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Women with faulty BRCA gene mutations may live longer if they opt to have their ovaries removed. A recent study revealed that women with the BRCA gene mutation had a five times greater risk of developing breast cancer than other women and a ten times greater risk of developing ovarian cancer.
Removing the ovaries dramatically reduced [...]
Hundreds of people became sick from eggs contaminated with salmonella last month. Recent FDA reports describing squalid conditions on one major Iowa egg farm linked to the outbreak explain why.
A new study that was recently published in the medical journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research indicates that heavy drinkers tend to live longer than those who completely abstain from alcohol consumption.
The study which was commissioned by a team at the University of Texas at Austin tracked the mortality rate of 1,824 people between the [...]
Prison officials in Los Angeles are testing a new instrument that they hope will significantly curb violence amongst inmates. Guards at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, California unveiled the “Assault Intervention Device” (AID) on Tuesday, a machine that uses targeted high temperature laser beams to induce a painful but temporary burning sensation on its [...]
Scientists in the United Kingdom have reported that possessing a certain enzyme, now known as NDM-1, makes a bacteria able to withstand most antibiotics. The ability to make this enzyme, they say, can be found in many different bacteria, including E. Coli. And they went on to describe India as the hotbed of infection with [...]
President Obama’s healthcare bill was forced through congress on March 22nd, 2010. Having been called a “Do-Nothing” president, Obama chose to reform a business as old as the nation herself, healthcare.
The bill had very mixed reviews at the time of its passing. Every republican voted against it while 34 democrats joined them, a slim margin [...]
Weight gain and Obesity have been hot topics worldwide for the past ten years as well as America; one in three people are overweight or obese worldwide. A recent study published through a medical journal called “The Lancet” and funded through the U.S. National Institute of Health, a direct correlation between women who gain more [...]
Obesity continues to dominate the health conversation in America, and according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the number of obese Americans continues to increase at an alarming rate. The obesity rate climbed from 25.5 percent in 2007 to 27 percent in 2009. Obesity is a condition [...]
Cigarette smokers have always had a very hard time kicking the habit. The phrase “I want to quit but I can’t,” has been uttered by nearly every smoker who has tried and failed to quit smoking.
Nicotine replacement, meditation, a change in scenery and even hypnotism and acupuncture have been stop-smoking aids for well over half [...]
Drugs such as Black Mamba, K2, Spice and Juggernaut will get you high, are relatively cheap, available, will not show up on a urine test, and are completely legal; until now. Gov. Pat Quinn signed a bill into law yesterday which made these drugs schedule 1 substance as of Jan 1, 2011. The manufacture, possession [...]
