The new year and a good old cold… We hope you have recovered enough from welcoming this new and unique 2016 – let it be a healthy, happy and successful one. Be aware that it’s not the stars but the mind which determines this. And the mind needs – Sleep! Previous research has suggested that…
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Of Grandmums and Grandsons (Instead of Mice and Men):
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Although Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) with estrogen or estrogen/progestin continue to be the most effective treatment for women with bothersome menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, many such women are interested in non-hormonal options.
Getting High & Preventing Flu
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
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.
Anxiety Sells
by Axel E. Thieke G.P. •
Maybe some can remember (can I ?) the bird and swine-flu hype which made governments spend trillions on supposedly anti-viral medicines, which firstly were never needed, which secondly would have never worked because of a lack of efficacy and which thirdly had to be destroyed at more great expense after the date of expiry. The media were happily fueling this hype and created by this a public pressure on governments with the above mentioned consequences – anxiety sells and I think that after shedding some light on dark banking practices the print and visual media do certainly merit the same treat – anxiety sells. Any room for ethics here ?