You bump into a familiar face and not remember his name. You go shopping and forget where you parked the car. You promised to call a friend only to have it slip your mind. You go to the garage and move about endlessly without knowing what you were trying to look for. Experts say that certain moments in your life cause you to lose memory; but if the scenes above are normal events in your daily life, then you may be suffering from poor memory. Read this article to find three techniques to improve your memory. Basic Principle to Improve Memory There are many memory-improving techniques known as mnemonics. They are memory codes that allow you to remember specific pieces of information. To be effective, a mnemonic should adhere to the 12 basic principles of how memory works, using the acronym SMASHIN SCOPE: senses, movement, association...

Presbyopia is an eye disorder that normally sets in between the ages of 40-50. A lot many theories have been suggested to delineate its proper cause. However, the most convincing theory is that the eye lens loses its elasticity over time, and this in turn results in the loss of accommodation power of the lens. Consequently, the lens is unable to focus on nearby objects, and hence the patient s near vision is rather blurry. Presbyopia affects everyone at a certain age and it is not routinely curable. The loss of accommodation power can be compensated for through LASIK surgery by producing what s called monovision . Normally, people possess binocular vision. That is, both eyes work together equally while viewing an object. On the other hand, in case of monovision, one eye is corrected for near vision and the other is corrected for distant...

Doctors have diagnosed a thousand cases of the viral disease, and there s no end in sight. Those most at risk for severe disease in the outbreak are adults with waning immunity and unvaccinated children. Adult cases are understandable. After all, immunity from vaccination can decline over time. The involvement of unvaccinated children, on the other hand, is inexcusable. Free MMR vaccine is available to every American child at local Health Departments, and moms and dads who fail to get it for their children should spend an afternoon in the public stocks with bad parent of the year signs hung around their necks. Vaccines are becoming victims of their own success. Today s parent doesn t remember the day when measles and diphtheria killed thousands of American children. They weren t around when polio paralyzed a generation. They didn t...

Each year at Thanksgiving, my family discusses what we will make for Thanksgiving dinner. Some of us are traditionalists, who shudder at the thought of anything but turkey with all the trimmings. Others are more adventurous -- especially me, since I did not grow up in the United States and I am not beholden to memories of Thanksgiving Past. I am always ready to try something new, and I believe much to the fury of the traditionalists that Thanksgiving is a great time to experiment with the menu. And so it came to pass, last year, that I won the fight about the Thanksgiving menu, and, with the reluctant approval of the traditional family members, was given a free rein in the kitchen. And that s how the turducken Thanksgiving began. What s a turducken you say. It was quite a task but well worth the trouble. I started the Wednesday before...

The umbilical cord stem cell research has certainly hit the headlines lately and whether you are considering storing the blood of your newborn baby for your family s use or for the purposes of donation it is important that you get a good all round picture of umbilical cord stem cell research and what it means to you as well as the rest of the world. The first thing you should know, and probably already do, is that stem cell research is not as new a phenomenon as you might think. A bone marrow transplant is successful because it replaces stem cells within the patient using the stem cells found in the bone marrow from the donor. The morality of embryonic stem cell research does not apply to umbilical cord stem cell research. Often, discussions of stem cell research break down into an argument regarding the ethical use of embryonic stem...