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Hot Topic: Doubt cast on the 'good' in 'good cholesterol'
In-Forum
The name alone sounds so encouraging: HDL, the “good cholesterol.” The more of it in your blood, the lower your risk of heart disease. So bringing up HDL levels has got to be good for health. A patient undergoes a cholesterol screening in this photo ...
Doubt Cast on the 'Good' in 'Good Cholesterol'New York Times
Raising HDL Levels May Not Lower Heart Attack RiskWebMD
Study questions whether raising “good" cholesterol reduces heart attack riskBoston.com
MedPage Today -Fox News -Los Angeles Times
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The Associated Press
Hepatitis C: Boomers urged to get tested for virus
San Francisco Chronicle
Bay Area health advocates and doctors welcomed the recommendations by federal health officers Friday that all Baby Boomers get tested for the liver-destroying virus hepatitis C. The draft recommendations issued by the US Centers for Disease Control and ...
US baby boomers urged to take hepatitis C blood testBBC News
CDC warns baby boomers: Get tested for hepatitis CMarietta Daily Journal
CDC recommends hepatitis C tests for all baby boomersWashington Post

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Austin American-Statesman
Dr. Robert Spitzer recants study on 'curing' gays
San Francisco Chronicle
Princeton, -- NJ - The simple fact was that he had done something wrong, and at the end of a long and revolutionary career it didn't matter how often he'd been right, how powerful he once was, or what it would mean for his legacy.
Psychiatrist apologizes for gay 'cure' studyMinneapolis Star Tribune
Psychiatrist apologizes for gay 'cure'Pioneer Press
Researcher Apologizes for Study of Gay TherapyABC News
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NEWS.com.au
Flesh-eating bacteria victim struggles for life
San Francisco Chronicle
Atlanta -- Faced with the prospect of losing both hands and her remaining foot, a young Georgia woman battling to survive a case of flesh-eating bacteria that has already claimed one leg mouthed the words "Let's do this." Aimee Copeland, 24, "shed no ...
Aimee Copeland's family requests privacyAtlanta Journal Constitution
Georgia woman learns toll of flesh-eating bacteriaThe Associated Press
Flesh-eating bacteria victim Aimee Copeland on amputations: "Let's do this"CBS News
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UNAIDS
Could This Be The Generation That Finds a Vaccine to Prevent HIV/AIDS?
Daily Disruption
This summer, more than 25000 leading scientists, public health experts, policy-makers, community members, and experts in the HIV/AIDS field from around the world will gather in our nation's capital for the International AIDS Society's XIX International ...
Trial Vaccine Made Some More Vulnerable to HIV, Study ConfirmsNew York Times
For HIV/AIDS patients, stress management is a significant factor in successful ...Los Angeles Wave Newspapers
Annual AIDS walk this Sunday in Central Park7Online.com
Sacramento Bee -EDGEOnTheNet -Delco News Network
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Daily News & Analysis
Why do men like meat? Answer may be obvious
Chicago Sun-Times
by Ronald Bailey May 18, 2012 6:56PM Duh. A terrific new insight about guys is reported in a study published in the current issue of the Journal of Consumer Research. The findings come out just in time to kick off the summer grilling season.
Surprise! Men, Meat and Masculinity LinkedKGO-AM
You are what you eat: Why do male consumers avoid vegetarian options?Medical Xpress
Men think meat is macho and salad is for wimps, claims researchIrish Independent
National Geographic -Times of India -ABC News (blog)
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Telegraph.co.uk
'Dieting is safe for pregnant women'
Times of India
LONDON: Doctors usually advise women against dieting during pregnancy. But, a new review of research in the 'British Medical Journal' now claims that it's absolutely safe and doesn't carry risks for the baby. In the review, researchers at Queen Mary, ...
Weight management 'benefits' for mother and babyBBC News
Eating for two? Piling on the pounds during pregnancy can increase risk of ...Daily Mail
Diet during pregnancy is safe and reduces risk for complications, study findsCBS News
ABC News -MedPage Today -U.S. News & World Report
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The Age
Lab Notes: Sugar Sours Memory, Fish Oil Trumps
MedPage Today
By MedPage Today Staff Rats fed a sugary diet forgot how to run a maze they had previously mastered, but the effect was countered by omega-3 fatty acid supplements. Also this week: new hope for Fanconi anemia. Rats in a maze study performed worse when ...
Sugar Makes You Stupid, But Omega-3s Will Smarten You Back UpForbes
This is your brain on sugar: UCLA study shows high-fructose diet sabotages ...UC Los Angeles
Does Sugar Make You Stupid?LiveScience.com
AFP -Los Angeles Times -CBS News
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Filed under: Technology

On Saturday, Elon Musk will make history. Again. This is the man who:

• Invented PayPal (and sold it to eBay (EBAY) for $1.5 billion).
• Looked under the hood of the electric car that General Motors (GM) had just killed, and brought it back to life.
• Launched the first ever private space vessel to orbit the Earth.
• Was the inspiration behind the movie version of Iron Man's billionaire inventor Tony Stark.

On Saturday, he will lead his company, SpaceX, in another historic first, as...

Elon Musk Boldly Goes Where No Entrepreneur Could Afford to Go Before originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-05-18T16:20:00Z.

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Filed under: Facebook, Market News

Investment adviser Mark Matson's firm manages more than $3 billion for thousands of investors, and he's a big believer in coaching those clients in the art of prudent financial planning.

But the CEO of Matson Money isn't doing the majority of that advising to people facing him across a mahogany desk or in a wainscoted boardroom at his Mason, Ohio, offices. He's spreading his message on Facebook, Twitter and LiveStream.

