Gulping down coffee won’t sober you up if you’re drunk, but it may make you awake enough to be dangerous, new research suggests.

Researchers draw that conclusion from laboratory experiments on mice, in which caffeine made drunken rodents more alert but didn’t reverse learning problems caused by alcohol. (more…)

As the U.S. continues to watch Congress thrash out a plan to try to cover those without health insurance, a new study shows that people admitted to the hospital for trauma are almost twice as likely to die from their injuries if they are uninsured.

A co-author of the study said she and her colleagues weren’t surprised at the disparity they found, but they were surprised by how large it turned out to be.

Given that younger patients might be healthier and thus more likely to survive injuries, Rosen and her team looked separately at 18 to 30 year olds, and found the excess risk was even greater; these patients were 89 percent more likely to die if they had no insurance. (Rosen said specific numbers of deaths in each grouping were not available.)

Information of Acupuncture for Fibromyalgia.

Fibromyalgia is a syndrome with features that include chronic, widespread musculoskeletal pain and stiffness and associated with fatigue, poor sleep and the presence of discrete tender points.

Fibromyalgia affects ~3.7 million people in the U.S.; 75% of patients are women between the ages of approximately 35 to 55 .1 One small survey estimated that approximately 20% of fibromyalgia patients treated at a university-based clinic in the United States tried acupuncture within 2 years of diagnosis.2. (more…)