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- Bipolar disorder more common than expected in hospitalized teens. Clinicians at Bradley Hospital, the nation's first psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents, have found that bipolar disorder is more common than expected in teens in a psychiatric inpatient setting. "In the past, mental health professionals thought that about one percent of teens was bipolar – our research indicates that if a strict definition of the illness is applied, up to twenty percent of adolescents on psychiatric units may be manic-depressive," says lead author Jeffrey Hunt, MD, a child psychiatrist at Bradley Hospital and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Brown Medical School. The study appears in the December issue of the Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. |
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- Women Now Outnumber Men Online. [Slashdot] |
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- Hyperbaric oxygen treatments mobilize stem cells. According to a study to be published in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulation Physiology, a typical course of hyperbaric oxygen treatments increases by eight-fold the number of stem cells circulating in a patient's body. Stem cells, also called progenitor cells are crucial to injury repair. The study currently appears on-line and is scheduled for publication in the April 2006 edition of the American Journal. [Science Blog -] |
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- The blog as resume and autobiography. On my winter vacation this week, I've been spending some of my time sketching out a book proposal. The idea would be to explore the professional blog as a literary form that grows out of, and extends, two traditional forms: the resume and the autobiography. That might seem self-evident to blogging cognoscenti, but it's still unfamiliar to most people. |
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- Ukraine's Talks With Russia Fail to Resolve Gas Dispute. The politically charged dispute concerned Russia's plans to raise the price of natural gas exports to Ukraine. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. [NYT > Business] |
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- Bid to find captured Gaza Britons. The Palestinian authorities race to find a kidnapped British human rights worker and her parents in Gaza. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] |
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- Billionaire Builder of China. Xu Rongmao, one of 10 known billionaires in China, is bigger than Donald Trump, Sam Zell or Mortimer Zuckerman. By DAVID BARBOZA. [NYT > Business] |
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- UK man wins landmark spam victory. Spammers pay compensation for unsolicited mail [The Register] |
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- Candid account of where New Orleans is at from an anonymous correspondent. |
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- Nach Ansicht der Experten vom "Asia Investor" ist es derzeit noch verfrüht, in die Sony-Akie (ISIN JP3435000009/ WKN 853687) einzusteigen.Die Sony-Aktie habe in der Vorwoche zu den Stars der Tokioter ... |
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- Although an apology is hardly a compensation it is a start. Companion measures are being worked on and although money... |
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- Kyrenia The Jewel of Northern Cyprus With 340 days of sunshine a year and the perfect Mediterranean climate its no wonder thousands of visitors flock to Cyprus every year to escape the sometimes less forgiving Northern European climate Northern Cyprus has all of the prerequisites for the perfect summer break sunlots of Beautiful sandy beaches warm turquoise blue waters to bathe in and a sumptuous mix of the best of Eastern and Western cuisine And Northern Cyprus is able to offer its many visitors far more than a perReach Your Goals Use Your Holidays Use birthdays and other giftgiving holidays to help reach your goals Suggest to friends and family that for your birthday Christmas Hanukah etc you would much rather receive goalrelated gifts than a new set of bath salts or scented candles Examples Tuition assistance at the college youre attending to get that new degree Supplies or money toward supplies to open your new business A gift certifi |
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- Happy new year to everyone out there. The new year will (hopefully) bring loads of improvements to SN, so look forward to all sorts of cool stuff. If 2005 was a good one for you I hope 2006 will be even better and if it sucked…well sucks to be you…look on the bright side, at least [... |
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- NSA Caught With The Cookies. zardo writes "The associated press is reporting that the NSA is putting cookies on visiting computers. Apparently it is unlawful for the government to put anything but a session cookie out unless it's expressed in the site's privacy policy." From the article: "Don Weber, an NSA spokesman, said in a statement Wednesday that the cookie use resulted from a recent software upgrade. |
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- A Bear Called Paddington (Unabridged)Now available for listingen as an audiobook: A Bear Called Paddington (Unabridged) at audible.com. When will you start to enjoy good books on your mp3-player?A Bear Called Paddington (Unabridged) now availabe as an audiobook download! |
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- December 29, 1223: Pope Honorius III gave formal approval for the Franciscan religious order.... |
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- Philosophers spend a lot of time studying ethics, politics, and what kinds of positions or principles can best be justified by sound reasoning and historical evidence. Based upon all of this, philosophers generally criticized and condemned America's invasion of Iraq.... |
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- From: "Dave" Subject: A little clarificaton This life is only a prelude for Heaven for believers and something a little hotter for the non-believers. I know you don't believe in heaven or hell... but I bet you believe in theories... |
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- According to this argument, neither naturalism nor materialism can give an adequate explanation of mental events like consciousness. Consequently, divine and supernatural explanations are needed to explain why we are conscious and how our brains work. Read Article: Argument from... |
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- Affirmative Action is a moral and political question which seems to divide Americans more than it unites them. On the one side are those who regard it as a type of program designed to rectify racism and reverse the effects... |
