Looking for motivation to help you stick with your New Year’s resolution? You are sooo smart! These next
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six weeks are when most of us hit our plateau (translation: your grumpy inner voice starts squawking about all the “work” and the “time” that your change takes). But you’re in this for the long, slow [...]
Thirsty? Have a sip of this, sweetie. Sure, it looks like water. It even tastes like water. I swear it came from a
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water-treatment plant.
What, you don’t trust me? Well, alright, now that you asked, here’s what’s really in this nice clear glass of…um, water:
According to the AP, “enough of a single, powerful antibiotic [...]
Chronic Babe, one of Doc Gurley’s favorite sites, is hosting Grand Rounds this week. The theme? All things
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babelicious (translation: women’s health news). If you are a woman, know a woman or love a woman, head on over and check out this primo collection of goodies from around the world, free for the taking. [...]
With all the fear-mongering in our health news, it can be hard to keep your
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perspective. Forbes has a remarkably sane wake-up call of an article that each of us should read. It’s an accurate report on the most life-threatening thing that we do – and the one thing most likely to kill your [...]
A New Year’s BOGUS has been born! (is it just me, or did that happen awfully fast?). And let me tell you, this
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one is a ten-pound whopper with a stinky diaper chock-full of…well, you get the idea. An “evolutionary biologist” published an actual paper asserting that the gender of [...]
If you’re looking for a breezy, informative and entertaining way to get the low-down on…joy (and who
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isn’t?), look no further than here. Slate has a wonderful interview with Gretchen Rubin (of The Happiness Project). After a few minutes reading this interview, you’ll walk away feeling like a happiness-research data pro. And you’ll be [...]
The inimitable Dr. Val (of Get Better Health) is hosting an special, Inaugural Edition of Grand Rounds. The
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theme is, of course, healthcare reform. Take a breather from our country’s festivities and head on over. You can check out what the entire healthcare blogosphere (patients, advocates, nurses, doctors and all the team!) have to [...]
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When people talk about healthcare reform, what starts as a policy question often deteriorates into a Tower-of-Babel cacophony of confusion. Everyone’s talking about something different. And, frankly, it’s hard to know how to make things better when no one knows where they’re headed. So do I know where we should be [...]
In a last minute announcement under the Bush administration, one that leaves consumer advocates stunned,
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our FDA (Foolish and Deteriorated Abysmally) has passed a ruling that allows pharmaceutical companies to directly market off-label (translation: unapproved) uses of drugs to doctors. The caveat that’s supposed to make this all okey-dokey (per the industry) is that [...]
Now we’ve learned that people in middle age who drink 3 or more cups of coffee a day are over 50% less likely to
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develop dementia/Alzheimer’s in later life. A previous study in April revealed dementia-preventing effects from one cup of coffee a day – but that study was done with New Zealand [...]
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