Alcohol
May cause drowsiness. Alcohol may intensify this effect. Use care when operating a car or dangerous machinery.

You’ve probably seen this warning on medicines you’ve taken. The danger is real. Mixing alcohol with certain medications can cause nausea and vomiting, headaches, drowsiness, fainting, or loss of coordination. It also can put you at risk for internal bleeding, heart problems, and difficulties in breathing. In addition to these dangers, alcohol can make a medication less effective or even useless, or it may make the medication harmful or toxic to your body.

Some medicines that you might never have suspected can react with alcohol, including many medications which can be purchased “over-the-counter”—that is, without a prescription. Even some herbal remedies can have harmful effects when combined with alcohol.

Programs to Expand Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the award of a demonstration grant to Missouri to test new ways to provide nutrition assistance and access to healthy foods to low-income children during the summer. The $230,650 Missouri grant is part of the Obama Administration’s […]

Nail Fungus Treatment.

As you may well already know, most nail fungus treatments are ineffective. Going to your doctor will result in one of two prescriptions and nail fungus treatments:
– oral medication
– topical treatment.

This stuff works, and what is great is that it is simply replacing a chemical that is found in every cell of your body that, as you get older, is not produced to the level that it was when you were in your 20’s or 30’s. The added benefits are that your skin looks younger, your nails and hair seem to grow faster, and it is also supposed to help you maintain your weight (or lose, for some). It is not medicine, it is NOT a drug, and it has NO side effects, except that you should take it with food so you dont get nauseated.

BTW, someone asked if it is worth it? YES YES YES!!

How to improve your posture. Posture braces for improving posture and back pain relief.

Posture correction brace
Have you ever thought to yourself:

“My back aches when I sit at the computer.”
“I can’t get rid of my gut.”
“I have low energy and don’t feel as confident as I used to.”
“I try to remind myself to sit and stand up straight, but just can’t.”
“After long periods sitting at a computer, my neck is stiff and I get frequent headaches.”
“I’m embarrassed by my posture in social situations, but don’t know what to do about it.”

Many people suffer from the long-term effects of working at a computer, reading, nursing a baby, driving or other activities that promote poor posture. One of the long-term effects is characterized by a forward slump caused by overuse of the pectoral and scalene muscles of the body. The posture support brace adds support to the body and protects the body from further damage. A supportive posture brace secures above your waist and wraps around the shoulders and in turn pulls in the belly and brings the shoulders back.

“The increases in youth drug use reflected in the Monitoring the Future Study are disappointing. And mixed messages about drug legalization, particularly marijuana legalization, may be to blame. Such messages certainly don’t help parents who are trying to prevent young people from using drugs. The Obama Administration is aggressively addressing the threat of drug use […]

2010 Monitoring the Future Study HIGHLIGHTS Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a nationally representative annual survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th graders conducted by the University of Michigan and funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). This year’s survey results, released in December 2010, show increases in drug use and continued decreases in […]

Hospice care increasing for nursing home patients with dementia More nursing home patients with dementia are seeking hospice care and using it longer, according to a new study by gerontologist Susan Miller and colleagues. Their findings appear online in the American Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Dementias. Susan Miller Nursing home residents with dementia […]

Insight offers new angle of attack on variety of brain tumors A research team led by scientists at Brown University and the University of California–San Francisco have associated a mutation found in many kinds of brain tumors with a molecular process that affects metabolism genes. The discovery may open the door to developing new treatments […]

BMCC. Toy Story… As part of Nursing 313—Pediatric and Basic Medical-Surgical Nursing Care—BMCC students complete a clinical rotation at Lincoln Medical Center’s Pediatrics Department in the South Bronx, a facility that delivers pediatric emergency care to 50,000 children annually. “You put the didactic information you learn in class, into practice,” said Erin Smith, who just […]