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Re-engineering your body

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The growing demand of the people to stay young, healthy, active, happy forever irrespective to there age is encouraging the advancements taking place in the technology field. The medical sciences have developed new technologies, which help to repair some parts and if not possible they are replaced using cosmetic surgeries and artificial implants. The detailed description of how the developments have taken to repair the different body parts is presented.

Author: Ferber, Dan
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 2005
Forecasts, trends, outlooks, Health Care and Social Assistance, Cosmetic Surgery, Usage, Forecasts and trends, Market trend/market analysis, Surgery, Plastic, Plastic surgery, Implants, Artificial, Prostheses and implants, Body, Human, Human body, Prosthesis

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Less sleep more energy

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A brief description on 'Provigil', a drug approved by Food and drug Administration (FDA) that induces wakefulness without stimulating virtually the entire nervous system is presented. While the FDA initially approved it only for people with narcolepsy, a disease with excess daytime sleepiness, doctors have started prescribing it for other conditions such as the fatigue linked to depression and multiple sclerosis.

Author: Yeoman, Barry
Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 2004
All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services, Disease Testing Programs, Drugs, Drug therapy, Multiple sclerosis, Dosage and administration, United States. Food and Drug Administration, Drug evaluation, Provigil (Medication)

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Sleep the blues away

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The study conducted by Michael Perlis, director of the University of Rochester sleep and neurophysiology research laboratory on elderly women revealed that insomnia can be a major contributor to depression and sound sleep may be a cure for depression.

Publisher: Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
Publication Name: Reader's Digest
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0034-0375
Year: 2005
Science & research, Health aspects, Research, Causes of, Aged women, Elderly women, Depression in old age, Geriatric depression, Insomnia

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Subjects list: Care and treatment, United States
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