be careful with your medications

Study: Common drugs dangerous together

LONDON (UPI) -- Older people taking a combination of common medicinesto treat routine conditions may risk death or dementia, a Britishstudy says.

Researchers say some well-known brands of allergy tablets, painkillersand sleeping pills, many available over-the-counter, constitute apreviously unrecognized health risk when taken in combination, TheDaily Telegraph reported Friday.

Some common bladder medications, heart drugs, eye drops and asthmatreatments were also found to be possible risks, the newspaperreported.

All of the drugs in question work by blocking an important chemical inthe nervous system called acetylcholine. Previous research has foundthat an excess of acetylcholine-blocking drugs can have a harmfuleffect on the brain and its function.

The study found that older patients who took a combination of suchdrugs had a 20 per cent chance of dying within two years, comparedwith 7 per cent for over-65s who did not take anything.

"What is really the problem is the additive effect," said researcherIan Maidment, a pharmacist at Kent University. "It is the cumulativeburden, which is very damaging."

The risk is that many patients may be regularly takingover-the-counter drugs their doctor is unaware of or which they do notreally need that increase their dosage up to a dangerous level,researchers said.

 

Copyright 2011 by United Press International

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 Diocese removes cleric from abuse post

      KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI) -- The Roman Catholic diocese of KansasCity-St. Joseph has removed responsibility for sex abuse cases fromits vicar general.

Officials said Wednesday Monsignor Robert Murphy will remain in thepost of vicar general, The Kansas City (Mo.) Star reported. But theRev. Joseph Powers, who is to fill a new position as vicar for clergy,will be in charge of allegations of sexual abuse by priests.

"As Vicar for Clergy, Father Powers will serve as a liaison...

 

 Mental illness often ignored by churches

      WACO, Texas (UPI) -- Mental illness is prevalent in church communitiesbut is also accompanied by significant distress that is often ignored,U.S. researchers found.

Study co-author Dr. Matthew Stanford -- a professor of psychology andneuroscience at Baylor University, and an expert in mental illness andthe church -- says families with a member who is mentally ill wouldlike their congregation to provide assistance.

The study surveyed nearly 6,000 participants in 24 ...

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why unions grew

How Good Were They?
 Zig Ziglar
Most of us make the comment, "Things are not what they used to be --oh, for those "good ol' days"!

Question: How far do we want to go back? "Quotable Business" authorLouis E. Boone lists "Eight Rules for Office Workers in 1872":

-- Office employees each day will fill lamps, clean chimneys and trimwicks. Wash windows once a week.

-- Each clerk will bring in a bucket of water and a scuttle of coalfor the day's business.

-- Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to your individualtaste.

-- Men employees will be given an evening off each week for courtingpurposes, or two evenings a week if they go regularly to church.

-- After 13 hours of labor in the office, the employee should spendremaining time reading the Bible and other good books.

-- Every employee should lay aside from each payday a goodly sum ofhis earnings for his benefit during his declining years, so he willnot become a burden on society.

-- Any employee who smokes Spanish cigars, uses liquor in any form orfrequents pool and public halls or gets shaved in a barbershop willgive good reason to suspect his worth, intentions, integrity andhonesty.

-- The employee, who has performed his labor faithfully and withoutfault for five years, will be given an increase of 5 cents per day inhis pay, providing profits from business permit it.

Appreciate the good things we have today, and we will have somethingto smile about.

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using it not losing it -congratulations -stand the course- it is our century Canadians !!!

 

Go North, Young Man, Go North

Canada is quietly surpassing the U.S. as the land of opportunity

James A. Bacon, The Washington Times, January 4, 2011

Unless the Winter Olympics are on television or someone is clubbing baby seals, Americans don't pay much attention to what's happening in Canada. It's as if we live in a house with a set of quiet, orderly neighbors on one side and a bachelor pad with drunken parties, girls in the hot tub and occasional gunshot eruptions on the other. To whom would you pay more attention?

I dare say Americans could correctly name the president of Mexico (Filipe Calderon) over the prime minister of Canada (Stephen Harper) by a margin of 5-to-1. That's too bad. While we have every reason to fear the disorder spilling over from our increasingly lawless neighbor to the south, our well-mannered Canadian neighbors have pulled their act together. We could learn a lot from them.

Look what's not happening in Canada. There is no real estate crisis. There is no banking crisis. There is no unemployment crisis. There is no sovereign debt crisis. Recent reports suggest that consumers are loading up too much debt, but Canada shares that problem with nearly every other country in the industrialized world.

Among the Group of Seven nations, which also include the United States, France, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy, Canada's economic activity has come the closest to returning to the pre-recession peak. The country has recovered three-quarters of all jobs it lost. The International Monetary Fund estimates that Canada will be the only country among the G-7 to have achieved a balanced budget by 2015.

Now, instead of expanding Canada's welfare state, the conservative government led by Mr. Harper is intent upon building the nation's global competitiveness. Our friends in the Great White North cut their corporate tax rate to 16.5 percent on Jan. 1 and will see it drop to 15 percent next year. That compares to the current U.S. corporate tax rate of 35 percent. That will give Canada the lowest corporate tax rate among the G-7 nations and an eye-popping advantage for businesses wondering whether to locate on the U.S. or Canadian side of the border.

The last time Canadians really caught Americans' eyes was when prime ministers such as Jean Chretien and Paul Martin, both leaders of the Liberal Party, were proving uncooperative in the realm of foreign policy. American media played up disagreements over the invasion of Iraq and Canadian participation in the American National Missile Defense Program, which made President George W. Bush look bad and confirmed the narrative that his cowboy foreign policy had alienated old friends around the world. By contrast, when Canadian soldiers under the conservative government became active combatants in Afghan-istan, the American media showed little interest.

But that's nothing new. Except to note how well or how poorly Canada's national health care system was working, Americans have paid little heed to news coming out of Ottawa. The titanic effort of both Canada's liberal and conservative parties in the 1990s and 2000s to rein in government spending largely escaped our notice. Nor did it ever occur to anyone to wonder why, with our economies so closely entwined, U.S. housing prices were busting through the roof while Canadian houses remained so sensible.

It turns out that Ottawa's housing policies and banking regulations tempered the boom in real estate prices. No tax deductions for mortgage interest payments. And get this: Buyers actually had to make down payments on their houses. Because there was no real estate bust, there was no banking crisis. (Indeed, healthy Canadian banks are snapping up U.S. financial assets.) Despite the lack of public policies geared toward stimulating homeownership, Canadian homeownership was 68.4 percent in 2008. That would be a higher number than in the United States, which was 67.4 percent in 2009.

Lesson to Americans: If you want affordable housing, stop promoting policies to make it more "affordable."

Meanwhile, Canada has many of the same assets that Americans like to brag about, such as an immigrant tradition that invites foreigners to live and work in the country. On a per-capita basis, the rate of legal immigration to Canada is comparable to that to the U.S. Settling in world-class, creative cities like Toronto and Vancouver, foreigners add immeasurably to the nation's wealth-creating capacity.

Talented Canadians have long regarded the United States as the land of opportunity. It may not be long before Americans see our northern neighbor as the land of the future.

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like a balanced budget for the good of this nation

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