A new smartphone app makes it easy to send a digital S-O-S when you need help right away. The Panic Button app for Android sends a text message with your location to up to three emergency contacts when you press the phone’s power button five times. The app was designed to protect activists around the world who face the ever present threat of arrest or attack. Source Link
Botox might be able to turn that frown upside down from the inside. Researchers say the injections that are used to smooth wrinkles can also ease the symptoms of depression. Facial muscles send feedback signals to the brain to reinforce emotions, and treatment with Botox interrupted that cycle and led to improvements in nearly half of test subjects with depression. Source Link
Parents may want to join their teens on the Web before they get behind the wheel for the first time. An online training program for parents and teens with videos showing many driving scenarios helped most participants pass their licensing exam. The program called Teen Driving Plan could be available to the public by the end of the year. Source Link
