Care for Upper Respiratory Infections What Are The Symptoms of URI? Scratchy or sore throat Sneezing, runny nose, and nasal congestion Cough Watery eyes Ear congestion Slight fever (99 to 100ºF or 37.2 to 37.8ºC) Fatigue Headache Loss of appetite Pooey. It’s the weekend, and I’m sick with a URI of some kind. No aches or that “ill” feeling, so it’s probably a cold. It’s been coming all week, ever since our return from Maui. I thought at first that my allergies were kicking in, because of all the *#&$!%%ing perfume at work. And maybe it was, at first, but…

Coffee Might Help Women’s Blood Pressure – Yahoo! News Okay, so what this means on a personal level is: NO MORE POOPSI! SPOOT ONLY! And coffee, of course. Coffee has anti-oxidants. So does Red Tea (rooibos) and Green Tea. ::whispers:: …and chocolate.

I felt “bleh” yesterday and took off early. Sunday I picked up all the prescriptions from Walgreens that my doctor had re-prescribed for me, after admonishing me not to simply “go off them after a while.” I’d been pretty good about taking the blood pressure one, but some of the others I had let lapse. So after scoring an appointment on Saturday, before taking Riley down to the vet, I loaded up on the prescriptions. I felt like they all kicked in about 2pm yesterday… I dragged through the day for a while, started to feel a little whifty, and…

BBC NEWS | Health | Alzheimer brain damage ‘reversed’ That’s all very well for people named Mickey and Minnie, but at least it’s progress. The US team used an antibody to remove the build up of potentially damaging deposits from the area of the brain responsible for memory and cognition. The treatment reversed the nerve cell damage in days, Washington University School of Medicine researchers said. Hmm. I think that’s a friend’s alma mater. Must discuss later.

This is important: What does Folding@Home do? Folding@Home is a distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases. We use novel computational methods and large scale distributed computing, to simulate timescales thousands to millions of times longer than previously achieved. This has allowed us to simulate folding for the first time, and to now direct our approach to examine folding related disease. Why? Because it is. I’ve got it on my computer, but hadn’t enabled it before now.

BBC NEWS | Health | Unsafe abortions ‘kill thousands’ Something to remember as a change in the Supreme Court seems inevitable: maybe we need to re-think our abortion-rights strategery. It’s a privacy issue, but far more importantly, it’s a health and longevity issue. And maybe we need to take back the term “abortion” and un-demonize it, too.

Right. All this blogging and sitting hunched over reading everyone and everything I can isn’t good. I’ve had back and neck and shoulder problems since… God, donkeys’ ages ago, and it’s gotten worse in the last 6 months or so. Why yes, that coincides with beginning the blog. Never mind that now. Stress just makes it worse. The day after getting back from the California trip where the long massage I’d had made everything feel great, my back started to tighten up and I got those warning twinges in the side of my neck and between my shoulder blades. Yep,…