Time.com – The potentially lethal Choking Game, which involves cutting off the blood supply to the brain, appears to be popular with some college students who think it’s not as dangerous as using illicit drugs
AP – Workplace health plans will have to cover all forms of contraception with Food and Drug Administration approval starting next year, and religious groups are putting up a fight.
AP – Stressed out by flying?
AP – A 9-year-old Maine girl is home from a Boston hospital healthy, active and with high hopes — and a new stomach, liver, spleen, small intestine, pancreas, and part of an esophagus to replace the ones that were being choked by a huge tumor.
Reuters – Mothers who push their toddlers to eat more at snack time may end up with slightly chubbier children by the age of three, according to a U.S. study.
AP – The renowned breast cancer charity Susan G. Komen for the Cure faced an escalating backlash Thursday over its decision to cut breast screening grants to Planned Parenthood. Some of Komen’s local affiliates are openly upset, including all seven in California, and at least one top official has quit, reportedly in protest.
HealthDay – THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) —
Greater use of certain types of treatments for kids with sickle cell
anemia may explain why black children’s risk of ischemic stroke dropped
significantly between 1999 and 2007, new research finds.
HealthDay – THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) —
Greater use of certain types of treatments for kids with sickle cell
anemia may explain why black children’s risk of ischemic stroke dropped
significantly between 1999 and 2007, new research finds.
HealthDay – THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) — People who develop
Alzheimer’s disease late in life may have the same gene mutations linked
to the inherited, early onset form of the condition, according to a new
study.
HealthDay – THURSDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) — People who develop
Alzheimer’s disease late in life may have the same gene mutations linked
to the inherited, early onset form of the condition, according to a new
study.
