TUESDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- A dose of the prescription sleep aid Ambien had the opposite effect on one French woman, awakening her from a two-year coma.

I know this is seriously old news, but I just got the memo.

As someone who has been addicted to Ambien on and off for about 4 years, and as someone who is very interested in how the brain works (psych major, but I'm more interested in the science of it than how daddy was mean to you when you were 5), I am absolutely FASCINATED by this. Anyone have any more information on this?

Sleeping Pill Wakes Woman After 2 Years in Coma on Yahoo! Health

"We've known for a long time something was wrong here, we just didn't know what it was," resident Myrtle Van Dunk said.

You said it, Myrtle.

N.J. Warns: Don't Eat Squirrel Near Dump

The OSHA standard for occupational exposure to noise (29 CFR 1910.95)38 specifies a maximum PEL of 90 dB(A)-slow response for a duration of eight hours per day.

Man, I want some hazard pay.
They are jackhammering the concrete steps outside my building because -one- is broken. It is currently 3:00pm. They have been doing this since 10:00am. Typical construction work. One guy jackhammering, 4 guys standing around "supervising".

According to this document,(http://www.eh.doe.gov/NEPA/docs/deis/EIS0336/chapters/chap4-9.pdf) page 2, the peak noise level of a jackhammer is 108dB. I am certainly less than 50 feet from this jackhammer.. I'm on the second floor and the front steps are conviniently located directly below my office. So I'm somewhere between 88-108dB for the last 7 hours (and counting). I'm sure this is damaging my hearing. My desk and floor have been shaking all day.

Complaints to maintenance have done nothing. Why can't they do this work on 2nd, or even 3rd, shift? Weekends, maybe?

Yes, I'm wearing earplugs. And NC headphones. I'd also like to know why there are no earplug dispensers in my building. I had to go across the street to get earplugs. This is a SHIPYARD, every building should have earplug dispensers!

This will be going on all week, and I'm not surprised. Those concrete steps are pretty serious business.

What does it take to get companies to take hearing loss more seriously? It seems to me like the hazards that exist in the shipyard are taken much more seriously than the hazards in the offices, and I'm not even saying that to be funny. Of course there are more hazards "down in the yard" than "up on the hill", but when we called the director of maintenance this morning, he sort of brushed it off with an "I'll send someone up to check it out" and we never heard from him again. And when I say "we", I don't mean "me and some secretaries", I mean, "I let the angry department head who was trying to have a meeting in the conference room near my office use my phone to call in some complaints". I can't help but think that if there was unbearable noise in the yard, they would have taken care of it post-haste.

I WANT RESPECT, DAMMIT!

WHAT YOU SAY!?

The Gravelles have said a psychiatrist recommended they make the children sleep in the cages, Huron County Prosecutor Russell Leffler told the Norwalk Reflector.

See? We don't -JUST- prescribe Prozac!!!

I really can't wait to see how this investigation turns out.

Neighbors: Caged kids seemed normal

The pictures and stories are the stuff of slapstick: wheelchairs, gurneys and even floor polishers jammed deep inside M.R.I. scanners whose powerful magnets grabbed them from the hands of careless hospital workers.

The police officer whose pistol flew out of his holster and shot a wall as it hit the magnet. The sprinkler repairman whose acetylene tank was yanked inside, breaking its valve and starting a fire that razed the building.

Good stuff.

M.R.I.'s Strong Magnets Cited in Accidents

Similarly, it is not uncommon for a sleep walker to walk out an open window or off a balcony

My boyfriend did this. I woke up just as he was trying to open the window (with the air conditioner in it). I asked him what he was doing. "I want to go outside". He was fast asleep. He is a sleepwalker. Ever since we moved in together, I sleep very lightly. Someone needs to keep an eye on him.

Sleepwalking Can Be a Walk on the Wild Side

flynn23 wrote:
] CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Contrary to some research,
] frequent sexual activity does not increase the risk of
] developing prostate cancer and might even reduce the danger, a
] study of nearly 30,000 men found.
]
] I'm laminating this study and carrying it around with me.

Like you people needed another excuse in your back pockets... :P

RE: Study finds frequent sex may cut cancer risk

] EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) -- Fear of mad cow disease hasn't
] kept Cecelia Coan from eating her beloved deep-fried cow
] brain sandwiches.

There is nothing I can add to this.

Brain Sandwiches

] Women around the world are being told they can now have
] an orgasm at the touch of a button.
]
] The makers of "Slightest Touch" say their device can give
] women longer, better and more intense orgasms.
]
] They claim their device can trigger an orgasm without
] touching a woman's genital area.
]
] According to the manufacturers, Slightest Touch works by
] stimulating the body's sexual nerve pathway.

I'll skip the "sex toy" comments. It doesn't actually cause orgasms. But it's interesting that you apply the electrodes to your ankles, and it shoots up your "sexual nerves". That's neat.

Orgasms 'at the touch of a button'

] The table below was prepared in response to frequent
] inquiries, especially from the media, asking questions such
] as, "What are the odds of being killed by lightning?" or
] "What are the chances of dying in a plane crash?

In the year 2000, the chances of dying from a lightning strike were 1 in 5.5 Million. Or, over the course of a lifetime, 1 in 70,000.

Morbid statistics du jour, from the National Safety Council. ;)

What are the Odds of Dying?