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Dec 7 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite(?) household disaster!
Dec 14 - "Medical Marijuana" by side pocket, a "joint"(ha!) project with the Kitchen Table Kibitzing group! SPECIAL MEETING TIME: 7:30pm eastkost, 4:30pm leftkost.
Dec 21 - "Holiday Stress - Can We Vent?" by postmodernista & mettle fatigue
Dec 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .your diary here!
January 4 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bad joke!
February 1 - OPEN THREAD NIGHT & POTLUCK: bring a favorite bumpersticker!
February 8 - “Never Again: Coming to Grips with Life After Stroke - Year 1...and 23”
by Steven Park
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Atrial Fibrillation? Don't Blame Caffeine, Says Women's Health Study ‗‗‗‗‗ Berries, Grapes, Tea, & Wine Could Guard Against Type 2 Diabetes ‗‗‗‗‗ Caffeine: No Downside, Hint of Benefit in Atrial Fibrillation (China)‗‗‗‗‗ Caffeine Treating Apnea of Preemies & Long-term Effects of Treatment‗‗‗‗‗ Can Coffee Treat Liver Disease?‗‗‗‗ Chocolate? Coffee? Diet Rich in Polyphenols Improves Glucose Metabolism ‗‗‗‗ Cocoa —Even With Few Flavonoids— Boosts Cognition ‗‗‗‗‗ Cocoa Flavanols May Reverse Age-Related Memory Decline ‗‗‗‗‗ Coffee and Type 2 Diabetes -- Drink Up? ‗‗‗‗‗ [coffee consumption, metabolic syndrome, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease] ‗‗‗‗‗ Coffee May Ward Off Progression to Dementia - 2012 ‗‗‗‗‗ Coffee vs Heart Failure: A [Couple of] Cups Per Day Protects - 2012 ‗‗‗‗‗ Dark Chocolate May Relieve Walking Pain in [moderate to severe peripheral arterial disease] ‗‗‗‗‗ Green Tea, Coffee May Guard Against Stroke ‗‗‗‗‗ High Coffee Intake Linked to Less Lewy Body Pathology - 2012 ‗‗‗‗‗ Impact of Coffee on Liver Diseases: A Systematic Review - 2014 ‗‗‗‗‗ Long-term Coffee Consumption [does not increase] Fracture Risk [in large Swedish study of older] Women( ‗‗‗‗‗ Moderate Coffee Intake Protects Against Stroke - 2012 ‗‗‗‗‗ Tea and Coffee Lower Blood Pressure in Large French Registry ‗‗‗‗‗
MEDSCAPE is a mostly-plain-English news & research report service geared for healthcare professionals but FREE to all who register - you can choose "Consumer" on the PROFESSIONS list in the registration process that starts when you first click on a Medscape link.
Picking multiple topics for email notification may flood your inbox, since a tremendous number of medical journals worldwide contribute articles to Medscape, so it's a good idea to start with few or just one notification topic, and see how it goes (or none, if you prefer access without emails).
Many Medscape articles are commentable - if you use a screen-name for privacy, it's worth devising one that won't undermine your own comments' impact.
Articles with videos of speakers provide a transcript below the vid window. Click sound off if you'd rather just read. Some articles are slideshows or quizes with accompanying text.
Keep in mind that the competitive nature of publishing can skew writing to suggest certainties not fully supported by findings, and there are always the basics to watch out for, such as, "Many Studies Have 'Elementary Statistical Errors'" and It Ain't Necessarily So: Why Much of the Medical Literature Is Wrong and Data Re-analysis Changes 35% of Trial Conclusions. Medical science, like every realm of human endeavor, is a work in progress. Read critically for best results.
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