A Blog Journal on Health

Use this symptom decoder to decipher the cause of your stomach pain

2006-10-29T16:34:00.000-08:00

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"This article talks about the symptoms and treatments for acid reflux, appendicitis, gallstones, IBS, and ulcers."

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Study Links Truck Exhaust to Bronx Schoolchildren’s Asthma

2006-10-29T15:19:00.001-08:00

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"In the South Bronx, from 2002 to 2005, air pollution monitors went mobile. A group of schoolchildren with asthma carried the monitors everywhere they went. The study found daily exposure to fine-particle pollution for the group of 10 children exceeded the E.P.A.?s new standard on 18 out of the 69 days that were monitored."

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A Better Way to Build a Face

2006-10-28T11:18:00.001-07:00

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"Scientists are poised to perform the first full-face transplant, but a group of Stanford surgeons hopes to eliminate the need for the drastic surgery altogether by learning to regenerate the skin on the face."

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Daylight-savings time affects work habits

2006-10-27T11:18:00.001-07:00

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"The study showed when the rest of the country is on daylight-saving time people in those states that do not observe daylight-saving time are less likely to be asleep at 7:30 a.m. than the rest of the country. They are 50 percent more likely to be working early in the morning."

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Curry may keep elderly minds sharp

2006-10-27T11:07:00.001-07:00

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"diet containing curry may help protect the aging brain, according a study of elderly Asians in which increased curry consumption was associated with better cognitive performance on standard tests. Curcumin, found in the curry spice turmeric, possesses potent antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties."

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Hardware, software, and cancer

2006-10-27T07:02:00.001-07:00

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"Getting the cure rate of a cancer up to 80 percent would be big news under any circumstances. But the news is even bigger when the disease is as lethal as lung cancer, which kills an estimated 160,000 people annually in the US alone,"

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13 Foods That Kill

2006-10-25T17:03:00.001-07:00

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"And you may be eating some of them already."

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How To Make a Great Cup of Coffee

2006-10-25T14:33:00.001-07:00

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"Think you know how to make a great cup of coffee? Think again. It's all about the best beans, a careful roast and optimal brewing."

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Sending baby to the shrink: Infant psychotherapy getting popular

2006-10-25T06:18:00.001-07:00

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"Therapists are increasingly moving their treatments from the couch to the crib. While the field of infant mental health, which encompasses the study of children from birth through age three, has been around for decades, new research on everything from brain development to maternal depression is giving it a boost."

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How Much Should You Weigh?

2006-10-24T19:18:00.001-07:00

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"BMI calculators are in abdundance but this one, from the now revamped healthatoz.com, seems to be more on the money. It not only asks you your height, but also your frame size and gives you a simple way to determine your frame size. You'll probably be surprised at how much you should REALLY weigh..."

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Dilbert creator Scott Adams temporarily fixes his uncurable voice disorder

2006-10-24T15:18:00.001-07:00

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"Scott Adams suffers from a condition known as Spasmodic Dysphonia, which prevents him from speaking in normal conversation, but he can still speak in some contexts such as public speaking. There is no known cure for this condition, but Scott has recently found a way to get himself to be able to speak mostly normally again, by speaking in rhyme."

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Gov't Accountability Office says

2006-10-24T15:03:00.001-07:00

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"The GAO released a legal opinion yesterday affirming that abstinence-only education materials must include accurate information on sexually transmitted infections and the effectiveness of condoms."

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Bionic vision just around the corner

2006-10-24T13:06:00.001-07:00

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"A silicon retina that reproduces signals in the optic nerve"

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More Reasons To Have Sex (Like we need any more)

2006-10-24T10:35:00.000-07:00

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""Fans of abstinence had better be sitting down. "Saving yourself" before the big game, the big business deal, the big hoedown or the big bakeoff may indeed confer some moral benefit. But corporeally it does absolutely zip.""

