Health and Fitness

Have you ever wondered where the phrase “sleeping like a baby” comes from? We’re not sure either, but let’s venture a guess and say it came from someone who has never tried to help a fussy baby fall asleep.

Of course, babies sleep a lot. Newborn infants average anywhere from fourteen to eighteen hours of sleep per day. Still, that sleep comes in brief two to four hour spurts, so it can feel like a lot less to parents who have spent the majority of their lives sleeping for eight hours at a time.

Of course, newborns have a very good reason for waking up so often. Their little tummies just can’t hold very much. Combine t

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A natural lipid in the fluid lining the lungs inhibits influenza infections in both cell cultures and mouse models, according to researchers at National Jewish Health. These findings, combined with previous studies demonstrating effectiveness against respiratory syncytial virus, suggest that the molecule, known as POPG, may have broad antiviral activity.

Supplemental POPG could be an important, inexpensive and novel approach for the prevention and treatment of influenza and other respiratory virus infections, said Dennis Voelker, PhD, Professor of Medicine, and senior author in the report, published online in the American journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology.

Influenza infects millions of people across the globe, killing 500,000 each year.

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It’s been an eventful last several weeks: my first Men’s Health article was published (in the October issue). In rapid succession I booked two more gigs with them and appear, thankfully to be on their go-to list of fitness scribes who can more or less string a series of words together and have them make some degree of sense.

The latest piece requires me to track down and speak with about 20 college-basketball strength and conditioning coaches, which is interesting and fun. It also requires me to learn phrases like “the hardwood” and “cutting down the net” and “rebound” and “dribble.” I’m not a basketball guy.

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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — George P. Smith II, a visiting fellow at Indiana University’s Center for Law, Ethics, and Applied Research in Health Information, will deliver the center’s first public lecture in tribute to his late friend, former IU President Myles N. Brand.

The lecture is titled “Managing End-of-Life Care: Medico-Legal, Social, Ethical, and Philosophical Challenges,” and will be presented on Nov. 9 at 4 p.m. The public is invited to attend, inside the Maurer School of Law’s Moot Court Room.

Smith, a professor at The Catholic University of America Law School and CLEAR’s first-ever visiting fellow, has devoted significant time throughout his career to the subject of palliative care.

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