Women’s Health: “8 signs women over 40 shouldn’t ignore”

By Ginny Graves
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updated 11:54 a.m. ET, Fri., March. 13, 2009
Most minor discomfort is a sign of … not much. Maybe you had a heavy meal, a stressful day, a hard workout — and by the next day you feel fine again. But a handful of trivial-sounding symptoms can sometimes be red flags for something [...]

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Hurdles Keep Street Drugs Out of Medicine Chest

From cannabis to ecstasy, scientists fight to study illicit drugs’ medical properties. The DEA, FDA, other governmental bureaucracies, and other barriers also remain in the way of conducting medical research on these illegal drugs.
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Is Marijuana the Better Antibiotic?

Scientists Say Substances Derived From Cannabis Could Outdo Conventional Antibiotics In Killing Some Bacteria.
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Depression can be Good for You

There is serious depression that needs help. There are poverty, abuse, bad circumstance that need addressing. But for most of us, a bit of depression, the article suggests, is a catalyst for refelction, change and growth

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk

A leading psychiatrist says that depression is not a human defect at all, but a defence mechanism [...]

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Study: Spanking May Lead to Sexual Problems Later

this explains alot…not only for myself but for society as a whole…
peace
The analysis of four studies by Murray Straus, co-director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire-Durham, suggests that children whose parents spanked, slapped, hit or threw objects at them may have a greater chance of physically or verbally coercing a [...]

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Tired? Study Says Americans Need More Sleep

Wow, I wonder why everyone has become an insomiac? Could it be that the world seems like it’s coming to an end, and everyone is struggling to survive?
A new study released by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that adults are not getting enough rest each night.Of those questioned, 70 percent said they had [...]

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Fentanyl Pain Patches Recalled

This really freaks me out. I stopped using these patches about three months ago when I began to feel depressed and really doped up from them. I’m so glad I did!
On Tuesday, February 12, 2008, PriCara, the manufacturer of transdermal fentanyl (Duragesic®), announced that supply lots of their 25mcg/hr patches were recalled due [...]

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Midlife Suicide Rises in U.S.

clipped from www.nytimes.com

Midlife Suicide Rises, Puzzling Researchers

A new five-year analysis of the nation’s death rates recently released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the suicide rate among 45-to-54-year-olds increased nearly 20 percent from 1999 to 2004, the latest year studied, far outpacing changes in nearly every other age group. [...]

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Honey makes medical comeback

TRENTON, New Jersey – Amid growing concern over drug-resistant superbugs and nonhealing wounds that endanger diabetes patients, nature’s original antibiotic — honey — is making a comeback.
More than 4,000 years after Egyptians began applying honey to wounds, Derma Sciences Inc., a New Jersey company that makes medicated and other advanced wound care products, began selling [...]

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Holiday Blues Quiz…

How much do you know about the holiday blues? Take this quiz and find out.
By Deborah Gray

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today’s quote…

“Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.”
-Brian Tracy-

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