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Promising Approach Developed to Prevent Tooth Decay

2006-10-24T10:06:00.000-07:00

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"A team of researchers supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research report they have created a new smart anti-microbial treatment that can be chemically programmed in the laboratory to seek out and kill a specific cavity-causing species of bacteria, leaving the good bacteria untouched."

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Ever Wondered Why Juice Tastes like Crap after Brushing Your Teeth?

2006-10-24T08:45:00.001-07:00

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"As it turns out, toothpaste has an ingredient which blocks the sweet taste buds in your mouth, so you're just left with the acidic taste of the juice."

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Study: Living in black concentrated communities leads to poor health

2006-10-23T23:33:00.001-07:00

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"Living in a neighborhood with a high concentration of Blacks, regardless of individuals' race or ethnicity, education, income or access to health insurance resulted in a twofold increased chance that residents would report poor health."

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10 Reasons Target is Better than Wal-Mart

2006-10-23T14:48:00.001-07:00

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"I feel ill visiting Wal-Mart ? Am I alone? Target doesn?t have this effect on me. I feel great in Target stores. 10 reasons why?"

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How to spot an internet addict

2006-10-22T19:15:00.001-07:00

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"Internet addiction is a serious problem with symptoms similar to alcoholism, says a new US study.The study, carried out on 2513 adults by researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine, found that "more than one out of eight Americans exhibited at least one possible sign of problematic internet use"."

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The War on Dietary Supplements: HR 3156 Still Lurks in Congress

2006-10-21T02:33:00.001-07:00

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"Now in committee, this law would virtually destroy the dietary supplement industry. The legislation is identified as the "Dietary Supplement Access & Awareness Act," but it does not address free access & only creates a negative awareness of these products. It would cost taxpayers millions & take away our freedom. Contact your Reps through link....."

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Fathers have more influence over childrens speech

2006-10-20T20:48:00.001-07:00

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"Fathers: watch what you say. It seems dads may have more of an influence on their children's language development than they might think."

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Your Questions on Lasik Eye Surgery

2006-10-20T17:33:00.001-07:00

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"We asked for your questions last week after features on the vision-correcting surgical procedures Lasik and radial keratotomy."

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High bread consumption is associated with increased risk of kidney cancer.

2006-10-20T12:03:00.001-07:00

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"Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common type of kidney cancer, and accounts for 2 percent of all adult cancers. Previous studies studies have shown diet plays a part in the risk for this cancer, but had been inconclusive as to which foods put a person at the greatest risk."

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Does Abortion Increase A Woman's Risk For Breast Cancer?

2006-10-19T18:03:00.001-07:00

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"There are two ways that abortion raises a woman?s risk for breast cancer. The first way is not debated. It?s called the "protective effect of childbearing," and scientists have acknowledged this effect for centuries. The second way is debated, and scientists have studied this effect - known as the "independent link" - since 1957. It has to do ..."

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Genetic repair mechanism clears the way for sealing DNA breaks

2006-10-19T17:50:00.001-07:00

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"Scientists investigating an important DNA-repair enzyme now have a better picture of the final steps of a process that glues together, or ligates, the ends of DNA strands to restore the double helix."

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Dutch Patients Can Grow Their Own Weed, Says Court

2006-10-18T10:17:00.001-07:00

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"Officially the possession and sale of cannabis is illegal in the Netherlands but it is tolerated under certain strict conditions. A Dutch appeals court on Tuesday handed down a landmark ruling allowing an MS patient to grow cannabis for his personal use to alleviate the symptoms of his illness."

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How to Remove ANY Ink Stain

2006-10-16T04:33:00.000-07:00

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"So your Bic blew up in your pocket again. Not to fear - check out Sarah Aguirre's housekeeping blog for tips on de-inkifying your threads."

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Caffeine more disruptive for daytime sleep

2006-10-14T15:33:00.000-07:00

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"Caffeine has a stronger disruptive effect on daytime, catch-up sleep after a night of sleep deprivation than it does on a normal night's sleep, a new study shows."

