Telephone telepathy - I was just thinking about you
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Many people have experienced the phenomenon of receiving a telephone call from someone shortly after thinking about them—now a scientist says he has proof of what he calls telephone telepathy.
Rupert Sheldrake, whose research is funded by the respected Trinity College, Cambridge, said on Tuesday he had conducted experiments that proved that such precognition existed for telephone calls and even e-mails.
Each person in the trials was asked to give researchers names and phone numbers of four relatives or friends. These were then called at random and told to ring the subject who had to identify the caller before answering the phone.
Medtronic heart device as effective for diabetics
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Medtronic Inc’s cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) is equally effective for heart patients whether or not they have diabetes, researchers said on Sunday.
CRT, an implantable device, resynchronises the contractions of the heart’s ventricles by sending electrical impulses that help it pump blood more efficiently.
More than 200,000 patients with heart failure around the world have been fitted with a CRT device manufactured by either market leader Medtronic or one of its competitors.
Developing world is new frontline in heart disease
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Heart disease, usually seen as a quintessentially Western problem, is rapidly becoming a major threat to the developing world, costing millions of lives and billions of dollars, top cardiologists said on Tuesday.
Worsening diets, lack of exercise and smoking mean heart attacks and strokes are taking a mounting toll on poorer countries, experts told the World Congress of Cardiology.
“They now cause four times as many deaths in mothers in most developing countries than do childbirth and HIV/AIDS combined,” said Professor Stephen Leeder of the University of Sydney.
Address weight issues early, experts advise
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Contrary to popular believe, young children usually do not shed excess pounds as they get older. Even 2-year-olds who are overweight are more likely than their normal-weight counterparts to be overweight by age 12, results of a long-term study show.
“These findings underscore the need to maintain a healthy weight beginning in early childhood,” Dr. Duane Alexander, Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development said in a statement. The NICHD funded the study, which appears in the journal Pediatrics this month.
The study authors advise that being overweight at any time during early childhood should prompt interventions by pediatricians in counseling parents about healthy eating and activity patterns for their child, since obesity in the teen years is highly predictive of obesity in adulthood.
