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09/11/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Music found to improve surgery outcomes: Patients offered music during surgeries experienced reduced pain and anxiety

Urological surgeon consultant Bhaskar Somani says that offering music to patients during minor surgeries can significantly reduce pain and anxiety. Mr. Somani, a leading surgeon at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, came to this conclusion after reviewing data on 1,900 patients across 15 international studies. These patients had had various outpatient procedures. In […]

09/05/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Dopamine influences your decisions; scientists discover that how long we have to wait for what we want affects its value

Scientists at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) are explaining the allure of waiting for your lover’s caress — or at least why and how we judge something to be “worth” our waiting. Assistant professor of biology at UTSA Matthew Wanat believes that dopamine, the neurotransmitter often associated with mood regulation, plays a […]

07/25/2018 / By Bridgette Wilcox

Doctors are trained to mass diagnose nearly everyone with depression (and put them on psychiatric drugs)

Health professionals will be the first to say that depression is a serious mental illness that must not be taken lightly — and yet it would appear that they themselves are guilty of doing so, relying only on a simple questionnaire created by a pharmaceutical company to arrive at a diagnosis. The PHQ-9 questionnaire has been […]

07/06/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Are you taking these prescription drugs that cause memory loss?

Get your pens out, ladies and gents — we’re describing the three most common prescription drugs that increase the likelihood of memory loss. Memory loss, which is often interpreted as one of the early signs of Alzheimer’s, can actually be a side effect of standard prescription drugs. Worse, most people remain unaware of these risks […]

05/31/2018 / By Vicki Batts

Mind-altered America: How drugs like Ambien are turning America into a nation of hallucinating psychos

Big Pharma has gotten away with far too much, for far too long; there is no doubt about that. Whether we’re talking about the plethora of children harmed by reckless vaccination programs, their for-profit disease-manufacturing, or simply just the growing numbers of children and teens on treacherous psych meds, America has become a pawn for […]

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