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Monthly Archives: March 2008

New Episode of Lost – The Tampon!

March 30, 2008 – 8:09 pm

Go to The Lost Tampon Video for practical tips, inside information, and real-life demonstrations – as well as a few chuckles.
Women’s Health News has an interesting topic and comments about what women go through when a tampon gets “lost.” So can a tampon head north for spring break? How far? Isn’t there a border check [...]

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It’s the Wright thing to do

March 28, 2008 – 1:48 pm

Doc Gurley is off this week giving a talk about homelessness and HIV at the Wright School of Medicine in Dayton, Ohio. But she is also thinking of you, her readers so she didn’t want to leave you completely in the dark. So here is a little retrospective of some of the ‘best’ Doc Gurley [...]

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Dave Barry Alien Colonoscopy

March 24, 2008 – 11:41 pm

Yes, my sweeties, we have (yet again!) gotten a question answered by Dave Barry himself (sound track: Doc Gurley maniacal cackling bwha ha ha) at the new and not improved Dave Barry For President Forum. What, you ask, could it concern?
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Submitted by Area 51 from Roswell, NM [...]

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Haiku for Health

March 22, 2008 – 11:23 am

Doc Gurley 2008 Haiku: Cherry blossom bomb, Petal shrapnel pelts my hair, Trees shake with laughter.
It’s that time of year. Easter, spring break, and cherry blossoms. Take a moment (really, it won’t take long!) to write a haiku in honor of something you enjoy. It’s a great way to both lift your mood and use [...]

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Is Your Medicine Contaminated?

March 21, 2008 – 3:31 pm

As you lie in the hospital bed, watching the crystal-clear fluid drip from the IV bag hanging overhead, or when you stand at your bathroom sink, palm up, ready to pop your $12 pill into your mouth, you can console yourself that these medicines are so expensive because they’re being made under the strictest, safest [...]

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Grab Yer Feedbag!

March 21, 2008 – 10:53 am

The sun is peeking out, buds are swelling and maybe you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed at getting your life in order during this time of seasonal renewal. Well, there’s one surefire, easy, effective way to address our universal longing for health and vitality–grab yer feedbag! The thorough folks at the Cochrane review put together an [...]

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Six Lessons I Learned From A Hooker

March 19, 2008 – 11:10 am

With both David Paterson and his wife now admitting to having extramarital affairs, you have to wonder, what’s the difference between him and Eliot Spitzer. I mean, except for some measly “victimless” laws. After all, of the many, many things you can cuddle up to and get off on, the one thing we here in [...]

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Women’s History Month–Boycott Menopause!

March 17, 2008 – 3:16 pm

How did we get stuck with menopause? I don’t mean the whole evolutionary argument about surviving-until-your-ovaries-quit-working. What I’m talking about, instead, is the label. Menopause has to be about the biggest downer of a name in the history of the world.
The thing that really sticks in my craw, speaking as a female member of the [...]

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Weigh In On The Sanity of Doc Gurley!

March 13, 2008 – 7:06 pm

Here’s your chance! Read the article in either the San Francisco Chronicle, or the unedited version posted here, titled America–Most Expensive Pee In The World, then weigh in on the sanity of Doc Gurley–does she really think Big Pharma’s going to clean up its water-contaminating act?
Vote for one of the following: 1) clearly, she drank [...]

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Push It…Push It Real Good

March 12, 2008 – 12:36 pm

Salt-N-Pepa had it right in their classic 80’s hit: “Just push it…push it real good.” At least that’s what the Journal of the American Medical Association has to say today. A study looking at types of CPR after cardiac arrest found that if only chest compressions were done, the survival rate TRIPLED. The key to [...]

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