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US Navy SEALs Workout: Physical Fitness Standards

2006-10-14T06:33:00.000-07:00

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"Are you healthy enough to be a Navy SEAL?"

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Make your own BEER!!

2006-10-13T20:48:00.001-07:00

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"So, you've considered brewing your own beer but you're not yet willing to drop the cash for the entry level kit just yet. With a few simple pieces of equipment and ingredients here's how you can brew your own mini batch. In just a couple of weeks you can taste for yourself if homebrewing is a hobby you want to take to the next level."

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Vampire Bats Help Battle Strokes

2006-10-12T08:48:00.001-07:00

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"Stroke victims will gain the advantage of an improved drug treatment and vampire bats could end up with a better public image if current research involving a bat saliva derivative shows the results some health professionals are anticipating. The study will wrap up in a few months."

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Pig-To-Human Transplants on the Horizon

2006-10-10T11:48:00.000-07:00

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""Thousands of patients die every year in the United States waiting for a suitable donor organ. Transplant surgeon David Sachs thinks he has almost found the right protocol: a combination of organs from miniaturized, genetically engineered pigs and pig immune tissue that can prime the primate immune system to accept foreign parts.""

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How To Make Exercise A Permanent Habit In Your Life

2006-10-10T10:48:00.001-07:00

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"#5. Exercise Even When You Feel Tired - Chances are, you?ll feel better after exercising. Researcher Diane Klein PhD, says ?It energizes us, you breathe deeply, and your body makes better use of the oxygen exchange. You?ll get an exercise-induced euphoria during the activity and for some time after.?"

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College students forced to resort to prostitution to pay for college

2006-10-09T18:47:00.001-07:00

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"An increasing number of female students in the uk are resorting to prostitution or other jobs in the sex industry to pay rising university tuition fees, a study claimed on Sunday."

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Cows being trained to milk themselves

2006-10-09T13:50:00.001-07:00

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"Madison, Wis -- Soon, Elise the Cow will be able to milk herself."

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10 New Ways to Protect Your Heart

2006-10-07T10:04:00.000-07:00

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"Here's something men are good at: dropping dead of heart disease. Every year, cardiovascular problems cause nearly half of U.S. male deaths--a third of them by complete surprise. Don't follow that pack. Every year scientists discover new ways men can protect their hearts--from steps you can take to avoid problems, to drugs and gadgets..."

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What are the scientific reasons for having sex?

2006-10-07T04:07:00.000-07:00

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"The reasons for not engaging in sex include transmission of diseases, heart attack due to exertion, and many others. The reasons for engaging in sex are numerous. Among these are..."

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Lunchtime Liposuction: The New 90 Minute Surgery

2006-10-06T17:35:00.001-07:00

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"Liposuction usually involves a general anaesthetic and an overnight stay in hospital. Now, however, a new technique uses a local anaesthetic which allows the patient to be home just a couple of hours after surgery."

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Do Sunday blue laws saves lives?

2006-10-06T08:12:00.001-07:00

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"A study published in American Journal of Public Health says that they do. The study was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Alcohol Substance Abuse Policy Research Program. With that in mind, I'd like to see more research done on this."

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Researchers discover misfolded protein clumps common to dementia,

2006-10-06T07:02:00.001-07:00

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"Scientists have identified a misfolded, or incorrectly formed, protein common to two devastating neurological diseases, frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), according to a report in the Oct. 6, 2006, issue of Science."

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Why do some age well while others don't

2006-10-05T10:48:00.000-07:00

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"The question is why some age well and others do not, often heading along a path that ends up in a medical condition known as frailty. Now, though, scientists are surprised to find that, in many cases, a single factor ? undetected cardiovascular disease ? is often a major reason people become frail."

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Plans Unveiled for State-Financed Stem Cell Work in California

2006-10-05T07:03:00.000-07:00

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"The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine issued a plan today for how it would spend the $3 billion assigned by the state?s voters to finance stem cell research."

