Tag Archives: health

SWEDEN: Men Should Sit Down To Pee

Cue the raving wingnuts once this story out of Sweden gets passed around. Men who work for the Sörmland County Council in central Sweden should sit down rather than stand up when urinating in office toilets, according to a motion put forward by the local Left Party chapter. The Left Party in Sörmland is taking a stand to ensure men …

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Daily Grumble

Unable to weasel out of it any longer, today I made the appointment for my first colonoscopy. Eep. It’s not until August so I’ve got lots of time to plotz about it. Share your own stories and don’t spare the grim details, we’re all grownups here, sort of. Maybe I’ll go all Katie Couric and live-blog the entire thing…..

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NYC Vs Philly

Is everybody buying this? Via Gothamist.

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NEW YORK CITY: Bloomberg Calls For Residential Buildings To Ban Smoking

In an effort to increase the number of residential New York City buildings that entirely ban tenants from smoking, Mayor Bloomberg today proposed a law that would require all such buildings to adopt formal written policies on where and if smoking is allowed. “We think that people ought to know whether they might be exposed to second-hand smoke in their …

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Play With Your Balls

More ads about self-exams for testicular cancer are here. (Age alert: It took me a while to figure out what the drawing was.)

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Teabaggers Rally Outside Of Supreme Court As “Obamacare” Repeal Case Begins

The Supreme Court today began hearing the case to repeal the Affordable Care Act on the basis of its constitutionality. The public sessions started Monday with 90 minutes of lively debate on a legally dense, but nonetheless important, question. It boils down to whether the health care law’s key provision is a “tax” that could prevent the court from considering …

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The Winter That Wasn’t, Part III

Allergy season came early and with a vengeance. “It really is unusually early for patients to be this miserable,” says Derek Johnson, medical director of the Fairfax Allergy, Asthma and Sinus Clinic. “The mild winter has resulted in very high pollen levels in February and early March, when they’re typically very low or negligible.” In fact, he points out that …

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Australia To Strip Tax Breaks From Parents Who Don’t Vaccinate Their Children

Good for them.

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Oral Cancer Virus More Common In Men

Compared to women, more than twice as many men are infected with oral HPV. Prevalence of the cancer-causing virus increases with the number of sexual partners. Oral human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is more common among men than women, leading to an increased risk for men of head and neck cancers, a US study suggests. The Journal of the American Medical …

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NYC Gym Vs. Paula Deen

Copyranter says this New York Sports Club ad is “fucking tasteless.”

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Where Do Donations Go?

Sullivan links this bit: According to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, only about one-third of all American charity–from individuals, foundations, and corporations–directly serves the poor, either within the United States or abroad. Year after year, religious organizations, typically local church groups, take home the biggest slice of American charity, even in the wake of major humanitarian crises.

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REPORT: Most-Effective Diets

1. DASH Diet2. TLC Diet3. Weight Watchers3. Mayo Clinic Diet3. Mediterranean Diet6. Volumetrics Diet7. Jenny Craig Diet8. Biggest Loser Diet8. Ornish Diet10. Vegetarian Diet Right on time for your resolution considerations, US News & World Report has ranked the 25 most-popular diets in terms of their effectiveness, health risk/benefits, and ease of compliance. The top-ranked DASH plan is the federally …

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DVT Killed Heavy D

An update on the death of Heavy D: An autopsy performed on Heavy D has revealed his cause of death to be a pulmonary embolism. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office found that the rapper died of a blood clot in his lung, and also suffered from a deep leg vein thrombosis and heart disease at the time of his …

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HIV Is Not A Crime

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RANKED: Healthiest States

Insurance giant United Healthcare has ranked the “healthiest states” according to factors like diet, exercise, smoking, obesity, etc. For the fifth year in a row, Vermont is the nation’s healthiest state. States that showed the most substantial improvement include New York and New Jersey, both moving up six places, largely because of improvements made in smoking cessation. Idaho and Alaska …

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MOVING IT: Check Your Junk

Here’s how to do it.(Via – Feast Of Fun)

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Today In Health Store Hooey

As I’ve said here before, almost every item for sale in so-called health food stores is complete hooey that at best merely gives you rather expensive urine. And according to a massive study just published, even taking multivitamins has no apparent benefit to your lifespan. Women taking multivitamins live no longer than those who don’t take the pills, and might …

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Oral Sex: Worse Than Smoking?

We haven’t had a “shocking” medical study in a few hours. So here. A study published in yesterday’s Journal of Clinical Oncology reveals that as many as 72 percent of throat tumors in men may be linked to the human papillomavirus, commonly known as HPV. The researchers hypothesize that the virus spreads predominately via oral sex, and that it may …

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CANADA: Supreme Court Rules Drug Injectors Clinic Is Constitutional

Canada’s Supreme Court has ruled that a Vancouver health clinic for intravenous drug users is an allowable exception to the nation’s drug laws. Even though the clinic’s clean needles and HIV testing services are credited with reducing the incidence of AIDS, conservative groups opposed its operation because local police overlooked drug possession and usage laws within. “Insite saves lives. Its …

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Global Death Graph

In 2008 non-communicable ailments such as cancer and heart disease accounted for 63% of the world’s 56 million deaths. That rising figure is attributed to increasing longevity and prosperity in non-First World nations. (Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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