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Jezebel
The Supreme Court Legally Made Tomatoes a Vegetable Years Ago, So Deal With It
Jezebel
Hedden, fruits and vegetables differed in another big way, as well: Imported vegetables were slapped with a 10-percent tariff upon their arrival in the United States, and imported fruits were not. When one Manhattan wholesaler — John Nix & Co., owned ...

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Dallas News (blog)
Dallas judge who resigned after colleagues said he was unfit, died ...
Dallas News (blog)
A Dallas judge who resigned from the bench last year after his colleagues said he was unfit was found dead in his home, officials said.David Lewis'...

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DestinyConnect
The causes of hair loss
DestinyConnect
Certain nutrient deficiencies heavily impact hair growth. Iron is essential for healthy growth, so anaemic individuals are prone to hair loss – this is the case particularly among young women. Vitamin B12 deficiency carries similar effects. This vital ...

TIME
You Asked: Is It Bad to Exercise on an Empty Stomach?
TIME
Even when fasting studies found benefits, the experiments were tightly controlled, and the people in them had help from nutrition scientists to ensure they got all the nutrients their bodies needed, Paddon-Jones points out. The hype about fasted cardio ...

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HuffPost
Surviving My Mother's Drug Addiction
HuffPost
When I was 9 years old, my mother would send me out every day for milk, bread, cigarettes and a “dime bag” ? a shopping list I assumed was the norm for every neighborhood kid. If the dealer wasn't available, I wasn't allowed to come home without the ...

Rocky Mountain Collegian
Grocery experiment: Who has the cheapest, most organic food in town?
Rocky Mountain Collegian
Walmart had the cheapest processed food. My bill was $42.39. Oranges were almost 20 cents less a pound at Walmart than the other stores. They also had the lowest priced, non-organic beef, fish and spinach. The organic is difficult at Walmart.

Vasomotor Symptoms Eased With Combo Estradiol, Progesterone
MedPage Today
Led by Ginger Constantine, MD, of EndoRheum Consultants in Malvern, Pennsylvania, and colleagues, the investigational bioidentical hormone -- TX-001HR -- significantly reduced vasomotor symptoms after 4 weeks at any dose compared to placebo ...

Refinery29
Acne Sucks Now, But The Universe Will Repay You Later
Refinery29
"If the skin is excessively dry from lack of skin sebum, that can accelerate the aging process," she explains. Tanzi adds that she tells patients with oily skin that they should be comforted with the knowledge that oily skin usually ages better than ...

CMR
Move over kale for the strongest cancer-fighting greens, Dr. Oz
CMR
Times are changing and for the good-chefs are becoming scientists and scientists are becoming chefs. Why, because we are discovering the best way to boost our immunity to cancer is foods. Modern medicine is learning proper ways to grow, when to pick, ...

Medical News Bulletin
Can Dragon Fruit Help in Diabetes Management?
Medical News Bulletin
Management of these medical conditions includes a healthy diet, physical activity, weight management, medications, and natural health products. ... The prediabetes trial measured FPG with a sample size of 36 and the duration of treatment was four weeks.

Telegraph.co.uk
Italian scientists claim new type of pasta can help ward off heart attacks
Telegraph.co.uk
Those blood vessels then form “natural bypasses” in the event of a heart attack, according to the researchers in Pisa. Scientists tested their theory on laboratory mice, feeding them the newly-developed pasta and then inducing cardiac arrest. Mice ...

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Novartis Q3 core net income seen stable at $2.9 bln
Times of India
... Ritalin - - Sandoz 2,488 2,490 2,546 2,430 7 2,517 -1.15 2,451 - - Alcon 1,463 1,465 1,484 1,441 7 1,436 1.88 1,516 Core 3,307 3,325 3,439 3,129 9 3,381 -2.19 3,235 operating income Core net 2,928 2,932 3,092 2,776 10 2,933 -0.17 2,867 income Core ...

Longevity LIVE
Rooibos Your Next Anti-Aging Ingredient
Longevity LIVE
Rooibos tea is an extremely well known South African treasure. And though it is the tea of choice for many, its benefits extend far beyond being just a beloved hot beverage. Scientists from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in South Africa are ...

Newsmax
Firefighters are Exposed to Carcinogens Through Skin
Newsmax
Firefighters are exposed to cancer-causing chemicals through their skin.

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Newsmax
Firefighters Exposed to Carcinogens Through Skin
Newsmax
Firefighters face many known hazards on the job, but one area that hasn't been well researched is how their skin's exposure to hazardous chemicals might increase their risk of cancer. It has long been known that firefighters have higher rates of ...

Mirror.co.uk
'Meth addiction made my feet freeze off': Story of Olympic athlete dubbed Miracle Man will be played on screen by ...
Mirror.co.uk
Through a combination of over-confidence and poor judgment, brought on by my meth addiction, I allowed my feet to freeze. When I realized what was happening, I did everything I could to reverse the process. But it was too late. The parts of my body ...

WOSU Public Media
New Study Shows Ohio Has Fewer Gambling Addicts Than National ...
WOSU Public Media
In spite of having plenty of opportunities to gamble, Ohio has a rate of problem gambling that's less than half the national rate of 2.2 percent, according to a study ...

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News-Medical.net
Sleep loss can trigger mood episodes in bipolar disorder patients
News-Medical.net
Sleep loss can trigger relapse, particularly in the form of mania, in people with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, finds a study by Cardiff University. The new research, led by Cardiff University PhD student Katie Lewis, from the National Centre for ...

Smarter Analyst
Arcturus Therapeutics (ADHD) Enters Pact with Johnson & Johnson ...
StreetInsider.com
Arcturus Therapeutics, Inc., (Nasdaq: ADHD) a leading RNA medicines company, announced today that it has entered into a research collaboration and ...
Alcobra Ltd (ADHD) Stock Fires Up To The Roof; Here's WhySmarter Analyst
Alcobra up 46% premarket on Arcturus/Janssen deal in HBVSeeking Alpha

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Scientists engineer proteins that caused obese animals to lose weight and lower cholesterol
Los Angeles Times
The natural version of the GDF15 protein breaks down quickly in the blood. To be an effective ... On Wednesday, Amgen called the new research “early,” but said its focus on obesity fits with its interest in drugs to treat cardiovascular disease. New ...

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