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Friends and loved ones yawn together

Friends and loved ones yawn together: Yawning is contagious, as everybody knows. A new study shows that “yawn transmission” is more frequent, and faster, between people sharing an emotional bond: close friends, kin, and mates.

Few allergies in unstressed babies, Swedish researchers find

Few allergies in unstressed babies, Swedish researchers find: A new study shows that infants with low concentrations of the stress-related hormone cortisol in their saliva develop fewer allergies than other infants. Hopefully this new knowledge will be useful in future allergy prevention.

Working moms feel better than stay-at-home moms, study finds

Working moms feel better than stay-at-home moms, study finds: Mothers with jobs tend to be healthier and happier than moms who stay at home during their children's infancy and preschool years, according to a new study.

Mothers' weight before and during pregnancy affects baby's weight

Mothers' weight before and during pregnancy affects baby's weight: Both pre-pregnant weight (body mass index) and weight gain in pregnancy are important predictors of babies' birthweight. This is important since high birthweight may also predict adult overweight.

Life after cigarettes: Compared with those who continue to smoke, quitters are both happier and more satisfied with their health

Life after cigarettes: Compared with those who continue to smoke, quitters are both happier and more satisfied with their health: Life without cigarettes is not all doom and gloom. In fact, successful quitters are more satisfied with their lives and feel healthier, both one year and three years afterwards, than those who continue to smoke. That's according to new research by Dr. Megan Piper, from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in the US, and her team. Their work looks at whether quitting smoking can improve psychological well-being.

Artificially enhanced athletes

Artificially enhanced athletes: Superstar swimmers and certain comic book superheroes have something unusual in common -- when they wear special suits, they gain phenomenal abilities. A first-of-its-kind study shows how now-banned technical swimsuits artificially enhanced athlete performance in 2009.

Microbial contamination found in orange juice squeezed in bars and restaurants, Spanish study suggests

Microbial contamination found in orange juice squeezed in bars and restaurants, Spanish study suggests: Scientists have analyzed fresh orange juice squeezed by machines in catering establishments. They have confirmed that 43% of samples exceeded the acceptable enterobacteriaceae levels laid down by legislation. The researchers recommend that oranges are handled correctly, that juicers are washed properly and that the orange juice is served immediately rather than being stored in metal jugs.

Cigarette and alcohol use at historic low among teens

Cigarette and alcohol use at historic low among teens: Cigarette and alcohol use by eighth, 10th and 12th-graders are at their lowest point since the Monitoring the Future survey began polling teenagers in 1975, according to this year's survey results. However, this positive news is tempered by a slowing rate of decline in teen smoking as well as continued high rates of abuse of other tobacco products (e.g., hookahs, small cigars, smokeless tobacco), marijuana and prescription drugs.

Magnetic stimulation of brain may help some stroke patients recover

Magnetic stimulation of brain may help some stroke patients recover: Imagine waking up and being unable to see or recognize anything on the left side of your body. This condition, called hemispatial neglect, is common after a stroke that occurs on the right side of the brain. The current treatment of attention and concentration training using computer and pencil-and-paper tasks is inadequate.

Brain's failure to appreciate others may permit human atrocities

Brain's failure to appreciate others may permit human atrocities: It may be that a person can become callous enough to commit human atrocities because of a failure in the part of the brain that's critical for social interaction. A new study suggests this function may disengage when people encounter others they consider disgusting.

Potential explanation for mechanisms of associative memory

Potential explanation for mechanisms of associative memory: Researchers have discovered that a chemical compound in the brain can weaken the synaptic connections between neurons in a region of the brain important for the formation of long-term memories. The findings may also provide a potential explanation for the loss of memory associated with Alzheimer's.

Pregnant women advised to stay cool for baby's sake

Pregnant women advised to stay cool for baby's sake: Medical researchers have found a link between increases in temperature and the incidence of stillbirth and shorter pregnancies.

Lead levels in drinking water spike when copper and lead pipes joined: Levels linked to galvanic corrosion, disinfectants, pH

Lead levels in drinking water spike when copper and lead pipes joined: Levels linked to galvanic corrosion, disinfectants, pH: Lead pipes once used routinely in municipal water distribution systems are a well-recognized source of dangerous lead contamination, but new research suggests that the partial replacement of these pipes can make the problem worse. The research shows that joining old lead pipes with new copper lines using brass fittings spurs galvanic corrosion that can dramatically increase the amount of lead released into drinking water supplies.

