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Walk 30 Minutes a Day to Double Your Pain‑Free Time A recent randomized clinical trial reported by UCLA Health and published in The Lancet involved over 700 adults with chronic low‑back pain. Half of the participants were placed on a structured walking program - 30 minutes per day, five days a week, combined with education on back pain recovery and core mechanics. Over a follow‑up period of...[ Read More... ]

If you use your cell phone for 17 minutes a day for 10 years, it is associated with a 60% increase in brain tumor risk accroding to reasearch by Joel Moskowitz, director of the UC Berkeley Center for Family and Community Health.Moskowitz published his study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, showing that cell phone radiation can increase the risk...[ Read More... ]

Katarina Zarutskie, 19-year-old nursing student at University of Miami and Instagram model from Laguna Beach, California, swam with nurse sharks in the ocean off the Bahamas' Staniel Cay last month.  Floating one minute and then yanked under water by a 5-foot shark the next."He had my wrist in his mouth and I could feel his teeth sinking into my arm," Zarutskie told NBC News on Monday....[ Read More... ]

Twitter users who used to work for Ulta Beauty posted tweets accusing Ulta Beaty of reselling used makeup-products on purpose.One Twitter user named @fatinamxo wrote about how the retail managers instructed her to clean used makeup products so they could be repackaged and sold again.So I’m gonna start a thread about a serious matter because I feel like makeup lovers should know what’s...[ Read More... ]

Visalia, California: It's flu season, but not everyone with flu-like symptoms have the flu.  12-year-old Alyssa Alcaraz showed the signs of the flu and it was just assumed she had the flu since the flu has been so widerspread.  Unfortunately that assumption delayed the prescription of antiobiotics which she really needed.  It wasn't until Alyssa died that they found out she...[ Read More... ]

Nebraska: Kelly Leisure was bit by a brown recluse spider hiding in his hoodie from his closet.  He fel sick when he got home later that day and then spent the next 5 days in bed before finally going to the hospital.“If I would have been in that room for another 24 hours, I would have been gone,” Kelly said.When Kelly got to the hospital, doctors rushed him into...[ Read More... ]

The case of the missing pacifiers was solved when the baby's grandmother saw the family dog, Dovey, swipe one off the counter.  The Oklahoma family took Dovey to the veterinarian's office and x-rays showed the missing pacifiers.  Dovey had slowerd her eating and was vomiting for a few days.  Initially the vet thought there were seven to nine pacifiers in Dovey's stomach, but...[ Read More... ]

If you watch "Shark Tank", "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" or "The Doctors TV", you might not be new to the really serious injury that can be caused by rings getting caught onto something: ring avulsion.  The skin around the finger is ripped off, or in some cases, the entire finger can be ripped off.  Mark Cuban got really turned off to Brighton Jones' and Aaron Dalley's...[ Read More... ]

A good reason not to try out makeup testers in the store: "You could literally be applying and smearing someone else's fecal matter directly onto your lips," dermatologist Dr. Whitney Bowe said. That's gross even if it's not on your lips.  And, "You can catch the herpes simplex virus from an inanimate object such as lipstick. In fact, that virus can survive on the surface of a lipstick tube...[ Read More... ]

Good job for Dr. David Hawk, a foot doctor in Tennessee, who saved the life of an elderly man, coming in for toenail clipping, who suffered a heart attack:Tennessee Foot and Ankle Clinic, LENOIR CITYHe takes care of everything from ingrown toenails to ankle and foot surgeries, but a regular visit for one man almost became his last.“I was calling his name out yelling, ‘Come on!...[ Read More... ]