Cardiologist Dr. Myron “Mike” Weisfeldt, physician in chief at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and director of the Department of Medicine at Hopkins’ School of Medicine, says that the new research supports the case for dropping mouth-to-mouth when trying to revive someone whose heart has stopped.

The studies were conducted between 2004 and 2009 on over 3,000 men and women who needed CPR. Survival rates were similar for adults who received CPR from bystanders, some were randomly assigned to provide only chest compressions, while others were asked to perform standard CPR with mouth-to-mouth or rescue breathing.

[AOL]

Thus, as we sleep on our coil-spring mattresses, we are in effect sleeping on an antenna that amplifies the intensity of the broadcast FM/TV radiation. Asleep on these antennas, our bodies are exposed to the amplified electromagnetic radiation for a third of our life spans. As we slumber on a metal coil-spring mattress, a wave of electromagnetic radiation envelops our bodies so that the maximum strength of the field develops 75 centimeters above the mattress in the middle of our bodies. When sleeping on the right side, the body’s left side will thereby be exposed to field strength about twice as strong as what the right side absorbs.

I guess we can always look for beds without metal springs.

[Gizmodo]

It’s one of the problems with processed foods. You could be getting wayyy too much of some things that are bad for you and you may not even know what little ingredient, in what packaged food, is to blame. Worse, you may haVe problems and never know it.

[Yahoo]

We already kind of knew this anyway, but it’s always good to be reminded to get up and do something. Several studies have found a link between sitting time and obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease risk, and unhealthy diets in children, but until now few had examined sitting and “total mortality,”.

Time to get up and do something.

[USAtoday]

Concepcion, who reportedly confessed to friends and family that he stabbed his wife, 36-year-old Jordania Sarita about 15 times, isn’t making others angry because of the crime, but because he somehow managed to jump to the head of an organ transplant list in New York City as others continue to wait.

Obviously there’s something wrong with this picture. Concepcion is believed to have panicked after becoming the prime suspect in Sarita’s death and swallowed rat poison as police were closing in. The rat poison caused his liver to fail and hence the need for a transplant.

So not only is he an accused murderer, but he did the damage to himself intentionally. Someone much more deserving should have received that liver.

[AOLhealth]

The fungal illness is considered rare, but an increasing number of people who have breathed it in have become sick or died. The symptoms include a persistent cough, headache and fever.

The fungus is called Cryptococcus gattii and seems to grow on or around trees. Over the last six years, health officials have tracked 43 cases in Oregon, 15 in Washington, one in California and one in Idaho.

Hopefully we will learn more about the how and why.

[AOL]

The experimental gel is made with Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug tenofovir, which is widely used for treating HIV. Applying the 1% tenofovir gel 12 hours before and 12 hours after sex reduced a woman’s risk of HIV infection by 39% over the course of 2½ years.

The risk of genital herpes went down by 51%, which is great because women with herpes are twice as likely to be infected with HIV.

[USAtoday]

Maybe it’s all the movies we watch. How often is the bad guy a foreign mustache twirling villain type?

A University of Chicago study says that because accents make a person harder to understand, listeners are less likely to believe what they are saying. Researchers designed a truth scale and those with the heaviest accents fared the worst with a score of 6.84 as compared to those with mild accents (6.95) and those with no accent (7.5).

Perhaps it is not that we don’t believe them, but maybe when we can not understand them the brain refuses to give them any credibility as a defense mechanism.

[AOL]

These days it seems everyone has a reason to drink. The economy alone will drive you to drink.

“More people are drinking, but they seem to not be drinking heavily as frequently,” says Rhonda Jones-Webb, an epidemiologist and alcohol expert at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, in Minneapolis. (Jones-Webb was not involved in the research.)

There was however an important exception to that trend: a rise in the number of people who binge drink at least once a month. Binge drinking is defined as having five or more drinks in one day.

The economy is a huge factor. Job loss and unemployment play a large role. It could be that people are drinking more to calm their anxietys.

[Health]

One U.S. ear specialist called the study “very weak,” saying that the study failed to prove a connection between cell phone use and tinnitus.

The study’s lead researcher, Dr. Hans-Peter Hutter of the Institute of Environmental Health at the Medical University of Vienna, says that “high intensity, long duration of mobile phone use might be associated with occurrence of tinnitus. Therefore, we are recommending a far more conscious and cautious way of using mobile phones.”

They cited studies showing that tinnitus affects 10 percent to 15 percent of people in the developed world, and they said that number is increasing. Further study needs to be done, but obviously too much of anything is not a good thing. I’m sure even using a landline too much can affect our hearing.

[MSN]