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California Law Could Force Pornstars To Wear Condoms
“In response to pressure from AIDS Healthcare Foundation officials, state regulators are poised to consider amending state law to require condom use in adult film production. On Thursday, the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health standards board is scheduled to consider a petition the foundation filed in December to change state law and require condom use and other safe sex protections for adult-film workers, including increased safety training and testing for sexually transmitted diseases.” [Link]
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Study: Bitter Melon Extract May Cure Breast Cancer
“Bitter melon is a common vegetable in India, China and South America, and its extract is used in folk remedies for diabetes because of its blood-sugar lowering capabilities, according to the researchers. ‘When we used the extract from that melon, we saw that it kills the breast cancer cells,’ said lead researcher Ratna Ray, a professor of pathology at Saint Louis University. But their work was done in a laboratory, not in humans, she noted.” [Link]
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Phosphorylated tau231: Protein May Be Key To Alzheimer’s Research
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“Phosphorylated tau231 (P-tau231) is a damaged tau protein found in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. The study, conducted by researchers at NYU School of Medicine and published in this month’s Neurobiology of Aging, shows that the presence of the protein can predict future memory decline as well as a loss of brain gray matter in the medial temporal lobe – a key memory center in the brain. ” [Link]
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Binge Eating Now Officially A Mental Disorder
“Experts from the APA say there’s now enough evidence to call binge eating a mental disorder, adding it to the group of eating disorders that includes anorexia and bulimia. Binge eating is defined as eating large amounts of food when you’re not hungry and then feeling disgusted and depressed afterward.” [Link]
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H1N1 Threat Over?
“The World Health Organization is witnessing an international decline as well, and is discussing criteria for declaring the pandemic over. Britain this week shut down its swine flu hot line, which was set up to diagnose cases and give out Tamiflu.” [Link]
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Strength Training Helps Women’s Brains
“Older women who did an hour or two of strength training exercises each week had improved cognitive function a year later, scoring higher on tests of the brain processes responsible for planning and executing tasks, a new study has found.” Link
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Report: Sitting Too Much Could Kill You
“Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for prolonged periods — even if you also exercise regularly — could be bad for your health. And it doesn’t matter where the sitting takes place — at the office, at school, in the car or before a computer or TV — just the overall number of hours it occurs. Research is preliminary, but several studies suggest people who spend most of their days sitting are more likely to be fat, have a heart attack or even die.” Link
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Gov. Jon Corzine Signs Medical Marijuana Law In New Jersey
“Gov. Jon Corzine tonight signed a bill legalizing marijuana for severely ill patients, making New Jersey the 14th state to allow use of the drug for medical purposes.” Link
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FDA To Debate Cancer Risks Of Tanning Beds
“‘We don’t recommend using them at all, but we know people do use them so we want to make them as low-risk as possible,’ says FDA UV radiation specialist Sharon Miller.” Link
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Men Injecting H.C.G To Up Testosterone
“H.C.G. is commonly used as a fertility drug. Comite uses it for an alternative application that’s perfectly legal and, she insists, safe: regular doses of H.C.G. signal the testes to secrete more testosterone, which the body generates in progressively smaller amounts after about age 30.” Link
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Tylenol Recall Expanded By Johnson & Johnson
“The broadening recall now includes some batches of regular and extra-strength Tylenol children’s Tylenol, eight-hour Tylenol, Tylenol arthritis, Tylenol PM, children’s Motrin, Motrin IB, Benadryl Rolaids, Simply Sleep, and St. Joseph’s aspirin. Both caplet and geltab products were sold in the Americas, the United Arab Emirates, and Fiji were recalled.” Link
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Parents Toss Toys After Cadmium Warning
“The warning came after The Associated Press reported that tests had showed high levels of cadmium in children’s jewelry imported from China. Like lead, cadmium can hinder brain development in children and even cause cancer, according to recent research.” Link
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CDC: Americans Not Getting Fatter Anymore
“The numbers indicate that obesity rates have remained constant for at least five years among men and for closer to 10 years among women and children — long enough for experts to say the percentage of very overweight people has leveled off.” Link
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Study: TV Watching Shortens Lifespan
“Each hour spent vegging out in front of television increases the risk of early death by up to 18 percent, according to researchers from the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne.” Link
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Senate Health Care Bill Reduces Cost: MIT Economist
“Jonathan Gruber, PhD, a MIT Economist who has been closely following the health insurance reform process, issued a compelling new report based on data from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. As the Politico wrote, “The report concludes that under the Senate’s health-reform bill, Americans buying individual coverage will pay less than they do for today’s typical individual market coverage, and would be protected from high out-of-pocket costs.”" Link
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Skin Grown From Stem Cells Could Help Burn Victims
“French researchers say they have found a way of using human embryonic stem cells to create new skin which could help serious burns victims. They say the stem cells grew into fully formed human skin 12 weeks after being grafted on to mice. ” Link
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Vicks Nasal Spray Recall
“Routine testing in Germany showed the spray could contain the bacteria B. cepacia, which can cause serious infections in people with a weak immune system or with lung conditions.” Link
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Kate Moss Skinny Comments Cause Controversey
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“After she told Women’s Wear Daily that she lived by the slogan, ‘nothing tastes as good as skinny feels,’ the model, 35, has been attacked by eating disorder groups for her ‘dangerous’ viewpoint.” Link
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Poll Says Pay For Health Care Reform By Taxing The Rich
“The poll, conducted by Stanford University with the nonpartisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, found participants sour on other ways of paying for the health overhaul that is being considered in Congress, including taxing insurers on high-value coverage packages derided by President Barack Obama and Democrats as ‘Cadillac plans.’” Link
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Feds: Women In 40s Should Quit Mammograms
“Women in their 40s should stop routinely having annual mammograms and older women should cut back to one scheduled exam every other year, an influential federal task force has concluded, challenging the use of one of the most common medical tests. ” Link
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