Ringing in the New

Ringing in the New Year

www.landesbioscience.com oxidative Medicine and cellular Longevity 1 The excitement and enthusiasm for the New Year brings with it new thoughts and innovative promises for pioneering avenues of drug discovery and new treatment strategies for a host of disorders. Such thinking is not only optimistic, but also necessary considering the economic costs healthcare brings to any country. For example,...

Ringing the changes

Ringing in the new year with the SNAP behavioural risk factors in general practice.

New year is a particularly appropriate time for general practitioners to reinforce our patients’ resolutions to make lifestyle changes in their smoking, nutrition, alcohol intake and physical activity (the SNAP risk factors). These are the four most preventable contributors to disease in Australia: • Tobacco smoking is the greatest risk factor of disease, accounting for 12% of the burden in men...

JCS in 2010 - ringing in the changes.

The emergence of ringing vertigo.

Ding dongmerrily on high, goes the famous Christmas carol, but for some of the United Kingdom’s 40 000 campanologists the bells have not been ringing so merrily. Instead, church bell ringers have this year been complaining of a disorder that has been forcing them to abandon their towers and steeples and seek out hypnotherapists and counsellors in search of a cure. Symptoms include vertigo, a se...