A Florida teenager who used a webcam to live-stream his suicide Wednesday was reportedly encouraged by other people on the Web site, authorities told ABCNews.com.
and saying things like ‘go ahead and do it, faggot,’ said Wendy Crane, an investigator at the Broward County Medical Examiner’s office.
Abraham Biggs, 19, of Pembroke Pines, Fla., had been blogging on an online body-building message board and had linked to his page on Justin.tv, a live Read the rest of this entry »
Pregnant women who routinely consume fatty foods could be predisposing their children to a lifetime of overeating and obesity, according to a surprising study.
The new research demonstrates that a mother’s diet can influence fetal development, essentially hard-wiring the brain so the child instinctively craves fat.
“Exposure to a high-fat diet in utero produces permanent neurons in the fetal brain that later increase the appetite for fat,” said Read the rest of this entry »
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The process of thinking through these six hats can help you to create six distinct approaches; six new points of view. The more we stretch our thinking, the more likely we are to succeed. Read the rest of this entry »
Training in emotional intelligence could help medical residents and fellows become more sensitive toward their patients, according to a commentary in the September 10 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Patients are less likely to complain and more likely to have positive health results if their physician communicates well with them. For these and other reasons, medical schools include interpersonal and communication skills Read the rest of this entry »
, the pharmaceutical company, developed an aggressive new acquisition strategy in 2007, it gave the plan a nickname — the String of Pearls initiative.
The idea was to gradually replenish the company’s traditional drug assets by buying small biotechnology companies or by developing novel drugs with outside companies and buying the rights to market them.
Because mass-market drugs to treat millions of patients typically require heavy Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by ESPN.com’s Heather Dinich
The now sealed court documents say one thing, but Virginia quarterback Peter Lalich
“I have not smoked or done any drugs while on my probation,” Lalich said Tuesday at the Cavaliers’ weekly press conference.
Here’s what you need to know,
Lalich misundersood the time frame in question when he admitted during a probation interview that he violated a requirement that he not consume alcohol or other drugs. Read the rest of this entry »
New Year Diet Ads: Is Oprah Credible Any More at Selling Diet Remedies?
about how diet soda can make people gain weight, I was somewhat surprised to find an ad featuring Oprah Winfrey’s somewhat slenderized face hawking an Acai berry diet, I thought…huh?
The exact wording on the ad is “Oprah’s Acai Berry diet.”
As we head into the New Year season of incessant diet ads, is it not time to ask of Oprah is remotely Read the rest of this entry »
The nutrition portion of the book doesn’t necessarily focus on counting calories, but more on the composition of the meal, and the importance of pre- and post-training eating, which will help keep your metabolism up and maximize the body’s ability to use calories to recover from a workout, versus being stored as fat.
People perhaps intuitively think that they’re going to get a better workout on an empty stomach, but that’s not necessarily the case. Read the rest of this entry »
“In the last week,” McKillop said, “every one of my clients mentioned anxiety over the economy.”
McKillop is not alone. In an economic climate that grows more precarious every day, Bay Area residents are experiencing an epidemic of anger, anxiety and emotional stress, according to local psychotherapists and academics. “There’s emotional contagion going on,” says Corte Madera psychotherapist Ruth Kalb. “Panic begets panic.”
In October, the American Read the rest of this entry »
Once vilified for its stingy health benefits, the world’s largest company has become an unlikely leader in the effort to provide affordable care without bankrupting employers, their workers or taxpayers in the process. From its headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., the retailer is doing in the real world what many in Washington are only beginning to talk about.
At a time when other firms are scaling back or eliminating health coverage, Wal-Mart has Read the rest of this entry »