Paracetamol harmful?

PARACETAMOL, the drug commonly found in headache tablets, has surpassed hepatitis and alcohol to become the most common cause of liver failure in Australia.

Doctors are being urged to exercise caution when prescribing paracetamol following cases of patients suffering accidental poisoning after taking only the recommended dose of the painkiller, often sold under the brand Panadol.








A report published in The Medical Journal of Australia found people who didn't eat enough, drank a lot of alcohol or took certain medications were vulnerable to toxic effects from paracetamol.

Elderly people with kidney or heart and lung problems may also be at increased risk.

"Accidental paracetamol poisoning should be suspected in any patient with acute liver failure," the report said.

"Clinicians should be cautious about prescribing regular doses of paracetamol for pain control in malnourished or fasting patients, and need to counsel patients who are regular users of the drug."



Healthy people are usually able to metabolise paracetamol, most of which is excreted from the body in urine.

But the drug can accumulate in people with risk factors, rendering even a normal dose toxic.

Parrots

Type: Bird
Diet: Omnivore
Average lifespan in the wild: Up to 80 years
Size: 3.5 in (8.7cm) to 40 in (100 cm)
Weight: 2.25 oz (65 g) to 3.5 lbs (1.6 kg)
Size relative to a tea cup:



The parrots are a broad order of more than 350 birds. Macaws, Amazons, lorikeets, lovebirds, cockatoos and many others are all considered parrots.

Though there is great diversity among these birds, there are similarities as well. All parrots have curved beaks and all are zygodactyls, meaning they have four toes on each foot, two pointing forward and two projecting backward. Most parrots eat fruit, flowers, buds, nuts, seeds, and some small creatures such as insects.

Parrots are found in warm climates all over most of the world. The greatest diversities exist in Australasia, Central America, and South America.

Many parrots are kept as pets, especially macaws, Amazon parrots, cockatiels, parakeets, and cockatoos. These birds have been popular companions throughout history because they are intelligent, charismatic, colorful, and musical. Some birds can imitate many nonavian sounds, including human speech. The male African gray parrot (Psittacus erithacus) is the most accomplished user of human speech in the animal world; this rain forest-dweller is an uncanny mimic.

Niagara Falls

Every night the American Falls has an illumination show when various colored lights highlight the flow of the water which reflects into the Niagara River. Admiring the scenery from the Canadian side of the Niagara River allows visitors to capture the entire area of the American Falls with the Rainbow Bridge adorning the backdrop.

American Falls (located in the State of New York, USA) and the Rainbow Bridge seen from the Canadian side of the Niagara River during the nightly Falls Illumination, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

With its passengers clothed in blue plastic rain coats, the Maid of the Mist tour boat gets visitors up close and sprayed by the roaring Niagara Falls situated in Ontario, Canada. The Niagara Falls are one of the most popular tourist attractions in Ontario, drawing visitors from around to the globe to witness the power of nature. The town of Niagara Falls also offers attractions from Casinos, restaurants, and entertainment.

The Canadian Horseshoe Falls in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario is one of the most populated locations for tourists. There are an abundance of tours available to view the majestic waterfalls and every one gives you a different perspective of the power and beauty of the falls.

Viewing the Horseshoe Falls from above is fascinating as the water plunges over the cliff and drops over 170 feet into the Niagara River. The Horseshoe Falls are approximately 2200 feet wide and on an average per minute at least 4 million cubic feet of water flows over the crestline which makes it the most powerful waterfall in North America.

Niagara Falls offers boat tours, plane tours, aero car tours and behind the falls tours.The sky above the Horseshoe Falls in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario becomes darker as dusk begins to settle in around the region making the water appear slightly different in color. The foam in the waterfall seems to be a brighter shade of white while the river tends to take on a slightly darker blue tinge.

Horseshoe Falls along the Niagara River at dusk, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.

Rivers of stars in the milky way galaxy

Astronomers have discovered nearly a dozen new stellar rivers—strings of moving stars—over the disk of the Milky Way. The streams, which seem to represent smaller galaxies torn apart by our own, come from scans of the velocities of about a quarter million stars in our galaxy made for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Prior scans had turned up a few narrow rivers such as one extending from the star cluster NGC 5466, 76,000 light-years away, that covers 45 degrees across the northern sky. The 11 new entries form a tangle that's harder to separate. Researchers believe that the streams arose separately when neighboring star clusters known as dwarf galaxies were drawn apart like taffy by the Milky Way's larger gravitational field. They say the new findings, reported at a conference this week, could be used to improve models of galaxies colliding with and cannibalizing one another.

Lack of sleep leads to.......

A recent research reports that lack of sleep will alter the composition of Glucose in our body which will certainly end up with Diabetes.A normal rest should be of with 6 hours of sleep,if happen to sleep less than 5 hours daily,there is a chance of getting diabetes.The consequences of diabetes are known to everyone these days..its better to have our works tied up faster and have a nice sleep,which will ultimately lead to a prosperous healthy life.
5 hours of sleep;free from diabetes and heart problems.