The US Preventive Services Task Force dropped routine mammograms for women in their 40s, telling them to weigh the risks and benefits with a doctor first. Dr. Mercola backs the change; the Obama administration said government insurance would keep covering screening from age 40.
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Disease
Does High Cholesterol REALLY Cause Heart Disease?
Uffe Ravnskov says he never believed the cholesterol theory of atherosclerosis, calling the idea that slightly raised blood cholesterol kills as silly as claiming yellow fingers cause lung cancer. He recounts leaving academic nephrology after exposing a colleague's fraudulent paper.
Drug
Mounting Debilities and Deaths from H1N1 Vaccine
Mercola gathers reports of harm after H1N1 shots: a 14-year-old Virginian left hospital in a wheelchair with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a French health worker received the same diagnosis six days after her shot, and China pulled a vaccine batch after two people died hours after inoculation.
Miscellaneous
Newborn Babies Were NOT Designed to Sleep Alone
Dr. Jay Gordon argues babies sharing a bed with sober, nonsmoking parents are closely monitored and face a SIDS risk close to zero, while babies in separate rooms breastfeed less. Mercola traces the 2002 warnings against bed-sharing back to CPSC death records.
Miscellaneous
How many military members died the day of the Pearl Harbor attack?
Public Law 103-308 designated December 7 as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day for the more than 2,400 service members who died in the 1941 attack, which brought the United States into World War II. A 2008 proclamation created a related national monument.
Miscellaneous
Amanda Knox Verdict: Guilty as Charged
An Italian jury convicted the Seattle student of murdering her roommate Meredith Kercher and sentenced her to 26 years, short of the 100 prosecutors sought. The piece notes Italian juries are not sequestered and can convict by majority vote.
Disease
Wrestling superstar Umaga dead at 36 _ What you need to know
Eddie Fatu, the WWE wrestler known as Umaga, died at 36 after a heart attack, his family confirmed. He was found unresponsive at his Houston home, put on life support and pronounced dead after a second attack. The piece then explains what causes heart attacks.
Environment
Fishes Killed; Waterways Poisoned by State Agency
A year after Illinois officials killed every fish in Lincoln Park's South Pond with rotenone, the state dosed six miles of the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal to stop invasive carp. Ninety tons of dead fish were expected; a day after 2,000 gallons went in, one carp had been found.
Miscellaneous
Tiger’s Troubles Costing him Money
Gloria Allred cancelled Rachel Uchitel's news conference, which her daughter takes as a sign of a settlement with Tiger Woods. CNN reports Woods is revising his prenuptial agreement, and analysts are weighing whether his endorsements survive the scandal.
Miscellaneous
Facebook Agent: A Frontal Attack on Privacy
A software program called Facebook Agent may let would-be friends override someone's decision to keep a profile private. Users already share far too much on their walls, and predators can mine those details for where a person lives or works.
Miscellaneous
What are some holiday fire prevention tips?
The US Fire Administration counts 2,600 injuries and more than $930 million in damage from holiday-season fires each year. Its advice: pick a fresh tree, keep the stand filled with water, keep it away from heat sources, take it down within two weeks, and never put candles on it.
Disease
Obesity and Smoking: Dramatic tolls on health
A Harvard and University of Michigan analysis projects that rising body mass would cut a typical 18-year-old's life expectancy by 0.71 years by 2020, offsetting a 20 percent drop in smoking. If all adults quit smoking and reached normal weight, life expectancy would gain about four years.
Miscellaneous
The True Victims of Tiger Woods’ Philandering
An opinion piece arguing that Elin Nordegren and her two young children, not Tiger Woods, are the real victims of the scandal, listing five reasons including her young marriage, her years working as an au pair and cashier, and caring for an infant and a toddler.
Disease
'Bone-Crushing' Fever Risk MUCH Greater Threat than Swine Flu
WHO counts about 50 million dengue cases a year, with two-fifths of the world at risk and no vaccine or specific treatment, leaving mosquito control as the only defense. Researchers in San Antonio use humanized mice to study how the disease turns hemorrhagic.
Lifestyle
How to Prevent the Flu -- as Easy as 1, 2, 3...
Mercola writes that Americans get about a billion colds a year and that flu-like symptoms come from influenza at most 17 percent of the time. He attributes winter illness to indoor crowding and falling vitamin D levels, and notes antibiotics do nothing against viruses.
Drug
Milestone results for Boehringer's dabigatran etexilate to be announced at ASH 2009 (PR)
Boehringer Ingelheim said it would present results from the RE-COVER study, which compared its anticoagulant dabigatran etexilate head-to-head with warfarin for treating acute venous thromboembolism, at the American Society of Hematology meeting on December 6, 2009.
Miscellaneous
Family Ties Matriarch Comes Out
Meredith Baxter, who played Elyse Keaton on Family Ties, told the Today Show she has been gay for the last seven years and described meeting her partner, Nancy Locke. She said she came out to head off tabloid coverage after the two were spotted on a cruise.
Miscellaneous
Hulk Hogan Engaged
Weeks after saying on television that he was suicidal during his divorce, Hulk Hogan announced his engagement to Jennifer McDaniel, Fox News reported. The piece recaps the public fight with Linda Bollea, his son's 2007 crash, and the phone call from Laila Ali he credits with saving his life.
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