Monthly Archives: March 2014

The Average Profile Of An Online Dater Revealed, Including Height, Age And Diet

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If you're considering signing up for online dating there are a few questions that are bound to have crossed your mind.

Who uses actually online dating? Am I too old/too young? Do people lie on their profiles? Are online dating sites full of weirdos?

But thanks to statistics collected by one dating site, you can now learn about the average online dater without taking the profile plunge yourself.

Dating site AYI.com, which has about 50,000 active UK members, has collated data from the self-reported information each member provides when signing up to tell us about the average UK user.

We are constantly told that online dating is now the norm, but, if you're young free and single you might be disappointed to hear that the average age of a man looking for love online is 44 while women average at 42-years-old.

It seems the younger generation are too busy swiping right to create a serious dating profile, so if you're a woman with a penchant for the younger man, you might want to consider downloading Tinder instead.

We've all heard an online dating horror story from a friend whose tall, dark and handsome match turned out to be a short troll-like being in the flesh. But according to these figures, the average height of a male online dater is 5'10".

Of course there might be some online daters out there with the build of Ryan Gosling, but, putting on our pessimistic hats, we can't but wonder if this stat is the result of a few porkie pies from the males signing up.

Women are down as being on average 5'4" and both men and women claimed that they have "about average" body types - whatever that's supposed to mean.

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Research Opportunities at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University – Video

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Research Opportunities at the Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University
Dr. Stephen Wikel at Quinnipiac University #39;s Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine shares opportunities that students have for research and scholarship.

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AMSSM Launches First International Sports Medicine Traveling Fellowship Tour to Australia

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Newswise LEAWOOD, Kan. The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) has launched its first International Traveling Fellowship program tour, an academic exchange and clinical immersion initiative for sports medicine physicians to teach and learn sports medicine on a global level.

AMSSM will host Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, an internationally recognized sports medicine clinician and researcher from Melbourne, Australia, as its first International Traveling Fellow. Dr. Brukner will visit a few select stops including the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pa., Uniformed Services University in Bethesda, Md., and Duke University in Durham, N.C., prior to arriving in New Orleans, La. as a keynote speaker for the 2014 AMSSM Annual Meeting, scheduled April 5-9 at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans.

I am honored to be the first AMSSM Traveling Fellow, Dr. Brukner said. Australia and the U.S. have been at the forefront of many of the developments in sports medicine over the past three decades and I look forward to sharing ideas and experiences with sports medicine colleagues in the U.S during my speaker tour, and then hosting the AMSSM Visiting Fellows in Australia later this summer.

The purpose of the program is to encourage academic interchange, share research and explore common clinical interests amongst international sports medicine leaders.

AMSSM plans to host one International Traveling Fellow in the United States at selected universities for a two-week period each spring, culminating with a keynote speech at the AMSSM Annual Meeting. In addition, two young promising sports medicine physicians and one senior fellow from AMSSM will be selected to travel to the respective exchange country as Visiting Fellows. The inaugural class of Visiting Fellows will be headed to Australia from July 9-23, 2014 with Senior Traveling Fellow and AMSSM Founder Jim Puffer, MD. Stops are scheduled for Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney.

This program allows AMSSM to foster excellence in the care and safety of sports medicine patients, and it increases collaborative opportunities with international sports medicine societies and colleagues, said Tom Trojian, MD, chair of AMSSMs International and Inter-organizational Relations Committee. We are excited to start this new program and look forward to its continued success.

AMSSM hopes to expand the program to include future travel to Europe, the Middle East and South America by AMSSM members.

This program was made possible by the generous support the AMSSM Foundation received from DJO Global. AMSSM wishes to thank DJO Global for its educational support of this exchange of ideas and knowledge by world leaders in sports medicine.

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Medical marijuana may alleviate some symptoms of multiple sclerosis

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Some forms of medical marijuana may help alleviate certain symptoms in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to new guidelines published in the journal Neurology.