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Drinking Tea Soothes Stress, Researchers Say

2006-10-05T02:17:00.000-07:00

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"Published in the international journal Psychopharmacology, the study found that people who drank tea were able to de-stress more quickly than those who drank a tea substitute. Following a stressful event, tea-drinkers also had lower levels of cortisol in their blood when compared with a control group who drank placebo tea."

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Out-of-Body Experience? Your Brain Is to Blame

2006-10-04T14:18:00.000-07:00

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""In one woman, for example, a zap to a brain region called the angular gyrus resulted in a sensation that she was hanging from the ceiling, looking down at her body.""

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Guarantee Her an Orgasm

2006-10-04T13:19:00.000-07:00

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"Another great read by the Men's Health "Girl Next Door," Nicole Beland: "My friends helped me compile this list of orgasm triggers. Get her to the point where she's sweaty and breathing fast, then try one." ... Kevin, time to read up..."

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GPS New Weapon In Fight Against Avian Flu

2006-10-03T21:27:00.001-07:00

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""As wild birds ready to take to the skies for their winter migration, birds from space will be monitoring their movements in order to help scientists fight the spread of H5N1?the deadly strain of avian flu virus.""

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Wikipedia List of Sexual Slurs

2006-09-28T06:33:00.001-07:00

A collection of known sexual slurs have a read have a laugh

You can read more about it here.

New York considers banning trans fats

2006-09-28T02:52:00.001-07:00

Think you may be a candidate for heart disease? Perhaps you should move to New York where, soon, you may not be able to have any partially hydrogenated oils with your meals. Or just move to Denmark where those rascally trans fats are already outlaws. Would you like fries with that?

You can read more about it here.

Doctors Have Performed First Zero Gravity Surgery

2006-09-27T14:01:00.001-07:00

French doctors carried out the world's first ever operation on a human in zero gravity today, using a specially adapted aircraft to simulate conditions in space.During a 3-hour flight from Bordeaux in southwest France, the team of surgeons and anaesthetists successfully removed a benign tumour from the forearm of a 46-year-old volunteer.

You can read more about it here.

Marijuana Prevents Cancer

2006-09-27T11:22:00.001-07:00

Could you imagine that cannabis might one day offer hope as a cure for cancer? The United States government, that?s who... Last year, five scientific journals published prominent articles trumpeting cannabinoids (compounds in marijuana) as potential anti-cancer agents.

You can read more about it here.

This Is Your Ass on Drugs

2006-09-27T00:32:00.001-07:00

Whatever you may think of its arguments, this spot is quite a departure for the ONDCP. Finally, an admission that using pot isn't necessarily calamitous. It's possible we're seeing this about-face only because previous scare-tactic ads were recently proved to increase drug use. But either way, I applaud the new, more truthful strategy.

You can read more about it here.

Poland Saved Thousand, by Fooling Nazis With Bacteria

2006-09-25T15:17:00.000-07:00

Polish doctors during World War 2 fooled Nazis into thinking that there were Typhus outbreaks, by using a harmless bacteria that gave false positives. The Nazis feared that they would contract the disease, and left the area.

You can read more about it here.

101 Ways to Cut Your Daily Costs

2006-09-25T11:45:00.000-07:00

>From cutting out your daily Starbucks run to cleaning out extra weight in your trunk for better gas milage, these tips will help you save in some pretty surprising ways...

You can read more about it here.

Judge grants class action status to 'light cigarette' smokers

2006-09-25T10:46:00.001-07:00

A federal judge on Monday granted class action status to tens of millions of "light cigarette" smokers for a potential $200 billion lawsuit against tobacco companies. the manufacturers used a marketing strategy that promoted light cigarettes as a lower-risk alternative to regular cigarettes, even though their risk is the same

You can read more about it here.

Updated Rules Shorten Waits for New Lungs

2006-09-24T08:48:00.000-07:00

A quiet revolution in the world of lung transplants is saving the lives of people who, just two years ago, would have died on the waiting list.

You can read more about it here.

