American scientists from the San Diego officially announced the creation of a vaccine that can get rid of heroin addiction.

After the use of the drug blocked the immune system and does not enter the brain.

The course of vaccination leads to the fact that people no longer feel the effects of the drug, and this makes it a welcome meaningless.

Vaccine developer Dr. Janda points out that the substance which formed the basis of the vaccine is unable to cure drug addiction.

And although the vaccine is still in the testing stage, he is convinced of its effectiveness. In the future, Dr. Janda is planning to develop a vaccine from other drugs and even nicotine.

heroin addiction · USA

A report published by The American Psychological Association shows that mothers who maintain their jobs while their children are in infancy and pre-school years are happier and healthier than their more traditional stay at home peers.

Analyzing data starting in 1991 and spanning more than a decade, from the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, lead author Cheryl Buehler, PhD, professor of human development and family studies, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro clarified that :

“In all cases with significant differences in maternal well-being, such as conflict between work and family or parenting, the comparison favored part-time work over full-time or not working …. However, in many cases the well-being of moms working part time was no different from moms working full time.”

The article, published in the December 2011 issue of APA’s Journal of Family Psychology, included nearly 1,500 mothers who were interviewed after their child was born and in follow ups over the next 10+ years. Mothers employed part time appeared to have better overall health and less depression than stay at home moms, while general health and depressive symptoms were essentially the same in both full time and part time working mothers.

Interestingly, mothers employed part time had the highest level of sensitivity to their preschool children, spending time and providing opportunities for them to learn and grow. Obviously full-time employment curtailed a certain amount of attention to the children, but part time and stay at home mothers came in equal in terms of their involvement with their children. Perhaps the time away from the children gave the part time working mothers more appreciation of the time they did spend with them.

Part time work is clearly beneficial to the family unit and the study co-author Marion O’Brien, PhD, professor of human development and family studies, also of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, put forward the point that part time employees rarely receive the same benefits as full-time workers, and put forward the case that employers should consider offering similar benefits to part time workers in terms of health insurance, training and career advancement:

“Since part-time work seems to contribute to the strength and well-being of families, it would be beneficial to employers if they provide fringe benefits, at least proportionally, to part-time employees as well as offer them career ladders through training and promotion.”

The mothers who were involved with the study included :

• 10 different locations in the US
• Nearly a quarter who were categorized as part of ethnic minorities
• 1 percent with no high school degree
• 14 percent single parents
• On balance 25 percent were part time employed (individual work habits varied but the overall number remained balanced)
• Part-Time work was classified as between one and thirty two hours per week

The researchers recommended that in the future, more depth is required in the research to look at factors such as professional status, scheduling flexibility, work commitment and shift schedules. Caring for small children seven days a week can be very demanding, and it would seem logical that moms who get out of the house and into a more adult environment some hours per week and enjoy some level of job satisfaction, whilst obtaining a certain level of financial freedom for themselves, are likely to feel better about their situation and be able to pass a certain amount of that onto their children.

Actress Jessica Alba said in an interview with María Salas of TerraTV :

“I think [balancing work and family] is something that most women in this country can relate to. It’s tough. It’s a tough balance, trying to be the best mom. And obviously my family is my priority. And then also, I love what I do, and I love that I get to have a job that I enjoy so much and gives me the freedom to spend a lot of time with my daughter, frankly, and travel and everything else. But it is hard not to spend every second with her.”

While another actress Maggie Gyllenhaal said in an interview with Celebrity Baby Scoop :

“Growing up in Los Angeles, I was surrounded by plenty of working moms, including my grandmother, a pediatrician, and my mother, a writer and producer. This seemed very natural to me. I just thought, Well, that’s what moms do. They work and raise their kids. I was brought up to believe I could do anything I wanted professionally and, of course, be a mother at the same time … but I’m finding that it’s complicated. It requires a lot of thought and planning, and I haven’t figured it out yet.”

Obviously women who get back to work after giving birth fit more into their lives and feel the benefit of that. Of course, its a little unfair to make comparisons with millionaire actresses that have flexible schedules, nannies and a team of production staff to help them while they are working, but none-the-less, it seems even with all their advantages, they struggle to get the balance between motherhood and career perfect.

