Posted December 17, 2010 in Uncategorized
According to The Los Angeles Times if recent court battles are any indication, getting ditched at the altar is proving to be more lucrative than getting hitched. A woman who was dumped by her groom-to-be just four days before the wedding brings new meaning to “hell hath no fury like a lover scorned”: she’s now […]
Read MorePosted December 15, 2010 in CO2 Laser Resurfacing, Uncategorized
According to KTLA breast-feeding at work should become a lot easier as employers adhere to a provision of the Affordable Care Act of 2010. In a report released Friday, women’s health advocates estimate that the provision will increase the breast-feeding rate among U.S. women, a statistic that now ranks well below other developed nations. Under […]
Read MorePosted December 14, 2010 in Liposuction, News & Research
According to channel 7, gaining weight as you enter middle age is a fact of life. But scientists say they’ve figured out what you need to do to keep as much of it off as possible, and it’s even better news if you’re a woman. Being highly physically active has always been a regular part […]
Read MorePosted December 13, 2010 in News & Research
According to The Los Angeles Times salvia turned up on the pop culture radar last week after Miley Cyrus, caught on a video using a bong, said she was smoking salvia, not marijuana. So what’s the difference? Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have been looking into that very thing. Little research has been done on the […]
Read MorePosted December 10, 2010 in Uncategorized
According to MSNBC with all the studies touting the health benefits of alcohol, you might be thinking you can imbibe with abandon this holiday season. Not so fast, experts say. In fact, doctors have even given a name to what can happen when people overindulge at festive times: Holiday Heart Syndrome. Binge drinkers have twice […]
Read MorePosted December 09, 2010 in Uncategorized
According to channel 7 in a study reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Australian researchers surveyed men aged 75 to 95, most of whom were married or living with a partner. They found that almost a third of the men aged 75 or older were sexually active at least once a year, including about […]
Read MorePosted December 08, 2010 in Uncategorized
According to ABC 7 Joel Phillips had the same morning routine for so long, he barely noticed he was losing his edge. But his total lack of energy told him it wasn’t just age. “There’s always denial, we don’t want to get old,” Phillips said. “When you have a good quality of life, you want […]
Read MorePosted December 07, 2010 in Uncategorized
According to Fox News sassy Australian reality TV show star Tabatha Coffey revealed that a botched breast augmentation almost killed her. The hair stylist and star of BRAVO’s reality TV show “Tabatha’s Salon Takeover” said her implant ruptured an artery and infected her chest, The Herald Sun reported. “It was an incredibly traumatic ordeal,” she […]
Read MorePosted December 06, 2010 in Uncategorized
According to Fox TV obesity is far riskier but, according to research published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, merely being overweight can also lead to premature death. The new information appears to contradict some commonly-held beliefs that carrying a little extra weight is not harmful. In what was one of the largest […]
Read MorePosted December 03, 2010 in Uncategorized
According to The Los Angeles Times ever think of taking your blood pressure with a smart phone? If so, you may be in luck. Some companies are busy developing medical apps that would do just that. Mobile health, or “mHealth,” is the latest craze among software designers and health industry companies that want to tap […]
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