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Health, Homepage - Friday, July 31, 2009 16:37 - 4 Comments

Dick Gregory on a Michael Jackson Fast?

Dick Gregory, long-time friend of the late Michael Jackson, announced Thursday that he will, “go on a fast on water only for 40 days until the truth is uncovered about the sudden death of Michael Jackson.”

Health, Homepage - Wednesday, July 1, 2009 13:28 - 5 Comments

FDA seeks to ban narcotics mixed with acetaminophen

Government experts say prescription drugs like Vicodin and Percocet that combine a popular painkiller with stronger narcotics should be eliminated because of their role in deadly overdoses.
A Food and Drug Administration panel on Tuesday voted 20-17 that prescription drugs that combine acetaminophen with other painkilling ingredients should be pulled off the market.

The FDA has assembled a group of experts to vote on ways to reduce liver damage associated with acetaminophen, one of the most widely used drugs in the U.S.
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Health, Politics - Thursday, June 25, 2009 13:59 - 0 Comments

Rally For Severe Racial Disparities in Health Care

WASHINGTON - Talk of racial disparities in health care had been largely left out of the national debate until today, when more than 200 people gathered for the HCAN Health Equity Town Hall at the U.S. Capitol Visitor’s Center. Grassroots leaders from diverse backgrounds representing every corner of the nation took part in the town hall with members of Congress and heard compelling testimony highlighting the ways in which health care consistently falls short.

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Health, Homepage - Wednesday, June 24, 2009 21:31 - 5 Comments

Be Positive Campaign

The “Be Positive Campaign” is a Campaign to promote positivity in every individual. A lot of people walk around with the world on their shoulder and that’s not healthy. Being positive is always going forward and looking for the best possible outcome of any situation. This campaign is to inform everyone that being positive can change your life and benefit you in extreme ways for the better. Leaders who are positive can handle situation in any weather at any moment. We need to get rid of all this negative energy we have around us, because life is too short for the bickering and fighting. “We can’t change the world if we don’t change ourselves.”

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Health, News, Politics - Thursday, June 11, 2009 16:16 - 1 Comment

Senate Votes to Impose U.S. Regulation on Tobacco

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to impose federal regulation on cigarettes and other forms of tobacco, passing a landmark bill to empower the Food and Drug Administration to control products that eventually kill half their regular users.

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Fashion, Health - Tuesday, June 9, 2009 15:04 - 1 Comment

Stylin’ On Swine Flu

Surgical mask are being spotted more then ever amongst the crowds. With the scare of the Swine Flu only rising, people are taking every precaution necessary, even if it means wearing an uncomfortable, and even more unstylish mask to protect them and their own. While the comfortable factor may not be so easily solved, Illustrator Yoriko Yoshida made it possible to be creative and stylish while protecting your health. This innovative and clever idea has manifested into a line of surgical mask ranging from a variety of possible animated faces with names like Rising Sun, Mt. Fuji, and Octopus Beard. Continue on for flicks of more stylish surgical masks.