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Monday, June 9, 2014

Rethinking the Colorful Kindergarten Classroom

When kindergarteners were taught in a highly decorated classroom, they were more distracted, and their test scores lower, than when they were taught in a room that was comparatively spartan, a new study found.

from Well http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/rethinking-the-colorful-kindergarten-classroom/

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Revolving Doors at Hospitals

Hospitals face mounting pressure to reduce readmission rates, but many factors, including the support available at home, can upend the best of efforts.

from Well http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/revolving-doors-at-hospitals/

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Ask Well: Do Monogamous Women Still Need a Pap Smear?

Most cases of cervical cancer are linked with the sexually transmitted HPV virus. So why are monogamous women who test negative for HPV still given pap smears?

from Well http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/ask-well-do-monogamous-women-still-need-a-pap-smear/

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Outsmarting Breast Cancer With Evolving Therapies

Changes in the treatment of breast cancer have amounted to a revolution in patient care.

from Well http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/outsmarting-breast-cancer-with-evolving-therapies/

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Hips and Hernias?

Hip injuries and sports hernias have increased drastically in the past decade. It’s my feeling that training plays a large part in that. The use of bikes, climbers, rowers, ellipticals etc keeps the hip out of extension and really decreases the role of the hip flexors and extensors. Two things we can do to help our athletes is encourage them to run ( not jog, run) more and, use the slideboard. Running ( tempo runs at about 75%) gets the hip into extension and the slideboard gets the hip into abduction.

To learn more, take a look at this. Hips and Hernias lecture I did a few years ago at the Perform Better seminars.

from Michael Boyle's Strengthcoach.com Blog http://strengthcoachblog.com/2014/06/09/hips-and-hernias/

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Saturday, June 7, 2014

Are Prescription Drugs a Gateway to Heroin?

I know this seems like a strange topic for my blog but, heroin use among kids is way up. Are prescription painkillers part of the problem? Dr. Mercola thinks so and, so do I.

Prescription Painkillers Tagged as Gateway Drug to Heroin?