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New Pandemic-Related Disorder: ‘Zoom Fatigue’
by Shifra on June 8, 2020Looks like working from home turns out to be not so ‘perfect’ after all. Via WSJ. ….The affliction that’s come to be known as “Zoom fatigue” is way more than a byproduct of too many meetings. Social scientists say it’s the result of the sudden mass adoption of technology that’s disrupting the normal, instinctual and finely-tuned way of communicating that developed to help humans survive. “We’ve evolved to get meaning out of a flick of the eye. Our species has survived because we can produce those signals in a way that’s meaningful,” says Jeremy Bailenson, professor and director of Stanford University’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab. “Zoom smothers you with cues, and they aren’t synchronous. It takes a physiological toll.” Before...
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Video: Biden Compares COVID-19 Drug To Poison… ‘C’mon, Man!’
by Shifra on May 22, 2020Biden accuses President Trump of being “dangerously irresponsible” by announcing that he is taking hydroxychloroquine, because “no serious medical person” is saying to use the drug. But it is Biden who is being dangerously irresponsible in mocking the use of this drug. Last time I checked, Joe Biden did not have a medical degree. And neither does his wife, who, despite Whoopi Goldberg proclaiming that “Dr. Jill is a hell of a doctor” who would make a great Surgeon General,” has a doctoral degree, Ed.D., in education, for her thesis: Student retention at the community college : meeting students’ needs Via NR. Yesterday, I pointed out the potential consequences of having an overwrought, childish, partisan debate over a lifesaving drug...
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Public Podcast: The “Weekend Update” 3-29-20
by Tammy on March 30, 2020Normally exclusive media for our subscribers, with everything going on I decided to make this podcast public. I hope you find it useful, informative and on occasion entertaining. The Tammy Podcasts are made possible by subscribers, and we’d love to have you join us. For more information click here. Thank you!
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Public Podcast: The “Evening Update” 3-24-20
by Tammy on March 25, 2020Normally exclusive media for our subscribers, with everything going on I decided to make this podcast public. I hope you find it useful, informative and on occasion entertaining. The Tammy Podcasts are made possible by subscribers, and we’d love to have you join us. For more information click here. Thank you!
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‘Google Doodle’ Honors Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, ‘Father of Handwashing’
by Shifra on March 22, 2020In 1847, Dr. Semmelweis, a Jewish Hungarian doctor, began to sound the alarm in Vienna that women were needlessly dying in hospitals after childbirth due to the negligence of doctors, who routinely performed autopsies and other medical procedures without “bothering” to wash their hands between procedures. Unfortunately, Semmelweis’s calls for handwashing were rejected and mocked by his colleagues. He became severely depressed, and he was involuntarily committed to an insane asylum, where he died at the age of 47. Via UPI. Google is celebrating physician Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis and hand washing with a new Doodle. Semmelweis was appointed Chief Resident in the maternity clinic of Vienna General Hospital in 1847 when he discovered the medical benefits of hand washing and...
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Poll: Democrats Are 50% More Likely Than Republicans To ‘Stress-Eat’
by Shifra on November 2, 2018They also drink more…to make “The Sadz” go away when elections don’t go their way. Via NBC News. The midterm elections are turning out to be nearly as stressful as the 2016 presidential election — especially for Democrats. According to a poll conducted by YouGov and commissioned by the fitness site Daily Burn, Democrats are 50 percent more likely than Republicans to say they’re “eating their feelings” as a result of the current political climate. They’re also drinking more (a 2-to-1 ratio over their GOP counterparts). “I’m seeing some people so stressed at the moment they’re doing two, even three soul cycle classes at day,” Dr. Navya Mysore, a primary care doctor, tells NBC News BETTER. “Exercise is good for...
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Documentary: David Cassidy Never Had Dementia, Was Hiding Alcoholism
by Tammy on June 6, 2018Jeez. Cassidy died last year of liver failure at the age of 67. Via Fox News. “Partridge Family” star David Cassidy admitted to producers months before his death that he hid his ongoing battle with alcoholism and did not have dementia, a new documentary shows. The A&E docuseries “David Cassidy: The Last Session,” set to air on June 11, includes an audio recording of Cassidy speaking to an A&E producer after he was hospitalized just two months before his death. The former child star had become ill in the recording studio and was rushed to the hospital. In the audio, Cassidy explained to the producer what the doctors told him during his hospitalization. “I have liver disease,” Cassidy told A&E...
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Studies: Dark Chocolate Can Lower Stress & Inflammation, Improve Memory
by Tammy on April 28, 2018Because God loves us. Via UPI. Consuming dark chocolate has several benefits to brain function, including reducing stress levels and inflammation, and improving mood, memory and immunity, according to two studies. Researchers at Loma Linda University Adventist Health Sciences Center in Southern California studied how consumption of dark chocolate with a high concentration of cacao — at least 70 percent, with the rest organic cane sugar — has positive effects. The two studies were presented Tuesday at the Experimental Biology 2018 annual meeting in San Diego. In the past, research has shown that cacao is a major source of flavonoids. Because they are extremely potent antioxidants and anti-inflammatory agents, flavonoids benefit brain and cardiovascular health, the researchers said. “For years,...
