The Medical Board of California accuses fertility doctor Michael Kamrava, known for Nadya Suleman's octuplets, of placing a 48-year-old patient at great risk by transferring seven embryos. The resulting quadruplet pregnancy ended with one baby dead and another with profound developmental delays.
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Stonefish - Avoid It By All Means
The stonefish, described here as the most venomous fish on the planet, looks like a rock and survives up to 24 hours out of water, so stings happen on the beach as well as in it. Hot water of at least 45C destroys the venom; severe cases need antivenom.
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Gag:Most People Sneeze into Bare Hands
Medical students watching people at a New Zealand train station, mall and hospital found three in four covered their mouth when coughing or sneezing, but two in three of those used their bare hands. CDC advises a tissue or the upper sleeve, then 20 seconds of handwashing.
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New Weight Loss Incentive: Hot Flash Relief
Among 338 overweight and obese women, those assigned to an intensive six-month diet and exercise program had twice the odds of measurable improvement in hot flash severity as those attending health education classes. Gains tracked smaller waists and lower BMI.
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From Deceptive Boardrooms to Closed-Mind Thinking, How The Fatally Flawed Medical System Killed More Americans with Just One Drug than the Entire Vietnam War – Part 3 of 4
Mercola recounts drawing his “doctors are the third leading cause of death” headline from Barbara Starfield's 2000 JAMA paper, notes she disagreed with that conclusion while still faulting the medical system, and describes his site as an effort to expose health misinformation.
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"The Secret that is Stunning Nutritionists"
A promotional pitch for a free program, arguing there is no single perfect diet and that readers should learn which foods suit their own genetics instead of trusting foods that are supposed to be good for them.
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Do sex offenders live in my community?
A reference page pointing to the Justice Department's Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website for checking whether registered sex offenders live nearby, and noting that Megan's Law lets states disclose that information while registration rules vary by state.
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TX Man Exemplified Robert Butler's Philosophy
A tribute pairing gerontologist Robert Butler, who died July 4 after battling leukemia, with Pearson Howell, a Texas man who died at 82. Howell rose early, exercised and visited his wife daily despite being paralyzed from the knees down, living the structured life Butler advocated.
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No BP Relief from Glucosamine
A rundown of low back pain, from bulging discs and sciatica to spinal stenosis and osteoporosis, sets up a look at glucosamine, the dietary supplement many have promoted as a chronic low back pain reliever.
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CDC Reports on Screening of Colorectal Cancer and Breast Cancer
CDC's 2008 BRFSS data put up-to-date mammography among women aged 50 to 74 at 81.1 percent, against 81.5 percent in 2006. Rates were lowest among the uninsured at 56.3 percent, those earning under $15,000, and American Indian/Alaska Natives. Screening rates have plateaued.
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Does Early School Schedule Promote Failure?
When a Rhode Island high school moved its first class from 8:00 to 8:30 for two months, the 201 students surveyed reported less daytime sleepiness, fatigue and depressed mood. Nearly 80 percent got at least eight hours of sleep, up from under seven before the change.
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Researchers Find Protein Linked to Alzheimer's
A King's College London study found people with Alzheimer's carry higher levels of the blood plasma protein clusterin, which tracked with disease severity, speed of progression and atrophy in the memory region. Researchers hope it could support a simple blood test for early detection.
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Longevity Genes Cannot Explain Why Centenarians Live So Long
Boston University researchers identified 150 gene variants associated with living past 100 in a study of 1,055 centenarians and 1,267 younger people, and a statistical model using them identified centenarians 77 percent of the time. Researchers caution the variants are only markers.
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Are You Ashamed Of Your Family? Your Pet? Your Car?
A wry catalogue of private embarrassments: relatives and teenagers, the $1,517 spent on a dog's knee surgery and the dog walker nobody mentions, and the man who never wipes a counter at home but details his car's interior.
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First-Time Homebuyer Credit Closing Deadline Extended to September 30, 2010
The Homebuyer Assistance and Improvement Act of 2010 moved the closing deadline from June 30 to September 30 for buyers under binding contract by April 30. The IRS lists the rules: $8,000 maximum for first-time buyers, $6,500 for long-time residents, claimed on a paper return with Form 5405.
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Is the Liberty Bell still rung?
Cast in London in 1752 and twice recast in Philadelphia after cracking, the bell rang every July 4 and on state occasions until 1846, when a widening crack dulled its sound. Craftsmen carved a slot and added rivets to restore its tone. It now hangs at the Liberty Bell Center.
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What are Duck Stamps?
A reference item on the Federal Duck Stamp, required for waterfowl hunting, and the commemorative Junior Duck Stamp, recounting the first sale in 1934 to artist J. N. Darling and pointing to where both can be bought.
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Febrile Seizures More Likely After MMRV Vaccine
A CDC-funded study of 459,000 children found toddlers given the combined MMRV shot were twice as likely to have a febrile seizure as those given the vaccines separately, about one extra seizure per 2,300 doses, 7 to 10 days after. The CDC now advises giving the first doses separately.
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