It’s perfect viral fodder: First an unusually large stucco-snarfing snail shows up unexpectedly in someone’s Texas garden, then the words “invasive,” “meningitis” and “deadly” start circulating with gusto. (MORE: 5 Bizarre Revelations from the Jodi Arias Trial) In more mundane reality, [...]
What’s the secret to an extra-long life? For one centenarian, it just might be bacon. A 105-year-old Texas woman, who became a widow at age 38 and worked as everything from a cotton picker to a hay baler while raising [...]
Just as proponents of medical marijuana argue that the drug’s active ingredient THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol) helps alleviate chronic pain, reduce nausea and stimulate the appetites of terminally-ill human patients, California veterinarian Dr. Doug Kramer recently argued that the drug can have the [...]
Though breast augmentation and Botox injections still reign as America’s most popular procedures, plastic surgeons are receiving more requests for a lesser known surgery called brachioplasty, or more commonly known as an upper-arm lift. According to a new report published by [...]
April 30, 2013
Breaking Fresh
Cameron Lyle, a senior at the University of New Hampshire where he throws the discus, hammer and shot put, is placing his athletic endeavors on hold to be a bone marrow donor. (MORE: A Court Allows Payment for Bone Marrow. [...]
April 27, 2013
Breaking Fresh
Well, that can’t be good for your health. A Utah man claims he has held onto a McDonald’s hamburger for 14 years – and it looks the same today as when he first bought it in 1999, the Daily Mail [...]
April 25, 2013
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What’s the stupidest thing you’d do to score hits on YouTube? Swallow a heaping spoonful of dry cinnamon? It’s surely up there, as the YouTube topic “cinnamon challenge” illustrates: a catalogue of people’s farcical, mostly unsuccessful attempts to swallow a [...]
April 23, 2013
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Here’s reassuring news to the 1 in 13 pregnant women in the U.S. (or the 50% of pregnant women in the UK) who don’t want to give up booze for nine months: Light drinking during pregnancy — up to 2 units of alcohol a [...]
April 18, 2013
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The devastating economic crisis that gripped Cuba in the 1990s led to a marked improvement in the nation’s health, researchers have found. After the collapse of the Soviet Union — and the subsequent termination of Soviet aid — and amid [...]
April 12, 2013
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A teary-eyed Yolanda Foster bared her soul in an emotional speech accepting the LRA’s Star Light Award award from the Lyme Research Alliance at their Time for Lyme Gala in… READ ON
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