It's a big week for the running world. Training begins for the Chicago Marathon and the lottery winners for the New York Marathon are announced. Though both marathons are months away, a lot of hard work and commitment go into running a marathon. Most view it as an immense physical achievement, but are we really built to run such long distances? Organs adapt, and muscle functions change, but what really goes on inside the body as you approach the 26 mile mark?
Inside the Mercury Café, a sprawling art studio of a coffee shop on Chicago Avenue, a dozen or so 20-somethings wearing jeans and dark t-shirts huddled Friday evening around a futuristic contraption rigged to the forehead of a young woman with close-cropped blue hair. This is what hacking looks like today. Meet this creative Chicago community.
President Barack Obama is no longer treating our country’s severe health care issue as an elective procedure – he’s rushing it to the emergency room. With 46 million uninsured Americans (and counting), he doesn't really have a choice. Right now the U.S. is lagging behind almost every other westernized country, lacking universal health care. So how do we fix our broken system? Some experts say they have the solutions.
Recent research indicates as many as 10 percent to 20 percent of children diagnosed as having an Autism Spectrum Disorder are able to lose their diagnosis as the result of positive response to early intervention. Experts disagree, however, as to what type of intervention is best, whether the tried-and-true behavioral therapy approach or the scientifically unproven biomedical approach.
Adolescents and young adults are contracting AIDS at rising rates compared to other age groups and the availability of better treatment may be increasing the risks by lulling fear. Teens and young adults under age 29 accounted for half of all new HIV cases in 2007, the most recent year for which statistics are available, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health.