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How and Why Is Music A Good Tool For Health?
By Elizabeth Scott, M.S.

Music Therapy and Health: Music affects many areas of the body, making music therapy a helpful tool for health.

Research has shown that music has a profound effect on your body and psyche. In fact, there`s a growing field of health care known as Music Therapy, which uses music to heal. Those who practice music therapy are finding a benefit in using music to help cancer patients, children with ADD, and others, and even hospitals are beginning to use music and music therapy to help with pain management, to help ward off depression, to promote movement, to calm patients, to ease muscle tension, and for many other benefits that music and music therapy can bring. This is not surprising, as music affects the body and mind in many powerful ways. The following are some of effects of music, which help to explain the effectiveness of music therapy:

The best way to determine the genetic relationships among people is to compare the sequences of the nucleotides in their DNA. But in the early 1960s those sequences were inaccessible. Manipulating DNA in the laboratory at that time was like playing the piano with a baseball bat existing tools were far too awkward to examine individual nucleotides. Cavalli-Sforza therefore turned to the next best thing: the many thousands of proteins in the human body. The sequence of nucleotides in DNA dictates the sequence of the amino acids that constitute proteins, though the translation between the two is a convoluted process that partially obscures the underlying DNA sequence. Still, by studying proteins Cavalli-Sforza could learn at least a little about the DNA differences among people.

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Transposition of the Great Arteries

What is it?
In d-transposition of the great arteries (also known as dextro-transposition of the great arteries), the most common type of transposition, the aorta and pulmonary artery are reversed. The aorta receives the oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle, but it`s carried back to the body without receiving more oxygen. Likewise, the pulmonary artery receives the oxygen-rich blood from the left ventricle but carries it back to the lungs.

What causes it?

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Developmental Stages and Milestones of Child Development
Angela Oswalt, MSW
Often, developmental stages are defined by milestones. A milestone is a sort of marker that tells you where you are while traveling. The term is drawn from literal stone markers that were used to mark the passage of each mile on early roads. Today, the term milestone is used more figuratively, to indicate that a developmental stage has been achieved. Often, special milestones mark children`s accomplishments, such as walking in infancy and entering school in early childhood, and these milestones can help mark children`s movement inside and between developmental stages.

Countries move toward more sustainable ways to roll back malaria

| GENEVA/NAIROBI/WASHINGTON DC -- The United Nations Environment Programme and the World Health Organization, in partnership with the Global Environment Facility, today announced a rejuvenated international effort to combat malaria with an incremental reduction of reliance on the synthetic pesticide DDT.

Ten projects, all part of the global programme Demonstrating and Scaling-up of sustainable Alternatives to DDT in Vector Management , involving some 40 countries in Africa, the Eastern Mediterranean and Central Asia are set to test non-chemical methods ranging from eliminating potential mosquito breeding sites and securing homes with mesh screens to deploying mosquito-repellent trees and fish that eat mosquito larvae.

It`s her first Album. Enjoy ! :)

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