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- What are the most important things for Christianity and for being a Christian? The answers to this will vary greatly depending upon whom you ask. What's especially curious, though, is how many of these answers have such a weak relationship... |
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- Book of the Day: Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians, by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy. Was Christianity originally founded upon the teachings and activities of a real person named Jesus, or was... |
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- lil_brown_bat: AP names 2005 Athletes of the Year. |
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- zippinglou: Venezuela may decline to participate in the Baseball Classic if Cuba isn't allowed to play. Puerto Rico has already said that they will no longer "host" games, in rejection to the veto. |
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- skydivedad: Here's a month-by-month look at some of the big events for 2006 and some athletes with breakout potential. Who's on your radar as future Superstars? |
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- New procedure helps with varicose veinsHerald-Dispatch - ASHLAND — Pat Edwards, a nurse at King’s Daughters Medical Center in Ashland, spends a lot of time on her feet on her 12-hour shifts. It didn’t help a lot when she developed varicose veins and developed an open sore on her foot. |
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hearing (Dec 29 2005 17:52 GMT) - Earbud Headphones May Cause Hearing Loss. [Slashdot] |
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- Longtime Oriole honored at afternoon memorial service Friends, family and former teammates gathered to remember Elrod Hendricks this morning at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen on North Charles Street in Baltimore. |
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- Health workers falling sick in quake-hit areasGulf Times, Qatar - 10 hours ago… coma. Later, he was shifted to Al Shifa International Hospital Islamabad where he was diagnosed as having pulmonary embolism. |
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- A young "Sopranos" actor accused in the slaying of an off-duty police officer said in a jailhouse interview he's sorry and didn't know his alleged burglary accomplice was carrying a gun. |
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- BBC Science -- Rwandans have been commemorating the 20th anniversary of the murder of gorilla conservationist Dian Fossey. The US researcher spent two decades working among Rwanda's rare mountain gorillas and was the subject of the Hollywood film Gorillas in the Mist. Local people held traditional dances while government officials made speeches and laid wreaths where Ms Fossey was buried. It has never been established who killed her in her jungle cabin in 1985. The ceremonies were held in the Volcanoes National Park, where she had had her research base. |
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- BBC Environment -- If climate scientists are right, the past year's scenes of extreme weather are set to become commonplace by the end of the century. The prediction is that by 2100, the average global temperature will rise by anything from 2 degrees Celsius to around 6C with potentially devastating consequences. The question is, what should we do about it? To help answer that, let's explore two different scenarios for our future world. You could summarise the first option as "business-as-usual". |
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- The Independent/UK -- A daily dose of vitamin D could cut the risk of cancers of the breast, colon and ovary by up to a half, a 40-year review of research has found. The evidence for the protective effect of the "sunshine vitamin" is so overwhelming that urgent action must be taken by public health authorities to boost blood levels, say cancer specialists. A growing body of evidence in recent years has shown that lack of vitamin D may have lethal effects. Heart disease, lung disease, cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis are among the conditions in which it is believed to play a vital role. |
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- BBC Medical Science -- The scientist behind the cloning of Dolly the Sheep is calling for stem cell treatment to be offered to people with terminal illnesses. Professor Ian Wilmut told The Scotsman that the treatment, which had not been fully tested, could save lives or at least speed up the pace of research. He said he knew patients prepared to take part in such trials. "If we wait until things are totally tested and analysed in animals, it will deny some people treatment," he said. Stem cells - the body's master cells - are able to grow indefinitely, producing "daughter" cells that can form different tissues. |
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- Experimental ways to fight avian fluChicago Tribune - Despite recent moves by the federal government to build drug stockpiles for a possible outbreak of avian flu, some experts say the plans so far have neglected a key possibility: What if a pandemic strikes before the stockpiles are in place? Lung |
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- Tory and Lib Lords plan to hobble ID cards scheme. Amendment would make registration optional Tory and Liberal Democrat peers plan to 'decouple' passports and identity cards by allowing passport applicants to opt out of the National Identity Register, according to a report in the Daily Telegraph. Although the Government describes the initial rollout of the ID scheme as voluntary, it intends that ID cards first be deployed via passport renewals, with those needing new passports having no choice over being registered; removal of this aspect of the Bill could fatally undermine its ability to achieve critical mass for ID cards. [The Register - Internet and Law: |
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- Iraqi children’s lives saved by ‘Operation Iraqi Hearts’Newsday, NY |
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privacy (Dec 29 2005 17:50 GMT) - Spy Agency Removes Illegal Tracking Files. The National Security Agency's Internet site has been placing files on visitors' computers that can track their Web surfing activity. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. [NYT > Technology] |
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- Local Family Marks Season With Gratitude for Son’s LifeVoices, CT - Dec 21, 2005… Bobby underwent his fourth cardiac surgery this spring, the last of a multi-stage process to take as much of the workload off his heart as possible. |
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- (Via Masternewmedia): Socialight lets you put a virtual sticky note (aka Post-It) anywhere in the real world. Known as StickyShadows, the notes are like a cross between virtual graffiti and personal messages from friends and strangers alike. It works like this: when a Socialight user enters a place where someone has placed a StickyShadow, their phone buzzes. |
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