A $40 Magic Jack due within four months would let users place calls from a cell phone without paying the carrier, routing them over a home broadband connection rather than the wireless network. It works with AT&T and T-Mobile GSM handsets, not Verizon or Sprint. The maker says the device is legal.
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WHO Advisor Secretly Pads Pockets with Big Pharma Money
Mercola reports that Juhani Eskola, a Finnish member of WHO's SAGE vaccine advisory group, took nearly 6.3 million euros from GlaxoSmithKline for his institute's 2009 vaccine research — a tie absent from WHO's website. Finland bought GSK's Pandemrix on the advice of that institute and WHO.
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Airport body scanners safe
The TSA says both millimeter wave and X-ray backscatter airport scanners are safe, and radiology groups put one backscatter scan below 10 microrem, about two minutes of flying. The writer counters that X-rays are a recognized carcinogen with no safe threshold.
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Your Tap Water Is Legal But May Be Unhealthy
Mercola highlights reporting that the 35-year-old Safe Drinking Water Act regulates only 91 contaminants while more than 60,000 chemicals are in U.S. use. No chemical has been added to the regulated list since 2000, and many standards have not changed since the 1980s.
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Dangers of kitchen spoons
Cornell's Brian Wansink asked people to pour a teaspoon of nighttime flu medicine into kitchen spoons of different sizes and found doses ranging from 8 percent too little to 12 percent too much. Repeated every four to eight hours for days, he says, the error adds up.
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Casey Johnson dead
Police found the 30-year-old Johnson & Johnson heiress dead at a Los Angeles house on Monday. An officer said it appeared to be a natural death with no evidence of foul play, and the coroner will determine the cause. Reports said she had drug problems and juvenile diabetes.
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American Indians, Alaska natives more likely to die from swine flu
CDC data from 12 states covering April to November 2009 showed H1N1 death rates among American Indians and Alaska Natives running four times higher than all other racial and ethnic groups combined. Authors suspect chronic conditions contribute and urged wider vaccination.
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Big hole found on the moon
Scientists led by Junichi Haruyama of Japan's JAXA found a vertical hole on the moon roughly a city block wide, reported in Geophysical Research Letters. They believe it is a collapsed lava tube and suggest it could shield future moon dwellers from cosmic and solar radiation.
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Rose Bowl Parade 2010
A notice about the 121st Rose Parade in Pasadena, listing the networks carrying it, the Ohio State versus Oregon matchup in the Rose Bowl game that follows, and phone numbers for the Tournament of Roses visitor lines.
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"Naughty" Pharma Still Got Christmas Presents From FDA in 2009
A roundup of 2009 pharmaceutical payouts, $1.42 billion from Eli Lilly over Zyprexa and $2.3 billion from Pfizer, and of psychiatrists who wrote tens of thousands of prescriptions for atypical antipsychotics, drugs whose labels warn of raised death risk in elderly dementia patients.
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Not Knowing This about Your Car Tires Could Kill You or Your Loved Ones
ABC News found retailers selling aged tires as new. Tire rubber dries out after six years, yet tires up to 12 years old have turned up on sale. The DOT number on the inner wall ends in four digits giving the week and year of manufacture; only three digits means the tire dates from the 1990s.
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Why is the Epidemic in Learning Disabilities Linked to This Failed Policy?
Mercola faults a PBS series on the H1N1 pandemic for never asking why officials declared it a mass killer, and argues no one can screen out people the vaccine could harm, citing rates of one in six children learning disabled and one in 100 diagnosed autistic.
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More Scanners will be deployed at airports
TSA describes its advanced imaging program: 40 millimeter wave units run at 19 airports, mostly for secondary or random screening, and the agency plans to buy 150 more backscatter units. Screening is optional for passengers, and facial features are blurred on the images.
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What are some popular New Year's resolutions?
A USA.gov roundup of winter holidays, covering Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year's Day, with pointers to holiday traditions, the 2009 National Christmas Tree lighting and lists such as popular New Year's resolutions.
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Findings suggest cardiovascular devices often approved by FDA without high-quality studies (PR)
A JAMA study reviewed 123 safety and effectiveness summaries behind 78 premarket approvals of high-risk cardiovascular devices and found most were approved on data from a single study, with evidence the authors say often lacked strength or may have been prone to bias.
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Chlorophylls effective against aflatoxin (PR)
An Oregon State study found chlorophyll and its derivative chlorophyllin limited absorption of aflatoxin, a grain contaminant known to cause liver cancer, in human volunteers. Johns Hopkins commentators praised the "Phase 0" microdosing method and urged expanding it.
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Acupuncture reduces hot flashes, improves sex drive for breast cancer patients (PR)
In the first randomized trial comparing the two, Henry Ford Hospital researchers found acupuncture matched drug therapy at reducing hot flashes and night sweats in women on hormone therapy for breast cancer, with longer-lasting effects and reported gains in energy and libido.
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People of Hawaii Pass Resolution Against Forced Vaccination
County of Hawaii directors overruled state Department of Health officials with a near-unanimous resolution urging state and federal legislators to write medical, religious and philosophical exemptions into vaccine laws, including programs declared urgent during emergencies.
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