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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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