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May 9th, 2008

Tea to Fight Skin Cancer? Indeed.

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Need yet another reason to enjoy tea time? How about this…
Researchers at Dartmouth University have found that drinking two or more cups of black or green tea every day can cut your risk of acquiring two of the most common types of skin cancer.
Your risk […]

By Liberty -- 1 comment

May 2nd, 2008

The Best in Health and Wellness: Posts from Across the Channel

Here is an April roundup from the Health and Wellness channel. Enjoy!

There is something for everyone (breastfeeding or not) in the mix of the Breastfeeding 1-2-3 highlights from April 2008:
Free Pattern for Sewing Your Own Crew Neck Over-the-Head Baby Bibs
Judge Denies FLDS Request to Keep Mothers with Nursing Babies
World Health Day 2008: Protecting Health from […]

By Liberty -- 0 comments

May 1st, 2008

Re-Mission: A Video Game That Helps Kids Fight Cancer.

Fighting cancer is no game. But thanks to HopeLab, there is a video game designed to help empower kids with cancer.
The video game is Re-Mission and it features an intrepid nanobot called Roxxi who journeys through cancer patients bodies, destroying the cancer cells, fighting the infections, and dealing with the side effects usually associated with different cancers […]

By Liz -- 2 comments

April 23rd, 2008

Health & Wellness Channel Theme Day: All About Cancer

Today is theme day here at the Health & Wellness Channel. And what a better way to celebrate our channel’s name change than a round-up post from our mega-talented group of bloggers?
This month’s theme, while not exactly chipper, is vitally important. All the posts listed in today’s Theme Day Round-Up are focused on cancer: What […]

By Liberty -- 0 comments

April 22nd, 2008

Your Dentist as Breast Cancer Detective?

We think of dental offices as places to have teeth cleaned and fillings filled. We don’t usually think of them as a place to get tested for breast cancer.
But new research and studies have appeared that show the dentist chair might just be the place to go for early detection of breast  cancers.
Charles Streckfus, D.D.S., a […]

By Liz -- 3 comments

April 11th, 2008

A Big ‘Bolt Welcome to Our Two Newest Blogs

It’s been a while since we’ve added some new blood to the Science & Health channel, but alas, two awesome blogs have now joined our dysfunctional, er, happy little family.
First up: Weighting Line. Hope and Robin dish up all kinds of goodness on how to lose weight effectively and for good. But these gals aren’t […]

By Liberty -- 3 comments

April 8th, 2008

Randy Pausch’s ‘The Last Lecture’ Revisited.

Remember Professor Randy Pausch’s inspiring last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University last year. Called ‘How to Live Your Childhood Dreams’, the lecture focused on his life’s journey and the lessons he learned. At the time of the lecture, he had just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and the lecture was his way of saying goodbye […]

By Liz -- 4 comments

March 16th, 2008

The Sunday Sidebar - Frogs and Health.

I’ve developed a sudden fascination with frogs. It started the other day when I came across this headline “Doctors Evaluate Toad Venom as Potential Cancer Cure.” Frogs as a cancer cure wasn’t something that I had ever considered. But there, in black and white, was a whole article on toad venom and it’s possible use […]

By Liz -- 2 comments

March 10th, 2008

Who Knew Your Favorite Foods Could Be So Darn Healthy?

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Macaroni and cheese, pizza, chocolate chip cookies. Not usually found at the top of a dietician’s “Nice” list, are they? Well, no more. With a few tweaks here and there, your favorite foods can go from Nutritionally Naughty to Superfood instantaneously.
Add this: Cauliflower
To: Macaroni and […]

By Liberty -- 4 comments

December 19th, 2007

Coffee, Tea or…Kidney Disease?

Wouldja Like Another Soda, My Friend?
Okay, fess up. This is you mid-morning, isn’t it? Slugging your cola from the bottle until every last drop of spittle shimmies down your throat into your gut? Go on, you can admit it amongst friends. I sure as heck will. I. Love. Soda. Especially Diet Coke.
If you’re with […]

By Liberty -- 1 comment