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RFID implants linked to cancer: the lowdown
A new report says that RFID implants have been linked to cancers in animals, raising the question of RFID safety. We takes a look at the biology at the center of the concerns.
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How to Kill a Hangover: I could have really used this tip this morning!
Now you’ve done it, it’s official you have a hangover, now what? No matter what you do sleep and water or juice should be included. There are many folk cures that are supposed to help cure a hangover. Many of them will help you cope by replenishing the vitamins and liquid you lost over night, while some like avoiding caffeine are very important to…
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Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down
Do you know someone who needs hours alone every day? Who loves quiet conversations about feelings or ideas, and can give a dynamite presentation to a big audience, but seems awkward in groups and maladroit at small talk? Who has to be dragged to parties and then needs the rest of the day to recuperate?
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Changes to School Cafeteria Lunches Abusing the Health of Our Children
IMPORTANT: There is a great Food Shakeup going on in the American School System today. Lunch Menus are being radically changed, but not for the healthier. In reality, the changes protect corporations such as sugar growers, Coca Cola, Sara Lee, et. al., while it ABUSES the health of our children.
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HP’s Inkjet Tech Seeks to Replace Hypodermic Needles
What else can inkjet technology be used for? Injecting drugs into humans, according to HP. The company is licensing a medical patch it has developed to Ireland’s Crospon that potentially can replace hypodermic needles or pills for delivering vaccines or other types of medication to patients. The patch contains up to 90,000 microneedles per inch.
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FITNESS TOOLBOX: 60+ Health & Fitness Sites
All college freshman fear “the freshman 15″ - those 15 lbs you gain in the first month of college. Or you’ve just moved to a new city and you need a new doctor or gym. Everyone needs to consider dieting, exercising, finding a new doctor, or even determining if that pain in their ear is worth seeing a doctor about. Here are 60+ social sites and tools…
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Hot and Cold Emotions Make Us Poor Judges
Whenever scandals break, the rest of us shake our heads and ask, “What were they thinking?” When we are excited or angry, it is difficult to think about the consequences of our behavior — outcomes that are glaringly obvious when we are in a cold emotional state. Many health resolutions, for example, are made when people are in a cold state.
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Five Shocking Stats About Men and Sex
Here are the real numbers in five areas of male sexual health.
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How Long Foods Stay Fresh In Fridge
It’s easy to put something in the refrigerator and forget about it. But foods don’t stay fresh in the fridge forever, and the day will come when you take something out and wonder if it’s still good to eat or has gone bad.
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Coffee May Curb Liver Cancer
People who drank a lot of coffee were 55 percent less likely to have been diagnosed with liver cancer than those who didn’t drink any coffee.
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Coffee drinkers rejoice: your liver and skin thank you
Two studies on caffeine and cancer suggest that some addictions may not be bad things.
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Doctor Accused of Killing Patient to Harvest his Organs
Prosecutors say Dr. Hootan Roozrokh, 33, of San Francisco, gave a harmful drug and prescribed excessive doses of morphine and a sedative to 25-year-old Ruben Navarro, who died in 2006. The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the drugs were prescribed “to accelerate Mr. Navarro’s death in order to recover his organs.”
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Even the most stable brain operates just a millimeter from madness
In such a finely tuned cognitive engine, only a small part must start to sputter before the whole machine comes crashing down. When that happens, reason and function come undone, rarely as dramatically as in the neurochemical storm that is obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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F Cup Cookies Promise That Their Fat Will Go Straight to Your Boobs
Ladies, are you self-conscious about your breasts? Do you think they need to be bigger to get you attention from guys, or at least from guys like Charlie White? Well, you could have expensive and gross breast implant surgery, or you could just grab some F Cup cookies from Japan.
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A hospital’s outrageous inhumanity
With stunning lack of simple human decency, the emergency room staff at Bay Pines VA Medical Center let a loyal federal employee die of a heart attack in an adjacent building without lifting a finger to help because he wasn’t a military veteran. Despite the fact that this hospital is funded by taxpayer money, this decision reflected hospital policy
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Race-Based Medicine: A Recipe for Controversy
The article “Race in a Bottle,” by Jonathan Kahn, portrays the development of BiDil, the first “ethnic” drug. The controversy surrounding the medicine relates not only to scientific reasons for classifying the heart failure drug as a medicine for African-Americans but to possible commercial motivations for seeking this designation.
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9 Ways to Be the Perfect Girlfriend
We men care a lot about our relationships. We think about them all the time. We talk about them with our friends. But that doesn’t mean we’ve cataloged everything we want in a girlfriend–or figured out how to tell you what our needs are, for that matter.
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Should Trans Fats Be Banned?
Limiting and labeling trans fats in food is not enough, according to Walter Willett, an epidemiologist and nutrition professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, who argues to food manufacturers that they should be banned altogether.
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One cannabis joint as bad as five cigarettes
Smoking one cannabis joint is as harmful to a person’s lungs as having up to five cigarettes, according to research published on Tuesday. Keep potting Harry.
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7 Simple Tips on How to Workout at Home by Fitness Destinations
If you want the flexibility of working out at home, be sure to read through these 7 tips to make sure that your workouts are fun, effective, and something that you can sustain over the long-term.
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STUDY: Two popular Diabetes drugs may double the risk of heart failure
Two popular drugs used to treat late-onset diabetes may double the risk of heart failure, according to a new study. Researchers who analysed data on 78,000 patients who took Avandia or Actos to treat type II diabetes found that it increased the risk of heart failure by up to 100 percent, said the study released on Thursday.
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Color in Science: Is My Blood Really Blue?
You probably learned your basic human anatomy sometime around grade school. Textbooks said your blood was red and a scraped knee on the playground confirmed it. We bleed red because of hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein that carries oxygen throughout the body. So… Why Are My Blood Veins Blue?
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6 Canned Foods You Should Never Try!
With hurricane season almost upon us, it ’s time to start stocking up on bottled water, extra batteries and canned food. But why stick to just beans and corn? Here’s a look at some more exotic (read: disugusting!) canned foods we found.
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Is sea salt better for you than regular salt?
The main thing sea salt has going for it is happy vibes. Salt mines have long been proverbial sites of drudgery. In contrast, you rarely hear anyone gripe about having to get back to the beach.
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Blueberries reduce colon cancer risk by 57%, animal study finds
A compound found in blueberries shows promise of preventing colon cancer, according to a new study. Scientists at Rutgers University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducted a joint study on animals, and found that the compound, called pterostilbene, lessened pre-cancerous lesions and inhibited genes involved in inflammation.
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British scientists pioneer TB vaccine
The first vaccine against tuberculosis to be developed for 80 years has begun clinical trials. If the tests are successful, it could be available within eight years, giving medicine an important weapon for containing the resurgent disease.
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