Health

Authors: Carmen Cox

Sleep and Couples: For Better or Worse, Day AND Night?iStockphoto/Thinkstock(PITTSBURGH) -- Sleep. It occupies about one-third of our lives. We need it for our mental and physical health, and for our survival.
Compared with other health behaviors such as smoking or exercise, sleep is unique because for most adults, it is a behavior they “share” with a partner.  But...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Doctors tell people with a heart-zapping device in their chests to give up intense sports like basketball and soccer in favor of golf or bowling. But lots of patients ignore that advice - and now new research is challenging it.......
NEW YORK (AP) -- Three researchers are charged with taking bribes from a Chinese government-supported institution in exchange for access to restricted research from a New York University lab.......

Authors: jc

Marina Keegan's Words Live On, One Year After Her DeathTracy & Kevin Keegan(NEW YORK) -- In the year since the death of 23-year-old activist/writer Marina Keegan in a car crash, her mother said the power of her daughter's words sustain her and continue to inspire others in the art world and beyond.
"My daughter totally inspired me and moved me," Tracy Keegan, 55, of Wayland, Mass., told...

Authors: jc

Victoria’s Secret Declines to Make ‘Survivor’ Bra LineiStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Allana Maiden wanted her mother to feel beautiful again after she’d undergone a radical mastectomy. But Victoria’s Secret, the company she hoped would design sexy lingerie for women who’ve had breast cancer surgery, has rejected her appeal for a “survivor line” of bras.
The...

Monday, 20 May 2013 12:08

Colgate Planning Caffeinated Toothbrush?

Written by jc

Authors: jc

Colgate Planning Caffeinated Toothbrush?iStockphoto/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- News reports suggest Colgate-Palmolive applied to patent a caffeinated toothbrush, but the actual patent application only referred to a proposed device that hypothetically could release caffeine or any other substance or flavoring, and create sensations in a user’s mouth.
So maybe they did plan...

Authors: Jeanette Torres

Social Media a New Stress for Moms Seeking PerfectioniStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Jennifer Bathgate, a mother of three boys, is called “Cake-zilla” by her husband.
Bathgate’s elaborate, over-the-top cakes for her sons’ birthdays and celebrations have featured everything from Elmo to Cookie Monster to a soccer ball to a subway train to a Star Wars ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court says a woman can seek lawyers' fees from the government even though her lawsuit over damage she said was caused by a vaccine was ruled untimely.......

Authors: Jeanette Torres

Are Benefits of Testosterone Replacement Drugs Overblown?iStockphoto/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Testosterone replacement has long been touted for men who suffer from abnormally low levels of the male sex hormone, but new research from Consumer Reports finds that the benefits of the drugs may not be worth the risk.
"We started to really look, take a closer look at these drugs and...

Authors: Jeanette Torres

Army Wife Surprises Husband with 96-Pound Weight LossPhotodisc/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) -- Misty Shaffer has struggled with weight all her life.  When her husband was deployed to Afghanistan for a year, the Leland, N.C., woman decided to use his absence to re-commit herself to losing weight so she could surprise him when he came home.
In the year that Army Spc. Larry Shaffer...

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