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Florida Senate Approves Bill for Year-Round Daylight Saving Time
by RedeemtheTime on March 7, 2018**Bumped Up From TAM Wire. Posted by RedeemtheTime** The Sunshine State moves to observe daylight saving time year-round. Via WFLA.com. Florida is a step closer to living up to its nickname as “The Sunshine State.” A bill to let Florida remain on Daylight Saving Time year-round is headed to Governor Rick Scott’s desk after the state Senate approved it 33-2 on Tuesday. If Scott signs the “Sunshine Protection Act,” Congress would need to amend existing federal law to allow the change. While the rest of the Eastern United States would set their clocks back in the fall, Florida wouldn’t, leaving it with more sunshine in the evening during the winter. Northwest Florida is currently in the Central time zone. For...
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Video) It’s Baaack: The Hillary Coughing Fit
by Shifra on February 9, 2018Remember when Hillary collapsed into a van, and the Dems dismissed it as “just a normal reaction to wearing a long coat on a sweltering summer day” ? (Although they never explained why anyone would wear a coat in middle of a heat wave.) Anyway, this persistent cough is another nothing-burger. Right? Via American Mirror. Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wants women to #raiseyourvoice, though she struggled to heed the slogan as she fought back a coughing fit during this week’s “The MAKERS Conference.” The conference – inspired by Gloria Steinem, Lena Waithe and the “Time’s Up” movement – ran from Monday through Wednesday to celebrate all kinds of liberal feminist “MAKERS,” from outspoken actress Lena Dunham to Clinton, Martha...
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Blood Test Finds Cancer Before Symptoms Start
by Tammy on August 16, 2017In the midst of so much ugliness politically, we have amazing news like this, which is a good reminder that we are in a remarkable time in an amazing country that’s worth fighting for. Via NBC News. Researchers say they have taken a big step towards developing a test that can tell people if they have cancer long before the first symptoms show up. The blood test detected the majority of cancers in people with four of the biggest cancer killers: breast, colon, lung and ovarian cancer, the team at Johns Hopkins University said. The test is a long way from being used to screen for cancer, but the study shows a way to get there, the team reported in...
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Universal Cancer Test Detects Tumors 10 Years Before They Become Dangerous
by Tammy on June 5, 2017This is amazing news. And a reminder about how I encourage all of you with major health concerns:hang in, there’s something new, some amazing thing, along every day. Via Telegraph. A universal cancer test that can detect tumours 10 years before they become dangerous is being developed, scientists have announced. The simple blood test promises to revolutionise survival rates by catching cancers at their earliest stage. Researchers told the world’s largest oncology conference in Chicago they had successfully trialled the technology on more than 120 patients with breast, lung or prostate cancers. Click through for more details on the amazing news.
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UK Doctors Now Warn About Danger of… Avocado Injury
by Shifra on May 15, 2017Just in case you don’t have enough to worry about, you can add “Avocado Hand” to your list. You’re Welcome 🙂 Via NY Post. Avocados are so dangerous, they may soon carry a warning label in the UK. Amateur cooks just can’t seem to slice up the fruit — a staple of brunch fare and Mexican food — without also chopping into their hands, according to a report from the Times of London. British surgeons have seen such a spike in the number of people who seriously injure themselves while trying to penetrate avocados’ rubbery skin and remove its finicky pit that they’ve dubbed the condition “avocado hand.”…. “We don’t want to put people off the fruit, but I think...
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Brain Cancer Vaccine Appears Safe in Small Trial
by Tammy on April 15, 2017There are so many promising medical advancements happening almost every day. If the trials continue to show promise this could really be a miracle. Prayers up! Via UPI. An experimental vaccine therapy shows promise in treating people with deadly glioblastoma brain cancer, researchers behind a small, preliminary study report. With current standard care, half of glioblastoma patients die within 15 months of diagnosis. Four of the 11 patients in this study survived for more than five years after vaccine/chemotherapy treatment, the Duke Cancer Institute research team said. “This is a small study, but it’s one in a sequence of clinical trials we have conducted to explore the use of an immunotherapy that specifically targets a protein on glioblastoma tumors,” said...
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Mumps Outbreak in Texas Reaches 23-Year High
by Tammy on April 13, 2017Gee, I wonder why? Don’t miss the excuses made a doctor from Vanderbilt, it’s just a “waning of immunity,” because you know, it’s just too politically incorrect to recognize that Obama was massively importing unvaccinated people from south and central American countries who are bringing diseases with them. Via ABC. Texas health authorities are trying to combat a record-breaking outbreak of mumps that has swept through the state. The Texas Department of State Health Services reported there have been 221 cases of mumps in the state this year, the highest number since 1994 when 234 cases were reported. College students in particular have been among the hardest hit by the virus, which spreads through close personal contact and can result...