Articles tagged with: health
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Don’t listen to the Brits on sex, physicians warn
Yes, Virginia, there is a G-spot. That’s what French docs want the world to know in a reminder that when it comes to sex, don’t ask the British. UK scientists at Kings College recently declared that there was no proof that th... read more
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The UK has overhauled its family leave policy to put more British babies in their fathers’ care as mothers play the role of breadwinner.
Where previously mothers got nine months’ leave and fathers only two weeks, families will now have the option of shifting the mother’s las... read more
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In a report that may bolster public policy efforts to get Americans to reduce the amount of salt in their diets, scientists writing in The New England Journal of Medicine conclude that lowering the amount of salt people eat by even a small amount could reduce cases of heart disease, stroke and heart... read more
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As Scott Jerome-Parks lay dying, he clung to this wish: that his fatal radiation overdose — which left him deaf, struggling to see, unable to swallow, burned, with his teeth falling out, with ulcers in his mouth and throat, nauseated, in severe pain and finally unable to breathe — be stu... read more
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Sharing a bed with someone could temporarily reduce your brain power – at least if you are a man – Austrian scientists suggest.
When men spend the night with a bed mate their sleep is disturbed, whether they make love or not, and this impairs their mental ability the next day.
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A group that says homeopathy is quackery is planning to prove its point by “overdosing” en masse with homeopathic medicines outside outlets of British pharmacy chain Boots.
The Merseyside Skeptics Society says the OD is to protest at Boots profiting from an “unscientific and... read more
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Advocates for sex workers in South Africa have warned that this summer’s World Cup could be a public health disaster.
With up to half a million football fans expected to visit South Africa for the World Cup, and up to half of South Africa’s prostitutes carrying the HIV virus, ther... read more
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An earthquake killing up to 200,000 people would have been bad enough anywhere, but in Haiti, where AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria are rampant, children are malnourished and hygiene is already a challenge, it may create one of the worst medical disasters ever.
Medical teams pouring in to set ... read more