An article in salary.com pegged the compensation for a stay at home mom based on 2007 wage levels at nearly $135,000 per annum. It doesn’t always boil down purely to money, but perhaps if stay at home mothers were valued in society this highly, they might find more job satisfaction.

Bill Coleman, senior vice president at Salary.com, said in a statement :

Mom works multiple jobs and rarely gets a break from the action, working an average of 52 hours of overtime.”

According to the Salary.com survey, stay-at-home moms work a 92-hour week, with more than half the workweek spent in overtime. You have to wonder how many husbands compensate their baby mama’s at that level, even if they can afford it in the first place. Under that kind of pressure, its not surprising they feel happier and healthier handing the kids over to day care and enjoying a more down to earth day job.

Written by Rupert Shepherd
Copyright: Medical News Today

Happier · Healthier · Working Moms

“ORLANDO — Women were nine times more likely to develop takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TTC), or “broken heart syndrome,” than men, and older women more likely than younger, researchers found.

In a database that included 6,178 women, those older than 55 were 4.6 times more likely to develop the condition than younger women, reported Abhishek Deshmukh, MD, a cardiology fellow at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, and colleagues reported here at the American Heart Association meeting.

Although it’s been known that women have a higher rate of TTC than men, those data come from small studies or single-center studies, Deshmukh said in an interview with MedPage Today.
The new finding from this large sample is that there is such a sharp divide at the age of 55 for women,” Deshmukh said. He surmised that a hormonal component could be responsible since researchers did not see a difference in TTC rate in men related to age.

For the study, the investigators combed the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, the largest hospitalization database from the U.S.

Using the ICD 9 code for TTC, Deshmukh and colleagues identified 6,837 discharges, just 660 of them men.

They calculated the overall frequency of TTC to be 5.2 per 100,000 women and 0.6 per 100,000 men.

Overall, 10.4% of patients were younger than 50 and 17.6% were older than 80.

Typically, patients with TTC present with symptoms of an MI. EEG and enzymes will be positive for an MI, but there will be no coronary stenosis, Deshmukh said. Once MI is ruled out, clinicians can test for TTC.

In TTC, the left ventricle at the apex will dilate. Treatment is consistent with that for congestive heart failure including beta blockers and ACE inhibitors.

It’s difficult to predict who will develop TTC, which usually occurs after extreme stress such as the death of a spouse, but positive stresses — such as winning the lottery — can also trigger the condition.

However, researchers are examining characteristics of the left ventricle at the onset of TTC. Apparently, there are a number of ventricular variants involved in the disease. “The hope is that with the identification of these characteristics, we can predict who is at risk,” Deshmukh said.

He emphasized that recovery from TTC is uneventful and generally assured.

Limitations of the study include that most of the patients were white. Also, the ICD 9 code for TTC has not been validated in a large administrative database and there are inherent limitations of data mining studies, investigators said.

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According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons since 2000, the number of procedures such as chemical peels, laser hair removal face and body, lift, botox injections for men increased by 45%. “This is the time of our fathers, men did not get out of gym, and the extent of their sexuality to be judged by his hairy chest – says 32-year-old Brian McCarthy, who regularly use lipstick to hair. – Today own look we care a lot more.” A great contribution to making it and pop culture. Masculine type of man goes, giving way to an ultra-slim silhouette in tight jeans. Time of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone have passed, now the era of Justin Timberlake and Will Smith.

beautiful · men

Europe will strictly limit the amount of information that drug companies can provide the general public.

Also, retain the ban on advertising in accordance with the proposed rules. Recent proposals from the European Commission adopted in 2008, the experts considered too soft to actually keep track of communications between manufacturers and patients.

As the European Commissioner for Health and Consumer Policy John Dalli (John Dalli), the new rules will further strengthen controls on drugs.

Under the new proposals will be permitted only certain information, namely, – contained in the annotations and the packages of drugs, as well as pricing, clinical trials – and the instructions for use.

These proposals will be considered by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers.

drug · europe

Steve Jobs managed to live more than seven years with a rare form of pancreatic cancer that grows more slowly than the common kind. But his need for a liver transplant two years ago was a bad sign that his troubles with the disease probably were not over.

