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Mens Fitness Magazine Ranks How Fit Cities Are

Mens Fitness Magazine Ranks How Fit Cities Are

Nov. 27 | The 11th annual ‘Fittest/Fattest Cities’ revealed that Salt Lake City was the fittest city with Colorado Springs in second place. Minneapolis came behind in third. Miami was dubbed the fattest city in the US. Men’s Fitness magaizine...

Mens Fitness Magazine ranks how fit cities are

Mens Fitness Magazine ranks how fit cities are

Nov. 26 | A magazine named Mens Fitness Magazine decided to rank cities in the United States of America in terms of how fit the people are. The magazine found that Salt Lake City is the fittest city. The Magazine looked at fifty of the largest cities in the United...

Mens Fitness Magazine Ranks How fit Cities Are

Mens Fitness Magazine Ranks How fit Cities Are

Nov. 24 | Residents of Minneapolis are among the most fit in the country, says Men’s Fitness magazine. This news came after the magazine journeyed the country to rank cities from fit to fat and everything in between. This was the 11th annual survey, and...

Abbott to buy AMO for $1.4 billion in eye-care deal

Abbott to buy AMO for $1.4 billion in eye-care deal

Nov. 20 | On Monday, Abbott Laboratories or ABT, a healthcare products company, announced that it agreed to purchase Advanced Medical Optics (AMO) for approximately $1.36 billion plus the outstanding debt of $57.1 million that AMO reported in September of 2008....

Finger Length May Predict Financial Success

Finger Length May Predict Financial Success

Nov. 17 | Oddly enough, a person’s finger length may predict their financial success. A recent University of Cambridge study of 44 London traders found a correlation between the length of the ring finger and the trader’s financial results. The key...

Study: Testosterone Correlated to Successful Financial Trading

Study: Testosterone Correlated to Successful Financial Trading

Nov. 15 | Strange as it may sound, the amount of financial success you achieve may only be as much as your ring finger is long. In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and conducted by British researchers at Cambridge...

FDA Delays Gardasil Again

FDA Delays Gardasil Again

Nov. 15 | Merck & Co. has come to another setback in trying to widen the use of Gardasil. This is the second time the FDA has not approved this vaccine. The cervical cancer vaccine, Gardasil, was denied by the US Food and Drug Administration for older women...

NCI Says 80 Percent Survival Rate With Early Diagnosis Of Cancer

NCI Says 80 Percent Survival Rate With Early Diagnosis Of Cancer

Nov. 3 | According to the National Cancer Institute, with early diagnosis, the survival rate is approximately 80 percent. The NCS advises that females begin having Pap Smears as early as 16 years of age. The CDC advises females as early as 11 years old to get...