Matson is part of a growing trend, one that may make the age-old gripe...

The Real Facebook Investing Story: How Advisers and Investors Are Using Social Media originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-05-18T15:56:00Z.

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Filed under: Facebook, Market News

The Facebook IPO will make dozens of people rich -- some of them phenomenally so. How big a payday will major Facebook shareholders see? CNBC perused regulatory filings and media sources to determine the major shareholders and the number of shares they own. Check out the list of those shareholders and the amount of their Facebook windfall based on the real-time price of the shares.

CLICK OVER TO CNBC'S REAL-TIME WEALTH TRACKER

Facebook Real-Time Wealth Tracker: What Are the Big Investors' Stakes Worth? originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-05-18T13:10:00Z.

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Filed under: Facebook, Market News

By Matt Lynley


Facebook has finally gone public.

It priced its IPO shares at $38, which means the company is worth more than $104 billion. It's already worth more than most of the tech companies publicly traded today -- combined.

But there's a lot you probably don't know about the company and its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

While you watch the roller coaster ride of its Friday trading debut, we've assembled a list of facts about the company and its CEO that aren't widely...

28 Crazy Facts You Didn't Know About Facebook originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-05-18T12:45:00Z.

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Globe and Mail
Osiris shares climb on stem-cell therapy approval
BusinessWeek
Shares of Osiris Therapeutics traded higher Friday, a day after Canadian regulators approved the company's first-of-a-kind stem cell therapy Prochymal, a treatment for a deadly side effect of bone marrow transplants. The company announced that Health ...
A Stem-Cell-Based Drug Gets Approval in CanadaNew York Times
Osiris becomes first company to market stem-cell therapyBaltimore Business Journal
Osiris Shares Increase on Approval for Stem-Cell TherapyBloomberg
Fox News -Reuters
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Filed under: Power of Planning

By Dana Burgess, as told to Gabrielle Karol


I live in Graham, Texas, with my husband and three children, who are 17, 14 and 9 years old. I work full-time at a public school as an "intervention" teacher, helping kids who need an extra push academically with reading and math.

When I first started racking up credit card debt, my husband was running two businesses, which we co-owned: a store that sold farm equipment and an auction company. The farm store wasn't doing so well at the time, so a...

How I Paid Off $27,000 in Credit Card Debt in Two Years originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-05-18T12:25:00Z.

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Filed under: Investing, ETFs

Everywhere you look, new exchange-traded funds are popping up. Many people think they're a must-have for a successful portfolio. But even though investors have poured more than $1 trillion into ETFs, the question remains: Do you really need them?

ETFs have come a long way in the past 20 years. With 1993's debut of the SPDR S&P 500 ETF (SPY), investors got their first chance to buy and sell shares of an index fund on the open market throughout the trading day. Slowly but surely, new ETFs...

Are ETFs Really Necessary? Pros and Cons of the Investment Craze originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-05-18T12:00:00Z.

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Filed under: JC Penney, Apple, Target Corp, Retail, Secret Shopper

Nancy Pietschnig wasn't at all excited when she first heard about J.C. Penney's (JCP) plan to ditch most of their hundreds of annual sale events, dump their coupons, and just offer lower prices every day, with only a handful of regularly spaced sales a year. The patient care technician from Lodi, N.J., likes her sales, and her coupons, too.

The strategy -- outlined in January by the retailer's new CEO Ron Johnson -- was designed to revive Penney's sluggish business and redefine department...

Despite One Bad Quarter, Don't Discount J.C. Penney's Chances originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-05-18T10:35:00Z.

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New York Daily News
Why this judge is a stoner
New York Daily News
A Brooklyn judge has given new meaning to the High Court. Supreme Court Justice Gustin Reichbach revealed Thursday he illegally smokes pot to battle the side-effects from treatment of his pancreatic cancer — and implored state lawmakers to lighten up ...
New York judge with cancer makes case for marijuanaChicago Tribune
Gustin Reichbach is Like Any MMJ Patient ... AlmostTucson Weekly
A Judge's Plea for PotNew York Times

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Updated News
Sex, age may affect athletes' concussion recovery
Reuters
(Reuters) - Female and high school athletes may need more time to recover from a concussion than their male or college counterparts, according to a US study that comes amid rising concern about concussions in young athletes.
Girls take longer to heal from concussionsFuturity: Research News
Young Female Athletes at Greater Risk for ConcussionsEmpowHer

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New York Daily News
South Carolina woman 'very ill, but stable' with rare infection
CNN
By Tom Watkins, CNN (CNN) -- A South Carolina woman undergoing treatment for infection with a rare case of "flesh-eating" bacteria was in critical but stable condition Thursday at Greenville Memorial Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said.
New mom diagnosed with flesh-eating bacteria days after giving birthmsnbc.com
Just after birth of twins, SC mom hospitalized with flesh-eating bacteria ...Washington Post
South Carolina woman battles flesh-eating bacterial diseaseChicago Tribune
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CBC.ca
Coffee linked to lower risk of death
Los Angeles Times
Researchers tracking health and coffee consumption found that coffee drinkers had a lower risk of death during the course of the study. Subjects who averaged four or five cups per day fared best, though it's not clear why. By Amina Khan, Los Angeles ...
Regular Coffee Drinkers Less Likely To Die EarlyCounsel & Heal
Study suggests lower risk of death for coffee loversReuters
Coffee May Help Drinkers Live Longer, US Study SuggestsBloomberg
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