Meet the critters inside your mattress

The mattress can be a jungle of dust mites and bedbugs, milling around among dried remnants of blood, saliva, sweat and basically all the other bodily fluids.
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Lou Gehrig’s victim: Kill me for my organs

A Georgia man suffering from Lou Gehrig’s Disease says he wants to die by having his organs harvested rather than wait for his degenerative nerve ailment to kill him.
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Calcium supplements may boost heart attack risk

The millions of people who take calcium supplements to strengthen aging bones and ward off osteoporosis may be putting themselves at increased risk of a heart attack, a new study has found.
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How Important are Nutritional Supplements to You? What Can’t You Do Without?

Supplements are big business and plenty of people use them. In my opinion, supplements should not be used as a replacement for food. We should practice good nutrition and use supplements to fill the void left by the nutrient deficiencies in our diet. I have interviewed several fitness professionals and one of my common questions [...]

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Government has your baby’s DNA

When Annie Brown’s daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis.
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Follow Your Nose: Sniff Controller Gives the Severely Disabled a New Way to Communicate and Move

Assistive technology that helps severely paralyzed people navigate the world and communicate with others often taps into whatever abilities the disabled retain, such as blinking or moving the mouth and tongue. Now, for the first time, researchers have invented a device that allows the paralyzed to write, surf the Web and [...]

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Hoarding called public health issue

In extreme cases, hoarders’ obsession has led to fires, attracted vermin, endangered their families, that experts describe it as a growing public health problem.
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Hoarding called a public health issue

In extreme cases, hoarders’ obsession has led to fires, attracted vermin, endangered their families, that experts describe it as a growing public health problem.
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Hands-only CPR equally effective

As compression-only CPR has grown in use, the question has remained whether it’s as effective as the traditional form that includes mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Two new studies say yes. FULL STORY | WATCH: CPR in 2 minutes
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Hands-only CPR as effective as traditional

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