Why Do Heavy Drinkers Outlive Nondrinkers?
09/02/10 - Living Health - enki don't - 5 Comments
Tags: Abstinence, booze, lifespan, social interaction, alcoholics
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One of the most contentious issues in the vast literature about alcohol consumption has been the consistent finding that those who don't drink actually tend to die sooner than those who do. The standard Alcoholics Anonymous explanation for this finding is that many of those who show up as abstainers in such research are actually former hard-core drunks who had already incurred health problems associated with drinking.
But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that — for reasons that aren't entirely clear — abstaining from alcohol does tend to increase one's risk of dying, even when you exclude former problem drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers.
Pole suffers longest hangover: a bullet in his head for five years
08/31/10 - Living Health - seriouslyuguys - 9 Comments
Tags: Drunk, Polish, new years, gunshot, painful lump
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A Polish man living in Germany went about his business for about five years without noticing he had been shot in the head because he was drunk when it happened.
Psychedelic Drugs Show Promise as Anti-Depressants
08/26/10 - Living Health - enki don't - 3 Comments
Tags: neuroscience, depression, Anxiety, psychedelic drugs, Ketamine
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Ketamine—a powerful anesthetic for humans and animals that lists hallucinations among its side effects and therefore is often abused under the name Special K—delivers rapid relief to chronically depressed patients, and researchers may now have discovered why. In fact, the latest evidence reinforces the idea that the psychedelic drug could be the first new drug in decades to lift the fog of depression.
The neuroscientist paralysed by love
08/24/10 - Living Health - enki don't - 12 Comments
Tags: love, Oregon, paralysis, narcolepsy, cataplexy
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An American neuroscientist has developed a rare condition that leaves him paralysed when he feels the emotion of love.
Matt Frerking, 39, from Portland, Oregon, is left immobile if he even has a romantic thought or sees others showing displays of affection.
iPods 'led to surge in teen hearing loss'
08/19/10 - Living Health - Xiphias - 0 Comments
Tags: ipod, rock and roll, teenagers, hearing loss, MP3 music players
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The study of thousands of 12 to 19-year-olds found the number of them suffering from partial hearing loss jumped by 30 per cent between the early 1990s and 2005-06.
The prevalence of partial hearing loss rose from 14.9 per cent to 19.5 per cent - a relative jump of almost a third, found the authors of the study, led by Dr Josef Shargorodsky, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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