| 05/24/2005 - A Global Population Boom |
| Everyone knows that we're in the middle of a global population boom. But I recently read an astonishing factoid that puts this exponential explosion into stark perspective. |
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| 05/23/2005 - When will Enough Drugs be Prescribed in this Country? |
| Will it be when every citizen of this country is taking at least three different drugs every day? Will it be when every natural or nutritional cure is replaced by a super-expensive, side-effect-laden chemical? |
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| 05/20/2005 - Music as Therapy |
| Never before - at least not to my knowledge - has this angle of the music-as-therapy idea been put to scientific rigor (sort of, as you'll see in a minute). |
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| 05/17/2005 - New Mosquito Repellants |
| Because all of a sudden, they're granting their blessings to a bunch of new mosquito repellants - whereas for the last 10 years, only those containing the chemical DEET were ordained by the organization as safe and effective. |
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| 05/16/2005 - Genetic Modification May Help the Environment |
| A group of Japanese researchers (no, none of them are named Frankenstein) have successfully inserted a gene from the human liver into a variety of rice to help it resist the effects of pesticides and industrial chemicals. |
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| 05/13/2005 - Health Fanatics are Dropping Dead |
| I swear, I think the exercise does something to their brains. It must, because many of them claim running is like an addiction (seems to me more like a death wish), and I'm starting to believe them. |
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| 05/10/2005 - Police Handcuff Violent Child |
| It was the police handcuffing of a violent child after the five-year-old threw an hour-long fit that included tearing papers off classroom walls, trashing an administrator's office, repeated climbing of desk and tables... |
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| 05/09/2005 - Homocysteine in the Bloodstream |
| Increased homocysteine in the bloodstream is strongly associated with the occurrence of heart disease. This correlation has been common knowledge in alternative medicine circles for years. |
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| 05/06/2005 - Healthy Benefits of Wine Consumption |
| From these facts, they postulated that previous studies illustrating the healthy benefits of wine itself could be merely a reflection of the overall healthier lifestyle that wine drinkers apparently lead. |
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| 05/03/2005 - Medicine: The Leading Cause of Injury & Death |
| You may have heard before that medicine itself is a leading cause of injury and death - but if you've been reading for any length of time at all, you already know that it's the THIRD LEADING cause of death in the U.S. |
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| 05/02/2005 - Worldwide Killer Flu Scare |
| You'd have to have been under a rock not to have heard about last month's worldwide killer flu scare... |
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