Internet Addiction Isn’t An ‘Official’ Diagnosis, But This Center Is Devoted To Treating It
FALL CITY, Wash. -- When Roey Gabay finally got home from the college library, he found his twin sister, Reut, waiting for him in the living room. It was around 1 a.m. on June 9, the night before finals. But she knew he hadn't gone to the library to study. And he knew she knew it. "Come here," she said, as Gabay tried to make a beeline for his bedroom in their house by the California State University, East Bay, campus. "We need to talk." Months later, Gabay, 20, could still remember the tears in his sister's eyes that night, and how he sensed what was about to happen. After years of watching him blow off friends, sports, s...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 29, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

Knowing Your Simple Pleasures: An Exercise in Knowing Yourself
Everyone talks about the benefits of taking time out for the "simple pleasures." The idea is that we will be happier if we regularly do those inexpensive, easy-to-do activities that give us joy. That sounds, well, simple -- right? But it isn't. The problem for many of us is that we don't know what our simple pleasures are. We don't know what makes us happy. Let me explain. We spend our childhood and adolescence doing whatever the grownups want us to do. So we end up going camping because our parents want to. And we see the movies that our families want to watch. Then we grow up, leave home, and in an effort to make frien...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 22, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Mesothelioma 5K Inspires Family to Raise Cancer Funding
Chuck Jarvis Jr. will never forget how giving his father was, how wonderfully he lived his life and just how horribly he died. It's all part of him now. Jarvis, 37, is a police officer and doting father of two toddlers in Los Angeles, but he also is known as an unabashed supporter of the Pacific Meso Center (PMC), renowned surgeon Dr. Robert Cameron and his staff. Jarvis will be participating for the fourth consecutive year in PMC's 5K Walk/Hike for Meso on Sept. 27, raising research money to help uncover better treatment options for the pleural mesothelioma that killed his father. "My dad was the best man I've ever known ...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - September 18, 2015 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tim Povtak Tags: Research & Clinical Trials Source Type: news

Mission Day 14: Mad Respect, AKA Don't Kill Bob
This post should really be titled, "MAD, MAD, MAD" respect. Respect for what, you may ask? For lifelong astronauts? For scientists and support staff who spent winter in Antarctica? For service people aboard submarines and ships who do this isolation thing all the time? Absolutely, but I've respected the heck out of those folks for years. This is brand new respect we're talking about here. Over the last two weeks -- two weeks already! -- I've come upon a profound pile of respect, basically a mountain of respect, for people who feed families of six or more in underdeveloped countries. It's an all-day long, and half-the-night...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 15, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

The Best Hikes for Fall Foliage
If you think summer is the only season for hiking, it's time you experience the pleasant temperatures, sparse crowds and incredible beauty that comes with fall. Click Here to see the Complete List of The Best Hikes for Fall Foliage We love hot summer hikes as much as the next outdoor enthusiast, but there's a special place in our hearts for fall hiking. Thanks to more reasonable temperatures, heat related issuesare typically less of a threat and you probably won't have to call it a day due to mid-afternoon heat. Trails are usually less crowded in the fall when the kids are back in school and people are back at work from th...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

8 Arrested While Praying At Site Of Controversial Telescope In Hawaii
HONOLULU (AP) — Eight people were detained early Wednesday in the latest round of arrests in an ongoing battle over construction of a giant telescope atop a mountain many Native Hawaiians consider sacred. The state Department of Land and Natural resources said 20 of its officers arrested the seven women and one man on Mauna Kea at about 1 a.m. The officers were enforcing an emergency rule created to stop people from camping on Mauna Kea. The land board approved the rule in July. It restricts access to the mountain during certain nighttime hours and prohibits certain camping gear. The rule was prompted by protest...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - September 9, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

NASA's summer research on sea level rise in Greenland
On Greenland's ice sheet, a vast icy landscape crisscrossed by turquoise rivers and dotted with meltwater lakes, a small cluster of orange camping tents popped up in late July. The camp, home for a week to a team of researchers, sat by a large, fast-flowing river. Just half a mile (a kilometer) downstream, the river dropped into a seemingly bottomless moulin, or sinkhole in the ice. The low rumble of the waters, the shouted instructions from scientists taking measurements, and the chop of the blades of a helicopter delivering personnel and gear were all that was heard in the frozen landscape.
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 28, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news

Utah man dies of bubonic plague in fourth US death this year
Fourth fatality out of 12 cases adds up to highest death rate in 15 years, but health authorities say risk remains very small overall Related: California child diagnosed with plague after camping at Yosemite A man in his 70s in Utah has died after contracting the plague, bringing to four the number of deaths from the disease reported in the United States this year, health officials have said. Continue reading...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 28, 2015 Category: Science Authors: Associated Press in Salt Lake City Tags: Bubonic plague Infectious diseases Science Utah US news World news Source Type: news

How to Avoid the Plague While Camping
Camper who visited the park became infected last month.
Source: ABC News: Health - August 18, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Health Source Type: news

My 14-year-old daughter is addicted to social media, what should I do?
Q: My 14-year-old daughter is seemingly addicted to her smartphone, particularly social media (Instagram and Snap Chat) and texting with her friends. I’ve never seen it this bad before. During the school year, she had no problem leaving her phone in her backpack while at home, and she’s always been a good student, with plenty of friends I approve of. As soon as this summer hit, though, she’s been driving our family crazy with her constant texting, picture taking and giggling over whatever is on her phone. It came to a head last week on our family camping trip when she had a meltdown over the lack of cell service. We ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - August 18, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Michael Rich MD MPH Tags: All posts Ask the Mediatrician adolescence Dr. Michael Rich smart phone social media Source Type: news

Park officials close Yosemite campsite over plague-infected squirrels
In mid-July an unidentified child fell ill with the plague after camping with his family at Yosemite's Crane Flat Campground
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - August 15, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Child contracts plague on California camping trip
A child is recovering from California's first case of the plague in nearly a decade
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - August 8, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Child in California diagnosed with plague
Health officials say child may have been infected on a camping trip; state's first case in years
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - August 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How to survive six months in the wilderness with type 1 diabetes
Every January, for a few short weeks, the population of picturesque Marlow, New Hampshire, grows just a little larger. A dozen or so high school students converge upon the storybook New England village to begin preparation for an epic adventure: a 600-mile circumnavigation of Vermont by backcountry ski, white water canoe, rowboat and bicycle, led by Marlow-based wilderness school Kroka Expeditions. Under the mentorship of guides and woodsmen, the students learn skills to navigate the six-month, semester-long journey through the wilderness. There is no “how to” book, no survival guide—just a few unwritten rules to liv...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - August 5, 2015 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Emily Williams Tags: Our patients’ stories Boston Children's Hospital at Waltham diabetes Division of Endocrinology Type 1 diabetes Source Type: news

Can We Make Every Day an Extraordinary Day?
I headed out at 6 a.m. on Saturday morning to get my daily walk in. The day before had been unbelievably hot ― touching 100 degrees fahrenheit ― and I'd felt trapped inside with shutters shuttered and the interminable roar of the air conditioning. Having recently moved to Central Oregon from England, I've been struggling with the radical change in temperature ― and if I'm honest ― with the radical change in every facet of my life. One of the most annoying things about where I live is that everyone adores it ― from the beaming families on vacation to the erstwhile Californian and New York hordes who have moved h...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 3, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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