The Apple founder long kept information on his illness behind a firewall, and no new details emerged immediately after his death.

However, medical experts unconnected with his care say Jobs most likely needed the transplant because his cancer came back or spread. They said his death could have been from cancer, the new liver not working, or complications from immune-suppressing medicines to prevent organ rejection.

A liver transplant can cure Jobs’ type of cancer, but “if it were to come back, it’s usually in one to two years,” said Dr. Michael Pishvaian, a gastrointestinal cancer specialist at Georgetown University’s Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Jobs declared he was cured after surgery in 2004 for an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, a much more treatable form of pancreatic cancer than the more common form of the disease that killed actor Patrick Swayze two years ago.

But the Apple chief never revealed whether the cancer had spread to his lymph nodes or liver, or how extensive his surgery was. Many doctors speculated he had a Whipple procedure, in which part of the pancreas, part of the small intestine and in some cases part of the stomach are removed and the digestive system is reconstructed.

“It’s a big operation” and patients can have digestive difficulties long afterward, said Dr. Steven Libutti, director of the Montefiore-Einstein Center for Cancer Care in the Bronx.

Several years later, Jobs was dramatically thinner and gaunt. In January 2009, he attributed those problems to a hormone imbalance and said there was a simple treatment for it. A few weeks later, he went on a medical leave and then had a liver transplant that was kept secret for two months.

Even then, Jobs would not say why the transplant was needed, though doctors said spread of his cancer to the liver was the likely explanation.

Usually transplants aren’t done for people with cancer, but “there is some support for the idea that a liver transplant can be curative” for a neuroendocrine tumor as long as the cancer has not spread beyond the liver, Pishvaian said.

Average survival for people with neuroendocrine tumors that have spread is seven to eight years, and some patients have survived 20 to 30 years, said Dr. Martin Heslin, cancer surgery chief at Vanderbilt University.

It was not to be for Jobs.

In January, he announced his third and final leave of absence, and resigned in August.

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Wayyyyyyy too big for me?

I started dating this guy not too long ago and I really like him. It’s been almost two months now and so far so good, well at least that’s what I thought. He told me he had to be honest about something, and I said what, he said that he was about 14 inches long down there and that brought problem with his past relationship. I thought he was lying so i made him show it to me and omg, it was no lie. Well it’s been three days since and he keeps calling me and I have stopped all contact with him. I’m scared to be honest because the biggest I’ve had was a 7 inch and even that was big. I love this guy, so what would you do or what should I do?

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Bobby

Hey girl, big doesn’t mean you should leave him at least talk to him and agree to something anything at all at least talk to him…..do you know many girls turned him down. You wanna be a do list I’m sure You dont so please try to talk to him … and see 14 inches can’t kill you a assure You. You won’t take all …….You will take maybe half or part just talk to him. Trust me

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Children of smoking mothers are much more likely to use psychotropic drugs than their peers. Topping this list of antidepressant medications and nerve stimulator for drug addiction, say Finnish scientists.

These findings are related to smoking during pregnancy and development of children of certain congenital mental illness.

Finnish researchers examined the medical records 175 000 children who were born between 1987 and 1989. Then they analyzed a national database of health insurance from 1994 to 2007, when the children were aged 5 to 20 years. The results showed that 1 in 10 cases of child discharged psychotropic substances. Almost all these children mothers smoked during gestation.

pregnancy · smoked

Babies dangerous to sleep on pillows
If a child sleeps in a baby pillow or other soft surface, it is for him a mortal danger, it is believed the American doctors.

The fact that the cushions can lead to accidental suffocation or to the development of sudden infant death syndrome (crib death). He also proved that black children die in 2 times more frequently than whites.
- Children can totally sleep on a hard surface – assures pediatricians.
Is not recommended to put baby to sleep on your stomach or with him in the same bed.

It is a mistake according to my parents that cushions prevent possible injury and keep warm for the child. Another mistake parents is a dense sheet of drawing pads – it’s also dangerous for the baby.

Only in the U.S. for one year more than 2,500 infants die for unclear reasons.

Babies · U.S.

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