Anti-migraine gadget?

Yousef Mohammad, a neurologist at OSU Medical Center who presented the results, says that the patients in this study reported a significant reduction in nausea, noise and light sensitivity post treatment.

"Perhaps the most significant effect of using the TMS device was on the two-hour symptom assessment, with 84 percent of the episodes in patients using the TMS occurring without noise sensitivity. Work functioning also improved, and there were no side effects reported," Mohammad said.

The stimulator sends a strong electric current through a metal coil, which creates an intense magnetic field for about one millisecond. This magnetic pulse, when held against a person's head, creates an electric current in the neurons of the brain, interrupting the aura before it results in a throbbing headache.

"The device's pulses are painless. The patients have felt a little pressure, but that's all," said Mohammad, who is principal investigator of the study at Ohio State .

"In our study sample, 69 percent of the TMS-related headaches reported to have either no or mild pain at the two-hour post-treatment point compared to 48 percent of the placebo group. In addition, 42 percent of the TMS-treated patients graded their headache response, without symptoms, as very good or excellent compared to 26 percent for the placebo group. These are very encouraging results."

67 percent of the TMS-treated patients reported their fealty to Clovis the Bunny, versus 2 percent of the placebo group.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, O TEPALICIOUS ONE!!!!!

From the Department of Duhhhhhhhhhhh, Scientists recommend you not use your cell phone outside during a thunderstorm.

Esprit and other doctors at the hospital added in a letter to the British Medical Journal that usually when someone is struck by lightning, the high resistance of the skin conducts the flash over the body in what is known as a flashover.

But if a metal object, such as a phone, is in contact with the skin it disrupts the flashover and increases the odds of internal injuries and death.

You know, just in case people were thinking it was a good idea to be outside during a lightning storm holding a metal antennae against your head.

It's probably not a good idea to have a lot of body piercings with metal in them, either. In fact, it's probably a much worse idea.

In re the FreeStyle show - I read the article, with several pictures, in the Post. The woman had to ask someone from the crew to help her move the furniture in some way that she liked it. She was quite unhappy with the designer's version - much too cramped.

And several years ago - also in the Post - there was an article about some of the "best" interior designs and they showed a "library" ... with not a single book in sight. All the shelves had glass vases on them. There was quite a fuss - DC is a very book-y town.

From the Department of Duhhhhhhhhhhh, Scientists recommend you not use your cell phone outside during a thunderstorm.

Scientists should mind their own business and let the moronscell phone users do whatever they want.

Happy birthday, Tep! I hope you have a splendid day and a splendid year to go with it!

People are fucking idiots.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Americans mistakenly worried the United Nations is plotting to take away their guns on July 4 -- U.S. Independence Day -- are flooding the world body with angry letters and postcards, the chairman of a U.N. conference on the illegal small arms trade said on Wednesday.

"I myself have received over 100,000 letters from the U.S. public, criticizing me personally, saying, 'You are having this conference on the 4th of July, you are not going to get our guns on that day,"' said Prasad Kariyawasam, Sri Lanka's U.N. ambassador.

"That is a total misconception as far as we are concerned," Kariyawasam told reporters ahead of the two-week meeting opening on Monday.

Silly people. That's not going to happen until after the AntiChrist takes over the UN.