Researchers urge caution when buying noisy toys

Researchers urge caution when buying noisy toys: While Road Rippers Lightning Rods, Let's Rock Elmo and the I Am T-Pain musical microphone might be sought-after gifts this holiday season, parents should ensure that their children don't risk permanent hearing damage by misusing them.

Traumatic experiences may make you tough

Traumatic experiences may make you tough: Your parents were right: Hard experiences may indeed make you tough. Psychological scientists have found that, while going through many experiences like assault, hurricanes, and bereavement can be psychologically damaging, small amounts of trauma may help people develop resilience.

Midwives use rituals to send message that women's bodies know best

Midwives use rituals to send message that women's bodies know best: In reaction to what midwives view as the overly medicalized way hospitals deliver babies, they have created birthing rituals to send the message that women's bodies know best.

Teens choose water when calorie count of sugary beverages is easier to understand

Teens choose water when calorie count of sugary beverages is easier to understand: Providing easily understandable caloric information, specifically in the form of a physical activity equivalent, may reduce the likelihood of sugar-sweetened beverage purchases among adolescents by as much as half.

Young adults drop exercise with move to college or university

Young adults drop exercise with move to college or university: Regular exercise tends to steeply decline among youth as they move to university or college, and does not appear to revert itself, but continues on a downward trajectory into adulthood.

One trait has huge impact on whether alcohol makes you aggressive

One trait has huge impact on whether alcohol makes you aggressive: Drinking enough alcohol to become intoxicated increases aggression significantly in people who have one particular personality trait, according to new research. But people without that trait don't get any more aggressive when drunk than they would when they're sober. That trait is the ability to consider the future consequences of current actions.

Breastfeeding saved babies in 19th century Montreal

Breastfeeding saved babies in 19th century Montreal: Breastfeeding increased infant survival rates in 19th -Century Montreal in two major ways, according to new research. Mother's milk protected vulnerable infants from food and water contaminated by fecal bacteria, while breastfeeding postponed the arrival of more siblings and that improved the health of mothers as well as their subsequent children.

Breastfeeding promotes healthy growth

Breastfeeding promotes healthy growth: Breastfed children follow a different growth pattern than non-breastfed children, new research shows. Breastfeeding lowers the levels of the growth hormones IGF-I and insulin in the blood, which means that growth is slightly slower. This is believed to reduce the risk of overweight and diabetes later in life.

Mediterranean diet gives longer life, Swedish study suggests

Mediterranean diet gives longer life, Swedish study suggests: A Mediterranean diet with large amounts of vegetables and fish gives a longer life, according to Swedish research. A number of studies since the 1950s have shown that a Mediterranean diet, based on a high consumption of fish and vegetables and a low consumption of animal-based products such as meat and milk, leads to better health.

How has the human skull evolved?

How has the human skull evolved?: Genetically determined morphological integration directs the evolution of skull shape in humans, according to new research.

Human skull is highly integrated: Study sheds new light on evolutionary changes

Human skull is highly integrated: Study sheds new light on evolutionary changes: Scientists studying a unique collection of human skulls have shown that changes to the skull shape thought to have occurred independently through separate evolutionary events may have actually precipitated each other.

Sleep disorders common among police officers

Sleep disorders common among police officers: A survey of police officers indicated that about 40 percent have a sleep disorder, which was associated with an increased risk of adverse health, safety and performance outcomes, according to a new study.

Do our medicines boost pathogens?

Do our medicines boost pathogens?: Scientists have discovered a parasite that not only had developed resistance against a common medicine, but at the same time had become better in withstanding the human immune system. With some exaggeration: Medical practice helped in developing a superbug. For it appears the battle against the drug also armed the bug better against its host.

Neck and Mid Back Pain

 
Collisions that occur during sporting events, slips, falls or Automobile crashes can all have a damaging effect on your neck and back. Reduction of the normal neck (Cervical) curve, repetitive micro-traumas ie. long hours on the computer, driving in traffic, traveling by car or plane, lifting heavy or awkward objects or constant stress of work, family and everyday life can also be directly related to neck and back pain.

Pain can be dull or sharp, boring or burning, constant or intermittent. As the problem progresses, numbness and or tingling can be felt in the upper back, arms and even in to the hands.

NOTE: Many patients who come in for Carpal Tunnel treatment are amazed to find out that the problem is actually a pinching of the nerves in the neck and NOT a wrist or hand problem.

Through careful evaluation of your neck and upper back, we can pinpoint the problem areas and have great success in correcting the CAUSE of our Patients symptoms.

The Docs at North Dallas Chiropractic