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Are they really that bad? – Hospital Emergency Rooms increasingly seem crowded and chaotic. George Bush suggested that if you didn’t have health insurance, you could always go to an emergency room, so most people assume that’s the reason for the long waits three, but it turns out that primary care (non-urgent patients with nagging colds, flu or aches) are NOT what is causing this overcrowding.

Researcher Andre Maddison wasn’t sure what was causing the problem in Canada, where the situation is also endemic, so he decided to find out. He says, “I started with the view that due to a shortage of family doctors, people are going to emergency departments and overcrowding them. But in reality, why they are overcrowded wasn’t known.”
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…when we no longer have a home – There are many tragedies connected with the recession, and one of these is the dilemma about what to do with some special members of our families when we can’t afford to take care of them anymore: our pets.

Many families have been forced to abandon their pets when they face foreclosure on their homes. While some foreclosure victims regrettably leave pets behind to die, there are many more that must make the difficult decision of forsaking a beloved family pet to a shelter or animal rescue group, only compounding the stress they’re already under from losing their homes.
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Using a computer – Thanks to the skills of artists (and psychics) who work on cold case investigations, people have a chance to see what the University of Chicago’s mummy may have looked like when she was alive and living in Egypt.

A Chicago forensic artist and a police artist in Maryland prepared the images, which depict a woman as she would have looked in 800 B.C. Both artists, though working independently, got strikingly similar results.
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And green tea medicine – We reported on this before, but it was unclear whether or not simply EATING curry occasionally would do the trick, but researchers have now decided that it will. So your new prescription is: eat curry once a week. And finish the meal with a cup of GREEN tea.

Curcumin, one of the main ingredients in curry, seems to prevent the spread of plaques that cause Alzheimer’s. BBC News quotes researcher Murali Doraiswamy as saying, “If you have a good diet and take plenty of exercise, eating curry regularly could help prevent dementia.”

And here’s another reminder about why green is good (green tea that is. And hey, marijuana is green and it’s ALSO an effective medicine)!
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