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No loan comes without conditions. You know what I mean. You’re required to make regular payments on time, pay interest, and are charged late payment fees etc when you’re not following the rules.
Well, it seems that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is no different. They, too, attach conditions on their loans to recipient countries. Conditions […]
ABC News has an interesting article on a kids dealing with Tourette Syndrome. The article, Taking on Tourette: Families Reveal Their Personal Struggles, looks at a summer camp called “Camp Tic-a-Palooza” for tourette kids. Have a read of the article and watch the news video to learn more about this syndrome.
Newsweek has a fun article […]
Relay for Life: We’ve all heard about it. Most of us have supported it in one way or another. And, most importantly, many, many of us know someone who is currently or has been affected by cancer. To say that nearly everyone has been touched by this disease in one way or another is a […]
If you’re married to former supermodel Christie Brinkley, do you cheat? Do you spend scads of money on porn? Do you broadcast yourself masturbating to a live internet audience?
Um, maybe if you’re a sex addict.
And so go the theories about Christie’s soon-to-be ex-husband, Peter Cook. Say some experts, all these behaviors point to someone who […]
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Here at Healthbolt, we’ve talked about the effects of obesity on global warming, but now we’re faced with a whole other theory: using condoms to save the planet.
Huh.
Yes, this is an overly-simplified summary, but that is essentially what Robert Engelman, an environmentalist and author of the new book More: […]
Japanese people may smoke too much and work too much. But on the whole they really can’t be accused of being overweight or metabo as the Japanese prefer to call it.
The Japanese goverment, however, thinks otherwise and has embarked on a mandatory campaign to slim it’s nation down. Two months ago they passed a national […]
Former Charlies Angel Farrah Fawcett has been fighting a rare form of cancer since 2006 when she was diagnosed with anal cancer. According to the American Cancer Society, anal cancer is rare (an estimated 4,650 cases in 2006) but the number is rising, with those most affected being female and in their early 60’s.
Farrah’s spent the […]
This week is Celebrity Week at the b5Media Health and Wellness Channel and Healthbolt is joining in.
So expect to see some posts over the coming days featuring some of your favorite (or not so favorite) celebrites and what they are up to (or not up to) healthwise.
Personally, I try not to follow the celebrity trail […]
DiabetesMine and Medgadget are co-hosting the 2nd Annual DiabetesMine Design Challenge…
“a competition designed to foster innovation in diabetes design and encourage creative new tools that will improve life with diabetes.”
This challenge is a follow on from the Open Letter to Steve Jobs that Amy Tenderich from DiabetesMine posted last year right after Apple […]
Here’s some great news for Nintendo Wii Sports fans who are already bouncing around their living rooms chasing the imaginary ball. There’s a new kid coming to town. It’s name - Wii Fit.
A top selling game in Japan when it was released there in December last year, Wii Fit is now being released in other […]
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