Meditation Improves Brain Health
H
arvard Medical School researchers working at
the Massachusetts General Hospital have determined that meditation can improve brain health. The researchers studied 16 volunteers that took part in an eight-week mindfulness meditation study at the University of Massa- chusetts Center for Mindful- ness.
The participants con- ducted mindfulness medita-
tion exercises for an average of 27 minutes a day. Before and after the trial, the subjects were given tests and magnetic resonance imaging of their brains. The researchers found that the practice of mindfulness meditation resulted in increased gray matter density in the hippocampus of the brain, an area associated with increased memory and learning capacity, plus a greater sense of com- passion and introspection.
Italian Court Links Boy’s Autism to a Vaccine L
ast September, a Milan Court held in favor of plaintiffs that claimed that three doses of the
hexavalent GlaxoSmithKline vaccine Infanrix Hexa that were administered to an infant begin- ning in 2006 caused autism later when he was a young boy. The vaccine is used for polio, diph- theria, tetanus, hepatitis B, whooping cough and haemophilus influenzae type B. After hearing from several medical experts, the court ruled that the child likely suffered autism and brain damage as a result of the vaccine’s content of mercury and aluminum, com- bined with a genetic mutation in the child ren- dering greater susceptibility. The ruling ordered damages to be paid by the Italian government’s national vaccine injury compensation program. The court’s de- cision was also based upon GlaxoSmithKline’s list of possible adverse events resulting from the vaccine, which included five cases of autism during clinical trials. Today in the U.S., most vaccines routinely given to children
under 6 years of age are free of thimerosal, a mercury-derived preservative.
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