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• How To Be A Healthier Single - Forbes.com

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 6:38am EDT by orsiko

  Can This Be True? Regardless of your marital status, you've probably heard about or read one of the countless studies showing the health benefits of marriage.

• Hold your horses! Discover the secret of slow

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 5:23am EDT by Scott Isaacs

  Want to be a better father, trim that gut, blow 'em away in your next presentation and make your wife moan with delight? Take a lesson from the tortoise.

• Ancient Olympics Guide: Myths about the Olympic Games

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 3:05am EDT by ilove2shop

  Ancient Olympics Guide: Myths about the Olympic Games

• Op-Ed Columnist - Let's Talk About Sex - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 1:04am EDT by wilddove

  Op-Ed Columnist - Let's Talk About Sex - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com

• The science of happiness -

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 1:01am EDT by Angel_C

  IF RECENT scientific research on happiness -- and there has been quite a bit -- has proved anything, it's that happiness is not a goal. It's a process. Although our tendency to be happy or not is partly inborn, it's also partly within our control.

• Vein tubes 'fitted needlessly'

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 12:52am EDT by Red Wolf

  A third of patients have unnecessary tubes inserted into veins when they are in hospital, pharmacists have warned. Researchers from Aberdeen's Robert Gordon University said this needlessly exposed them to serious complications, such as infections and blood clots.

• Scared Senseless - Review of 'Hyping Health Risks'

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 12:37am EDT by bgates43

  In "Hyping Health Risks," Geoffrey Kabat, an epidemiologist himself, shows how activists, regulators and scientists distort or magnify minuscule environmental risks.

• Suicides and the media

  Posted: September 7th, 2008, 12:06am EDT by Barney Lerten

  Curious what y'all think. We've had a rash of suicides (or suicide attempts) in our area lately - maybe we're not alone, considering the state of the economy.

• 5 or More Drinks - Increases STD risk

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 11:39pm EDT by austinl7

  No surprise. If you drink heavily, your judgement drops, and you're at greater risk of picking up a sexually transmitted disease (STD), reports this LA Times news article, "Binge drinking is fun -- until the gonorrhea diagnosis." Here are the highlights of this article . . .

• What is histoplasmosis?

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 9:15pm EDT by jpark

  The Food and Drug Administration is ordering stronger warnings on a particular class of medications because of patient deaths from fungal infections

• For Even Healthy Men, Alcohol Seems to Lower Heart Attack Risk

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 9:04pm EDT by Populist Party

  Those who had one-half to two drinks a day had the lowest heart attack risk — 40 percent to 60 percent lower than healthy men who didn't drink. And that was true no matter whether they were drinking beer, wine or liquor.

• Breast MRIs delay cancer treatment by weeks: study | U.S. | Reuters

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 8:13pm EDT by mprimario

  Breast MRIs delay cancer treatment by weeks: study | U.S. | Reuters

• Basil Holds the Key to Anti-Aging

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 8:01pm EDT by Ageing Hippie

  Basil can protect against the harmful effects of ageing, according to research presented at the British Pharmaceutical Conference (BPC) in Manchester.

• Emotionally wounded kids get cash boost

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 5:34pm EDT by Johblogs

  CHILDREN displaced and emotionally wounded by their parents' divorce will get new support under measures announced by the Rudd Government. Funding of up to $17 million over the next three years will be provided to expand and/or create 18 separate services to support children dea …

• Energy foods through history

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 5:23pm EDT by orsiko

  Hearkening back to ancient Europe, people often held the belief that you are what you eat. Strong athletes and warriors were encouraged to eat boiled meat and foods high in energy-producing carbohydrates.

• A treadmill designed for kids? A debate over fitness takes shape. - The Boston Globe

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 5:02pm EDT by orsiko

  Treadmills and elliptical trainers for children: a benign way for kids to get in shape - or a depressing statement on what our society has become? That's the question swirling around two new products, Fitness Fun's My Treadmill and Glide-a-Stride, both of which are aimed at kids  …

• Why Men Die Sooner, New Book Called

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 4:51pm EDT by mprimario

  Why Men Die Sooner, New Book Called

• Robert D. Novak - How a Tumor Is Changing My Life

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 4:35pm EDT by Leah M

  Many people have asked me how I first realized I was suffering from a brain tumor and what I have done about it.

• ABC News: New Down Syndrome Test Hailed as Promising

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 4:31pm EDT by mprimario

  ABC News: New Down Syndrome Test Hailed as Promising

• NEW FLU 'STICKERS' - New York Post

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 4:09pm EDT by mprimario

  NEW FLU 'STICKERS' - New York Post

• Are Curvy Women More Intelligent?

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 4:02pm EDT by orsiko

  Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of California at Santa Barbara looked at data from a study of more than 16,000 women and girls from 1988 to 1994 that detailed their body measurements, as well as their education level and their scores on various cogn …

• Would you eat a clone?

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 3:36pm EDT by orsiko

  Would you eat a clone? What about the offspring of a clone? Food companies are sensing that many of us won't, and are positioning themselves accordingly.

• Good News if you are Diabetic ...

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 1:17pm EDT by keithw8007

  Supplementing with vitamin K may improve insulin resistance in men, according to a new study published in Diabetes Care.

• This Blog Has Gone Mobile - The Health, Drug, Prescription, and GMP Supersite

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 11:49am EDT by austinl7

  Our posts are now available for mobile viewing too! So here's what will happen. We'll maintain our original Blogger blog, here at: I'll continue to post new content here.

• Alzheimer's Discovery » librarynews.info

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 10:12am EDT by bbest7

  Alzheimer's research results

• Universal flu vaccine tests start

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 7:00am EDT by Red Wolf

  A universal flu vaccine which could mean an end to the annual jab is being tested on UK volunteers. It targets a different part of the virus to current vaccines, which means it does not have to be altered every year to match circulating strains.

• For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 5:16am EDT by henry1966

  Scientists have for the first time recorded individual brain cells in the act of summoning a spontaneous memory, revealing not only where a remembered experience is registered but also, in part, how the brain is able to recreate it.

• Let's Talk Sex

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 1:26am EDT by -mary was here-

  This writer does a wonderful job writing about subject matter that is such a taboo. It even says why it is relevent to write about the old subject now- Sarah Palin's pregnant teenage daughter.

• Braking the Virus

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 1:20am EDT by -mary was here-

  This opinion piece does a wonderful job explaining complex subject matter in simple enough anyone could understand.

• Scariest Hospital Risks - Page 1 - MSN Health & Fitness - Health Topics

  Posted: September 6th, 2008, 12:01am EDT by Katan-Ko from Alexandria Va

  Re Scariest Hospitals Perpetrators Unknown to Victims / Suspects Names: On Oct. 27th or 28th or /29th' 07 Incident at Charleston General Hospital Morris and Washington Street Charleston, W.Va. Kanawha County Male Suspect: White, curly brown hair, apx.