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Be Sure to Adjust your Clocks This Weekend

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Brian Yalung
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Come this weekend, November 6, do not forget to fix your clock’s time. Why? Well, Daylight Savings Time will officially end, meaning you have to turn back the hands of clock (at least if you did adjust them) to the regular hours. This only affects certain regions of course. This means that places like Hawaii, Arizona, Asia and most of Africa are not really affected by DST. In case you are wondering why the time adjustments are needed, DST has been an annual practice to help save energy. It was thought that by ta

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Caucasians Prone to Restless Leg Syndrome

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Brian Yalung
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Apparently race has a bearing on how a sleep disorder characteristic attacks. Restless Leg Syndrome or RLS has been found to hit Africa-American women more based on a study presented at CHEST 2009. While the study may have shown how ethnic origin plays a role on this issue, exact causes were unknown. Women were found to be more iron deficient and have rheumatoid arthritis which were risk factors associated with RLS.

“Restless legs syndrome is a common sleep disorder that may not be easily recognized by patients and clinicians,” said Kalpalatha Guntupalli, MD, FCC

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Sleeping Under a Mosquito Net

Posted on October 5, 2007 by Brian Yalung
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Apparently, for places like Africa, the need to safeguard the whole body from the normal insect bites have become a significant alert as far as health standards and preventive measures from contracting unlikely diseases today. Some may get the illnesses like Dengue and other insect-

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The Dreaded Trypanosomiasis or Sleeping Sickness

Posted on October 3, 2007 by Brian Yalung
Trypanosomiasis or Sleeping Sickness

We all know that sleeping may become serious but for people in Angola, an ancient sleeping sickness transmitted through insects may be a lot more serious than th

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