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Diet Bake-Off, Round Two: DASH Diet Nabs the Top Spot In New Rankings
In its first ever ranking of 20 popular diets, U.S. News & World Report rated the DASH diet No. 1. READ MORE
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Some of the most harrowing cases of psychological and medical malpractice involve attempts to change a child's gender or sexual identity. Not only have such misguided "therapies" often resulted in patients' suicide, but they also repeatedly appear to foster scientific misconduct. Read More
Toy-maker MGA Entertainment of Van Nuys, Calif., is recalling 6,200 Bratz Makeup Design Sketch Book kits, which contain brightly colored lip glosses and eye shadows for coloring pictures of Bratz dolls, because the kits may be contaminated with staph bacteria. Read More
Rep. Anthony Weiner's "Tweet cheating" has got commentators falling over themselves to condemn him by pointing out the virtues of his wife, Huma Abedin. Yes, she was gorgeous in Vogue. Yes, she is an accomplished political operative in her own right. But let's not go so far as to intimate that Weiner was seeking an online mistress to compensate for some shortcoming in his wife. Read More
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30%
Percentage of 1,300 employers surveyed who currently offer health benefits and said they would "definitely or probably" drop their employer-sponsored insurance policies in favor of subsidized-exchange policies in 2014, when many of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act will go into effect. [via McKinsey Quarterly]
Millions of kids play sports. But are they playing the right ones? Forget fun; this is about — to borrow a catchphrase from Charlie Sheen — winning. Now, at least two companies are marketing DNA tests that purport to help uber-competitive parents gain insight into which sports their progeny may be genetically built to excel in playing. Read More
DEATH & DYING7 hours ago
As Tests to Predict Alzheimer's Emerge, So May Debates Over the Right to Die
Jack Kevorkian's fervid fascination with death made him a deeply unattractive human being. Yet he forced us to confront questions that, much as we might want to, we cannot ignore. Do some of us face fates worse than death, such that it can be rational and reasonable to request help in committing suicide? And should others of us help them to die? Read More
Clothes can be fashionable or embarrassing, ill-fitting or flattering. But can they be medicinal? A California-based company called Alignmed has developed a line of garments being used by professional athletes, MS patients, back-pain sufferers and others to treat and prevent injuries and aches. Are you ready for therapeutic couture? Read More
In its first ever ranking of 20 popular diets, U.S. News & World Report rated the DASH diet No. 1. Read More
Greg Fultz, 35, is causing controversy in his hometown of Alamogordo, N.M. To get back at his ex-girlfriend, Fultz erected a billboard on the town's main drag in May claiming that his ex had an abortion. Read More
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Number of Americans sickened in 2010 by rarer E. coli strains like the one circulating in Germany, the first time these bacteria have caused more illness than the most common type of the pathogen known as O157:H7, which infected 442 people last year. The data, released by the CDC, show that while cases of O157 have been dropping since the mid-1990s, cases of rarer E. coli rose from 2009 to 2010; however, the spike was likely due to better detection, not an actual increase, health officials said. The CDC also reported 8,256 cases of salmonella illness in 2010, a 10% increase over 2006-08. [via The New York Times]
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