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Generally it is said that an individual becomes all set for bed soon after Thanksgiving dinner as the turkey he consumes is full of tryptophan, which brings along drowsiness. This is just a myth, a line often said but not true.

Tryptophan is an amino acid. It is a precursor for the brain chemical serotonin, which is linked to healthy sleep. However, turkey doesn’t have tryptophan more than other common meats such as beef and chicken.Foods like nuts and cheeses have more tryptophan.

Tryptophan has the ability to make you feel sleepy on its own, but the presence of other amino acids can limit its effects, and many of such amino acids are present in turkey.

A latest government report has shown that women in America are catching up to men when it comes to alcohol use and abuse. For the report, the data from 2002 to 2012 was analyzed and discovered that reported alcohol intake in the last one month rose among women from about 45% to over 48%, while it has gone down from slightly over 57% to just over 56% among men.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) failure in taking appropriate actions to combat Ebola played a key role in the outbreak of the deadly disease, claimed a new report. The disease took lives of more than 11,000 people.

According to the panel the biggest mistake by the WHO was its failure to take quick actions when early signs of the outbreak surfaced in 2014.

Professor AshishJha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) and co-chair of the panel, said, “The most egregious failure was the delay in sounding the alarm. People at WHO were aware that there was an Ebola outbreak that was getting out of control, and yet, it took until August to declare public health emergency”.

Feeling lonely is not at all good and especially for elderly, says a new study. Researchers at the University of Chicago have said that social isolation increases the risk of premature death by 14%. Loneliness feeling may also bring changes in the production of white blood cells.

While studying gene expression in leukocytes, the researchers have studied loneliness in both humans and rhesus monkeys. Human participants were from the Chicago Health, Aging, and Social Relations Study, which started in 2002 and the participants were aged between 50 and 68.

They have also carefully assessed the cellular processes that connect social experience to CTRA gene expression in rhesus macaques at the California National Primate Research Center.

Residents in Tennessee were shocked after they saw several millions of spiders hanging in a wide spider web in a Tennessee neighborhood. According to the people present at the site, the view looked like a scene from a horror movie.

According to the Washington Post, people saw several millions of spiders in the giant spider web that caused panic among the residents of the Tennessee city.

In an interview with WMC Action News 5, a Tennessee city resident named Ida Morris said the view appeared as if there was a need of a quick clean up. “I've seen about 20 on my porch just in the last day. Clean this area up and spray for these spiders and make it safe. There are kids running around. A spider could bite the kids or anything”, she said.

Turing Pharmaceuticals, a fully integrated biopharmaceutical company that focuses majorly on patients with unmet medical needs refuses to cut down the price of its lifesaving drug Daraprim.

It has come into notice that the company is reducing the price for hospitals by up to 50 percent for Daraprim, a drug that treats toxoplasmosis, a rare parasitic infection that mainly strikes pregnant women and HIV patients.

CEO Martin Shkreli on Tuesday announced that the company officials decided that kit was more important to cut the cost of the medicine to hospitals, according to The New York Times.

Daraprim is actually a 62-year-old pill and its patent has expired decades ago. Carlos del Rio, chairman of the HIV Medicine Association said changes made by Turing are just ‘window dressing’.