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Archive for August, 2009
Swine Flu: Back to school shopping should include hand sanitizer
Aug. 22 | Extra caution is being taken to be sure schools are particularly clean and prepared when the students return to school this fall. With concerns about a more potent round of swine flu arriving, officials are concerned that outbreaks can happen and schools...
Antidepressants during pregnancy a good choice for some
Aug. 22 | Depression can affect women in the childbearing years more than any other demographic. Nearly one in every four pregnant women have symptoms of depression and health care professionals have always been very skeptical as to whether these women should take...
Caster Semenya: Wonder Women or Superman
Aug. 21 | Caster Semenya’s 1:55.45 is the fastest women’s 800m in the world this year. However, the focus has been not on her achievement, but on her gender. The South African has been ordered to prove that she is a woman. Moreover, to prove Semenya...
Carwin to fight Lesnar: Wrestler vs Wrestler
Aug. 21 | Top heavyweight Shane Carwin will fight in UFC 106 on Nov. 21 to challenge UFC champion Brock Lesnar. Shane Carwin, A.K.A. the Engineer, is 11-0, six by way of KO with none of his fights going past the first half of the first round. “I have verbally...
Is the world prepared for the second wave of swine flu?
Aug. 21 | Countries around the world are being warned to anticipate advance cases and deaths as the spread of H1N1 swine flu virus speeds up. Healthy people who get swine flu but show only mild symptoms should not be given Tamiflu, the World Health Organization...
Caster Semenya: “that’s a man baby”
Aug. 20 | South African runner Caster Semenya won the women’s 800-meter race at the world championships in Berlin. Semenya won by a huge margin Wednesday in spite of being order to undergo gender testing. She finished more than two seconds clear of second-placed...
Electronic health records technology gets $1.2 billion
Aug. 20 | The Obama administration announced it will soon give $1.2 billion in federal grants for applying electronic health records technology. “This ain’t government control,” Biden told more than 50 people gathered before a panel discussion...
American lifespan hits record high
Aug. 20 | New research shows Americans are living longer. The National Center for Health Statistics released its yearly report on deaths and life expectancy yesterday, with the latest data for 2007 showing that overall the average American lifespan had hit a record...
Giving supervised heroin to addicts may help with recovery
Aug. 19 | New research from the University of British Columbia in Canada found giving heroin to serious drug addicts at a supervised clinic leads to a higher rate of recovery than giving them methadone. The goal was not necessarily to get study participants to...