Cigarettes vs Marijuana

2006-09-23T19:33:00.000-07:00

Many people think smoking marijuana is just as harmful as smoking tobacco, but this is not true. Those who hold that marijuana is equivalent to tobacco are misinformed. For example, most marijuana smokers smoke the bud, not the leaf, of the plant. The bud contains only 33% as much tar as tobacco. In fact, marijuana is an expectorant.

You can read more about it here.

Millions use alternative medicine to get to sleep.

2006-09-23T13:20:00.001-07:00

Herbs and relaxation exercises were the remedies most commonly used. About 60 percent of those who used alternative medicine for insomnia said they told their doctor they had done so. Alternative medicine use was more common among younger people, and among more educated individuals.

You can read more about it here.

British patients given body parts stolen in US

2006-09-22T16:32:00.001-07:00

At least 40 patients have received bone grafts alleged to have been stolen in America and sold to British hospitals. The patients were treated in hospitals that had bought bone tissue for use in bone grafts from an American company that is the center of allegations that more than 1,000 body parts were stolen by gangs in New York.

You can read more about it here.

Grow Your Own Limbs

2006-09-22T16:02:00.000-07:00

In response to the hundreds of soldiers coming home from war with missing arms or legs, Darpa is spending millions of dollars to help scientists learn how people might one day regenerate their own limbs.

You can read more about it here.

Adult Stem Cells Help Weakened Hearts

2006-09-22T14:47:00.001-07:00

Using stem cells harvested from patients' own bone marrow, researchers improved cardiac function in heart attack patients months, years and even decades after the attacks, they reported Wednesday. The infusion of stem cells boosted cardiac pumping efficiency by 7% in three months a modest gain, but still a significant improvement.

You can read more about it here.

Alzheimer's Protein Injected Into Mice

2006-09-22T00:31:00.001-07:00

Scientists injected a sticky goo from Alzheimer's victims into the brains of mice and watched it take over, provocative research that promises to help shed new light on the earliest stages of the memory-robbing disease.

You can read more about it here.

How to Cure your Blogging Addiction in 7 Easy Steps

2006-09-21T21:32:00.001-07:00

Blogging has made a huge impact in many peoples lives over the past few years - just look at the Technorati numbers to see blogs in the tens of millions, from all corners of the globe and by people of all walks of life.

You can read more about it here.

A Cure for Jet Lag

2006-09-21T19:00:00.001-07:00

"Groggy fruit flies could lead to the perfect sleeping pill for time-zone hoppers" "The allure of such a pharmaceutical would be hard to resist: A traveler could simply pop a pill to increase his light sensitivity, essentially resetting his biological clock and allowing him to adapt instantly to a new time zone."

You can read more about it here.

CDC backs HIV test for all between 13-64

2006-09-21T17:30:00.001-07:00

ATLANTA - All Americans between the ages of 13 and 64 should be routinely tested forHIV to help catch infections earlier and stop the spread of the deadly virus, federal health recommendations announced Thursday say. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said HIV testing should become about as common as a cholesterol check.

You can read more about it here.

We think alike! This game is guaranteed to read your mind 98% of the time.

2006-09-21T12:01:00.001-07:00

This is a freaky mind game that has a 98% accuracy rate, find out if you rate within the 98% of the world. I guess Google was right, they will come out with predictive search functions if something like this can work.

You can read more about it here.

Interactive Bionics Tour

2006-09-21T03:45:00.001-07:00

Move your cursor over this patient to see some of the most futuristic bionics available now and some in clinical trials.

You can read more about it here.

Teacher Suspended for letting 50 Students use the same Blood-drawing tool!

2006-09-20T08:00:00.001-07:00

"A science teacher was suspended for allowing students to use the same instrument to draw blood from their fingers as part of a class project, district officials said Tuesday." - The students are being tested for HIV & Hepatitis.

You can read more about it here.

Photo: Look Closely at the Contents of this Bag

2006-09-20T04:45:00.001-07:00

After reading the comments, you'll think twice before you pick up just any bag of food product...

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