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The CDC is reporting that false emails claiming to be from the CDC are circulating, informing readers that they are required to create a personal vaccination profile with the CDC. These emails are not from the CDC and are fraudulent....

Britain’s national medical laboratory says that one H1N1 swine flu sample taken from a patient in Ukraine had mutated so much from the original H1N1 swine flu that the swine flu vaccine probably would not protect against it well. The...

By the end of the coming decade, the very first members of the baby boomer generation will be well into their seventies. Technological advances in medicine and health care promise to introduce significant cross-generational issues into our society. These issues...

If you were a hormonal teenager in the mid- to late 1970s, chances are you had a crush on Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Punditty freely admits that he was among the young boys who had her famous one-piece bathing suit poster on...

Advertising space in California two major cities of LA and San Francisco has begun to feature extensive advertising for the use of and establishments related to Medical Marijuana. While the use of the product is still forbidden to the general...

According to WebMD , all SlimFast canned products are being recalled due to possible contamination by a bacteria called Bacillus cereus, which can cause diarrhea and possibly nausea and/or vomiting. The recall involves all ready-to-drink Slim-Fast products sold in cans,...

New research shows that women who drink 5 or more sodas a week before they conceive are more likely to develop gestational diabetes. The women who drank 5 or more sodas a week had a 22% increased risk of prenatal...

The Obama administration is hoping to reach a treaty agreement with Russia soon that would reduce U.S. strategic nuclear stockpiles to less than 10 percent of what they used to be. According to one report, German intelligence says that Iranian...

A Swedish study of over 1 million men at age 18 is showing that the old 'dumb jock' theory may be wrong - a strong link was found between cardiovascular fitness and intelligence. However, there was not a similar link...

Join Michael Anthony, author of the Iraq war memoir, Mass Casualties : A Young Medic’s True Story of Death, Deception, and Dishonor in Iraq , (Adams Media), as he virtually tours the blogosphere in December and January on his first...