The University of Michigan has reported there is an association between drug and alcohol problems and an increase in the risk for suicide in veterans. This is particularly true for veterans. It has been suggested that there should be greater suicide prevention efforts for veterans. Veterans who are dealing with drug or alcohol problems are greater than twice as likely to die via suicide than their comrades are. There is a five times higher rate of suicide among women veterans who suffer from substance abuse disorders. The most serious risks of suicide have been seen among those who abuse prescription sedative medicines, such as tranquilizers.
This study has been published in the journal Addiction. It has been highlighted that substance use disorders may be significant markers for suicide risk. There are about twenty suicides a day by veterans, which is much higher than in the general population. In view of the finding that about 75 percent of veteran suicides in this study were associated with firearms, the researchers have also noted that firearm safety is vital in initiatives to lower veteran suicides. It seems these findings may also have implications for the civilian population.
There has been a great deal of controversy about the ethics of risky sports participation, particularly for children. Michigan Technological University reports it has become clear that that longterm effects from repeated head injuries may takes years after the injury to surface. L. Syd Johnson, who studies sport associated concussion, and the ethical implications of engaging in risky sports participation for kids, says sports players should be respected as people, not simply as replaceable beings which are used to entertain us. One of the causes of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is believed to be sub-concussive impacts, which is the type of ordinary hits that athletes routinely take during the course of play.
Brain Injury Research Institute reports CTE is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain of people who have suffered from repeated concussions along with traumatic brain injuries. This is a condition of brain damage which lasts over many years or decades and which is due to traumatic impacts to the cranium. Symptoms of CTE may be debilitating and include loss of memory, impaired judgment, problems controlling impulsive or erratic behavior, behavioral disturbances which include aggression and depression, and a gradual development of dementia. Clearly there should be aggressive efforts made to protect sports players from head injuries.
It is important to have a good support system at work to do well. Toxic bosses can ruin your health and everything you have worked hard to achieve. The medical profession is well known for having highly toxic bosses in internship and residency training programs with scores of the brightest young men and women in the world being catastrophically ruined and even driven into suicide by doctor bosses who abuse them instead of helping them to progress in their hard earned careers. This problem is of course also seen with bad bosses in other walks of life.
The British Psychological Society reports that toxic bosses are bad for both your health and your reputation. It has been observed that toxic bosses who display psychopathic and narcissistic traits make workers feel depressed. The bullying behavior of toxic bosses also leads workers to engage in behaviors which are not desirable at work. These findings come from research from the University of Manchester's Business School. It was found workers who had bosses with negative traits shared lower levels of job satisfaction and manifested higher levels of depression. Counterproductive behavior at work was also seen more often in workers with toxic bosses. Bosses displaying psychopathy and narcissism have a lust for power and generally lack empathy. This results in workers being taken advantage of.
Daily Mail reports your career can be ruined by a toxic boss. Such bad bosses can also make you physically and mentally ill reports The Washington Post. The anxiety associated with having a bad boss can lead to high blood pressure, sleep problems, anxiety and depression. We lose a lot of good doctors and good people in other walks of life to toxic bosses all of the time. Psychiatrists claim they try to help with this problem but due to the unusually toxic personalities of the psychiatrists themselves they consistently exacerbate the problem of dealing with toxic bosses.
People have often been looked upon as if they may be insane when they discuss the possibility of the mind controlling outside things. These people have generally simply been highly insightful with reports now surfacing many new toys on the market will be able to be controlled by the mind.
The University of Warwick
reports the next generation of Christmas presents will be made up of mind-controlled toys. It will actually be possible for kids to control toys with the power of their thoughts. With this technology brain waves are received by sensors in headsets which are than fed into electrical circuits. Professor Christopher James, Director of Warwick Engineering in Biomedicine at the School of Engineering, and his associates have developed technology which allows electrical impulses from brain waves to activate electronic devices. This can be done via connecting thoughts to computerized systems.
iTechPost reports kids will soon have toys which can be controlled via brain waves. This technology will clearly not be limited to toys. This is all very exciting and could lead the way to technology which makes it possible to unlock the front door or answer the phone via brain-computer interfaces. And who knows for certain in what ways this technology may help people with their work.
A treatment approach used for cancer may offer promise for Alzheimer's reports Lancaster University.. This treatment could be delivered in the form of a nasal spray. In this novel treatment aimed at blocking
the development of Alzheimer’s disease microscopic droplets of fat are used to carry drugs into the brain. This form of treatment is used in order to target drugs to cancer cells. It has been used successfully in mice to restore memory. The very small droplets of fat are called nanoliposomes. These nanoliposomes can stop amyloid protein from accumulating into plaques. Amyloid plaques have been found to be toxic clumps of protein which cause damage to cells in the brains of people who suffer from Alzheimer’s disease. Lead researcher Professor David Allsop says it is hoped that this could someday be administered by something which is as simple and non-invasive as a nasal spray. Patients could use this comfortably in their own home.
It has been observed that fat droplets can pass directly into the brain via the nose, which opens up the possibility of using a nasal spray to administer treatments for diseases of the brain such as Alzheimer's. This study has been published in the journal Nanomedicine. Nanotechnology already holds promise for treating people who suffer from many different types of cancer and now may offer new hope for sufferers of Alzheimer's and other brain diseases.
Shark fins and meat may sound like an interesting food option but may not turn out to be a very healthy consideration. The University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science reported a study has found that shark fins and shark meat have high levels of neurotoxins which are linked to Alzheimer’s Disease. The researchers say that restricting the consumption of shark protects human health and shark populations. Concentrations of mercury and β-N-methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) have been found in the fins and muscles of sharks at levels which may be a threat to human health. Both mercury and BMAA by themselves are a health risk, and they may also have synergistic impacts as toxins.
The results of research have shown that people who consume shark parts may be at an increased risk for developing neurological diseases that may be due to these toxins. Shark products which include shark fins, cartilage and meat are largely consumed in Asia and internationally in Asian communities, as a food which is considered a delicacy and as a type of traditional Chinese medicine. This study has been published in the journal Toxins. Recent studies have suggested that eating shark parts may be a route to human exposure of marine neurotoxic agents which are linked to neurodegenerative diseases. Restriction of consumption of shark is strongly encouraged to both protect people from exposure to these neurotoxins and to help protect sharks from threatened extinction.
