Pin ItemailprintWhat is going on in upstate New York? No one seems to know for sure, but things are getting worse. A strange illness that’s been producing bizarre, Tourette‘s-like symptoms in a more than a dozen girls there is now also affecting a 36-year-old. She’s now experiencing the same mysterious tics as the teens. Marge [...]
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Are you wearing red today? You should be, because today is National Wear Red Day 2012, a day to wear red to show support for women’s heart health. According to the American Heart Association‘s Go Red for Women, heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined. February is also American Heart Month. “Wear Red Day [...]
Speaking from the hospital room where 3-year-old Isabella Santorum is making a “miraculous turnaround,” Rick Santorum said that he would get back to his campaign today with stops in western caucus states. “She went through a very tough time the last 48 hours and this afternoon she made really a remarkable turn,” Santorum said last [...]
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Was it insensitive, or was it funny? In a scene from the trailer for the upcoming stop-motion animation flick “The Pirates! Band of Misfits“, the pirate captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) jumps aboard a ship and says he plans on plundering all the ship’s gold. “Gold? Afraid we don’t have any gold, old man” a [...]
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Arfa Karim Randhawa, the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in the world, has died at the age of 16, according to her family. Randhawa was rushed to a military hospital in Lahore about two weeks ago, after suffering epileptic seizures that caused brain damage on December 22. Doctors pronounced her dead over the weekend. “Arfa was [...]
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There’s nothing like sausage and bacon for breakfast, but can they give you cancer? Researchers now say that eating a single serving of processed meat every day could increase your risk of pancreatic cancer. The risk is small, but cutting down on your processed meats is still probably not a bad idea. Based the findings [...]
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Kathleen Edward, a 9-year-old girl who suffered from Huntington’s Disease, died on Wednesday night. Consoling message are pouring in to her Facebook page, “Prayers for the Healing of Kathleen Edward“. Many residents in the Trenton neighborhood where little Kathleen used to live are deeply saddened by her passing. For years, she was taunted there by [...]
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There is some new hope on the horizon for depression sufferers. A study published by the University of Texas Southwest’s Medical Center and the Cooper Institute in Dallas has linked low levels of vitamin D to clinical depression. The new study appears in the latest edition of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. In the study, researchers compared [...]
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If you take Adderall to help manage your ADHD symptoms, you can expect it to become even harder to come by than it is now. The Adderall shortage is showing no signs of letting up any time soon as manufacturers continue to struggle to get enough active ingredient to make the prescription drug. Adderall is [...]
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There are few stories out there that will tug at your heartstrings quite like this one. Ben Breedlove – an 18-year-old from Austin, Texas – died on Christmas Day of a heart attack, but posted his story in a pair of videos on YouTube a week earlier. In the two videos, as an instrumental version [...]
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez made some truly troubling remarks yesterday, speculating aloud that the U.S. might have come up with a way to give Latin American leaders cancer. His remarks come after Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez joined the ranks of presidents diagnosed with the life-threatening. Chavez himself underwent surgery this summer to remove a tumor from [...]
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The bird flu alert level has been raised to “serious” in Hong Kong and the country announced it will need to cull about 17,000 chickens after three birds tested positive for the H5N1 strain. York Chow, the city’s health chief, announced the measures after a dead chicken at a wholesale market and two other wild [...]
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