@ltaHEALTH ... Decisions about whether to close schools should be made locally, the officials said, and “should balance the goal of reducing the number of people who become seriously ill or die from influenza with the goal of minimizing social ... | @ltaLINK | @ltaSEARCH | @ltaCONNECT
Senate Braces For Final Reform Drive
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Roll Call: "Senate Democratic leaders are still pushing to bring up their
health care reform bill next week, even though the gambit comes with risks
as the...
Mental health of troops comes under scrutiny
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Ft. Hood has had 10 soldier suicides this year, the second-highest of any
Army post. Families of troops who have committed suicide say troubled
soldiers ar...
Forgetting Traumatic Memories
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It is well known that fear memories are permanent. However, a recent paper
in Science, evaluated by three Faculty Members for F1000, reports an
extraordina...
Uninsured veterans
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How can we continue to support a fragmented, dysfunctional financing system
that allows some of our veterans (not to mention tens of thousands of others
of...
Uninsured veterans
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How can we continue to support a fragmented, dysfunctional financing system
that allows some of our veterans (not to mention tens of thousands of others
of...
True, the common coldis highly contagious—spurred by more than 100 viruses that are spread when inhaled or picked up from tainted surfaces and rubbed into an eye or the mouth or a nostril. But beyond frequent hand washing, there are a number of ways that people can raise their immunity:
"That's the really striking issue in this study," says Sheldon Cohen, the Carnegie Mellon University professor of psychology who led the new research, "that even relatively small disturbances in your sleep have a pretty big impact on your susceptibility to getting a cold." The ideal: falling asleep within 10 minutes of when head hits pillow. | @ltaSOURCE