Complementary or alternative medicine (CAM) therapies, such as medical marijuana, are popular among patients with MS, who often seek them out to help alleviate symptoms or pain associated with their disease. However, few guidelines exist to help patients determine the effectiveness of these therapies, according to study author Dr. Pushpa Narayanaswami.

We wanted to review the literature well and see where we went with it, to guide patients and physicians as well, Narayanaswami, an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, told FoxNews.com. Theres nothing out there that looks at all of these to see how effective and safe they are.

The researchers examined a wide array of CAM therapies, drawing from a list created by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, a subsidy of the National Institutes of Health. In addition to medical marijuana, the researchers also studied other remedies including ginkgo biloba, magnetic therapy, bee sting therapy, omega-3 fatty acids and reflexology.

In a review of 2,608 studies, the researchers were able to assess which forms of CAM therapies had sufficient evidence to indicate that they may be effective for patients with MS. Overall, researchers discovered that certain forms of medical marijuana a spray form and a pill form appeared to have the most evidence indicating they may be helpful in patients with MS.

What we learned are these specific forms of medical marijuana can ease patients symptoms specific symptoms of spasticity, or muscle stiffness and helped with frequent urination, Narayanaswami said.

While medical marijuana provided relief for some symptoms, it did not alleviate other effects of MS, including tremors or urinary incontinence. Medical marijuana also carried some negative side effects, including dizziness, drowsiness, being off balance and cognitive problems in some people, researchers noted.

While spray forms of medical marijuana are only available in Europe and Canada, some pill forms of medical marijuana have been approved in the U.S. to treat nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy.

Among other therapies tested, some were more effective than others.

Gingko biloba, an herb that lots of people use for memory, actually ended up having good studies that suggested it doesnt really help thinking or memory problems in the patient population, Narayanaswami said. But there was a low level of evidence suggesting it may help reduce tiredness or fatigue.

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Healing The Mind – Session 2. God’s Principle: The Law of Love and Liberty – Video

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Healing The Mind - Session 2. God #39;s Principle: The Law of Love and Liberty
#39;Healing The Mind #39; is a six-session seminar recorded live at Forest Lake SDA church, Apopka, FL, February 2008 and presented by Tim Jennings, M.D., FAPA, a C...

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Libertarian Nick Gillespie: Keep your government hands off my Uber

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Libertarian Nick Gillespie took to the pages of Time last week to go to bat for the un-taxi taxi service Uber.

And Airbnb, which competes for hotel business, and Tesla, which cuts out the dealership middlemen to sell its $70,000 electric cars directly to the public.

In short, Gillespie wants the government out of the business of regulating business.

"Especially in todays sluggish economy, its more important than ever that market innovators win out over crony capitalists," he writes."Letting markets work to find new ways of delivering goods and services isnt just better for customers in the short term, its the only way to unleash the innovation that ultimately propels long-term economic growth."

The argument is pertinent in Madison, where Uber and its ride-share competitor Lyft are operating under the threat of fines.

"Never mind that Uber riders get to instantly rate their experience in a way no cab passenger ever does (just as amazingly, drivers get to rate passengers!)," Gillespie writes. "At the state level, California has already instituted a bevy of regulations on Uber, Lyft, and other new ride-sharing services. These range from mandatory criminal background checks for drivers, licensing via public utilities commissions, and driver training programs. Last year, Washington, D.C. officials unsuccessfully tried to squeeze out Uber with regulations on the types of cars that could carry passengers, what sorts of credit-card processing machines could be used, and how the companys app operates."

Gillespie doesn't mention complicating factors such as Uber's denial of liability when one of its drivers was sued for killing a 6-year-old girl, or the reasonable assumption that some riders might want their drivers to undergo driver training or criminal background checks.

And cities are worried about what happens if companies like Uber drive local regulated taxi companies out of business. What would prices be like then? Would the new comapnies' "surge pricing" mean the end of affordable taxi service during high-volume times?

Seattle, it turns out, isn't waiting to find out. The City Council there just voted to restrict the number of ride-share cars thatcan be on the road at any given time.

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