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Ever get that creepy-crawly sensation, like bugs are slithering beneath your skin? For some people, the feeling is permanent. They complain that their skin is infested by insects or parasites — a condition they call Morgellons disease, but that dermatologists have long described as a delusion. Now a new study confirms that these perceived infestations [...]
As any parent knows, you can prepare healthy food but you can’t make your kids eat it. So there are a few tricks we parents have up our culinary sleeves, particularly when it comes to calcium. Two words: chocolate milk.
Percent increase in home births in the U.S. from 2004 to 2008: the 28,357 home births in 2008 represented 0.67% of the approximately 4.2 million American births, the highest reported proportion since 1990. The change was driven largely by an increase in home births for white women, for whom more than 1% of all births [...]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday approved a new drug to treat HIV infection. The drug, made by an arm of Johnson & Johnson, will be sold under the name Edurant, and is designed to be used in combination with other antiretroviral drugs in HIV-positive adults who have not received any prior treatment [...]
After being struck by a car in 2006, Rob Summers was given a grim prognosis: paralysis from the chest down and the possibility of never walking again. But five years later, he is able to stand on his own two feet unaided — thanks to an experimental treatment, whose success is giving hope to millions [...]
Maria Yoon’s wedding invitation details are quite precise. The nuptials will take place at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, at Times Square in New York City, near the Walgreens, on the sidewalk. As she has learned from her previous 49 ceremonies, it’s best to leave little to chance.
People who undergo gastric bypass surgery for weight loss have more than twice the risk of developing alcoholism, compared with those who have gastric banding surgery, preliminary research finds. This line of inquiry could shed new light on the causes of alcoholism — and how weight loss could prompt some people to switch from food [...]
We all know that frequent verbal ticks, such as “like” and “you know,” can turn listeners off. But what about the pace, pitch and fluency of your speech? Are others more likely to tune in if you’re a high-talker, for instance, or deep-voiced?
—CHRIS ANDERSON, communications director for The Marketing Arm, which ranks the McDonald's mascot, Ronald McDonald, fourth in consumer awareness out of 2,800 celebrities in an index, but 2,109th in terms of likeability. This week, a corporate watchdog group got more than 600 health-care professionals and organizations to sign a letter asking McDonald's to retire the [...]
China has reduced its AIDS mortality by two-thirds since it began distributing free antiretroviral drugs in 2002, a new study finds. But the improvements were seen largely in patients who acquired HIV through blood transfusion, rather than through sex or drug use.
