Loneliness is a modern epidemic in need of treatment

Please click on the web-link below :-

http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10901/s/41e0643a/sc/38/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cdn267390Eloneliness0Eis0Ea0Emodern0Eepidemic0Ein0Eneed0Eof0Etreatment0Bhtml0Dcmpid0FRSS0QNSNS0Q20A120EGLOBAL0Qhealth/story01.htm

PS

In the old village cultures of Asia, loneliness was never a problem. Everyone was interested in his neighbours’ business especially of the old and the sick. In the newly emerging cities like Colombo, Sri Lanka, loneliness is now emerging as a problem. The rush to make money and more of it, is the cause. Once money is grasped at as the aim in life, it is a never ending ascending spiral with no destination. Loneliness, sorrow and misery follow.

PGV.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

email from raja korale	8:51 AM (19 hours ago)

  WISH   YOU   ALL   A  VERY   HAPPY   &   PROSPEROUS   NEW   YEAR   2015.

                                     ...................  Raja    &    Chandra   Korala..

Saved By A Bad Taste, The Last 'Radium Girl' Dies At 107

Please click on the web-link below :-

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/28/373510029/saved-by-a-bad-taste-the-last-radium-girl-dies-at-107


PS
In the early 1960s I remember Ms. Daphne Attygalla, later Professor in Pathology at the Colombo Medical Faculty, gave us a lecture about radiation damage to cells. She referred about the incidence of lip cancer among workers painting watch dials with radium salts. We were advised not to buy watches with dials glowing in the dark - a fashion those days.

Old as time: What we can learn from past attempts to treat ageing.

Please click on the web-link below:-

http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nm/rss/current/~3/Tu33BjbBa6k/nm1214-1362

PS

There was a persistent rumour in Siddha Ayurvedic Medicine, in Sri Lanka, that the powdered form of dried flowers, dried seeds, part of the dried bark, part of a dried stem and part of the dried roots of a Margosa tree which was more than 100 years old, if taken daily in small doses, would increase longevity. Was it another 'Sympathatic magic' concoction? 

Drugs that made headlines in 2014

Please click on the web-link below:-

http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nm/rss/current/~3/ZNkEPtm9-xg/nm1214-1370

Response to Ebola

Please click on the web-link below:-

http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nm/rss/current/~3/KP_vFQuuZPE/nm.3756

Tee-shirt slogan.

Sign on a Tee-shirt seen at the Majestic City Plaza, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

I DO NOT USE GOOGLE.

MY WIFE IS ALWAYS BY MY SIDE.