Lilly Donates $1 Million To Help Veterans Of Iraq, Afghanistan

Washington (ChattahBox) - The Lilly Foundation has donated $1 million to help U.S. veterans who served time in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

Lilly will be giving the $1 million towards the volunteer program Give an Hour, which helps U.S. veterans in need with mental health problems.

The Give an Hour program has doctors, nurses, etc. donating one-hour of their time each and every week to give to the U.S. veterans and help them out with their mental health.

Past studies have shown that mental health is a serious problem for U.S. veterans returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan, with things such as post-traumatic stress disorder being highly-prevalent.

Give an Hour will use the donation to help recruit new volunteers, train them, and raise awareness about the program to potential future volunteers as well as U.S. veterans in need.
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NIH To Study Mystery Diseases In New Program

Boston (ChattahBox) - The National Institutes of Health a new program called the Undiagnosed Disease Program. This program will try to study and solve many mystery diseases which have yet to be diagnosed officially.

The goal of the program will be to look at patients who are suffering from disorders and diseases which cannot be diagnosed through normal methods.

These patients will have to be accepted into the program, and from there they will be studied. The hope is to solve questions about mystery diseases through the program.

NIH Clinical Director John Gallin stated during a conference call, “The reason we’re doing this now is because of advances made over the last five years at a fundamental level.

There are more molecular markers, new techniques involved in proteomics and genomics. For the first time, we’re going to apply the tools coming out of the labs with human disease. That bridge couldn’t have been crossed 10 or 15 yeas ago.”

In the first-year, the NIH will be accepting around 100 patients to take part in this program.
By studying these undiagnosed diseases, they could learn more about their development, and possible treatments for them.

Sleep Disorders And Flights Are A Bad Mix For Stress

New York (ChattahBox) - Researchers have found that flights and sleep disorders are a bad mix when it comes to high levels of stress. People who have obstructive sleep apnea, a sleeping disorder, were found to have increased stress during flights.

Research was carried out by Leigh Seccombe of Concord Repatriation General Hospital in Sydney, Australia, and was presented at the American Thoracic Society meeting.

Researchers looked at 22 patients who suffered from severe sleep apnea. They compared them directly with 10 people who did not suffer from sleep apnea, seeing how they do on a flight.

Those who did not have sleep apnea were found to be more relaxed, and have a lower heart rate on average.

Those who suffered from sleep apnea had increased stress, requiring more oxygen throughout their flight. As their elevation increased, so did their heart rate.

People suffering from sleep apnea could face such a severe level of stress during flights that they may require oxygen.