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Consumer Alert
, Controversies
, News
, Opinion
on July 26, 2009
A scar like this one in the photo is like a trophy in one place in the Philippines (translation necessary, text is mainly in Filipino). Mostly men - mainly due to poverty - are forced to sell one of...
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Diet
, Functional Foods
, Opinion
on August 7, 2008
The book - The Red Bodyguard: The Amazing Health Promoting Properties Of The Tomato - written by UK pharmacist Ron Levine with Science Writer Gerard Cheshire - is in my opinion the best read in everyt...
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Blog Carnivals
, Miscellany
, Opinion
on April 3, 2008
Hey...April Fools' Day is over and here comes another month. Hello, Spring! Done your spring cleaning already?
Anyways...to start the month off, lemme answer the tag by Ruth of Allergizer.
1. ...
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News
, Opinion
on March 17, 2008
Today is St. Patrick's Day.
According to Wikipedia:
Saint Patrick's Day (Irish: Lá 'le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy's Day or Paddy's Day, is an annual...
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Cases
, Mental Maladies
, Opinion
on February 29, 2008
Wow, can't believe the week and this month is over. It's not every year we get a 29th for February, so it seems today is really special.
I know a couple of people whose birthdays fall on t...
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Cases
, Opinion
on January 23, 2008
Liz of Healthbolt have raised a important issue about what doctors think about medical 'googlers'.
Medical 'googler' is defined as a person who researches his/her symptoms, illness,...
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Miscellany
, Opinion
on December 30, 2007
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve. You know how parties on this special end of the year celebration goes. Drinking, eating, smoking, dancing all night. Kissing your date, kissing strangers and stuff...
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Cases
, Controversies
, Men's Health
, Opinion
, Sexual Health
on December 9, 2007
The most common surgical procedure performed on males is circumcision.
Previously conducted because of cultural and religious reasons, now medical evidence suggests that circumcision is medically ...
Filed in archive
Cases
, Opinion
, Pregnancy & Child Birth
, Women's Health
on October 15, 2007
When I gave birth by c-section almost five years ago, my ob/gyne didn't ask which incision i would prefer: the bikini cut/horizontal cut (hip to hip cut) or the granny cut/vertical cut (pubic bone...
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Diet
, Functional Foods
, Opinion
on October 11, 2007
To me it has always been old notion that it is healthy to eat fruit peels. In the case of grapes and apples, it is not a feat to eat the peels right away.
Although there are individuals that autom...
