editorial columns by feature writers
There are preventative treatments for mountain sickness, but they may have some serious side effects and therefore alternatives have been sought.
Researchers randomized 90 healthy non-acclimated adults to receive 600mg of oral Ibuprofen or placebo every 6 hours, beginning 6 hours before rapidly ascending from an altitude of 1.000 to 4.000 meters. It was measured how often symptoms of acute mountain sickness such as headaches, dizziness, disorientation occurred and how severe they were.
Glass curtains and frameless glazing at Cristaleria Joaquin Contreras in Almuñécar
Paco and Ceci at Restaurante Kairos, Almuñécar have a great treat for diners laid on in the form of a special Menu de Noche which will be of special interest for Seaside Gazette readers: if you take in a copy or simply tell them that you’re there after having read this, you will have your…
Last chance for bookings as Almuñécar’s Restaurante Torreon on New Year’s Night, where they have a special menu lined up for the occasion, including fresh lobsters, beef sirloin and excellent red and white wines.
Placebo in medicine means that a drug or treatment is effective although it is not designed to be. It plays an important part in research because something ineffective is being compared to a new drug or treatment to see, whether there is a beneficial difference, thus proving that it works.
Nerja’s Costa Animal Society events for January and December News Letter.
Why do people play golf, when it’s so hard? One day you occasionally get a glimpse of greatness from hitting a long straight drive or sinking a long putt, only to fall into the deepest humiliation after a couple of air shots or topping the ball several times on the same fairway. Not to mention missing the hole with 1cm after three putts.
Shoulder to shoulder with all who serve. Many of you will have contributed to the Poppy Appeal over the last two months of the old year, and you may be interested to know how your money will actually help our heroes. Our contribution this time was over €8500 and this along with all the money…
It can be a very tricky moment, when you have split up with your fiancé and you want the expensive ring back. It becomes even more difficult when you want that ring back and your fiancé is dead. So, when a Nebraska man was faced with this very situation, of course, he was very mature and sensible about the whole thing. He just pretended to be an undertaker and tried to steal the ring.
Australian police in the southeast state of Victoria have had to rescue a number of motorists who have become stuck, for as long as 24 hours in some cases, after following directions from their Apple iPhone mapping software.