Pick up the phone, put down the cigarette When combined with antidepressant medication, a telephone counseling program is more successful in helping smokers quit than personalized informational mailings. Participants in the phone-counseling group received up to five supportive calls over an eight-week period.
Prescription slip-ups Check the label carefully on your next drug run. The typical pharmacy fills approximately 250 prescriptions daily and makes an average of four mistakes. That amounts to an estimated 51.5 million errors annually, with 3.3 million of those potentially serious or deadly.
Just sleep on it Sleeping brains continue working on problems that confound us during the day, and the right answer may come more easily after eight full hours of rest. A German study shows that changes in the brain leading to creativity or problem-solving insight occur during the first four hours of the sleep cycle.
