I suspected as much.
Kristi King, wtop.com
UNDATED – If you need another reason to relax during this holiday season, here it is. The number of fatal heart attacks peaks Christmas day and New Year’s Day. “We think it’s stress associated with the holidays,” says cardiologist Robert Kloner with the University of Southern California Keck School [...]

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Special thanks to a concerned reader for passing this along!

A Vaccine Debate Once Focused on Sex Shifts as Boys Join the Target Market
By Rob Stein,
Washington Post Staff Writer
When a vaccine designed to protect girls against a sexually transmitted virus arrived three years ago, the debate centered on one question: Would the shots make young [...]

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What is Celiac Disease?
Celiac disease (CD) is a genetic disorder. In people with CD, eating certain types of protein, called gluten, sets off an autoimmune response that causes damage to the small intestine. This, in turn, causes the small intestine to lose its ability to absorb the nutrients found in food, leading to malnutrition and [...]

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You might find my post about 2008 Miss. America worth reading if this is a topic that is interesting to you.
HERE: http://bodypolitics.allzah.com/?p=128
**for all the prudes out there – and the folks at work – there is some nudity on that website**

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Autism Insurance Coverage Bill Introduced in Maryland House and Senate
AutismVotes.org
Annapolis, MD (January 29, 2009) – Today, Delegate Kirill Reznik and Senator Kathy Klausmeier, with the strong support of Attorney General Doug Gansler, introduced bills in the House and Senate to ensure that treatment for children with autism is covered by insurers.
The “Autism Insurance Coverage” bill [...]

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 Event will Raise Funds for the Fight for Healthy Babies
 LAPLATA, Md.— Megan Quinn and Candice Quinn Kelly of LaPlata will serve as Co-Chair for March for Babies, the March of Dimes biggest fundraiser.  Quinn and Kelly will bring added visibility and leadership to March for Babies. On behalf of Candy Clark Boutique and Maredith Management, [...]

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Quest for Change
Discovering cancer-fighting foods
I spent months researching the healing powers of food before I fully grasped my own natural cancer-fighting potential. I met with a variety of researchers, scoured medical databases, and combed scientific publications. I traveled all over the world and consulted experts from nearly every continent.
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Before I go on to the Planned Parenthood section of this post, is anybody aware of any clinics with real doctors and nurses for crisis pregnancy, pap tests, prenatal care etc.  That does not do abortions as well?  Is there a Christian clinic network or a “conservative clinic” network out there that I am unaware [...]

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Uh-oh.  You’d have to drink 1,000 bottles a day to match the amount given to the mice.  Stupid fine print!
by David Ewing Duncan
The quest for eternal youth may be as old as human life itself, but the latest elixir to promise longer life—a molecule found in red wine—continues to surprise skeptics who can’t believe it [...]

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I was perusing the web this morning, and I came across an ad for a product called the e-Cig.  Yes, it’s an electronic cigarette.
It looks like [...]

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Being ill and hearing the name Typhoid Mary today, I got curious about the whole Typhoid Mary story, and it’s an interesting one.  Here are some links if you’re interested:
Wikipedia Typhoid Mary – Mary Mallon entry

Essay – The Board of Health’s Exile of Mary Mallon: Was it Justifiable?
Mary Mallon bio – this has some snipets [...]

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Where to take CPR classes in Southern Maryland.
I haven’t taken CPR classes since high school – I think it’s time to update!

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Your corn is sweeter, your potatoes are starchier and your turkey is much, much bigger than the foods that sat on your grandparents’ Thanksgiving dinner table.
Most everything on your plate has undergone tremendous genetic change under the intense selective pressures of industrial farming. Pilgrims and American Indians ate foods called corn and turkey, but the [...]

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Hello everybody.  Just thought I’d stop in and say HELLO! I was hoping that fourteen days would have been plenty of time to be all better, but evidently I’ve got the virus from H – E double hockey-sticks.  BE CAREFUL OUT THERE.  I use a lot of hand sanitizer and I’m super careful about touching [...]

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PHOENIX — Many around this time of year like to preach the importance of washing your hands to avoid the cold or flu.
But a Phoenix-area woman is saying dirty hands might be to blame for a rare illness that sent her to the hospital recently.
And after it turned out that a possible brain tumor was [...]

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