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Welcome to organic living today - a blog dedicated to promoting health & organic lifestyle choices. My journey into organics began almost 5 years ago. I was constantly tired and fatigued, working too many hours and not balancing my life at all. I bega...
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In this amazing video, Dr Neal Barnard explains why willpower isn't the reason people eat junk food instead of healthy, organic food. Chocolate, cheese, meat and sugar all release opiate-like substances that create a cycle of cravings that lock you into ea...
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From being pleasingly plump to becoming overweight and continuing on the road to obesity, the ever-expanding waistlines of Americans are also doubling the size of medical spending on obesity-related conditions. In fact, the cost to the nation could soon reach $147 billion per year and account for 9.1 percent of total medical spending.

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As children head off to summer camp, many parents are concerned about the risk for swine flu.
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AP - South Africa has stopped funding research on an AIDS vaccine, a leading scientist said Monday, even as a major vaccine trial on humans began in the country ravaged by the world's worst AIDS epidemic.

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US STOCKS-Wall St rises on CIT deal, analysts' upgrades
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NEW YORK, July 20 (Reuters) - US stocks climbed on Monday, lifted on expectations that lender CIT Group Inc (CIT.N) would be able to avoid bankruptcy. The lender to nearly a million small- and mid-sized US companies reached a deal ...
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Doctors Without Borders warned on Saturday that a chronic shortage of drugs to treat AIDS in six African countries could cost thousands of lives and reverse progress made on the continent most afflicted by the disease.

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A new study points to evidence that the 1995 repeal of federal limit controls resulted in an increase of road fatalities and injuries. Researchers examined the long-term effects of the 1995 repeal of federal speed limit controls on road fatalities and injuries in fatal crashes.
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AstraZeneca and The Mental health Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia, today announced that they have entered into a research collaboration agreement to develop new ways of identifying Alzheimer's disease patients at early stages of the disease.
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At a technical breakfast, Romain Quidant presented his research into the detection and treatment of cancer using gold nanoparticles illuminated with laser light.
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Pope Benedict XVI's fractured wrist. Jill Biden's shoulder surgery. Various recent injuries sustained by the Boys of Summer. If you need an expert to discuss any of these timely topics, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) can provide expert sources to comment on musculoskeletal injury prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
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Gliomas are among the most common and most malignant brain tumors. These tumors infiltrate normal brain tissue and grow very rapidly. As a result, surgery can never completely remove the tumor. Now, the neurosurgeons Dr. Darko S. Markovic (Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch) and Dr. Michael Synowitz (Charité) as well as Dr.
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AP - President Barack Obama, worried about growing resistance to his health care plan, exhorted Congress not to "lose heart" Friday and urged deeper cost cuts to calm concern over the huge expense of covering millions of uninsured Americans.

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Does US road to better relations with Iran pass through India?
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On her trip to New Delhi next week, Secretary Clinton seeks a new strategic partnership. But congressional critics see India as an enabler of the Iranian regime. By Howard lafranchi | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor Washington - When ...
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Though discoveries about Alzheimer's disease are often in the news, a new study reveals that American adults are unaware of the relationship between Alzheimer's disease risk and heart health, and that physical activity can protect against dementia.
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Heat stroke just one of many dangers for children in unattended vehicles, experts warn

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Related MedlinePlus Topics: Child Safety, Heat Illness, Motor Vehicle Safety
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More long-term problems seen with minimally invasive technique

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WebMD reports that Daniel Jernigan, MD, PhD, deputy director of the CDC's influenza division says that more than 100,000 Americans probably have the flu and of these at least half probably have swine flu. This means there are probably 50,000 or more people with the H1N1 swine flu virus. Jernigan noted that the 4,700 confirmed or probable cases of swine flu reported to CDC represent a gross underestimate. When asked how many actual cases there were, Jernigan noted that 7% to 10% of the U.S. population -- up to 30 million people -- get the seasonal flu each year.

"So with the amount of activity we are seeing now, it is a little hard to know what that means in terms of making an estimate now of the total number of people with flu out in the community," Jernigan said. "But if I had to make an estimate, I would say ... probably upwards of maybe 100,000." The WebMD article also says that flu cases are going up at a time of year when they generally decrease. At a time when flu season should be ending or over, the CDC's flu season indicators are going up instead of down. As of May 9, 22 states had widespread or regional flu. WebMD says that flu/pneumonia deaths for the week ending May 9th were 7.2% of all deaths. This is just under the "epidemic threshold" of 7.4% of all deaths. WebMD also reports that 173 people been hospitalized with H1N1 so far and most of them have been very young, between 5-24 years old.

You can find links to H1N1 resources on our H1N1 resources page.

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Scientists have mapped the entire genome of the common cold virus. It won't lead to an immediate cure but it could be the next step in finding a cure. "We have the pieces all in place. They can't go in any other way. Now we have to understand what the pictures are telling us," said Dr. Stephen B. Liggett, professor of medicine and physiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of its Cardiopulmonary Genomics Program.

The research was published in the online edition of the journal Science on Thursday afternoon.

Technically known as the human rhinovirus infection, the common cold is responsible for half of all asthma attacks and is a factor in bronchitis, sinusitis, middle-ear infections and pneumonia. The coughs, sneezes and sniffles of colds impose a major health care burden in the United States -- including visits to health care providers, cost of over-the-counter drugs for symptom relief, often-inappropriate antibiotic prescriptions and missed work days -- with direct and indirect costs of about $60 billion annually. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on the genetic map of the rhinovirus. Take a look:



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Google has launched a new service called Google Flu Trends that uses search activity to estimate flu activity in your state. They say it could act as an early warning system for a severe outbreak. So why bother with estimates from aggregated search queries? It turns out that traditional flu surveillance systems take 1-2 weeks to collect and release surveillance data, but Google search queries can be automatically counted very quickly. By making our flu estimates available each day, Google Flu Trends may provide an early-warning system for outbreaks of influenza. Reuters has a story here about Google's new service.

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That’s: “Ladies, calling a gal fat to insult her is old and busted. You’re better off hurting my feelings by telling me I kern too tightly,” via @theogeo

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