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America\'s Fattest States
Americans are fat and getting fatter. Calling for a national strategy to combat obesity, the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a report recently detailing America’s growing obesity epidemic.
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Man Given 6 Months to Live Discovers His Tumor is an Abscess
Phil Collins, 61, quit his job, planned his own funeral and blew £18,000 from a pension pay-out after being told he had inoperable gallbladder and liver cancer. But when the six month deadline passed he went back to hospital - where further checks revealed the growth on his liver was in fact an abscess.
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Internet Addiction? Shocking.
Do you suffer from Internet Addiction Disorder? There really is something called \"Internet Addiction Disorder\". According to Wikipedia, \"IAD was originally proposed as a disorder in a satirical hoax by Ivan Goldberg, M.D., in 1995. He took pathological gambling as diagnosed by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV)
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Artistic tendencies linked to \'schizophrenia gene\'
A genetic mutation linked to psychosis and schizophrenia may unleash creative potential in some and psychotic delusions in others. The finding could help to explain why mutations that increase a person\'s risk of developing mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar syndrome have been preserved, even preferred, during human evolution.
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\'Pig Flu of the Apocalypse\' could kill 63,000 in UK
New U.K. calculations suggest that, in the worst-case scenario, 63,000 people could die after contracting the A/H1N1 swine flu virus in the first wave of the pandemic.
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Whoah! 10 Pounds? [PIC]
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Obama’s Computerized Hospital Vision May Have Blind Spot
The Obama administration plans to start reforming health care by forcing the nation\'s hospitals to go digital. But this well-intentioned plan could backfire if it ends up favoring computerized record systems that have until now been a failure.
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Lower IQ Linked to Higher Risk of Heart Deaths
Scottish researchers analyzed data on 4,289 former U.S. soldiers, and found that IQ accounted for more than 20% of the difference in heart disease & stroke deaths between people of high and low socioeconomic status. This was in addition to well-established cardiovascular disease risk factors such as obesity and smoking....
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In Pursuit of Immortality: The Science Behind Life Extension
Since the beginning of recorded history, humans have searched for the key to immortality and eternal youth. With ongoing medical advances and other recent discoveries, some life extension scientists are claiming that reversing the aging process may be possible within our lifetimes.\\r
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Lower IQ \'a heart disease risk\'
Having a lower than average IQ is in itself a risk factor for heart disease, say researchers.
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Parkinson\'s linked to high levels of pesticide in the body
Parkinson\'s sufferers are more likely to have significant levels of a pesticide in their body than healthy people, a new study has found. Researchers found the pesticide beta-HCH in 76% of people with Parkinson\'s. The chemical is a component of Lindane, a pesticide which has been banned in Britain since 2000, but stays in the body for decades.
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Do you really want to live forever?
There are developments that could (and probably will) lead to humans being able to live forever. But is it desirable?
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In China, job seekers are resorting to plastic surgery
Reporting from Shanghai - In this crummy job market, Stephanie Yang figures any little advantage will help. Even double eyelids. So on a cold January morning, the 21-year-old college senior
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Bill Moyers shines light on the health insurance mess
\"I beg everyone who reads this and clicks onto the link to send it on to everyone you know. Send it to your congressmen, your governors, your legislatures, the White House. Get an email chain going--put the link up on yard signs or billboards. Put it on bumper stickers. Stencil it on tee-shirts or tattoo it onto your forehead. Whatever it takes.\"
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No more electroshock therapy for Chinese internet addicts
INTERNET addicts should stop receiving electroshock therapy because it doesn\'t work, the Chinese Health Ministry says.\\rNearly 3000 youths have undergone electroshock therapy at a mental health hospital. The hospital, based in eastern Shandong, runs a four-month web rehab program which includes medicine and counselling and costs $1025 a month.
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WHO says new flu \'\'unstoppable\'\', calls for vaccine
Saying the new H1N1 virus is \'\'unstoppable\'\', the World Health Organization gave drug makers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines against the pandemic influenza strain on Monday and...
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Obesity continues rise
Americans are getting heavier than ever, with more than 26 percent of the population now fully obese, the U.S. government reported
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Swine flu takes turn for the worse
Six young people with swine flu are on life support in a Sydney hospital as health experts try to work out why the disease is striking some young, healthy people so severely.
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How to Keep a Secret (according to a Harvard psychologist)
People demonstrate incredible capabilities to not spill delicious secrets or avoid eating fried food or shun cigarettes after a stressful day. But as everyone knows, not succumbing to the vices you genuinely wish to best, i.e. gossiping, unhealthy eating or smoking, can be a tooth-and-nail fight for control over the mind.
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U.S. to spend another $1 billion on flu vaccine
The United States will spend another $1 billion on ingredients for an H1N1 vaccine, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Sunday.
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