 2030.  Europe will ...
The toll of loneliness on your health

Loneliness and it’s toll on your health

Too much alone time can kill you. A study conducted by Brigham Young University found that isolation and loneliness are as bad for a person’s health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day or being an alcoholic. Researchers examined data from ...
Selfies Are Killing People

Selfies Are Killing People

Records show that about 73 people have died from taking selfies and in that 76% were men.  People don’t pay attention to what they are doing or what is around them when they are taking these selfies and end up ...
HOW CHILDREN OF ONE PARENT HOMES STRUGGLE

HOW CHILDREN OF ONE PARENT HOMES STRUGGLE

Researchers have found that when there is only one parent in the home the children have a tendency to smoke or drink alcohol.  The study examined 11,000 children and found that when they were under the age of 7 when ...