A recent study came up with this blockbuster finding: Young men think about sex. A lot.

Actually, here’s the real revelation: They think about food almost as often, and about sleep pretty frequently, as well. Researchers at Ohio State University asked 283 male and female college students, ages 18 to 25, to use a golf tally counter to click whenever a thought about sex, sleep or food entered their heads.

The results: Advertisement Sex: Men 18.6 times a day, women 9.9. Sleep: Men 11, women 8.5. Food: Men 18, women 15. The findings didn’t surprise Eli Coleman, director of the University of Minnesota’s Program in Human Sexuality.

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The homeopathic medications prescribed as treatment of bipolar disorder vary depending on whether the disease has affected a teen, a child, a man or woman. The symptoms of the disorder are also taken into consideration while prescribing homeopathic medications. Below, we have discussed the homeopathic remedies that are commonly prescribed to patients with bipolar disorder. Platinum Metallicum: This medication is prescribed to bipolar disorder patients experiencing signs like impaired thinking, indifference, apathy, crying and weeping. The other indicators of use of Platinum Metallicum for treatment of bipolar disorder are twitching eyelids, continuous buzzing noises and headaches.

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Endoscopes — small cameras or optic fibres that are usually attached to flexible tubing designed to investigate the interior of the body — can be dangerously invasive. Procedures often require sedative medications and some recovery time. Now a researcher at is developing a “capsule endoscope” that can move through the digestive tract to detect problems independent of any attachments.

According to of TAU’s , the project is inspired by an endoscopic capsule designed for use in the small intestine. But

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Yesterday afternoon I caught up on emails from readers, which included some disturbing news articles -– like this one, about a boy being taken from his mother and put in foster care because he’s too fat:

An 8-year-old Cleveland boy has just become the poster-child for a sad new nadir in the childhood obesity epidemic. The third grader, who weighs more than 200 pounds, was removed from his mother’s custody because of what officials have deemed medical neglect.

The County said that the child’s weight gain was caused by his environment and that the mother wasn’t following doctor’s orders — which she disputes. “This child’

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