Daylight Saving Time 2012: Could ‘Springing Forward’ Hurt Your Health?

It’s hard enough to get the sleep you need each night, but on Sunday at 2 a.m., with the beginning of daylight saving time, we’ll spring our clocks forward and lose out on one of those precious hours of rest.

This time change is much trickier for our bodies to handle than when we “fall back” in November. That’s because so many of us aren’t getting enough shut-eye to begin with, and being robbed of an additional hour can put us over the edge. In fact, as many as47 million people are sleep deprived and 43 percent of Americans say they rarely or never get a good night’s sleep during the week. Continue reading

THT’s myHIV Site to Let Users Find and Recommend Best HIV Services

The UK’s first service for people living with HIV that allows them to recommend healthcare providers to others and find recommended services themselves has been launched.

The initiative by HIV and sexual health charity Terrence Higgins Trust and healthcare recommendation siteiWantGreatCare will enable people living with HIV to find and recommend healthcare services that are sensitive to their needs.

A 2008 study found that one in five people with HIV had experienced discrimination in the last year from GPs or other healthcare professionals. Continue reading

For the Sake of Equality, How About an International Men’s Day?

Thursday was International Women’s Day, and like always, there was some guy saying, “Why isn’t there an International Men’s Day? Yuk, yuk.” And while the usual response is, “Every day is a men’s day, you asshole,” maybe it’s time to agree.

After all, if you really believe in equality in everything, why not push for equal salaries for men? The poor things have been suffering for years with all that excess income. Give me a petition. I’d be happy to support a 25-percent reduction in pay across the board.

And as to equal representation in all our governing bodies, or editorial boards, or corporations, I’d be happy to get behind a movement to slash the number of seats they have by 90 percent or so and devote the redundant salaries to researching the implantation of fetuses in men. Continue reading