June 19, 2013

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Weird hairdo health signals

By Dr. Mehment Oz and Michael Roizen | 05/10/13 01:45 PM

Psst ... is your hair -- or lack of it -- trying to tell you something? Two new reports link male pattern baldness (not that celebrity-inspired shaved noggin) with higher odds for heart disease and prostate cancer. Those aren't the only hairdo and health connections sprouting in the news....
Fully recovered Dick Cheney says 'Hot damn' to surviving heart disease

By Paul Bedard | 05/10/13 08:50 AM

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, whose lifelong fight with heart disease hobbled his movements before his 2012 transplant, has fully recovered and is back on the speaking and social circuit with a robustness friends haven't seen since he was in the White House. "He's in great shape, I can...
FDA rolls back dire warnings on food inspections

By Michal Conger | 05/07/13 09:35 AM

Food and Drug Administration officials are backing off dire predictions that sequestration would endanger public health by eliminating thousands of food safety inspections, saying today the agency hopes not to cut inspections after all. The FDA’s initial estimate was that as many as 2,100...
Q&A: Stick with your blood pressure meds

By Dr. Mehment Oz and Michael Roizen | 05/06/13 04:20 PM

Q: I can't stay on schedule with my high blood pressure meds. My doctor keeps hounding me. Is it so bad not to take them regularly? -- Gracie P., Hull, Mass. A: You can skip a rock, skip school or simply skip for exercise (see iskip.com if you don't believe us). But skipping your meds is bad...

From the Weekly Standard

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Frack to the Future

By: Michael Warren

Williston, N.D.
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Downsize Ike

By: Andrew Ferguson

The beleaguered Eisenhower Memorial Commission holds its next public gathering later this month, and before its members duck-walk into the hearing room, huddled in a hoplite phalanx against a...
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The Lesson of Kermit Gosnell

By: John McCormack

What was the lesson of the Kermit Gosnell trial? Since the Philadelphia doctor was convicted last month of murdering three born-alive infants, two competing viewpoints have emerged.
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