The Power of Touch Therapy

• Though my passport is full of stamps, I am the coward of all fliers. For years, every trip involved an herbal sedative, followed by half a sleeping pill as soon as I boarded and half a glass of wine an hour later to nudge things along. The worst flight of my life was a 90-minute ride in a rickety, about-to-fall-out-of-the-sky plane in South Africa. As I sat in my turbulence-rattled seat and cried, sure that we were going to die, a stranger saw me, came over, and said I could hold her hand until I felt better. This was the [...]

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Malaria kills twice as many as thought: study

• Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people worldwide a year, nearly twice as many as previously thought, according to new research published on Friday that questions years of assumptions about the mosquito-borne disease. Past studies had overlooked hundreds of thousands of deaths because they had wrongly assumed malaria overwhelmingly killed babies and focused their findings on under-fives, said the study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in the United States. The new study, published in The Lancet medical journal, found 42 percent of deaths were actually among older children and adults. The higher number of victims showed [...]

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• Discovering Bipolar Disorders

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  • Individuals suffering from bipolar disorders have to deal with such a pro

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  Bed Bug Bites

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  • Bed Bug Bites can be everywhere. Most probably, your be

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  Pediatric Bronchitis: The Terror of Childhood

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  • It is a horrible feeling to see one of your kids suffering under an illness. Bronchitis is

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  Vitamins Are Good For You!

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  • The word Vitamins is really a combination of two words: Vital+Amines, and are the compl

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