critters inside your mattress

It’s a wild, nasty world under the sheets. The mattress can be a jungle of dust mites and bedbugs, milling around among dried remnants of blood, saliva, sweat and basically all the other bodily fluids you can think of. Bedbugs have become minor celebrities this week with a report from the National Pest Management Association […]

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Have More Sex

Yoga instructor Sadie Nardini and her husband got an early start on their New Year’s resolution: In December, the New York couple decided to have sex every day for the entire month. Nardini and her husband, a professional photographer, initially decided to have sex like bunnies in the hopes that all the activity might help […]

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HIV & Facts

The number of people living with HIV in the UK has trebled in the last 10 years The basics – The number of people living with HIV in the UK has trebled in the last 10 years What is HIV? HIV is a virus that attacks the body’s immune system – the body’s defence against […]

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Tribes Show Best Camels At Beauty Pageant

DUBAI (Reuters) – Ten golden-colored camels adorned with sparkling ornaments line up for the finale of a beauty contest in one of the UAE’s northern emirates, awaiting the selection of two proud winners. Gulf Arabs from across the region gather in a large sandy plot in Ajman to sit in for a four-hour competition, which […]

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History of HIV

There is still a great deal to do. At NAT, we are working towards a future in which people living with HIV are treated as equal citizens with respect, dignity and justice, are diagnosed early and receive the highest standards of care, and in which everyone knows how and is able to protect themselves from […]

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Gangster ring busted in historic scam

Dozens charged with largest Medicare scam ever A vast network of Armenian gangsters and their associates used phantom health care clinics and other means to try to cheat Medicare out of $163 million, the largest fraud by one criminal enterprise in the program’s history, U.S. authorities said Wednesday. Federal prosecutors in New York and elsewhere […]

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15 Foods You Don’t Need To Buy Organic

Although I enjoy the grocery store (maybe it’s because I’m a dietitian that I love checking out new products and comparing food labels), lately my husband is doing our grocery shopping. His budget-friendly buys are great for our bank account. But they don’t always align with my interest in eating organically. We don’t buy everything […]

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Your Stay-Full Diet Plan

Last time you tried to lose weight, did you become so ravenous that you blew it with a big binge? Sure, you have to eat less to slim down, but drastic changes shouldn’t happen overnight. We’re here to make the trimming process painless. The plan: Give yourself 2 to 3 weeks to gradually reduce portion […]

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Obama declares swine flu a national emergency

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency, giving his health chief the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed treatment and protect noninfected patients. The declaration, signed Friday night and announced Saturday, comes with the disease more prevalent than ever in the country and production delays […]

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How Smart Is Your Right Foot?

Below is an email that’s going around. Maybe it’s been circulating for years, but I received it for the first time today. It makes a claim that seems dubious at first. But, upon experimentation, appears to be true. At least, it’s true for me. There must be a scientific explanation for this phenomenon. The question […]

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