Apple added multimedia messaging to the iPhone 3G and 3GS and AT&T switched it on, though some users report it not working as expected. Photos and video sent this way display only on MMS-capable devices, and the carrier sets the size limit for each message.
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Woman implanted with another couple's embryo gives birth
Carolyn Savage, mistakenly implanted with another couple's embryo at an Ohio fertility clinic, carried the pregnancy to term and gave the 5-pound 3-ounce boy to his biological parents, the Morells. The clinic and both families are trying to settle damages without going to court.
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Hepatitis C Carrier Pleads Guilty
Kristen Diane Parker, a med tech at a Colorado Springs surgery center, pleaded guilty to stealing fentanyl-filled syringes, injecting herself and replacing them with saline. DNA testing links 16 hepatitis C cases to her, with 11 more attributed; she could get 20 years at sentencing.
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Arkansas woman gets pregnant twice within 3 weeks
ABC News reports that Julia Grovenburg of Fort Smith, Arkansas conceived a second baby about two and a half weeks into an existing pregnancy, a condition called superfetation, so the two have separate due dates rather than being twins. It is extremely rare in humans.
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The Improbable Conception
Julia and Todd Grovenburg of Fort Smith, Arkansas learned she had conceived a second child about two weeks into an existing pregnancy, a rare condition called superfetation that doctors say they can confirm only after delivery. Both babies were expected in December.
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Med students Twittering secrets
A JAMA study found 60 percent of medical school deans reported students posting unprofessional content online; three students were fired and 76 percent were warned. Thirteen percent of deans reported breaches of patient confidentiality, and only 38 percent of schools had a policy covering posts.
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Do We Really Want to be Like Vogue's Anna Wintour?
A skeptical review of R.J. Cutler's documentary The September Issue, which questions Vogue editor Anna Wintour's fashion authority and her hold over designers, stylists and photographers, and compares the film to Scorsese's Shine a Light.
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CHANGE 'Breast Cancer Awareness Month' to 'Breast Cancer PREVENTION Month' - (press release)
A GrassrootsHealth announcement for a vitamin D seminar at the University of Toronto on November 3, 2009, where Cedric Garland and Tracey O'Connor will make the case for renaming Breast Cancer Awareness Month as Breast Cancer Prevention Month.
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Uninsured death rates spike since 1993
Harvard researchers tie lack of coverage to 45,000 US deaths in 2005 and report that uninsured people faced a 40 percent higher risk of death than the privately insured, up from 25 percent in 1993. Study author Steffie Woolhandler says extending coverage would save lives.
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Inconvenient Truths About Gardasil and Swine Flu Vaccines
Mercola's piece counts one adverse-event report to the government's VAERS system for every 1,855 Gardasil doses, including fainting and seizures; four girls died after clots reached their lungs. He doubts reactions to school-given swine flu vaccines will be reported at all.
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What to do If You Are Forced to Take Swine Flu Shot
Dr. Russell Blaylock lists what he says the seasonal flu shot contains, from egg proteins and gelatin to formaldehyde and thimerosal, and argues 2009 data showed swine flu hospitalizations and deaths running no higher than seasonal flu, with no sign the virus had mutated.
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Does Your Dog Play Well With Others?
Evanston's dog beach on Lake Michigan is bigger than some of its people beaches and is not free, but it runs May through October. On a day when the water hit 72 degrees, about 20 dogs dug, sunned themselves and played fetch while the people beach sat closed.
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Carter's White House press secretary Jody Powell dies
Jody Powell, press secretary to President Jimmy Carter, died Monday of a heart attack at his Maryland home at age 65. A friend said Powell had been working with firewood and collapsed while his helper was away; he had suffered a heart attack in recent years.
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The Health and Emotional Risks of Perfectionism
A personal essay arguing that perfectionism, unlike the pursuit of excellence it resembles from outside, produces anxiety, hypertension, heartache and a sense of never being good enough, and that thought patterns show up as bodily ailments.
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Huge Giveaways In White House Deal With Big Pharma
A leaked memo shows the White House agreed to oppose congressional efforts to bargain for lower drug prices or import drugs from Canada, while PhRMA agreed to cut $80 billion in projected costs over ten years and back the bill with a $150-million ad campaign. Both sides deny the deal.
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FREE Book Documenting the Horrors of Vaccination
Mercola links to a free PDF of Horrors of Vaccination Exposed and Illustrated, a 1920 book that claimed vaccination was killing more people than smallpox and petitioned President Wilson to end compulsory vaccination. Google Books offers it and a million others in EPUB.
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Mercury Fillings Battle Heats Up in D.C.
Dr. Mercola thanks readers whose calls and letters to the FDA over mercury dental amalgam drew what an FDA publication called unprecedented organized opposition to a final rule, and quotes Michael Bender of the Mercury Policy Project calling the ruling inconsistent.
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Suicide: A National Concern
Marking World Suicide Prevention Day, the piece opens with “Janie,” a Midwestern high school sophomore whose therapist called her mildly depressed months before she killed herself. Her mother says Janie knew how to answer questions so she would not be hospitalized.
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