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'Sex & Education' full of laughs
Hilarity ensues when a retiring English teacher and a headstrong student lock horns in “Sex & Education,” currently playing at the Victory Theatre Centre in Burbank. During a senior English final, Joe Marks, the high school’s graduating...Tags: High School Sports, Sex
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Should BYU's Davies have been suspended?
Brigham Young University recently suspended its star basketball center, Brandon Davies, for violating the college's strict Honor Code. Davies admitted to officials that he'd had pre-marital sex with his girlfriend, an Arizona State University freshman....Tags: Politics, Standards, Church and State Relations, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Basketball
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Keeping healthy over the holidays takes some advance planning
The holidays are in full swing and for most people that means lots of opportunities to eat delicious, high-calorie foods that they normally don't eat during the rest of the year. According to the Calorie Control Council, during Thanksgiving alone,...
Tags: Hydrocortisone, Carl Powell, Family, National Institutes of Health, Gifts
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Spay us now or spay us later
I signed another sympathy card last week for the family of a wonderful female golden retriever that died from mammary adenocarcinoma (breast cancer). This type of cancer would most certainly have been prevented if she had been spayed at an appropriate...Tags: Sexual and Reproductive Organs, Human Interest, Prostate, Breast Cancer, Abdominal Pain
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The what-if prescription
Leave it to some thoughtful physicians to put good medicine ahead of good politics. Last year, the Obama administration wrongly chose to limit access of teens to the emergency contraceptive pill known as Plan B. This week, pediatricians are urging their...Tags: Family Planning, Barack Obama, Health Organizations, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Treatments
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The connection between sleep and fat loss
Of all of the contributors to fat loss, proper sleep could be the biggest. While you're sleeping, your body undergoes an amazing series of processes. Sleep is a time when your body repairs damaged tissue and tries to return your cells back to "normal."...Tags: Hydrocortisone, Physical Fitness and Exercise, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Alternative treatment: A look at acupuncture
Acupuncture may be ancient — estimates range between 3-4,000 years old — but it is not an ancient Chinese secret. It's used all over the world by acupuncture practitioners as well as medical doctors. We spoke with two experts to learn more....
Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Back Pain, Lower Back Pain, Arthritis, Allergies
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The Doctor's Corner: Demystifying bioidentical hormones
Editor's note: This is the last in a three-part series on menopausal hormones. * Put simply, bioidentical is a marketing term, first introduced into contemporary parlance by celebrities endorsing products. The medical community has embraced this...Tags: Menopause, Allergies, Cleveland Clinic, Symptoms, Pharmaceuticals
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TV not always a healthy channel for advice
Your family doctor doesn't work with a teleprompter. And there wasn't a live studio audience the last time you put on a hospital gown — thankfully. Television is great for sports, reality shows and reruns of "The Big Bang Theory," but if you're...
Tags: ABC (tv network), Health and Medical Professionals, Internal Medicine, Coconut, Dietary Supplements
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The risks and rewards of red meat
Each week a nutritionist from the University of Maryland Medical Center provides a guest post. This week, Ellen Loreck, MS, RD, LDN;, weighs in on red meat.
Picture this: You're out to dinner and there are juicy porterhouse steaks, sumptuous burgers, and...Tags: University of Maryland Medical Center, Diseases and Illnesses, Vitamin Therapy, Health and Medical Professionals, Internal Medicine
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Researchers eye saliva for patient testing
No one likes to get stuck with a needle.
But it's the only way doctors can get blood to test for diabetes, anemia and numerous other health problems.
Scientists at the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing say there is a much less invasive and...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, HIV, Hydrocortisone, Medical Procedures and Tests, Eunice Kennedy Shriver
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Motherhood can be the ultimate selfless gesture
Becoming a mother can be one of the most selfless and loving gestures a woman makes. In the course of bringing new life into the world, a woman experiences a host of physical and emotional changes, some of which may be long-lasting and undesired. The...
Tags: Mood Swings, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Swelling
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