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'TAKE THE CHEESE' Moraru testified previously that he heard a voice in his head in the grocery store saying, "You've been a mouse all your life.

Go ahead and have your cheese." Kunjukrishnan testified that Moraru's account was consistent with someone in an altered dissociative or automaton state of consciousness.

He said the cheese was symbolic of the mouse imagery from Moraru's dreams and his sense of helplessness in being forced to take responsibility for the suicide.

He said further evidence from Moraru's wife and a fellow police officer about his irritability, sensitivity to sound and withdrawal from social interaction also fit the profile of post-traumatic stress disorder.

But in his Feb.

16 report Kunjukrishnan used the term "depersonalization," instead of "dissociation." Scott charged that Kunjukrishnan had decided to torque up his diagnosis because a person who experiences depersonalization has not lost complete touch with reality and wouldn't be found not criminally responsible.

Kunjukrishnan agreed depersonalization wouldn't be enough to impair Moraru's sense of right and wrong, but he still believed Moraru was not criminally responsible.

While he said there was a possibility Moraru was feigning, he said it would be very difficult to keep up the ruse.

"I think it is highly improbable to come up with all these stories and keep up the behaviour," Kunjukrishnan said.

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Fourth-year B Pharm student Nicole Kramer said a few of the bad reactions between medicines – or medicines and food – were known.

However the number of medicines being taken, especially traditional medicines, was vast compared to the research so far done on how they react together.

“For example we know that eating grapefruit can cancel the effect of the oral contraceptive, and that alcohol may stop certain antibiotics from doing their work.” She said one medicine could interfere with another.

This was the basis of Tshabalala-Msimang’s fear of introducing ARVs in SA.

“If you don’t take them exactly as prescribed, the virus just grows resistant.

A strain of multi-resistant HIV could be the next pandemic.” Her classmate, Kim Humphrey, said one in three Gauteng residents was now HIV-positive – and 80 percent of South Africans rely on traditional healers for their healthcare needs, according to the B Pharm student.

“Put another way, one in five adults taking prescription medication are also taking at least one herbal medication.

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The blue rays from artificial light stop production of melatonin, the sleep hormone.

The cure is wearing glasses for a few hours before bedtime that block the damaging rays.

Lots of melatonin becomes available by bedtime, so sleep comes quickly.

University Heights, OH (PRWEB) March 23, 2006 - Half of Americans claim they don’t sleep well.

Artificial light from lamps, TV or computer screens in use in the hours before bedtime may be the major source of the sleep problem.

It is well known that exposing the eyes to light prevents the pineal gland from making melatonin, the sleep hormone.

Nerve fibers run from the eyes to the pineal gland and control when it produces melatonin and other hormones.

It has only been knows for several years that not all colors of light cause the suppression of melatonin.

It is the light at the blue end of the visible spectrum that prevents melatonin production.

This means that light bulbs can be made that do not eliminate melatonin secretion by coating them with filt...