Muara Teweh!

The shorter days, cooler nights and turning leaves of fall moving toward Halloween have long had a haunting effect on people, but the haunting is perhaps more significant for some than others.

Those with a particularly sensitive profile of health, life experience and personality traits are far more likely than others to report an experience in which they saw, felt, heard or otherwise sensed something they should not have been able to sense through normal physical means, a recent study suggests. » Read more after the jump →

The following editorial appeared in the Dallas Morning News on Oct. 26:

For a brief moment, Michael J. Fox looks like an average, healthy man. Then his jerky, involuntary movements and halting speech reveal the heart-wrenching, compelling truth about Parkinson’s disease.

It’s painful to watch. Extremely painful.

But that’s precisely the point of the campaign ads. Body-ravaging diseases often are as excruciating to those who endure their loved ones’ sufferings as they are to the person actually afflicted. » Read more after the jump →

HEALTHY eating habits must be cultivated in children to prevent the increasing number of heart cases among Malaysians.

Leading an unhealthy lifestyle might not cause death during childhood but could cause premature death when they reached early adulthood, consultant paediatrician and paediatric cardiologist Dr Sim Joo Seng said. » Read more after the jump →

(Kyodo) _ Health care officials in 38 of the 47 prefectures in Japan say they face a shortage of obstetricians, while those officials in 32 prefectures say they do not have enough pediatricians, according to a Kyodo News survey released Monday.

The survey, based on interviews with those officials earlier this month, also showed officials in 24 prefectures said doctors are in short supply in remote inland areas and small islands. » Read more after the jump →

Jadon Dailey isn’t entirely sure which life he’s going to wake up to each morning.

There’s the one where he’s a bank teller at Wells Fargo and a junior-college student.

And there’s the one where he’s the starting center for the 14th-ranked Boise State football team.

The former was Dailey’s life 3› years ago, before he joined the Phoenix College football team as a favor to a friend. » Read more after the jump →

Chicago- It’s probably a stretch for a team with only four returning players, and which currently features just eight healthy scholarship athletes, to be named the preseason favorite in the Big Ten. That’s what happened to the Ohio State men’s basketball team Sunday.

Fine. But who gave Ohio State that one first-place vote in the USA Today preseason coaches poll last week?

“My mom,” Buckeyes coach Thad Matta said at the Big Ten’s annual preseason gathering in Chicago. “How you don’t vote [defending NCAA champion] Florida No. 1, I mean, wow, they’ve got everybody back. I don’t know, maybe somebody knows something that I don’t after 18 practices.” » Read more after the jump →

KILMARNOCK star Rhian Dodds reckons MailSport’s The Graduate contest is a winner and admits he’d encourage any talented young Scot to try their luck in America.

The Rugby Park midfielder has first-hand experience of a football scholarship in the US.

He spent four years studying in the States, completing his degree in Computer Science AND earning his big move to Kilmarnock in 2003. » Read more after the jump →