HPV Vaccine - some new information

Human Papilloma Virus is the cause of all warts.  About 17 types of this virus prefer the anal and genital skin area of humans.  At least two of these strains cause many cases of cervical cancer.  Two other strains are responsible for most of the warts that appear on human genitals.
The vaccines for HPV offer […]

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Health Checklist for Women over 50

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality -AHRQ- has check lists available for men over 50 and women over 50. Both list have some similarities.
The basic recommendations are

Be tobacco free
Get to and stay at and ideal body weight
Consume no more than one alcoholic beverage per day
Be physically active
Eat a healthy diet
Ask your doctor if […]

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Health Check list for men over 50

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a checklist for men over 50 to help them talk to their health care provider about staying healthy.
The items on the first part of the list seem like “no brainers”.
They are behaviors like

1) Don’t use tobacco
2) Be physically active
3) Eat a healthy diet
4) […]

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Phthalates

I had never heard of phthalates until I read a blog article by Violet Blue. She is a sex educator in San Francisco who was writing about unsafe sex toys. Phthalates are just one problem in the issue of what chemicals are safe for use with humans?
The concern over the use of these […]

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Radioactive Kitchen Counters

This thought flabbergasted me, but apparently it is possible. Dr. W J Llope of Rice University in Houston is a physics professor. He tested a number of granite counter tops for the presence of uranium radiation. It isn’t clear how or why he started to do this. He does not seem […]

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