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LONDON: Keeping a full social calendar may help protect you from dementia, researchers said on Monday. Socially active people who were not easily stressed had a 50% lower risk of developing dementia compared with men and women who were isolated and prone to distress, they reported. “Previous studies have shown that chronic distress can affect parts of the brain, such as the hippocampus, possibly leading to dementia,” lead researcher Hui-Xin Wang of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden said. “But our findings suggest that having a calm and outgoing personality in combination with a socially active lifestyle may decrease the risk...

(AgapePress) - "[A]t the end of the day, the truth is that when you perform an abortion you are killing something," said Dr. David Molloy of the Australian Medical Association. For pro-lifers, that is a statement of the obvious. But what if you were confronted with the full horror of what that death represented -- and still didn't care? Is it possible that pro-abortionists could finally admit that abortion is murder, but then collectively shrug their shoulders? That seems to be the case after the release of a British documentary entitled My Fetus, which aired in Britain in April, and...