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Cash incentives may help boost the number of organ donations and, in turn, save more lives – this according to a new study out of Canada this week. Dr. Braden Manns of the Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta and Institute for Public Health conducted a study last October which surveyed more than 2,500 Canadian public […]
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When you overhear a conversation or a health report concerning eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia do you just shrug them off as a “chick problem”? Well guys, think again! Both bulimia, the act of binging and purging via vomiting or laxative abuse; and anorexia, the act of food restriction and an irrational fear of […]
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One Direction’s Harry Styles may have dated the celebrity likes of Taylor Swift and have teenage babes paying hundreds of dollars to just to get a glimpse of him live. But the baby faced, curly mop topped, 18-year-old dream boat admits that he’s a victim of acne just like most teenagers his age. “I wear so much […]
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New technological advances could mean the end to pacemaker battery surgeries. The American researchers from the University of Michigan have engineered a new pacemaker. They used piezoelectric materials, which generate small amounts of electricity with the changing movements of their shape. The researchers used the natural movement of the heart to fuel the piezoelectric materials. Initial testing […]
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The recent meningitis outbreak is the cause of a rare secondary illness called an epidural abscess. The meningitis drug was contaminated with a fungus, and this fungus is present in the new infections. Over 400 people in the United States were made sick from the contaminated drug. St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan has had […]
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